Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ficken; Subha Kumpaty

about mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid systems,and how they are related.” “Good modeling course.”“This course helped me understand mathematics behind mechanical systems.” Page 10.878.9“Tied everything together from previous courses; Good introduction to future courses.”9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education“I liked learning about how to apply differential equations. Labs provided the depth.”“Labs reflected what we learned in class.”The above are just a few statements that describe

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

. They found it difficult to adjust to a persuasive writing stylewhile restricted to the same format they had used all semester for the preparation of their labreports.The writing consultants were able to convince the technical faculty that our proposal assignmentneeded modification. They agreed and supported the creation of a Request for Proposal (RFP)for each of the final projects. (See Appendix A for a sample RFP) These documents provided thecontext missing in the previous assignment. Our students now had a clear audience and purposefor their writing.Next, we redesigned the format for the document to better reflect one typical for proposals. Itincluded a cover sheet, a client summary, an introduction, the scope and format, features

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Graf; Ann Christy

spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Overseveral years, the first author has assigned essays inviting students to reflect on their attitudestoward the General Education Curriculum (GEC) at the Ohio Sate University (OSU). Fewerthan half expressed an appreciation for the value of the GEC component of their education,especially the arts and humanities. Likewise, OSU’s College of Engineering annual alumnisurvey includes questions about the importance of and ability/preparation gained at OSU in avariety of areas including math, chemistry, physics, and humanities. Every year, humanities isranked the lowest in both categories: importance and ability/preparation.ObjectivesThe objectives of the poetry contests were

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Glenn Steele; Judith Schneider

efforts have been directed primarily toward quantifying theuncertainty of the result of the experiment. The methodology for applying uncertainty analysis to the experimentalresult is summarized below, where the nomenclature has been updated to reflect the latest accepted version.In nearly all experiments, the measured values of different variables are combined using a data reduction equation(DRE) to form some desired result. A general representation of a data reduction equation is r = r ( X 1 , X 2 ,..., X J ) (1) Page 10.609.2 “Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Brian Blake; Gerald Gannod; Kevin Gary

centers on softwareprocess. The teams are given a set of process practices, tools, and a process meta-model and arethen assessed, in part, on their process-related decisions and execution. This aspect is moreimportant than the quality of the deliverable produced, as it more accurately reflects the learningobjective (the professional cultural mindset) we want students to develop.A process meta-model1 is used to constrain process planning and process lifecycle modelselection. This keeps major release points in synch across teams, and provides a basis for ahigher-level of decision making than exercised by projects constrained to a specific processlifecycle model. Process meta-models considered were the Personal Software Process[6] andTeam Software

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

typically analyze their employer’s supply chain. This paper describes the projects and some of the solutions proposed. It also includes the results of a survey of past students and the extent to which their proposed solutions were implemented.I. Introduction Many of the courses offered in engineering management programs reflect well-established disciplines. Others, while clearly important, lack a consensus as to what they shouldinclude. Supply chain management is an example of the latter group. There is widespreadagreement as to its importance for the future success of organizations. In fact, for manycompanies being part of a winning supply chain may mean more for success than anything thecompany can do on its own. Yet

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

and Recognition ProgramCommunications Advisory Committee: Develops and recommends an integrated multimediaplan to promote WEPAN and it's objectives to target audiencesDiversity Advancement Committee: Develops a strategy and action plan to advance thediversity of WEPAN. This might include, but is not limited to the recruitment, retention andengagement of a diverse membership and the identification of event speakers who reflect thediversity of the membershipFinance Committee: Manages WEPAN's organizational assetsMembership Committee: Develops and drives an individually targeted membership recruitmentstrategy based on targeted audiences such as WIE directors, industry, faculty, etc.Nominating Committee: Prepares nominating strategy and time line

