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Lean Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hughes; Alok Verma

experience - both theoretical and practical - in the variousaspects of a skilled trade. Today's apprentices are fully trained, well-paid men andwomen acquiring skills and knowledge that will serve them well throughout their careers. The Apprentice School of Northrop Grumman Newport News offers four-year,tuition-free apprenticeships in 17 skilled trades to qualified men and women. Apprenticeswork a regular 40- hour week and are paid for all work, including time spent in academicclasses. Two optional design and production planning apprenticeship programs areavailable for selected apprentices after completion of required academics and about twoyears in craft training. The five-year design program prepares individuals in one of sixdesign

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

Flying Car! HighSchool Student Competition. The submission deadline is April 1 for both competitions. Inaddition to cash awards and activities, winning vehicle designs will be considered forreproduction as a model and given to the school as memento. More information about thecompetitions is on the website http://avst.larc.nasa.gov.8. Summary of NASA’s Education and Research ProgramsAs a government agency, NASA offers many government-sponsored educational programs.These programs include internships such as the Federal Career Intern Program, the PresidentialManagement Intern (PMI) Program; cooperative education programs such as the Student CareerExperience Program (SCEP); and other programs such as the Student Temporary EmploymentProgram (STEP

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ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Litwhiler

://www.dalsemi.com/TechBriefs/tb1.htm8. Litwhiler, D.H., “A Versatile LabVIEW Environment for Communicating with Dallas/Maxim1-Wire Devices,” submitted for publication, ASEE Computers in Education Journal.9. Awtrey, D., “A 1-Wire Humidity Sensor,” August 2000, Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 8.BiographyDALE H. LITWHILERDale H. Litwhiler is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College in Reading, PA. He receivedhis B.S. from Penn State University (1984), his M.S. from Syracuse University (1989) and his Ph.D. from LehighUniversity (2000) all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career in 2002, he worked with IBMFederal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby

article presents our recent experiences with the GLOBETECH project, and aims toencourage engineering schools from all over to participate in this, or similar projects.Introduction We read daily in the press, or see on the TV news, about new subsidiaries of transnationalUS companies opening up, or enlarging operations in various countries of the world, mainly inSouth East Asia. What does this mean for our future engineers, here in the United States? Howthis continuous, accelerating drain of engineering and manufacturing jobs out of the USA willaffect their careers? How can we best prepare our students to compete in these new conditionsfacing them? Do we provide the right tools for professional success? We have to ask ourselvesthese

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Puzzlebusters, Enigmatics Press, 1992.2. Gardner, M., The Colossal Book of Mathematics, Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems, W.W. Nortonand Company, 2001.3. ---, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles, Dover Publications, Inc., 1986.4. ---, Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions, University of Chicago Press, 19885. Landis, R., Studying Engineering, A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, Discovery Press, 2000.6. Raviv, D., “Learning Systematic Problem Solving: Case Studies”, American Society of Engineering Education(ASEE), National conference, Tennessee, June 2003.7. ---, “Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking,” Cutting Ed (formerly, Creativity, Innovation,and Design (CID) Report), November 2003. Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

relating to quality control education were identified. The followingrecommendations are made considering this input: • Provide additional coverage of the most common applications in quality such as capability studies, statistical process control, and gage control. These areas should be practiced enough to become second nature so that students are ready to apply them as they begin their careers. • Supplement problem solving with hands on exercises that encompass the entire process. If a laboratory section is not included in the course, bring sample parts to Page 9.416.7

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jones; Beth Tieszen; Dennis Schulte; Ann Koopmann

biological systems. He has received several college and national teachingawards and received the Holling Family Master Teacher Award in the College of Engineering & Technology. Hehas a BS and MS in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University and PhD from Oklahoma StateUniversity.Ann Koopmann, MAAnn is Director of College Relations/Student Programs in the College of Engineering & Technology. She teachesthe freshmen and sophomore seminar courses, which focus on college acclimation and career planning. She plansmajor recruitment and outreach events, and oversees the College’s Cooperative Education program. She has a BAin Communication and a MA in Educational Psychology from the University of Nebraska.Beth TieszenBeth is a senior

