Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

I or STAT/ENGR 5601 Introductory Statistics and Probability for Science and Engineering Equivalent courses can be substituted for these prerequisites. Required Courses (32 Units) ENGR 5180 Product-Process Design ENGR 5200 Systems Simulation ENGR 5280 Design and Management of Human Work Systems ENGR 6200 Project Management ENGR 6300 Applied Quality Assurance ENGR 6400 Research Methods in Engineering Management FIN 6033 Graduate Introduction to Financial Decisions Page 10.457.5 MGMT 6130 Enterprise Planning and Control Proceedings of the 2005

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Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

: • Traditional departmental divisions • Time required to plan a new course structure • Unknown variables that affect evaluation of student performance • Faculty’s lack of industrial experienceMost engineering faculty desire that their students quickly mature to the point where, given anengineering design problem, they know to do the following: • Define the problem in engineering terms • Assemble an appropriate multidisciplinary team • Independently search for relevant information • Research prior solutions • Filter out irrelevant information • Construct a mathematical/engineering/economic model of the design problem • Develop conceptual designs to solve the problem • Conduct proof-of-concept exercises as needed • Use CAD/CAE/CAM tools to

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

technology into their teaching scheme much like they didwhen desktop computers first became affordable to all students. In order for the technology tomake a difference, faculty must re-think the way in which they teach and the way in whichstudents best learn. Tablet PCs provide a great mechanism for allowing instructors toincorporate active learning methods into their presentations.Future WorkA significant number of students have been involved in the tablet PC trial study to this point.However, in order to better show the viability of this new tool, we are planning to use the tabletsin several more courses in the upcoming semester. Additionally, we will broaden our experimentto include other engineering courses outside of the current study in the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viviana Cesani-Vazquez; Maria Irizarry; Freya Toledo-Feria; Sonia Bartolomei-Suarez

important issue: Is acareer in academia perceived as less empowering and prestigious than the traditionalengineering career? Is the perceived difference in salaries a major factor? Even whenperceiving themselves as highly capable, self-sufficient, and willing to accept challenges,such as graduate school, why academia is not a favorite choice among the COE best andbrightest female students?All these questions and others encountered in this and previous works need to be answered. Adetailed study, which is currently in its planning phase, has the specific goal of promoting thepursuit of doctoral degrees among female students. Page 10.753.9

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

10.989.1mixed-waste and discharged to open waters. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe increasing population and higher levels of human activities, including effluent disposals tosurface water and groundwater, have made sustainable management of water resources a verycomplex, challenging task for Bangladesh. In addition, per capita demand for fresh water issteadily increasing as more and more people achieve higher standards of living and as lifestylessteadily change. Thus, sustainable planning and management of water resources has become apriority consideration for the future welfare of Bangladesh

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

Derivative Control & Embedded Case StatementsThe system is fabricated from the Fischertechniks Industrial Robotics kits used in the firstportion of the class for the manufacturing floor simulation. A small solar panel and a light sourceare added along with two DPDT relays to alternate motor selection and polarity using the DCpower supply from the NI ELVIS system. The student developed control programs to solve thisparticular control problem were a bit more complex than expected, two examples are shown infigures 13 & 14 in low detail.ConclusionsThe original objectives of this portion of the EAS109 project planning class were to providestudents with an exploratory introduction to feedback control within the context of a highlystructured

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Zoghi

, thisinnovative pedagogy helps to achieve the desirable student outcomes described in EngineeringCriteria 2000 Publication (ABET 1998).Martin and Coles (2000) discuss the challenge of introducing a service-learning endeavor in thecivil and environmental engineering program. They outline a four-step plan for implementingservice-learning across the departmental curriculum including criteria for identifying a service-learning course, a mechanism to reward the faculty in relation to tenure and promotion, amentoring program for the new faculty, and guidance on student assessment.Jamieson et al (2000) elaborate on key features of the EPICS (Engineering Projects inCommunity Service), a service-learning program, that was initiated at Purdue University in theFall

