Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

learningstrategies, metacognition deals with knowledge about one’s self as a learner, the task at hand,and the most effective learning strategies for a particular situation (i.e., metacognitiveknowledge), as well as how learning is monitored, organized, and reflected upon as the processcontinues9, 33 (i.e., self-regulation). Researchers34, 35 argue that metacognitive learners are morestrategic in their learning and perform better than learners who do not employ metacognitiveprocesses. Metacognitive ability is responsible for how individuals plan, sequence, and monitortheir learning in a way that directly improves performance9. Bransford8 et al. cite numerous

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Murray

comparedifferences in attitudes, behaviors, and academic results. Comparisons are also made toother sections of the same course in previous years.Introduction In the movie Mona Lisa Smiles, Julia Roberts portrays a new art history instructorat a private women’s college. She begins her first lecture in an introductory class and isshocked that the students already know all of the works of art she planned to present thatday. As she becomes more and more flustered, one of the students reveals that they havealready read the entire textbook. At first, this sends Julia’s character into a tailspin, butshe recovers and develops a richer course that she and the students both enjoy and learnfrom. Many of us would argue that this is Hollywood fantasy, not any

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

aregiven a “plan of attack”, where a set of prescribed experiments are given, data collection isrequired, and results are compared to the theoretical standard to determine how accurate orprecise students were with respect to the “right” or theoretical answer. The second type oflaboratory experience is the design. Students are given a design goal or objectives, and little orno supporting information on how to design. This is almost equivalent to dropping students inthe deep end of the pool without teaching them how to swim.There is currently a large gap between these two types of laboratory experiences. In the firstexperience, students are focused on how to get the equipment to give them the answer that mostclosely resembles the lecture material or

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Duy; Scott Dunning

Windows system planned as the web server. This seemed to be themost logical choice at the time since multiple simultaneous requests to the server wereanticipated. By using applets, which run entirely on the client machine, the processingpower of the server would not be needed to perform the calculations required inprocessing user data; processing would be done on the client computer. This also madethe program platform- and browser-independent, since all that was needed was a Java-enabled browser.The application was built and installed on an internal server, then tested in accordancewith the goals outlined above. Figure 2 below is a screen shot of one of therecommendations from the Workbook

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. C. York; Tamara Knott

describes annual EDGD freshman design challenge, details Virginia Tech’sparticipation and success in the event and encourages more participation by our sisterinstitutions. The role of the ASEE contest within the Virginia Tech first-year engineeringprogram is discussed. Details of the planning, implementation, and costs for the constructionworkshops are provided and tips for conducting similar workshops requiring only limitedfacilities and funds are provided. Finally, the success of the workshop is evaluated via a studentsurvey.BackgroundDesign projects are commonly used at all levels of undergraduate engineering education to teachengineering design, graphics communication, and teamwork. Projects offer an opportunity to putinto practice the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

Session 2005-229A STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS: THE EDGE PROGRAM IN THE SECOND YEARDan G. Dimitriu, Jerry O’ConnorPhysics, Engineering, and Architecture DepartmentSan Antonio CollegeThis paper presents the results and the lessons learned from the second iteration of the EDGESummer Program that was initiated in 2003[1]. This project was funded by the AlamoCommunity College District Foundation and the National Science Foundation, with additionalsupport from the ENLACE Foundation. Plans for the next program in Summer 2005 are alsooutlined.Recruiting and retaining students is a persistent challenge for engineering educators in almostevery engineering program. Many universities and colleges have been using a broad range ofoutreach programs to introduce

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

Diversity in Engineering Education--What Are the Perceived Issues? Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati (carla.purdy@uc.edu) Mara Wasburn, Purdue University (mwasburn@purdue.edu)AbstractAt the Annual ASEE Conference in June 2004, three ASEE divisions--the Graduate Division,Women in Engineering, and Minorities in Engineering--co-sponsored a panel session on"Recruiting and Building Diversity". In this paper we summarize the issues raised by the panelmembers and by members of the audience in June 2004 as an introduction to a further discussionof diversity, along with a plan for action, by leading engineering educators. Issues of concern atthe 2004 session

