Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

colleges and MSU-Bozeman dedicated to providing undergraduate research and scholarship opportunities for American Indian students in career fields of science, math and engineering. • Montana Apprenticeship Program (MAP): MAP is a summer academic enhancement program designed for American Indian juniors and seniors in high school. MAP has been running for 22 years and has hosted over 300 students from all over the U.S. MAP is a six- week program that provides pre-college academic preparation, and offers students experience in a scientific-research laboratory. Eighty percent of students from MAP enter college. • American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): The AISES student chapter at MSU was chartered

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

. Each week, students participate in acreativity/teamwork exercise. These activities will be described in the paper. Students evaluatetheir peers’ teamwork skills at mid and end semester via web based software. This work isfunded is partially with an NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) GrantAward 0127139. A description of the creatively/teamwork exercises as well as the lessons ondesign, ethics and project management will be made available athttp://www.humboldt.edu/~eae1/CCLI02/.Introduction and Course DescriptionFaculty members in Humboldt State University’s (HSU) Environmental Resources Engineering(ERE) program are revitalizing an introductory course, ENGR 215: Introduction to Design, toimprove the retention and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmade. As well, based on the initial mass of a specimen and the mass after thermal distortiontesting, a percent degradation loss of specimen can be determined.Methodology The defined testing methodology consists of four major steps, which are described in the nextparagraphs. It is important to note that all specimens preparation and testing needs to beperformed in a controlled laboratory environment. Temperature was controlled at 23.9±1.1°C,and relative humidity was controlled at 50±3%. The four steps are: • Preparation of Disc Shaped Specimens • Scratch Hardness Testing • Thermal Distortion Testing • Testing Methodology1. Preparation of Disc Shaped Specimens

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

each school) connected in a network, with Internet access.The implementation of the program started in February of 2002; it has been dimensioned to serve10 thousand students per year, including the qualification of teachers and technical staff for thenext four years.7. Infra Structure of the ProjectThe project physical infra structure counts with 16 laboratories with 20 points of network each,in according to the international pattern EIA/TIA 568-A, where each lab contains one Rack withkey and the local network active element (Switch 24 doors 10/100 MBITS).The whole project is compounded by: 320 Celeron computers 800 MHZ/ Disk of 20GB and 128MB RAM/ Colored monitor with 15”/ CDRom/ Stabilizer; Supply of 32 printers, 2 for each lab;Large b and

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Patterson; C. Richard Helps

. The competition also hasto be structured to help ensure its success. Some recommendations for competition include: • Group the students into teams that are balanced in ability so that the competition is fair. • Make sure that the objective is well matched to the engineering technology concept being taught. • Maintain and encourage contact with the students. • Encourage cooperation among the students. • Give prompt feedback to the students. • Emphasize planning and time management. • Maintain an appropriate balance between classroom and laboratory time so that the students are able to work productively in the laboratory. • Encourage students to respect and benefit from each others diverse viewpoints

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; David Hansen; Brian Self

, or could be used in arecitation section. Some examples include a model rocket launch, a catapult project, and aCharpy test demonstration. Details of these projects (Self and Redfield, 2001) as well asdifferent assessment techniques (Self et al, 2003) have been previously reported. During the pastyear, we added a LEGO® car competition laboratory to help students understand the fundamentalconcepts of rigid body kinetics.LEGOs® aren’t just your children’s simple playthings anymore. Educators are using advancedmechanical products to teach students about compound belt drives, gearing, and pulleys(www.lego.com). LEGO® Mindstorm includes a programmable “brick” that is being used toteach robotics (Klassner, 2003), chemical engineering concepts

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 2000 3. COSMOSWorks Online User’s Guide, COSMOSWorks 2003 SP1.2, Copyright 1997-2003, Structural Research & Analysis CorporationRobert G. RyanRobert Ryan received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles.He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University,Northridge. He is the coordinator for the department’s Measurements Laboratory and Thermo-fluids Laboratory. Page 9.1348.11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shakil Akhtar; Alaa Aly

A Course on Computer Networks Based on CC2001 Shakil Akhtar and Alaaeldin A. Aly College of Information Technology UAE University {s.akhtar, aly}@uaeu.ac.ae Abstract cryptographic algorithms and security protocols. It isThis paper presents the laboratory contents of an updated noted that because of the difficulty of both cryptographiccomputer networks course offered at the undergraduate algorithms and security protocols and also the need forjunior or senior level. The

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Rennels; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

laboratories, etc. In this section, the survey did not change considerably from the 1999survey. In 2003 of the 37 four-year schools that responded, 79% reported that they are known asa university. Interestingly, 79% of the respondents in 1999 also said they were called auniversity. The next most used name is college at 13%. Table 1. Type of Institution for Four-Year Schools 1999 and 2003. 60 79% 50 40 79% 30 20 10

