Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Brewer; Johannes Boehme; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

. and Ph.D.degrees in Biomedical Engineering, a joint M.D./Ph.D. through the Wake Forest UniversitySchool of Medicine, and a joint D.V.M./Ph.D. through the Virginia-Maryland Regional Collegeof Veterinary Medicine. Given that students may take face to face classes on either campus orclasses via distance learning while residing on their home campus in either Blacksburg orWinston-Salem, new instructional technology solutions and infrastructure are required to supportthis initiative. A project team, consisting of members from Wake Forest and Virginia Tech, wasestablished to develop this innovative learning environment. A key feature of this learningenvironment is the ability for the professor to easily interact with students using multiple types

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Matthew Ohland

Session 1526 Using Real-Time Sensors in the Engineering Classroom: The Ongoing Development of an Engineering Education Experiment Matthew W. Ohland and Elizabeth A. Stephan General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractClemson’s NSF-sponsored EXPerimental Engineering in Real-Time (EXPERT) project isinvestigating the effect of using real-time sensors on student learning through graphicalrepresentations of various physical concepts and to facilitate learning the concept itself. Thispaper will address the development and adaptation of the experiment as a model for otherengineering

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

, is addressing the problem. If successfully passed throughCongress, the President’s budget will put much needed financial incentives in place to combatthe low numbers of Hispanics in education.This paper will address: the current U.S. population and education statistics, the trend of someminority groups to obtain higher percentages of both bachelor and engineering degrees over theHispanic population, the next-generation of college students, the projected future populations, thePresident’s actions, and some possible solutions to increase the numbers of Hispanic students inthe engineering field.Current U.S. Population Figures, Including Minority PopulationsAccording to the U.S. Census 2000, minorities constitute 29% of the total U.S. population

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

our own exper-tise in this field. However, the approach described in this paper can easily be modified for otherengineering programs, on any novel content, by suitable choice of experiments. We would like to note that the approach described in this paper is certainly not a substitutefor a full-fledged degree program, however, we believe that it has significant potential in reduc-ing the shortfall for qualified BME professionals, since it can be easily implemented by any oneof nation’s over 300 electrical, 270 mechanical, 160 chemical or other interested engineeringprograms. Our project whose primary goal is to achieve the above mentioned paradigm for integrationof BME concepts in the ECE curriculum has recently been funded by the Course

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

data are more difficult to create and/orcollect on limited budgets, with limited person power and a lack of easily accessible assessmentexpertise. As important, the collection of pre-college outreach activity participant data todetermine whether participants go on to matriculate in engineering or of cohort data on who isretained in the engineering curriculum and who is not are often not done systematically orcollected and not analyzed. (5)Finally, a major barrier to undertaking effective assessment is a lack of recognition of the valuegood assessment adds. In fact, assessment well done becomes the basis for a systemic approachto program development.Assessing Women in Engineering ProjectThe AWE Project (HRD 01 20642) (6,10,11) addresses the

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

enhancedlearning environment 1-9.Over the course of the two week institute, a series of building/programming projects werecompleted using the Legos® and ROBOLAB. These projects were arranged in order ofincreasing complexity and were normally done in teams of two. Typically, the projects werebroken into three parts: 1) “lecture” time was devoted to introducing the hardware and softwaretools needed for that project, 2) the K-12 teachers worked on the “implementation” and 3) eachteam was given time to “demonstrate” their project and to share specific difficulties andsuccesses. The content lectures (item 1 above) were given by UTA professors who haveextensive knowledge in the area of design as well as with the Lego® products and theROBOLAB software. The

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon-Michael Hardin

equal in magnitude and opposite in direction with minimal discussion) (student/group) Hands-on demo of equilibrium of forces in 2-D space (student/group) Beyond Activities: These activities should be designed to encourage students to use their new knowledge of the nature of forces within the broader context concepts of the balancing requirements of force equilibrium and of engineering design: Paper solution for a simple force equilibrium design problem in 2-D space (group project) Class discussion of each group’s paper design Physical fabrication of paper design (group project/group discussion) Class discussion of each group’s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garcia Julio; Patricia Backer

