Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kellen Maicher; Patrick Connolly

principles in the transforming and viewing of graphical images is a requiredskill in many career areas, including many outside of traditional technological boundaries [1, 2, 3].Although many students struggle with this skill set, there is ample research that shows that theability to visualize in 3D environments can be developed and enhanced [4, 5, 6, 7]. One practicalmethod of visualization skill development comes in the form of multiview drawing and Page 10.1273.1development. Through the application of multiview drawing principles in solving challengingvisualization problems, students exercise and improve their spatial acuity and comprehension

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew J. Wiesner; Jonathan P. Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

questions. The average time required being 15 of the 25available minutes. An analysis of the essay portion of the exam indicates that bothgenders submitted the exam after an average of 32 minutes, rather than utilize the full 35minutes. Approximately 20% of the class, and each gender submitted the exam in lessthan 30 minutes. Most of the students were tenacious in obtaining the 100% score for theweekly quiz, despite the value being 1% of the grade. Hence, this approach was Page 10.1468.1considered useful for a directed review of the material.IntroductionComputer based testing can: be convenient, reduce academic dishonesty, providequick/immediate feedback

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

of global markets and competition • demonstrated management skills and a strong business senseMany of these skills and expertise are not easily taught within a traditional classroom setting. Infact most, if not all, of these abilities are best developed in practice. With the EnterpriseProgram, MTU has created a new and different experience designed to educate and preparegraduating engineers for more productive and successful careers. The Enterprise Curriculum isoffered as a 20-credit minor or a 12-credit concentration, typically completed over two to three-years. The curriculum is two-pronged and consists of 1) participation in the operation of abusiness (project work) and 2) completion of concentrated course material

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

credit hour discipline-based senior capstone project.However, it is at the freshmen level where the students are introduced to the foundations of thedesign process. The freshmen course emphasizes (1) problem definition, (2) attribute generation,(3) function, constraint and objective identification, (4) idea generation, (5) creative thinking,and (6) simple decision-making using individual and team exercises. All this is done in thecontext of a real-life application—improving an entity. In this case the entity is an everydaysmall appliance, tool, or toy.Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to evolving and verifying an integrated setof product and process solutions that satisfy customer needs. It uses modeling techniques toanalyze

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anand Srinivasan; Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

Session 1625 An Online Learning Tool for Product Platform Planning Anand Srinivasan1, Janis P. Terpenny2, Steven B. Shooter3, Robert B. Stone4, Timothy W. Simpson5 and Soundar R. T. Kumara5 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst / 2Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / 3Bucknell University / 4University of Missouri- Rolla / 5 The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractProduct Platform Planning is an emerging philosophy that calls for the planned development anddeployment of families of related

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Blake

they already know how to solve, theyare more likely to be successful in solving the new problems. While the new situation mayappear to be very different, the ability to recognize a general form will help them to see how touse the given information and solve the new problem. The ability to recognize and useinformation in the form of rates and capacities is a skill that will be of value to studentsthroughout their academic and professional careers.The general pattern to solving these types of problems is as follows. The student must 1) Read the information carefully, 2) Recognize the type of information and link this with the general form, 3) Set up the specific problem using the correct form, and 4) Find the desired results.In doing

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

such aspegboards with colored pegs, a wooden structure with numbered slots and cards for those slots(numbered 1 through 15) and some electric wands that can be inserted into metal plates withholes of different sizes. Details of how some of these materials are used can be found in the labdescriptions below. Some materials have to be purchased at a grocery store, such as thematerials for the Material Handling Lab. This can be a bit more costly, but those materials areused both for that lab and the Freshmen Open House, so that the department has no objection tothe cost. In general, the labs have been designed to utilize readily available materials, so that thestudents understand the technique, and the faculty member does not need to look for

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

such aspegboards with colored pegs, a wooden structure with numbered slots and cards for those slots(numbered 1 through 15) and some electric wands that can be inserted into metal plates withholes of different sizes. Details of how some of these materials are used can be found in the labdescriptions below. Some materials have to be purchased at a grocery store, such as thematerials for the Material Handling Lab. This can be a bit more costly, but those materials areused both for that lab and the Freshmen Open House, so that the department has no objection tothe cost. In general, the labs have been designed to utilize readily available materials, so that thestudents understand the technique, and the faculty member does not need to look for

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik Peterson; Ian Papautsky

life sciences recently experienced a revolution similar to the changes society experiencedwhen the integrated circuit was introduced. The application of microelectromechanical systems(MEMS) technologies in research has already increased the performance of conventionalmethods in microorganism detection in environmental monitoring, drug discovery in thepharmaceutical industry, and clinical diagnostics. Even more importantly, it is enabling accessto new information and applications on the molecular level.1 The conceptual paper published in19902 triggered an avalanche of developments and discoveries, which led to an exponentialgrowth of the microfluidics field.3,4 As microsystem technologies often employ techniquesdeveloped for the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Myers; Jack Byrd; Robin Hensel

include the creation of two engineering tracks, atraditional track for those prepared to enter Calculus 1 in the first semester of their freshman yearand a second engineering track designed for those students not prepared to enter Calculus 1 intheir first semester, the development of a freshman orientation class, the requirement ofparticipation in weekly study lab sessions, the implementation of a five-day Calculus 1 coursecomprised of three lectures and two recitations, and the enforcement of the requirement to attaina C or better in calculus before entering a specific engineering discipline major. The orientationclass teaches freshman academic success skills and includes weekly communication withstudents’ parents.Data trends in the last two