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson; Harold Broberg

/microcontroller industry is quite varied and the processors andlanguages used in ECE and ECET courses generally reflect faculty expertise and courseand curriculum learning objectives. Most ECE introductory uP/uC courses are scheduledin the junior year while most ECET courses are scheduled in the sophomore year. A trendin some university ECE programs appears to be to move the generally popular,introductory uP/uC courses earlier in the curriculum, which may spur interest andincrease retention. Microcontrollers were used in 18 of the 26 courses, while 7 coursesused uP’s including the Freestyle MPC555, which is referred to as a 32-bit uC. Only 3ECET courses used the same textbook as an ECE course. A closer look at the textbooksshould provide insight into the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has worked on PolicyStatement 465 which states that , “admission to the practice of civil engineering at theprofessional level should occur at licensure and that this admission should require theacquisition of a body of specialized knowledge comprising a bachelor’s degree , amaster’s degree or its equivalent, and appropriate experience.” (2) The body ofknowledge points to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become licensed asa professional engineer. It is expected that existing undergraduate and graduate programswill be revised to reflect this body of knowledge and that new programs will be created.The ASCE board established the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice in

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Landaeta; Bryan Magary; William Peterson

discipline will need to be fluent in both representations. Doctoral students in thediscipline will not be ready to do research based on prior course work alone.It will take time for the research to reflect the teaching. Those currently researching and writingin the field will need time to change. Those writing in the new paradigm will need to knowwhere their work will be considered for publication.If the proposed paradigm was to gain wide spread acceptance, teaching methods will need to bere-tooled. This can take time. Those of us who have been teaching under the current paradigmare comfortable with it and change will move us outside this comfort zone. This is a majorconsideration. In many technologies, this requires a generation.Education is

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

” guidelines but the discussions were all held during the last week of class. Theclass voted on which days to discuss which articles. Adding self-assessment of the literatureresearch project and the “Fabulous Friday” assignment would be helpful for further enhancingthe development of lifelong learning skills. In addition, having students reflect on their ownlearning process as they did these activities could be useful.SummaryABET outcomes i and j related to lifelong learning and contemporary issues were incorporatedinto a senior undergraduate elective course on optoelectronic materials and devices at USD.These activities included a literature research project with a paper and presentation, “FabulousFriday” discussions, and homework assignments

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

interest atthe NSWCDD. The FIRST LEGO league (FLL), a highly-successful program which operatesrobotics competitions throughout the country devoted to providing middle-schoolers with ahands-on appreciation for the contributions of science and technology, will be used as the modelfor this part of the program. With the assistance of the Dahlgren mentors problem-basedscenarios have been developed which we believe will be both interesting and challenging to thestudents, and, at the same time, will reflect current and projected Navy R&D requirements.Scientists and engineers have been selected from a number of Dahlgren research departmentsrepresenting a cross-section of science and engineering disciplines to provide mentors for boththe science and

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

teaching as lecturer. Second, writing intensive courses requiretwice as much grading, a draft paper and a final paper. This is in addition to setting a pace ofhaving students write every week and probably having them submit a short paper every otherweek. A class limit of no more than 15 students is recommended. Third, There are many goodreasons to use students as peer reviewers. Several additional reasons not stated are one, it givesstudents the ability to analyze writing, define the standards and then reflect on their writing.Two, students are a free and willing source of labor; the instructor can't do everything. Three, italso promotes a very important life-long skill of peer review that students will use aftergraduation to review and improve

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

and a total score is determinedfor each candidate for each reviewer. These scores are then added together to get a total scorefor each candidate for the committee as a whole. The rating sheet used by my institution isshown in Figure 1.It is important when developing the criteria for the paper screen that they be related to theelements of the position description that are in the advertisement. Sometimes the ad will berelatively short referring prospective candidates to a web site where the full text description canbe found. In either event, the criteria must reflect what is in the description but can include otherfactors the committee considers valid. The other important consideration is that the criteria bedescribed in such a way that the

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Roy A. McCann

of tech-nologies that will address these concerns. However, because of pressures on undergraduate cur-riculum, electrical engineering students typically have one course in energy conversion topics.Unfortunately, the content and pedagogy of energy conversion has lagged the needs of govern-ment and industry. In particular, the course content often reflects the classical machines coveredsince the 1950s, but in an increasingly abbreviated format. Understandably, many students per-ceive electric energy conversion as a stagnant area where there is little innovation. However,there have been dramatic developments in electric energy conversion science in recent years. Ex-amples include piezoelectric ceramics, artificial muscles, high efficiency

