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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Furterer; Lesia Crumpton-Young

IMPROVE CONTROL• Brainstorming • Multi-voting • Cause & Effect • Cost/benefit • SPC• Nominal Group • Process flow • Cost/benefit analysis • One-piece flow Technique charts analysis • Improvement • Kanban and• Process charter • Benchmarking • Waste plans visual control• Work plan • Check sheets identification • Standardized • Continuous• Responsibilities • Surveys • Standardization procedures improvement matrix • Interviewing of • Training, pull, and Kaizen

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Gonzales; Stephen Renshaw

curriculum. There is also an economical advantage to school systems planning to facilitate astudents ability to perform computing applications well. If the computing applicationsare not effective at a specified learning level it would preclude the notion to extendcomputing services until such time as they are both proficiently acquired andacademically involved with study skills.Delimitations Most data measures include a certain amount of statistical variance; even if allfactors that can be controlled are held constant. It was assumed that the variance withinassessment measures used for data collection will not affect the overall analysis.Subsequent reruns of computing applications employing just-in-time compilationmethods will also have

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Brian Blake; Gerald Gannod; Kevin Gary

complexity. Students were usually confined to a single role in a project team, if projectroles were adhered to at all. It was also difficult to teach process-related material, such asrequirements gathering and management techniques, while facilitating a single semester project.To address these issues, DCST has redesigned the single semester factory course into a four-semester sequence dubbed the Software Enterprise. The curriculum plan calls for two one-yearprojects that a student participates in serially. This sequence is shown in Table 1.Semester Fall SpringYear Course Focus Course FocusYear 1 CST315 Tools & Process CST316

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

(Spring/Summer 2004)Project Green (Green Valley Ecology, Environment, and Nature) is a habitat restoration and Page 10.808.2protection project in the City of Henderson, Nevada with an overall goal of restoration of the Proceeding of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationPittman Wash as a valuable resource to the entire community (See Figure 1). Planning for thisproject is coordinated between a citizens group (Project Green Steering Committee), the City ofHenderson Public Works Department, and Harris and

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

-traditional manufacturing sectors of industries and the Artstudents who will be employed in these companies, it is necessary to tailor a special set of RapidPrototyping curriculum to meet their requirements.A valid process manufacturing plan can greatly shorten time-to-market and therefore acquisitionof the funding necessary to go into production. Speeding this product development process evenmore is the ability to send such design code anywhere in the world via high speed Internetconnections. Once a product is proofed and deemed ready for manufacture, the machine code toproduce the final object can also be sent anywhere in the world for its actual production. Whilee-commerce is focused on the buying and selling of products and services, e-production

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationresults of this briefing were very encouraging. Dr. Bement had indicated that budget pressureshad caused him to cut a number of programs around NSF that were near the same level offunding as NNCS. However, because NSF believes so strongly in the goals of NNCS and thepartnership with ONR, the NNCS program would not be cut. In fact, both organizations agreedto fund the $3M Phase II effort as planned and to continue efforts to find additional funding. Thenew Dear Colleague Letter is in its final stages of NSF clearance and will be sent out in earlyMarch. Also, as a result of this

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

assemblies. • Create resource-only assemblies.2.2 Create a Windows control. • Create a Windows control by using visual inheritance. • Host a Windows control inside Microsoft Internet Explorer.3. Consuming and Manipulating Data3.1 Access and manipulate data from a Microsoft SQL Server™ database by creating and using ad hoc queries andstored procedures.3.2 Access and manipulate data from a data store. Data stores include relational databases, XML documents, andflat files. Methods include XML techniques and ADO .NET.3.3 Handle data errors.4. Testing and Debugging4.1 Create a unit test plan.4.2 Implement tracing. • Add trace listeners and trace switches to an application. • Display trace output.4.3 Debug, rework, and resolve defects in code