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

profitability. I spent two class periods describing our businesspractices. I will briefly review the business issues as described to the students because thebusiness aspects were essential to the ethics instruction.Our mock firm must bill our clients and collect funds totaling a certain amount each month or wewill not be able to cover our operating costs. We did an approximate calculation of our revenueneeds for our firm based on a multiplier of 3. For that specific period I assigned a position toeach class member such as project engineer, laboratory supervisor, technician, drill rig operatorand helper. I assigned typical salaries to each position, totaled them and multiplied by 3 to covertaxes, insurance, retirement, health benefits, and office and

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

programming language that was usedfor data acquisition. The senior telecommunications systems course emphasizes voice and data "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education"communications techniques. There are approximately seven laboratory experiments coveredwithin this course. Each of the experiments utilizes LabVIEW and typically requires two weeksto complete. As part of the course requirements, students complete a group project in place oftaking a final exam. Students select the team members and the project. Four team memberschose to work on this remote sensing project.A detailed listing of the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

-on experience. Accordingly they try to address the practical aspect in more detail.This is more in line with the philosophy adopted in a majority of engineering technologyprograms in the United States. However in the opinion of the author the instruction forthe course in mechanical design needs to be a balanced mix of theory and practice.Within the US, as already noted, the curricula are divided as to whether to deliver thecontent of the design of machine elements primarily as a lecture format, or to have acombined lecture laboratory format. In the laboratory sessions (typically 3 hours aweek), the students work in groups on a detailed design project in various areas ofmachine elements, usually culminating in the design of machineries, such

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

number of the course offerings are taught by full-time faculty.1.7 Class sizes at an appropriate level.1.8 Innovative instructional approaches incorporated into the classroom, as appropriate.Goal 2 – Physical FacilitiesEnsure appropriate physical facilities.2.1 The academic department provides students with adequate information regarding department equipment and facilities.2.2 Students are satisfied with general purpose classrooms, computer laboratory facilities, and support.2.3 Faculty members are satisfied with general purpose classrooms, computer laboratory facilities, and support.2.4 Equipment and technology in support of research is

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

investigation to the internal dynamics of the rest. In laboratory work this principle isused to construct reproducible experiments, but also mentally it is used to think about systems inhypothesis and mental experiments. Today laboratories, being more and more penetrated bycomputers, a free and easy distribution of a system between reality and virtuality has someadvantage. Certain well known aspects of a system can be represented in a formal way byalgorithms in the computer, others to be investigated in more detail are represented in reality, butcoupled to a dynamic surrounding. This allows completely new forms of easy experimental workand learning. Here hyper bonds come into play.In order to provide arbitrary boundary conditions, we must have a

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Session 2615 Alternate Approach in Analyzing Structures Utilizing LabVIEW Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn the presented paper a new approach for investigating the behavior of structures subjected to loadsis proposed. In this unconventional and interesting method of analysis, classical theoretical methodsin analyzing structures are formulated using the programming features of LabVIEW to yield thedesired output. The LabVIEW software tool is primarily developed by National Instruments, Inc. toaid the investigators in controlling laboratory

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

, including but not limited to laboratory research, case studies, and tutorials on advancedtopics. If a faculty member is willing to supervise the student project, the student must prepare aproposal for the project and submit the proposal to the department head. The independent studyproposal should include a statement of the problem to be addressed or topic to be investigated inthe independent study, an overview of the proposed research plan or a syllabus, any deliverables,and a timeline for the project. All students who take an independent study are required to presenta seminar to faculty and students and prepare a final paper on the results of their work. A copyof all final papers is kept by the department.HonorsLafayette College specifies that

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

of Computer Science curriculum. A central issue within computernetwork education is the hands-on laboratory-based approach versus the traditional in-calllecture-based approach. Traditionally, computer networks courses have not provided studentswith hands-on access to networking equipment and software. However, due to increasingpopularity of vendor-based courses as components of undergraduate curricula, students now havethe opportunity to study a more practical approach and hence program networking devices(switches, routers). Furthermore, many students are studying networking and internetworking Page 9.134.1Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

material tostudents. The adoption of Cisco VBC can result in a number of advantages for participatingacademies: • The material is supplied free of charge to participating educational institutions worldwide. • Course material is provided on-line essentially 24 hours a day for seven days a week, and is supplemented by a large selection of books 12, 13, 9, 18, simulators, examination questions and other learning material. • The material is continually updated to reflect rapid technological change. • Laboratory equipment is provided at substantial discount. • Equipment provided through the program can be used for other, non-vendor based units, and for research purposes. • Staff are trained and up-skilled

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

well-considered investments in laboratory technology, recruitment of skilled faculty and staff, andsuccessful partnering with industry. Outreach and collaboration with regional manufacturers byMNET program faculty have been primarily accomplished as a result of the Great Plains RapidPrototyping Consortium (GPRPC).The GPRPC was launched in 2000 by three industrial partners and South Dakota StateUniversity and supported by consortium partner investments and a Partnership For Innovationgrant from the National Science Foundation (#0090422). The mission of the GPRPC is tosupport educational activities, product development, research and technology exchange forengineering and technology students and consortium members by developing a rapid

