Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

students a basis for further work in STEM fields at some later date, therebyexpanding student options rather than closing them off.4Other recommendations for reform of the undergraduate STEM curriculum focus oninvestigative learning, technology, laboratory experience, and collaborative work. Programs thathave provided students an opportunity to engage in hands-on, real-world projects have beensuccessful in increasing female enrollment and retention.1 Establishing the relevance and socialvalue of these fields is another effective retention strategy. Smith College, Rensselaer Page 9.294.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

Session 3692 The feminist engineering classroom: a vision for future educational innovations Alice L. Pawley The Delta Program for Research, Teaching and Learning University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractIn the quest for the gender equalization of the engineering profession, a variety of strategies arebeing developed and used in daily engineering education practice. Colleges and universities arerecruiting girls and women in increasing numbers into the so-called “engineering pipeline” byusing camps, special

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Engineering Education Reform”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 12. Wulf, W.A., “Diversity in Engineering”, The Bridge, 28, 1998. 13. Rosser, S.V., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, mathematics, and Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 1995. 14. Campbell, J.R., C.M. Hombo and J. Mazzeo, NAEP 19999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance, 2000. 15. Burkham, D.T., V.E. Lee and B.A. Smerdon, “Gender and Science Learning Early in High School subject Matter and Laboratory Experiences”, American Educational Research Journal, 24, 297- 331, 1997. 16. Campbell, P.B. and K. Steinbrueck, Striving

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

laboratories usedin traditional engineering courses.Many of the examples currently used in Engineering curricula seem better suited to the "GreatestGeneration" than to the students in school today. While some of these examples are stilleducationally sound, twenty-first century students need twenty-first century examples. Ourexperiments are intended to promote learning through guided inquiry. There is a constant battlein educational circles between traditional explicit instruction where students are told what theyneed to know and then expected to know it and discovery learning where students are given afew parameters and then given the chance to “play” and figure out the way things work. Theformer seems more expedient and most engineering faculty seem

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

educational enterprise.To keep engineering courses relevant, faculty often bring in current topics to their undergraduateclasses. In the ideal world (or department), faculty engaged in research will teach undergraduatecourses in the same discipline area. Bringing in research work performed by undergraduatestudents into undergraduate courses has the important benefit that the coursework is still fresh inthe undergraduate student's mind. The key benefit a faculty member has when integratingresearch results from undergraduate students is by observing how the undergraduate researchstudents learn the necessary research material based on the foundation concepts originally usedin the classroom. From these observations, the faculty mentor can determine the

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

of all teams focused directly on the undergraduate Page 9.123.4program. Experience with this mode of operation has resulted in some teams being subsumed by Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationothers while entirely new teams were been created to fill gaps in the original team structure. Thecurrent structure is composed of ten teams; Undergraduate Curriculum Improvement,Laboratory Improvement, Design in the Curriculum, Innovation in Teaching, Overall CurriculumContent, External Data

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

technology, aviation (including professional pilot), and business. Theacademic programs are designed to directly prepare participants for the world of work,and the programs are very application oriented and laboratory intensive. KSU-Salinastudents learn by doing. Over the last five years, the college has placed 96% of itsgraduates, and each year several employers actively recruit on campus.With the size of the campus, the diversity of study, and the large number of activeentrepreneurs in the local community, this campus provides the ideal environment forimplementation of a broad-based entrepreneurial transformation. With very little fanfare,this transformation has already begun and will continue to be implemented, untilentrepreneurship permeates

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

, communications, etc. in the form of a course. Teaching these skills in isolation of theprofessional practice of engineering has been shown to be a less-than-ideal approach. In contrast,the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and EmoryUniversity has chosen to develop an approach in which these skills are developed in the studentsthrough the use of problem-based learning (PBL) experiences infused throughout the curriculum.Separate problem-based learning courses are positioned in the first and second years. PBLexperiences are incorporated into instructional laboratories associated with third-year systemsphysiology and biomedical sensors courses. The curriculum culminates with a two-semestersenior design course sequence

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

address these issues. TheWPI ECE Department instituted a sophomore-level course entitled “ECE Design” with thespecific intent of better preparing students for their senior capstone design projects, both byreinforcing fundamental concepts and by leading the students through a formal design processwith emphasis on the process itself. The course is run as a simulated business, with facultyserving as “Engineering Managers” who teach the process of design and manage the learningexperience. The students are placed in 3-person design teams reporting to undergraduate “SeniorEngineers”, who help guide them through an open-ended design of a useful product, from marketresearch to demonstration of a working prototype. The students are given a working budget

