Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

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Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

wireless networking. Also required are hands-on laboratories that can beused by students for programming, development, and configuration of networks usingdifferent operating systems and hardware configurations. Similar programs, in Indianaand nationwide, are compared and contrasted. Also discussed are national, regional, andstate demand and employment factors that provided justification for the new degree.BackgroundIndiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne1 (IPFW) offers over 175 degree programs, islocated in the 2nd largest city, and is the 5th largest university in Indiana. The newBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology (CPET) degree, which wasapproved by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education in October 2003, has aninitial

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

were 37 students enrolled in the on-campussection of the course and 5 students enrolled in the online section.The course delivery method for the on-campus section consists of four 50-minute lectures eachweek for ten weeks and includes weekly homework assignments carried out in groups of fourstudents. Each student is required to complete every assignment individually before meeting withtheir group to decide on the best solution that will be submitted. To enable students acquire somehands-on learning experience, a group structural analysis laboratory project using the ANEXsmall-scale laboratory is also assigned. The main text used in the course is a 230-page set ofconcise and practice-oriented course notes developed by the author. This is

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

Society for Engineering Education”in the form of live discussions, chat, or through whiteboard applications has been introduced insome cases, which however require that the instructor or fellow students remain online. Webbased interactive laboratory experiments have also been developed for electrical circuits,electronics, fluid mechanics, and control systems courses.The primary focus of this paper is the development of an interactive tutoring system that hassome level of intelligence as a human tutor. A human tutor will try to determine whatdeficiencies a student might have, will keep track of when the student stumbles in solving aproblem, and will suggest additional support material for review. In addition, the tutor is alsolikely to coordinate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

April 14, 2004. For further information prospective proposers are encouraged to visithttp://www.ehr.nsf.gov/due/programs/nsdl/.Implications for engineering educationNSDL will differ from the physical library in at least three ways. First, the variety of contentitself (most of it “born digital”) will be far greater in NSDL than in the physical world, e.g.virtual laboratory modules, simulations or animations, and multimedia in general. Second, theinteractions the user can have with material are far richer. For example, the ability to executerapid searches across multiple collections; or the ability to pull disparate smaller grainedresources from different collections and assemble them to create something new, which can thenbe contributed back to

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis

New Intake Nozzle Transition Nozzle Figure 12 Mass Airflow Measurement System Installed on the Jet EngineWe use two different mass airflow transducers. The most accurate transducer is aresearch grade device manufactured by Sierra Technologies. This system is used as theairflow measurement standard in our laboratories due to its extremely stable calibration.Unfortunately, this unit is also quite heavy, which hurts our ability to measure the jetengine thrust since the unit must be hung with the jet engine. Further, this system is alsoquite expensive; thus making it difficult for general use. To minimize cost and to protectour calibration standard, we are currently using automotive mass airflow

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

of the designengineering team leader on each team, 3) testing the individual prototype designs – a function ofthe test engineering team members, 4) tracking costs of development and production usingMicrosoft Excel – a function of the cost engineering team members, and 5) setting the projectplan using Microsoft Project – a responsibility of the project manager. Once the aircraft had beenflown in competition on Tuesday of week three, the teams returned to the classroom and to thecomputer laboratories in order to compile a final report and presentation to be delivered duringthe final awards ceremony on the final day of the program, Thursday of the third week. Sincethe GEAR-UP program also emphasized parental involvement, assuring a better

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

side engineers in their research laboratories to get a clear idea of whatengineers do. The teachers, in addition to strengthening their math and science backgrounds, thenwould serve as spokespersons for engineering in their respective classrooms. During the fiveyears that this program was in operation a total of 67 teachers from throughout the United Statesparticipated. Of the approximately 100 engineering faculty at WSU 19 served as mentors (somemultiple times) during the teacher’s stay. After gaining some experience with this activity we settled upon the following procedurefor conducting the program. Advertisements for the program were disseminated in variouspublications from state and national science teacher’s organizations. The

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

Session 2666 Scenario-Based Learning Approach in Teaching Statics Jawaharlal Mariappan, Angela Shih, Peter G Schrader California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper describes the initiatives currently underway at Cal Poly, Pomona to develop andimplement a scenario-based learning approach to teach major concepts in statics. Statics isgenerally the first engineering course taken by most engineering students. The course is typicallytaught in lecture format, although several schools have been adopting a laboratory component.Statics is a prerequisite for many courses and

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Session 2620 Computing and Programming with LabVIEW Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach in teaching various computing and programming principles toengineering students utilizing the LabVIEW software is discussed. LabVIEW, acronym for“Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench”, is a powerful and robust graphicalprogramming language developed by National Instruments, Inc. for use in various engineering andscientific related fields. At the present time, this software tool is mainly utilized in