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

in teams, quality consciousness, simple modeling and simulation tools, engineering problem- solving skills and time management, which are considered necessary for meeting the 21st century challenges of engineering profession. While this effort was covered in previous publication it will briefed in Appendix A for completeness. Engineering Consulting and Professional Development Office (ECPDO) was established in September, 2003, to fulfill one of the recommendations of ABET Evaluators’ Team, as well as to fulfill the requirements of strategic planning of the College. ECPDO will help build effective partnership between the industry and the Engineering College to the mutual benefits of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

weeks comprising the first year and a half of thestudents’ education. A group of BEEVT investigators held a meeting with various AssistantDepartment Heads in fall 2003 and explained the purpose and operation of this feedback tool,which is now available to entire COE faculty through BEEVT web site (www.beevt.ef.vt.edu).All faculty members have been requested to use this online tool to give their feedback.Analysis of retention and other data for engineering cohortsAt Virginia Tech, students’ GPA, retention, graduation, and intra-college migration data aremaintained online by the Institutional Research and Planning Analysis department. However,this information is not available in the form that can be readily used or interpreted. Twoundergraduate

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

preliminary budget estimate formal design review with customer/advisors/mentors/instructorsMILESTONE: approved conceptual design based on oral presentationPHASE 3: System Integration 2 weeks (25-30 hrs/person)ACTIVITIES: resolution of design review issues system level DFMEA finalized budget and work plan written design proposalMILESTONE: approved design proposalPHASE 4: Detail Design 3 weeks (40-50 hours/person)ACTIVITIES: purchase orders prepared and issued, assembly drawings, detailed parts list, component drawings, fabrication review/shop plan/scheduleMILESTONE: approved drawing package and manufacturing planPHASE 5: Manufacturing 3 weeks (35-45 hours/person)ACTIVITIES

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

for solving problems and provide suggestions for teaching problemsolving17. Their general strategy for problem solving is based on Woods’ research-based, six- Page 10.559.2stage strategy for problem solving: engage, define-the-stated problem, explore, plan, do-it and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”look back. Between each of these stages, the problem solver makes a transition—which is mainlya monitoring step18. Wankat and Oreovicz’s strategy differs from Woods’ in two ways: Wankatand

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

allowother team members and advisors to review the conclusions reached. This presentation shouldinclude a summary of all the required specifications for the circuit block and a comparison of thearchitectures considered. An explanation is given of which architecture was chosen and why.The results of any simulations that confirm the choice of architecture should be included to Page 10.159.3support the conclusions reached. An overview of the circuit planned for design should be Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

more contemporary cultures. • Focus on the worldview, religion, and values of one or more contemporary cultures. • Address issues of cultural conflict within or between nations. • Foster among students an understanding of social and cultural change. • Provide familiarity with an area of the world or a country that allows them to make systematic comparisons with their own society and culture.Concerns As these learning centered programs are planned for implementation, academic integrity,faculty workload, and logistical issues have arisen as areas of concern. "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” which comes across as stilted and boring). Besides computational skills, students headed into the sciences or engineering need problem solving skills, pattern recognition abilities, estimation skills, validity checks, etc. These skills and habits are best introduced early, and integrated into their mathematics (and science) training. 3. the mathematics taught even in grades 4 through 8 has interesting applications. By presenting these applications, perhaps we can help ameliorate the onset of math phobia, and make mathematics a more relevant, and less dreaded subject; one that shouldn't be avoided in selecting high school plans of study.Workshop

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell; Juliet Hurtig

designsequence to be taken by students from all three degree programs was significantly modified suchthat projects and teams are selected prior to the senior year, design concepts and teammanagement skills are emphasized, and rigorous methods are employed to evaluate performance.The following four sections examine the changes implemented and discuss the pedagogyemployed within each one of the courses that composes the ECCS senior design sequence, aswell as the preparations performed prior to starting the sequence.III. PreparationsA successful senior design project requires planning, not only on the part of the students, but alsoon the part of the instructor supervising the project. Asking a faculty member or an industrycontact for a project at the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

