Conference Session

Capstone Design

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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

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hari Janardanan Nair; Frank Liou

developments nowadays. Microcomponents through increasing minimization and intelligence have become an essentialpart of many novel products and different forecasts show an increasing role in a widevariety of diverse applications. Like any other technological development, proper educationand training plans are essential for creating the ingenious brains indispensable in the areasof research, development and mass production of MEMS devices. Assimilating expertswith different backgrounds is not necessarily the optimal solution, rather a new generationof scientists, engineers and technicians is required, with broad knowledge of differentsciences and engineering, as well as of the basic principles of design, manufacturing andcontrol. These experts need to

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

realisticeffort by the participating faculty. Program courses are currently being designed for Environmental, Geotechnical and StructuralEngineering using the following general template. Page 9.90.2“Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education (1) Initial Course Planning - The type of courses to be offered will be planned and scheduled by CWRU and PUI Department Chairmen who will determine which of the potential research courses will work best at the PUI given student interests and the availability of faculty

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

curricular committees to the clear need to revisit and strengthen theethics programs in the college. Our students faced challenges in the work place that they feltunequipped to deal with. Students’ employers felt that a host of issues related to professionalbehavior, respect for proprietary information and communication skills, needed to be addressed.The rebuilding of the programs in response to these challenges coincided with the emergence ofthe ABET EAC Criteria.1 The multifaceted approach of the criteria was consistent with our viewthat ethics instruction should be given “in context,” and is closely related to other planned Page

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

, and math applications that are utilized throughout their undergraduate experience.They learn about the various computing platforms on campus, learn to use the University’selectronic messaging system, and are introduced to C++ programming.The Introduction to Engineering course is modeled after the College’s Engineering 100 course,which is required for all engineering students. Students are presented with an engineeringproblem, then plan a strategy, gather information, analyze data, and produce a formalpresentation of their team solution. The course places a heavy emphasis on technicalcommunication skills and teamwork skills and teaches students basic project planningtechniques. This paper focuses on a detailed description of one version of

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Garcia-Saenz

discounted at arisk-rate, and inflation must be handled consistently. The rule to measure the future of a projectis simple too: “An investment is worth if it has a positive NPV, and if the investment has anegative NPV, it should be rejected.” 1 These rules have many times killed projects before theyare even born.In order to understand better this topic, lets say BDS Corporation is planning to buy land for$120,000 to develop a condominium. The intention of the company is to build seven (7)apartments type A or 11 apartments type B. Current value of apartment A is $ 97,000 and type Bis 105,000 and the cost are 80,000 and 95,000 respectively. Could the company build the projectthis year?Because the project will be build this year, time T = 0. Table No

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

that exists at the workplace or community and then“coaching” him/her to create and implement a plan of action that will lead to the success of theprotégé. The vocational functions also include “sponsoring” protégés by speaking favorably of Page 9.219.4them before key individuals in the workplace or nominating them for key positions. This, in turn Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpromotes the “visibility and exposure” the protégé needs to be considered for opportunities thatwould advance his

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

. For example, a question requiring real-world knowledge or an understanding of semantics will be more effective. ̇"Students play a version of the game described by Turing8 in which a male and a female replace the person and computer. Both try to convince the judge that they are female and the judge must try to identify the imposter. ̇"Students converse with chatterbots—programs that imitate human conversation—and try to identify their logic structure and rate their effectiveness for imitating humans.After the students worked through these activities, they devised a lesson plan and used the sameactivities to teach a class of middle school girls attending a summer program at Smith College.The education students started

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAdvising Process and Enforcement of Prerequisites: Advising and enforcement of courseprerequisites ensures that the students are taking required courses in the proper sequence. TheCollege of Engineering has established a policy requiring all students to see a faculty advisorbefore registering for courses each semester5, 6. Each faculty receives a degree audit plan for thestudents assigned to him/her. The degree audit plan shows the completed courses with gradesand the list of remaining courses required for the degree. A system to check prerequisites hasbeen implemented. At the beginning of

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

, University of Oklahoma (OU) during 1999 and 2000, and then at theDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Cincinnati (UC)during 2001 to 2003. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site was funded bythe National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REU Site was to encourage talentedundergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them to research, and to increase theirinterest in graduate research. In this paper, first the basic approach adopted to plan the REU Siteis presented, followed by a description of how it was administered each year. Then a detaileddescription of the projects executed in different years is presented. In the end the evaluationprocess used, and the outcomes from the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

created a plan for expanding and revising their portfolios, and developed a complete, if not polished, portfolio) 9. Professional Development Plan (participants created plans for gaining teaching experience and/or skills, future documentation of teaching, learning about career options, and becoming competitive candidates)Each topic was discussed in two separate sessions. This occasionally caused confusion for some Page 9.1006.5participants, but it makes the program more flexible because topics can be reordered to suit the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

facultytalk about enhanced oral and written skills. Seymour, Hunter, Laursen, and DeAntoni [12] foundfrom their interviews of URP participants that students’ personal/ professional gains andimproved thinking ability were the two major benefits. While not yet complete, NSF issponsoring a survey of thousands of undergraduate student researchers and faculty, post-doc, andgraduate student mentors about their experiences with undergraduate research in order to learnmore about how to ensure success [14].The literature on conducting URP’s addresses things to do and not to do to help ensure success.For example, the URP website at Stanford University [13] provides advice for mentors aboutestablishing short and long term goals, devising a plan for the work to

