Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

limited to taking on jobs that aresimpler in nature and do not require employees capable of multitasking. In the long-run,the company will not be able to compete effectively due to the engineering staffs’ lack ofinnovative ideas and necessary knowledge to implement those ideas. Sustainedtechnological innovation is widely regarded as vital to the success of manufacturingcompanies.According to Holzer2, economic research indicates that employers more than ever areseeking a higher level of cognitive skills (such as reading and writing ability, andcomputer skills) from less-educated workers. New developments, the growingcompetitiveness of product markets, and the growing role of technology in many settings,has changed what employers need from their

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Khan Saeed; Beverlee Kissick

. Page 9.590.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society of Engineering Education 1793References:1. Land, G., "Grow or Die: The Unifying Principle of Transformation", John Wiley and Sons, 1997, pp.8- 162. Saeed Khan, “Teaching Diversity at the College of Aviation and Technology,” Conference Proceeding of the 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November 5-8, 2003, Boulder, CO, pages F3D-24 to F3D-283. Beverlee Kissick and Saeed Khan, “Expectations

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Cowan

1606 CASE STUDY: INCORPORATING 3D SOFTWARE INTO ARCHITECTURAL WORKING DRAWINGS COURSES David Jan Cowan1.0 Introduction This paper discusses the incorporation of 3D CAD software (Architectural Desktop 3.3) intotwo sophomore-level courses within an Engineering Technology Construction Program. Itdiscusses the potential of this software in this type of environment, in particular its attributes andits limitations, and focuses upon several key areas of concern: 1. The transition from generic, 2D CAD to 3D (Architectural Desktop) (herein ADT

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Session 1793 Engineering Design Education in a Hybrid Way, Combining Face-to-Face Instruction with e-Learning Collaboration - Incorporating e-Learning Collaboration to Break the Cultural Barrier in Students’ Work Dynamics - Masakatsu Matsuishi, Dr. Eng., Kazuya Takemata, Dr. Eng., Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Ph.D. Division of Engineering Design Kanazawa Institute of Technology ISHIKAWA 921-8501 JPNAbstract This paper presents one of many effective ways to overcome instructional issues

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Drez; Deepthi Werapitiya; Jerald Rounds

the evaluation techniques used for this online delivery program. Inparticular, it looks at the case study of two courses taught by Professor Jerry Rounds of UNM:Construction Safety and Methods Improvement.Course designers felt it was important to integrate evaluation methods upfront not only becauseof the newness of the online course delivery format for engineering courses, but also the need tomeasure the effectiveness of the design and implementation (Picciano, 2001, Moore & Kearsley,1996)1. Moreover, it was determined that evaluative instruments will provide information aboutthe effectiveness of the online teaching and learning environment as well as the platform(WebCT) and related technologies used to deliver the course. Formative

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Cliver; Mike Eastman

2004-410 Freshman Orientation Activity Richard Cliver, Steven Ciccarelli, Michael Eastman, Jeffrey Lillie Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the experience and positive results in this year’s freshmenorientation at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Before classes started in the fall freshmanin Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology (ECTET) programswere asked to work with faculty as they programmed an inexpensive robot and built maps of theRIT campus for the robots to navigate. The paper discusses these activities in detail, provides

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Slack

. Students and Graduates An engineering technology program must demonstrate that graduates have: a. an appropriate mastery of the knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of their disciplines, b. an ability to apply current knowledge and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering and technology, c. an ability to conduct, analyze and interpret experiments and apply experimental results to improve processes, d. an ability to apply creativity in the design of systems, components or processes appropriate to program objectives, e. an ability to function effectively on teams, f. an ability to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Goodnight

ExecutivesIndianapolis, IN Central Indiana Small Business Administration, Small Business Development Center Venture Capital; Twilight Venture Partners, LLCThe key significance of having three Flagship Enterprise Centers throughout the State of Indianais their partnerships with major universities: Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, AndersonUniversity, Anderson, Indiana and Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. One of their overallobjectives is to interface with and coordinate entrepreneurial research and development effortswith the engineering and technology schools at the universities. The State of Indiana is fundingthese Flagship Enterprise Centers and much of the research and development efforts therein sothey may to be at the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

manufacturingenvironment. Today, IE finds itself intimately involved with a wide range of industrialand non-industrial systems. These systems pertain to government, banking, medical,engineering, military sectors, etc.Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw (NED) University of Engineering and Technology is the onlyuniversity in Pakistan that offers an undergraduate degree in IE. The University ofFlorida (UF), on the other hand, is among the national leaders in IE education. IE at UF isknown for its cutting edge technology, innovative research and distinguished faculty andstudents.This paper compares the IE undergraduate curriculum at NED and UF with specialreference to the socioeconomic, national and industrial needs of both countries. The paperanalyzes current curriculum

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seetha Veeraghanta; Janice Frost