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

-section test rods with diameters of 3.18, 6.35, 9.53, and 12.7 mm were used to developsuch a correlation equation. This correlation will be supplied to the students to be used in thedesign of a fin attachment using the Design-Build-Test approach.I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a very important subject and has long been an essential part of mechanicalengineering curricula all over the world. Heat transfer is encountered in a wide variety ofengineering applications where heating and cooling is required. Heat transfer plays an importantrole in the design of many devices, such as spacecrafts, radiators, heating and air conditioningsystems, refrigerators, power plants, and others.Traditional undergraduate heat transfer laboratories in mechanical

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Thomas; Albert Rosa

on interface circuit design.These two lectures occur just after eight lectures on fundamentals. The lesson on signal transferprepares students to know that circuits have limitations on how much voltage, current or powercan be delivered to a load. Interface circuit design enables students to deliver to a fixed loadfrom a fixed source a requisite voltage, current or power providing, of course, that the maximumpossible signal limit is not exceeded. In this section we also begin a discussion of loading – whatit is, when it is a bad thing and when it is a good thing. A suitable laboratory exercise is to havestudents design an interface circuit to deliver a certain voltage, current or power ±10% to a fixedload using a limited set of resistors, for

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

17 Hrs 18 Hrs 18 Hrs 18 Hrs 15-17 Hrs 17-19 HrsNote: Credit for Advanced Compositon (not listed) may be obtained by exemption orexamination. If a student must actually enroll in Advanced Composition the graduationrequirement increases to 139hours.Foundation EngineeringFoundation Engineering, CVEG 4143, is normally taken by students in their senior year and hasbeen a required course in the civil engineering program for many years. In accomplishing themajor objectives of this course, students are required to produce an unconstrained site layout forsome type of commercial facility, plan a subsurface exploration program for their site, interpretraw field and laboratory soils data to extract design parameters

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

. Of course, there were many other interactions, e.g., Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1: Capstone Projects for 2003 Ten Projects Sponsored by Research Laboratories at the University of Houston Design of In-Vaccum Cold Sink A backside helium cooling system was designed to reduce stencil mask distortion due to overheating during x-ray lithography used for integrated circuit fabrication. Thermistors, placed on the membrane surface as carbon cement, were used to measure the temperature of the fragile membranes. The thermistors

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ellen Ford; Keith Levien; Ellen Momsen; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

somethingdifferent about the engineering experience for female and male students.The gap in high school preparation in math and science between males and females is closing,but despite similar coursework, female students still lag significantly behind males inengineering. Margolis and Fisher (2002) speculate that the pre-college “tinkering” that is socommon amongst male pre-engineering students leads to a greater comfort level in collegecourses. Many female students do not have this “tinkering” experience, and develop a drop inself confidence in laboratory classes. According to McIlwee and Robinson (1992), by not sharingthe “culture of the tinkerer” the female students are placed at a disadvantage, and this furtherundermines their confidence in their

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

revised their engineering curricula. As the investigators described it,“this project will help continue our transformation from an institution focused onteaching to one focused on learning (emphasis original). Our emphasis on pedagogicaland process innovations will complement the newly created curricular programs so thatour entire academic culture will be transformed to one of continuous improvement of thelearning/teaching endeavor.” To this end, the grant would help fund development of newtexts, laboratory experiments, and both hardcopy and multimedia course materials.This paper discusses one aspect of the funding: enhancing faculty effectiveness byfunding mini-grants to develop, pilot, and implement new materials, procedures, andcourses within

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Jennifer Beller; Donald Elger

difficult concepts in your course to a new learner. 3. Think of problems, puzzles, or questions you could ask students to address. 4. Give students raw data (such as lists, graphs, or tables) and ask them to write an argument or analysis based on the data.”Hesketh, Farrell, and Slater5 give a specific strategy for converting a laboratory exercise into acooperative task: “To convert a laboratory write-up to an inductive style the following should be done: 1. Handout a prelab given to peak the students’ interest. Have them hypothesize the trends in the data that will be collected. 2. The laboratory work should primarily consist of data collection and analysis using only graphical methods. 3

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

Session # 3613 Making Memories The Penn State Bioprocessing Cluster Program 2000-2002 Alfred Carlson Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractAs part of a larger National Science Foundation grant to Penn State, I ran a special hands-on, “real life” educational program in bioprocessing for senior chemical engineers. Thestudents took all of their courses for the spring semester, senior year, from a singleinstructor and pooled them into a seamless laboratory project to produce a recombinantprotein at pilot plant scale. The students were able to learn how to design experiments,plan and execute runs, and operate a

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

of all teams focused directly on the undergraduate Page 9.123.4program. Experience with this mode of operation has resulted in some teams being subsumed by Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationothers while entirely new teams were been created to fill gaps in the original team structure. Thecurrent structure is composed of ten teams; Undergraduate Curriculum Improvement,Laboratory Improvement, Design in the Curriculum, Innovation in Teaching, Overall CurriculumContent, External Data

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

educational system to blend the best of the Egyptian and Western systems, thus creating an opportunity for the students to experience the best of both worlds.‚ Make available better facilities for classrooms and laboratories.‚ Create the missing campus environment by giving attention to recreational facilities and student activities.The challenges to achieve these improvements are huge and require time, money, and sincereefforts. Unfortunately, the majority in Egypt is very skeptical about the chances the new privateuniversities have in improving the quality of education. Accusations of being profit-orientedorganizations are already tainting their reputation. It is evident that for most of the privateinstitutes and universities material

