Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

. The reason is that the BC industry withits related areas covers some 8% of the population in Europe. This point to the fact that therewill be a need for more engineers with profound IT understanding as discussed in theprevious section.The curriculum should complement the existing portfolio of IT-education programs of thenine participating universities and must be able to meet the growing demand for such skills inthe European Union. The current implementation consists of 12 taught units (subjects) and adissertation element. The curriculum is being developed in such a way that courses will beoffered from several universities in a conventional way (face-to-face) as well as in a web-based, distance learning form. It was planned to start the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Das

software. They alsohave acknowledged enhanced learning. The higher test scores on this particular topic beartestimony of enhanced learning. Page 9.1354.10Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAlthough no specific feedback information as to teamwork experience was asked in the survey,the author plans to include a specific question on this matter next time. Informal inquiry with thestudents has, however, revealed a positive response from the students.The author also plans to do the following as future measures, in order

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

facilitated by the recent changes to accreditation standards by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.In addition to reform that restructures the first-year engineering curriculum to engage thestudents through inquiry, real-world applications, and social relevance, admissions reform isstarting to reshape the face of the engineering student body. Carnegie Mellon Universityadjusted its admissions criteria to reflect its research that prior computing experience did notpredict academic success by removing its strong preference for highly experienced applicants. In2001, the University of California system adopted an admissions plan that guarantees provisionalUniversity admission to all students in the top 12.5% of every high-school class

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

teams will develop test plans fortheir fabricated ICs, and then execute the measurements in a state-of-the-art RF laboratory.At the end of the second term students will present their designs and measured results duringa final project review. After completing the two-semester sequence, students will haveexperienced the RFIC design and fabrication process first hand, working in teams to developIC designs and test plans, and will have acquired highly marketable skills for careers inRF/microwave engineering and IC design.In addition a new senior/first-year-graduate-level (4000-level) Analog VLSI course is beingdeveloped by the primary author that will ultimately become a pre-requisite for the RFICDesign course along with the previously mentioned RF

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turner Stuart; Cary Fisher; Jason Bartolomei

responsibility, withsub-teams of the interdisciplinary curriculum design team focusing on individual courses. Theentire design team reviews the overall course plans to ensure logical integration of topics andconvergence among the courses in the sequence. In addition, this integration and reviewfunction guides the development of new courses. Page 9.1392.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe first course in the system engineering course sequence is a graduation requirement for

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

span distance and crossing speed when supporting the M1 Abrams main battle tank. Although a newer model of AVLB has been released, the M104 Wolverine Heavy Assault Bridge, it will not be produced in sufficient quantity to replace the older models. A plan to recapitalize the older models is ongoing and includes significant upgrades to the chassis and new bridges with longer spans and higher load ratings. • The topic can be used as an introduction to ethical issues, including the personal ethics related to working on weapons systems. Page 9.71.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Fernandez

and proposes thedevelopment model shown in Figure 1 below4. One can see some overlap with a simplifiedspiral life cycle model within software engineering. However, HCI is user-centered developmentrather than data-centered. HCI involves users in the process of development as much as possiblewith the goal of creating an interactive system that meets individual users’ expectations.6 Plan the human centered process Complete Specify the context of use Evaluate designs Specify user and against

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

Exhibitors at the USP 2003 conference included, AmericanProduction and Inventory Control Society (APICS), Sprint, Invensys, Bosch, NoaberFoundation, United Parcel Service (UPS), Electronic Data Systems (EDS), DelphiCorporation, WorldChain, PeopleSoft, WebEx, Cordys, and Riley Media.The faculty and students of the IMEB department planned and organized the event over aone year period. The challenge was to enable the broadest possible attendance ofeducators, students, and government & company executives from various countries andto get support for the event within the context of a difficult world economic situation anda heightened security situation for attendees’ travel. Prior synergies developed throughthe USP platform led to the creation of the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Heising; Mary Goodwin

requirement is the multicultural society of the United States. Courses or alternative academic work used to meet the requirement address significant manifestations of human diversity and provide students with insights that enhance their understanding of diversity among people in the U.S.Approval was received in the fall of 2002, and the course was slated for first delivery for thespring 2003 semester. At this time, the authors plan to continually offer the class each springsemester. It was decided that the course would be capped at 30 students, and that the course bepopulated by an equal number of men and women engineering students. As an official industrial

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andy Blauch; Hugh Jack

. By the end of Lab 6 students are able to design and build a sophisticatedmotion control systems, including deadband compensation, an interrupt driven feedback loop, set-point planning and scheduling with a simple user interface. The remainder of the laboratory workexpands the basic controller knowledge into areas that are more practical and/or theoretical. Page 9.68.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Lab 1 - Analog I/O with the 68HC11 - Review material from EGR 226 and use the

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul

market analysis and financial plan. These proposals also allow teams to revise their plans for the remainder of the term. 9. Each team reviews the other product proposals. 10. Finally, students submit a final product proposal and make a final presentation.The initial stages of the product proposal have been adapted as an extended project in a non-majors’ course19, and have been proposed as a framework for a first-year writing seminar.Having each student develop a product concept has several advantages. First, all students havethe experience of developing an idea. Second, there is a larger pool of potential ideas, fromwhich the instructor can select those most appropriate and feasible in terms of scope, cost, etc.Third, team assignments

