Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

learning grants program were given to increase faculty awarenessof the resources available at MIT for such work.Most of the questions allowed for an open-ended response; however, a quantitative scale wasused for two questions targeting faculty’s future behavior: “On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not Page 10.625.3at all open, and 10 being completely open, how open are you to trying service learning in classes Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationyou teach?” and “Assuming the [service learning

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Donald Mueller; Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

engineering applications such as heat exchangers. Convectiveheat transfer coefficients in these devices are usually computed using correlations that requirethermal conductivity data of the working fluid (liquid or gas).A review of the literature indicates that there are several studies that report different techniquesto measure the thermal conductivity of liquids and gases. Kaye and Higgins [1] suggested aguarded hot-plate method for measuring thermal conductivity of liquids. Keyes and Sandell [2]and Vines [3] used a concentric-cylinder arrangement for the measurement of thermalconductivity of gases. This paper presents a technique/method that can be employed for themeasurement of the thermal conductivity of both liquids and gases.II. TheoryThermal

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

these opportunities for Page 10.1341.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”interdisciplinary study. For example, the ECE department begun requiring Biology aspart of our curriculum.Despite these strengths, three limitations of our curriculum are: 1) it is somewhat circuit-centric, and as such does not achieve the conceptual balance that we believe isappropriate for modern electrical and computer engineering education; 2) it reflects onlya portion of the balance of interests and research strengths of

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Quevedo-Camacho; Juan Manuel Ramírez-Cortés; Mario Gomez-Mejia

The Ibero-American Engineer: An ASIBEI Project on Global Education Rafael Quevedo-Camacho1, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Cortés2, Mario Gómez-Mejía3 1. Asociación Iberoamericana de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería (ASIBEI); President / 2. Asociación Iberoamericana de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería (ASIBEI); Past President / 3. Asociación Nacional de Facultades y Escuelas de Ingeniería (ANFEI); Executive DirectorAbstractThe importance of recognizing engineers in American and Iberian-American countries is discussed.The Ibero-American Association of Engineering Schools (ASIBEI), has been

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

enhancedlearning environment 1-9.Over the course of the two week institute, a series of building/programming projects werecompleted using the Legos® and ROBOLAB. These projects were arranged in order ofincreasing complexity and were normally done in teams of two. Typically, the projects werebroken into three parts: 1) “lecture” time was devoted to introducing the hardware and softwaretools needed for that project, 2) the K-12 teachers worked on the “implementation” and 3) eachteam was given time to “demonstrate” their project and to share specific difficulties andsuccesses. The content lectures (item 1 above) were given by UTA professors who haveextensive knowledge in the area of design as well as with the Lego® products and theROBOLAB software. The

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

bullets, andmindlessly read them to the audience.” Norman recognizes that PowerPoint slides can be anextremely effective way to present visual aids, with emphasis on visual material—that is,material that cannot easily be conveyed with words. He suggests that many of the big problemswith PowerPoint arise when speakers try to use one set of slides as (1) speaker’s notes, (2) slidesthe audience will see, (3) handouts to be studied after the talk, and (4) a substitute for a writtenpaper. The most prolific advocate of intelligent use is Cliff Atkinson (2004a–f), an independentconsultant, founder of sociablemedia.com, and author of Beyond Bullets, a book forthcoming inFebruary 2005 from Microsoft Press. He agrees that there is a dysfunctional

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

program to makeassessment an integral part of the program. A multi-loop assessment process is used to evaluatethe overall program outcomes and objectives. This multi-loop process is shown in Figure 1 onthe next page. The interior loops represent the assessment of the Program Outcomes. The innerloop represents the course review process. At the conclusion of every semester all faculty whotaught courses in the program participate in course review. This includes the evaluation ofsurvey data, rubrics, and other information. The results of the assessment loops are thencombined to determine if the program outcomes and have been met.The assessment of each outcome is achieved using a variety of measures, including • Review of course material using

