Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

. Visits to the company site and regular interaction with the company contact give the students a real-life design team experience before graduation. Students learn to plan a timeline and work under time and monetary constraints often encountered in the work force. A final presentation and written report teaches the students how to document their work in a professional way. A final “design poster fair” benefits both the students in the course as well as other students in the college.3. The Texaco Lab has five test stands, an IC engine, refrigeration cycle, vibrations test, Rankine power cycle, and jet engine. This lab is visited by several junior Mechanical Engineering courses to demonstrate the different measurements and analysis

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pramodh Viswanathan; Molu Olumolade

increased productivity of workers in a section of the company. It alsoreduced the amount of personal, delay and fatigue allowances of the workers.IntroductionIn the last decade, we have witnessed increasingly growing awareness of large-range planning inall sectors. Companies are more than ever concerned with long-term stability and profitability.In order to remain competitive, manufacturing facilities must be designed with enough flexibilityto withstand significant changes in their operating requirements.Productivity improvement means elimination of wastes and its precondition is the proper pursuitof goals. Manufacturing system improvement includes productivity improvement, work systemimprovement and work measurement with special elements of safety

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sweeney; Heather Cullen; Alyssa Panitch

professional practice):‚ Beginning of Semester ‚ Introduction to the course (course instructors) ‚ History and overview of the field of Bioengineering (guest faculty; 3h) ‚ Bioengineering and the Bioengineering curriculum at ASU (course instructors) ‚ Includes career planning survey and pre-course student self-assessment (4) ‚ Includes focus on ABET and benefits of accreditation ‚ Includes promotion of student research opportunities and internship programs (4) ‚ Introduction to Technical Writing in the discipline (guest English faculty; course instructors; 3g) Page 9.378.5 ‚ Includes writing as a group (3d

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ping Wei; Thomas Quimby

active student chaptersand the data shows that they also produce more professional members than the generalpopulation.It would be interesting to research what influenced the peaks in 1994 and 1997. Such data maybe useful in future policy planning. Page 9.1269.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Follow-up SurveyThe first two offerings of the

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

shared infrastructure, and increase the capacity of engineering and sciencegraduates to contribute to the U.S. competitive edge. They provide a system perspective for long-term engineering research and education, enabling fresh technologies, productive engineeringprocesses, and innovative products and services.Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education (DLR) – provides anopportunity for institutions to compete for planning and implementation grants to assistdepartmental and larger units in developing comprehensive plans to reformulate, streamline andupdate engineering and engineering technology degree programs, developing new curricula foremerging engineering disciplines, and meeting the emerging workforce and educational

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Reece; Carl White

service and participates on an active board thatdevelops “daily” action plans for participating students. The daily action plans aredeveloped and updated periodically during the semester by each coordinator. The actionplans outline issues that may affect the student and actions for implementation to improvestudent academic, training, and research performance.III. RESEARCH AND TRAINING EMBEDDED WITHIN THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUMFor years freshmen, have been denied the esteem privileges of participating in advancedresearch programs. However, by including research and training within the academiccurriculum, all students, particularly freshmen and sophomore undergraduate students,can participate in the research experience. ATMO recruits its students from

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringnot keeping the user(s) attention off the intended purpose(s) of the environment. Besides theneed to keep a consistent layout/floor plan, other factors that will properly aid navigation areopen spaces, directional cues, and key location points.4.1. Layout of the EnvironmentOutside the environment being a replication of a real world location, such as the crawlspace of apyramid, etc., the environment should have a consistent layout/floor plan and be designed withwide hallways and doors, and with enough room between objects such as tables, chairs, trees,etc., so that a user may pass freely between them. The user(s) should also have enough room toturn around inside each area of the environment. By

