Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Philip J. Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Barb A. Barnet, Univeristy of Wisconsin - Platteville

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reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1. Smith, Karl A and Imbrie, P K. Teamwork and Project Management. Boston : McGraw Hill, 2004.2. Ohland, Matthew W., et al. Developing a Peer Evaluation Instrument that is Simple, Reliable, and Valid.Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference. 2005. CD ROM.3. American Society of Civil Engineers. Home. Report Card for America's Infrastructure. [Online] 2009.http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/.4. National Research Council. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington DC :National Academy Press, 2000. Page 22.488.8

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1999 Annual Conference

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Tom Ward; Elizabeth Alford

addressing key personal and socialchallenges that students face as they enter college. These include orientation to the libraryresources, career services, health awareness, and managing personal freedom and choices. Thesetopics are discussed within the context of being a student in the engineering community.A second portion of the class introduces students to the engineering profession and thepreparation necessary to become an engineer. Students are introduced to the engineering designprocess, team-based learning and basic computational tools. Students work in teams on anassigned design project and present it to the class accompanied by a written report. The team

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ray Bachnak

. Rabiee, “Analog to digital (ADC) and digital to analog (DAC) converters,” 1998 ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings, Session 1559, 12 pages.5. C. Chen, “Using LabVIEW in instrumentation and control course,” 1998 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings,Session 1559, 7 pages.6. A. Rahrooh, “Engineering technology feedback control laboratory at University of Central Florida,” 1998 ASEEAnnual Conference Proceedings, Session 3548, 6 pages.7. R. Bachnak, “A Laboratory Project in PC-based closed-loop control,” 1998 ASEE-GSW Annual ConferenceProceedings, New Orleans, LA, March 1998.8. G. Williams, Modern Control Experiments, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN,1996.9. W. Devenport, Experiments for Industrial Electronics, 4th Edition, Delmar Publishing, Albany

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry A. Caskey

integration not available previously. The benefits of the CD-ROM can be appreciatedmore fully by personally using it as opposed to reading the textual description above. To thisend a CD-ROM will be sent to those interested by e-mailing the author at jerry.caskey@rose-hulman.edu. The CD-ROM is copyrighted and can be used like any copyrighted material, butcannot be reproduced without permission.AcknowledgmentsThe chemical engineering department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology thanks theMarathon Oil Company and the Bechtel Company for making this project possible.JERRY A. CASKEYJerry Caskey is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Caskey received aB.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University in

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stephanopoulos; Alan S. Foss

understood the model they had built with ModelLA. They solvedtheir equations using Matlab or Mathcad and sometimes paper and pencil. Usually their computedresults matched those of ModelLA, but occasionally they did not, at which point the students had toreexamine their understanding of the physics and their representation of it. Their performance in thisexperiment confirms the effectiveness of the discipline of the model building methodology capturedin the software. It also confirms our contention that writing equations can profitably be deferred tofollow realization of the model. A class of 38 senior-year students at MIT used the software in a project involving thesynthesis and design of a moderately large chemical process. The process was

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1999 Annual Conference

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Patricia Click

theway that beliefs about technology differed in the North and South, and how these views fueledboth the push toward war and the conduct of the war. Moving to this broader view of technologyis not easy, since most historians who have studied the Civil War have tended to use thenarrower definition that equates technique or technical artifact with technology. Even James M.McPherson, a very respected Civil War historian who is known for broadening Civil War historyto include its non-military aspects, projects such a viewpoint when he writes that “we lack asystematic analysis of Civil War tactics that integrates such factors as technology, terrain,weather, and leadership and tracks tactical evolutions over the four years of conflict”(McPherson 1998

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1999 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Patricia Warren; Charles Cameron; Anne Madsen; Eric Twite

on problem solving techniques for basic electrical engineering, itmeets 3 times a week for fifty minutes. The material was reinforced with mandatory, gradeddaily homework assignments and supplemented with weekly 2-hour laboratories whichdemonstrated the concepts being taught in the classroom. To better reach the students, weaugmented these traditional teaching methods with extensive use of multimedia in the classroom.Each classroom is equipped with a multimedia personal computer (PC) connected to a“Smartboard”, a device that serves both as both a large screen display and as an interactive touchscreen. The display is driven by a projection system connected to the PC. Utilizing one of fourdifferent colors, the Smartboard also permits us to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Loren Lutes; James T. P. Yao

resources to spend a longer timein school? Would this be positive for the profession or society? Provision of adequate financialassistance for engineering programs, of course, could offset this effect, but what would be thesource of these funds? Under the current system, funding for graduate student stipends largelycomes from research projects. It is not clear that the proposed changes would increase theavailability of funds from this source, since most of the professional engineering program wouldbe devoted to course work rather than to research. Additional current stipend funding comesfrom hiring graduate students as teaching assistants for undergraduate courses. If anything, itseems possible that this might be more difficult under the change

