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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

New Mexico, NMSU’s goal has been to addresstechnical, vocational, and agricultural needs in the state and region. To meet this continuedobjective, the school has had a strong Engineering and Technology component for about a Page 8.440.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcentury. Since at least as early as 1915, this has included Electrical Engineering. In keeping withthe land-grant mandate, engineering programs at NMSU have typically included strong“practical” components such as

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

-Hulman Inst. of Technology. Research interests include engineering education,materials science, and manufacturing. He holds a U.S. Patent on the formability of aluminum alloys. Page 8.663.9Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

guaranteed upon graduation), nowthey just need to complete the degree requirements to receive the parchment. Any need to excel,earn higher grades, or learn additional information than was absolutely necessary, wasovershadowed by the need to work more hours on the job.Data CollectionThis paper was compiled using information garnered from a survey (n=120), developed by thisauthor, and distributed to all of the students (214) in the Construction Systems Department,College of Engineering & Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha Campus. Ofthose distributed, 120 responded. These anonymous surveys were distributed at the end of thefall semester of 2002 (see attached survey.)Questions 1 through 4, and 13 of the survey were basic demographic

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

projects deal with practical and real life problems. For small undergraduateengineering programs with limited resources, such as ours, the high cost of building theseprojects tends to cause a problem and hampers the selection of good quality capstone seniordesign projects. This problem becomes more pressing when the senior design projects are multi-disciplinary in order comply with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) accreditation criteria which require that graduates of engineering programs possess “anability to function on multi-disciplinary teams” [1].ASHRAE has a program called Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program that providesfunding (grants up to $5000.00) for undergraduate engineering senior design projects

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Page 8.1090.6were not physically possible and the senior advisor for that team should have prevented thosefrom going forward. The amount of interaction between seniors and freshmen varied, due in partto individual personalities, but the seniors could use additional coaching in the mentor role.Bibliography 1. Hiler, E. A. 1972. Freshman-senior creative engineering design course. Engineering Education 63(1): 57.Biographical InformationANN KENIMERAnn Kenimer, P.E., is an Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Enginee ring at Texas A&MUniversity and a member of the NSF Foundation Coalition project. She teaches courses in engineering problemsolving, engineering design, environmental engineering technology, and nonpoint

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ghaith Hammouri; Alan Hadad

Engineering Education” Finally it will be noted that the separation of the set of all integers into four subsets suggests that this analysis might be carried out more advantageously in base four. This has been tried by the authors, and it has been determined that the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages. For most of us, steeped as we are in base ten, it is much easier to stick to the familiar decimals. However, such research might prove fruitful to someone with greater expertise in computers.BiographyAlan HadadDean, College of Engineering & Ward College of Technology, and Professor of Physics, University of Hartford.Ghaith HammouriSenior student in the College of Engineering with a double major in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University

[2] Engineering Equation Solver, F-Chart Software, 4406 Fox Bluff Road, Middleton, WI 53562[3] Goodwin, D., TPX: Thermodynamic Properties for Excel. http://kr.caltech.edu/me/software/tpx[4] Center for Energy Studies, Applied Thermodynamics Software: Thermoptim. http://www- cenerg.cma.fr/eng/software/thermoptim[5] ProMetric Technologies. GasCad and RealGas – Thermodynamic Analysis Software. http://www.prometrictech.com/demodown.html[6] Qualitative Reasoning Group. CyclePad. http://www.qrg.ils.nwu.edu/projects/NSF/Cyclepad/aboutcp.html[7] The Expert System for Thermodynamics – A Visual Tour, S. Bhattacharjee, Prentice Hall, 2002. http://www.qrg.ils.nwu.edu/projects/NSF/Cyclepad/aboutcp.html[8] The MERLOT project http

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Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shelia Barnett; Joan Burtner

future.References1. ABET, Accreditation Policies and Procedures, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., http://www.abet.org/criteria.html, Retrieved from the World Wide Web December 16, 2002.2. Barnett, S. (2002). "Industrial Experience and Engineering Freshman: A Pilot Program," American Society for Page 8.1181.8 Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education3. Barnett, S. and J. Burtner, (2001, October 19

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

under thedirection of the host institution. German students will be placed on research teams in the U.S. forfour months to complete their senior theses.Research programs and technology transferInternational M.S. students will be recruited and funded to study abroad. The goal will be to obtainthis funding from a single company. An industry mentor will be recruited to participate in a virtual,international design project or research program SummaryGlobal perspective will be a critical skill for 21 st century engineers. Colleges of engineering mustensure that the educational environment offers a variety of challenging and rewarding internationalexperiences.It is important to remember that industrial

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

with more engaging topics dimensional analysis is emphasized andhave been used successfully to drive home the required in all the sample calculations. Totechnical points and to make a more enjoyable address dimensional conversions, copies ofstudent writing experience. adequate conversion tables are made available at the start of the course.Introduction One of the goals in this lab is for students toMany Mechanical Engineering students at Rice produce professional reports. This includesUniversity begin to fulfill their upper level emphasis on writing skills and

