Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Jerry Gintz

expertise of a manufacturing engineer, such as systems integration,microcomputer technology and computer-controlled machinery.For this reason, it is a more effective educational strategy to develop a concentration instead ofjust adding a course or two into an existing curriculum. Manufacturing automation represents awide spectrum of technologies that can be applied to an even wider range of areas. Therefore, itis difficult to teach automation as a single discipline. What becomes necessary is teaching anapproach to automation and solving automation problems.3Automation Degree ConcentrationWith this in mind, the automation concentration for the mechanical engineering technologyprogram at Arizona State University (ASU) consists of six multi

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

explicit connectionsamong related and supporting content and learning outcomes. An explicit plan identifies ways in which theintegration of CDIO skills and multidisciplinary connections are to be made, for example, by mappingCDIO learning outcomes to courses and co-curricular activities that make up the curriculum.Rationale: The teaching of personal, interpersonal and product and system building skills should not beconsidered an addition to an already full curriculum, but an integral part of it. To reach the intendedlearning outcomes in both disciplinary and personal, interpersonal, and product and system building skills,the curriculum and learning experiences have to make dual use of available time. Faculty play an activerole in designing the

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

) EGR345: Dynamic System Modeling and Control* C (AVR), MATLAB EGR450: Manufacturing Control Systems PLC EGR474: Systems Integration C * Discussed as part of the mechanical engineering courses.Evolution of Pr ogr amming Instr uctionIn this section we describe the evolution of programming instruction for our undergraduateengineering students over the last 6 years.The Curriculum in 1999With our common course thread in place in 1999, all engineering students were exposed toprogramming. All freshman engineering students were required to take CS162 (ComputerScience I), an introductory programming course. This course assumed

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

the database job market expects our graduate to haveenough expertise to be able to install and configure their Database Management System, writeapplication programs, design their database, and maintain and administer their database system.Such an expectation requires the offering of more than one course in this area. Therefore, wehave decided that it might be best to add a new area of specialization to our computer scienceprogram called the Database Management System track. The paper elaborates the detail contentof the curriculum requirement for this Database Management System track in our computerscience program.Introduction:Utah Valley State College (UVSC), located in Utah Valley, was founded in 1941. UVSC is astate college comprised of two

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

. The controls portionbenefits from the transition directly from the vibrations portion of the course. The students arevery familiar with the topics, as opposed to trying to recall the information from a previouscourse they may have taken earlier. In fact, they are pleasantly surprised to find how the twotopics can mesh together each other. In addition, the students recognize the value of theirAdvanced Engineering Mathematics course with additional Laplace Transforms content beyondthe Differential Equations course.This course does not sit alone in the curriculum. A Professional Component Plan1 has beenestablished for the curriculum, with an integral component being an experimental plan. Thiscourse and its lab strongly support this plan. In

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Faux; Meredith Knight; Brian Gravel; Christine Cunningham

of small team work; one Fellow works with 1-3teachers--the Fellow serves as a technical resource for the teacher and classroom and the teacherserves as an expert about pedagogy and classroom teaching. The Fellow helps to designengineering activities that align with science and math curriculum frameworks for all grades. TheFellow spends a majority of his/her time co-teaching each class and is therefore exposed firsthand to the challenges and intricacies of public education.Evaluation data collected throughout both Tufts GK-12 projects have suggested an apparenttrend in how the Fellows’ understanding of teaching and schools changes over the course of theirFellowship. Furthermore, many of the Fellows report improvement in their communication

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

Page 10.120.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationyears of the standard four year study program (4YSP) are spread over the first three years of the5YSP.The 5YSP is fully integrated into the mainstream program in the sense that all students on the5YSP attend the same classes, have the same time-table, textbooks and lecturers and write thesame tests and exam papers as the mainstream students. This contributes to increased credibilityof the extended program and prevents stigmatising students as being 'at risk'. Faculty thus takeownership of the extended program and do not view it merely as an