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

indicate that the rubric is a reliable and valid means ofholistically assessing student performance.Based on our success assessing written reports, we hope to expand assessment activities in thelaboratory to include performance in the prelab oral examination, oral presentations, andteamwork. We also plan to extend this method of assessment to other courses in the curriculumwhich contain project and laboratory work.References Cited[1] “Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers,” ASEE Prism, pp.11-15, May/June 1995.[2] “Do We Really Want ‘Academic Excellence?,’” Lee, W.E. and R.R. Rhinehart, Chemical Engineering Progress,pp. 82-89, October 1997. Page

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard I. Epstein

and an advanced technology degree?Ç Should the professional Master’s degree be the M. Engr., and should the Master’s degree be the M.S.?Ç Should institutions be allowed to accredit programs at both the basic (B.S.) and advanced (M. Engr.) levels?Professor Hoadley believes that the answer to all of the questions is yes and so does the author.He goes on to state that, in his experience, it is becoming more and more difficult to find one ofthe "movers and shakers" in the civil engineering profession (owners, presidents, partners,principals, division heads, project managers, etc.) without a Master’s degree. So, themarketplace probably has already answered the questions posed and it is now up to theprofessional

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1999 Annual Conference

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Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

filter implementationaffect filter performance, without the need for tedious programming of the TMS320C31.1. INTRODUCTIONModern software tools such as MATLAB greatly facilitate the professor's ability to demonstratethe concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) in class, and to assign realistic projects toreinforce these concepts.1-3 An increasing number of DSP textbooks are becoming availablewhich take advantage of this ability,4-8 and a growing trend is for DSP concepts to be introducedearlier in the curriculum.9 These concepts can be further reinforced, and greater interestgenerated by the students, if they can be easily implemented in real-time on modern DSPhardware.10 Affordable hardware is now available to schools: Texas Instruments, for

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

active learning, addresses the various learningstyles of students, and is more accessible to students via the Internet or on portable media, eithersynchronously or asynchronously [1, 2, 3]. While examples of successful technology-basedlearning environments aimed at specific courses or topics abound, a large proportion of faculty Page 4.502.1simply do not have the skills needed to undertake the development of such projects, or even toborrow and revise them for their own use.The Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED), anNSF-sponsored engineering education coalition composed of the engineering colleges of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William C. Conrad; Richard E. Pfile

synchronous serial interface, serialcommunications interface, multiple interrupts, and parallel I/O ports which makeit flexible and easy to use for student projects. We want student to know thecharacteristics of DSP processors.A low cost evaluation system for the 56002 processor called the 56002 EVM isavailable. It retails for $149.00. but is available for $120. with educationaldiscounts (contact Motorola University Support). The EVM comes complete Page 4.554.3with an assembler and full screen debugger. It has 32K of memory and can bepowered by a 9-volt plug-in wall transformer or dc supply. The EVM has stereoanalog inputs and outputs with 1/8 inch stereo plugs making

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. Thomas Calder; Gerald W. Jakubowski

the courselearning objectives. Course learning objectives do not have to encompass every detail thatstudents may learn. Learning objectives should, however, be viewed as the most importantknowledge and skills a course delivers to the students and, therefore, course content,examinations, projects, etc., should be clearly related to the course learning objectives.Quality improvement at the individual course level requires professors to systematicallyaccumulate relevant data about individual student performance. When individual studentperformance is not up to par, it is difficult at times to determine whether the problem is with thestudent, the teacher, the performance standards, or the learning objectives themselves.Therefore, a thorough

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1999 Annual Conference

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Jim Henry

. The Web is being used to implement "distanceengineering" with world-wide engineering projects. It is necessary to develop the connectionsin the web-connected students to comprise an effective "learning community."IntroductionIn the first section, the techniques and practices of utilizing equipment at a distance will bedescribed. In the second section, the Web-based Resource Center for Engineering Laboratorieswill be described. In the third section, the challenges in interaction among students and facultywill be discussed.1. "Distance Experiments"A total of 15 different stations for controls systems, chemical engineering unit operations and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tava Lennon Olsen; Joyce Yen

difficultconcepts and to help students develop the intuition for these concepts throughexperiential learning. These concepts get additional reinforcement in the lectures, wherestudents can draw upon their lab experiences when listening to the lectures.AcknowledgementsThis paper and the work for the project were supported in part by the Center for Research on Learning andTeaching at the University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The authors would also like to thank the referee forcomments and suggestions which improved the paper.References1 Johnson, D.W., Johnson, R.T., & Smith, K.A. Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom.Edina, MN: Interaction Book Company. 1991. Pg. 1:25.2 Ibid., pg. 5:7.3 Ibid., pg. 5:7.4 URL: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity

