Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

collegescience/math core and introduced a new engineering design course (E4) for first year students.Warren Wilson, the first Chair of the Engineering Department presented the course objectivesthat were to become the goals of the engineering program for the next thirty years15: 1. Acquaint students with engineering practice; 2. Develop skills, by use, in computation; 3. Foster creative ability through projects; 4. Gain insight into management through group projects; 5. Develop appreciation for non-technical aspects of design; and 6. Foster willingness to responsibly attack open-ended problems.The Clinic courses and the first-year design course expose students to client-based designproblems. Each year about 25 new Clinic projects

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Wayne Unsell

Session 2549 Course Transformation Using Mobile Technology C. Wayne Unsell Indiana-Purdue University Ft. WayneAbstractA course transformation grant was awarded by the university to implement the PC Tablet,wireless access, and WebCT in a senior level soils and foundations class for the fall semester2003. The course is housed in the Department of Civil and Architectural EngineeringTechnology (CAET), the School of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science (ETCS),Indiana-Purdue University Ft. Wayne (IPFW). The grant was a university “pilot” project as afirst step in

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Spence

engineeringapplications in their algebra classrooms via CD curriculum kits. The curriculum on the CDs willhelp students apply algebraic concepts more effectively while giving them a glimpse into theworld of engineering. Many opportunities and challenges have been encountered during theinitial implementation of the program.The goal of this project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is to increase studentenrollment and student diversity in college engineering programs throughout the state ofMaryland and, potentially, throughout the country. The program incorporates five objectives inorder to attain this goal: (1) develop CD curriculum kits that target different fields of engineering(chemical/mechanical, electrical, and civil/mechanical) that can be

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wyrick

required courses in simulation, manufacturingsystems integration, and two semesters of project management and senior design. The seniordesign projects are team-based and are frequently sponsored by industrial clients. The remainingcourses are technical electives and social science and humanities electives. This relatively openschedule was developed so that this exchange could be facilitated when the University ofMinnesota system switched from quarters to semesters.The fourth year for IE students going to Luleå requires that they take courses in simulation,automated systems integration, a team-based industry-sponsored capstone project, computerintegrated manufacturing, a technical elective, and an integrative course in Swedish language,culture, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

science skill. Thisis indicative of the mounting evidence that employers, especially those that are joining or thathave joined the quality revolution, are desperate for people who do not have to learn on the jobhow to fit into a team-centered culture where communication, interpersonal skills, andprofessionalism, are as important as technical skills.” 54 Is the Engineer Primarily a Designer?“Don’t let it turn into a science project.” This may seem a strange turn of phrase to anacademician, but it is well understood in engineering industry. Engineering managers do notwant engineers to spend inordinate amounts of time doing research that does not directly aid infinishing a product design in a timely manner. A “science project” may not only produce

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

Session #1615 Making The Strange Familiar: Creativity and the Future of Engineering Education W. B. Stouffer, Jeffrey S. Russell, and Michael G. Oliva Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIntroductionWhy does the perception persist that engineers are uncreative, or worse, do not need to tap intocreativity when most engineering projects demand creative or innovative approaches in thedesign of equipment, systems, and facilities? With the complexity surrounding everyengineering project mounting as natural resources dwindle, the world population

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

role of faculty, practitioners, and students in imparting the BOK by means of B+M/30 programs. Seek input from and support for the preceding from forward-looking academics and practitioners.The Committee defined the BOK as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become alicensed professional civil engineer. The BOK would be fulfilled by a carefully integratedcombination of pre-licensure formal education and pre-licensure experience. PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the recommendations of the BOK Committee and tointroduce the curricula design project, the current phase of BOK development. For

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

)All courses must be accredited by a professional engineering institution. There is a requirementfor the training to include a significant component of project work, at least 25% and may be upto 50% of the last two years. This should include an individual project and a group project.Table 2 shows the outline of the B.Eng and M.Eng courses in Naval Architecture at UCL. Theyhave a common first and second year. Students may only continue onto the third year of theM.Eng. if they are demonstrating an upper second performance, (UK degrees are classified asfirst, upper second, lower second, third, pass or fail). Student who do not meet the academicrequirement or who only want a three year degree take the B.Eng. The academic year is basedon a