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

to apply their electrical engineering and broad academic backgrounds in their professional and personal endeavors. 2. Can adapt to evolving job responsibilities. 3. Can contribute effectively on a team and provide leadership in their professional careers. Table 1 – USD Electrical Engineering Program Educational ObjectivesMeeting at least twice per year helped the advisory board to maintain regular contact with theprogram and to develop a team approach to its work. Once the educational objectives wereestablished, however, there was no need to continue to update them twice per year. A new focusof activities was needed. In 2002

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Marcus O. Durham; Robert A. Durham; Rosemary Durham

blame the oil companies for high gas prices after my researching and discovering thetruth has given me a better insight into the approach many politicians take to manipulate theuninformed. You have given me confidence this semester. Believe it or not, I used to be very,very quiet and reserved, and the work you have done with me has given me confidence in myown abilities and really freed me to explore leadership roles, whereas before I would have hiddenas support. I have discovered an absolute love of public speaking and have decided that I wouldlike to do conference teaching/speaking in some capacity in my career. Because of your positiveinfluence, I can now get up in front of a crowd, presentation unprepared and unpracticed and stillpull off a

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

George D. Gray; Raju Dandu

that willenhance the image of high technology and manufacturing careers while at the same timeintegrating and articulating with university programs to provide growth and lifelong learningpotential for its students.Historical BackgroundWichita Area Technical College is a two-year, degree granting, public institution serving theWichita, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). WATC operates under the jurisdiction ofthe Kansas Board of Regents. The actual roots of the institution can be traced back to the late1800’s and early 1900’s when courses in manual training, commerce and domestic arts wereoffered to high school students during the day at the local high school and to adults at nightthrough “Lamplight” classes now referred to as

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

B. Terry Beck; David A. Pacey

thelarge number of industrial research, product development and testing applications thatengineering students may encounter as they start their careers, requires that the studentshave a good working knowledge of such techniques. For the most part these applicationswill involve some form of automated (computerized) data collection and data reduction.Hence, it is a necessity that students gain laboratory experience with a wide variety ofcomputerized data acquisition principles, which include Analog to Digital (A/D)conversion, and statistical sampling procedures.The need to employ statistical sampling is not new, but is even more important in modernmeasurement applications that may involve real-time process assessment and evaluationof numerous time

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dale N. Buechler

admission requirements to ours who are most likelydealing with similar issues. The trends seen here will hopefully be used to help at-risk studentsearly in their career. The criteria in table 7 should provide a starting point. In this study, itappears that some courses are more important than others for all engineers to succeed in theirundergraduate work. From this study the mathematics portion of this more important list shouldinclude algebra, trigonometry, calculus I, and analytical methods for engineers. However,additional classes need to be added to this list for certain programs or specialty areas within aprogram and this list would need to be made known to the students. Our data indicates thatCalculus II and Calculus III, although very

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Finally, based on twenty plus years of experience in education and by constant interactionwith fellow educators in other universities, we feel that Motivation and pride both seem to be not at the level that they used to be about 10 years ago. Technology has helped the education in a number of ways, but also has decreased the “appetite” for motivation in some areas including the “feel for urgency”. For example, when I started my teaching career students frequently visited my office to express their concerns about not performing well and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

subject areas: • Motivation for including ethics in the curriculum • Tools or skills participants feel are essential to include in an ethics education • Perceptions of preparedness to face ethical issues in career • Where students feel they received ethical training inside and outside of the classroom. • The effect of Smith and the engineering program on students’ thinking about ethicsEach of these is discussed in turn, followed by a summary of the recommendations andbrainstorms of the focus group.III. ResultsA. Motivation for an Ethics component in the engineering curriculumStudents seemed to have a clear understanding of some of the reasons for incorporating ethics inthe engineering curriculum. In general they raised three

