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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

vastly more interdependent, exports account for an increasing percentageof economic activity, and capital, work and jobs move rapidly and frequently from one continentto another. Recent cover stories in ASEE’s PRISM explore the effect of these trends on modernengineering practice12,18,19; the overall conclusion is unanimous: all recent engineeringgraduates can expect to work, at some point their careers, on teams with members from variedcultural and linguistic backgrounds; these teams may be geographically distributed acrossseveral international locations. Page 9.1265.1Although international programs for engineering students have had some

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Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

available to all students. In order to enhance the students’chances for success in all their classes, university personnel from the Center for Student Progresslecture very early in the semester on on the proper way to manage time and proper studymethods for success. A large part of the Center’s services is dedicated to the first year student,providing peer assistants that are actually in the student’s college and mid-term grade reporting.They also present information on the multitude of services they offer the student free of charge;for example a support group for the non-traditional, older student. Career service personnellecture more toward the end of the semester supplying information on what employers’ desire ofcoop and internship students

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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

EducationSample ResultsThe types of experiments that can be performed using the engine as it exists in Phase I arecertainly limited; however, we believe students can still be exposed early in their undergraduateacademic careers to a rewarding laboratory experience for minimal monetary outlays. Studentscan be exposed to data acquisition, LabVIEW, uncertainties in measurement, manipulation ofdata, report writing, simple instrumentation, and can make qualitative statements about theengine’s performance. For example, Figure 3 shows sample exhaust temperature data for atransient warm-up and Figure 4 shows sample steady-state exhaust temperature data for severalengine speed/back pressure combinations. For example, from Figure 3, students can

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

innovationimplementers is important to them and that it is helping them in their jobs and career decisions.Furthermore, they are on the road to being “conscious competents”, particularly exhibited in therealization of their leadership abilities.It is encouraging to see that learning continues long after the class ends. These students areclearly demonstrating innovation leadership, developing the ability to think differently. They arebecoming the “right engineers for out times and for the future” that Dr. Bordogna addressed inhis Distinguished Lecture. They are on the path to becoming the trusted innovators, changeagents and master integrators so important to the economy and security of the future of theUnited States and the world. They are clearly contributing

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

University of Dayton. Previously, Rebecca has had a 12-year career with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. While working for Goodyear, she held manymanagement positions including; Automotive Business Center Manager, Production Manager and Interim PlantManager for the world's largest conveyor belting facility. Rebecca also is the Assistant Director for the IndustrialAssessment Center at The University of Dayton. Rebecca's extensive industrial background facilitates excellentlearning for students by combining practical experiences with technical knowledge.J. BILL BATESBill Bates is currently a Program Manager at the National Air & Space Intelligence Center at the Wright PattersonAir Force Base. Bill started working for the Air Force in 1989 and

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

studentsreceive significant team skill instruction in earlier courses (EPICS), they do not always have theopportunity to practice these skills throughout their undergraduate careers and can be out ofpractice when they take their senior capstone design course. In this mode, they sometimes do notunderstand how the pieces of a major project fit together in a “beehive” fashion, but rather theytry to force fit an “assembly line” approach. Additionally, these students are groomed to act asindividuals in their other, more traditional lecture classes where they often compete for grades.The students have a difficult time switching their mentalities between these competitiveindividually-graded classes and a design class which requires them to work together for

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Campbell

, They begin to seek answers to questions that lead to later subjects in their courses. Their ‘motivation’ level rises dramatically. 2. Since models are fabricated/prototypes tested at home, a student (in this way) exposes relatives, friends and family acquaintances to the ‘process’ of engineering design. This assists students in validating Engineering as their chosen career. 3. In 2001 and again in 2002, significant numbers of students sought to enter the annual Australia competition for “Paddle Pop” model bridges in Sydney. (In both 2001 and 2002, this competition was won by freshman students taught by the author. Figures 19 through 22 show aspects of this annual competition.) 4. Progression records show