Session 1526 Integration of Computer-Based Electronics Laboratory into a Control Systems Course Julio Garcia and Patricia Ryaby Backer San José State UniversityAbstractThe goal of this project is to adapt the work of other researchers to improve the delivery ofelectronics lecture and laboratory content in the Electronics & Computer Technology (ECT) areaof the BS in Industrial Technology at San Jose State University. There are several otherdemographic factors that serve to make the delivery of instruction challenging for thedepartment. Approximately 70% of

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ressler Stephen; Estes Allen; Karl Meyer; Matthew Morris

courseengineering design project (EDP) and simultaneously assess Engineering and Technology Goalaccomplishment, grading was performed through the use of a computer spreadsheet into which astandardized cut sheet was incorporated. The spreadsheet shown in Figure 1 directly mappedeach requirement of the (EDP) (e.g., base camp layout, road design, schedule) to one or more ofthe 12 assessment indicators. This mapping included weighting factors that accounted for theextent to which a given indicator represented the various requirements of the EDP. For example,a score of 5 was attributed to the relationship between design requirement 2b (Design and Layoutusing GeoBEST) and indicator 3 (Determine information). This maximum weight shows there isa high correlation

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

, “Project Planningand Development” (2 semester credits). This course focuses on the development of projectmanagement skills using project-based activities to excite and motivate freshman. This paperwill present the feedback control projects tied to the development of good project developmentskills, and provide a review of the concepts introduced including proportional, integral & Page 10.828.1differential control. The course is broken down into two major projects during the semester. A “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

Laboratory classes. Through our use of new materials and assessment instrumentssupport our thesis that will lead to student improvement in the defined areas of weakness. Theintegration of peer review strengthens teamwork and professional attitude both in the classroomand later in the students’ professional lives. We have used interdisciplinary collaboration asanother component to help develop analysis and reasoning skills by utilizing field trips tomanufacturers who have quality control and project management programs. Our feedback system in scoring student reports will likely strengthen their technicalwriting skills. This works as follows: The group consists of one author and two to threereviewers every week. The roles alternate. The author

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy; Jamie Phillips

Mentoring Graduate Students In Engineering Education Through Team Teaching Jamie Phillips and Timothy Murphy The University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109AbstractThe preparation of science and engineering graduate students for careers in academia is ofconcern due to the lack of formal professional training in teaching required for new science andengineering faculty members. In this paper, a team teaching project resembling a teachinginternship is described. An undergraduate electrical engineering course was team taught by afaculty member and graduate student in the goal of preparing the graduate student for a futurecareer in academia. The

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

MITEy Rocket Design Project & Assign Teams (1 hour) Monday • Work on MITEy Rocket Design Project (5 hours) • Electrical Engineering Workshop (1 hour) • Biomedical Engineering Workshop (1 hour) • Introduction to SHPE & NSBE Student Organizations (1 hour) Tuesday • Work on MITEy Rocket Design Project (4 hours) • SAT Workshop (1 hour) • UT Freshman Admission Presentation (1 hour) • Aerospace Engineering Workshop (2 hours) • Civil Engineering Workshop (1 hour)Wednesday • Work on MITEy Rocket Design Project (3 hours) • Admission Application (Essays & Resume) Workshop (2 hours) • UT Financial Aid

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Ben Miller; Judith Norback

on Georgia Tech’s NSF-sponsored project tobring workplace communication into a Technical Communication course. Personal interviewshave been conducted with computer science engineers; supervisors; and senior executives. Theresults of the interviews have been used to tailor Technical Communication to the computerscience discipline. These findings will be described along with the course content andpreliminary student assessment data.I. IntroductionGeorgia Tech is engaged in a collaborative effort that combines approaches from the College ofComputing (CoC), the School of Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC) and a workforcecommunication project originated in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The goalis to integrate the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karan Watson; John Weese

standing. .In the MEEN 381 course, each student had the opportunity to present two projects. Inthe sample, there were 17 women, all of whom presented two projects, and 83 men,two of whom only presented one project. Of the women, 7 were seniors, 9 juniors, and 1sophomore. Of the men, 2 were master level students, 27 seniors, 50 juniors and 4sophomores. The master level students were seniors allowed to take graduate coursesfor credit. Table 3 Distribution of Categories of Topics Chosen for Presentation in Fall 2004 MEEN 381 home & human intern vehicles hobby engines energy structures materials body