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nathan Adams

teams comprised ofundergraduate engineering students from both universities. The industrial sponsors providedfinancial grants to the universities to support the projects. In addition, the companies haveprovided in-plant summer employment for student team members and made available engineeringspecialists to serve as project mentors.The GEDT projects have focused on the design and analyses associated with integrating apropulsion engine into a helicopter. The objective of this paper is to summarize the Boeingmentor’s perspective of the projects accomplished by the student teams. The Boeing mentor hasserved as the project’s engineering technology point of contact.Boeing’s objective in being an industrial sponsor for university projects has included

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

. Currentresearch at various institutes, including the Johns Hopkins University, show that robotics can beemployed for the design of medical systems such as surgical instrumentation. Page 8.1158.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ” 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Objectives Due to the ongoing technological advances in the field, it is essential to have a soundengineering knowledge of control systems that can be employed in the field of robotics. Thiseffort leads to the objective of this project. The

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Murphy; G. Lineberry

, attended by representatives from UK, MuSU, and PCC: ABET 2000 overview.January 2000 Final decision made to seek accreditation as “distinct” programs.May 2000 First Paducah Mechanical Engineering graduates.August 2000 Faculty staffing complete.November 6, 2000 Workshop on Engineering Education for Kentucky, Frankfort, KY: discussions among State educational leaders and CPE representatives concerning application of distance learning technologies; includes a telephone conference call with ABET’s Director of Accreditation.May 2001 First Paducah Chemical Engineering graduates.December

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

conversation," Writing to learn: strategies for assigning and responding to writing across the disciplines, eds. M. D. Sorcinelli and P. Elbow, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, (1997).6. Benson, C. "Technical writing for mechanical engineers: an interdisciplinary approach, Proceedings of the Conference on Improving Writing in Engineering Design, Michigan Technological University, June 24-26, (1992).7. Winsor, D., Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, (1996).8. Swales, J., Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings, Cambridge U Press, (1990).9. Ding, D. "Object-Centered—How Engineering Writing Embodies Objects: A Study of Four Engineering Documents." Technical Communication, 48, August (2001

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Collins; Rajesh Bhaskaran

Session 1566 Integration of Simulation into the Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics Curriculum using FLUENT Rajesh Bhaskaran, Lance Collins Cornell University Ithaca, New YorkAbstractThe objective of this effort is to integrate simulation technology into the intermediate-levelfluid mechanics course in the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at CornellUniversity. This is achieved using FLUENT, an industry-standard computational fluiddynamics (CFD) package. We seek to expose students to the intelligent use of CFD aswell as use FLUENT as a virtual lab

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Bartus; Snehamay Khasnabis

University specializing in the Transportation area. He is also the regular instructor for anundergraduate Engineering Economy Course for the College of Engineering, and has often used economicanalysis as an evaluation tool in his research in transportation.JOSEPH BARTUS is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering currently working onhis Masters Degree (Transportation Major) at Wayne State University. He has served as a GraduateResearch Assistant in the department, and has participated in a number of transportation research projectsat Wayne State University, in the areas of transit fleet management, fare media technology, and assetallocation

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William MacKunis; Daniel Raviv

Session 1532 A Simplistic Approach to Reactive Multi-Robot Navigation in Unknown Environments William MacKunis, Dr. Daniel Raviv Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ElectronWave@aol.com 954.421.7597Abstract Multi-agent control is a very promising area of robotics. In applications for which it isdifficult or impossible for humans to intervene, the utilization of multi-agent, autonomous robotgroups

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

therequired work and receive passing grades. As long as demand for engineers in the market ishigh, employers may accept blind imitators and invest the time and resources to re-educate them.But when the market is stagnant or when the industry has to undergo major adaptations (forexample, to newly developed technologies), blind imitators, that is, graduates who havesuccessfully learned their knowledge base but were not equipped with the necessary skill to belife-long learners will be at a great disadvantage.3.2.2 From the Instructors’ PerspectiveFrom the instructors’ perspective, this problem poses serious and rather complicated challenges.On the one hand, we try our best to teach students to be creative thinkers, inquirers ofknowledge, and life-long

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

and others, surprisingly rare. Nor is thepedagogical rationale for employing educational technology instructional tools rather thantraditional methods clear 7, 19, 39, 41, 38. This work draws on the work of Simon, Dym and others who suggest that, in order fornovice students to benefit most from any form of engineering design activity, one must firstrecognize that the design process is, in fact, made up of a set of interrelated skills. The mostdifficult of these to master are problem solving, parameter estimation, and information searchwithin a domain. Some have suggested that students are often frustrated in their initial attemptsto design since they have not been given any training in such skills 42, 12. In this work

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

women are entering college in large numbers, they are not selecting the STEM fieldsof study (science, technology, engineering and math) that historically gender the higher salaries.The number of engineering degrees awarded nationally to women in 2000 was up 1% from the1999 figure. (9) Bachelor Degrees in Engineering Awarded to Women 22 ¨ 20