. Herkert [5] argues that framingsustainability in economic or effective management terms excludes and ignores the ramificationsof the social aspects of resource allocation and distribution. Questions pertaining to equity andjust distribution call for ethical frameworks. Therefore linking sustainability to the ethicsdiscourse acknowledges that ultimately the notions of economic progress, and equitable and justdistribution of resource management rest on a world view that is a “value judgement and [basedon] consensual knowledge systems” [6].Contrary to the argument that sustainability and value judgements are not in the purview ofengineers, and that engineers are best suited for objective technological solutions, Kotari [7]claims that: The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

development; and (iv) understand the environmental impacts of development andexplore the role of appropriate technologies in developing sustainable strategies.The second in the series is an engineering course called Sophomore Clinic II, which is taken byall engineering students at Rowan University. Sophomore Clinic II is the 4th course in aninnovative eight semester multidisciplinary engineering design and practice, project-orientedcourse sequence that is a hallmark of the Rowan Engineering program. The students in thiscourse work on projects related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the course,students participate in a semester-long project in which sophomore students from all engineeringdisciplines calculate CO2 emissions for the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

Session 1451 Last Phase of China’s Three Gorges Dam Construction is Underway: Environmental Case Study Wafeek Samuel Wahby, Ph.D., B.Th. Professor, Industrial Technology Program Coordinator Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisAbstractChina’s Three Gorges Dam (TGD) provides excellent educational opportunities forenvironmental engineering educators as they discuss its various aspects with theirstudents and engage them in analyzing its multi-faceted impact. Many individuals andagencies around the world are collecting data to help study the short- and long

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

of any new technology, it is important tomoderate enthusiasm with careful consideration of the limitations of that technology, and tothink about how existing, well-established technologies might accomplish the same tasks with Page 9.352.2less effort. This paper presents a short discussion of observed student attitudes and preferences, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand compares and contrasts 4 basic modes of student-instructor communication; IM, e-mail,telephone and face-to-face

Conference Session

Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Legand Burge; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan; Moses Garuba

theDepartment of Defense has specific procedures for accreditation of modeling and simulation [5].2.2. Importance in ABET AccreditationEducating engineering students with respect to mathematical induction in V&V within M&S isin accordance with the guidelines specified by the Accreditation Board Engineering Technology(ABET). In the ABET 2004-2005 criteria for “Accrediting Engineering Programs,” the“Program Criteria for Electrical, Computer, and Similarly Named Engineering Programs” sectionstates in “Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment” specifically that “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

& Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationto enhance learning outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)fields.There are a number of NSF- or corporate-sponsored consortia in which change to (especially)tighter curricular integration has been set as the goal, often identified as systemic curricularchange. There are two general situations in which such deep change is most feasible: (a) a newinstitution with a curricular blank slate; or (b) an institution in which a consensus of facultysupport wholesale curricular change. Although the NSF-sponsored consortia are due praise forthe results produced, most US engineering schools fall into neither of these two

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lili Zhao; Chris Brus; Julie Jessop

Research). In this, the first phase of the study, three years of baseline data will becollected from incoming first-year College of Engineering (COE) students at the University ofIowa (entering classes of 2002, 2003, 2004). PVST:R testing will be done at the beginning ofeach academic year for entering first-year students and then again for study participants stillpursuing degrees in engineering at the University of Iowa (UI) at the end of their sophomoreyear. A short survey asking for students’ perceived levels of confidence and/or preparation insuch areas as math, science, use of technology, use of graphical tools, etc. will be administered atthree points during the students’ first year in the UI COE (August, January, May) and then againin

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

, andevaluating needs and constraints, and how social issues are appropriately a habitual part ofscientific and engineering practice. Systems engineers are highly equipped to deal with complexity, which inheres in large,technology-driven projects. In any project, the capabilities and needs of the system to bedesigned are balanced with the needs of those who will be using and paying for it. Stevens etal.40 suggest that insufficient attention to both sets of requirements is responsible for moresystem failures than are flaws in the technology. In balancing these paired sets of requirements,a landslide of information must be sorted, prioritized, managed, and applied accurately; the riskof either design or system failure must be evaluated and weighed

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Cheney; Heather Brown

Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience for Advanced Education and Research Careers Brown, H.J. and Cheney, A. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN hjbrown@mtsu.eduAbstractUndergraduate research has been determined at many academic institutions and fundingagencies as a focal point for quality education (NSF 1996). Integrating research hasbecome an essential element in developing students for technical service careers andadvanced degrees. The industry professionals hiring students from the Concrete IndustryManagement

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1532KATHLEEN A. KRAMER is an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and researchinterests are in the areas of digital systems, communications systems, and data fusion. She received her MS andPh.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and her BS in Electrical Engineering(with a second major in Physics) from Loyola Marymount University.DEREK R. MAXWELL recently graduated from the University of San Diego with a BS/BA degree in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

demonstrates that remoteexperimentation in conjunction with additional resources is a viable option for instruction influid mechanics by efficiently supplementing the on campus instruction and considerablyassisting distance learning and non-traditional student education. Page 9.788.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionRapid developments in computer science and network technology enhance the scope of possibleactivities in industry, training, research, and education. Engineers in

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

Session 2422 Development of a Graduate Certificate in Information Assurance Dr. Doug Jacobson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State UniversityThe growing need for information security professionals is well documented. Very fewuniversities offer more than a single cryptography course, and even fewer engineeringdepartments have a presence in this area. The end result is a severe shortage of graduatesproficient in the technology and policy issues critical to the security of the informationinfrastructure. While several universities have started programs to address these needs, this onlysolves a small part of the problem