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

all theirrequirements for graduation in this single semester. In addition to providing assignedlaboratory periods for the project, the design course also explores project management Page 9.1147.5practices, construction practices, shop fabrication practices, and engineering ethicalstudies. The spring semester can be described easily by the word “hectic”. For manystudents this is the first time that they have constructed something of their own design –and many find that things do not go quite as smoothly as planned. Faculty interactionrequirements can be intense as students experience the difference between theoretical andapplied engineering

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Erekson

a Strong Engineering Workforce2. An analysis of ACT data found that thepercentage of high school seniors who took the ACT test and reported plans to major in Page 9.1221.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering in college has declined from 8.6% in 1992 to 5.6% in 2002 (Noeth, Cruce, &Harmston, 2003, p. vi). The declining number of high school students who plan to major inengineering exacerbates the workforce situation noted by the National Science Board. Comprehensive

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Levenburg; Paul Lane; John Farris

first the committee attempted to create a minor bypackaging existing courses. Once the committee understood that a combination oftraditional business and engineering courses would not add up to a coherent plan ofstudy, the committee decided to step back and reexamine their assumptions.Since faculty from the business and engineering schools made up the committee, it wasassumed that business and engineering students would populate the entrepreneurshipprogram. As discussion unfolded, many committee members shared anecdotalinformation about non-engineering and non-business students who were interested instarting their own businesses or had ideas for new products. The committee alsodiscussed the whether to offer a minor or a major program. A survey

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

challenge, but it was accomplishedwith minor downscaling from initial plans. Student satisfaction with the course was increased,and retention numbers will be compared as they come available.IntroductionTulane University, a private university located in New Orleans, typically enrolls approximatelytwo hundred freshmen stating an intention to study one of the fields of engineering. The vast Page 9.721.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmajority of these students’ freshman schedule is dominated

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott DeLoach; Eric Matson

students, towork together and escape the circle. In this exercise, the multi-agent team, of humansand robot, works together to supply attributes each possesses to achieve the goal ofescape. The strong attributes of the robot as the central device and the humans asnavigators and thinkers are employed. The experiment is performed with combinationsof the robot and 1 to 4 humans. Each iteration yields a discussion to determine if adding anew person was a help or a hindrance to the team. The performance is evaluated by thelength of time it took to exit the circle. The effect of the team’s organization and how theteam plans are discussed. By conducting this set of experiments, we can also teach asimple example of the scientific process and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

that have already been discussed as well as those that are to follow. This implies that the course leader must make up the entire course outline and make it well known to all of the teachers involved. Usually a short phone conversation to discuss what each person is planning to present is also valuable for focusing the guest on his or her part of the total course.2. The guest wants to discuss a spectacular and recent special case instead of covering the basics. It is indeed human for industrial persons to want to talk about their most recent successes; it is sometimes easier for them as well - especially if they have recently prepared a talk on this for other purposes. So far, the best solution found for this is a sort of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

Prototyping Technology at TTUAlthough neither the current TTU curriculum nor any other school in the state of Tennessee hadan educational RP laboratory to practice10, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro,TN has recently purchased some rapid prototyping machines for their machine tool technologylab. These machines were planned to be used in industrial projects and senior level capstonecourses11.At TTU, all the CAD design labs are currently done with AutoCAD2002 in the computer lab,and the CNC production labs cover only Milling and Turning Processes practicing CNCez andMasterCAM. Establishing the RP laboratory and enhancing the current courses with RP help thecourse instructor to convey the cutting edge technology to current students in

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Molu Olumolade

thequality of the program and hence the quality of the collegeIn the wake of the recent economic crunch, a new challenge is evolving for engineeringtechnology programs in some areas of the nation. It is becoming harder to obtain industrialinternships for students in order to maintain engineering technology’s reputation and philosophyas a profession where knowledge of mathematics, physical and social sciences, and engineeringis applied to planning, design and implementation of products and processes. It is very apparentthat measures have to be taken to ensure that student learning is active and embeds hands onapplications. The ripple effect of this challenge is less quality education that may lead tograduate unemployability, low enrollment, and hence

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

established.The paper describes development of the Safety and Fire Engineering Technology program,institutional response to community needs, curriculum, facilities including laboratories andsimulation programs, student background, and depicts program growth. Finally, conclusionsdescribe reasons for success of the program and future plans for continued development.IntroductionThis paper describes the Safety and Fire Protection Engineering Technology program at theUniversity of Houston-Downtown (UHD). The historical development of the program isdescribed to emphasize how UHD meets the needs of the community. The objectives of the Page 9.906.1program were

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

Session xxxx Don’t Give Up Good “Teaching Principles” To Teach Ethics Robert J. Houghtalen, P.E., Gloria M. Rogers Department of Civil Engineering / Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractTeaching engineering students professional ethics is a challenge. Most of our students thinkethics is common sense and does not need to be taught. Furthermore, the topic is not easy tomake interesting. However, principles of good teaching can be applied to any topic, includingthis one. This paper explores two ways to teach professional ethics; one way is

