Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Tolan; James Hurny

evaluating curriculum andwriting outcomes struggled with being able to articulate the types of data needed so early in theprocess. The technical team continually made the statement ‘When you tell me what you need,we will supply it’. Administrators needed to plan the next year’s budget requests. All werelooking for definitive and concrete answers.The reality is that the OA development process and the supporting systems developmentactivities are strongly inter-related, re-iterative, and complex. Data needs must be addressedfrom the first moment you begin to talk about OA. All players need to be prepared for a messy,dynamic, continuous improvement process. As faculty refine their ideas about OA, data needschange, disappear, and are revised. Data system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

offerusers the capability to transmit and receive video and audio images and files, share screens oreven software, conduct public and private conversations, and access a common electronicwhiteboard.The costs to implement an effective web conferencing system appear in Table I. Many costs in a Page 9.1347.1video web conferencing system are predictable in nature. Not all the costs involved are static, soa budget must be carefully planned. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable I. Costs for a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

technology will serve • analyze and evaluate the impact of new technologies on economy, environment, physical and mental health of manufacturers, uses of power, equality, democracy, access to information and participation, civil liberties, privacy, crime and justice. • identify unintended consequences of technology development • create safeguards to minimize problems • apply lessons from earlier technologies and experiences of other countriesRecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning • identify learning needs • set specific learning objectives • make a plan to address these objectives • evaluate inquiry • assess the reliability of sources

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

engineering degree from UWP. 95% 97% 0.96 I am sure I want to be an engineer. 82% 85% 0.83 I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 91% 97% 0.93Next we asked questions to assess whether the students’ reasons for entering engineering in thefirst place were based on the “right” reasons. We based these questions on the work of Seymourand Hewitt5, and provided the questions to students on the entrance survey. “Right” reasonsmight include a history of being interested in how things work while “wrong” reasons might bechoosing engineering based on feeling “pressure” to do so. Other reasons

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

engineering degree from UWP. 95% 97% 0.96 I am sure I want to be an engineer. 82% 85% 0.83 I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 91% 97% 0.93Next we asked questions to assess whether the students’ reasons for entering engineering in thefirst place were based on the “right” reasons. We based these questions on the work of Seymourand Hewitt5, and provided the questions to students on the entrance survey. “Right” reasonsmight include a history of being interested in how things work while “wrong” reasons might bechoosing engineering based on feeling “pressure” to do so. Other reasons

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Session 2530 TTU College of Engineering Pre-College Engineering Academy© Teacher Training Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D. and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractThis paper reports on progress to-date in the planning, design, and initial implementations of aK-12 engineering program being developed collaboratively by Texas Tech University, LubbockIndependent School District, and a growing number of other entities. The paper discusses variousissues endemic in K-12 and post-secondary education that have driven the evolution of

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

regarding the community projects. Thisarticle also describes the plan the College of Engineering has for developing a collegewide engineering communications program.OverviewService-learning is a pedagogy that links community service and civic engagement withacademic courses in order to meet the needs of the community. Through reflectionstudents access their role in the community and their obligations to the community.Service learning does not require extra work from students, but must be integrated intothe course curriculum so that it is a part of the learning process for all the students. In the Page 9.768.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

necessary to become licensed asa professional engineer. It is expected that existing undergraduate and graduate programs Page 9.737.1will be revised to reflect this body of knowledge and that new programs will be created. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The ASCE board established the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice in the fall of 2001 and charged it with developing a plan forimplementing Policy Statement 465. That committee has been pursuing three parallellong-term (20

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leirad Carrasco; Charles Turner

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe UTEP Sustainable Engineering Initiative sponsored the GEBDC during the fall semester of2001 and the spring semester of 2002 in order to promote the integration of sustainable designelements into the construction plan of the new Engineering Building Annex. The newengineering building must be seen as a sustainable engineering icon and thus, its design shouldincorporate state-of-the-art technology and at the same time, it must contemplate the sustainableuse of resources to the maximum extent possible.Goals • Create an opportunity for students and faculty to contribute to the design of the new building that will

