Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

Design University of FloridaEngineering Entrepreneurs NC State UniversityMulti-University Design Teams Clemson (UNC-Charlotte, Univ. South Carolina, Georgia Tech)Virtual Corporation Virginia TechQuality Improvement Partnership NC State UniversityCross-Disciplinary Education Clemson UniversityMultidisciplinary Design in a Global Environment Virginia TechCross-college Collaboration Laboratory in Engineering and Art and Design Virginia Tech.Integrated product and process design (IPPD) In 1995, the University of Florida instituted an industry sponsored, one yeardesign course which involved three

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

the simulator that have provided thisenhancement are a consequence of upgrades in the post-processor. These upgrades nowallow the simulation data to be manipulated in ways that are much more than a simpleelectrical analysis, and extend well beyond the focus of circuit proof and performanceanalysis. And likewise the spreadsheet is a friendly and mature product that givesconsiderable flexibility and analytical power.And device models in pSPICE have evolved over time to a point that they now representactual device behavior to a higher degree of accuracy than simplified models ordinarilynecessary in the classroom or laboratory. This paper has found a practical and frienlyplatform for to investigation of device and circuit behavior from simulation

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Piacentine; Tonya Emerson

on-line for anyone interested in pre-college outreach. Anexcellent source is the PBS ZOOM website. [1] Following the links for “Parents and Teachers”one can find a wide variety of hands-on science and engineering activities for K-6th graders aswell as preschoolers. These activities are incredibly well thought out with a pdf file listingsupplies needed, concepts covered, and supplemental activities to promote critical thinking. TheZOOM activities are targeted to meet educational science standards so that they can easily beincluded in the classroom. PBS’s Building Big series has been expanded to include a number ofoutstanding hands-on laboratories and instructional aids. [2] These activities are ideal for olderstudents and come with

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

training go hand inhand because students are required to manage “projects” that they must complete during thequarter. They are introduced to the concept of team roles, agendas, minutes, listening, decisionmaking, peer evaluation, and scheduling. In their sophomore year, students are given training inpeer evaluation that is reinforced in the junior year. In the junior year student laboratory groupsare required to complete open ended laboratory projects. These groups are responsible forscheduling their work and performing peer evaluations. During the senior Systems Designcourse, students are given more in depth training on team motivation and interaction. They areintroduced to scheduling concepts and are required to use Microsoft Project to complete

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

grade level.Program Content and Pedagogy GRADE Camp provides direct and formative exposure for ninth through twelfth gradefemale students to engineering principles through a challenging and interesting weeklongsummer day camp where participants have opportunities to experience engineering first-hand.GRADE Camp utilizes active, co-operative learning and hands-on experiences rather thantraditional lecture or demonstration-based formats. Participants learn theory during the morningsand then apply the theory during the afternoons in sequential, hands-on laboratories completed inteams of two or three girls. Each activity and discussion session is carefully designed to lead intoa portion of a final design project, thereby linking theory to

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

mechanical and civil engineering laboratorycontent. One of the objectives of the proposed experiments will help the students to recognizethe need for life-long learning.Bibliography1. Dally, J. W. and Riley, W. F., Experimental Stress Analysis, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991.2. Younis, N. T., “Stress Analysis Experiments for Mechanical Engineering Students,” Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 22-25, 2003. Session1566.3. Kadlowec, J., “Combining Laboratory Innovation and a Design Experience into Tools for Mechanics,”Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee,June 22-25, 2003. Session 1368.4. Younis, N. T

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

Engineering Education”Block DiagramThe block diagram is a graphical representation of the underlying software program. Itconsists of icons that represent typical programming elements such as constants,variables, subroutines, and loops. Figure 3 below is a screenshot of the block diagram forthis system.Fig. 3 Screenshot of LabVIEW Block DiagramHardware and CircuitsSystem PowerTo provide power for the electronics and fan, a 12-volt regulated supply is used. Asimple voltage regulator IC is used to provide the positive 12-volt rails that power the fanand op-amp circuits. This way, only one external power connection is needed. Aconnection to the 15-volt laboratory power supply is all that is needed to supply regulated12-volt power to the entire

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen; Faruk Taban; Ayhan Zora

% Page 10.24.9 Engine speed (rpm) 2138.83 2138.70 0.01% Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe proposed comprehensive energy model development is recommended and planned to beimplemented in the process control laboratory at the University of Northern Iowa. It is expectedthat addition of this energy model development will positively impact student interests andenhance the students’ ability to visualize simple actual process control simulators [7]. Manyengineering and technology curricula include instrumentation, advanced CAD, and

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

active and collective, their information literacyskills can improve dramatically.Typically, students respond well to hands-on computer laboratories in which they search variousdatabases and retrieve electronic information. McGuigan (2001) notes that the Web is often thefirst source students explore when researching a topic. Davis (2003) also reports that students areusing fewer scholarly references, but that this trend can be reversed with properly constructedassignments.Active and peer learning are strategies often employed to teach a variety of topics. Theeffectiveness of these strategies is especially important because Manuel (2002) reports that thestudents at California State University viewed the “words of caution said by the instructor