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

megateam for the remainder ofthe semester, to assist the instructors in assigning individual grades.By working in smaller teams at the start of the semester, individuals would gain immediateownership of the technical knowledge required to tackle the larger, complex final project. Thesmaller teams also begin to work in larger groups by being paired with other teams for projects 6 and7; this procedure allows for a ‘growing’ of teamwork and planning in intermediate-sized groups offour students, before being finally organized into a single, large megateam for the final project.The class would still use Legos as the basis for mechanical design, though in this course no customfabricated parts were allowed. As presented earlier, RCX programming module

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

taking PSU WEBCT courses. Feedbackfrom instructors and students has been encouraging that this delivery method may workwell for future PSU distance education offerings at IIIST. The ECE department plans touse WebCT for instruction in their junior year laboratories. Page 10.1072.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Organization of ProgramResponsibility for contract compliance and financial issues rests with the PSU BusinessAffairs Office. The PSU Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kline

presentations are omitted, another chapter ofmaterial could be covered, ideally Chapter 13 on ‘A Pull Planning Framework’.The ProModel simulation software is first applied to model and illustrate the behavior of the‘Penny Fab’ production line. The Penny Fab production line is a simple four station productionline with pennies moving through the line. The authors use this model to develop the concepts ofa production system operating under best-case, practical worst case (PWC), or worst caseconditions. Each case gives rise to different production system behavior and different equationsthat govern the cycle time, work in process, and throughput of the system. As an in-classexercise, students setup the Penny Fab production line at their desks with paper and

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

circuit and its action in real world situation? 4. Do you like to see more of this kind class (lecture + lab combination) without heavy equipment? 5. If I plan to bring this kind of mobile studio class (in a much reduced version) to Network Analysis I or Network Analysis II, which subject(s) would be the best candidate to be performed by this? Select the subjects from the following list: KVL & KCL, Node voltage & Mesh Current, OP Amp circuit, Inductors and Capacitors, First order circuits Page 10.1351.8 (RC and LC), second order circuits (RLC), Passive Filters, Active Filters, Steady State Sinusoidal

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Glover; Frank Claydon; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft; Julie Trenor

, which includes completing the same laboratory sequences as the Camp participants.Mentors are encouraged to ask participants guided questions to help the girls discover thenecessary answers on their own. The motivation for providing girls with a learning atmospherefree of gender stereotypes is illustrated by the comments of two female high school students whoparticipated in a focus group during the planning stages of GRADE Camp: these two girls shareda story about their first day of class at their high school. Both were enrolled in a computercourse, but when they approached the room for the class and looked through the door, they saw aroom full of male students. They turned around, walked to their counselor’s office, and promptlyrequested a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhukar Vable

singu-larity. Appropriate formulas will be presented but the emphasis will be on use of these formulasrather than the theoretical derivations. Underpinning assumptions of the formulas will be dis-cussed in phenomenological sense to ensure that the limitations of these formulas are clearlyunderstood.A student survey1 of reading habits showed that only 76% read text but 100% read numericalexamples. For this reason, great attention will be paid in selecting the example problems and inpresenting the solution. Each example problem will start with a section called Plan and end with asection called Comments. Developing a plan before solving a problem is essential for the develop-ment of analysis skills. Comments are observations deduced from the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

envisioned by the instructorteam. A description of the organization of the course and the sequencing of the subject matterfollows, along with a discussion of how lecture and laboratory time was utilized in ensuring thatthe goals and objectives were realized. This will be followed by a summary of the lessonslearned by the instructors in implementing the class material, and a final discussion of the plan to Page 10.816.1scale the course to include all incoming engineering freshmen. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

and social growth. The eradication of poverty and the setting ofconditions for social and economic development are timely issues that have been deeplyassociated to the building of indigenous capacity for self growth. Most of thepreconditions for such development are partially defined by the United Nations WEHAB(Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture and Biodiversity) objectives, which cannot bereached without engaging engineers in the process of designing, planning and even in thedecision making process. Many actions in the WEHAB objectives have been treated onlyunder the necessary, but insufficient, economic and political aspects. Moreover, engineersare crucial in dealing with emergencies, disasters and post-conflict situations.Further