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

Society for Engineeringthe program impacts the way the CEOs think about their careers, their destinies, and theirability to start businesses.The target audience is primarily juniors and seniors, along with some exceptionalsophomores, and the program size is limited to about 100 students to help build a tight-knit community. The program elements are structured around a comprehensive group ofactivities and state-of-the-art facilities designed to provide a rich and supportiveenvironment for learning about entrepreneurship, forming teams, starting companies andsharing lessons learned. These include: • A dynamic community environment that is centered around a residence hall where all Hinman CEOs live and interact closely • An incubator-like

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

for urgency of reform of undergraduate engineeringeducation to better prepare young engineering students for entry into engineering practice,22 urgency ofreform exists within graduate engineering education as well. But reform is not to change traditionalresearch-based graduate education, which is “excellent” for its intended purpose to prepare futureacademic researchers in the context of inquiry-based learning. The need for graduate reform is to build a Page 9.826.9new type of post-baccalaureate professional graduate education that better supports the career-long “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Page 9.685.3“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”internalization of social signs, and of the internalization of culture and of social interactions”10.Thus, epistemologically, knowledge and understanding are personal but socially constructed bythe learner.As students progress through the program they will have repeated practice at developing the so-called career skills of teamwork and communication in addition to enhancing their engineeringcontent knowledge. According to Reynold’s11 model of developing competency, consistent andreliable performance of a skill occurs after a number of attempts

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

faculty are largely deficient in the practices of engineering and have little or no firsthand knowledge or experience to pass on to students being educated for careers in engineering practice as opposed to research. Systemic engineering education reform is at least partially dependent on the resolution of this and other interrelated problems;85Professor Splitt has apparently raised the ironic possibility of unethical academic resistance toimplementing (by way of EC2000) the study of ethics into engineering curricula.Recapitulating, the literature indicates considerable interest in ethics and unethical conduct isdetrimental to higher education, the practice of engineering and engineering education. Throughits

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

the AustralasianEngineering Education Conference in 1998: • Legislators (in public institutions) • National Science Foundation: Career Development Award, Shaping the Future • Professional Accreditation – ABET: Assessment, Synthesis & Design • Financial – especially the growing gap between the falling public support and the rising costs • Employers and Workforce Development Agencies: Workplace Basics, Global Engineer • University Administration Professional Organizations: Renewing the Covenant, Greater Expectations • Boyer Commission Reports: Educating Undergraduates in the Research Universities, Scholarship Reconsidered • Educational Research: Active, Interactive &

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

introduce undergraduate students to, andencourage them to pursue, careers in research. Both traditional and innovative methods wereused to access this goal. A REU homepage(http://www.eng.uc.edu/dept_cee/undergrad/research/ucreu/) was developed to inform studentsoutside UC about the program, to present summaries of research projects completed, and

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

RatingSome of the more interesting or useful anecdotal comments included using a factory buildingpowered by water, changing the theme from semester to semester (which in fact is done),showing the development of some of the software used in the projects, and having a greater“connection between the background of each project and the theme, like a continuing budgetthroughout the term”.A very successful approach has been used to connect the five projects of thermal design coursesthrough the use of a theme. In addition to increasing students’ interest and enhancing theirlearning, the themes allow the introduction of engineering activities and careers that might not benormally covered in a mechanical engineering curriculum. More details concerning

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

processes, the ability to identify, analyze, andsolve technical problems, and a commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuousimprovement.In Manufacturing Engineering Technology, for example, the objective of an accreditablebaccalaureate degree program in manufacturing engineering technology will preparegraduates with the technical skills necessary to enter careers in process and systemsdesign, manufacturing operations, maintenance, technical sales or service functions in amanufacturing enterprise. Graduates, in this program, must demonstrate the ability toapply the technologies of materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, automation,production operations, maintenance, quality, industrial organization and management,and statistics to the