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

truss configurations and analysis results. Structural material was standard manila filefolder; connection strength was provided by wood glue. Span length was 25 cm; service-levelstrength was associated with a mid-span application of 6 kg, and the minimum factor-of-safetyfor design was 2.Figure 3: Experimental Strength Determination. Figure 4: A successful bridge.By the end of the project, students were expected to be able to: • Conduct experiments, collect and analyze data to develop empirically-based design models for structural members. • Design a model truss bridge to meet a set of design requirements. • Construct a model truss bridge, consistent with their set of plans and specifications. • Analyze and Assess

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

informedpurchasing decisions for their program and institution.Follow-up surveys from fifteen of the twenty-one educational institutions represented atRF Plasma Technology workshops in 2003 and 2004 provided the following information • Fifty-five students at three institutions used the materials during Fall term/semester of 2004. • Three workshop participants are not teaching during the current academic year. • Eight of the institutions will be using some or all of the materials during Winter term or Spring term. • Two institutions do not include plasma technology in their curriculum, nor have future plans to incorporate material on plasma

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

effective it must have clearvisions. Assessment is a key part of this vision. The good teachers constantly assess how theirstudents are performing, gather evidence of the progress and problems, and adjust theirinstructional plans accordingly. The students in the construction courses continuously participatein group assessment, giving the instructor an opportunity to adjust the goals and instructionmethodology. For example, in Construction Methods and Materials course, repeated referencesto lack of adequacy of the textbook promoted the instructor to provide additional handouts andincrease frequency of short lectures and subsequently change the text in the following semester.So assessment in true sense is not only the evaluation of performance of the

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Design of the ProjectA plan of procedure including approximate dates of implementation is given in Table 1 below. Date Course Curriculum and Project developments affected February TECH175/175A 2005 Introducing a chapter about renewable energy technologies and student activities to identify various system components and learn how to collect data and perform/read instrumentations. March TECH270/270A Student Projects to collect real-time data streams via the Internet. Students will be 2005 asked to examine and analyze on-line

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Stuart

credit options.Students would need to approach the instructor and inquire about potential project extensionsthat would provide them with their extra credit points. The class discussion focused on the factthat many of the CE students were interested in areas other than the environmental field and thatI would like this project to have some applicability to them. Students interested in structuralengineering could design plant buildings and foundations, students interested in constructionmanagement could do materials planning and project scheduling, and the environmentalengineers could still design sludge treatment units or do advanced wastewater treatment.The most recent class to complete the course was in the summer of 2004, where 5 teams of

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

safety equipment consistent withcurrent OSHA standards, and documenting the entire machine. In addition the students were required tocontrol all functions of the machine, except for the Emergency Stop, through a PLC.One of the problems encountered in planning capstone courses is too decide how complex the projectmay be and still allow completion in a one semester time frame, while challenging the students andsimulating the type of work that one will encounter in industry. In addition it is desirable to have theproject incorporate some of the more mundane tasks involved in implementing a project in industry suchas wiring and mounting of components. It may be argued that these tasks do not contribute to the bodyof knowledge needed by an engineer

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

collaboration.Broader or More Specific KnowledgeWith the shift from a "planned economy" to a market economy, more graduating studentengineers in China will not be guaranteed a job and assigned to a post. Chinese engineeringschools need to offer more broad based programs to produce more versatile engineers because ofthe jobs available are more varied. Faculty members trained in Russia in late 40’s and throughout 50’s are now retired and replaced by faculty trained in the western world, especially theUnited States. It seems changes in Chinese engineering schools can be done most easily bysimply copying from the best undergraduate curriculum offered in the US. However, aftercareful examination of the current practices in a few US and Chinese engineering schools

