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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

aspects of good requirements, which are exercised throughout the class.Completeness of requirements presents special challenge to experienced professionals, so it is notnecessarily a poor outcome that students are more tentative in their self-evaluation of this area. Itis interesting that the smallest bias of self-success over course aid occurred for objective 6 (0.16),while the largest occurred for objective 8 (0.63). This may reflect the students’ confidence inpresenting technical material from several previous courses.7. Summary and Future DirectionsIn summary, requirements in general, and the authors’ project approach in particular, emphasizedifferent skills than those with which most engineers have the greatest comfort. The emphasis

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William E. Howard; Joseph C. Musto; William C. Farrow

specified as driving dimensions, so thatthey do not define the position of the linkage, but simply reflect the values of these dimensionsas link 2 is dragged to a new position. In addition to determining the values of the limitingpositions, the students can see that these positions exist when links 2 and 3 are collinear. Figure 4 Finding Limiting Position of Link 4 Figure 5 Linkage with θ2 DefinedThe last part of the problem is solved by changing the dimension defining θ2 to a drivingdimension, as shown in Figure 5. Although the linkage is now fully defined, any of the drivingdimensions (any of the lengths or the angle θ2) may be changed by double-clicking its value andentering a new value. For example

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

, professor Guskey points out their keyweakness: Research shows that after the first couple of years in the college classroom, most professors and instructors settle into a fairly stable pattern of instructional practices. Based almost on trial-and-error learning, they develop a personal repertoire of instructional techniques that is only occasionally refined as a result of classroom experiences. Although typically derived without the benefit of critical reflection or collegial feedback and exchange, this repertoire provides these veterans of college classrooms with a sense of security and certainty about what to do, how to do it, what will work, and what is likely not to work. Suggestions of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

, andpresentation. The work accomplished by the participants in the three projects is described nextin this paper.2. Selection of the Research Projects The principal concern of current seismic design practice is to prevent the collapse of thestructure and avoid the associated loss of human life. It is, however, extremely uneconomical todesign structures to remain completely elastic under strong seismic loading. Classical methodsof earthquake resistant design reflect a compromise between the needs for absolute safety andeconomy, and are based on the concept of controlled damage under extreme seismic motions.This controlled damage may be achieved by allowing parts of the structure to yield (undergopermanent deformation). One of the projects selected for

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

negotiatingmeaning.The majority of S3’s participation was in his analysis of the work he had left to do to completehis honors college requirements, and a great deal of reflection of how the things he learned in Page 9.869.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationRCS improved his communication skills; the bar graph reflects this level of participation. Thedata on contributions per participant in Figure 2 are summarized in Table 2. Faculty

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

5 to resort to shady practices. 10. The profit motive pressures managers 1 2 3 4 5 to compromise their ethical concerns. Table 2 Student posttest responses of ethical cynicism quotientStudents were given an ethical cynicism test at the end of reflection in action. The class waspretty non-cynical. The average posttest cynical measure was 21 out of a maximum of 50. Page 9.1199.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

AD)During the Baroque period, music became complicated, ornamented melodies. Themusic was dramatic, flowery, emotional, and reflected the spirit of the times.Technically, music contained formal order based on repetition and ornamentation. In thisperiod, new types of compositions, such as concertos, sonatas, cantatas, operas, andoratorios, for many different combinations of instruments and vocal ranges were created.5.5. Classical (1750 AD-1800 AD)After the complicated Baroque period, the Classical period emerged. This periodcontained a new, cleaner sound. Music compositions were based on simple short themes,unlike the Baroque period. During this period, composers exploited graduated sound andspace, repetition, and simplification of music.5.6

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

resistance against introducing newtopics and reach the largest number of students quickly. Work is continuing to assess the degreeto which students comprehend the new material that is being introduced.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Division of Engineering Education andCenters of the National Science Foundation under grant number EEC-0304049. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliographic Information1. Morgan, J., Rinehart, J., and Froyd, J. (2001) Industry Case Studies at Texas A&M University, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference2. Lasting

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Moore Furneaux; Randa Shehab; M Jayne Fleener; Kim Warram; Elizabeth Kvach; Betty Harris; Anne Reynolds; Teri Reed Rhoads; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexplanatory information from context in brackets (e.g. "he lectured." would be replaced by "he[non-engineering faculty member] lectured.").Table 1: Sample of IE Majors Interviewed at OU Sophomore Junior Senior Alumnus TotalFemale 3 10 2 0 15Male 3 3 4 1 11The perceptions in this paper are from IE students at OU. As a result, the data in this paper willbe reflective of both the discipline and

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

University have worked together to make this amodel of successful educational program enhancement.Introduction Throughout history, NASA has played a critical role in promoting engineering andscience education at colleges and universities. NASA has accomplished its educationalobjectives by following a well-established structure and leveraging its resources to accomplishprogram goals. NASA has notably committed to education since its creation in 1958. Thisstrong commitment has been continuously reflected in the agency's Strategic Plan, in whicheducation is viewed as important as space exploration. NASA’s national education program isdevoted to “inspire the next generation of explorers”. This education program is carried outthrough NASA

