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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Thomson; Donald Orlich; Richard Zollars

activity in the program is a one-day meeting that was held on May 21 involvingeleven of the twelve teacher participants and all of the faculty mentors. The purpose of thismeeting is to start forming relationships among all of the participants, firm up housingarrangements for the summer, distribute information on the research projects that would beavailable for the summer, and tour the campus and laboratories. All of the teachers, whether theywere able to visit the campus or not, then were asked to return a listing of the top three projects onwhich they would like to work. By the end of May all teachers had been assigned projects, with Page

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathy Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

pipe and channel flows Lecturing, supplemental for incompressible fluid: CALCULATE pressure drop in Pipe reading, virtual laboratory Knowledge flow. ANALYZE flow pattern, APPLY to channel flow. experiment (LABView), Repetition 4 DEFINE and CALCULATE drag and lift. ANALYZE and computer simulation, Analysis COMPARE laminar flow, turbulent flow. SOLVE pressure simulation tutoring, Application drop for laminar and turbulent flows. projects, problem solving, Evaluation study session, photograph of flow

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

introduction to the civilengineering profession. The activities presented here are for a project lasting two weeks, includinggroup counseling, advisement on the college application process, financial aid, and technicalactivities. The technical activities emphasize hands-on civil engineering projects, interaction ofparticipants with practicing engineers, and discussion of different engineering disciplines withengineering faculty. To provide real life engineering experience, activities including field trips toengineering work sites were provided.Objectives of the TAMUK Institute ν Expose participants to post secondary campus life as well as career opportunities in engineering and other activities usually not available to disadvantaged and other

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

COURSE REVIEW IN THE ASSESMENT PROCESS Mark E. Cambron and Stacy Wilson Department of Engineering Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101AbstractA joint program in Electrical Engineering has been created with Western Kentucky University(WKU) and the University of Louisville (UofL). The program resides at WKU with UofLfaculty delivering 16-24 hours into the curriculum through distance learning methods. The focusof the new EE program is a project-based curriculum. WKU’s Electrical Engineering Programhas developed an assessment plan to insure a systematic pursuit of improvement. A

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

in today’sindustry (6).According to a recent informal survey of two and four-year engineering technology programs(1), 39 of 77 responding institutions (~51%) still teach some form of instrument drawing.Reasons given in support of this approach varied widely, but some central themes do emergefrom the data. They are broadly summarized as follows: • Can introduce fundamentals without simultaneously teaching software commands • Students with only CAD training lack visualization skills • Learning instrument drawing first eases later instruction in CAD • Concepts such as orthographic projection and tangency are best learned manually • Manual drawing teaches the thought process necessary to produce working drawings

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

Excite Camp 2004: An Updated Look at Integrating Science and Native Hawaiian Tradition Leslie Wilkins, Jenilynne Gaskin, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectBackgroundLaunched in 1999, the Maui-based Women in Technology Project (WIT) is funded by the U.S.Department of Labor as a workforce development project. Its mission is to encourage womenand girls to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)in the state of Hawaii. WIT has been successful at creating systemic change by working directlywith educators and employers to make them aware of the return on investment of recruiting andretaining a

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

in the private and public sectors.”12 The Carey Program is now part of the Centerfor Leadership Education (CLE), housed within the university’s Whiting School of Engineering(WSE). The CLE offers a traditional mix of educational programs, including 1. a wide variety of business courses, many using a case approach and requiring sophisticated final projects 2. the Marshall Salant Student Investment Program, which manages a portfolio donated by an alumnus of the same name 3. an annual business plan competition 4. sponsored internships 5. support for campus business and entrepreneurship clubsIn one course, Technology Commercialization, student teams work with the technology transferoffices of the university

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Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Incorporating Automobile Climate Control into the Teaching of Thermal Environmental Engineering Craig W. Somerton, Laura J. Genik Michigan State University/University of PortlandIntroductionThere are many mechanical engineering students that are very interested in theautomobile and automotive engineering. It has been our experience that students withthis interest can be a challenge to motivate in a course on thermal environmentalengineering. This challenge has been tackled by using the automobile interior as theHVAC application. A project approach has been used in two senior level thermal designcourses at two different institutions (ME 416 at Michigan State University

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

the College of Engineering. This redesign resulted in changes tocourse curriculum and coordination and hiring/management of faculty.The increased focus on educational research has had multiple effects on EngE1024, including theincorporation of outcomes of ongoing research projects, such as the incorporation of electronicportfolios for assessment and reflection purposes originated from an NSF Bridges to EngineeringEducation grant and use of a ‘spiral curriculum’ approach from an NSF Department-levelReform grant.The change in paradigm resulted in significant personnel changes. For the first time, thedepartment hired graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants to aid in course developmentand implementation. Also, to provide faculty time to

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

graduate also ought to demonstrate 1) ability to manage a project (including afamiliarity with business, market-related, and financial matters), 2) a multidisciplinary systemsperspective, 3) an understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of students, faculty, staff,colleagues, and customers, and 4) a strong work ethic. During Phase II of this project, weidentified several assessment instruments that might measure those outcomes and begansearching for instructional “best practices” thought to promote the 15 desired learningoutcomes. This paper, based on Phase III of the project, provides empirical evidence from andidentifies the gaps in higher education and engineering education journal articles that linkinstructional best practices with

