Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

thepast five years. The retention problem is evident in engineering disciplines at many universitiesnationwide and efforts have been focused on enriching the freshmen programs with hands-onexperiences.4-7 Electrical engineering programs have reported remarkable success byintroducing courses in the freshmen year that emphasize hands-on experience.4,5,8Some electrical engineering students at RIT are focused and highly motivated. Many of thesestudents benefited from engineering career development opportunities available in high schools,such as Project Lead-the-Way9, enabling them to make informed career choices. Previouspractical experience in electronics is also highly correlated to student success at RIT. Ininterviews with first year, Dean’s List

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Sorby

, determination of the shortest linear distance between lines and planes,and parallelism and perpendicularity of such geometric entities such as lines and planes were top-ics in the course. Other course topics included intersections between two planes and between asolid and a plane as well as pattern developments of solids. Isometric projection was introducedso that students could make pictorial sketches of three-dimensional objects. Approximately one-seventh of the course was devoted to learning Pro/Engineer to develop a computer model of athree-dimensional object. Students spent most of the time in this class using drawing instrumentsincluding triangles, dividers, compasses, and protractors. Scales, lettering, and geometric con-structions using

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

Active Learning in Distance EducationThis paper focuses on three senior elective courses that are a part of the Civil EngineeringTechnology (CET) program at ODU. These courses were offered in the distance educationsetting using varied lecture formats via synchronous video technology. This paper discusses theimplementation of active learning in these distance education classes and the impact of thechanges on student rapport in the courses.CET 460 Construction Cost Estimating, CET 465 Construction Project Management, and ENMA401 Project Management are senior electives that are applied to the CET Degree at ODU. Eachcourse is offered on TELETECHNET (TTN), Old Dominion University’s distance learningnetwork. A traditional lecture format was used

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Schwesig

with these challenges, several European researchinitiatives are trying to update the content of curricula responding to industrial needs. Thispaper first presents the findings of the EU-IST research project BRIDGES by discussing andcomparing e--business trends and challenges in the EU and the USA. Then, challenges foreducation in E-Business are elaborated. Those challenges are picked up by the EU-IST/ IMSproject GEM in order to create a new curriculum for a master degree in ManufacturingStrategy. It will cover technology and business topics and especially consider digital business.Finally, an initial concept of a short course covering essential aspects of production based ondigital business is discussed.IntroductionE-business has brought up

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

in engineeringbegan declining in 1987 and has continued to stay at about the same level through much of the1990s. The total number of graduates from engineering programs is not expected to increasesignificantly over the projection period.”14 In the year 2000 an estimated 400,000 engineering jobswere unfilled; projections indicate that number will grow to 1.75 million by 2008.15 In recognitionof this growing problem, the American Society for Engineering Education has a web site for K-12SMET education that can be viewed at www.asee.org/K-12smet_ed/.Taken together these projections suggest a strong need for high quality, standards-based science,mathematics, and technology learning environments for K-12 students. Engineering contexts forscience

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant tothe evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry, this project will develop and integrate applieddrug delivery coursework and experiments throughout the Rowan Engineering curriculum.To design and produce a new drug delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drugand material properties and the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from thesystem. This requires a solid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics,thermodynamics and transport phenomena. The engineer must also be skilled in characterizationtechniques and physical property testing of

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

.The Accreditation model adopted evaluates the program’s quality through factors that groupelements or characteristics it should have. These characteristics are dimensions of quality and areevaluated through variables, which are their attributes or manifestations, and more specificallythrough indicators both quantitative and qualitative. The factors this model takes into account are:1. Institutional Mission and ObjectivesIt includes quality characteristics that refer to institutional mission, purpose, goals and objectives,to the educational project, to the formation of an academic community, to the institution’s internaland external interactions and to institutional strategies to maintain an appropriate environment.There are 10 characteristics

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

Theory as a basis for MEPP Course DesignThe work of course design for MEPP has benefited from the direct assistance of GregKearsley as a course consultant. In “Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning,” (1999), Kearsley and Shneiderman summarize the basis forengagement as “Relate-Create-Donate.” This simple formula captures the essence of theeffective on-line course and explains the fundamental principles of CTI. 1. Relate – “Emphasizes team efforts that involve communication, planning, management and social skills.” 2. Create – “Students have to define the project (project domain) and focus their efforts on application of ideas to a specific context.” 3. Donate – “Stresses the value

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

often been avoided. With a heavy emphasis on teamwork via industry and accreditationstandards, group projects are a high priority.There are two primary problems to resolve when students work on teams. The first problem isthat students are rarely taught how to work on teams. The second problem is the need to assesseach individual’s contributions (or lack thereof) to the team.Assessing teamwork, by its very nature, is usually deemed as a subjective process. Thus, theapproach employed to perform the assessment must be structured in a manner that can beobjectively and quantitatively measured via a methodology emphasizing the teaching of teamworkand the evaluation of individual contributions to a team. The individual assessments areaccomplished