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Goodmann

computer (either desktop or laptop) can outfit a personalrealtime DSP lab at little or no cost.A DSP course should be about DSP and implementing DSP functions, not about the nuts andbolts of DirectX® programming. The student is relieved from having to become a DirectX®programmer for the sake of a few lab experiments by providing a custom AppWizard which isused within Visual Studio to create the skeleton (and much of the meat) of a DirectX® projectwhich already contains all the required DirectX® code before the student ever touches it. Thestudent is required to add the DSP code, but does not need to worry about the details ofDirectX®. Detailed instructions are also provided for building the project and adding it to thesystem registry, in order to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Willis

-invitation-only for 500 middle school students and a TV show that reaches upwards of 8 million studentsacross the U.S. Each year, Visioneering has a unique theme that relates engineering to anexciting, often unlikely industry. The live event includes an Opening Rally, during whichparticipants hear from high-energy, inspirational speakers; a Design Project, in which studentteams led by an engineer create a conceptual design; a Tech Expo that showcases the latesttechnology; and an Awards Ceremony that recognizes the top student designs. The Telly Awardwinning TV show, aired on Cable Channel One, is a compilation of footage from the live eventas well as pre-shot footage. Each year, over half of the students attending are female and overhalf are blacks

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

. The practicalclasses and the laboratories take half of the schedule and they approach techniques and locationtechnologies, creation and reproduction of aquatic species and of industrialization. It is aprogram that will fulfill the lack of this kind of engineer in the Atlantic Coast Region of SãoPaulo State, which has a natural vocation to fish. It is because of its large portion of seashore andlarge number of fishing communities besides the industries of fish caught. It is a project that alsohas the goal to change the old orthodox pedagogy for engineering education.1. IntroductionThe mission of Education is most of all, to promote the natural ability of the mind to set and tosolve problems and by inter-relation to stimulate the full usage of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Bradley Jenkins; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

how the Center plans to meet itsmultifaceted challenges.NSF-ATE Program Overview The Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program at NSF is committed to developing thebest practices in technician education and have these practices become standard operatingprocedures for educators throughout the United States. The program was initiated bycongressional legislation in 1992 to increase the number of skilled technicians in “strategicadvanced-technology fields” with in the nation and to improve the productivity of Americanindustry. To accomplish this mission, NSF-ATE supports Centers and projects that utilizepartnerships with industry, business, government, and other educational institutions to achieveimprovements in one or more the ATE program goal

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine

a variety of active learning techniques have beenreported 3,5.BackgroundTrinity University is a small (c2500 student FTE), private, liberal arts institution that is almostentirely made up of undergraduates. Unlike many schools with a similar description, it alsoincludes a Department of Engineering Science, whose mission is to “provide students with abroad-based undergraduate engineering education by offering a design-oriented, multi-disciplinary engineering science curriculum in the context of the University’s traditions of theliberal arts and sciences.”6 The key phrase is “design-oriented”, which translates intoparticipation in engineering design projects throughout the eight-semester design coursesequence. Thus it is highly advantageous

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

Subject 1 Bridge Building Competition 2 Engineering Art, E-mail and the Web 3 3D Art and Fundamentals of Flight 4 3D Art and Web Design I 5 Exam 1 and Web Design II 6 Instrumentation, Web Design III and Final Project Assigned 7 Circuits and Engineering Math 8 Exam 2, Timers and Flip-Flops and other IC’s 9 Blinky and How Things Work 10 Stress & Strain and Ethics, and Presentation of Final ProjectsEach lecture period is made friendly and inviting using some interesting techniques. Prior tolecture the room lights are dimmed and popular music is played. The latest news from Google orCNN is projected on a pull down screen and an aromatic candle is lit. When lecture starts themusic fades and the news

