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Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

lecture-based and provided thestudents with enough information to understand the course content. The main focus of thecourse was in three main areas; overview of the theory of particle accelerators, basic types ofsources and the monitoring/cooling considerations in source design. This course served asprerequisite to the radiation applications course. Figure 1 shows the course description andcourse goals from the 1997 Georgia Tech General Catalog and Table 1 presents the breakdownof lectures for the course.5Course Credit 3 Credit Hours (3 Lecture / 0 Laboratory)Course Description Particle Accelerators; radiation sources for

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

offers many types ofprograms to benefit society, including a teaching factory. While most partners are located closeto Detroit, Lehigh University is located in Bethlehem, PA. Lehigh has been a partner for 10 yearsand has tested many educational philosophies related to distance education during that time.The Greenfield Coalition learning system is predicated on the belief that students will learn fasterand will become more effective problem solvers if engineering education and practice areintegrated, and students actively participate in their learning1. Furthermore, students will benefitin their study of core subjects such as math, physics, and chemistry if they better understand howthe material relates to their experience in the factory.With

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

andrelative conceptual simplicity, it has been difficult to present electronic neural networksin a form convenient for the university classroom or electronics laboratory setting. In thispaper we describe an approach for implementing a neural network though which manymajor analog and digital MOSFET circuit concepts can be illustrated and demonstrated.This approach is amenable to realization in discrete electronic modules through whichassociated laboratory exercises and design projects may be created. Furthermore, thesame concepts can be extended into Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), where thelimitations of component count and performance can be overcome and addressed to a fargreater degree.IntroductionThe fundamental motivation to study neural

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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

. Page 9.29.5Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering For the projects, students were given access to instructional and research flow facilities inthe College of Engineering in addition to the facilities associated with graduate student research(described above). These included an open channel flow flume in our Integrated Teaching andLearning Laboratory, a 6 inch diameter vortex ring generator driven by a loudspeaker, a 50gallon aquarium tank, and an Aerolab High Speed 0.5 m X 0.5 m cross section wind tunnel. Notall of these facilities had flow visualization techniques already developed for them. For

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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

Partnering Across Cultures: Bridging the Divide between Universities and Minority High Schools Marion Usselman1, Donna Llewellyn2, Dara O’Neil3, Gordon Kingsley3, 1 Center for Education Integrating Science, Math, and Computing (CEISMC) 2 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) 3 School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe historical mission of most engineering-dominated Research-1 universities is to create newknowledge and to train students in technological fields. In the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Welker

Session number 1793 An Integrated Plan for Improving Team Functioning Andrea L. Welker and Walter G. Tymon, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Department of Management, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085Abstract: The importance of effective team functioning is recognized by students, faculty,employers, and our accreditation board. Teams are often used to obtain all of the educationaloutcomes described by ABET, however, the explicit statement that students must learn how towork in teams highlights the increasing importance of this skill. Several teaching methods tohelp students learn to work effectively in teams

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

VIs for the example problems of this paper areprovided in Figures 3, 5, 7, 9, and 12.When teaching a structural analysis course in the classroom or laboratory environments, theinstructors can use the front panel of the developed VIs to conveniently alter various structure,support, and loading parameters, and instantaneously generate any specific numerical results orneeded plots. These results can aid the instructor to better illustrate and discuss the behaviorstructures subjected to various conditions. The discussion and interaction generated from the useof these VIs creates more interest among the students, elevates students’ understanding of thecourse topics, enhances the student-instructor interactions, and ultimately leads to a more

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

materials science Senior Year – process control, senior design project, senior laboratory, technical chemicalengineering electives such as petroleum operationsStudents would learn programming skills during their freshman year and make active use of theirskills in isolated instances throughout the remainder of their undergraduate academic career. Thesenior design project would be the course most likely requiring computer programmingexpertise.During the 1980s and 1990s the computing resources available to chemical engineeringundergraduates expanded dramatically. Universities began requiring that all students have theirown personal computer (Drexel started this practice in 19832). Even those universities that didn’thave this requirement

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Calixto; Glaucia Almeida; Frederico Rodrigues; elizabeth maia

high interactive interfaces,which computers have through their multimedia resources, graphics, artificial intelligenceand virtual realities, will certainly stimulate the student’s learning process. The advent of theInternet has pushed the production of computer teaching aids even further. Web basedcourses provide not only flexibility to students learn according to their time frame and pacebut also the possibility of several students being connected simultaneously. The user-friendlyinterface provided by the Internet browser is another feature, which must not be forgotten.In the last 80 years, concrete has been the most used construction material worldwide 1.Consequently reinforced concrete is an important subject of any engineering and

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Atif Qamar; Zahed Siddique

development of solid models. Engineering graphics and CAD software training can be divided into the following broadcategories: Most academic institutions have one or more graphics and/or solid modeling courses in their curriculum to teach students basic graphics principles and how to use one of the available commercial software packages. Page 9.440.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education With the pressure of reducing credit hours from curriculum, many

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Steve Menhart

Transitioning a Microcontroller Course from Assembly Language to C Steve Menhart, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering Technology University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Ave. Little Rock, AR 72204 AbstractThis paper describes improvements made to an integrated lecture and laboratory course dealingwith microcontrollers, taught in the Engineering Technology Department, at the University ofArkansas at Little Rock (UALR). This course initially used the Motorola 68HC11microcontroller, but currently uses the Motorola MC9S12DP256B

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Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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ed conley

classroom minutes expendedin this exercise can bring to life one of these fundamentals.References1. ‘The Machinery of Life,’ Mechanical Engineering, v126, n2, p30-4, February 2004.2. ‘Classroom Demonstrations and Laboratory Experiments,’ Chapter 7, Wiley Higher Education, http://wiley.com/college/msci/callister39551X/demonstrations/ch07.html3. ‘Strain in One Dimension,’ ABAQUS Theory Manual Version 6.3, http://gong.snu.ac.kr/down/on-line-documents/abaqus/V6.3_HTMLdocs /books/stm/ch01s04ath05.htmlEDGAR CONLEY is associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces,New Mexico. He received the PhD from Michigan State University in Engineering Mechanics (‘86). Dr. Conley

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

there was a problem in appropriate technical style forengineering reports. Students were not challenged to prepare formal laboratory reportsnor formal engineering design reports. Perhaps the most apparent weakness of studentsafter finishing the sequence was the lack of ability to construct simple computerprograms. The software package Matlab was introduced yet it seemed to distract studentsfrom learning the fundamental skills required to program.Many substantive changes were been put in place for the first effort at revision. The oldstructure had been abandoned and in its place was a fully integrated program. Theincoming freshman class of approximately 200 was divided into five separate sections of40 students each. Each class section was

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

allengineering majors; chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering here atYSU. Courses were given up by all the majors in order to get the required space in thecurriculum. Three courses were developed, one for each quarter, and each course was worth 3quarter hours and included a laboratory component. The courses were designed to incorporatefeatures that would maintain students’ interest in engineering and develop useful skills for laterparts of the engineering curriculum. Faculty resources would need to be about the same asrequired for the courses replaced so that the program could be instituted without requiring theaddition of new faculty.The factors determined as fundamental to a successful freshman engineering program

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

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

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

andsterile academic laboratory, but in practical, industrial settings.Student involvement in this particular project began after the proposal was awarded but beforethe design of the experiment started. Under direct faculty supervision, undergraduate engineeringstudents coordinated testing efforts among the various constituencies on the project, designed theinstrumentation system used to collect data, installed the instrumentation system at the plasticmanufacturing facility, and finally collected data and assisted in data reduction and analysis.Hopefully this paper will provide a model for similar projects involving undergraduateengineering students in the energy conservation area.Experimental DesignA simplified system diagram is shown in Fig. 1

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

personalized interfaces to the educationalresources and services of NSDL. For example, an engineering educator will be able to input aprofile to specify a search for inquiry-based laboratory resources that i) have been reviewed byfellow faculty, ii) are “mapped” or otherwise associated with ABET outcome goals, iii) containembedded assessment tools, and iv) feature interactive visualizations of the phenomenon understudy. Students will be able to take a hand in creating learning materials themselves, perhaps asmentors to younger students or as teaching assistants, and these “products” may be retained inelectronic portfolios or persistent e-carrels. Likewise professional engineers may be able toaccess continued certification opportunities and retain

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gregory Davis

in this capacity, he teaches courses in the Automotiveand Thermal Science disciplines. He also serves a Director of the Advanced Engine Research Laboratory,where he conducts research in alternative fuels and engines. Currently, Greg serves as the faculty advisorfor the world's largest Student Chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the CleanSnowmobile Challenge Project. Greg is also active on the professional level of SAE, serving as Chair ofthe Student Activities Committee and Chair of the Engineering Education Board. Dr. Davis is a registeredProfessional Engineer in the State of Michigan. Page 9.925.16

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

commonspreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, is the starting point to teach such topics asdescriptive statistics, regression, interpolation, integration and solving sets of algebraic,differential and finite difference equations. Students are also introduced to programmingfundamentals in the Visual Basic for Applications environment as they create the algorithmsneeded for the analysis. In this programming environment students gain an understanding ofbasic programming concepts, such as data types, assignment and conditional statements, logicaland numerical functions, program flow control, passing parameters/returning values withfunctions and working with arrays.EAS 112 is a stop along the Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral1 in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationObjective C: Provide students with opportunities to develop the ability to use modernexperimental techniques; collect, analyze, and interpret experimental data; and effectivelycommunicate the results.Outcomes for Objective C: Students will develop the following abilities through theirundergraduate education in this department:C-1 to design and conduct experiments to analyze and interpret experimental dataC-2 to use modern engineering tools, software, and laboratory instrumentationC-3 to communicate effectively through technical presentationsObjective D: Provide opportunities to prepare students with the diverse skills

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Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

and programs. A discipline-specific approach to communications instruction hasbecome a reality in many colleges of engineering. Several examples follow:Virginia Tech:3,4 The Department of Mechanical Engineering, with over 1000 undergraduates,250 graduate students, and 40 faculty has a faculty specialist in technical communications. Thisfaculty member does not teach a specific undergraduate course, but participates in undergraduatelaboratory and design courses. The laboratory courses require either short laboratory reports orboth formal written and oral reports. This faculty member also teaches graduate workshops thatemphasize presentations (thesis defenses and conferences) and writing skills (theses and journalarticles).Georgia Tech:5 The

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CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

interests centeron in-situ and laboratory testing of saturated and unsaturated soils. Dr. Miller has served as co-PIon the Sooner City project, where he has helped develop the protocol for integrating projects acrosscourses. In 1998 he received the George W. Tauxe Award for Outstanding Teaching, as chosen bythe ASCE and Chi Epsilon student chapters.K.K. (Muralee) Muraleetharan. Dr. Muraleetharan is an Associate Professor in the School of CivilEngineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma. He received his B.S. fromthe University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Californiaat Davis, all in Civil Engineering. He is a registered professional engineer and a registered geotech-nical engineer

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Wangrow; Doug Tougaw

. Many engineering educators have recognized the importance of a close relationship with industrial constituents and the benefits that such a relationship can have on student outcomes.1-4 The second challenge is to continually develop new laboratory facilities and faculty expertise necessary to teach courses in the emerging areas. As part of the extensive assessment efforts required by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology5, Valparaiso has established a close relationship with a number of key stakeholders and routinely seeks their suggestions for revisions to the curriculum and the program learning objectives. However, in a relatively small department such as ours, it can be very difficult to recruit faculty members whose

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

, it was decided to shift the focus from traditional civilengineering to “infrastructure engineering”, the intention being to prepare students for thewhole life cycle of an infrastructure facility, rather than just the detailed design phase.The renewal process itself was sponsored by the university as part of its Teaching andLearning Strategy [1] – basing all new programs on graduate capabilities. This matches theapproach taken by ABET [2], ASCE [3], as well as Engineers Australia (formally IEAust) [4].Details of the approach were reported at the ASEE 2003 annual conference [5].The Capability ApproachCurriculum renewal has been based on capability theory [6] and socio-ecological systemstheory [7] as described by Hadgraft & Muir [8].A

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Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

technological advantage in the sector and will have apromising future.IV. Results 1 Fuel Cell Scooter A 200W fuel cell shown was purchased and attached to the scooter. After thetesting and analysis procedures were completed, the fuel cell scooter was completedin the laboratory, as shown in Fig.3. Fig.3 Fuel Cell Scooter Students in charge of the scooter business plan conducted a market survey at thesame time. They completed a comprehensive survey including visiting shops withrelated products and interviewing managers about the function, price and marketvalue of the scooters they displayed. When they obtained the needed information fromthe market, they analyzed the cost based on the data provided from the

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Steven Barrett

called tasks compete for precious processor operating time of a singleprocessor. The processor must prioritize tasks depending on system requirements toensure that all tasks complete their required activities. Due to its complex nature, aRTOS is a difficult subject to teach in undergraduate institutions. Often it is difficult forthe students to visualize the intricacies and inter-relationships between component partsof the system To help students to ‘see’ the operations, we have developed a visualhardware simulator that interfaces to an embedded controller. In our application, we usethe popular Motorola HCS12 microprocessor as the simulator’s host system. Thesimulator can be easily interfaced with other processor families. The simulator

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Johnson; Jeffrey Will

education to address this need. Hardware to accomplish this goal has been in existence for several decades, though onlysince 1993 has it seen applications in education [4]. Educational advances have increased sincethat time, albeit slowly. Important advances include Christopher Dede’s application ofvisualization hardware to general scientific concepts [5], and the teaching of electromagnetics inparticular with the well-known MaxwellWorld [6]. Other applications include education ofelementary school students in basic zoological concepts at Georgia Tech [7, 8], the NICE projectfor elementary education at the University of Illinois at Chicago [9]-[11], and engineeringeducation research at East Carolina University [12]. This paper

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

as reflected in the statement, “Theobjective of the analysis was to ascertain what is required for learners to reach deepunderstanding, to determine what leads to effective teaching, and to evaluate the conditions thatlead to supportive environments for teaching and learning”. Specifically, important for thisproject was their resource on concepts such as learning with understanding, conceptualreorganization, organization of knowledge, transfer and application of knowledge to newsituations, and problem solving. Anderson and Krathwohl’s contributions in the recreation ofBloom’s taxonomy provided dimensions for emphasis in factual, conceptual, procedure, andmeta-cognitive knowledge areas matched against the cognitive process dimensions

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Richard E. Smith

cycle within a centralprocessing unit (CPU). The behavior of a cycle establishes a CPU’s cycle speed, whichis often an important discriminator when selecting a computer. Teaching the concept of aCPU cycle has become more difficult as the course has moved away from simpleprogramming languages, like BASIC, towards problem-solving applications likespreadsheets and desktop databases. SimpleCPU is a macro package that uses aspreadsheet to provide an inside view of CPU operation, and it has been used tointroduce CPU fundamentals in the computer literacy course. The instructor uses thepackage interactively to illustrate CPU operation to the class on a large screen. Studentsuse the package individually to write and trace the execution of their own