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

American Society of Civil Engineers1, and the National Academy ofEngineering have advocated a Master’s degree as the first professional degree for practicingengineers. Currently, most graduate engineering degrees are earned by international studentswho are returning home in ever increasing numbers. The importance of providing an education that is grounded in the practice of the Page 10.1380.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 1 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

field measurements on acircular wire loop that was carrying an AC current of variable frequency ( from 1 to600 kHz) are also presented in the Experimental Results section in order to illustrate thetypical numerical data that are obtained when students perform the MaFEL exercises. As mentioned above , the data provided by the B-dot sensor is also compared tothat obtained with a commercial magnetic field probe for both shielded and unshieldedconditions. In closing , a summary of the B-dot probe’s diagnostic capabilities and theability of the student fabricated shields to attenuate spurious low frequency ACmagnetic fields is presented and potential applications of the MaFEL concepts to solvingEMI problems in real industrial settings are

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

study scientific or engineering problems.CSE has emerged as a powerful and indispensable method to analyze a variety of problems inresearch, production and process development, and manufacturing. Computational modeling andsimulation is being accepted as a third methodology in scientific discovery processing andengineering design, complementing the traditional approaches of theory and experiment. Manyexperiments and investigations that have traditionally been performed in a laboratory or the fieldare being augmented or replaced by computational modeling and simulation. Examples includeweather and climate modeling 1, fossil fuel combustion simulation 2, engine and vehicle design 3,materials development 4, aircraft design 5, electronic design

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

execution of the project, while the instructor had supervisory andmonitoring roles. This approach enhanced the learning process. This paper outlined theelements of this approach, and it explained its effectiveness. Other instructors who teachsimilar or other engineering technology courses are encouraged to use this approach.However, they have to be aware of its limitations.Bibliography1. Ogot, M., Elliot, G., and Glumac, N., An Assessment of In-Person and Remotely Operated Laboratory, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 57-63, January 2003.2. Foulds, R., Bergen, M., and Mantilla, B., Integrated Biomedical Engineering Education Using Studio-Based Learning, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 22

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George York; Daniel Pack

engineering major student and a system engineeringmanagement student. The instructor’s participation will help us define proper roles andacademic standards for our new majors in Systems Engineering and Systems EngineeringManagement who will be enrolled in the senior design projects next academic year. The goalof the project is to create a group of mobile robots to search, detect, and destroy targets in anunknown environment. In addition to the design and construction of mobile robots withsensing and communication capabilities, the team must (1) solve a cooperative search problem,(2) develop appropriate communication protocols, and (3) devise strategies for multiple robotsto detect and destroy targets cooperatively. To this end, each robot must

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF), by industry partners of Dow, DuPont, Fisher-Rosemount, andPepperl+Fuchs, and by MTU. The purpose of this paper is two-fold; it seeks to explore andevaluate assessment techniques and to determine if the EPSC course does indeed smooth thetransition of graduates into the workplace.The EPSC is a Unit Operations Laboratory (UOL) containing the following laboratory- or pilot-scale processes: (1) activated carbon adsorption, (2) advanced oxidation, (3) air strippingutilizing a packed tower, (4) ion exchange, (5) jar testing for coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation system optimization, (6) activated sludge treatment using sequencing batchreactors (SBRs), and (7) a drinking water treatment plant (Table 1

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

Page 10.740.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”academia from industry is the need to equip students with real-world skills before they hit the jobmarket. Students exposed to these real-world concepts early do not have to learn by trial anderror later when the stakes are potentially much greater. [1] The size of the group inherentlybrings many different personalities, skill sets and ability levels. Individuals accustomed to self-performing work must now learn to delegate. Communication within the group quickly becomesa major issue and the students have the opportunity to work through these