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

Lean Manufacturing inone project. Substantial improvement can be seen from the picture after 5S were implemented.From the students’ comments, the final projects helped them to: • “Study and analyze the current manufacturing processes of the product.” • “Develop ideas to improve current manufacturing processes (using what they have learned from this class and other classes).” • “Conduct cost analysis of implementing these ideas.”The learner-centered environment in IMSE 564 not only helped the students to grasp theknowledge, but also motivated them to gain self-confidence and professional preparation fortheir future. These benefits were reflected in students’ evaluations on this class: • “IMSE 564 is a class different

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

F. Edwards; T. Daniel; W. Hale; A. Hanson; E. Richardson

. • Appropriate learning experiences - Learners select learning experiences that suit their specific situations (mini-internship, reading or listening to audio tapes, etc.). • Variety of learning resources - Provide various resources to suit personal needs and interests (e.g., textbook recommendations, a study guide, workbook of supplemental materials, suggested reading material, media materials, lists of resource specialists, and examples of student generated materials from previous courses). • Optimal learning environment - Provide a mixture of instructor input, supplemental learning materials, discussion opportunities, evaluation options, and mechanisms for critical reflection. • Learning pace - The self

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

. Heknows the best practices. He is committed to small business start-ups.” She said he is “gentle but determined andforceful because he has the expertise behind him and he’s very open to ideas.”When asked about Jim Robbins, Mary Sidney, COO of the SJSU Foundation, said Robbins is “the quintessentialentrepreneurs’ coach” and that he’s able to make introductions to venture capitalists and angel investors.Jim thought that one could take business cluster principles and apply them to the incubator. EBC was the firstincubator based on the cluster concept. Jim chose to work with environmental issues because it is his passion. Jim’sassociation with Barbara Harley is also reflective of the social network of incubation in Silicon Valley. They workedtogether

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

and summerschool is only an option for those who fail a course. The large core curriculum requires morehumanities courses than most other engineering programs. Figure 2 reflects a benchmarkingeffort that compares the number of semester credit hours in the humanities and basic scienceareas at USMA to those required in some other prominent civil engineering programs. Certainlyother schools do not require four semesters of military science and physical education.Considering this is a military academy, it is not surprising that there are other mandatory Page 10.1472.5activities that contribute to the BOK – particularly in those outcomes

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

introduced but not explicitly related toeach design task. While students, when asked, successfully modeled basic componentslike a potentiometer and a light sensor, we found that when working on their own designprojects, the instinct to model a component or system wasn’t developed enough forstudents to pursue the strategy on their own. In the second version of the course, the labswere restructured to reflect and promote both the DMII design process as well as theIdentify, Interface, and Integrate strategy. While the I3 strategy leads the student throughintegrating a component into the system, the DMII strategy guides the system design as awhole.3.3 Choose appropriate technologies to expand the robotic system.Although new technologies were

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

essay, it seems odd that it should suffer a higherfailure rate than other challenging freshman-level courses in calculus, physics, or engineering.Many educators have begun to assign the blame on the teaching approach. In this paper wecritique some current teaching approaches and agree that this is one source of the problem. Aglance at almost any textbook on introductory programming will reveal a presentation that startsfrom many flawed assumptions about the target audience, and that does not follow well-established principles for how to teach technical material. Computer programming educationsimply is not as mature as the teaching of the sciences and engineering, and this is reflected inthe CS1 failure rate. In this paper we explore some

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

characteristic impedance of the transmission G + jωCline. Z 0 represents the amplitude ratio between the voltage and current at every point along thetransmission line, and φz indicates the phase shift between the two values.To obtain a simplified picture of the evolution of the voltage and current signals, assume that thetransmission line is infinitely long (or that the load impedance is perfectly matched with thecharacteristic impedance), so there is no reflection by the load (V − = 0) . Then, assuming thatthere was no initial phase at z = 0 or that V + is purely real, the propagating voltage and currentsignals can be written as V + −αz V ( z, t ) = V + e −αz

