Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

o Graduate students o Occasionally, team members from o Post-doctoral assistants outside engineering o Laboratories, computers, o Occasionally, graduate students or analysis software undergraduates o UndergraduatesSubject of o Inanimate objects o Students, faculty, & administratorsinquiry o Curricula o Pedagogies o Teaching/learning processes

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

needs-driven technology development. Among the issues that William Wulf,president of the National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in the main plenary address to the 2002ASEE – Annual Conference at Montreal, is the need for reform of faculty reward systems at the nation’sschools of engineering and technology to better reflect the modern practice of engineering.As Wulf pointed out in his address: “I don’t especially want to engage in the teaching vs. research debate. I suspect, like most of you, I believe that teaching and research complement each other. And, by and large, there is a high correlation between good teaching and good research. Good people are good! In my admittedly idiosyncratic career, the number of cases of genuinely

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

given to teach students about the topics they will need for this work and aremore frequent in the beginning of the class. Individualized meetings between the instructor and the teamsoccur from the beginning and are more frequent as the class progresses. After creative design using brainstorming techniques, the students should identify the productattributes. They then transform these attributes to engineering requirements. They should account formanufacturability. Using teamwork, they must simulate the process and analyze the design forengineering requirements. The students give a written and oral proposal, progress report and final report,so communication skills are evaluated. Examples of past machine design capstone projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma; Cheng Lin

provides anideal setting for curriculum enhancement through research experience. Programs like these also enrichthe undergraduate learning experience for ET students. Page 9.566.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 8 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationII Research Environment in ET Programs Traditionally, ET programs have placed a larger emphasis on teaching compared to research.This is especially true for programs that offer only undergraduate education in Engineering Technology.Consequently a number of faculty were

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

Session 2004-2532 Evaluating the Communication Component of an Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study Katherine Wikoff, James Friauf, Hue Tran, Steven Reyer, Owe Petersen Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the evaluation process and findings for teaching and learning ofcommunication skills in the Electrical Engineering Program of the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE). While the teaching of both written and oral communication skills arefostered in a wide variety of courses, only writing can be claimed to be substantially integratedinto the curriculum. A

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

general approach to team formation, project selection,funding, deliverables, and teaching/mentoring. Following this general context are the specificdetails of each project. Projects presented include the design of (1) a women’s hospital inNigeria by senior engineering students at Calvin College, (2) a crop irrigation system in supportof a Honduran community development organization by Dordt College students, (3) a modularand scalable solar power system providing economical power to remote areas by electricalengineering seniors at Grove City College, and (4) a water purification system in Guatemala byMessiah College students. The presentation focus is the development of an underlying model forsuccessfully conducting such projects. Success in this

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

traditionalmechanics of materials courses. Most courses try to balance some amount of finite elementtheory with practice using a commercially-available software package. In this paper, the authorsdescribe a course that adds a third component to a finite element course: a physical laboratory inwhich mechanics of materials experiments are performed and the results compared to FEAresults where practical.When the MET curriculum was revised recently at MSOE, the addition of the physical lab to theFEA course seemed to be a good fit. Although some of the reasons for considering this additionwere logistical ones (elimination of one-credit stand-alone labs to make evening schedulingeasier was a goal), the idea had merit for other reasons. For both the mechanics lab

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

of the undergraduate curriculum (freshman through senior) andcan be used in multiple classes (Freshman Engineering, Intro to Chemical Engineering,Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Transport, Laboratory Practice, and Electives) to illustrateappropriate material. Figure 1 contains a concept map linking modules to concepts within thecurricula that are addressed in this paper. Use of the modules can be preceded by classroomdiscussions of the hydrogen economy, its projected political, social, and environmental impacts(both locally and globally) and/or the challenges associated with converting to such an economy.The modules can also be modified for use at the pre-college level for a wide variety of projectsand/or simple in-class or public

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

research reported in this paper was to use the LON-CAPA homeworksystem to support a problem-based learning approach for teaching hydrology and hydraulicstopics in the University of Delaware course, EGTE 321, Storm-Water Management. This paperwill discuss issues regarding implementation of the LON-CAPA system and assess the impact onstudents and student acceptance of the pedagogy by relating instructor classroom observationsand examining results of a student survey.LON-CAPA is designed to run on the LINUX operating system. The current release is designedfor simplest installation using the Red Hat 7.3 version of LINUX. Coding of problems isaccomplished using Perl, a powerful open-source interpreted language native to LINUX andUNIX operating systems