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Haig Vahradian; Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

example screen of thecomponent unit – a rectangular tooling plate. For novices to tooling nomenclature andtechnology, the component units are especially valuable as the subtle differences between stylesand correct application are critical to well-designed production fixturing. Figure 3. Component unit – tooling platesImplementation UnitThere are three main steps in the Computer-Aided Fixture Design (CAFD) process: setupplanning, fixture planning, and fixture configuration design6. The objective of fixtureconfiguration is to select fixture elements and place them into a final configuration in order tolocate and clamp the workpiece. The intent of implementation unit in ToolTRAIN© is tointroduce a basic concept of

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

toemphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they will encounter asengineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning and improvement inthe design of this course.9 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuous steps: Plan, Do,Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students did not learn whatwas intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycle again underslightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because it leaves roomfor change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” orComplex Systems (see the class web page at http://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). Thisallowed room in the course for

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum with community college partners (Henry Ford Community College and MacombCommunity College) and an ideal articulation plan was devised where up to half the degreecredits (freshman and sophomore years) would transfer. An example of possible transferprogram with Henry Ford Community College is shown in Table 1. (iv) Created upper divisioncourses and related laboratories for the EGT curriculum. (v) Program launch of the modelBSET-EGT degree was delayed pending funding from external sources.ENERGY TECHNOLOGY BS DEGREE CURRICULUM It was important to design the BSET-EGT curriculum to satisfy the accreditationrequirements of the Technology Accreditation Commission of the

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

practical and challenging projects instead of writingresearch papers.Identifying and Recruiting Good Candidates for the ProgramThe ECET faculty teaching the freshman courses in introductory circuit analysis and digitalelectronics identify students through their scores on exams and their performance in lab. Welook for students who are willing to take the initiative in the laboratory, are inquisitive both inlab and lecture, and are mature and responsible individuals. When potential students areidentified, a meeting is arranged between the student and the faculty advisor for the ECEThonors students. The requirements of the program are discussed, questions and concerns areaddressed, and a general plan for completing the requirements is outlined. The

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

‘A’ represents menu items and section ‘B’corresponds to a floating panel. Note that this section changes according to the selection of list-items ‘D’or ‘E’. All functions in J-DSP appear as graphical blocks. Each block is associated with a specific signalprocessing function. Panel ‘C’ shows some of the frequently used blocks; list-menus ‘D’ and ‘E’ includea group of existing and planned functions, respectively. Panel ‘G’ provides interactive visualdemonstrations. A variety of DSP algorithms can be simulated using a drag-and-drop process to establish Page 10.1302.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

templates.A project management plan was put in place to as the first order of business. Projectmanagement resources and software were used to coordinate and track the development activityand progress. Project planning tools such as Gantt charts, task assignments and deliverableswere commonplace during all phases of the development process. Each development teambegan a module by identifying the competency statements, prerequisite objectives and modulelearning objectives. The prerequisite learning objectives were selected from the MATECmodules. MATEC produced a comprehensive set of background and lecture orientedsemiconductor-manufacturing modules as a deliverable for their NSF Center grant. Selectedmodules, individual components and features were

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

post-competition surveys were conducted to gather data on students’ knowledge ofengineering computational tools, how earth structures behave during earthquakes, and theirpreference for a career in science and engineering. These surveys revealed that although thecompetition did provide valuable knowledge for the students about engineering computationaltools and the effects of earthquakes on earth structures, it had no significant influence onchanging the students’ career choices. The planning and implementation of this pilot designcompetition is presented and the difficulties encountered during the implementation arediscussed and suggestions for improving a similar competition are provided. Selected surveyresults are also presented and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Troy McBride