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

out by Kulacki et al.9, the contents of fluid mechanics at the introductory level havenot changed for several generations. Therefore, the contents covered in this MultimediaEngineering Fluid Mechanics eBook mimic those of traditional and popular textbooks such asYoung et al.5 and White10. The organization of the Multimedia Engineering Fluid MechanicseBook contents is summarized in Table 1. The emphasis and challenge of the present project isto find ways to present the materials with the aids of multimedia technology. The designapproach of this eBook is to capture students’ interest by first presenting a case study. Thetheories and concepts necessary for the students to solve the specific case study are then covered,and followed by a complete

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1793 Session 1793 Experience With Autonomous Robots and Wireless Handheld Internet Devices in a Computer Basics Course Joseph E. Urban, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Debra L. Banks Arizona State UniversityAbstractBeginning undergraduate engineering students need computing skills. A course was developedto support the retention of those undergraduates who were lacking in basic computing skills.This paper discusses the results of using novel technologies in an assimilation course

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeong-Hoon Kim; Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

graphic format for representing “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”interactive 3D vector graphics in the Web page. VRML defines most of the commonly usedsemantics describing 3D geometry, viewpoints, light sources, and material properties. A VRMLmodel is displayed in the Web page through a plug-in VRML viewer such as Cortona or CosmoPlayer. Users’ capability of manipulating the VRML model is often limited by the functions theseVRML viewers provide. Interaction between the VRML model and other information stored thedatabase is sometimes intricate.Another Web-based vector graphic technology that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

high school students. Most of theteams span multiple departments, and this year one team spans two universities and two othersare contemplating commercializing their products, utilizing Florida Tech’s new businessaccelerator, Florida TechStart.BackgroundThe Florida Institute of Technology (aka Florida Tech) is a private university of about 3500students located in Melbourne, on the high technology “Space Coast” of Florida, about 30 milessouth of Cape Canaveral. The principal component of the university is the College ofEngineering (CoE), which harbors about half of the total enrollment. The CoE offers bothundergraduate and graduate programs. Within the College of Engineering are sevendepartments: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

people do in times of calamity. As a result, the earthquake served as a catalyst for more governmental involvement from what was previously a very aloof group.D. Engineering ThermodynamicsStudents analyze four cases related to engineering thermodynamics that are designed to probeseveral different topics in engineering ethics. All cases are drawn from Harris, Pritchard andRabins.8 The first case examines the conflicts of interest in the 1982 case of AmericanAssociation of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) vs. Hydrolevel Corporation, in which ASMEstandards for boiler safety devices were manipulated in committee in order to competitivelyexclude another firm. The second case deals with professionalism in expert testimony when aless technologically

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

different backgrounds and values to emerge as talented.Further, we believe that adapting these types of activities to engineering courses has the potentialto go beyond “filling the gaps” to “opening doors” to women in engineering. As part of an NSFfunded Gender-Equity project, four MEAs were implemented in a first-year problem solving andcomputer tools course at Purdue University in Fall 2002. This paper will describe the nature ofMEAs, overview the research methodology, and demonstrate evidence of curriculum reform atour institution.I. IntroductionOn the national scene, while overall enrollment and retention trends in engineering are alarmingin the face of a national need to increase the technology workforce, the National ScienceFoundation

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pichai Rusmee

Session 1660 Performance Comparison of US and Thai Engineering Students under Similar Learning Conditions P. Rusmee Sirindhorn Institute of Technology, Thailand.AbstractComparative study of two groups of engineering students, one from the United States and onefrom Thailand, was conducted. Their performance and their behavior were compared to show thedifferences or similarities that may not be obvious when only a few students from one group isplaced with the other group, i.e., foreign students in a US classroom situation. The US samplegroup was from solid mechanics classes taught at the University of Utah, USA from 1994 to1997. The Thailand group

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund

existing product, material or process. Students were askedto describe their idea in a business letter and forward it to industry for evaluation. Insome instances a response from industry was actually received by the students concerningthe feasibility of their ideas. We feel this contact with industry so early in theireducational career was very exciting for the students and may aide in student retention inthe major.The paper also briefly describes an instructional module entitled Design for Manufacturethat was also used in ED&G 100. This module was used in teaching studentsfundamentals of engineering design and design for manufacture. The module wasdeveloped by The New York State Curriculum for Advanced Technology Education(NYSCATE). In this

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Zekavat

spectrum ofengineering. This is the increasing penetration of advanced topics of electrical engineering (EE)into other - and often traditionally unrelated - engineering fields. As a result, thecross-correlation among different engineering disciplines is increasing [1]. Various branches ofelectrical and information engineering are acknowledged as core emerging technologies that arecritical for the future of this nation’s economic prosperity [2]. The interconnectivity of electricalengineering with other engineering disciplines demands that our universities train engineeringprofessionals who are fully competent in all aspects of EE relevant to their work.One key mission of university baccalaureate engineering programs is to develop and offer