Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

at CCSU held a joint meeting to develop and approve program objectives, outcomes,assessment methods and evaluation procedures, i.e., to establish the required continuousimprovement plans.From the literature, Palomba and Banta provide generic guidelines for organizing the assessmentprocess: establishment of goals, procedures, division of responsibilities, assignment of leadershipand support of committees 1. They also describe pros and cons of a centralized approach toassessment, data analysis, and distribution of results on examples of some institutions. Theystipulate that the procedures should be efficient, but give no description of their definition ofefficiency or examples of efficient assessment and evaluation procedures. Although the

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

techniques associated withknowledge sharing.The Role of Engineering EducationThe recent evolution of Knowledge Management (KM) techniques in industry has not goneunnoticed by the Engineering Education community, particularly the Industry UniversityGovernment Roundtable Enhancing Engineering Education (IUGREEE)5. The industrial sector,faced with increased competition, mergers and acquisitions, found itself in the possession of dataand knowledge in many different formats. Industry was challenged to put knowledge from thiscomplicated structure to work in highly competitive ways. Initially, Knowledge Managementefforts by industry had two major thrusts: 1.) reengineering business practices and processes tobecome more efficient and 2.) making knowledge

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez; Ahmed Musa; Mehdi Shadaram

theoretical communication courses; still this is not enough to train communicationsengineers with the proper background on the newer technologies. The problem with traditionalcourses is that they are only focused on the foundations of communications theory, not on thefinal applications.The goal of this course is to familiarize students with several different communication systemsthrough a series of laboratory experiments using small-scale test beds and employing computersimulations. The equipment needed to implement laboratories with the newest technologies isexpensive and changes constantly[1-4]. This makes it difficult to continuously upgrade suchlaboratories. Consequently, employing a computer based laboratory with different softwarepackages

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Nicholas Harth

scienceclass and occurred as part of a unit in plate tectonics; however, it was primarily directedtowards the destructive effects and prevention strategies associated with earthquakes.The lesson took place over six days, each 60 minutes in length. The previous unit that the students had covered in class dealt with the concept ofwaves; therefore, they were already familiar with terms such as “frequency” and“amplitude.” This made it much easier introduce concepts such as natural frequency,resonance, and damping. The specific objectives of the lesson were that students wouldbe able to: 1. define the above vocabulary words and have a general understanding of the scientific concepts. 2. describe an earthquake in terms of frequencies

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean

theEngineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University. This paper looks at the threephases, as applied to the development of a virtual lab using an analytic strategy design: (1) Formulation of the quantitative and qualitative approach to assist in decision process, (2) Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the decision alternatives --- within the decision context, (3) Interpretation of the analysis results and implications for decision.1. IntroductionAs e-learning and distance education become more and more part of the Engineering Technology(ET) landscape, methods to provide a means of delivering required laboratories to a studentpopulation that is becoming increasingly widely geographically dispersed has become difficultand

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rusk Masih

copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography 1- Masih, R.Y. Preparing the engineering education and profession for next century. Presented at the 5th world conference on continuing engineering education in Helsinki, Finland, June 2-5, 1992 proceedings Vol. I PP 339-344. 2- Masih, R. Y. A further cooperative in engineering education. ASEE, New England Section conference, April 1996, PP 12. 3- Masih, R. Y. Corporate attitude towards academia need to be changed. IACEE 8th world conference on continuing engineering education, May 2001, Toronto. PP 459-461.Biography Rusk Masih is associate Professor of engineering at The University of Connecticut. Before joining the academic community he worked

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Heenan; Hector Estrada

growth, asillustrated by the growth and development of the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI),which is part of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)1. Furthermore, the NationalCouncil of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying has recently added a professionalengineering licensing exam in the area of architectural engineering. This clearly indicates that thedemand for programs in architectural engineering is strong and with the increase in buildingconstruction, the demand for architectural engineers is expected to continue to grow. Therefore,Texas A&M University - Kingsville is excided about the opportunity to develop a newarchitectural engineering program, which will be housed (with civil engineering) in the collegeof

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

implementation of a nanotechnologycurriculum. In view of the current state of development of nanocomposites and theirrole in many industries, special emphasis will be placed on the development of a lab fornanocomposities. The broader curricular elements that will be dealt in the paper are:Topics in Nanoprocessing and Biomedical TechnologyTopics in Micro and NanofabricationBio Nano Manufacturing ProcessesBio Nano Manufacturing for Pharmaceutical ApplicationsNano Materials and Composites ManufacturingNano Scale Electronics ManufacturingB. NanotechnologyNanotechnology is the creation of functional materials, devices, and systems throughcontrol of matter on the nanometer (1 to 100+ nm) length scale and the exploitation ofnovel properties and phenomena

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

-disciplinary teams, the department has abandoned its Senior Research class (used since theinception of the program) and developed an artificial project that incorporates a “real-world” feelwhich integrates the three disciplines of environmental, structural, and site development into oneunified design team. A complete description of the three classes and the interaction between thecourses is described in Black et al.1. Page 10.724.1In addition to an overhaul of the entire course, the pedagogy of the environmental engineeringcapstone class was changed from a traditional direct instruction format and laboratory class to aself-directed problem based