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Haws

rather than Hoover, would tend to relieve Hoover’s obligation ofgratitude. Certainly, justice wouldn’t demand that Hoover always put Moreing’s interests (orLoring’s) ahead of his own. Hoover probably should have informed Moreing of those plans,which might adversely affect Bewick, Moreing (there is some indication that he did this, in 1904when he decided to eventually leave the firm, and in 1910, when he and Moreing came at crosspurposes over the oil pipeline proposal in Russia). The implications of Virtue Ethics for engineers subject to changing employmentrelationships is that employers should provide opportunities for the growing competence of their

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Moore Furneaux; Randa Shehab; M Jayne Fleener; Kim Warram; Elizabeth Kvach; Betty Harris; Anne Reynolds; Teri Reed Rhoads; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

attitudes and behaviorsexpressed by students and faculty from both outside and within Industrial Engineering (IE) affectthe perceptions that IE majors and potential majors have of IE as a discipline. In turn, thisperception impacts the attractiveness of IE as a major and a career path.The perception of IE surfaced in the context of a three-year study to examine reasons that theSchool of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU) has achieved gender parity(award NSF-GDSE #0225228). The achievement of gender parity in this School wasspontaneous, instead of being the result of a carefully-conceived and well-financed plan to Page 9.2.1

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

outcomes described above. The presentation is organized intocourse aspects - first semester, course aspects – second semester, and course evaluation.Course Aspects – First Semester The course was originally developed in 1998 as a single spring-semester course but wasrevised in the 2000-2001 academic year to a two-semester sequence: Senior Design A and SeniorDesign B. In the fall semester of their final year students take the lecture course Senior DesignA, during which the planning and preparation of the robotics project take place. In the followingspring semester students take the lecture-laboratory course Senior Design B, during which the

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Soma

), linear systems, digital logicdesigns, analog circuits, analog electronics, and simple filter designs. The experiments currentlyused in our curriculum do not need any re-writing to adapt to the Pandora box if the signalfrequencies used in the experimental circuits are lower than 1 MHz, which is the case for morethan 85% of our current freshman, sophomore, and junior Electrical Engineering courses. For theremaining experiments, minor re-writing makes the laboratories suitable for the Pandora box. Ofcourse, this first prototype is limited in frequencies but we already have a plan to improve thedesign to address this issue.We emphasize that the Pandora box provides a hands-on laboratory experience, as opposed to“virtual” or “remote” laboratory

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

described below.RISE Infrastructure: Mentors, Fellows, and Scholars alike indicated that the infrastructureprovided by the RISE staff was a key to their project’s success. The non-research aspects ofmanaging an undergraduate team for the summer, (e.g., securing student housing, orientation,training sessions on research and teamwork, and payroll logistics) were well planned andhandled by the RISE staff thus, enabling the faculty to focus on the research project itself.Role Model Hierarchy: Having multiple levels of contact within the research team alsocontributed to overall success. Scholars liked working with colleagues (other Scholars) because“it was not as intimidating” as working alone. They also reported using their Fellows as firstlevel

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Nicholson

re-think many aspects oflife. One area drastically altered was the way we design and construct buildings.Building designers suddenly had to consider energy consumption as a primary issuedictating design. The Department of Energy (DOE) was created in 1977 to combine andcoordinate the activities of the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research andDevelopment Administration, the Federal Power Commission, and parts of several otheragencies. The newly formed Department of Energy found itself charged with developingstrategic plans and programs for long-term energy development and policy, includingenergy conservation programs.During this time in American history, the environmental movement focused muchnational attention on the degradation

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

student’s experience.Planning for a web-based course requires discipline and good design on the part of the instructor. Instructors areforced to anticipate different kinds of learners, different course objectives, and different measures of learning.Teaching on the web forces instructors to develop a map or framework for an integrated plan of activities, exchangesof information, and assessment. A course authoring tool took much more time preparation than a face-to-face class,at least initially. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 9.367.2

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ward; Richard Howell; Debby Knotts; Deborah Fisher; Jerald Rounds; Jennifer Scott

provide a truly interdisciplinary education thatwould meet the needs of the construction industry of New Mexico. The model was designed tocombine efforts of institutions currently providing CM education in an effort to streamline theprocess, eliminate duplication, and generally make better use of existing resources whileexpanding the programs to include students with a wider range of educational backgrounds(Reyes and Fisher, 1998)It was important early in the planning process to ensure that the CAI concept wasconsistent with the mission and goals of the School of Engineering and the Department ofCivil Engineering. The Mission of the School of Engineering at the University of NewMexico is The School of Engineering prepares tomorrow’s engineers