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

lesson objectives must be assessed at theconclusion of each lesson.II.B. Board Notes Page 10.1217.4Armed with learning objectives, the teacher develops board notes detailing the activities andmaterial to be presented on the chalkboard (or other medium) always with an eye on what is the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationirreducible minimum needed. Our classroom (board) notes are not just a stream of consciousnessas some professor classroom notes seem to reflect, but bite-size chunks of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

corresponding torque rod activation. The STARSHINE project has an overall mission of introducing K-12 students to space technology, and they are involved in polishing the high-quality mirrors attached to the surface of the sphere. The spin controller will enable the orbiting satellite to be viewed with the naked eye, as sunlight reflects off the mirrors.Launch Vehicle: NASA Space ShuttlePersonnel: ~ 4 EE capstone design students, ~ 5 EE master’s-level graduate studentsBudget: ~ $25K in equipment, provided by Broad Reach Engineering.Sustainability: Not sustainable; one-time development project.Remarks

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bongsu Kang

excitation. Page 10.832.12Irregular Motion: Chaos There is a class of nonlinear dynamic behavior that is referred to as chaos or chaotic motion Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin mechanical dynamic systems4. Linear and nonlinear oscillatory motions are in generalcharacterized by periodicity. Periodicity reflects a high degree of regularity and order. Dynamicbehavior that is not stationary, periodic, or quasi-periodic is called aperiodic or irregular. Achaotic motion differs from

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Whalley; Harriet Svec; Harvey Svec; Teresa Hall

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The CourseThe curriculum consisted of pre-travel meetings and briefings on the Manchester region andits culture, and general information culminating in the trip to England during spring breakand post-travel seminar presentations and a reflection paper. The first pre-immersion sessionincluded covering the course requirements, introduction to the Manchester area usingbrochures and maps, a basic travel itinerary, travel cost information, how to start thedocumentation process (passports and SDSU international trip forms), and a studentparticipation survey dealing with cultural sensitivity and awareness. The survey wasdesigned to help students

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

next time we held thecourse we should do only one session per week. On the other hand, the students felt that thesession length of 1 ½ to 2 hours was appropriate.Impact on Teaching FellowsIn reflecting upon the impact of this course, it is clear that we learned as much from thisexperience as did the students who participated. Foremost, educational research of this typevastly differs from the typical laboratory research we as graduate engineering students havebecome accustomed to. For example, when conducting educational research investigators mustunderstand that working in a K-12 environment requires a higher degree of flexibility, patience,and tolerance of unexpected chaos. An important outcome derived through the implementationof this

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Turpin; Donald Richter; William Loendorf

teamsbegin the process early and work continuously on their vehicle right up to the competition. Thelate starters rarely do well or even complete the course.Research has shown that the earlier a student becomes involved in the department with otherstudents, the greater the success of retention in the major. As a result, teams should be formed asearly as possible to allow the team to have ample time for design, prototyping and testing. Thisfun and exciting competition has fostered a great deal of interest in engineering that has led tonew students in the major as well as retention of existing students.Conclusions, Reflections and the FutureThe HPPV competition has grown into a very popular annual event. The contest is challenging

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; Hector Cervantes; K. V. Sudhakar

fracture mechanics topics include several lecture quizzes as acontinual assessment component. The main aim of the lecture quiz is to let the lecturer have abetter gauge of whether the students have grasped the main concepts/principles taught in eachlecture on specialty topics relating to fracture mechanics. Typically, 15-20 short questions(demanding specific answers) in the form of multiple-choice, true/false or computation are askedin each lecture quiz. Students are allowed to discuss the questions and hand in the answers insmall groups. It also promotes cooperative learning among the students as well as allows them torelate to and reflect instantly on what they have just learned.3.5 BrainstormingIn brainstorming, listening exercise that allows

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Thompson; Matthew Roberts

4.09 persist to the completion of the task. Figure 3 Motivation as measured by the Student Opinion Scale. The results pre- sented are reverse scored as required so that shown scores reflect motivation on a scale of 1 (lowest motivation) to 5 (highest).Case StudiesCase studies are also used in class to explore design, construction, and ethical issues. Two spe-cific case studies that have been used in past classes are the 1981 collapse of the Harbour CayCondominiums and a comparative case study of the performance of the Murrah Building duringthe 1995 Oklahoma City bombing versus the performance of the Pentagon during the 2001 Sep-tember 11 attacks.The Harbour Cay collapse resulted from punching failure of a flat plate slab