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

the Mentor provide technical comments suggesting areas forimprovement. The grade on the final report is heavily influenced by the team’s response to theTech Writer’s criticisms and to the team’s demonstrated ability to carry those changes forwardinto the three new chapters required in the final report.A sequence of scheduled submittals is used to cause the students to look at various aspects of thedesign. These include the key components of performance, schedule and cost. They are coachedto organize the team to perform basic management functions in preparation for the assigned taskof subdividing the work of designing and building the product. Reports on the Progress, Plans

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Wentzheimer; Jeremy G. VanAntwerp; Douglas A. Vander Griend; Jennifer VanAntwerp

),explosion chemistry, and the Haber-Bosch process. These provide concrete and interestingexamples to the students of how the chemical concepts of equilibrium are essential to producinguseful technologies.The focus of the materials science is on using materials in engineering design. Students arechallenged to look at how material properties arise from the chemistry and processing ofmaterials. The course includes a design project on injection molding of a car door panel. Fromthe project they learn how to do an engineering design project (currently we have three projects,and plan to have five, distributed to the five engineering courses of the first two years) and howmaterial selection and processing conditions influence product properties and cost

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Adams

. Page 9.204.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationRose-Hulman’s Office of Assessment worked with the faculty in the course in designing anassessment plan to measure the effect the course had on students’ perceptions of their knowledgeand competence levels in MEMS. In this effort, a MEMS Course Survey was developed andadministered the first day of the course and again the last week of the term. A detailed statisticalanalysis was performed on the collected data, detailed results of which will be presentedelsewhere. Traditional course evaluation surveys were also administered at the end of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Tang; Lynn Johnson

and other events could be posted by thoseresponsible for organizing the events. E-mail reminders could be broadcast to the entiregroup, or to individuals as desired. Project management documents were posted to thesite to allow all participants to review the original proposal, work plan and progressreports. Threaded discussions were conducted to address workshop planning and othertopics.Teams of faculty collaborating on ILAPs and other course materials development wereestablished as Groups, but these restricted access domains were not used very much. Itended up that the Project Documents site was used for each collaboration area, and allparticipants had open access to each others documents. The Discussion Board was usedextensively for follow

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund

project in the second part of the semester, when student teamsselect a "need-based" product, and do prototyping, strategic planning, business feasibilityanalysis, basic costing, business plan generation, customer feedback. 2ENGR 411: Entrepreneurial Business Basics. Provides coverage of the three knowledgeareas most lacking in engineering students with new venture creation interests: Finance,Intellectual Property (PI), and Marketing. Problem-based learning is a key component ofthe course, with group-based investigations of current business/technology topics whichpull in business finances, PI, and marketing. Such as the Firestone/Bridgestone andNapster cases. The primary objective of this course is to get you to think as a blend of anengineer and

Conference Session

Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Bowman

their first semesterproviding them an earlier chance to catch the excitement of chemical engineering and helpingthem make better-informed decisions regarding their educational plans. One 4 week module ofthe course was based on examining and experimenting with a fuel cell car to be used in theAIChE ChemECar contest. Each class period student teams were presented with an open-endedquestion such as how does the car work, how fast does it go, how much weight can it carry, what"mileage" does it get, etc. Teams designed simple experiments using basic measurement toolsand items available in the classroom. Experimental results from all teams were compiled andused to try and answer the question of the day. At the beginning of the next class, the results

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Socha; Valentin Razmov

: absolutely) Level S H L/l P E M Priority Item Scheduled Project E 3 Good Enough E 3 Testing Jan 29 / Feb 2 ? P 3 Professional Level Tools E 3 Software Process (Waterfall / Spiral / Etc.) after 2nd delivery ? L 3 Project Planning – Commitments Session scheduled P 3 Status (Part Of Project Planning) scheduled