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris

invitenon-engineering faculty, practitioners or interested community members to participate inideation sessions. The goal is to break out of the engineering mind set that tends to startworrying about how to make it in detail, before expanding the pool of ideas.III. ScreeningThe term screening refers to a systematic and unbiased process of selecting a small number ofideas to investigate further from the many ideas generated in the ideation phase. This is animportant concept in the marketing New Product Development process and is enumerated in theCrawford and Benedetto text that is used in that class. Student teams began this phase bydesigning a screening method that reflected the priorities of the project sponsors. Despite thefact that the most

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

, and be social with each other. It seemed to make the team feel morecomfortable with each other, more able to express ideas openly and discuss them without “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering” Session 3160feeling shy about it”. Further they wrote: “Basically, each team member’s team workingskills can be seen by the work that was completed towards the end of the project. The workwas more divided for effective time usage, but still reflected all thoughts and opinions of theteam

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales

that they know how to use. The final section of the subject isthe service-learning-based final project.Section 1–FundamentalsDuring the first section of the subject we introduce the following fundamental concepts • Voltage and current. • Ohm's Law • Circuits and Kirchhoff's Laws. • RC time constants.The following components and items of test equipment were also presented • Resistors, Capacitors, and LEDs. • Protoboards • DPDT knife switches. • Digital Multimeters (DMMs). • Function Generators. • Oscilloscpes • Three-terminal, linear voltage regulator (e.g., 78xx)The pace is fast, and we try to maximize the time spent building circuits while allowing enoughtime for reflection and discussion. As an example, here is the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

a few tripsto the motor pool to conduct a reconnaissance of the site and to start visualizing how to addressthe presented problem. They quickly decided to each develop an alternative solution to theproblem and then decide after further research and reflection which alternative best met theclient’s needs and would be the most cost and fabrication efficient. Prior to winter leave theyconducted a site survey using a Total Station Surveying device and a digital camera. Aftersurveying approximately 200 points, they were able to computer-generate a topographic map ofthe proposed construction site. They used this large scale map in addition to several photographsclearly depicting the contour of the stream to develop a plan and compare their

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

. Buchbinder, H., & Newson, J. (1990). Corporate-university linkages in Canada: Transforming a public institution. Higher Education 20: 355-79. 19. Buchbinder, H., & Rajagopal, P. (1993). Canadian universities and the politics of funding. In The Funding of Higher Education: International Perspectives, edited by Philip G. Altbach and Bruce Johnstone, 271-85. New York: Garland Publishing. 20. Newson, J. (1994). Subordinating democracy: The effects of fiscal retrenchment and university- business partnerships on knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination in universities. Higher Education 27: 141-61. 21. Trow, M. (1970). Reflections on the transition from mass to universal

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Nichols; Margaret Pinnell

understanding the societal impacts of engineeringdecisions. 13-17 Service-learning is a form of experiential learning that includes three basiccomponents: course structure, community service and structured reflection which is designed todevelop a sensitivity in the students to the impact of professional decisions on society, ethics inengineering and sound professional practice. 15Project Overview: EGR 101, Introduction to Engineering Design, is a required, two-semester hour, firstyear, multi-disciplinary engineering course offered at the University of Dayton (UD) through theschool of engineering. The overall goals of this course are to develop the problem solving andteamwork skills of the students, introduce the multi-disciplinary nature of

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Timothy Cromley

§ 156, cited in Petry, “§ 1.04[2], Tax Characteristics of a Patentable Invention.”28 It should be noted that accounting authorities in the U.S. recognize two income approach variations—i.e., traditional and expected cash flow. See “Appendix E,” Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, Financial Accounting Standards Board of the Financial Accounting Foundation, Norwalk Connecticut, June 2001. In its traditional form, a single discount rate and a single set of cash flows are used to reflect all the expectations about the future cash flows. In the probabilistic variation, the analyst develops alternative DCF scenarios and then estimates the probability of each. The discount rate in a probabilistic model should

Conference Session

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

governing the physics of the topic. The ability to define a problem’s physical model and to construct the corresponding mathematical formulation of the model should reflect this understanding. Having written the governing equations, any convenient mechanism may be employed to execute a numerical solution.2. Engineering Tools. The students gain a working familiarity with one or more of the available equation solving programs, and it is stressed that the programs, as well as the general approach to problem solving, has a carryover to their other courses. A symbolic formulation can be naturally and easily solved with the modern engineering tools such as Mathcad, MATLAB™ and TK Solver. Furthermore, these engineering tools reduce to

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

. Thus, the design project provides opportunities for emphasizing creativeproblem solving and for developing self-learning skills and teamwork. The quality of the student work in both semesters is good. The designs developed and thereports given indicate that the students can use the engineering design process much like that ofexperienced engineers in industry. Student oral presentations are of high quality, and the writtenprogress reports and the final report on the completed project reflect the time and effort necessaryto produce documentation of professional-looking quality. The students working in lab on theirindividual robot projects are seen to be friendly and good-natured, often cooperating with eachother by sharing design ideas