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

School of Technology at Purdue University, New Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ CertifiedQuality Engineer and a Registrar Accreditation Board Certified ISO 9000 Quality System Auditor.DONNA EVANECKYDonna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001 afteran eight-year career in the field of quality management. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Managing Change,Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Health and Safety and Team Development for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision

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NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Dean

and the New Science. Berret-Koehler. San Francisco.BiographiesMARK DEANDr. Mark L. Dean is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University, New Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ Fellow and Page 9.1285.6Certified Quality Engineer. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Dean enjoyed a 23 year career in industry. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Steif

Session 2468 Use of Simplified FEA to Enhance Visualization in Mechanics Paul S. Steif, Edward Gallagher Carnegie Mellon UniversityIntroduction and BackgroundMany recommendations have arisen from national reports1,2 which noted the increasingneed to improve undergraduate education in engineering. A central suggestion is that“Institutions of higher education should provide diverse opportunities for allundergraduates to study science, mathematics, engineering, and technology as practicedby scientists and engineers, and as early in their academic careers as possible”3. This isalso recognized

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Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

• Become proficient in preparing and reviewing formal technical data packages related to an engineering design. • Apply the broad range of technical tools and engineering sciences learned during the previous formal education.Level 5: Synthesis • Be ready to begin a career as an engineer. • Synthesize the learning achieved from not only the formal classroom experiences, but also co-op work experiences, to form a solid foundation for subsequent professional development. • Be able to function in a multi-disciplinary environment. • Understand the importance of life-long education.ConclusionThe Rochester Institute of Technology has a life-long history of responding to the needs of theindustrial community. In this case

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

working together with students, Page 9.1291.4advisors, and professionals from myriad disciplines,engineering students gained invaluable experiencethat will aid them in their future careers (Marshall,11-12).Energy Systems Design Most engineering effort focused on managingthe house’s energy production and consumption. Animportant feature of an energy-efficient home is aneffective HVAC system to adequately heat, cool, andventilate the house with a minimum amount ofelectricity. The HVAC team worked for almost two Figure 3: UVA Solar House Sunspaceyears on their design. We knew we wanted to makeour house the most efficient one at the

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Tracy Van Zandt

integral part of their learning process throughout their entire educational andprofessional careers – the students must, in essence, “live the material” every day and in everycourse.In laboratory courses, students are expected to understand and comprehend all of the pre-requisite STEM material. Laboratory courses generally have some review material to summarizethe basic underlying theory and methodology required for particular laboratories. The laboratorycourse can then concentrate on various measurement techniques.In the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMASS Lowell, the laboratory courses are taughtin a two semester sequence. The first semester concentrates mainly on basic measurement tools(oscilloscopes, multimeters, digital data

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

take a weed out approach can have a devastating effect onotherwise able students.18 The curriculum and academic culture must contextualize the work thatstudents are asked to do and provide students with role models and career information. Facultyand staff must be made aware of unintentional gender and other inequities, such as assignmentsand teaching examples that reflect male-dominated interests, textbooks that focus on technicaldetail and fail to reflect the application and impact of the material. 18ConclusionWorkforce demands and demographic trends dictate a new imperative to increase the recruitmentand retention of women and URM into STEM fields. While outreach and support activities forwomen and URM in STEM play an important role in

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”I. Introduction Undergraduate research should be an important part of our Engineering Technology (ET)curriculum because it better prepares our students for the graduate school. This additionalexperience also helps our majors in their career regardless of the job type because they learn towork independently as undergraduate researchers. However, it has been our observation that ETstudents are far less motivated to do research and report writing than those in other fields such asBiology, Chemistry and Physics. This is more apparent at Middle Tennessee State University(MTSU) since we have a large number