. Course FlowThe Introduction to Engineering Spring semester course covers several topics starting withstudents first studying sketching and graphics concurrently with computer-based solid modeling(Solid Edge by EDS). Within the second week of classes, the major project is introduced anddesign teams of three to four students are formed. Teams are formed by the professor based onstudents self ranking of their abilities in the areas of: 1) Design / Sketching, 2) Creativity / Ideas,3) Organization / Planning Skills, and 4) Oral and Written Communication Skills. Further, theprofessor uses information on their intended majors and performance in previous coursework.Additionally, students are afforded a line on the questionnaire to anonymously request to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor; Robert Green

banquet at the end of the program. We had two options from which tochoose for subsistence: a pre-paid food plan in which purchases were subtracted and norefunds were given for remaining balances; or a charge card which required us to pay forwhat we used at the end of the summer. As a demonstration of trust to the students, and toprevent from over-paying for food, we opted to use the charge card. These cards werevalid in any on-campus dining facility, including the library, and were rated highly by theQuest students. With the exception of one or two students, everyone was very responsiblein using the cards and parents had the assurance that their children would not go hungry.Several cards were lost but detailed record keeping allowed the lost

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Furterer; Lesia Crumpton-Young

IMPROVE CONTROL• Brainstorming • Multi-voting • Cause & Effect • Cost/benefit • SPC• Nominal Group • Process flow • Cost/benefit analysis • One-piece flow Technique charts analysis • Improvement • Kanban and• Process charter • Benchmarking • Waste plans visual control• Work plan • Check sheets identification • Standardized • Continuous• Responsibilities • Surveys • Standardization procedures improvement matrix • Interviewing of • Training, pull, and Kaizen

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Gonzales; Stephen Renshaw

curriculum. There is also an economical advantage to school systems planning to facilitate astudents ability to perform computing applications well. If the computing applicationsare not effective at a specified learning level it would preclude the notion to extendcomputing services until such time as they are both proficiently acquired andacademically involved with study skills.Delimitations Most data measures include a certain amount of statistical variance; even if allfactors that can be controlled are held constant. It was assumed that the variance withinassessment measures used for data collection will not affect the overall analysis.Subsequent reruns of computing applications employing just-in-time compilationmethods will also have

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Brian Blake; Gerald Gannod; Kevin Gary

complexity. Students were usually confined to a single role in a project team, if projectroles were adhered to at all. It was also difficult to teach process-related material, such asrequirements gathering and management techniques, while facilitating a single semester project.To address these issues, DCST has redesigned the single semester factory course into a four-semester sequence dubbed the Software Enterprise. The curriculum plan calls for two one-yearprojects that a student participates in serially. This sequence is shown in Table 1.Semester Fall SpringYear Course Focus Course FocusYear 1 CST315 Tools & Process CST316

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

(Spring/Summer 2004)Project Green (Green Valley Ecology, Environment, and Nature) is a habitat restoration and Page 10.808.2protection project in the City of Henderson, Nevada with an overall goal of restoration of the Proceeding of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationPittman Wash as a valuable resource to the entire community (See Figure 1). Planning for thisproject is coordinated between a citizens group (Project Green Steering Committee), the City ofHenderson Public Works Department, and Harris and

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

-traditional manufacturing sectors of industries and the Artstudents who will be employed in these companies, it is necessary to tailor a special set of RapidPrototyping curriculum to meet their requirements.A valid process manufacturing plan can greatly shorten time-to-market and therefore acquisitionof the funding necessary to go into production. Speeding this product development process evenmore is the ability to send such design code anywhere in the world via high speed Internetconnections. Once a product is proofed and deemed ready for manufacture, the machine code toproduce the final object can also be sent anywhere in the world for its actual production. Whilee-commerce is focused on the buying and selling of products and services, e-production

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationresults of this briefing were very encouraging. Dr. Bement had indicated that budget pressureshad caused him to cut a number of programs around NSF that were near the same level offunding as NNCS. However, because NSF believes so strongly in the goals of NNCS and thepartnership with ONR, the NNCS program would not be cut. In fact, both organizations agreedto fund the $3M Phase II effort as planned and to continue efforts to find additional funding. Thenew Dear Colleague Letter is in its final stages of NSF clearance and will be sent out in earlyMarch. Also, as a result of this