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tanya Capers; Kofi Nyarko; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

educational facilities to employ the tool. Additionally, fully immersiveVR is not practical for group environments such as classrooms and serves to isolate the studentfrom supporting course material and input devices.A cost effective stereoscopic projection system composed of a single 1GHz PC with 512 MB ofmemory, two DLP projectors (Infocus LP 530), polarizing filters, a dual head NVidia Quadro4900XGL graphics card, a silver projection screen, and polarized glasses, was developed. Thesystem works by first rendering a scene using the OpenGL graphics library. On the hardwarelevel of the graphics card, the scene is captured from two different perspectives meant tosimulate the position of each eye in the physical world. These two streams are fed out on

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

physics institutes which cover • Matter, Mechanics and Energy • Electricity and Magnetism • Optics and Sound.As a means of spreading the concepts and influence of the program beyond the Columbia area,the project personnel have recently completed development of a CD-ROM called "ExploringPhysics: Electricity and Magnetism," designed for use by in-service teachers, and whichcontains hands-on activities from the electricity and magnetism unit aimed at children in grades5-9. The Electricity and Magnetism CD has been field-tested at an in-service training institutefor teachers, has received favorable reviews from such prestigious groups as the National

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

traditional instruments/techniques (DSC, NMR, DMA) to probe details at the nanometer level; • a seminar series on nanotechnology (with invited external speakers from industry, and academia), including field trips to industrial sites; and • a senior project (or capstone thesis for the engineering majors). Efforts are also underway within the Department of Engineering Science andMechanics of the Penn State College of Engineering to develop a minor course of studyin nanotechnology. The cornerstone of this effort is an existing senior year/graduatecourse in nanotechnology, which has already been offered two times to more than 50students. This course, entitled Nanotechnology: Methods and Applications addresses thequestion

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

completed during the summer of 2002, but work may be continuing into the Fall 2002 semester. Work for Phase 3 will not interfere with any scheduled classroom activities.For Phase 1, the CME Division has committed approximately $20,000 for renovations and equipmentpurchases. The anticipated costs for Phase 2 are approximately $13,500. The actual costs for Phase2 may be lower, since the electrical connections and all of the cabling for the projection system arein place. The CME Division is prepared to match an amount of $5,000 toward the completion ofPhase 2, which should significantly reduce the amount that ITS typically allocates for upgrading aclassroom. The budget for Phase 3 (laptops, charging station, network, etc.) is estimated at

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Simpson

and Computer Science, through to highly-specialised colleges in Food Safety, Modern Optics and Aeronautics.• The “n+i” program includes an intensive course in the French language, which the international students have to master in around 6 months, personalized tuition throughout the 2 years spent in France and a final-year project in French industry. Tuition fees are of the order of 6,000 Euros per year and include all language tuition as well as the regular classes.B. Academic Results• Class of 2002 The first “n+i” students arrived in France in July 2000 and graduated in the summer of 2002. The results were: Numbers registered in 8 Institutions : 23 Different

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

6%Department of Biomedical Engineering, incollaboration with the Kenan-Flagler BusinessSchool at UNC-CH, developed an optional Figure 1: Distribution of post-graduationgraduate minor program for M.S. students. employment of fifty M.S. graduates of theThe program focuses on topics in Business UNC-CH Department of BiomedicalAdministration. While the program is Engineering from 1994-2002.expected to benefit students interested inentrepreneurial pursuits, it is primarily aimedat those who will act as team leaders and project managers in industry and public-sectororganizations. Below, we describe the coursework in the program and the administrative issues. Next, wediscuss the history of the program so far

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

: marketing, broadcastresources, continuous improvement, and web site access to additional resources. The SC ATECenter will focus first on innovations from the National Science Foundation ATE program as itbuilds this centralized National Resource Center.One-stop shopping for marketingThe Image and Marketing of Engineering Technology Education (IMETE) project of SinclairCommunity College has two primary objectives: piloting the newly created EngineeringTechnology Education (ETE) marketing materials through three test sites and assessing theeffectiveness of the materials. The three pilot sites are the SC ATE Center of Excellence (pilotcolleges are Florence-Darlington and Piedmont Technical Colleges), Middlesex CountyCommunity College, and the

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Webb; Julie Spader; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1531 ASYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSMISSION FOR MOTOR CONTROL VIA THE INTERNET Chandra R. Sekhar, Omer Farook, Jai P. Agrawal, Essaid Bouktache, J. Spader, T. Webb Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323.ABSTRACTThis paper describes a senior design project of a real-time asynchronous data transfer utilizing aclient -server architecture and the Ethernet LAN topology. This project was executed using twoindependent software programs and a stand-alone server. These two programs function togetherto control a stepper motor via Internet. LabVIEW software is used to monitor, control, and

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

Session 1566 Application-Centered Methodology for Teaching Programmable Logic Controllers Condoor, S.S. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractThe paper discusses the methodology used for teaching programmable logic controllers –a part of the Mechatronics curriculum. The goal of the curriculum is to nurture skills thatcan help in implementing a Mechatronics project from the functional specifications. Tothis end, we developed a teaching paradigm involving several modules each with sixidentical steps. In this teaching paradigm, students see: 1