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

Series Fall Semester Spring Semester Perspectives Pre-Professional Education Pre-Professional Education Pre-professional Business Management Foreign Catalog Search Techniques Catalog Search Techniques Language Technical Translation Comprehensive References Senior Project Proposal Computer Computer Application in Computer Applications in Senior Design Projects Senior

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

development of our contest infrastructure—a specially developed simulationsoftware package and a web-based judging system. We briefly describe the implementation ofthe contest and present a comprehensive assessment of the extent to which it is accomplishing itsgoals. The assessment results serve as the basis for conclusions about the viability of IT-enabledengineering outreach.GoalThe principal goal of this project is to increase awareness of and interest in engineering among alarge, diverse population of middle-school and high-school students. By making engineeringaccessible to a broad audience, we seek to overcome students’ common misperception thatengineering is an endeavor for the “technically elite.” 1We suggest that this goal can be achieved by

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

-learning, students become involved in a project that meets specific educational objectives Page 10.216.1while providing a needed service to the community. Service-learning can range from a singleProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcollege course where the students are required to do some community service to multi-year,service projects that are fully integrated into the curriculum. Service-learning has been found tohelp students develop technical and non-technical skills, make connections

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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

Session 1515 3-D Visualization for Civil Engineering Undergraduate Learning Kenneth R. Leitch, Kristine E. Martin, and Jeffrey D. Will College of Engineering, Valparaiso UniversityIntroduction Civil engineering analysis and modeling frequently reduces 3-D land features andstructures to 2-D representations on such media as paper and overhead projectionsystems. Students often have trouble understanding the 3-D aspect of civil engineeringproblems because of the limitations of conventional 2-D representations. Many studentsfind it difficult to understand how landforms from a topographic survey will impact aconstruction project

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

: • At the individual, not team, level • Process-focused (not only focused on quality of end result) • Not too time-intensive (not requiring significant class time or unreasonable amounts of time to prepare and score) Page 10.1442.3Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • Reliable from student to student, project to project, and year to year • Linked to more than just one level on Bloom’s taxonomyA trade study of four basic assessment strategy options in shown in Table 2. Table 2

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

characteristics and operations of partnerships influence STEM educationaloutcomes.* Part of this project addresses the vexing issue of how to evaluate both the outcomesof a partnership, and the partnership itself. For, although a partnership is often viewed primarilyas a vehicle or framework for conducting other planned STEM activities or interventions, it oftenbecomes much more than that, leading to a multitude of unanticipated activities and outcomes.Evaluations that don’t directly address the partnership, and the unanticipated outcomes thatresult, may suffer from a weak formative assessment regarding the health of the partnership, andalso may miss some of the most important results of that partnership.The unintended consequences of the partnership

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Sternberg

cooled liquid, testing tensile and compressive strength, testingductility, cold working, concentrating stress, and observing electro-chemical corrosion.The designed activities highlight basic fundamental ideas from material science and helpstudents build their working knowledge of materials behavior. This project has beenimplemented twice and results of student surveys show an increase in student interest andreported motivation. However, classroom assessment showed little difference in studentachievement on exams.IntroductionSeveral short, simple, inexpensive, hands on activities have been developed. Theactivities promote interest in the course material and provide students opportunities toexperience a range of properties and materials. Students

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael R. Sexton; Mehmet Sozen

6100 6000 5900 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 X/Y (# of moles of H2/# of moles of O2) Figure 3. Variation of flame temperature with reactant mixture ratio______________________________________________________________________________Classroom ApplicationsThe method by Sözen and Majumdar discussed above was modified to simplify the mathematicsto make it more presentable in an undergraduate course in thermodynamics. For this project thesolution of the equations was accomplished using MathCad; although other software capable ofsolving this system of equations is available

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

Session 2005-1222 Excel™ Analysis of Combined Cycle Power Plant Michael R. Maixner United States Air Force Academy A key issue in student design projects in thermodynamics is the necessity to modify property values during iteration and/or redesign. This is particularly true when dealing with two working fluids (e.g., air, water) in a combined cycle. The necessity to manually ascertain these values at all points of the cycle can inhibit the pedagogic purpose of the project: to allow students to view how overall system parameters (efficiency, specific fuel consumption, horsepower, etc.) may vary in

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Irina Nelson

, Germany, Russia and the UK) and numerous (typically fifty) visiting lecturersrepresenting different countries, contribute their expertise in various specialized topics such as:space utilization, space safety, project management, financing and insurance, human resourcesmanagement, research, innovation, and technology transfer, patent and intellectual property, Page 10.1301.1strategic alliances and international project management, etc. 4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”More than an

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

teach, and describing the hardwareand software infrastructure necessary to support the endeavor. First, however, we discussour motivation for the project. Page 10.136.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2. MotivationFormal instruction that our undergraduate engineering students receive in computerprogramming is similar to that experienced by undergraduates throughout the country; ithas changed little over the past several decades. Whether in Fortran, Pascal, Java,Matlab, or C/C++, students learn in