Conference Session

New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Polito; Rachel Husfeld

as a missionary in the Turkana region since1995, brought the need of the Turkana people for clean drinking water and water for irrigation to theattention of EWB-USA. EWB-USA awarded the project to EWB-VU in October of 2003, a mereeight months before EWB-VU took their first implementation trip to Nakor. EWB-VU has plannedthree trips to Nakor: the initial trip in 2004, and subsequent trips in the springs of 2005 and 2006.Initial Planning and Preliminary DesignInitially, the scope of the solution proposed by EWB-VU consisted of two components intended toaddress the drinking water and the irrigation/food needs of the village. The proposed componentswere:1) Windmill-Powered Water Pumps: Gene Morden reported that the groundwater in the area

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

#1: “Operation ‘Home on the Ol’ Driving Range’ ” This initial projectbuilds on classroominstruction in dealing withgraphic communicationsissues for a small scalecommercial constructionproject. With a principalpurpose to providestudents with some designexperience as early in thecourse as possible, thisproject was administeredin two phases to allowstudents to complete aninitial design, receivefeedback, and then makedesign refinements as part Figure 1. Student Perspective Drawing Submitted inof a final submittal. The Accordance with the Design Requirements for Phase 1,project required students Project #1.4to serve as architecturalengineers developing aconceptual design for a new golf course club

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Koren Aragaki; Daniel M. Ferguson; Margaret Huyck

were developed based on currentresearch on each of these objectives and their relationship to models of high performing teams.A few of the major aspects of each of the learning objectives are presented below:1. Multidisciplinary Teamwork a. Team includes students from multiple disciplines. b. Team members are considered specialists in their areas of expertise. c. Team has a common goal and members work together to achieve that objective.2. Communication a. Teams communicate effectively both through writing and verbally. b. Team members are able to structure their communications in a way that makes it easy for others to understand them. c. Team members contribute to discussions so that all opinions are

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

, interfacing devices to buses including fan-out issues, as well asbuffering and timing analysis for interfacing devices. As a course requirement, anembedded system project must be completed by each student using the hardware kernelthey had developed throughout the semester. The Tetris game was an ideal final projectfor this course due to its demanding software and hardware requirements, whichrequired the student to apply and incorporate hardware and software skills and toperform tradeoff analyses using what he had learned throughout the course: (1) memoryexpansion, (2) input/output interfacing, (3) embedded software development, and (4)stand-alone system development. This paper provides the reader with the step-by-stepprocedure used at the Academy for

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

(Spearman’s rho = 0.80) and the sequential/global domain thelowest (Spearman’s rho = 0.60). On average, individual students repeated greater than 75% oftheir answers identically in the test and retest. These significant correlations provide additionalsupport for the test-retest reliability of the ILS.IntroductionThere are multiple instruments available to characterize the learning styles of students, and forengineering students, the most widely utilized has been the Index of Learning Styles (ILS)originally developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman [1]. We have been using theILS as our primary assessment instrument in an ongoing evaluation of student learning styles,with the overall goal of developing improved instructional approaches and

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

: 1. Use of hands-on learning, making K-12 science curricula less theory-based and more context-based by emphasizing the social good of engineering and demonstrating how it is relevant to the real world 2. Use of an interdisciplinary approach by adding a technological component to all subjects and lessons 3. Involvement of engineering in K-12 lessons that map to state standards for math and science 4. Engaging more K-12 teachers in outreach efforts and curriculum writing 5. Making engineering “cool” by outreaching to urban schools and females more aggressively 6. Creating better incentives for all interested parties to engage in K-12 outreach (especially higher

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

and prioritize skill sets.The agenda for each focus group included: Identification of local/regional job needs, including job titles and job descriptions Review of existing national skill standards in biotechnology Identification of required entry-level skills, suitable for short-term training programs Recommendations for training delivery methods and preferred training providersSeveral key findings resulted from the meetings, including: 1. The biotechnology industry is very diverse and there isn’t a single organization currently in place to provide a program endorsement. However, one could be created/established. It was generally agreed that, for the purposes of this project, the scope of the