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

timeframe. The COT and CBIA partnership has allowed both secondary teachers and two and fouryear higher education faculty to gain experience and develop curriculum in cutting edgetechnologies. As a result, the COT is the statewide vehicle for creating a technological workforcethat responds to workforce needs in the region.CBIA and the COT were also partners on a previous ATE curriculum development grant. Thisgrant gave CBIA the opportunity to work with dedicated teachers who understood theimportance of learning technology through industry collaborations. Continuing that partnership,CBIA took the lead position, collaborating with CCOT in proposing the ATE professionaldevelopment grant, which was awarded in 2002. This partnership was an important

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

students, andis very time consuming for the engineering faculty. These activities also usually have arelatively short duration compared to the other educational activities, and are often viewed by thereceiving students as a break from the “reality” of school rather than an integral part of it. Theother weakness is that all too often these outreach activities reach the students in high schoolwhen the students have generally decided that they have an interest in math/science/engineering,or as all too commonly occurs, that they do not have such an interest.The goal of those involved in this melding of Engineering and Education is to reach more K-12students for longer periods of time and at earlier ages than most outreach activities

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

the OMAP 5912 starter kit(OSK5912) module supplied by Texas Instruments (TI). Some of the applications covered are:implementing a finite impulse response (FIR) filter and testing with audio, modifying the filterfor different band pass characteristics, testing a media codec and implementing an embeddedweb server. TI expects to disseminate the instructional resources developed and tested in thiscourse to other universities and industry partners.IntroductionThis paper presents the laboratory curriculum developed for a senior-level elective course inReal Time Systems. The labs developed for this semester long course are aimed at providing achallenging experience to electrical and computer engineering students and exposing them tostate-of-the-art

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Wood; John Wood; Daniel Jensen

) at the USAF Academy. In addition, weacknowledge the support of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air ForceAcademy as well as the financial support of the Dean’s Assessment Funding Program.References1. Aglan, H.A. and S.F. Ali, Hands-on Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform. Page 10.572.11 Journal of Engineering Education, 1996: p. 327-330. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Wood, J.J., et al., Enhancing Machine Design by

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

. This isdemonstrated by the approval of the objectives by the department Industrial Advisory Committeewhich consists of representatives of regional industries which employ the graduates.The following program outcomes2 were revised and approved by the Industrial AdvisoryCommittee. The outcomes are demonstrated by the student in each course in the curriculum andmeasured by the program at time of graduation. a. An appropriate mastery of the knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of industrial engineering technology. a1. Technical expertise in quality, metrology, and SPC. a2. Technical expertise in ergonomics, and work methods design. a3. Technical expertise in facilities layout, and production planning

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

)Biographical InformationDARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an NSF K-12 Fellow for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earnedBS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include thedesign and processing of polymer gears, traditional manufacturing processes and engineering education.MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, as well as a former National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellow, she received

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

provide recommendations for improving ethics in engineeringeducation, such as an integrative approach delivered at multiple points in the curriculum andincorporating discipline-specific context.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology requires that engineering programsintroduce students to ethical issues that arise from the practice of engineering [1]. As a result,many engineering departments have recently worked to incorporate ethics into their alreadycrowded curriculum. In this paper, we compare two general approaches to teachingprofessional ethics to undergraduate students, with a particular focus on the effectiveness ofeach mode in improving moral judgment.The College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

a majority of the students,(interestingly, an identical number of students cited each one). These are: 1. honesty and integrity, and 2. safety and concern for the public welfare.Under the first universal, descriptions of this value varied widely in emphasis. Somestudents emphasized the importance of delivering a product according to specifications,not falsifying test data, and other considerations that insure that the customer really doesreceive the product advertised and expected. Others focused more on the submission onone’s own work. These students were more concerned about plagiarism and the stealingand copying of proprietary designs. Among all listing this concern, a slightly largernumber cited the “no lies” aspect mentioned