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Ibrahim Karaman; Jeff Froyd; Terry Creasy; Winfried Teizer

increase as the scientificunderstanding of the students increases through their undergraduate career. In addition tocontent changes, curriculum changes will use pedagogical innovations advocated by the NSF-funded Foundation Coalition (FC), one of eight engineering education coalitions:active/cooperative learning, technology-enabled learning and student teams. Further, theprincipal investigators will use the lessons about processes of curricular change gained from theFC experiences. As a result, many engineering students will become better acquainted with thepossibilities offered by nanotechnology, and some engineering students will gain an in-depthunderstanding of nanoscale manufacturing processes.The envisioned curricular change has four

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Summers; Julie Phillips; Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ CertifiedQuality Engineer and a Registrar Accreditation Board Certified ISO 9000 Quality System Auditor.DONNA EVANECKYDonna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001after an eight-year career in quality management. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Managing Change,Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Health and Safety and Team Development for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision at the Kokomo, Indiana campus.NATHAN HARTERHarter has been an

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales

who wish to learn more about electronics without having to digest extensive theory and math. • Gets students building circuits from the start, with little theoretical introduction. • Lets students experience early in their careers the non-idealities of real-world engineering, and demonstrates the utility of simple rule-of-thumb design. • Appears to have students complete the subject with a positive impression of engineering as a field of study. • Can be readily taught by a graduate student or an advanced undergraduate, enabling large numbers of students to take the subject without taxing a limited (and over-worked) faculty and staff.Its weaknesses include that it: • Is somewhat more time consuming than

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

teaching effectiveness, consistent with accepted best practices inevaluation, and reliable, and does not impose undue time demands on the faculty. If it is part of amultiple-source assessment system of the type illustrated in Figure 1, it should provide anevaluation of teaching performance with a validity acceptable by any reasonable standard, butmore extensive testing will be required to confirm that hypothesis. The protocol also provides agood basis for formative evaluation, which if implemented in the first few years of a facultymember’s career should significantly increase the likelihood that a subsequent summative reviewwill be favorable.References 1. N. Van Note Chism, Peer Review of Teaching, Bolton, MA, Anker Publishing, 1999. 2. M

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

becomes a professionalengineer in industry. Why not expect the student to be a professional engineer during theiracademic career? Page 9.495.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2468Points Emphasized in a Symbolic Formulation The authors emphasize the following points when formulating a problem symbolically for in-class and out-of-class exercises:• Definition of Variables and their

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

normal CS curriculum.In many of the engineering disciplines, students may never have to program during theirundergraduate career with the exception of their intro programming course. However, theinclusion of a Botball collegiate game at the National Conference on Educational Robotics, nowencourages the students to keep their computer skills active as they prepare for the Summertournament. We believe that the use of robots as a teaching tool early in the engineeringcurriculum will both improve computer skills for non-CS engineers, and will also increase thenumber of students interested in pursuing computer science. Page 9.261.98 Course

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

as emphasized above making their way into our construction materials, systems and construction operations classes so that we cover composite materials, CFRP laminates, etc.• We have enough use of the software that has proved to be of essential for construction graduates to build upon further in their respective careers in the future.Is what we are doing an adequate response to the expectations? Probably not, but given theinherent resistance to change and comfort associated with the traditional, it is to be expectedthat the pace of change will be slow. To name a few items, we are still lacking adequatecoverage for: Environmental issues and basic environmental engineering concepts

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

“real world” as is possible in an academicenvironment.This paper describes experiences in a “Software Factory” class that is the culminatingexperience for majors in Computing Studies at Arizona State University (ASU) East. Inorder to provide experiences that prepare students for careers as software engineers, webelieve the following aspects of the course are vital: ‚ Students should work on real projects with real customers. ‚ Students should follow real processes to develop and/or maintain software artifacts.Traditional academic software projects, even team projects, often do not provide arealistic software development experience. Typically, their results are not exercised byreal customers, and the resulting code is never enhanced