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 3. Details of the Membrane Electrode AssemblyManufacturing IssuesReliable, functional fuel cell systems can be built and installed today; in fact, the SolarPhotovoltaic Laboratory building at ASU-East is powered by a prototype fuel cell system thathas produced over 12 MW-hrs in the past 6 months, with no maintenance. The main issue inusing fuel cells is cost. A fuel cell stack, without the 'balance of plant', today costs about $2000-$3000/kw. To become competitive in the marketplace for more general use, complete stationarysystems with

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

Session 3654 Turning Engineers into Entrepreneurs – And Transforming a Region Carmo D’Cruz, Tom O’Neal University of Central FloridaAbstractEngineers are excellent sources of high-growth potential entrepreneurial ventures with theircreative product and technology ideas, in various disciplines. However, academia in general hasnot effectively developed this resource.This paper reviews contemporary literature on teaching of entrepreneurship and describes aninnovative, holistic Engineering Entrepreneurship program backed by the resources and activitiesof a technology incubator

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

Session VERSATILE, LOW COST ELECTRONICS LAB PROTOBOARD Timothy C. Scott, Kevin L. Knight University of VirginiaAbstractPurchased equipment for teaching basic electronics can be expensive. It may also be delicateand, in the case of many prototyping circuit boards, so small that students have troublevisualizing the circuit before them and instructors cannot easily figure out what the student hasdone wrong when asked for help. This paper describes a versatile circuit board system that canbe built for about $100 in parts. It contains its own DC power supply, voltmeters, and

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

limitations and the ability to manage the process. The use of calculation softwarefacilitates this process and allows students to produce more robust designs. This paper outlinesthe advantages of employing industry-standard calculation software within undergraduatecurricula on mechanical design.Author’s BackgroundThe author of this paper is a professor emeritus of engineering technology at the University ofDayton in Dayton, Ohio. He started his academic career in 1966 teaching a variety of courses inthe Mechanical Engineering Technology program and he continues to teach to this day. Besidesthe course in Design of Machine Elements, he has taught most of the major courses in theprogram and has contributed to the development of the curriculum and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

that are available anytime, anyplace.Teachers, students and faculty can now utilize the environment provided by digital libraries totransform the way we teach and learn. Various contents can now be shared, integrated andcustomized to enhance learning. Educators are no longer tied to static graphics and text but cancustomize media-rich (interactive visualizations, simulations, speech, sound, text, etc.) contentfrom a large repository to produce dynamic, engaging educational materials.Delivery of instructional materials is no longer confined to real estate and scheduling but can bedelivered anytime, any place using a variety of digital devices – desktop and laptop computers,PC Tablets, mobile phones, PDAs, webpads and consoles. Users can form on

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

Page 9.1357.1 Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationController (PLC) will have at least two of the three aforementioned sequencer functions.The objective of this paper is to illustrate how to: (1) teach students to configure the SequencerOutput function (SQO), (2) illustrate to the students in lab the use of sequencer output function(SQO) in process and industrial control, (3) use the timer function to insert constant timeintervals between the sequencer steps, (4) teach students to use two sequencer functions and onetimer function to create a sequencer routine with variable time intervals between its steps, (5)configure the Sequencer Load function (SQL), (6) configure the Sequencer Compare function

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

troubleshooting topics from each of the two prior courses. The ABEToutline has several lecture/lab course patterns, primarily to allow flexibility in teaching thecourse at both the main West Lafayette campus and at Purdue’s 2-year statewide sites.The initial project for the course was a low-power digital DC voltmeter with three input ranges,using standard CMOS ICs. The Intersil 7106/7136 ICs were used, along with their secondarysources from Maxim and Microchip. These ICs incorporate input signal controls, dual-slopeA/D conversion, and direct LCD drive. In the development of the project the students completethese tasks throughout the semester in the order listed: • Receive the performance specifications for the project • Receive the hardware

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

were composed of both ME and IE students. In 1991 after retiring from Shell (anda career as a drilling engineer and with many years experience working in Shell’s internaltraining programs), Ross Kastor was hired as a lecturer to teach the class. Five years agothe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) added the course as adegree requirement for all students entering in the fall 1998 and thereafter. Since thensome ECE students have taken the course as an elective. That number has grown over the Page 9.805.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

recommendations in the accreditation report.The accreditation is valuable not only to the institution and its faculty but also to thestudents 1.The value of the accreditation for faculty members is the enjoyment and professionalpride of teaching courses of an accredited program. Accreditation provides both apersonal and professional opportunity to work towards educational improvement. Theevaluation experience affords the opportunity for the administration and faculty toconduct and to receive a rigorous analysis of present conditions so that needed changesmay be carefully planned.Students are most affected by accreditation since they are the central focus of theeducational process. Accreditation assures them that their needs are being met through aquality