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

computer programs for design optimization required students to be organized into largerteams. However, the efficiency of such teams in the learning process remains a big questiontoday. Radical efforts have included a single design project vertically integrated through the 4-year curriculum, but generally, faculty have tried to address this concern outside the regularcurriculum through “Design-Build-Fly”10 or research-design team experiences.Systems EngineeringThere is huge apparent demand for people with “Systems” training, but no clear consensus hasemerged regarding the balance between core fundamentals and systems engineering in theundergraduate curriculum. At the same time, Systems education has blossomed at the graduatelevel with many tools

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Singer

/tooling. Communitycollege and undergraduate faculty will have the opportunity to receive an immersive “hands on”look at applying this “out of the box” collaborative design or rapid prototyping curriculumbeginning August 2005 at the campuses of Sinclair community College and Ventura College.This weeklong training program will provide an in depth look at how to integrate collaborativedesign into a curriculum, provide training in parametric design software and collaborative tools,and participate in a collaborative design process during the weeklong event. There is also astipend available to help offset travel expenses.Beginning in the summer of 2005 a network of community college design programs will start adesign resource bartering network focused

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

engineers design the systems that organizations use toproduce goods and services. In addition to working in manufacturing industries, IEs are vitallinks to quality and productivity in places such as medical centers, communication companies,food service organizations, education systems, government, transportation companies, banks,urban planning departments and an array of consulting firms. IE's educate and direct thesegroups in the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles. Especially"hot areas" include manufacturing, health care, occupational safety, and environmentalmanagement.Supply Chain Management and eLogistics: From small companies to giant global institutions, the concept of integration withinbusiness and between

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

perspective on how a training program might be set up usingreal-world experiences in HCI. Seffah & Metzker18 discuss why HCI training should becomepart of the core curriculum in computer science; they also suggest that training in both fieldsshould be part of hiring managers’ employment criteria for software engineers.Integrating the Software Development TeamsFor a truly integrated process there needs to be an integration of software engineering and HCIfrom start to finish. For example, the requirements gathering process needs to be accomplishedby team members with expertise from both disciplines, continuing through planning, modeling,coding, testing, and deployment. Those with usability expertise will most likely focus on theuser interface

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

withthe emerging, technology-embedded literacies of the future? A small group of faculty andlibrarians have been meeting regularly at our college to consider this question.The IL Group: collaborative course innovationThe IL Group at Kansas State University-Salina College of Technology and Aviation is a groupof four: two librarians and two faculty (English and Chemistry committed to developing a matrixof instructional activities to enlarge the role of IL in the "life of the curriculum”12.Kissick and Alysia Starkey, Library Technology Specialist, had launched an online tutorial oflibrary services the previous year, wanted to make contact with faculty to learn more about therole of the tutorials in student learning, which have been shown to support

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

of the United States Military Academy8. “As the sole institution of higher education inthe nation whose primary responsibility is to educate cadets for career service as professionalArmy officers, West Point incorporates a dynamic, challenging, and integrated curriculum,organized around a set of interdisciplinary goals drawn directly from Army needs.” Further, theUSMA Dean of the Academic Board, Brigadier General Daniel Kaufman, states in his Vision forthe Academic Program that he envisions an academic curriculum that is “dynamic,interdisciplinary, and integrated”9. Within the ME and EE programs, a mechatronics tracksatisfies all of these requirements. Perhaps most important of all the reasons for teaching mechatronics, however, was

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

a pedagogical framework for restructuringengineering technician education. Using an interdisciplinary systems engineering approachgrounded in active learning, real-world problem solving, and metacognitive development, wepresent key strategies for developing and enhancing learner proficiency in engineering technicianeducation.IntroductionEngineering technicians play a critical role in the high tech industries that drives this nation’seconomy. Working side-by-side with engineers and scientists, engineering technicians are the“hands-on” people, responsible for building, testing and troubleshooting simple devices andcomponents to complex integrated systems. Engineering technicians design experiments, buildprototypes, analyze and interpret data