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Smolleck

was also considered critical that the planned laboratory presenta modern and realistic image, while allowing flexibility of use. Thus elements of powerelectronics and computer-based control, as well as the use of automated test equipment,were considered important. These developments were supported by a generous contributionfrom the El Paso Electric Company, and a grant from the Department of Defense Air ForceOffice of Scientific Research. Laboratory Concept Figure 1 provides an overview of the desired energy systems laboratory accordingto our present goals1. The equipment in the laboratory consists of commercially availableconsoles or ‘workbenches’. Each console is essentially a test-bed where students canconnect and

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Patterson; C. Richard Helps

. Page 9.580.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Critical Decisions 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Selection Selection Coding None Design Planning Project PartFigure 1. The number of decisions that were considered critical regarding a certain subjectFigure 2 illustrates the individual students’ opinions on how

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mason

for the project to be a success. One ofthe key obstacles in this project is that university team members do not ever meet in person withhigh school team members. All communication is done using email, video conferencing or net-meeting software equipped with video, voice, chat, white board, and file-transfer.The remainder of this paper is divided into three sections. In section two we discuss the variouscategories we use to assess teamwork and the actual assessment tools used to assess eachmeasure. Section three presents results of using these tools to assess teamwork in the learningcommunity design class over two quarters. The summary of results and planned classimprovements are given in section four.Teamwork AssessmentAssessment of teamwork

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

, queuing, linearprogramming and decision theory models, using a conventional management science textbooksupplemented by applications from the marine environ. Examples include optimum dredgingstrategies for navigation channel maintenance, beach fill operations for shore protection andrecreational planning, port development and commercial ship routings. Application of such skillscrosses many naval disciplines including fleet operations and logistics, engineering duty officerand staff corps responsibilities. The goal of this course is to enhance the engineering and projectmanagement skills of Academy midshipmen. Practically speaking, enhancement of such skillswill benefit all future naval officers and engineers.Details of the initial offering of this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

year. Because design projects can bematerial intensive, each teacher was allotted $250 to spend on their project(s), giving them anincentive to try a new approach to teaching in their field. Seven of the 22 teachers planned to useone of the projects from the workshop, the most popular being a variation on the water filterproject. Some of the other projects teachers planned to do with students during the year are Page 9.757.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdescribed below. The wide

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

time – no exceptions. The students typically have a test on thefirst Friday. It was found that if the students were not forced to evaluate their performance onthese tests with an academic advisor, they were quick to discount poor performance as a fluke.However all students must not have 20 minute weekly advising sessions where their grades arediscussed and future actions planned. The academic performance of the students markedlyimproved with this addition.• Weekly staff meetings were implemented and included all program staff.This may straightforward, but this was an overlooked event for the first 2 years of ASPIRE. Theresult was that each program staff had information on various students, but it was never shared.Therefore weekly faculty

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Beltz; Marie Dahleh

the freshman year hasthree more opportunities to take it before the second Summer session of the sophomore year: thefirst session of freshman Summer, the Spring of the sophomore year, and the first session of thesophomore Summer. Statics is offered in the first session of the Summer, while Mathematics 5Cis offered in both sessions of the Summer. Typically it is the mathematics prerequisite whichprevents students from taking either ME 14 or ME 16 when they are scheduled during theacademic year. A flow chart on the next page illustrates the overall sequencing.As the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering started the planning for theSummer of 2001, several concerns arose: (i) would we be able to convince faculty to teach inthe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Bradley; Walter Bradley

, with theprofessor serving as the facilitator for the program. The fifty-page workbook includes 25 pagesof notes that follow the video presentation and 25 pages of application activities that the studentscomplete at the end of the various video segments at the workshop.The seminar has six segments that address the following topics: • Select your destination (where do you want to be in five years); • Determine your path (focusing on goal setting for the semester); • Planning to succeed (emphasizing the importance of planning your schedule for the week each Sunday and then following it like a compass through the week); • Maximizing your in-class learning by o Staying caught up in your understanding