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

hascompeted, for the first time in the State of Nevada, in FIRST LEGO® League (FLL) usingLEGO® Mindstorm technology. On the other hand, a high school robotics team built an actualrobot and participated in FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). The teams had partnershipthrough NASA Nevada Space Consortium grant and some local sponsors. The school, at thebeginning of the first year, set up Middle School LEGO and High School Robotics clubs wherevarious basic engineering concepts were covered. The Robotics club eventually transformed toan elective Robotics class. Several local engineers, graduate students, and parent volunteerscontributed to these projects. At the end of the academic year, the projects provided a greatsuccess in the following five areas; (1

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

”• Learn the application of modern engineering and business principles, methods, and tools, associated with manufacturing systems and• Acquire a basic knowledge of manufacturing processes.• Develop the ability to visualize manufacturing engineering challenges and opportunities.• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication within the context of completing and presenting manufacturing project.• Recognize the importance of key professional characteristics: ethics, the ability to work with others, an appreciation for other disciplines, adaptability, and an appreciation for life-long learning.Plant visits have traditionally been an important part of this course. Students typically visit fouror five plants during the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

need to passthe embedded lab as well. This course is also offered as an elective to graduate students underECE 595. The graduate section of the class has an extra project assignment. The objective of thecourse is that students will develop skills in the areas of embedded systems design,microcontroller systems interfacing, hardware/software integration, and debugging whileworking with a contemporary microcontroller platform and using C as their programminglanguage. The Motorola/Freescale MC9S12DP256 Microcontroller EVB kit by Technological Arts[5] along with the ICC12 IDE software by ImageCraft [6] has been used in the lab for about twoyears. The rationale for this decision is based upon the fact that this chip is a powerful memberof the

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wanda Dann; Stephen Cooper; Ashlyn Hutchinson; Barbara Moskal

the extent to which the stated goals and objectives of the investigation have beenreached. The formative phase of the assessment process is often not reported, yet the validity ofthe conclusions drawn from an investigation is partially dependent on this phase. Formativeassessment helps the researcher to improve the design and implementation of a project while theproject is underway.1 It is during the formative phases of assessment that initial validity evidenceis collected and analyzed.2 During this critical stage of the assessment process, changes can bemade to the research and assessment design and these changes can improve the quality of theinformation that is obtained during the summative phases of assessment. This paper

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sze-wai Chan; Ming-yin Chan

A Study of deriving Individual Marks from a Group M.Y. CHAN Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Hong Kong Tel: (852)27665836 Fax: (852)27657198 (e-mail: bemychan@polyu.edu.hk)Abstract Methods of deriving individual marks from a project done by a group of studentswere studied. The author had conducted a survey on a class of building engineering students.Four students formed a group in a building design project. They were taking up the duties ofelectrical & mechanical engineer, architect, financial controller and quantity

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

examples of such activities andprograms that are underway at Herff College of Engineering, The University ofMemphis, and we note specific links to the expectations of the NAE and potentialindustry and technological employers.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4Example 1: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Enhancing and Supporting UndergraduateEngineering EducationThis example involves an NSF-funded educational study titled “A Scholarship Programfor Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Students: An Industry-AcademiaPartnership Approach (CSEMS).” This project represents a

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nuno Delfino; Calvin Cutshaw; Brian McGee; R. Mark Nelms

. Studentsdevelop their ladder logic programs in the RSLogix software and download them via a serialconnection between PC and the PLC. Programs may be uploaded from the PLC to the PC overthis same connection. One of the goals of the laboratory was to provide the students with an end-of-term projectthat would simulate conditions in an industrial environment. Limited laboratory space andfinancial resources prevented the acquisition of actual industrial equipment. Many educatorshave utilized LEGO products for projects and laboratories2-5. A LEGO Student Factory wasconstructed as the basis for the end-of-term project and is shown in Figure 1. A crane is utilizedto lift blocks from the floor to the top of the laboratory table. Once a block has reached

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dullanty

structures typically involve large andunusual loads from cranes, ships, and cargo; generally are supported upon weak and sloped soils;and usually require significant design considerations for marine and coastal environmentsincluding corrosive conditions. Marine structures provide for excellent classroom case studiesbecause they inherently require multidisciplinary evaluation and site specific engineeringsolutions.IntroductionThis paper discusses practical design considerations for large marine structures in SouthCarolina. As examples, it uses two projects from the South Carolina State Ports Authority. Thefirst project is the evaluation and upgrading of container crane rails at the North Charleston, SC,terminal, and the second project is the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Lucas; Chul Kim

wireless mobile PC based system that canadminister quizzes and exams in construction course classrooms.Goals and Objectives The primary goal of this project is to enhance teaching and learning in construction Page 10.34.1technology at IUPUI by the increasing use of information technology tools for improving Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationteaching and learning. The secondary goal is to establish an infrastructure of wireless classroomfor construction technology education to provide a