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

homes that qualify for this subsidy, avery sound business plan that, when operating efficiently, produces the lowest cost house. Thisbusiness plan, however, means that any economic benefit from the development, other than theactual housing, goes elsewhere. The idea behind this project is to develop a way for some of theeconomic benefit to stay in the local community.A basic economic principle is that income from sources outside the community has a multiplyingeffect when the income is spent in the local community for goods and services needed by thepeople with the income. The typical rule of thumb for export income1 is for every actual dollarspent in the community, the community receives four dollars of economic benefit. This eco-nomic gain is

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

skills they expected to be utilized, the focus was on project/team scheduling rather than on project proposals, plans, or control. The comments will form part of the discussion that follows this summary of responses.-In what course are they taught these skills? Once again, there was a mixed response between a separate course (12) and the information being taught on an as needed basis in the same course as the project (18) and not being taught at all (7).Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.216.3 Copyright  2004, American

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

found in [[4]]. The goal of the inspection is to identify asmany design defects as possible. Design fixes are made by the author later.In the proposed inspection process, there are four well-defined design review roles: coordinator,author, reader, and recorder. Ideally, each role is played by a different team member. The role ofthe coordinator is to facilitate communication, schedule meetings, and ensure the process issuccessful. The author is the person who authored the design and, ultimately, corrects theidentified defects. The reader and recorder act as impartial reviewers, in addition to thecoordinator.After a design module has been authored, the inspection procedure has five steps:• Planning (coordinator and author) After the designer

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

Educationdesigned to foster collaboration in topics including: sustainability, assessment, recruitment andretention, modules and courseletts, and faculty development. The public colleges and universitieswho are part of the Hewlett ESWI hope to build upon success and create models to improveengineering education throughout the United States.DOC Goals and Program ActivitiesThe following briefly outlines the DOC program components designed to meet these goals andassessment plans to obtain baseline data in order to measure success of the program.Goal I: Increase the motivation and pre-entry academic preparation of American Indianstudents. The DOC Program contacts students, teachers, counselors, tribal college faculty andtransfer counselors to establish an

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

students discover how imagination,creativity, technology, and engineering tools combine to turn their ideas into reality. Activelearning in a collaborative, discovery-oriented design environment that involves students in acompetitive, real-world type of project provides the opportunity for the students to acquire and/orapply multiple talents and skills. The students are constantly challenged during the two weeks asthey conceptualize and plan a product, develop models, build prototypes, evaluate and redesigntheir product, and present a finished product prototype and marketing strategy to the “contractingcompany” (i.e., industry people, Institute participants and parents).Participants. Students completing the 10th or 11th grade received Summer

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

information that the student would need to getstarted on the project. The general purpose of the project, raw material specifications, basicoperating parameters and systems, reaction kinetics, and product specifications are included inthis section. Support information includes a list of starting references, tutorials on relevant processes(created by previous years’ project teams), facility layouts, equipment lists, and suggesteddeliverables for the project teams. The exemplary solution provides a complete project report,including an executive summary, introduction, technical background, process description, wastemanagement plan, regulatory review, facility design, validation/commissioning plan, detailedmanufacturing costs, detailed spreadsheet

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

would be wrong to shelter the students from every failure foreseen by the instructorand essentially quash creativity. The faculty advisor strives to keep the project moving forward,on time, with a solution that will satisfy the client’s needs. Sometimes the faculty advisor ispushing students to complete a project and at other times they are doing their best to hold thestudents in check. It is not unusual for students to want to immediately start building the projectand it is the faculty advisors job to force the students to design and plan the project and thenbuild according to their plan.Capstone ICapstone I course requirements are based on the expectations for industrial projects. Studentsare required to prepare a formal written report about

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

in our Control Lab. Wehave planned to apply NSF funds to expand this multipurpose laboratory into 16 workstations,consisting of eight stations each in Analog Circuit Lab and Control Lab. The development of the laboratory modules is partially due to the results of the WSUfunded Undergraduate Research Projects as listed in the Acknowledgement section. We haveintroduced this project in the Senior Project class (ET4999) each semester and encourage seniorstudents and MSET students to participate in the development. As mentioned above, thedevelopment of this multipurpose laboratory is an on-going project. We will continue to developand modify the planned laboratory modules. In the future, we will extend this multipurposelaboratory for other