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1999 Annual Conference

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W.V. Wilding; J.N. Harb; Ronald E. Terry; W.C. Hecker

curriculumEnvironmental 1 ChE 170: Introduction; Yes B Grade in courselaws & ChE 451: Formal instruction Yes AregulationsCapstone design 2 ChE 451: Design project Yes C Grade on projectwith safety/environmentalconsiderationsThe information summarized in Table 4 for Attribute 7 is the result of much discussion and Page 4.379.8several iterations. Note that a mastery level of 3 was assigned for HAZCOM training, meaningthat our students will be required to pass the HAZCOM test as a condition for graduation.HAZCOM training has not been generally required of our students to

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1999 Annual Conference

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

numerous technical papers. He has been an engineer, engineering manager, and seniorengineering specialist for more than 20 years and has been an engineering consultant for the past 20 years. Hisspecialty has been circuit and system design, curriculum development, and technical manual writing. He iscurrently working on the data acquisition project with Hulbert. He is a Registered Professional Engineer inMassachusetts and a life member of IEEE.ERIC W. HANSBERRYHe is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University has taught graphics and mechanics courses for engineeringand technology students for over 20 years. He has also worked as a design engineer in the ship building industry for15 years. He has authored several technical papers, primarily in

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mauricio A. Colombo; Maria R Hernández; Jorge E. Gatica

computer-aided instruction developments inEngineering. Dr. Gatica serves as a mentor for undergraduate minority and high-school students, as well as a summeradvisor for Project SEED students. Page 5.88.11Page 5.88.12

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joseph R.V. Flora

Multimedia Based Laboratory Course for Environmental Engineering, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 21-24, 1998.10. Weber-Shirk, M.L. and Lion, L.W., Virtual Instruments in an Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 1996.11. Middleburg, A. Laboratory Projects: Should Students Do Them or Design Them? Chemical Engineering Education, 29(1) 34-38, 1995.12. Jayakumar, S., Squires, R.G., Reklaitis, G.V., Andersen, P.K., and Dietrich, B.K. The Purdue-Dow Styrene- Butadiene Polymerization Simulation, Journal of Engineering Education, 84(3), 271-278, 1995.13. Arce, J. and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kulowitch; Asad Yousuf

signatures is needed to fully understand the applicability andlimitations of this method. Other factors such as the effects of surrounding atmosphericconditions, age of the PMC, thermal cycling, long term exposure to temperature, and thepresence of surface coatings (such as paint and primers must be evaluated to insure that changesin these variables will not degrade the utility of the method. Lastly, this method needs to beresearched to determine it’s utility for use as a cure monitoring tool.Discussions And ConclusionThis paper presented a brief discussion of implementation and comparison ofportable LASER induced fluorescence system and LASER induced imaging systemto detect heat damage in composites. This project has provided a practical example

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

L.J. Bohmann; B.A. Mork; Noel Schulz

included. Other forms of electrical energyconversion need to be included. The course should be tailored to students who will use thetechnology as opposed to those who will design it. Some of our specific thoughts on how this canbe accomplished have been presented. We will further the development of this course with thehelp of a joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)initiative, the Innovative Power Engineering Education in a Changing Environment program.These two agencies are spending over $1.1 million on five, three year projects to revitalize powerengineering education. Since this is a work in progress, we encourage your comments on thisproposal. Please e-mail them to us at 'ljbohman@mtu.edu

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1997 Annual Conference

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James E. Cross

. Ritchie, The C Programming Language (second edition), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1988.Biographical InformationJames E. Cross is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at SouthernUniversity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has been a member of the facultysince 1962. Cross earned the BES degree in Electrical Engineering from JohnsHopkins University in 1960, served two years as an officer in the US Army andearned the MS degree in Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State Universityand the University of Florida. Cross has also earned the Bachelor’s, Mastersand Doctor of Theology degrees from Christian Bible College. He has worked onseveral Digital Signal Processing research projects for the Department of