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karyn Biasca

of asling psychrometer was initially planned as a video clip. The resulting video file for thedemonstration was very large, and was not as effective as we wanted it to be. We ultimatelydecided to create a Flash slideshow, which is a much smaller file, and turned out to demonstratethe concept adequately. The graphic designer scanned a version of the psychrometric chart(Felder and Rousseau, 1999) and touched up the image to make it usable for the interactive partsof the tutorial.When teaching the psychrometric chart in the classroom, I used an overhead projector withtransparencies of the psychrometric chart to demonstrate how to find the physical properties ofhumid air. Students watched (with encouragement, they followed along in their

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

CivilEngineering are involved in the Environmental Ethics, Diversity and Community Impactworkshops. Students are exposed to environmental ethics as it relates to their science andengineering curriculum via lectures and videos. The diversity workshop helps studentsunderstand the importance of working in a multidisciplinary diverse team and the importance ofgender bias in science and engineering. Finally the students are taught to think about the socialimpacts of science and engineering projects on communities. Specifically the students areexposed to environmental justice cases.A number of social activities are also planned for the REU duration. These activities allow thestudents to strengthen their social and team building skills. Activities include a

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi L. Patton; Daniel W. Crunkleton; John M. Henshaw; Douglas Jussaume; Robert L. Strattan

earned thestudents gain skills that will make them valuable employees upon graduation. Studentslearn to communicate their work in a professional manner at group meetings and inregular written reports. The students receive guidance, but ultimately must create theirown path for evaluating plans and must negotiate with one another when multiple pathsare offered. Students who participate in this project and enroll in this course havedistinctly proven that they can meet ABET criteria (a) – (k).In this paper, the authors will give an overview of the first year of this program, lookingparticularly at examples of the benefits to students and the difficulties encountered.Methods for integrating this into recruiting and retention programs will also be

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Scott C. Smith

group member participation due mostly to incompatibleschedules. Furthermore, the students did not significantly prefer one group selection method overthe other. Therefore, the author suggests using both group selection methods, and will continueto do so in future offerings of UMR’s Digital System Modeling class.Future WorkThe author plans to continue this study in subsequent semesters in order to collect more data tovalidate the conclusions. It is also planned to add the following two questions to the projectsurvey: 1) rate your own participation, and 2) rate your own ability, in order to determine ifstudents’ assessment of themselves is in agreement with their peers’ assessments. Furthermore, itwould be interesting to see if the groups were

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kamesh Namuduri; Ravi Pendse

graduate and undergraduate research and trainingpurposes1. There are several core courses such as Data Communication, Routing andSwitching I and II, and Voice over IP that are being offered by the ECE department. Inaddition, with the addition of several new faculty members, the department planned tooffer new courses in wireless networks. There is significant ongoing research work inareas such as ad-hoc wireless networks, voice over IP, and network performance analysis.The CS department also has several related courses such as Data Communications,Databases, and Internet Application Development. So, it is a natural choice for WSU tofocus on Networks and offer a specialization in Network Security with a breadth offundamental topics covering all other

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

technical support,PC technician, help desk, and other IT support roles after their graduation. This indicatesthat learning and maintaining a high level of Microsoft Office software is critical to mostof our graduates in today’s competitive job market. There is a need to further developstudent’s technical skills in this area.The Three Step Study Plan in IWU CIS ProgramBecause students need to use a test preparation course to prepare to complete the testsuccessfully, the step by step course program is designed to prepare students for buildingtheir Microsoft Office technical foundations first. Then they will develop their core-levelknowledge in every Microsoft Office application. Later they will go through theintegrated projects to learn how to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

students’ coordinator. They Alumni can also be linked to an employer as the school coordinator or liaison Staff with that employer. Faculty • Once a school is created in the Staff Schools records, that school can Advisory Boards also be linked as a student’s former Volunteers high school or community college, Emeriti faculty or as the university that the student Courses faculty are able to teach plans on attending after graduation Faculty Committee Assignments from your school. • Once an employer is created

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

Hinman CEOs and people seeking teamingopportunities with talented students. Our annual New Venture Challenge, formerlycalled the Business Plan Competition, provides experience in structuring and givingeffective presentations in a competitive entrepreneurial environment. Three types ofeducational opportunities are provided to the CEOs: formal academic courses, aninformal (seminar) class and experiential education.1.1. Hinman CEOs Program 2004-2005 Student ProfileThe current Hinman class is made up of about 89 undergraduate students withapproximately one-third majoring in an engineering discipline, one-third majoring insome area of business, and one-third studying a broad set of majors across many differentcolleges. Twenty-two percent are female