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Engineering.The plan was to provide freshmen students with: • An immediate sense of why they were taking lower level required courses • A means by which they could interact with students almost completed with their bachelor of science in mechanical engineering degrees • A means by which they would have access to the years of learning that the senior students possessed • A sense of actual future courses in their majorThe mechanical engineering section of the ROSES class was given such an opportunity.Students as individuals or in two-person groups were teamed with Senior Capstone Designstudents to both shadow and participate in the design activities of the senior capstone designteam. ROSES students were asked to meet with

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

professional development. Rose concludes that, “To fully utilizeconsulting and industrial experiences toward promotion and tenure requirements, scholarlypublications are necessary.”Finally, Yurtseven10 and Aghayere, et al11 address the question of professional developmentacross the broad spectrum of requirements and opportunities. Yurtseven proposes a developmentplan that leads to tenure and promotion and is ET focused. Unfortunately, the professionaldevelopment plan does not touch on consulting as a means to produce scholarly work. Aghayereet al, authors of the results of the ETC task Force on ET Scholarship, mention consultingactivities but do not tie consulting with scholarly endeavors in a tidy fashion.ConsultingTo maximize the benefit of

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang

and manufacturers, End-of-life (EOL) options for discarded products and materials have become emerging areas of engineeringresearch [4]. This necessitates a certain level of partial or complete disassembly depending on the typeand level of demand for used products, components and /or materials [1]. Since disassembly paths andtermination goals are not necessarily fixed, automation of disassembly is extraordinarily difficult.Moreover, the current disassembly systems exhibit a high degree of inflexibility towards variations indemands. Regardless of product condition, a used product is usually completely disassembled through afixed process flow. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an efficient disassembly process plan from asystem perspective

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

fellows, and faculty right after the publicschool year ends. The goals of the workshop are to familiarize the teachers with the nature ofengineering; to form fellow-teacher partnerships that will last for the entire school year; and toprovide the fellows with sufficient direction that they can develop curriculum materials duringthe summer with very little additional input from the teachers. In the workshop, local expertsfacilitate hands-on engineering education activities. Once the fellows and teachers have had achance to interact, a matching process pairs them up, and each pair spends the remainder of theworkshop reviewing the teacher’s existing science curriculum and planning a year-long scheduleof engineering lessons to complement it.After the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker; David Hall

begin with ENGR 121 in the Winter quarter, and continue with ENGR 122 in theSpring quarter. This limited course development time, but a foundation of topics and skillsrelated to product development appropriate for freshman was identified. From this foundation,the daily class outlines were developed a few class meetings in advance. This approach allowedeasy modifications based on the results from previous class meetings, while avoiding a one-yearwait. A plan was formulated to introduce these topics and skills to the students in a way thatwould prepare them for a final project in the product development process. It was anticipatedthat starting in ENGR 121 would have some benefits, as the course population would consist ofstudents who had

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael McGeen

theextrusion. In this case Bui created cylinders on all of the edges of the 3D faces with adiameter that matches the final thickness of the extrusion. This effectively filled in all of Page 9.1043.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe “V” shaped voids when all of the extrusions were joined together.Bui presented a paper at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) inspring of 2003. Bui is currently finishing her undergraduate degree at University ofTexas at Austin and plans for graduate

Conference Session

TIME 1: Controls

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John-David Yoder; Michael Rider; Juliet Hurtig

the winter of 2001, it was felt that a significantimprovement could be made to the laboratory portion of this course. With the assistance of anONU Faculty Development Grant and colleagues Dr. Hurtig (Assistant Dean and AssistantProfessor of Electrical Engineering) and Dr. Rider (Professor of Mechanical Engineering), Dr.Yoder completely revised the laboratory schedule for the 2002-2003 academic year. The coursechanges and assessment of the results will be discussed, as well as plans for future improvementof the course laboratory experience.Introduction:Controls Systems is a course in which students often feel a disconnect between the mathematicsthey see during analysis and any real application of the theory (course evaluation comments fromthe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