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Linder; Murat Tanyel

enhancement of thegraphical interface. The C programming language, which replaced FORTRAN in the electricalengineering curriculum during the senior author’s career development, has made the transition toVisual C++. MATLAB, which is the main staple of courses involving linear systems, hasdeveloped its graphical interface, namely, SIMULINK. PSpice, which is used to simulate analogcircuits, now makes extensive use of graphical interfaces.Given this computationally rich environment and his previous involvement with developinggraphical computer aided tools for DSP in 1980s2 and for laboratory instruction in theengineering undergraduate curriculum in 1990s3, it was a natural step for the senior author to

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Dilorenzo; Kurt Gramoll

Command. This command stores, maintains, accounts for,issues and reconstitutes equipment and materiel for the U.S. Army. The DAC serves to providethe military services with timely ammunition training, demilitarization technology, explosivessafety, engineering, career management, and technical assistance through logistics support [2].Demilitarization processes, as well as the research and development of demilitarizationtechnologies, for the Army’s conventional ammunition are handled at this facility. Each type ofammunition belongs to a family. Each family of munitions has a unique disassembly structurewith multiple methods of handling each step in the deconstruction process. The large collectionof information arising from the demilitarization of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Driscoll

] … prepare students for a productive professional career in[the new field of] … electromechanical engineering.”We found that for a dual-discipline engineering program to develop and successfully fulfill itsmission objectives required a break from the traditional organizational structure of an academicdepartment. Instead, we brought together an interdisciplinary group of interested faculty whowere able to work within the bounds of a new program management framework  a facultyoversight committee  charged with overall program supervision. How and why this type ofprogram committee evolved, the role that the Wentworth administration played in its inceptionand development, how the committee solves the day-to-day challenges it faces, how it currentlysees

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

generate a future career plan. 1. Who am I and who do I want to be? 2. What am I studying and what are my goals? 3. Why am I studying? 4. Where will I work after graduation? 5. How can I reach my goal? 6. When will I reach it?Another example for the “Six Universal Questions” is to propose and plan a new project asfollows: 1. Who should do the project? 2. What should be done? 3. Why is it necessary? 4. Where should it be done? 5. How should it be done? 6. When should it be done?5.3 BrainstormingThe basis of brainstorming is a generating ideas process in a group of people, where otherpeople’s remarks would act to stimulate one’s ideas in a sort of chain reaction of ideas withoutmaking any judgment. The

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Crone

) and the Distinguished Teaching Scholars Program (award # DUE-0123904) forsupporting the development of our curricular materials and their implementation. This work isalso supported by a CAREER Award to Wendy Crone (award # CMS-0134385). Eric Voss wassupported by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville while on sabbatical leave at theUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison. We would also like to acknowledge Brian Berg, DanGianola, Jeremy Halfman, Jeremy Trethewey, and George Lisensky for their helpful ideas andassistance with aspects of these experiments.References1. D. E. Hodgson and J. W. Brown (2000) Using Nitinol Alloys (Shape Memory Applications, Inc., San Jose, CA).2. A. V. Srinivasan and D. M. McFarland (2001) Smart Structures

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khan Saeed; Beverlee Kissick

diversity at COTALibrary Grant Money Dr. Beverlee Kissick Grant money was used MulticulturalPROGRAM to purchase education multicultural publicationsTWIST career day Students and Faculty Young women explore Encourages women toPROGRAM science and engage in non- technology traditional careersAttending Presidents MCC Chair Coordinating with the Coordinate, exchangeCouncil of umbrella organization ideas and assist inMulticultural Affair for diversity activities

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

One-Week Design Projects for Chemical Engineering Freshmen Ramesh C. Chawla Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 Chawla@scs.howard.eduAbstractFreshman chemical engineering students along with students from other engineering disciplinestake a two credit Introduction to Engineering course in their first semester. The students areintroduced to various topics including career options in various engineering fields, resume’workshop, communication skills, ethics, intellectual property, problem solving, critical thinkingand time management. Approximately 30-35% of the grade is based on homework, quizzes