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

few has long been a concern in most academic and professionaldisciplines. Copyright laws, patent laws, academic honor codes, and professional ethics codes allgive evidence of the historic need to protect intellectual property (IP). In the public orcommercial arena, the victim of IP theft usually has the burden of detecting, proving, and suingor pressing charges against the violator. In the classroom or instructional laboratory, the victimsof IP theft (students) are not generally in a position to detect, prove, or prosecute the perpetrator.Academic honesty codes or honesty contracts encourage most students to fulfill their ethicalobligations, but the codes do not guarantee complete compliance, nor do they provide a means ofdetection or proof

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

: Page 9.980.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education • The need for extra adults to assist with developing and implementing laboratory exercises. • The need for assistance with locating and coordinating educational excursions, and for planning after school clubs and organizations. • The need for assistance in taking advantage of educational and funding opportunities. • The need for role models and mentors for students. • The need for expert content resource people to aid both teachers and students. • The need for support for the use of educational technology.On the other side

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

• In recent years, we found that our students lack of industrial experience, unlike those students in late 90's. To improve project successful rate, we are investigating the need of adding a project management course before two capstone courses. It was discussed in many curriculum meeting, and will seek inputs from Industrial Advisory Committee members in April 1, 2004's meeting. • We also decided that the class meeting format change ECET 490/ECET 491 class format to have regular weekly meeting • Improve senior design support • Purchased 24 computers in Fall 2003 for networking laboratory, and 9 computers for circuit laboratory in Spring 2004V. Summary and ConclusionsThe continuous improvement is a never-ending process

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

College College College Community College Program development Teaching over IVN Laboratory development

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Natasha Beretvas; John Pearce, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

traditional lecture / class notes model is needed to help students reason about topics that arenot in their everyday experience and thinking. One instructional strategy that helps engineeringstudents go deeper in their thinking about the functional aspects of electrical circuits is showingthese effects through the use of real-time devices.We have not been able to use real-time demonstrations in class effectively, and certainly not inour larger classes. A real-time prototyping and development system that is an ideal teaching aid,called ELVIS (Electronics Laboratory Virtual Instrument Suite) 3 has been developed byNational Instruments (Austin TX). This apparatus uses real circuit devices on a breadboardconnected to a PC through ADC (Analog Digital

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

simple and robust, functioning in almost any Internet environment • To be accepted, the system must make online teaching and learning easyScalable network delivery: In 2001 our laboratory took on the challenge of creating a solutionthat meets this challenge. We have created Network EducationWare (NEW) primarily fromopen-source software that is available with no license fee to all. The tools with which we startedwere created for use with Internet multicasting5, where one station sends an identical message tomany others. This approach is sometimes called peer-to-peer operation because all computershave identical ability to send to each other. It offers a simple model for scaling to large numbersof participants and has attracted talented

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

outcomes described above. The presentation is organized intocourse aspects - first semester, course aspects – second semester, and course evaluation.Course Aspects – First Semester The course was originally developed in 1998 as a single spring-semester course but wasrevised in the 2000-2001 academic year to a two-semester sequence: Senior Design A and SeniorDesign B. In the fall semester of their final year students take the lecture course Senior DesignA, during which the planning and preparation of the robotics project take place. In the followingspring semester students take the lecture-laboratory course Senior Design B, during which the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

, the majority of the projectsresulted in creative, and for the most part successful robots, and enthusiastic students.4 An AI Robotics CourseAt the University of North Florida, the Botball kit has been used for the past 2 years to support acourse in AI robotics offered by the Department of Computer Science. Cross fertilization withME occurs at the graduate level with exploration of mobile robots interacting with stationaryrobot manipulators. The term AI robotics (Murphy [12]) is used to emphasize robotics thatfocuses on mobile robots operating under conditions of uncertainty. The Botball kit provides anideal means for establishing and maintaining an effective support laboratory for an upper levelmajor elective in AI robotics, providing hands

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

: Page 9.232.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1. High school diploma or GED - All applicants must either graduate from high school or have a GED. 2. Subject-matter Requirements - Purdue has established subject-matter requirements in English, math, and laboratory science; students who graduate from high school starting in 2004 will have foreign language requirements as well. Minimum requirements for engineering are: ‚" 6 semesters Academic Math (algebra, geometry & trig

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

class discussion, laboratory and lecture activities. The students aregiven turns at playing the roles of owner, designer and contractor in studying the same project.The Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at North Dakota State University utilizesreal-life projects for senior design drawn from the nearby community4. This type of project isknown as service-learning. Service-learning can assist students in seeing the relevance of theacademic subject to the real world. Students are able to fill unmet needs in the communitythrough direct service which is meaningful and necessary.The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the United States Air ForceAcademy has adopted an integrated engineering curriculum approach5. Students