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Davis; Melissa Dark

describe a community effort to identify the common body of knowledge (CBK)for computer security curricula. Academicians and practitioners have been engaged in targetedworkshops for the past two years, producing the results given here. The long-term objective forthe project is to develop a curriculum framework for undergraduate and graduate programs inInformation Assurance (IA). The framework includes: identification of broad areas of knowledgeconsidered important for practicing professionals in information assurance, identification of keylearning objectives for each of these areas, identification of a body of core knowledge and skillsthat all programs should contain, and a model curriculum including scope and sequence. Theframework's development

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

, currently consists of four projects,or modules, that expose students to a wide array of engineering disciplines. The modules advancespecific learning objectives by providing opportunities for students to work in team environments,exposing students to a range of engineering disciplines and the interplay among those disciplines,and developing basic engineering skills such as computer programming. The overall coursestructure supports these objectives through class-wide lectures, small-group recitation sections of25 to 30 students, and small-group activities based in Notre Dame’s Engineering Learning Center(www.nd.edu/~englearn). Students work individually, on homework assignments and exams, andas members of a team, on the course projects.The College

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

Session 1432 Summer Camp and Course Workshops for Sophomore Level Electrical and Computer Engineers Authors: David P. Shattuck, Frank J. Claydon, Stuart A. Long, Betty J. Barr, Jennifer L. Ruchhoeft, and Lorena I. Basilio Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4005Abstract In response to a program supported by Texas engineering companies and the Texas stategovernment, we have begun a project to attempt to increase the number of graduates in

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

performance factors are consistent withthe creative problem-solving model described by Lumsdaine et al.7 and the project-basedintroduction to design by Dym and Little8. The teamwork attributes are consistent withthe cooperative learning model by Johnson et al.9 The communication attributes areconsistent with recommendations by the writing across the curriculum movement andsummarized by Bean10.Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process • information gathering/understand problem/customer needs • problem definition/goals or requirements defined • idea generation/brainstorming/creativity • evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling • decision making/selection/planning • implementation/produce/deliver design to customer • process review

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

part of a strategy to address thisproblem, our statistics course for juniors was redesigned with input from our faculty and fromindustrial members of the advisory board. The new course emphasizes software rather than handcalculations, introduces application and follows up with theory, and uses case studies fromindustry and from academic research. This course is not isolated in our curriculum. Statisticalanalysis is now a required part of projects in Heat Transfer and Kinetics, and continues to beemphasized in Unit Operations. In this talk, we reveal the motivation for emphasizing statisticsin our curriculum, the structure of the re-designed course, and the assessment methods beingused to gauge student learning in this course.Why Teach

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engaged in aneffort to develop and integrate applied drug delivery coursework and experiments throughout theRowan Engineering curriculum. This paper describes a senior/graduate level elective course indrug delivery, with descriptions of the course structure, organization and content, references,experiments and projects used in this course.Introduction Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Goldberg

Session 2561importance in the design of the facility. Given the diversity of activities involved in this particularventure, it is not surprising that the head of the imagineering project has a degree in Industrial andSystems Engineering, the engineering discipline which typically affords the greatest degree ofbreadth and diversity.Current engineering curricula at most major US universities are not designed to provide the kindof breadth that is necessary to apply engineering concepts of design and analysis in non-traditionalsettings such as those suggested above. Borrowing from the 1997 Professional ActivitiesConference of the IEEE [1] “Society looks upon engineers with a great deal of ambivalence. Our preparation for the engineering

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

students and teachersbenefited from using laboratory activities to demonstrate specific principles such as linearity andtrigonometric functions.1. IntroductionAs our society becomes increasingly technology oriented, we depend ever more upon a solideducational foundation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Dr.Robert Moses, Director of the Algebra Project, argues that proficiency in mathematics isrequired as a functional member of society: “In the Age of Computers, Algebra is a passport forpassage into virtually every avenue of the job market and every street of schooling.”[1]Trigonometric functions are also used throughout science and engineering. Unfortunately,research presented by Hsiu-Zu Ho describes a “math anxiety

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia

students areentering our classes with simple but powerful expectations; (a) I can, with reasonable effort,observe (see a visual image of) most complex behaviors and, (b) I should be able to do this atany time that I feel it is suitable for me, at any time I am ready for learning. (c) My time isvaluable. Teach me in a way that is most efficient for me. Cut to the most important things Ineed to know and convince me why I need to know them.Much has been written about distance learning and how degrees can be earned from offices andhomes. That is not what this paper is about. It is about optimizing time and learning with a mixof instructional delivery styles.This paper describes the first phase of a project to integrate visual and auditory tools in

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tammy Gammon

course is a confidence builder for students with little hands-onexperience. Most students feel the satisfaction gained by achieving the desired physical result,whether the result is a robot behaving in a certain manner or a message scrolling across a liquidcrystal display (LCD). The “fun” element of the course further sparks student interest inengineering. Moreover, as in the case of the “piano” assignment, the tasks assigned in thiscourse can be similar or identical to projects assigned in senior level courses – the difference isthe level of detail which must be addressed. Page 8.787.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering