Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

teamwork, and communication skilloutcomes. Examples of ongoing systems engineering projects include AEROCam, amultispectral imager designed for flight in UND Aviation small aircraft; AgCam, a two-bandimaging sensor to be installed in the International Space Station for capturing precisionagriculture data; and a radio-controlled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a three-meter wingspan,capable of flying four-kilogram scientific payloads. A major benefit of working on thesemultidisciplinary projects is that the students must learn to communicate well in order to besuccessful on a large team, which is virtually impossible to teach without some form ofexperiential learning opportunity. Undergraduates who excel at designing complex electricalsubsystems must

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

an engineering design project.Course StructureThe Sophomore Clinic is a four semester hour course with two 75 minute lecture sessions andone 160 minute laboratory session each week. Faculty from the College of Communication are Page 10.1112.1responsible for the lecture sessions and engineering faculty supervise the laboratory. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In both the lecture sections and the laboratory the emphasis on teamwork in this course isexceptionally strong. The students

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedesprinciple; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been throughseveral developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students fromCEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developedduring a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where theparticipants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculummodules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learningconsortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and communitygroups, including a project with Goodwill

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

Florida.In the summer of 2003, Workforce Florida, Inc. awarded a $1.2 million contract to FloridaCommunity College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) and its partners from Florida academic institutions andindustry to develop a comprehensive training curriculum for three biotechnology disciplines:biotechnology laboratory technology, biomanufacturing, and regulatory affairs. This new coalitionof industry organizations, educational institutions, and other agencies, The Florida Consortium forBiotechnology Workforce Development, is chartered specifically to address one major issue;creating and sustaining a skilled biotechnology workforce.The Consortium consists of: • Three Florida community colleges – Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Santa Fe

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

, respectively. These two signals were then hooked up directly to the dataacquisition hardware. A LabVIEW program was written to acquire the signals and then generatethe stress-strain curve in real time using the built-in calibration equations for load and elongation.IntroductionComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. While the newly acquired laboratory equipment likely will have the computer dataacquisition built into it, it is the old equipment that presents a challenge to institutions of how tomodernize it with computer data acquisition. Going back to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition is onepossible solution, which

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4: Image of the working project PEDA LCD ProjectLab StepsThe following steps are followed and documented for each laboratory. 1) Analysis 2) Design 3) RTL Coding 4) Test-bench Coding 5) Verification 6) Validation 7) Lab report write upTopics covered and reinforced each Lab 1) Coding Guidelines – The coding guidelines for both Digital System design and Principals of Electronic Design Automation are reviewed with the students at the beginning of the quarter. All labs are graded based on the coding guidelines. 2) Code Reviews – Students are chosen at random to perform a code review on a

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

and final phases were applied to all students in theIntroduction to Digital Logic course. The second phase was applied to selected sections of thecourse. In the initial phase, students in all sections of the course were administered the Index ofLearning Styles Questionnaire, a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and a laboratory experiencessurvey. In the second phase of the learning model, the students in the selected sectionsparticipated in weekly learning sessions. The weekly learning sessions provided students withpractice problem sets and a structured environment to collaboratively practice problems anddiscuss Introduction to Digital Logic concepts. The final phase of the learning model evaluatedthe performance of students in both environments

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

provide. With the advent of high-speedInternet communications an alternative approach to providing hands-on experiences hasbecome possible – remote operation of real equipment. Such remote operationexperiences are fully learn-by-doing with nearly all the positive and negative aspects oftrue hands-on laboratory work. Such an approach can, however, be frustrating forstudents at the remote site if the equipment malfunctions.During the past two years the process control class at Washington State University(WSU) was taught using both of these approaches. Computer simulations for processidentification and control were provided using Control Station®(http://ww.controlstation.com). Remote operation of actual equipment for the samepurposes was provided

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

signal processing implementation, but is not so overwhelming in scope that it cannot be completed in a reasonable amount of time.1 IntroductionFor several years now, we have been providing proven DSP teaching methodologies, hardware andsoftware solutions, and DSP tools that have helped motivate students and faculty to implementDSP-based systems in real-time.1–7 These efforts have emphasized the fact that DSP is much morethan just a collection of theories and problem solving techniques. Students can easily be motivatedto explore and implement DSP-based systems in an environment where they are limited only bytheir imagination. This process can be facilitated through real-time demonstration programs suchas winDSK and winDSK6.8All of our DSP

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

becoordinated between the faculty members, students, and perhaps industry involved inorder to provide a meaningful experience for students. 2The need for laboratory development is an important component of engineering Page 10.670.2education and is viewed as an ongoing innovation in teaching and learning “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”methodologies. Variety and balance in teaching methods and appropriate technologiesshould be utilized in the delivery of the subject matter being taught.Transforming Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

laboratory redesign or updating as frequently as yearly. The attendant financialcosts and time invested by the faculty to provide well-designed laboratory experiences canbecome overwhelming. For example, in teaching a class related to modern computer operatingsystems involving, say the Windows and Linux operating systems, it is probable that at least oneof them will go through significant changes as often as once per year, particularly if the varioustools that are used to work with them are also considered. Updating lab configurations to reflectthese changes requires changing lab computer software, and possibly hardware too.In this changing environment it is highly desirable to explore paradigms of thought andmethodologies which enable technology

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

prediction of severe weatherevents than current weather radar systems. CASA is a complex, multidisciplinary projectinvolving engineering, meteorology, computer science, and sociology. This complexity wasreflected in the challenges of teaching content from all of these disciplines in a weeklongsummer workshop designed for middle school science teachers. Participants in CASA includefour core academic institutions along with dozens of educational and industry partners. Ninepeople from the four core universities taught the course, which presented another set ofchallenges. Pre/Post tests and course evaluations indicated that despite the breadth of the course,the participating teachers were able to understand the content and had many ideas how to use

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

, a representative group in terms of research focus, gender, and tenure level,indicating that 80% of faculty are open to the use of service learning. However, 52% expressedconcerns about time constraints and 56% needed support finding suitable projects for technicalclasses. If this type of support, including methods to mitigate time constraints, were available,faculty were interested in the practice. Surveyed faculty considered service learning mostappropriate for design classes, but were open to the practice in other classes if suitable projectswere available.IntroductionService learning is a teaching method that integrates academically-appropriate communityservice projects into the curriculum of a class. Service learning research shows that

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

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

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

non-STEM related careers.Furthermore, the National Research Council’s (NRC) report, Evaluating andImproving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics, 10 raises challenges that include improving the assessment of learningoutcomes, teaching a broad range and large number of students, providing engaginglaboratory and field experiences, and enhancing the faculty’s knowledge of researchon effective teaching.In meeting such challenges, the CCLI program builds on a number of recent publicationsanalyzing the current state and future needs in STEM education. The NRC volume, HowPeople Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, 11 advocates that teachers draw outand work with students' preexisting knowledge, teach

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

our contention that a core of about twelve semesterhours of chemical engineering courses, together with appropriate chemistry, physics andmathematics, can provide the minimum basic material. There could then be ample room forstudents to complete their undergraduate education, including laboratory and design work, in achemical engineering specialty area program which would incorporate applications of the basiccore material and fundamental material for the specialty. This paper offers one version of aminimum core along with illustrations of how specialty areas would build on it.IntroductionThe field of chemical engineering is expanding. Chemical engineers are currently working insuch fields as biological processing, biochemical engineering

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

visible to the Dean and campusassessment office via password, and the lessons learned from data become part of thecontinuous improvement plan for the ARET program.2. IntroductionImplementation of a Web Curriculum in Architectural Engineering Technology(ARET)at Bluefield State College (BSC) will strengthen our capacity to continually improve thequality of undergraduate education for students seeking careers and graduate study inarchitecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professions. Implementation of ourcomprehensive technology-based approach will directly improve student opportunities togain access to high quality teaching and learning environments, while increasing both thenumber and diversity of underrepresented students, women

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

analytical abilities and leadership skills.8 Cranch also suggests that reduced total degree requirements will mean that the remaining science, mathematics, and engineering science courses are rethought, the quality and quantity of laboratory courses increases, and the number of technical elective courses is significantly reduced.8 In addition, the proposed program includes an increased number of humanities and social sciences courses, providing students with both breadth and depth in these areas.8 Along with changing the content of the undergraduate curriculum, Ernst suggests that the method of teaching engineering is also altered so that technical content is no longer isolated from the non-technical context; the two are intertwined

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

for undergraduate engineering students to spend part of their education in aninternational setting has been greatly increased. However, traditional engineering education andengineering courses typically have not been conducive to ‘study abroad’ type environments.This paper presents a case study where a basic Manufacturing Systems course taught at a campusin the United States within an engineering program has been adapted for teaching as part of theSemester At Sea program. General guidelines for adapting such engineering courses for globalrelevance are also presented. Finally, we show that student learning and student satisfaction didnot suffer (but actually improved).BackgroundThe Semester At Sea Program operated by the Institute for

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

Materials, 4th ed., Pacific Grove:CA. Thomson Learning Inc.2. Bodig, J., & Jayne, B.A., 1982, Mechanics of Wood and Wood Composites, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold.3. U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/strength_table.htm4. Ashby, M. F. & Cebon, D., 2001, Cambridge Engineering Selector: Case Studies in Materials selection, Great Britain: Granta Design Limited.5. Ashby, M. F., 2004, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, 2nd ed., Great Britain: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication.BiographyDr. John M. Mativo teaches Materials and Product Manufacturing courses at Ohio Northern University.His university teaching experience totals 10 years, six of which he served as

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

be discussed in this regard. A numberof surveys including a computer attitude survey, Alice pre-and post-test surveys were conductedduring Fall semester to assess the effectiveness of Alice instruction. We’ll briefly discuss ourfindings from the surveys before concluding the paper.Alice Programming SystemThe Alice system, which is provided free of charge (www.alice.org) as a public service byCarnegie Mellon University (CMU), provides a completely new approach to learningprogramming concepts. Alice uses a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment to teachthe fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming. One of the major advantages ofusing Alice is the mitigation of syntax issues in lieu of teaching programming concepts. Asthose

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

their money. Too many are turned off by what is offered. Employers continue to pay the full (often hidden) bill for teaching graduates what they need to know, but are not taught in school. There is a potential major savings for industry in investing early in the educational process, rather than paying the bill later.• Major opportunities for reform exist but remain to be exploited. Significant advances have been made in our knowledge of how people learn and develop, while new teaching methods and curricular organization have been demonstrated1, 2, but have not been widely accepted. Too little has changed in undergraduate engineering education delivery in the past 50 years.Much thought has been devoted in both industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bassem Ramadan; Karim Nasr

-time and as encountered. Theoreticalinformation is presented to support the understanding of knowledge as students apply inquiry-based learning. These modules are carefully designed to reflect traditional concepts but mademore exciting as students discover the need for the laws and principles. The paper documentssteps and challenges in implementation and presents formative and summative assessment datafor examining the effectiveness of the PBL approach.Introduction Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is teaching/learning approach which promotes criticalthinking utilizing real-life problems as the starting point. The practicality and relevance of theproblems serve as the motivation for solving them utilizing students as authentic investigators

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Changhong Lin; Ahmed Abdalla; Wayne Wolf

efficient use of memory, and often operate at low power levels. This paper describes our approach to teaching operat- ing system concepts in an embedded computing course, including some important aspects of embedded operating systems as well as lectures and labs we developed using Windows CE as an example embedded operating system.1 IntroductionEmbedded computing systems must often perform multiple complex tasks that require the media-tion of an operating system. Operating systems are complex objects that programmers and systemdesigners rely on to perform many functions. When designing embedded systems, the operatingsystem plays a somewhat different role and system designers

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

handles the planning, administrativeand promotion of the Exploration Days.The Exploration Days consist of high school students spending a half day on our campus duringa normal school day. During their time on campus, the high school students experience thevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,interactive demonstrations, laboratory experiences, and hand’s-on activities. Depending on theexploration event, sessions have included utilizing a three dimensional river model to explorewatershed processes, demonstrations by the Mini-Baja and Formula SAE competition teams,destructive testing of concrete beams, ballistics experiments, programming of electrical circuitboards, and building a small

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

, American Society for Engineering Education”A final common challenge for faculty is to provide “hands-on” experience with new technologywhile teaching core concepts. Typically, this challenge is addressed through the inclusion oflaboratory sessions that reinforce concepts taught in lecture. Unfortunately, the laboratories havea tendency to be scientifically-oriented and are often completed on equipment that is notcommon to industry. Experiments are designed to minimize thee effect of assumptions on thestudents’ analysis of the experiment. This is an effective way to demonstrate a concept, but itdoes not represent a typical industrial environment.3The AMC SolutionThe AMC program was designed to meet all three challenges while also fulfilling the

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

Page 10.136.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinterface device (hid) compliant. There is no support for force feedback steering wheelsyet. TORCS provides a built in tool for calibrating joysticks/steering wheels.5. ClosingIn a recent article on the role of computing in education, G.V. Wilson writes [8]: Good computing practice is just as important to physical scientists and engineers today as good laboratory practice and sound mathematics. My experience has been that it takes a few months to teach a physicist, geologist, or biochemist enough to make a big difference in her

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Gender Equitable Curricula in High School Science and Engineering Stacy S. Klein1, 2, 3,4, Robert D. Sherwood, 4 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2University School, Nashville, TN / 3Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractAs part of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement to the VaNTH EngineeringResearch Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (www.vanth.org), aninterdisciplinary group of secondary teachers and college faculty have

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Graunke; Jeffrey Will; Peter Johnson

advanceshave increased since that time, albeit slowly. Important advances include Christopher Dede’sapplication of visualization hardware to general scientific concepts [5] and the teaching ofelectromagnetics in particular with the well-known MaxwellWorld [6]. Other applicationsinclude education of elementary school students in basic zoological concepts at Georgia Tech [7,8], the NICE project for elementary education at the University of Illinois at Chicago [9]-[11],and engineering education research at East Carolina University [12]. This paper describes work done to study subjects in a statics class taught at ValparaisoUniversity as to the development of their ability to visualize in 3D. Four different media wereexplored, from paper-and

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rhode; Allen Jaedike; Michael Hennessey

presented. The CAD projects vary widely, e.g. as characterized by the geometric features present in the parts,assembly structure, number of parts in the assembly, overall complexity, physical scale, industry represented, inaddition to coloring and other presentation and viewing issues. The primary purpose of this effort is to elegantlyshowcase the body of quality work generated in a relatively compact manner to permit an enjoyable perusal andreflection that may be of use to others teaching future CAD courses or others, such as students interested in CADwork in a BSME program. In addition, one can see the natural evolution of the course since it was first taught overthe past 3 ½ years. The projects demonstrate the application of CAD knowledge