Transformation Roadmap. It will also provide a criticalcomponent of the intellectual capability at the WCs today and tomorrow.The N-STAR Strategic Plan consists of four objectives and supporting strategies and isconsistent with the General Accounting Office (GAO) Model of Strategic Human CapitalManagement. The strategies are to: • Establish the DON Foundation for S&T Revitalization • Develop and Define a Robust and Forward-looking Set of S&T Workforce Requirements • Recruit, develop and Sustain Preeminent S&T Talent • Convey Program Importance via an Integrated Communications Approach The plan and these strategies are grounded on GAO’s four human capital cornerstones ofleadership, strategic human capital planning, acquiring

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Gandolfo; Ken Alford

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe Army, specifically. Civilian faculty members also learn military rank insignia, basic Armycommand structure, and how the Military Academy is different from other universities.Teaching programs typically discuss the courses offered in their program, standard teachingloads, job appraisals, vacation policies, additional duties (outside of teaching), scheduledmeetings, and other related topics.The Academy, department, and teaching program information is extremely useful, but themajority of time during the summer teaching workshops is spent on developing and practicingteaching skills. New faculty members learn how to prepare lesson plans, write course objectives,create a course syllabus

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

is planning to enter the AerialRobotics Competition that requires transmission of pictures or video of a remote facility.The team is experimenting with an ATV transmitter on the 70 cm ham band.One of the projects in CENG 442, micro-based system design, was to design a PICmicrocontroller system that converts ASCII character data to output as Morse code andconversely accepts Morse code returning the equivalent ASCII characters.The capstone design requirement provides another venue for projects involving amateurradio. For example, the previously mentioned telemetry for the solar car was a seniordesign project [16]. Another example is a project [17] designing a hidden transmittersystem for a “fox hunt” [18] [19]. The competition involves

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Pete Schuyler

access multiple test points on the DUT, we found the Agilent 34970A DataAcquisition Switch Unit/Controller very useful. It is a GPIB-controllable modular chassis withthree slots that can be populated from eight available plug-ins. It also has a built-in 6.5 digitDMM. One plug-in we used was an Agilent 34904A 4x8 Channel Matrix Switch. In anotherinstance, we used an Agilent 34901A 20-Channel Armature Multiplexer to dynamically accessmultiple test points on a DUT. It contains a four-by-eight, two-wire switch that can be re-configured dynamically by a VIPThe system is not limited to the test equipment described above. In the future, we plan toconnect logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers and RF network analyzers to increase the variety ofexperiments

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jones; Beth Tieszen; Dennis Schulte; Ann Koopmann

quantifying anecdotal data on the learning whichmay, or may not, have occurred through internships, co-op and part-time work experiences,international involvement, on-campus organizational activities and so forth. The purposes of thispaper are to share information about the process of acquiring such data, and to illustrate the kindof data that can be developed for assessment purposes. Also, selected preliminary data ispresented and initial interpretation of that data is provided. ProcessDeveloping the SurveysIn 2002, a plan to move from anecdotal to measured outcomes for out-of-classroom experienceswas presented to the Deans of the CoET and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources(AGEN and BSEN

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

theprogram means that the capstone sequence is completed over the spring and then fall semestersor, in some cases, over the spring semester and then the extended summer term. Increasedadvisory board involvement in the capstone was planned beginning in Fall 2002 and affectedsections of EEE 191 and EEE 192 during Spring 2003, Summer 2003, and Fall 2003.The involvement of the EEAB within the capstone sequence included: 1. Continuing to schedule EEAB meetings to coincide with capstone presentations 2. Changes in structure of the projects and the role of design reviews 3. Ideas for project and project mentoring 4. Lectures and activities on professional topicsScheduling of Advisory Board MeetingsEEAB meetings continued to be scheduled to coincide