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

Center Design Systems Visual CommunicationsWayfinding ProjectThe other civil engineering course project that supported the Bloomfield Center study was doneby a group of four students as part of their Water Quality Engineering course. This is a fallsenior level 4-credit course that has a 3-credit lecture and a 1-credit lab. Unlike traditional labswhere students read a laboratory manual and perform a number of experiments during thesemester, the Water Quality Engineering laboratory is a semester long group project that issponsored by a town or water utility. Because a service learning project was already part of thecourse curriculum, it was easy to integrate the Bloomfield Center Study into the Water

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

the predominant faculty responsibility is to obtain fundingfor and conduct research that will produce work that can be published in highly respectedtechnical journals. Much of the research is conducted by graduate students who work withvarying degrees of direction from the faculty member. Providing this direction to the graduatestudents requires significant time, effort and managerial skill on the part of the faculty member.The aforementioned funding is required to pay for such things as administrative overhead,laboratory space and equipment, graduate students’ assistantships, faculty stipends, materials andother consumables, travel expenses and so forth. These research projects may often includefaculty interaction that is intradepartmental

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

. D. in Applied Mathematics with Systems Engineering emphasis in 1977, served as Chair forFreshman Programs and DELOS Divisions, and runs the Toying With TechnologySM Program at Iowa State.CELESTE E. OGRENis a junior in elementary education from Marcus, Iowa. She works in the Toying With TechnologySM Laboratory asan undergraduate teaching/laboratory assistant. Her interests include integrating engineering and technologyconcepts into the elementary education curriculum and helping preservice teachers become more aware of theopportunities available to incorporate these important subject areas into their every day curriculum. Page

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

incollege, the students usually work alone: in class, taking notes, doing homework, studying forand taking tests, writing papers, giving presentations, and managing their own time. Typically,in the laboratory the student will partner with another student. However, the dynamics of a teamof two does not at all compare to that of a larger group. Hence, while this overall approach istraditional and works well for the individual in an academic setting, it can be a shock when thestudent needs to work in a larger team in industry. Considerable time is spent in the first-quarterEE-407 course on team building, and this continues throughout the year.2. Understand the difference between a problem and a solution. This is one of the more poorlyunderstood

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney; Richard Englund

sometimes believe thatwelding is a simple process that does not change the material properties. If they have a chance totry welding in a laboratory setting it may reinforce this belief when inexpensive materials areused that do not change properties very much due to the welding process.Particularly on heat treated parts, heating during the welding process can cause grain growth in Page 10.33.1the volume of material adjacent to the weld. This grain growth and any other tempering effects Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Schrage

) Wop) FAA Certification (PERT/CPM) Flight Multi-Body, Non-Linear Laboratory Dynamic Analysis (Fight (DYMORE) Lab) Reliability Modeling Linear & Non-Linear (PRISM/ITEM) Structural Analysis (NASTRAN/ABAQUS

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson; Harold Broberg

Selection of Processor, Language, and Labs in Introductory Microprocessor/Microcontroller Courses Harold L. Broberg, Elizabeth Thompson Indiana University-Purdue University Fort WayneAbstract:The hardware and software used in introductory microprocessor/microcontroller coursesin electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and in electrical and computer engineeringtechnology (ECET) curricula is of general interest to faculty in these disciplines.Information on processors, languages, and laboratories used in teaching fifteen ECE andeleven ECET courses was collected using university/college syllabi and other materialavailable via the Internet. The choices made are presented in

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (SPH), the Johns HopkinsApplied Physics Laboratory (APL), and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division(IH). The final project for this successful collaboration requires that student teams define thetechnology and its applications, review applicable literature, analyze the strength of theprovisional patent application (with the assistance of students from the Intellectual Propertycourse), identify technology and market gaps, gauge the interest of potential customers andlicensees, define a business model, project the potential returns to licensees, evaluate spin-offpossibilities, value the technology from the perspective of its owner(s), and describe next steps.They hold extensive

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

-Next.” Page 10.991.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFunded through the Office of Naval Research (ONR), N-STAR has begun to develop anintegrated continuum of activities and programs that have as their ultimate goal recruiting 500new scientists and engineers per year over the next ten years into the Naval Research Enterprise(NRE) which comprises the NWCs plus the Naval Research Laboratory

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

of writing iscurrently emphasized in this discipline pedagogically? Two, are there significant writing styledifferences in the discipline that that require faculty in the discipline to guide the student thoughtand writing process? The current emphasis in engineering and engineering technology programsis placed on highly formatted technical and scientific laboratory reports.1 The problem with thistype of technical writing in the discipline is that it doesn't really prepare students to communicate1 It is interesting to note that students have had a difficult time writing the conclusions in their laboratory reports. Page