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Engelken

images in documents and presentations. Spreadsheets and simulation packages, for example MATLAB and MATHCAD, have worked similar wonders for engineering calculations. NEE should strike balance between the time-tested ways of teaching such as chalk and chalkboard, and new technologies, such as slide presentations or projection of a computer monitor onto a screen. Computer-based courses and distance learning are also on the increase. Technical innovations have potential to be either valuable tools to aid in the learning process or distracting obsessions if too much emphasis and time are applied to them to the detriment of actual teaching and learning of course material. NEE should assess

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Models for Integrating Writing II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Pinkus

R. Pinkus 2003-1978“Writing Across the Engineering Curriculum: Challenges, Experiences, and Insightsfrom the University of Toronto’s Engineering Communications Centre”Rebecca A. Pinkus, MTPW, MALanguage Across the CurriculumFaculty of Applied Science and EngineeringUniversity of TorontoINTRODUCTIONWriting Centers have been in place throughout university systems since the early 1970s[1], as have Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) efforts; both aim to use writing as aform of learning. That is, as students learn to write about their discipline, they also learn tothink more critically about the content they are learning. When these concepts are placedinto the

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

subject degree option, a BS in Engineering,Option in Technology and Engineering Education, which prepares middle school and high schoolteachers to integrate technology into the current California curriculum of mathematics andscience. The goal is to develop a credentialed teacher who understands the engineering disciplineand its reliance on and development of technology and can convey the utility and rewards of acareer choice in the field of engineering to the college-bound student.Introduction Many K-12 educators do not know what engineers do and probably have not met an engineer.So far there has been a sort of band-aid approach to the problem of role models for K-12students. Outreach programs exist including those from public and private

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

Session 2209 One more Thing to Think About: The Ethics of Nanotechnology in Bio-Medical Engineering Research and Development Rosalyn W. Berne, Ph.D. Division of Technology, Culture and Communications University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied SciencesIntroductionWhen the National Science and Technology Council, the Committee on Technology, andthe Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology put theirideas together in the brochure, Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom, theytold the lay public that nanotechnology promises to fundamentally

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

Section 1526PATHWAYS FROM COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING WITH A NANOTECHNOLOGY MINOR Paul M. Hallacher, Douglas E. Fenwick, and Stephen J. Fonash The Penn State Nanofabrication Facility The impact of nanotechnology on the health, wealth, and lives of people could beat least as significant as the combined influences of microelectronics, medical imaging,computer-aided engineering, and the man-made polymers developed in the 20th Century(National Science and Technology Council, July 2000). Some of the breakthroughspromised by nanotechnology include computers with 1,000 times more informationstorage

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bryant; Paul Swamidass

Session 1136 Preparing UG entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs through cross- disciplinary partnership between engineering and business colleges. Dr. Paul M. Swamidass, and Dr. James O. BryantThomas Walter Center for Technology Management, Tiger Drive Rm 104, Auburn University, AL 36849-5358Entrepreneurship in technology-intensive industries requires close cooperative workbetween engineers and business professionals. The premise of a new program at AuburnUniversity is that cross-functional teamwork skills that enable business and engineeringstudents to work together on several projects lays the foundation for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler

faculty and theIndustrial Advisory Board (IAB) on behalf of the then School of Engineering Technology andEngineering. The original curriculum did not require a student to declare a specialty area. Anine-semester-hour set of upper division engineering electives and an additional six semesterhours of technical electives were taken with the advice and consent of the School DegreesCommittee. With the urging of the IAB and strong support of the faculty and administration ofUT Martin, the specialty areas were added in 1999. Each area now consists of 24 hours of upperdivision coursework.A majority (65-70%) of the students choose the civil or mechanical specialty area as enteringfreshmen. An overwhelming majority has gravitated to these two specialties

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

The Use of Undergraduate Minors to Meet National Needs in Nuclear Fission Power Engineering Michael L. Corradini, James J. Duderstadt, William R. Martin University of Wisconsin/University of MichiganAbstractWith the renewed interest in nuclear power as a key component of the nation’s energy portfolio,there is a growing concern about the availability of engineers trained in nuclear technology inview of the very significant erosion in university nuclear engineering programs and facilitiesover the past two decades. Even with a rapid infusion of new resources, the time required torebuild the necessary faculties and facilities and stimulate student interest makes it

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Workshop, August 25-26. Page 8.54.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Biographical InformationPaul Kauffmann is Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at OldDominion University. His previous position at ODU was in the Department of EngineeringManagement. Prior to his academic career, he worked in industry where he held positions as PlantManager and Engineering Director. Dr. Kauffmann received a BS degree in ElectricalEngineering and MENG in

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Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

Session 2549 Developing Student Awareness in the Social and Economic Aspects of Civil Engineering Projects Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThrough the use of a video, a writing assignment, and class discussions, students in a junior levelengineering technology course were exposed to and asked to consider and discuss some of socialand economic issues associated with various projects. A survey prior to these experiences wasused to assess student awareness of the social an economic aspects of civil engineering projects ingeneral and a