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepak Gupta; Robert Creese

their participationlevel and the evaluation is used to adjust the project grade for an individual student. The use ofthe computer has permitted the team size to be reduced to 2-3 students in the large classesinstead of the 4-7 students that occurred in the past. The basic manufacturing processes course, which is required by the Industrial Page 10.499.1Engineering program, the Mechanical Engineering program, and the Aerospace Engineering andMechanical Engineering dual major program, is a 2 credit course and is typically taken in the “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Askew; Cari-Sue Wilmot; Colley Hodges; Richard Bannerot

Session 1661 Teaching Technical Communications in an Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center Colley Hodges, Cari-Sue Wilmot, Robert Askew, Richard Bannerot University of Houston Writing Center/Dept. of Mechanical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the continuing and evolving relationship between the Writing in theDiscipline Program in the University of Houston Writing Center and the Cullen College ofEngineering. This specific project is an intervention into a sophomore design course inmechanical engineering that took place for the first

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

appreciation of the skills required to construct acompetitive machine for the end-of-course competition. The main goal of the summer, however,was to allow him to determine if and how the Georgia Tech course content could fit into thelearning objectives of the physics curriculum.Mousetrap Car CompetitionDuring the Fall Semester, the physics teacher and the STEP Fellow adapted an older version ofthe Georgia Tech design competition as a six-week student project. Prior to the 2000-2001school year, the ME 2110 competition limited the students to mousetraps and gravity as energysources. In the high school competition, the goal was to design a car powered by mousetrapsthat would travel a specified distance and stop on a target. Students were grouped into

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren; Jason Yao

describes how this device and it features have been applied in classroom environmentsto stimulate student learning. Several examples are introduced in detail, including (a) a pulseoximetry laboratory/lecture pair for a bioinstrumentation course sequence, (b) data sources forcourse projects in Linear Systems (EECE 512) and Scientific Computing (EECE 840), and (c) aplatform upon which undergraduate honors research students can build. This approach can beextended to other devices and classes.II. Theory – Principles of Pulse OximetryPPG pulse oximetry relies on the fractional change in light absorption due to arterial pulsations.In a typical configuration, light at two different wavelengths illuminating one side of tissue (e.g.,a finger) will be

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Goals and Methods of Electrical Conversion Chap 1 switching converters Review of Fourier Series Appendix E Power Semiconductors Chap 2 Homework or projects Class notes B) AC-DC Converter Diode Circuits Chap 3 Rectifier Appendix D Thyristor Chap 7 Controlled Rectifier

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

When Less is Mor e: Integr ating Technical Wr iting Instr uction in a Lar ge, Fir st-Year Engineer ing Cour se William P. Manion and David Adams Univer sity of Maine Abstr act Providing technical writing instruction within a large, first-year engineering course involves both logistical and imaginative challenges but can also yield substantive results. In the fall of 2003, the University of Maine initiated a new plan, called the Engineering Communication Project (ECP), to integrate technical writing instruction throughout the College of Engineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

reports that we submitted to Boeing.Around the time that our summer fellowships ended, the National Academy of Engineeringreleased their report on The Ingenious Engineer of 2020.1 The NAE also used scenarios on agrand scale. One related to the effects of continued automation and commercialized bio-nanotechnology on a corporate lifestyle. One visualized a natural disaster – a tsunami caused byan asteroid impact, devastating the Pacific Northwest – brought home all too vividly by thecatastrophe in Asia at the end of 2004. A third envisaged global conflict with weapons of massdestruction. Our project is much less ambitious in scope, and is focused on how aerospaceengineering undergraduates must be educated starting this year. We note that the

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

The Engineering Decision Making Model: Its Importance as Applied through the Context of a World War II Simulation Elias W. Faraclas1 & Catherine Koehler2 1 School of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 2 Neag School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268Abstract The NSF sponsored Galileo Project, at the University of Connecticut, aims to bringengineering education and experiences to high school level classrooms and curriculum. Inattempting to

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

A Study Examining Change in Underrepresented Student Views of Engineering as a Result of Working with Engineers in the Elementary Classroom Stephen Thompson and Jed Lyons University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 sthompson@sc.eduAbstractThis paper describes the results of a National Science Foundation sponsored Graduate TeachingFellows in K-12 Education project that was designed to increase elementary students’understanding of engineering, with an ultimate goal of increasing the probability of futureinvolvement in engineering fields. This project