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ameya A. Chandelkar; Deepak G. Bhat

test, it is relatively cheaper and easier to prepare test specimens.Implementation of a Hot Hardness Test Method for Materials LaboratoryWe have implemented a unique high-temperature micro-indentation hardness tester in theSurface Engineering Laboratory at the University of Arkansas, by assembling variousmechanical components and electrical systems for the operation at high temperatures in the rangeof room temperature to about 1200oC. The basic hardware components were obtained from acommercial company which had dismantled and discarded their equipment since it was no longerfunctional. The equipment was assembled from various components and modules as a graduatestudent project, and tested to verify the operation of different functional modules

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia L. Morse

outcomes.Grading sheets in engineering education literatureThe use of exam or assignment grading sheets is certainly nothing new. Walvoord andAnderson’s 1998 work on Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment1 redirectedthought on the use of grading rubrics to specify desired outcomes, objectives, or “primary traits”expected from student work. This was considered a dual attempt to (1) encourage specificdesired learning outcomes and (2) make grading more fair and efficient. V. L. Young et. al.,applied Walvoord and Anderson’s Primary Trait Analysis to the grading of laboratory reports ina senior capstone chemical engineering course. In addition to meeting goals (1) and (2), Youngand her colleagues also noted the benefits of their grade sheets

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

-cutting skills of communication, teamwork, life-long learning,research experience, and laboratory experience will be woven throughout the curriculum.Students will build their ePortfolios around the theme of sustainability and the supportingprinciples and cross cutting skills. Students will be asked to select artifacts (assignments,laboratory reports, project presentations and exams) that illustrate the theme, principles, andskills. Periodically, students will be asked to reflect on a component of the ePortfolio and write areflection paper describing their knowledge in that component and identifying gaps in theirknowledge. These papers will serve several purposes. Students will have the opportunity to seeclearly how courses in the curriculum

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Catherine Lewis; Susan Etheredge; Thomas Gralinski

numbers, thereby offering a unique environment for engineeringeducation. The Picker Program’s faculty of eight, five of whom are women, share a commonvision for engineering education reform.Within the Department of Education and Child Study at Smith, research programs focus oneducation in the sciences, mathematics, and technology. The Department’s undergraduate andgraduate teacher preparation programs and the Smith College Campus School (preK-6), whichserves as a laboratory for education research, provide fertile ground for developing and field-testing K-12 engineering education initiatives. Department of Education and Child Study facultymembers are working closely with the Picker Engineering Program to ensure that besteducational practices are

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

Tapping Hidden Talent Ronald A. L. Rorrer1, Daniel Knight2, Richard Sanders3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center/2Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder/3Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences CenterAbstractWe have developed a summer program intended to tap the talent of high school students whohave the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path. Thecourses in the program consist of a merging of

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

Trans 6 17 Numerical Tech Elective Water Chem & Water & WW Sustainabilty Methods + + & the Built Laboratory* Tmt* Environ * 7 15 Environ Environ Engrg Environ Engrg Engineering Tech Engrg Microbiology * Design * Economics+ Elective/ Processes * Sr Thesis 8 15 Option Air Pollution * EDC Projects

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

the design process. Also in many cases, students, through working on projects,often perceive the relevance of mathematics and science and see how what they have learned inthese courses might be applicable to their current project. Another, less frequently usedalternative is a first-year course built around discipline, laboratory-based learning experiences[10]. The goal of this alternative is to help first-year students better understand the nature of thedifferent engineering disciplines through carefully crafted experiential learning experiences.Given that one of the challenges faced by the first-year engineering curricula at TAMU was thelack of understanding of engineering practice, EAPO selected the project-based approach. Thedesign

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Obregon; Kevin Hall

mechanisms; and to facilitate communication between the group of users that constitutethe ‘learning community’ at which the product is focused” (p. 2). Providing interactiveopportunities is always problem in education, either because of resources required or resourcesnot available. Usually laboratories are seen as the principal method for fostering interactivity. Asall educators know, laboratories require equipment, constant maintenance, and upgrading.Instructional designers recognize that physical laboratories are not the only method for fosteringan interactive environment. Hallet (2001) writes, “Flexible, web-based tools allow decision-makers to interact with data. New Java-based visualization tools allow decision- makers tointeract with the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bassem Ramadan; Karim Nasr

generated for this project are directly linked tothermodynamic principles and to the educational modules being developed. The simulations areto be used for just-in-time demonstrations as multimedia animations. With the use of theseanimations and presentations, fluid flow phenomena and thermodynamic processes that occur incomplicated engineering systems could be demonstrated and explained using a virtual laboratory.Students would benefit from having these presentations available to them to view and reviewwithout having to be in a laboratory, or to repeat an experiment. In addition, modules will beincorporated into these presentations that would require students to interactively performhomework assignments and to test their knowledge in

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

satisfaction with academic facilities, such as classroom and Academic Facilities laboratories, and services, such as academic advising. Since engineering is and Services an applied science, satisfaction with academic facilities and services plays a critical role in persistence. Seymour identified inadequate advising; concerns with teaching, labs, or recitation support; and poor facilities as persistence factors [9,10]. Astin also found that engineering majors reported poor satisfaction with individual support services, such as career counseling, academic advising, and academic assistance [17