methods.This paper is a follow up to a previous one, by the author, on viable strategies to improve theclassroom environment of engineering colleges in general, and those of the Region inparticular.(4) It compliments the previous paper by focusing on common forms of active learningbelieved to be effective and, with proper planning, could be implemented in the Region.Reforming engineering education presents a formidable challenge to the various“stakeholders“(administrators, faculty members, students, graduates, industry, and governmentleaders) in the future of engineering education. Despite conflicting views and interests ofstakeholders, plus academe’s bias toward preservation of the status quo; the author believes thatdebating the issues and allowing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdravko Markov; Todd Neller; Ingrid Russell

project incorporates machine learning as a unifying theme for the AI course through a set ofhands-on lab projects. Machine learning is inherently connected with the AI core topics andprovides methodology and technology to enhance real-world applications within many of thesetopics. Machine learning also provides a bridge between AI technology and modern softwareengineering. As Mitchell12 points out, machine learning is now considered as a technology forboth software development (especially suitable for difficult-to-program applications or forcustomizing software) and building intelligent software (i.e., a tool for AI programming).Planning algorithms and machine learning techniques are important in several areas of AI andhence their in-depth

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

broadening their cross-cultural experiences. For the summer of 2004, the Kentucky students participated in theUniversity of Pittsburgh’s Manufacturing and the Global Supply Chain in the Pacific Rim as partof the Semester at Sea Program [18]. This latter program is the major focus of this paper.Amadei at Colorado has become a leader among the engineering educators now looking atsustainability issues in the less developed world [19]. He is helping to create a program inEngineering for Developing Communities that will eventually address a wide range of issues –water provision and purification, sanitation, health, power production, shelter, site planning,infrastructure, food production and distribution, communication, and jobs and capital for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

H&S DAQ Mission Planning Power H&S Control Data Postprocessing Voltages provided to all Payload Electronics Comm C&DH

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

Page 10.337.3students’ perspective and found little evidence students were heeding the iconic block-flow “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”model. Their study found that, contrary to the design approach of effective designers, novicestended to dive into a design problem without a clear plan or direction for how to solve it. Whengiven an open-ended design problem, students neglected to recognize as priorities either thegeneration of alternative solutions or such “real world” steps as identification of need andimplementation. Overall, students appeared unaware of several established steps in

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

curricula,establishing accreditation criteria, and coordinating with licensing jurisdictions. The work ofthese committees will proceed simultaneously and the implementation is expected to take twodecades with intermediate milestones planned along the wayThe charge of the Curriculum Committee is to coordinate the development of new undergraduateand graduate curricula that are compatible with the BOK (ASCE 2004c). This includes findingexisting curricula that already contain elements supportive of the BOK and share what is learned.The approach is to find a diverse range of universities that are willing to serve as design partnersand develop model curricula that both incorporate the BOK and meet the needs of all universitieswhether they be public or

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

T. M. Wildman, J. A. Muffo, and O. H. Griffin, Jr. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractElectronic portfolios (ePortfolios) were incorporated into the freshman engineering program atVirginia Tech, one of the largest engineering programs in the US, in fall 2004. The addition ofthe ePortfolio resulted from a successful pilot study conducted as a component of a NSF Bridgesfor Engineering Education planning grant awarded to Virginia Tech’s Engineering EducationDepartment and the School of Education in 2003. This paper will present a review of ePortfolioapplications in engineering instruction. Sample assignments and grading rubrics for the VirginiaTech assignments will be discussed. Based on evaluation

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

7-Mar 8-Mar 9-Mar 10-Mar Day Figure 5. Sample wind speed data recorded from March 6 through March 10, 2004.Figure 6 illustrates wind speed data recorded for a period of six months. November andDecember are mostly the windiest months. June and July are the weakest in terms of wind speed, Page 10.399.6however in the future we plan to add Photovoltaic (PV) modules to compensate for this problem. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Coleman; Hisham Alnajjar; Hesham Elsaghir; Alan Hadad; Donald Leone