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chintan Parekh; Anthony Warren; Elizabeth Kisenwether

State’s Hershey Medical Center. The objectives for the four student teams in theFall 2003 pilot course was to: 1) to understand the two inventions and related patents, license andoption agreement and 2) to suggest methods to bridge the chasm between these key players inthe technology commercialization process 3) be technology commercialization “agents” for thetwo inventions.This paper reviews details of course format, results from the Fall 2003 semester’s work, andprogress to date in the Spring 2004 course. In addition, the plan for assessment is summarizedwhich investigates student growth in entrepreneurial and technology transfer skills and teamwork.IntroductionThe Market-Pull Technology Commercialization course was developed and co-taught by

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

. Develop problem solving skills. 6. Demonstrate leadership and team membership skills. 7. Take part in departmental and SME professional experiences. 8. Develop documentation for fulfillment of the requirements for a senior capstone.Course requirements include attendance to class and team meetings, individual journal recordingfor each and professional meeting including sketches, names of contact and resource personsincluding vendors, problems encountered, tasks to be completed, time spent on each activities,and plans for future activities driven by the Gantt chart for the entire project. Three teamprogress reports per quarter are expected to be delivered through PowerPoint presentation beforethe advisors and the class. First

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

of theexperiments did improve their analytical skills while being neutral on whether it helpedlearn effective controller operation or troubleshooting. The complete set of studentresponses is available on the web at http://chem.engr.utc.edu/ASEE/2004/Table 3. Results from UTC SurveyIn the items below, mark how much you think you have been helped byremote operation of laboratory equipment of access to data and graphs on Responsethe web: Avg ± SD1 General familiarity with engineering controls equipment, controller design and planning 3.2 ± 1.12* Effective teamwork techniques

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

. The Director of Pre-College Programs for the College ofEngineering and Science (Dan Maggio) provides the coordination and scheduling functions.Project TimelineThe table shown below provides the schedule of offerings of these pre-college outreachprograms from the beginning. Note that the DAPCEP program as a whole began much earlier,and that the table indicates the first offering of the DAPCEP mechatronics course. The firstoffering of each of these programs was preceded by approximately two to three months ofdevelopment and planning. The planning for subsequent offerings of each program also startsseveral months in advance, but the development time is greatly reduced for repeat offerings, asthe development is limited to program improvements

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

life-long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues (k) an ability to use techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice (l) promoting peace through the development of an individual plan for the life long cultivation of the qualities of compassion Here the whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved in one another. It is a call for caution and reflection upon the situations of others. (m) promoting peace through

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

really been fulfilling its stated purpose.This paper describes changes that have been made to help the course better achieve itsobjectives.The first change was to bring in a number of outside speakers who could relate their real worldlife experiences to those of the students. On a regular basis, we now bring into our classspeakers who give presentations on the following topics:! Experiences the engineer will face early in his career (by a recent graduate).! Experiences the engineer will face by the time he reaches mid career (by someone who has graduated 10-15 years ago).! Financial planning by a certified financial planner.! Intellectual property presentation by the university’s director of intellectual

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

material in the control ofaerospace systems. Modern aerospace systems range from piloted aircraft and interplanetaryspacecraft to unmanned autonomous vehicles to “smart” missiles, all of which depend heavily oncomputer control. In the design of such vehicles, decisions have to be made between conflictingaspects of performance, for example, having stability provided entirely by the structural andaerodynamic design or using computer systems to provide control for inherently unstablesystems. Also, modern aerospace systems are becoming more and more autonomous. Cruisemissiles can recognize terrain and landmarks and attack targets with ever increasing accuracy.Airliners such as the existing Boeing 777 and the planned Boeing 7X7 are optimized for

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

.) • Developmental Psychology of Adulthood (3 cr.) • Organizational Theory and Behavior (3cr.) • Communication and Human Relations in the Workplace (3 cr.) • Career Development of Professionals in Organizations (3 cr.) • Candidate Self-Assessment and Personal Planning (Total of 3 credits stranded in 1-credit increments during the program of study) (3 cr.) Total= 18 credits 2. Pedagogy/Androgogy: The following courses would provide the theoretical and skill bases for teaching in higher Education (Angelo, 1993: Brookfield, 1995; Cranton, 1994; Fink, 2003; Jonassen, 2000; Merriam, 1999; Mezirow, 1991: Schön, 1987). The course sequence in Pedagogy/Androgogy could be

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsetting up the problem correctly, one point was taken off for algebra errors, and three points weretaken off for each conceptual error. Students who did not formulate the problem received a scoreof zero.Specific Instruction in Problem Solving and ExplanationTo improve problem solving skills, we used specific instruction and explanation exercises. Onelecture was devoted to problem solving and metacognition. Polya’s four steps of understand,plan, execute, and reflect4 were presented, with specific emphasis on what is really involved inunderstanding a problem.For example, understanding the problem: ‘Determine the equation of a line passing through thepoints (1,2) and (2,-3).’ involves writing