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Joordens; John Long; John Florance

and toother curriculum resources, aiming to enhance the use of the kit by distance students. Keycurriculum resources planned are a web-based ‘companion’ for the components in and theuse of the kit, and two additions to the kit itself: a battery powered function generator, and aPC-based oscilloscope.IntroductionPractical education through hands-on activities is an essential part of any engineeringcurriculum. “Book Learning” alone is quite insufficient for the student who is training to be amodern engineer. In the field of electronics and electrical engineering this is especially so.Electronics is one of the most hands-on fields in engineering. The ability to build and testelectronic circuits and devices is just as important as the ability to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aisha Lawrey

it could provide me with more money.” The teacher survey includesquestions such as “I would not like any of my students to be engineers,” and “At least one of mystudents is planning on studying engineering in college.” [6] Page 9.536.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThese evaluations are on going and the data is still being compiled at this time. We are planningto write a paper in the future about the results of these surveys and the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

of cities between which a line can’t be constructed.Design teams were asked to investigate the proposed system to see if there were any constraintviolations. If there are any violations, teams were asked to develop a system expansion plan(additional transmission lines) that would eliminate the violations and propose a finaltransmission system with no violations. Teams were also asked to write a formal reportexplaining team’s findings about the original system, the approach they used in solving anyviolation, and the final recommended system with its cost implications.Design Project 2. This design project was assigned to student teams in EE3410, which is thefirst power course in the curriculum. The design involved the study of the voltage

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Law; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

elective. They provide the strong backgroundthat employers strongly desire in the student who plans to seek employment in the electricutilities or in industries with a strong, direct interface to those utilities. These topics also preparethe student for graduate work in power systems, the primary focus of our graduate program.An in-depth study of power electronics and machine drives is the subject of the other technicalelective. The junior-level course uses dc to dc converters and switch mode power supplies toteach the fundamentals and to give some depth in an application. Industrial power convertersand motor drives are the subject of this technical elective, for example, three-phase rectifiers,inverters, drives, and methods of protection. Here

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

, including but not limited to laboratory research, case studies, and tutorials on advancedtopics. If a faculty member is willing to supervise the student project, the student must prepare aproposal for the project and submit the proposal to the department head. The independent studyproposal should include a statement of the problem to be addressed or topic to be investigated inthe independent study, an overview of the proposed research plan or a syllabus, any deliverables,and a timeline for the project. All students who take an independent study are required to presenta seminar to faculty and students and prepare a final paper on the results of their work. A copyof all final papers is kept by the department.HonorsLafayette College specifies that

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hughes; Alok Verma

experience - both theoretical and practical - in the variousaspects of a skilled trade. Today's apprentices are fully trained, well-paid men andwomen acquiring skills and knowledge that will serve them well throughout their careers. The Apprentice School of Northrop Grumman Newport News offers four-year,tuition-free apprenticeships in 17 skilled trades to qualified men and women. Apprenticeswork a regular 40- hour week and are paid for all work, including time spent in academicclasses. Two optional design and production planning apprenticeship programs areavailable for selected apprentices after completion of required academics and about twoyears in craft training. The five-year design program prepares individuals in one of sixdesign

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

projects. Teams generally meet weekly to discuss the progress of students andto plan the sequence of instruction for the coming week. Instructors are routinely in theclassroom at the same time only when students are making team presentations that are jointlygraded by the teaching team. Students enroll in all four ATE classes simultaneously unlessexempt from a course within the ET Core because of previously earned credit. It is not essentialthat courses in the ET Core be scheduled in an uninterrupted block of time, but this type ofscheduling helps keep students focused.Senior projects and capstone courses often "pull it all together" for four-year college engineeringor engineering technology students who persist to become seniors. For two-year

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Qaissaunee

;• Plan, develop, and host academic/industry training seminars; • Contribute to regional institutions’ program improvement; andThis work will benefit regional industry, government agencies, high school teachers andstudents, community college faculty and students, those switching into information technology Page 9.1424.1careers, and those with bachelor’s degrees in unrelated fields. Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOverview Brookdale Community College, working as a regional