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

). Additionally, thereis a unique research opportunity for both educator and NASA career employees in the NASAAdministrator's Fellow Program (NAFP).NAFP Program The NAFP program provides opportunities for both NASA employees and theMathematics, Science, Engineering, and Technology (MSET) faculty of Minority ServingInstitutions (MSIs). The NAFP program is designed to enhance the professional development ofthe participants. Furthermore, NAFP program assists NASA by increasing the ability of theparticipating MSIs to respond to its overall research and development mission. The NAFP hasbeen successfully implemented since 1997, with participants from all NASA Centers, JetPropulsion Laboratory, and MSIs, which are listed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

guarantee for admission to the M.S. in computer engineering program.Increased marketing has led to increased off campus enrollment, which was to be expected butdoes pose a problem for the instructors of the courses. The two courses with the highest offcampus enrollments are Information System Security and Information Warfare, each withtypically over 60 off campus students. The former has several large projects which creates agrading increase for the instructor. The department has provided Teaching Assistants (TA) tohelp with the overload. Information Warfare has a lab component with one large “break-in” labthat lasts several weeks. Since the labs are all designed to be accessed over the internet the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajan B Gujjarlapudi; Kaushik Hatti; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

Engineering EducationLiterature reviewMost of the literature required for the project, books and journals were suggested by the expert,in this case Mr. Kaushik Hatti working as a Teaching Assistant for the Organic lab at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. The most useful book in this project was The ExperimentalOrganic Chemistry by Gilbert and Martin 5. Other books which were helpful in this case wereExperimental Organic Chemistry by Daniel R. Palleros. Many important points were noted downfrom the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual by Dr. Mark C. Morvant.10Most of critical information required for this project was obtained from Gilbert and Martin 5which addresses a critical need faced by researchers in all fields of the human sciences - how

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey

halves,the first part on analog electronics, and the second on digital circuits. This separation achievesthree things. First, as at most institutions with IT programs, many of our students transfer intoour program from other institutions or programs, and they have had either analog or digitalelectronics before beginning study with us. By splitting the course in half, the students are ableto take only the portion in which they are deficient. The second thing that is achieved by thisbifurcated course, is that the analog portion is deemphasized, while still being sufficientpreparation for the other courses in the curriculum. In effect the course teaches in ½ semesterwhat is normally taught in 1 to 2 semesters. Admittedly, some material that is

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

, machine vision, robotics, learning systems, neural networks, and controls.H. JOEL LENOIRH. Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamicsystems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at MichelinResearch and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design andmanufacturing firms.Address: 1 Big Red Way, Department of Engineering, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101;email: mark.cambron@wku.edu or joel.lenoir@wku.edu Page 9.813.8 Proceedings of the 2004

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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

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

analysis tools must be used efficiently in engineering core courses so that teachingof fundamentals is not compromised. This paper describes a shaft design project assigned in ajunior level machine design course, and compares the teaching effectiveness of a traditionalanalysis by “hand” versus a computational approach using COSMOS/Works. Both approachesare found to be beneficial for student learning, and the experience suggests that a finite elementanalysis tool complements, but does not replace, traditional analysis techniques in the classroom.IntroductionThe use of modern computational tools in an undergraduate curriculum is a necessary componentof today’s engineering education. Introduction of new topics or techniques inevitably creates

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

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

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

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

. Page 9.379.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering7. Analyze Each SolutionEach solution was analyzed taking into account the needs of the industries as well as the practicalavailable resources for classrooms, laboratory space, supporting library, faculty and the timerequired to get an engineering program up and running. The department Chair, who also wasresponsible for assigning the various numerical values, conducted the study.Table 1: Summary of Type of Program AnalysesCriteria Weight Discipline BS in BSE with Discipline BS in BSE with specific General

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Engineering Educationuniversities, both engineering and non-engineering students take this course. Non-engineeringmajors choose Introduction to Engineering as an elective course to fulfill the scientificmethodology requirement of the current Core Curriculum at UNH. Historically, large numbersof non-engineering students take this course. The diversity of students in a particular class variesfrom section to section. It is not uncommon for freshmen engineering students to be in a classwith sophomore, junior or senior non-engineering majors.Evolution of Project-Based Version of the CoursePrior to the introduction of EAS107P in the curriculum, the structure of any particular section ofEAS107 was dependent on the faculty member teaching the course. Some