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education” Page 9.366.2curricula. The ubiquitous use of technology both in the teaching and practice of engineering alsoplays an important role in curriculum but usually not at the highest level. Rather, technologydiscussions should enter when individual courses are planned and the technology can be matchedto the course outcomes.Description of IssueThere are many ways for defining the components of the curriculum. The most commonapproach is to focus on the discipline aspects. For example, the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

electromagnetics: A geometrical approach for problems with plane symmetryDa Silva, J.A.P. (Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo); Rossi, LuizNatal; Cardoso, Jose Roberto; Silva, Viviane Cristine; Lebensztajn, Luiz Source: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,v 38, n 2 I, March, 2002, p 1313-1316Teaching electromagnetic fields and FEM for undergraduate studentsLebensztajn, L. (Escola Polit. da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Silva, V.C.; Rossi, L.N.; Cardoso, J.R. Source: IEEETransactions on Education, v 44, n 2, May, 2001, p 209LMGA-2D: A software package to teach FEA conceptsAbe, Nancy M. (Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo); Cardoso, Jose R.; Clabunde, Douglas R.F.;Passaro, Angelo Source: IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

and use triangulation of that data todevelop an understanding of the program's strengths and weaknesses. These data includeprogrammatic data such as retention data as well as initiative or program specific data. Thesedata are collected in recurring efforts as part of longitudinal assessment and periodic evaluationof unique programs. More resource intensive data collection means such as interviews are usedto calibrate and validate the less resource intensive efforts that are carried out every year. Thesuccess of the FrE program can be attributed to the blending of the scholarship of teaching andthe scholarship of discovery in engineering education. The FrE program has long benefited fromfaculty efforts to adapt, apply, and forward the best of

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Education, vol. 89, no. 4, 2000, pp. 413-418. 13. Churchill, S.W., “Can We Teach Our Students to be Innovative?,” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 116-121; 127. 14. Natishan, M.E., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 15. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team- Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 16. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

. Another conclusion is thatthese changes need to lead to changes in the educational programs that prepare their graduatesfor licensure and professional practice in civil engineering, with the topics to be addedconsiderably in excess over those which can be removed as no longer relevant. The resultingpressure on especially the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum is increasingly obvious.This leads to the following basic questions: “What should we teach civil engineering students?”and “How should the needed educational content be packaged – can all be realistically placed Page 9.910.1within a four-year undergraduate degree program

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

April Kedrowicz

objective of this collaboration is to prepare engineering students to be the leaders of thefuture by equipping them with both technical and leadership skills. So, through the integration ofcommunication, writing, teamwork and ethics into the existing engineering curriculum,graduates of the program will be prepared to occupy positions of leadership in organizations.But, to fully understand interdisciplinary work (and its successes and failures) one must firstunderstand that disciplines are cultures. Thus, when individuals from two or more disciplinesseek to collaborate in teaching or research, the result is a “culture clash” of sorts. This clash isevident through differences in language, practices, and norms. The goal, however, is not tominimize all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Bliven; Elizabeth Eschenbach

objects dissected by the teachersare electrical and contain motors, electromagnets and speakers. Teachers express an increase inconfidence and an increase in their willingness to experiment with science teaching. Theworkshop is very popular amongst teachers who state initially they are unconfident with theirphysical science knowledge. Teacher feedback attributes the popularity of the course to 1) handson activities 2) instructors’ approachableness, and 3) use of minute papers.How Things Work WorkshopThe purpose of the California Science Project1 (CSP) is to serve as a provider of services tostrengthen the science programs and science instruction of California Schools in a mannerconsistent with the California Science Framework and California

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wyrick

author was selected to go to Luleå for seven weeks from January to March, 1997,where he helped teach the Industrial Project course in manufacturing engineering (equivalent toUMD’s senior design), establish contacts for research, and get to know the Swedish system foreducating engineers. A materials engineering professor from Luleå came to help teach theMaterials Science course at UMD from March to May, learn the American system of education,and establish research links.The first students to take advantage of the exchange agreement were for the 1997-98 academicyear. The author spent the same year in Luleå on sabbatical, teaching a PhD course and theIndustrial Project course, doing research on technology assistance and development in small

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

dependent on the fabricationequipment available in the microfabrication laboratory, finding experienced teaching assistantshas also been difficult. Most students that have the highly specialized expertise are typicallyresearch assistants and are not available to serve as teaching assistants. The three new courses represent additions to the course offerings of the College. With nonew faculty, these courses must be taught by the current faculty, representing an overload forthose involved. Another administrative concern is the allocation of student credit hours for eachclass. With students from several different departments, and classes being cross-listed with manyof the same departments, allocation of the student credit hours (used for

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

surveys and meetings 5. Alumni and employer surveys 6. Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam results 7. Common guidelines and rubrics for student reports in laboratory experiments and major design projects 8. Jury evaluation of student work in selected key courses which cover all program outcomes 9. Instructor’s direct assessment of outcomes in exams and key projects 10. Documentation on the Web (http://www.engr.iupui.edu/me/fassessment.shtml), including exemplary student workFindings from the Assessment ProcessA systematic use of the above assessment tools for a period of four semesters revealed certainshortcomings in the programs. The shortcomings were found in the curriculum as well asdelivery of student services