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

course.Various tools and delivery methods were utilized to enhance the learning experience duringlecture periods: • Power point presentations complemented with hand-outs as reading assignments • Videos and computer animations • Demonstration of animatronic toys, working mechanisms, and materials samplesLaboratory demonstrations were used in explanation of the procedures that students have tofollow during laboratory or project activities. They also replaced some of the laboratories due totime constraints. Students completed various laboratory projects including: • Concept Design - Figure 1 • Modeling - Figure 2 • Molding - Figure 3 • Reverse Engineering - Figures 4 and 5 • Mechanism Design - Figure 6 • Sensors

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

use the VHDL model for the component, the user points to thelocation where the linked VHDL code resides. Any change to the linked VHDL code is reflectedin the behaviour of the component in the Multisim simulation.By co-simulating a typically used logic gate, for example a TTL AND gate, along side a VHDLmodeled AND component, students can gain an understanding of how VHDL relates totraditional gates. Figure 1 illustrates the code a student could write to describe and implementthe functionality of an AND gate in VHDL. Figure 2 shows a schematic with both a TTL ANDgate and the VHDL modeled AND component.The CAD representation of the components also helps students to understand what the entity andarchitecture portions of the VHDL code mean. The

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

such grant, from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,focuses on the development of an entrepreneurship minor open to all undergraduates,including all engineering students. The sixteen-credit minor has been developed and willbe implemented by a cross-disciplinary faculty committee with faculty representativesfrom engineering, business, arts and sciences, the Integrated Product DevelopmentProgram (IPD) [Refs 1-4], the Integrated Business and Engineering Program (IBE) andthe graduate MBA vSeries seminars on new venture creation. The undergraduate minorprogram consists of four new courses and one existing prerequisite. The pedagogicalapproach is project based experiential learning, with support from the University’s SmallBusiness Development Center

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

Whose Words can we Trust?: PRiME’s Modules for Teaching and Assessing Undergraduate Learning in Information Ethics Hillary Hart, D’Arcy Randall Department of Civil Engineering/ Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at AustinMost undergraduate engineering programs in the United States face a common problem indesigning curricula that develop students’ professional responsibilities as well as theirmathematical, scientific, and technical skills. As Thomas K. Grose explains,1 ABET’s EC 2000standards, which require that graduates possess such skills as “an understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility,”2 pose particular challenges to

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

novelteaching pedagogies provides an opportunity to explicitly address systems issues such ascomponent integration, communication, and sensor networks. As motivating femaleengineers is our guiding priority, it is the goal of this course to combine the strengths of ahands-on design course with a rigorous introduction to necessary tools, intuitions, andcritical thinking that will help enable the student to grapple with many differentengineering problems both in academia and the real world.1. Introduction and backgroundOver the past ten years, several colleges and universities have experimented with usingrobotic platforms as a means to introduce students to the practice of engineering [1].Different courses choose different robotic systems, and we chose to

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

approaches for structuring these activities to emphasize the integration of contentcovered in other courses. Assignments from an introductory 3D modeling course are used toillustrate how solid modeling was used to foster content integration from architectural historyand construction methods courses.Introduction Competency in computing has become a pre-requisite for securing employment inarchitectural practice. However, Architecture schools have been criticized for failing to providesufficient technical education and preparation for the realities of practice [1]. While deficienciesin knowledge-development related to construction and building technologies has often been aspecific point of criticism [2], schools have more recently been

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

western New Page 10.726.1Jersey, funded a joint project with Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and Northwestern Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationJune 2005 ASEE Conference Session 1410Lehigh High School [Ref 1]. This high school/university collaborative project includedthe development and implementation of an entrepreneurship-oriented, standards-focused,project-based learning experience required for all 200 eleventh grade students atNorthwestern

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

IMPROVEMENT CYCLE Page 10.794.2 Figure 1. The SDCET Program Continuous Improvement Methodology“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Objectives. In a course that builds cumulatively on previous material covered in theclassroom, student performance on a particular block of instruction often indicates thestudent’s degree of preparation for the next block of instruction; consequently, poorperformance may warrant additional exposure to the material. Assessments data fromexaminations during the course at the

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

Society for Engineering EducationObjective 1: Make research-based learning the standard.A new model should promote active learning and tie concepts to applications. This can beachieved by developing a hierarchy of open-ended (real-world) problems with increasingcomplexity that will be given to students starting at an early level of the curriculum. As studentsprogress, and the level of complexity increases, opportunities for participation in research can beintroduced.Objective 2: Construct an inquiry-based freshman year.Curriculum reform must begin in the freshman year. The University of Tennessee, with supportfrom the National Science Foundation, has implemented a freshman engineering fundamentalsprogram called Engage. Engage is uniquely designed