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lunt Barry; C. Richard Helps; Joseph Ekstrom

Session 1450 Education at the Seams: Preliminary Evaluation of Teaching Integration as a Key to Education in Information Technology Joseph J. Ekstrom, Barry Lunt, C. Richard Helps Brigham Young UniversityAbstractInformation Technology (IT) is widely considered to be an integrative discipline. Manyfour-year IT programs accept programming, networking, web systems, databases andhuman-computer interaction as core topics in IT. Active discussion continues as to thebest way to teach and sequence these topics. We have proposed and begun to implementa curriculum that reflects a

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

. Perhaps the most importantoutcome has been an improved appreciation of the role of the engineer in preserving ourenvironment.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0088208. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1 Environmental Management and ISO 14000: Manual 10, International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 2001.2 Lawrence, P.R., "Design for the Environment (DFE) Process and Training at Ford Motor Company," 1998 Total Life Cycle Conference Proceedings, Warrendale, PA: Society for Automotive

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

There are many factors that could contribute to the low visualization scores of theminority subjects including inequality in educational background of the incoming studentsrelated to lower acceptance standards at the university level. Students at the non-minorityinstitution were required to have higher levels of math and science in previous academicpreparation as well as higher standardized test scores than students at the HBCU. In addition,minority students in general often have a more superficial overall preparation in math andsciences and studies have shown positive correlations between visualization skills and success inmath and science. Therefore, the low PSVT scores of minorities may be more a reflection ofunderdeveloped visualization

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

.• Introduce the difficult concept of social capital through examples and real experiences.• Show how to act in an entrepreneurial way in very practical terms.• Make them analyze and express the reasons for not acting in an entrepreneurial way.• Make them reflect on the term venture and compare it to enterprise.• Make them get in contact with fear.• Make them get in contact with rejection. Page 9.1259.2After several fruitful experiences in 2002 and the first half of 2003, the authors arrived at aspecification that seems to meet the defined requirements.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

quarter with the understanding that it could be changed laterif the work was not completed as originally agreed upon.At the end of the capstone course students are given an evaluation sheet where they have thechance to reflect upon the learning outcomes of the project as well as to comment on teamdynamics. Most of the time, all of the members in a team will receive the same grade. If it isevident that one member of the team has not performed satisfactorily, there is the possibility ofhim/her receiving a lower grade. These problems can usually be detected early on in the project,thus giving the faculty member the opportunity to intervene. This is because students areexpected to meet weekly with their adviser, turn in a weekly progress report and

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

ownskills, techniques, compare with and learn from others, and set goals for their future. Sharing Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationlessons learned makes possible the improvement of processes for subsequent investigations. Thisintegral component of the case design allow learners to reflect, summarize and solidify their ownlearning and structure it in a way that is meaningful to them [9].Guy [10] states that “the rich case allows students to gain safe experience in practicingfundamental skills needed in their careers: they need to plan and set up interviews and focusgroups, question

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

) andthe Design Quality Rubric (DQR) for 14 projects. The values in Table 7 are averages of theevaluator scores. The final score is the mean of the five metrics.The next step was to examine if the CSQ and the DQR scores could be combined to obtain asingle composite score on the design project outcome. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.52implied that the two scores were measuring different things and could not be combined to obtaina single composite score. Also a two tailed p-value of <0.0001 indicated the two data sets comefrom statistically different populations and thus confirmed the Cronbach’s analysis. Further,visual inspection of a x-y plot showed no strong correlation trends between the two scores. Thislikely reflects the fact that

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

workforce issues, have in the discussion of solutions? • Is there a future for global accreditation and licensure? • What are the responsibilities of industry to address workforce dynamics, including quality of life issues? • Should engineering be re-defined to reflect the more extensive involvement of engineers outside of technical specialties, in policy formulation, executive management, elected positions?Given that what happens to engineers and the technical workforce may well set the tone for thework environment of future generations of many professions, who are the best trusted and mostcredible advocates for the engineering profession? • What useful alliances might be forged between the engineering profession and other professions

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

Ability to Analyze 3-D Computer Models.shows the results for “Ability to CreateKinematics Animations” and Figure 7 shows theresults for “Knowledge of Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing.” In both cases, the attendeesshowed a diversity of opinions, somewhat resembling a bell-shaped curve centered at responseC. This suggests that graphics faculty are uncertain about these modern CAD applications, Page 9.1066.3although they realize the potential. It could also reflect lack of resources at some schools. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

and brute force method to choose the independent “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”variables, as the output from the program is a reflection of their chosen inputs. Consequently, fora particular design alternative, the computer program could not manipulate their inputs to give abetter design. Instead, careful analysis of the output files for different inputs revealed trends,which are used to develop a systematic or a more logical approach towards arriving at the bestdesign. After progressing thus far, they acknowledged the fact that the