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Curry; Eugene Eckstein

Gait Module for Freshman-Level Introductory Course in Biomedical Engineering Amy L. de Jongh Curry, Eugene C. Eckstein Biomedical Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TNIntroductionIn an effort to improve educational methodologies in biomedical engineering, the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center (VaNTH ERC) is conductingresearch in challenge-based methods of teaching. We have recently partnered with the VaNTHERC to test the challenge-based approach in an urban university setting. The rationale for usinga challenged-based instructional method is based on the learning science theory presented byBransford et al.1

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Rashmi Bahuguna; Mani Mina

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ahlgren

, the first robotics Olympiad associated with a major robotics contest. In2004, 115 robots from the US and abroad competed at Trinity College in April. We planfor a modest expansion in 2005. Teams from more than eighty colleges and universitieshave competed over the years, and regional contests that use the TCFFHRC rules havebeen held in such locations as Beijing, Buenos Aires, Calgary, Dallas, Denver, LosAngeles, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Seattle, and Shanghai. A regional fire-fightingrobot contest begins operation in Singapore in 2005. For more information about thecontest, the reader is referred to [1]. Page 10.961.1Since 1999 the author and

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

development of both ‘in classroom’ andinternet-based ‘online’ delivery formats are highlighted.Introduction Engineering Management leadership has become a highly sought out skill intoday’s competitive global technological marketplace. It is now a well recognized professionin most industries. Almost half of all engineers enter a management position within 10 yearsof graduation. In addition, an average engineer changes careers about five times as a result ofbeing trained on different skills and areas of specialty during her/his professional life time [1].Half of all registered professional engineers primarily utilize management skills rather thanpurely technical skills [2]. From small companies to giant global institutions

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

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

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

of the cylinder wall (K)U Piston speed (cm/s)V Cylinder volume (cm3)Vd Displacement volume (cm3)xb mass fraction of burned gas in the cylindery Exposed cylinder wall height (cm)Greekγ Specific heat ratioθ Crank angle (degree)θs Crank angle at the start of heat release (degree)θd Burn duration of heat release (degree)Introduction Increasing popularity of the Internet and widespread availability of computers haveresulted in the use of World Wide Web (WWW) as a teaching medium in engineering education[1, 2]. Thus, more and more educators have developed web-based teaching and evaluation toolsto facilitate and improve

Conference Session

BME Placement

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Schreiner

. Other placement and salary surveys often struggle with relativelysmall sample sizes. Perhaps the most comprehensive employment survey of the field ofengineering is conducted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and placed into theScientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT) [1]. However, the NSF SESTATdata does not look explicitly at the question of initial placement at the time of graduation. Page 10.1002.1In this paper, overall trends in placement for bioengineering and biomedical engineering areexamined. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

PID controller3. It is a combination ofthree distinct components and is used in closed loop feedback systems. In most cases, the inputis the error signal, which is the difference between the system set point value and the system Page 10.128.1output. The controller output signal is Proportional to: the error, the Integral of the error, and theDerivative of the error. The PID has the following form3: “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright©2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 1 u( s) = K[1

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

) [1] has developed a quantitive survey instrument tomeasure the technical and professional competency of newly hired manufacturing engineers and ratehow well these new engineers met expectations. If the survey respondent rated a competency of a newengineer as “below” or “well below” expectations, they were asked to rate how important thiscompetency was to the success of their company.Using the results of this survey SME ranked the competencies in order by their importance toorganizations and the frequency they were cited as falling short of expectations. The competencies arelisted below in order. 1. Business knowledge/ skill 2. Project management 3. Written communications 4. Supply chain management 5. Specific

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constance Kampf; Dave Kmiec

, CE 4101 fulfills several of the more challenging ABET 2000 criteria [1],including: criterion d, “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams”2 and criterion g, “anability to communicate effectively” as well as qualifying the course for writing intensive status atthe university (as mentioned).More importantly, perhaps, CE 4101 introduces various types ofengineering students to a rhetorically-situated and process-based approach to organizationalwriting and, notably, gets students to recognize the importance of such a skill by situation withinand association with the discipline and by instructional teaming. These aspects of the instructionare detailed in the rest of this paper.Process-based approach to writingThere are a variety

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tapas Das; Project Fellows; Louis Martin-Vega; Liz Hunnicutt; Grisslle Centeno; Geoffery Okogbaa; Cheriese Edwards; Ashok Kumar; Rajesh Ganesan

nanotechnology, simulation,genetic engineering, electric circuits, and biosensors. The project is now in itsthird year, and serves as an exemplary model for the emerging trends inengineering education at the elementary school level. Both the challenges andopportunities associated with implementing this project at the elementary schoollevel are explored and discussed. A documentary style video that chronicles thehistory and impact of the program will also be presented.Introduction: Recent reports of the performance of America’s children and youthfrom both the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)1 andthe National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)2 echo a dismal messageof lackluster performance. This finding is supported by the