, customizing a system using inexpensive or free software became theoverriding issue. Fortunately, the new PowerPoint in Office 2000 allows for both audio andvideo inputs synced to the PowerPoint slides automatically. However, if both audio and video areadded to the conventional PowerPoint slides, the files become quite large. Since the video forthis class is essentially that of a talking head, which adds the least stimulus to a technical lectureof this kind, the initial lectures were planned with audio only. While the audio is automaticallysynced to the slides, you cannot annotate or physically interact with the slides in a spontaneousmanner as in the Eluminate or vClass systems. However, with PowerPoint, you can broadcastlive or place the

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak; Xiaolin Chen; Dave Kim

- 17year olds, and a series of four engineering workshops on materials, CAD, rapidprototyping and manufacturing processes. Details of the camps and the workshops arepresented. In conclusion feedback from the students and their parents, lessons learnedand future plans to sustain the program are reported.1. IntroductionIn 2003, Governor Locke and the Washington State legislature allocated funding enablingWashington State University Vancouver to partner with Clark College and LowerColumbia College to develop the WSU Vancouver Engineering and Science Institute. TheInstitute is a public/private partnership and an inter-institutional partnership. Its goals areto provide: (1) Undergraduate programs giving access to high demand fields for thecitizens of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

other scholarly work.Exams, labs, homework, grading, TA’s, student questions and personal doubts all add to the timerequired to teach effectively. This area can eat into those 40 free hours very quickly.Students: They can be a time sink with questions and demands as they take the easy path tosuccess. Good teaching, well prepared exams, fair grading and office hours can help withstudent inquiries. A good reputation as an excellent teacher also helps. Make student contact tothe point and move on.Meetings: The timing of meetings is often random and can interrupt any plan. Meetings areoften without an agenda and drag on for hours with no meaningful results. Avoid uselessmeetings as much as possible and when conducting them – have an agenda and a

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

. Page 10.1481.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: The ‘Running’ of the Introduction to Engineering Challenge Obstacle Course.The Engineering MethodOn October 6, Dr. Roland Anders, Chief Scientist, from Northrop Grumman delivered anexcellent presentation on the engineering method, innovative engineering feats, and theimportance of planning in the engineering process. The hot air balloon project was alsointroduced at this seminar (and will be described below). A tinker toy design challengeconcluded the evening:Tinker Toy Team Building Project The goal of this project was to

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry

then planned “just in time”3,4 to bringthese misconceptions to the forefront. Short “mini-lectures” are interspersed with frequent use ofthe Classroom Performance System,5 a feedback/voting technology or “student response system”that enables instructors to pose questions and problems to students and provide them withimmediate feedback on their understanding.This type of active/interactive classroom experience, along with the expectation to start thelearning process on their own via preparation assessments, is novel to most science andengineering students. The dominant model on our campus and many others is still the 50-minutelecture with an expectation of listening and note-taking. While in general students respond well

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Krupar; George Suckarieh

technologists and engineers withcommunicative interpersonal skills that encourage them to plan and lead complex technicalprojects. This paper discusses the course, "Leadership and Teamwork from Within" that uses amix of experiential learning approach, community service, and problem based learning to teachbasic concepts of leadership and teamwork. The course was created and coordinated by twofaculty members, an engineer and a historian, and served Honors Students in TechnologyPrograms at the College of Applied Science, University of Cincinnati. The paper provides a briefhistorical overview of applied or technical education in the U.S. Next it discusses the objectivesof the course and the pedagogy that the faculty used to accomplish these objectives

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Myers; Jack Byrd; Robin Hensel

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationto help the student refocus his or her priorities on academic success and create a recovery plan toimprove his or her grades.During the 2003/04 academic year, the University and the College increased focus on retentionand several additional changes were made with the intent to improve freshmen retention. Thetwo most important changes were modifications to the engineering orientation course and thedevelopment of two engineering tracks for entering students.The orientation class was modified to include a study lab requirement and to request all studentsto sign privacy