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

tools such as test and quizzes as well as assignment and project reportsprove to be major indicators. This study is an attempt to perform the assessment processusing the Internet and its capabilities. Presented in the paper is a new technique forpresentation of relevant materials for accreditation under ABET and CSAB Criteria forEngineering and Computer Science programs. The course materials from all coursesoffered in Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 is gathered and organized into separate coursewebsites. Our electronic assessment (e-assessment) system(http://assesseng.bridgeport.edu/) is designed and implemented such that it allows theassessment evaluator to browse in a logical and convenient manner starting from

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

Learning Object Exchange (CLOE), a collaborative project of several universities inOntario, establishing an infrastructure for joint development of multimedia-rich, interactivelearning resources. Since development of such resources is very time-consuming, one of theemerging trends in instructional technology is to focus on modular learning objects that can beshared among many users. Surveys of faculty confirm high interest in utilization of such objects.The module being developed by the authors consists of a series of interactive online tutorials. Itis designed using Flash and streaming video technology and provides graphics, video, andanimation to support the basic concepts. At any time the learner has access to several reviewquizzes, providing

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Linder; Murat Tanyel

senior author has developed a number of “toolkits”,computer simulations written in LabVIEW, to provide virtual laboratories in DSP andCommunication Systems courses. He is quite enthused about these toolkits, but how do thestudents regard them? A questionnaire taken in last year’s class resulted in positive comments aswell as constructive suggestions. This paper will report on the students’ involvement in thedevelopment of the Communication Systems toolkit through their feedback. It will summarizethe reactions of two different classes at different institutions to the same toolkit. It will alsoreport on the efforts taken to address the constructive suggestions and describe the effect ofstudent involvement on the project on learning in the

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Johnson; Mary Anderson-Rowland

students who were either a minority or female or both.The CIRC program students meet five times a semester. CIRC informative sessions includeguest speakers on how to get involved in an engineering research project, writing a resume toobtain an internship, how to select and apply for graduate school, and getting funding forgraduate school, which will be described in detail. Assessment of the program is done at eachmeeting and feedback is provided to the students at the next meeting. Students in the CIRCprogram are obtaining research positions and are considering graduate school as part of theircareer goals.The Fulton School of Engineering graduate recruitment activities include booths at nationalmeetings, participation in GEM (National Consortium

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

heattransfer principles and the concept of thermo-siphon heat recovery system. This paper presents anexperimental setup that will help the undergraduate mechanical engineering students inunderstanding the basic heat transfer processes by utilizing real life applications such as usingwaste heat from a window type air conditioner to heat water for residential and commercial use.Heat recovery from an air conditioner by thermo-siphon is attractive because it eliminates theneed for a circulating pump. This project was completed with the assistance of an UndergraduateSenior Project Grant from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air ConditioningEngineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a basic and very important topic that

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

and development. Page 9.159.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3130In September 2003, a group of ENGE faculty, aided by a number of engineering and educationfaculty, received a planning grant (project title: Bridges for Engineering Education-Virginia Tech(BEEVT)) under the Bridges for Engineering Education program of the NSF to create acontemporary framework for undergraduate

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

1106 An Energy Efficient House for Under $3,000 J. Strueber, V. Harris, E. Meyer, E. Carter, E. Maweza, M. Matshaya Tuskegee University/Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/ Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/University of Fort HareIntroductionThis paper describes the design and materials development for building small energy efficienthousing for the rural areas of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which is experiencingan extreme shortage of suitable housing. This is a student exchange project between TuskegeeUniversity and the University of Fort Hare, Republic of South Africa. With students and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

Engineering Mechanical Electrical Computer Engineering Computer Science Technology Power Application Mass Properties Firmware supply design Project Thermodynamics W iring reviews Mobility Operating Operating Vision System system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

is in wireless systems. To emphasize the startingpoint for this project, it was the author’s startup resources which purchased the department’s firstspectrum analyzer (a hand-held Anritsu MS2711B). In short, the opportunity and challengepresented to the author was to develop a comprehensive undergraduate experience in wirelessand digital communication systems from near-scratch given the limited resources of a smalldepartment. In doing so, the foremost goal was to provide students with both theoreticalbackground and practical experience using modern test equipment. Page 9.22.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Amy G. Yuhasz; Matthew Ohland