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS and PhD) and Stanford University(MS), and professional experience at Bell Telephone Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is active inengineering education and communications/digital signal processing.RICHARD F. VAZ is Associate Professor of ECE and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary and Global Studies atWPI. He received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in EE from WPI. His interests are in educational methods andassessment, internationalization of engineering education, and service and experiential learning. He has won WPI’scampuswide awards for teaching and for advising. Page 9.594.10

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

% Laboratory Classroom 20% 10% 0%Figure 2. Number of students in engineering internships and co-ops at Iowa StateUniversity. 250 Internship Co-op

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

semester 2003, the RFIC Design course enrollment was 34 students. AGraduate Research Assistant from the principal author’s research group was tasked to act asthe graduate teaching assistant (GTA) and CAD resource for the course, and was instrumentalin the preparation of the CAD tutorials described above.For the course design project, the students were divided into 10 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4by the instructor. Effort was made to balance the groups with regards to prior RF designexperience and prior VLSI design experience to the maximum extent possible. Based on thetiming of the project assignment in the course schedule, the focus of the project was on low-noise amplifier (LNA) design; however, the students had the freedom to propose

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

plan tofacilitate learning of the new material, based upon the successful teaching and learningexperiences in the pilot. The second challenge is regularly confronted and many curricular pilotprojects have produced and shared instructional materials for the new material that the projectteams have introduced into their curricula. However, fewer resources have been generated forthe first challenge. This paper describes a curriculum innovation project that intended toincorporate so-called smart materials and intelligent systems into undergraduate engineeringcurricula at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In addition to describing the curricularinnovations, the goal of the paper is to present two concept inventory assessment instrumentsthat have been

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

-engineering” students at MSU takethree semesters of required courses before entering a major, there is a significant discontinuitybetween the learning and application of the enabling sciences of math, physics and chemistry.More effective use of the required humanities and social science courses was also encouraged,although this is a difficult coordination and management problem on a campus as large asMSU’s (40,000+ students). In particular, the need for improved writing skills was frequentlyidentified. Alumni further recommended the integration of laboratory experiences with themainstream chemical engineering courses allowing students to exercise problem-solving skills inexperiments with a clear purpose. The need to revise the process control course

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

objectivessuch as classes, laboratories, hands-on activities, field trips, mentoring sessions etc. arespecific to appropriate grade course work. Each group has a main thematic unit linkingall other subjects and activities. Each group thematic unit and academic curriculum isaligned with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for appropriate grade levelsproviding students with prior knowledge upon which we could build. FEMME groupsand their thematic focus are as follows: FEMME4--Environmental Science FEMME5--Aerospace Engineering FEMME6--Mechanical Engineering FEMME7--Chemical Engineering FEMME8—Biomedical EngineeringLooking at FEMME7 (Chemical Engineering), as an example, the seventh grade girlslearn about chemical engineering and

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

with a 100 ft ethernet cable was located in a nearby laboratory in closeproximity to the launch site within the transmission range of the wireless transmitter to provide aseamless connection to the wired network. Appropriate settings were achieved to transmit the streamingvideo pertaining to the live blimp launch using one of the web servers on campus.Interested readers can acquire more information on the wireless ACCESS POINT and wireless PCNetwork Card from the website of the vendor 6.Blimp launch on November 21, 2003Goal (v) was demonstrated during the launch at NASA WFF on November 21, 2003.The gondola that was developed and instrumented for the Phase-I efforts worked adequately. However,the shape of the gondola did not allow for it to be

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Mueller; Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

temperature distribution, the heat transfer coefficient along the fin is assumed to be constant.This assumption is technically not correct as the temperature along the fin varies.Recently, a laboratory exercise in which students were to design, build, and test an “infinitely long”fin was proposed by Abu-Mulaweh [5]. One common question posed by students is “What valueshould we use for the heat transfer coefficient?” Apparently, most undergraduate textbooks do notaddress this issue directly. Thus, the motivation for this work is an attempt to answer that question.This paper examines the assumption that the heat transfer coefficient is constant and proposes asimple approach to estimate the average total heat transfer coefficient for a long cylindrical

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

thankfully thereluctance to ask the women along for lunch and other activities is abating of late.The informal gatherings made it possible to ask the hard questions about the climate inthe college. How was it in other departments? Did people mistake you for the secretarytoo? How come he had fewer publications and students than I did and he wasunanimously approved for tenure by the departmental committee? The gatherings werean opportunity for the women to voice their fears and frustrations in a safe environmentwith sympathetic, even empathetic, colleagues. It was a way to check one’s perceptionsof reality which can be skewed when working long hours to teach classes, advisestudents, write grant proposals and papers, and serve on committees to name a