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Bosscher; Jeffrey Russell

understand their role in sustainability.This paper explores one way in which engineers can to be educated in sustainability—service-oriented learning.BACKGROUNDSustainability is slowly but surely finding its way into university curricula. An overview of theprogress from 1992 to 1997 is contained in the report The Engineer’s Response to SustainableDevelopment, dated February 1997, and published by World Federation of EngineeringOrganizations (WFEO). In the US many engineering colleges have developed extensiveprograms with special courses on the environment and sustainable technologies. Internationally,other institutions have also integrated these concepts into their courses.In 1999, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) approved a

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

critical.Design and implementation of embedded systems requires a broad knowledge in areastraditionally not covered in any one discipline. These areas include electrical and computerengineering, computing sciences, mechanical engineering, and other engineering disciplines. Asa result, it is very difficult to train students and engineers within a single discipline to effectivelydesign and implement complex real-time embedded systems. Thus, we felt that it was importantto first establish an interdisciplinary framework of structured courses for education in real-timeembedded system design [5]. One of the major goals of this new curriculum is to expose studentsto industrial and commercial quality implementations and bridge the gap between

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

mathematics students will be exposed to an example of a real world scientific example of the importance of data analysis. A GIFT teacher placed in a corporate industrial engineering department spent her summer consolidating and organizing time-study data. She also created databases, executed queries, ran audits and created graphs. From her needs assessment she wrote “I want to place special emphasis on critical thinking and technology because many students fall greatly short in these areas, and they must be proficient in both to be contributing employees.” She expressed a desire to implement a curriculum that is more real world oriented and planed to expose her mathematics students to MS Access

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Kidd; P. Paxton Marshall

the final shows $1000.00 Allocations for Drama Department $3,290.75 Total Project CostsDesign Methodology and Context: Technical instruction was integrated into an introduction to a structured designmethodology using the text Engineering Design by Dym and Little [Dym, 2004]. Teamsengaged in exercises addressing problem definition, establishing objectives and user-requirements, identifying constraints, establishing design functions and specifications,generating design alternatives, preliminary design and test, final design, documentation,and design presentation. Final reports and presentations are available online at:www.seas.virginia.edu/academic/insidethebox/ Class discussion topics included: adjusting to college

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

, intellectual property protection, etc., serving as the focusthrough both weekly faculty-led discussions and an outside speaker seminar. Courseenrollment has been almost entirely engineers. Student teams must organize their ownsemester calendar to produce written reports (progress) as well as oral reports; these arethe basis for grades, as no exams are given. The inclusion of speakers from the start-upworld provides not only factual information but also illustration of the local heroes ofsuch enterprises(4). Vertical integration allows inclusion of sophomores and juniors in this senior-ledformat. These earlier undergraduates agree to contracts (for modest team tasks) with theseniors, who in turn are responsible to faculty advisors. This

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

educational resource for manufacturing related curriculum, content and activities.combined federal, state, and Goal 2: Create for statewide implementation an educational deliverylocal funds in place, the Center System that contains curriculum, content, and technicalis well positioned to meet its programs to support high performance manufacturing withinobjectives. the region. Goal 3: Adapt and/or create needed regional related manufacturing curriculum, content, activities and/or services that cannot be FL-ATE has already

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

Teaching Non-Engineers the Engineering Thought Process with Environmental Engineering as the Instrument Jason C. Lynch, Michael A. Butkus, and Marie C. Johnson Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996Abstract Environmental engineering is a broad discipline with seven areas of specialty asidentified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Based on application of theenvironmental engineering program criteria, an ABET accredited program’s curriculum requiresstudents to have familiarity with each of these specialty areas. The challenge in anundergraduate program is to provide this

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

sequence are being tested via “gateway exams”. These assessments will providean indication of critical background knowledge deficiencies prior to the sequence andidentifiable subject matter that is not being assimilated by students during the sequence. Thedata can be used by faculty and Peer Master Teachers [PMTs] to provide the foundationnecessary to succeed in the BE curriculum and an indication of where improvements are neededin the subject matter and in the presentation of subject matter. The assessment also identifiesstudents that may need assistance in the transition to the Upper Division. These students arebeing offered a series of tutoring workshops, led by peer master teachers. These mentors arechosen for their ability to impart knowledge