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre' Butler; William Moses

engineering are offered atthe “program level,” which means that the content of each course focuses on only one discipline(i.e., course enrollment is restricted to students with a particular specialization). MAE 402L(NSL) is no exception.In MAE 402L (NSL), each student group is expected to solve two open-ended problems duringthe semester (groups are nominally allocated seven 3-hour class periods for each problem). Twotypical problem statements are as follows:1. Determine an appropriate convective correlation for free convection heat transfer from a flat plate. An analysis for a single plate orientation/geometry is required. Compare your result with a "standard" correlation for your test geometry.2. You are a product engineer for Cedar Ridge Forge

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Nathan VanderHorn; Rashmi Bahuguna; Arun K. Somani; Mani Mina

High Speed Systems Engineering: A New Trent in Electrical and Computer Engineering Mani Mina, Robert Weber, Arun K Somani, Nathan VanderHorn, Rashmi Bahuguna High Speed Systems Engineering Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State UniversityThis paper introduces the main ideas and program objectives for High Speed SystemsEngineering (HSSE). HSSE (funded by NSF CISE-EAI)1 has been proposed by our team as anew and viable platform for integrating engineering education, research and development. Thisapproach identifies and integrates the common

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

1996. Of these, 68 % is Hispanic and combined African American, AsianAmerican and Native American populations represent an additional 3 % of the College’sstudents. Women account for 22 % of the total enrollment.Problem DefinitionThe enrollment data presented in Figure 1 shows a 40 % increase in undergraduate enrollmentsover the period 1996 to 2003. The decline in Pre-Engineering enrollment after 2001 is due tomoving students from Pre-Engineering to an engineering major more quickly as a result of anentering students program initiated in 19981, 2. Over one third of first-time Pre-engineeringstudents are transfer students who come predominantly from El Paso Community College[EPCC]. UTEP is cooperating with EPCC to enhance the smooth transfer of

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tilo Winkler; Rudolph Mitchel; Jose Venegas

of Health Sciences & Technology (VaNTH) [1] to develop new educational stylesand to introduce them in teaching bioengineering to undergraduate and graduate students. Themain thrust of the project is based on concepts presented by the NSF publication How PeopleLearn (HPL) [2]. The concept is to challenge the students with a set of realistic problems and Page 10.332.1give them a high level of freedom on the methods chosen by them for solving them. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Glenn Steele; Judith Schneider

. This process provides a logical methodology to interpret test results through the application of uncertaintyanalysis in the planning, design, construction, debugging, execution, data analysis, and reporting phases ofexperiments [1]. Accuracy of the experiments is investigated along with the appropriateness of a theory or modeland its simplifying assumptions. This concept is an extension of the verification and validation research that iscurrently being done for CFD and other computational design codes [2, 3]. The approach is communicated at theundergraduate level through a three-laboratory sequence consisting of Experimental Orientation (EO), ExperimentalTechniques I (ET I), and Experimental Techniques II (ET II).In the undergraduate

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Light; David Smith; Annette Munkeby; Denise Drane

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Lucy King; Matthew Sanders; Jacqueline El-Sayed

of Houston taught students to function inmultidisciplinary teamwork by involving the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE),Industrial Engineering (IE), and Mechanical Engineering (ME) departments.1 Similarly, the KateGleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology offers amultidisciplinary design in the senior capstone course taught by the Electrical, Industrial, andMechanical Engineering departments and plans in the future to involve the College’s otheracademic disciplines -- Computer Engineering and Microelectronics Engineering. Their missionis to develop engineers who have an end-to-end life cycle perspective of product realization.Their main components of this multidisciplinary capstone course are problem

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

is the most common classroom circuit simulation platform, is thevehicle that is used as the semiconductor device descriptor for the MSU course insemiconductor devices. Page 10.1391.1I. Introduction and backgroundDesign of modern circuit electronics is defined by a cycle for which circuit concepts areconfirmed and assessed by means of a circuit simulation utility. The most common platformfor circuit simulation in the academic environment is one of the several versions of the SPICE[1-3] utility, since its emphasis is integrated circuit design. As the circuit process has maturedthis utility has evolved into a friendly and flexible resource that has

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ka-yiu San

engineering computational methods, which was especially designed to provide engineeringmajors with a rigorous introduction to analytical and numerical methods. Students obtaining a B.S. degree in Bioengineering are required to take seven core courses inBioengineering. To enhance knowledge in one area of Bioengineering, students select one ofthree emphasis areas or tracks: (a) Cellular and Molecular Engineering; (b) Bioinstrumentation,Imaging and Optics; and (c) Biomaterials and Biomechanics.A unique future of the Rice BIOE undergraduate curriculum is the opportunities for our studentsto participate in undergraduate research. Some of the major benefits of undergraduate studentsinvolving in an independent research project are: 1) to experience the joy

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

highway. Write a report on the media’s treatment of the spill and develop a mathematical model that describes how you would approach and solve this problem as a chemical engineer.A sample solution of students’ report is summarized in Tables 1-3, and a picture of an overturnedtanker is shown in Figure 1. Page 10.1390.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1: Summary of Two Chemical Spills from Media ReportsAfter examining two newspaper reports on separate gasoline