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mikaya Lumori; Ernest Kim

labs) before embarkingon an applied electromagnetics course with labs, as is typical in most institutions, we areable to cover both theory and labs quite successfully, both in depth and breadth. The useof state of the art software such as Agilent ADS and the varied lab exercises, projects anddesign methods make it possible for students to acquire: (1) experience that could lead topromising RF careers in industry and (2) sound background for future graduate studies,especially with the addition of a more advanced elective course in RF design offered inthe EE Program at USD by the second author.Finally, although the lab experiences vary to some extent, the two methods are actuallybased on the same concepts of basic electromagnetic theory. Our

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

strugglewith the practical question of just how to instill this understanding of ethics in theirgraduates.” The “Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science” promotesaddressing ethics education in an ongoing and proactive manner: “The active learningexercise should be chosen so that, over the course of their undergraduate career, studentsengage in developing a full rage of ethical skills.Ethics and character education is becoming a component in many professionalcurriculums across the nation. Some engineering programs are electing to teach specificcourses related to this topic, while other programs are investigating techniques toimplement this ABET accreditation requirements into existing courses. “This is not to saythat required courses in

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Levenburg; Paul Lane; John Farris

22 Total 728 Table 1 – A Profile of Student Respondents by Academic MajorEvidence of Interest in EntrepreneurshipUsing a five-point Likert scale, respondents were asked to indicate their level ofagreement with two statements regarding a career in entrepreneurship: (1) "I would liketo start my own venture;" and (2) "I would like to work for myself." Among all students,the percentage who answered "Strongly Agree" to the first question was 23.0 percent Page 9.713.3(167 of 727 respondents) and the percentage answering "Somewhat Agree" was 36.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

Students Faculty Curriculum Technology Infrastructure Institutional Support and Financial Resources Program Delivery Institutional FacilitiesThe focus of this paper is on the curriculum component, which includes a description of thecurriculum intent, the curriculum standards, and the curriculum description.Intent:The curriculum combines professional requirements with general education requirements andelectives to prepare students for a professional career in the information systems field, for furtherstudy in information systems, and for functioning in modern society. The professionalrequirements include coverage of basic and advanced topics in information systems as well as anemphasis on an IS environment. Curricula are

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

engineers. The outcomes werepublished in a new edition of SARTOR (Standards and Routes to Registration) in 19975. Thisintroduced many changes, many of which are not relevant to this study but one of thefundamental new features was an explicit requirement for accredited programmes to develop andassess student transferable skills within the curriculum: “All accredited engineering courses must provide for the personal and professional development of students. As all engineering students will not necessarily seek careers in engineering, the emphasis should be on personal development” 5.It would be good to think that the focus on communication skills over the last 20 years, to meetthe accreditation requirements of the professional body

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

the firstsemester of the freshmen year, students learn basic engineering skills such as problem solvingand teamwork fundamentals through the centralized theme of engineering measurements. This isfollowed in the second semester by intense study of engineering design through reverseengineering (or “dissection”) and competitive assessment of consumer products. “Soft” topicsincluded in this semester are engineering ethics and intellectual property, both of whichcomplement the course themes.In the sophomore year, the attempt is made to integrate design and communication (written andoral) by serving the dual purpose of introducing students to formalized engineering designtechniques and providing them with the necessary foundation for their careers

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Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

3 1017-273 College Physics III Laboratory 1 ------- Liberal Arts: Core 4 0618-438 Digital Systems Design 4 1016-319 Data Analysis 4 1016-304 Diff. Eq. for Eng Tech 4 0535-403 Effective Technical Communication 4 3 0609-407 Career Orientation 1 Co-Op Co-Op 0618-439

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Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

I can apply this course to my work/career:(1: no ́ 3: don't know ́ 5: yes) Score: 4.5(4) Overall, the subject is worthwhile:(1: no ́ 3: don't know ́ 5: yes) Score: 5 Page 9.740.10Some of the students’ comments were: Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education“This course is an excellent idea, and fills a serious need in the undergraduate program, keepdeveloping it, and keep up the good work.”“The course was great. I really enjoyed the fact that we manufactured the part and tested it.”“I think