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Westbrook

temporary funding, loan key personnel to the project and a lot of other important but behind the scenes support. If the Godfather loses influence or leaves the position, all of the existing decision capital is lost. The instrument shown below (Figure 1.) was developed to assess the environment for success that a professional or administrator may encounter. The instrument was developed conceptually from the discussions above and has not been validated.Figure 1. Instrument to Measure Environment for SuccessAttribute 1Goals of the Unit are an integral part of the goals of the organization as a whole.Not related Some relationship Closely related 1

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

Management for Students of Technology: A Case Study in Information Technology Education Dr. Sam C. Geonetta University of Cincinnati, College of Applied Science 2220 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45245Introduction In her article on graduates of engineering and technology programs Kerry Hannonobserves that “. . .corporations want the whole ball of wax—soft skills, science skills, anddiversity.”1 Loria Yeadon, a patent attorney who holds a master’s degree in electricalengineering, emphasizes the need for technology professionals to be “business-minded”.2 InInternetWeek, Nick Evans states that “Most will agree that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Krupar; George Suckarieh

Page 10.869.1commercial projects. British engineers came from all social classes and relied heavily uponapprenticeship training in educating the next generation of technologists. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationDuring most of the 19th century, outside of the military academies [1] , most American engineersreceived their training through apprenticeship or some other similar on-the-job training system.Many of the large-scale internal improvement projects of this era, like canal construction, servedas training grounds for American novice engineers supervised initially by British

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Falkowski

. Page 10.275.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographyChalking it up to experience, Diane Kukich Volume 12, Number 1, 2003 University of Delaware Messenger Page 10.275.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSean Falkowski is an assistant professor of Manufacturing Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton.He recently

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

Faculty and Student Response to a Laptop Computer Requirement for Engineering Freshmen O. Hayden Griffin, Jr. and Thomas D. L. Walker Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityIntroductionPersonal computers started to become common with the introduction of the IBM PC on August12, 1981 [1]. Computing began the transition from large mainframes to desktops at that time.Desktop computers proved very useful for faculty and students, and “computer classrooms” werecreated at some universities, at great cost, and with significant recurring maintenance costs forboth hardware and software. Some

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Hickey; Raluca Rosca

Engineers, Gainesville Student branch and supported by the Dean ofGraduate Studies in the College of Engineering. The first offering of ETP-UF took place duringthe last half of the Fall 2004 semester, and a second offering is advertised for Spring 2005.IntroductionThe general objectives of the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETP), as well as theoutcomes of the first offering were presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference 1 by itsdesigners at the NSF-funded Center for Advancement of Engineering Education at University ofWashington. In short the program strives to better prepare graduate students in engineering forthe teaching component of an academic career, by offering an eight week, step-by-step approachto writing a teaching statement

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley

the 2000 National Survey isincluded in Table 1. At both the elementary and middle school levels, the project’s genderdistribution follows national trends. From a race perspective, project participants are, onaverage, more diverse than national average, especially at the middle school level where 50% ofthe project teachers are African American. This is compared to the national average of 9%.Neither level has any Hispanic teacher participants, reflecting the county’s low percentage ofteachers who classify themselves as Hispanic. The most striking data is in the area of teachingexperience. Even though nationally over 50% of teachers have eleven or more years ofclassroom experience, fully three quarters of RAMP-UP participants have been teaching

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

primaryspecialization from one of three “tracks”, including Software Development, Networking, or WebTechnologies. BS learners also choose at least one secondary track specialization from one offive tracks, including Software Development, Networking, Web Technologies, Database orDigital Media. Co-op experience is a vital part of the curriculum; all learners work in alternatingquarters starting in their second year of study. BS learners co-op five quarters and AS learnerstwo quarters.1 In addition to co-op, learners at the College of Applied Science learn byexperience through the integration of intensive, hands-on activities built into the courses andthrough the Senior Design project completed in the final year of study.2 In the IT program, Senior Design