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Stephen Frempong; Willie Ofosu

translation. These discussions are heldwith professional engineers with many years of experience in the field. An extant to this processis the Educators in the Workplace [1] program C-TEC has through which faculty members areinvited to industry for discussions on current developments. These activities contribute tokeeping the students current in industrial practices.To broaden the students’ scope in industrial experiences, industrial visits are conducted to otherareas of the telecommunications industry such as the Adelphia Cable and Television Company.At this company, the students are informed about different aspects of television broadcast andthe types of equipment used to perform such broadcast. Here too, the application of satellitetechnology in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Hasenberg

, the studentsdeveloped a good feel for compression and tension forces. Working in teams, the classes usedthe West Point Bridge Designer to simulate an optimized bridge design (Figure 1). They thenscaled the sizes and forces to match our experimental set-up and adjusted the designs as needed Page 10.404.4based on the measured strength of the sample members. Bridges were constructed to the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdesigned specifications using the manila paper and tested for strength

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

3.0 • CNS 3240 Introduction to Computational Theory 3.0 • CNS 3690 Advanced Topics in Data Communications 3.0 • Math 1210 Calculus I 5.0 • Math 1220 Calculus II 5.0 • Math 2230 Principles of Statistics I & II 4.0Database Area of Specialization Requirements (42 Credit Hours)All students graduating in database area of specialization must complete 42 credit hours whichconsist of 27 credit hours core and 15 credit hours electives:Database Core Courses: 1. One of the followings

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

report, we describe this experiment, the results of the experiment, an analysis ofour results, and the implications of our results.Background and major hypothesis One of the current bedrocks of pedagogy is active learning and its importance intransforming the educational enterprise from a view of the student as a vessel into which theprofessor pours “knowledge” to one in which the learner is actively engaged in her ownconstruction of knowledge. [1] One example of the introduction of principles of activelearning into engineering studies can be found in [2]. The goal of establishing active learninghas become wide spread in computer science and engineering to the extent of enablingstudents to set the term grade they desire, then work towards

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

: Page 10.1262.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 1. Statistics - Design a survey for the purpose of creating a portfolio of interdisciplinary projects and interested participants. The project may be service to the community, beneficial to a student group, part of a class or integrated into the curriculum. Survey participants may be chosen from students, faculty, and corporate sponsors or another identified group. As part of the survey development, IE capstone students will interview ME and EE students for the purpose of capturing the right data. In addition, IE, ME and EE

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

A Comprehensive Investigation on Industry-Sponsored Design Projects’ Effectiveness at the First-Year Level: Phase I 1 Gül E. Okudan, 2Susan Mohammed, 1,3Madara Ogot and 1Xinli Wu 1 School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs / 2 Department of Psychology /3Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PAAbstractThis paper presents the preliminary work for developing guidelines to ensure that theindustry sponsored projects in first-year courses aid, not hamper retention of students.Specifically, the overall research includes the following steps: (1) investigating theappropriateness

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William White; George Engel; Cen Karacal; Ai-ping Hu; Jerry Weinberg

provide a hands-on,multidisciplinary design experience that complements the lecture material. In this way, it createsa type of “directed constructionism” learning experience in which students are asked to explorerelated topics in a specific order.13,153.1. Lab Assignment 1: Rube Goldberg MachineThe first lab assignment was a team-building exercise that involved the design and implementa-tion of a Rube Goldberg Machine (See www.rgmc.com) that would capture a mouse withoutharming it (see Figure 1). The machine was required to consist of at least five energy transfers(steps). The students were allowed to use only the non-electronic parts from their robotics kits.However, teams were permitted to add other materials, with the exception of batteries or

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dullanty

test load of approximately 1,000pounds per square foot. This project was divided into phases I and II. Phase I would investigatethe existing conditions to determine the approximate capacity of the existing foundation system.Phase II would be to proceed with a foundation load testing program to verify the predictedstrength of the limited investigation.Buildings 301, 302 and 303 at the SCSPA’s Union Pier Terminal have a foundation system thatis concrete above the mud line, except that the last floor support on the landside of Building 302is timber supported. Investigation and evaluation from the Phase I investigation resulted in thefollowing information and recommendations. 1. The concrete beam members of the existing foundation system were

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

describe the ABET (AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology) requirements for design courses (Capstone, etc.),describe and demonstrate various theories of learning and pedagogy, and are able to navigate thecourse design and approval process. Descriptions of student mentoring of K-12 design teams inthe FIRST LEGO® League competition are also provided.1. IntroductionDesign has been described as the epitome of the goal of engineering1, as it is core to facilitatingthe creation of new products, processes, software, systems, and organizations through whichengineering contributes to society by satisfying its needs and aspirations. Though formaldefinitions of engineering design vary somewhat, it is commonly agreed that design is a process,a