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumit Ghosh; Raymond Kuo

Page 2.44.4includes an applicants SAT cores, ACH score, background, etc.Thus, in this investigation, college applications are modeled through 27 representative criteria whileadmissions officers are modeled by their belief structure, i.e. their individual beliefs in the relativeimportance of each of the 27 fields, derived from their own and the relevant university's educationphilosophies. Of the 27 beliefs, 15 are math oriented, 7 verbal oriented, and 6 are family backgroundoriented, while the last one falls under a miscellaneous category. Given that an overwhelming number of the27 beliefs are mathematically oriented, this paper projects that admission officers with math emphasiswould yield higher correlation values relative to those with other

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1997 Annual Conference

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Julie E. Sharp

the Frontiers in Education 23rd Annual Conference, 1993, pp. 618-622.8. Sharp, J.E., "Selecting and Presenting Writing Assignments in Engineering Classes: Tips for New Professors," Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 25th Annual Conference, 1995, pp. 4b5.1-4b5.5.9. Tierney, R., "Using Expressive Writing to Teach Biology," in Two Studies of Writing in High School Science, Classroom Research Study No. 5, Bay Area Writing Project, University of California, Berkley 1981.10. Harb, J.N., R.E. Terry, and J.E. Sharp, "Writing Across the Curriculum and Around the Cycle," ASEE 1994 Annual Conference Proceedings, vol. 1, pp. 760-766.11. Garrison, R., One-to-One: Making Writing Instruction Effective, Instructor's Manual to

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Troy E. Kostek

are graphical and object oriented. A graphical approach generally promotes ease of use. When using object oriented development tools, developers can focus more on the “big picture.” Since the objects perform specific tasks, the programmer does not have to write the program from scratch and thus “wrestle” with a multitude of details. Novice programmers now have capabilities previously available only to advanced programmers. Reduced Cost For End User - As mentioned above, development time is reduced since less code has to be generated and debugged. A reduction in development time generally decreases the cost of the project. And the developer using reusable OLE-based component products only

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1998 Annual Conference

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

Microprocessors, and DSP Benchmarks.Biographical InformationAARON ROBINSONAaron Robinson received his BSEE and MS degress in Electrical Engineering from the Florida State Universityin1994 and 1998 respectively. He has served as a project leader for the DSP group in the FAMU-FSU College ofEngineering High Performance Computing and Simulations Research Laboratory. He is a McKnight Fellowcommitted to finishing his Ph.D. degree and becoming a professor of Electrical Engineering.DR. FRED O.SIMONS JR. Page 3.120.8Fred O. Simons Jr. received his BSEE degree in August, 1960 from Mississippi State University, and MS and Ph.D.degrees in

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine

. Furthermore, we have developed partnershipsand coordinated efforts of colleges, universities, professional organizations, and otherparticipants in offering affordable continuing education programs through Annual Spring andFall Technical Conferences, EXPO (statewide Architectural, Engineering & Constructionprograms), and various specialty programs, seminars, and workshops. Fairmont State College has played a central role in developing a consortium of faculty,trainers, and subject matter experts to respond to industry requests instantly through a regionaltraining network. Career development programs in project management, scheduling, CPM, totalquality management, statistical process control, AutoCAD, SurvCADD, safety engineering,materials

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Brown, Washington State University; Dean Lewis, Washington State University

and engineering concept inventories in topics such as thermodynamics,statistics, and fluid mechanics indicates that students do not have understanding of fundamentalengineering and physics concepts. Results from these concept inventories are useful for gaugingperformance and stirring interest and concern, but lack detailed information on student thinkingabout engineering concepts. The goal of this project is to investigate student conceptualunderstanding of normal and shear stress in an axially loaded member using clinicaldemonstration interviews. Student interviews were conducted where students completedresearcher designed conceptual problems and discussed their lines of reasoning as theycompleted the problems. Students generally were

Conference Session

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Gisela Coto Quintana, SINAES; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Oscar Harasic, Organization of American States; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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criteria. For the purposes of this workshop, ABET criteria were used. The workshop was composed of more than 65% interactive team-based assessment exercises. Faculty and administrators had the opportunity to discuss assessment vehicles, criteria and methodologies. Presentations of assessment methodologies and accreditation procedures from ACAAI(Central America) and from the Regional Engineering Accreditation System for the Greater Caribbean Project were also part of this workshop.The cost of the workshop was $3000 and 50 participants representing 15 countries attended. AnAccreditation Committee of fifteen members was formed as a result of this workshop and a VicePresident for Accreditation was elected. The subsequent three