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

Page 9.399.3proposal by Barr in 199913, a survey of nine universities’ programs by Meyers in 199914, aProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Session 1338proposed curriculum by Branoff, Hartman and Wiebe15, a plan developed by Smith16, and thelatest proposal of desired educational outcomes by Barr17. Comparing these lists of topics to ourcurriculum we noted the most common topics and found a great deal of agreement among thevarious authors. Not every common topic could be included in our examination which is a web-based multiple

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Per Andersson

24 1,277 112Engineers/technicians 146 2,696 440Technical craftsmen 767 5,539 843Factory laborers/specialists 1,261 1,965 1,505Partners in the projectAs described earlier there were quite a few numbers of actors in the project. Three of the sixmunicipalities in the county were interested to participate in and finance the project so thecooperating parties (planning and conducting the project) were finally:o The regional body of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (which on the national level organizes some 57,000 member companies with more than 1.5

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIndustrial Advisory Board SurveyIn spring 2002, the Industrial Advisory Board was also asked to rate the importance of theprogram outcomes a-k in adopted by the program. This survey showed that the industryconsidered the importance of outcomes a2, a3, i, h, j, and k3 considerably lower than all others.Changes ImplementedTwo major changes were implemented in the area of student services. We established a newstudent advising process (the student is required to meet his/her advisor at least once a semesterto discuss program plan of study, career goals, and any other academic support as needed

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Turner; Keith Johnson; W. Andrew Clark

otherdiverse disciplines. Industry, particularly technology-based companies, has observed thatsolutions to problems have a greater probability of success when all interested parties(purchasing, innovation, marketing, sales, manufacturing, etc.) have input in developing a plan toachieve a desired corporate outcome. It is through this collective action of diverse disciplinesthat unique solutions are conceived. Many times breakthroughs in innovation and productdevelopment occur not through the actions of companies in direct competition but through newentrant companies by modifying technology currently residing in different markets andapplications. The breakthrough occurs because the new entrants are not bound by the technologyparadigms constraining

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Harvey

,conation/doing, and cognition/thinking. Page 9.254.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education ####Table 1. Overview of four learning patterns and how they are manifested through feeling, doing, and 11thinking.Pattern Affect: how I feel Conation: what I do Cognition: what I think I thrive on order and I plan, make lists, I

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

1987through the present. An extensive body of research has been conducted using this database.Technological advancements have made it possible to expand the scope of the data included inthe database, and thus expand the studies that can be conducted. The partner universities haveagreed to contribute transcript information—the courses that students have taken and the gradesthey have earned in them. With these data from nine universities placed in a common format,exciting research questions can be addressed.This paper discusses the development of the original database, plans for the design of theMIDFIELD database, and expected uses of this valuable resource.The SUCCEED Longitudinal DatabaseA longitudinal database is under continuing development by the

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

less than a specified quantity, then the lot is accepted; if not, the lot is not accepted 17.There are several alternative forms of lot-by-lot acceptance sampling systems. Among thesealternatives are plans that vary the type of inspection used including normal, tightened, andreduced inspection 18. Plans typically begin with normal inspection. Normal inspection continuesto be used as long as product quality is at an acceptable quality level or better. If the qualityhistory of the product deteriorates, then tightened inspection is used. On the other hand, if recentquality history is very good, reduced inspection is used. Tightened inspection typically increasesinspection costs, while reduced inspection generally reduces sample size and

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education” Page 9.366.2curricula. The ubiquitous use of technology both in the teaching and practice of engineering alsoplays an important role in curriculum but usually not at the highest level. Rather, technologydiscussions should enter when individual courses are planned and the technology can be matchedto the course outcomes.Description of IssueThere are many ways for defining the components of the curriculum. The most commonapproach is to focus on the discipline aspects. For example, the

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Henry; James Bandstra

associated equipment necessary to accomplish the program objectives in an atmosphere conducive to learning b. laboratory equipment characteristic of that encountered in the industry and practice served by the program”2Significant planning and funding are required for the implementation of well-designed materialslaboratory courses3. Different schools have developed various integrated courses andlaboratories to meet this need for the materials lab4,5.To provide a fundamental grounding in materials and manufacturing, the MET curriculumoriginally included a single junior level course in Materials and Manufacturing. However, thiscourse consisted primarily of coursework taught from a text, enriched by selected

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationbased interface option in Max+Plus II and circuit diagrams using conventional logic-gatesymbols. While this leads to some programming inefficiencies in the larger projects, we felt thatit was a worthwhile tradeoff in order to avoid the need to teach VHDL to the students along withall the other material. While the Max+Plus II interface itself proved to be relativelystraightforward to use, we experienced a considerable number of problems with design filestorage and access. Many of these were due to the unfamiliarity of the students (and in somecases, the instructor) with the details of file structures in the PC environment. We plan