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha

.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

practice of civilengineering at the professional level.”[2] In addition to adopting Policy 465 ASCE created theTask Committee on Academic Preparation for Professional Practice (TCAP3) and charged it to“…develop, organize and execute a detailed plan for full realization of the ASCE PolicyStatement 465.” This committee, which was later made a board level standing committee(CAP3), formulated the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) which was formallyreleased in January of 2004. As a result of the CAP3 report on the BOK, ASCE’s PolicyStatement 465 was revised in October 2004 to reflect the work of the committee. It now states inpart that “ASCE…supports the attainment of a Body of Knowledge for entry into the practice ofcivil engineering at the

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

made contacts with engineering students in other majors through 18 0 NACME?5 Has the NACME program helped you fell more confident about graduating in 16 2 engineering?6 Are you planning to reapply? 17 17 Do you plan to continue in engineering in the Fulton School next fall? 17 1Table I. General Satisfaction with the NACME Scholars ProgramIn general, the NACME program was found to be beneficial, helped the students make contactswith engineering students outside of their major, and made them feel more confident aboutgraduating in engineering. The students planned to re-apply and to

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

will engage both itsundergraduate and graduate student populations to develop global skills. Programs rangein duration from a few hours to the length of an academic career and include languagelearning and cross-cultural training. These programs are accompanied by a strategicmarketing plan that has resulted in a steady increase in participation, with more graduateswho are well-equipped to deal with the challenges posed by working in multi-nationalcorporations.I. IntroductionEngineers are increasingly asked to work with international suppliers, co-workers, and clients.Global assignments for companies in industries such as communications, informationtechnology, and automotive manufacturing, require engineers to integrate technical knowledgewith

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdeveloped that could be driven from a control center across the desertto pick up the payload and return it back to the launch site. Thesystem worked well in nearly all respects, except for the transmissionrange of the video transmission system used for driving.In addition to participating in “Open Class” ARLISS competition,NeavdaSat is also planning to participate in the general (non-competitive) CanSat portion of ARLISS. NevadaSat has begundeveloping a student satellite workshop that focuses on CanSat. Theexperience gained thus far with “Open Class” CanSats, coupled withthe proximity to the ARLISS event were large factors

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Sullivan

operate in an abstract 3 dimensionallandscape. In addition to supporting the material science curriculum, the inclusion ofsolid modeling exercises in the materials science class also supports the equally importantgoal of improving students’ long-term retention of solid modeling skills. In the paper thatfollows, a description of the current material science program at VMI is given, along witha summary of characteristic problem areas for student comprehension in material science.Goals for the incorporation of solid modeling tools with the materials science course arereviewed, and descriptions of solid modeling exercises are detailed. Lastly, studentreactions to the new teaching approach are discussed, as well as future plans for usingsolid modeling

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

victims of our success. Use of the testbed has resulted in someproblems with electrical connections. We are in the process of replacing breadboards withcustom circuit cards and terminal strips in order to withstand the heavy use the testbed isreceiving.Remaining TasksThe students liked the action provided by the switches flipping under the control of the VI theywrote, but felt that adding model train signal lights would add to the visual appeal of the testbed.Therefore, we plan to install miniature signal lights throughout the testbed, making it look like areal railroad. The plan is to install a signal light before each track switch, or group of trackswitches for the crossovers. If the locomotive were approaching a track switch where there is

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hua Xu; Ronald Glotzbach; Nathan Hartman

effort. It shouldbe an ongoing process integrated into the application development lifecycle. Security, like otherWeb application components, is best managed if planned at the initial phase of the applicationlifecycle. This strategy will help project managers and security professionals establish securitypolicies, conduct risk assessment, and address potential risks in a cost-effective manner. It Page 10.23.1ensures system architects design secure application infrastructure. It makes sure application Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005