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

materials science Senior Year – process control, senior design project, senior laboratory, technical chemicalengineering electives such as petroleum operationsStudents would learn programming skills during their freshman year and make active use of theirskills in isolated instances throughout the remainder of their undergraduate academic career. Thesenior design project would be the course most likely requiring computer programmingexpertise.During the 1980s and 1990s the computing resources available to chemical engineeringundergraduates expanded dramatically. Universities began requiring that all students have theirown personal computer (Drexel started this practice in 19832). Even those universities that didn’thave this requirement

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for theImprovement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), and was carried out over the last four years.The assessment was carried out under the auspices of UMR’s Laboratory for InformationTechnology Evaluation (LITE), and guided by the LITE model for evaluation of learningtechnologies. The fundamental premise of the model is that evaluation should consist of thetriangulation of multiple research methodologies and measurement tools. Five representativeevaluation studies, consisting of eight experiments, are presented here. The studies range frominitial research consisting of basic experimentation and usability testing; to applied researchconducted within the class room; to a large multi

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

views (n=12; 29%). The least frequently cited reasons for leaving the School of Engineering were: 1. I want to attend a school that is closer to my family (0) 2. I want to live in another part of the country. (0) 3. I don’t find my courses challenging enough. (0) A portion of the exit survey asked questions regarding types of instructional activitiescharacteristically linked to different learning styles. For example, a student who prefers activerather than reflective learning, and who felt their needs were not being met in the engineeringcurriculum, might be expected to choose the survey option “I want to take classes which give memore opportunities to: do hands-on experiments and laboratories.” On the

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

relatively low temperature, and upon exposure to some highertemperature will return to their original shape. Only those alloys that can recover asubstantial amount of strain, or that generate significant force upon shape transformation,are of commercial interest. One such material is a Nickel-Titanium alloy called Nitinol(NiTi). This particular alloy has useful electrical and mechanical properties, long fatiguelife, and high corrosion resistance. This novel material has a very high resistivity thatenables it to be actuated electrically by Joule (resistance) heating, making it an appealingtype of actuator for numerous applications. In 1962, William Buehler at the NavalOrdinance Laboratory discovered a binary alloy composed of equi-atomic Nickel

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

9.552.2activities in the students’ curriculum (e.g., laboratories in the sophomore years.) Moreover, the“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"choice of this model reflects our belief that the combination of ethics instruction relating toprofessionalism and individual responsibility, along with extended treatment of themes, conceptsand categories for dealing with the social, political, and environmental context of engineeringpractice is an effective curricular model for responding to the ABET Criteria 2000.EPED 231 and EPED 231All sophomore students in Drexel’s College of Engineering (CoE

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

clearly identifies design problems and therefore their inherent wickednessas one of the cornerstones of the engineering profession. However, the entire post-Grintercurriculum shifted to the study of tame problems. Something was clearly amiss. By the time,the momentum of the changes being introduced through the wholesale adoption of the Grinterframework was far too advanced to redirect. The only course of action was to let the changestake place and to seek to revitalize design through isolated coursework. To this end a largenumber of design textbooks have been produced over the years in an effort to place designeducation within the lecture, tutorial, laboratory framework. However, despite the best effortsof a small but dedicated group of

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

-upinvestment by CAST and RIT; external funding is the life-blood of all scholarship, especially inthese times of budget restraints within the academy.Two types of grants are generally available to ET faculty: Equipment or laboratory improvementgrants and Research grants. Limited experience gained so far from the few successful grantproposals in CAST indicates that equipment or laboratory improvement grant proposals must betied or connected strongly to students, curriculum, faculty and/or industry in order to be able tosecure operating funds for the lab, otherwise, it becomes very difficult to make the grant work.Figure 1. Entry Page to the CAST Scholarship Website

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationScientific Principle 5: Replicate and generalize across studies Replication and generalization help to clarify the limits of theories and inferences and arean important component of scientific research. Replication refers to the ability to repeat aninvestigation in more than one setting and achieve the same results. This is common practice inSTEM disciplinary research in order to confirm findings. When similar results can not begenerated, then the entire research project is in doubt. Consider, for example, the cold fusionresults announced by one laboratory, but in the end, discredited because they could not bereplicated in

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

Session 1432 Teaching Information Warfare with a Break-in Laboratory Dr. Doug Jacobson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State UniversityAt present, Iowa State University is already a leader in computer security education and offersover twelve courses in information assurance. Iowa State University (ISU) promotes education,research, and outreach in information assurance through is Information Assurance Center1. Overtwo dozen faculty members from six academic departments work together in the InformationAssurance Center to explore the problems of securing information in application areas rangingfrom software to networks to

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McCartney; Lynette Krenelka; John Watson; Dara Faul; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

used in all DEDP classes at UND.BackgroundIn 1989, the School of Engineering and Mines at the University of North Dakota began delivering adistance education program through the Division of Continuing Education. Courses leading toBachelor of Science engineering degrees were offered to employees of 3M. The program was laterextended to employees of other member companies to form the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram (CEDP). In 2001, this program was modified to serve other individual students, and itbecame the Distance Engineering Degree Program (DEDP) delivering chemical, electrical andmechanical engineering courses. To date the program has graduated 16 students, who completedlecture courses via videotape, and laboratories through on-campus

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students