Session 1526 The Benefit of Using Real-Time Sensors in the Engineering Classroom: Design of an Educational Experiment Amy G. Yuhasz, Matthew W. Ohland, 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 of graphical representationsof various physical concepts and auxiliary benefit in understanding the concept itself. Thedevelopment of parallel laboratory activities (designed with and without the use of real

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel J. Stokes; Nagi El Naga; Halima El Naga

and two motors, most students can complete theconstruction in less than 20 minutes, or the robot could bebuilt ahead of time. A simpler project would be to use thetouch sensor with the brick, and not use the motors, and thetime involved in building the simpler robot is very short. Page 9.1302.3 Figure 2: Simple Lego RobotProgramming the Robot:A partial screen shot of the Legos Mindstorm™ 2.0 programming environment is shownin Figure 3. In this case, the simple robot beeps when the touch sensor is

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

plans and exposes both engineering and businessstudents to the challenge faced by many actual companies. The objective of this paperis aimed to give an overview of the project which intends to design a cross disciplinecurriculum to enhance the knowledge innovation capability of our student under theimpact of knowledge economics. The design of this new curriculum is based on thereview of the educational goal of Yuan Ze University and the characteristics of thestudents we like to cultivate are as belowゑゴ1サcreative problem solvingゴ2サability to practice engineeringゴ3サapply advanced technologyゴ4サfunction multidisciplinary teamsゴ5サcommunicate effectivelyゴ6サunderstand global impact and societal contextゴ7サentrepreneurship This new curriculum

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

Society for Engineering Education Figure 2. A cadet is shown giving a presentation about handheld computingHTML and XML-Based ToolsHTML (hypertext markup language) and XML (extensible markup language) pages can beformatted so that they can be saved and read on personal digital assistants.There are numerous ways this capability can be used to support teaching. For example,instructors at West Point have formatted all of the following into HTML and/or XML pages to beread on PDAs: • Instructor and student contact information • Course syllabus and guidelines • Course schedules • Reading assignments • Projects and other course assignments • Supplemental reading assignments

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Julia Williams

Session 2213 Incorporating Peer Review in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory David C. Miller, Department of Chemical Engineering Julia M. Williams, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyThe Unit Operations laboratory represents an important site for the development oftechnical and non-technical skills in chemical engineering students. Coming in the finalyear of students’ course work, the projects of UO lab give students the opportunity tocombine experimental experiences with team work and communication, a combinationthat chemical engineering educators would agree is

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Morales

design, and produce the content in a mannerconsistent with television production at a relatively a low cost.The total budget for the project was fifteen thousand dollars and was assigned to a groupof six people. The project manager had a background in instructional design and videoproduction. While the instructors that worked with us were experts in their field, manydid not have formal instructional design experience. The project manager assisted theinstructors to create an instructional map that served as a basis for the television stylescript that was used during the production phase of the project. Three members of theteam were assigned to video compositing. Their primary responsibility was to usecompositing tools such as Adobe After Effects

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

extensively engage in more informal communication using e-mail and memos.Most routine communication takes the form of team-written memos, with e-mail reserved forvery urgent or very casual messages. Students also must prepare an informal oral presentation,two formal oral presentations, a “trade-show” presentation open to the entire campus and thegeneral public, and a single poster presentation of the project. All of these senior teamcommunication requirements involve performance-based skills, primarily speaking and writing.As of the 2002-2003 academic year, however, an additional individual writing project has beenassigned. This assignment is a private communication between the team leader and the SeniorDesign project adviser, in which the team

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

can provide virtual circuits through theInternet.In another linking through the Internet, the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) linksradios through Voice over IP (VoIP) on the internet connecting worldwide repeatersnormally limited to local communication [6] [7]. With IRLP, a small VHF or UHF hand-held HT (Handi-Talki) can be used to communicate worldwide.APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) uses 2 meter band transmitters connectedto a GPS receiver to send packets containing GPS coordinates. Mapping software on aPC connected to an APRS receiver displays the position of APRS transmitters. APRSuses a subset of the AX.25 protocol.The “Fuzzy Modes” use a FAX technology to paint characters on the PC screen ratherthan encode/decode

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Brakewood

development, timeliness and health and safety 6. The field journal concept at thisparticular construction site was also conceived to be able to address some of these items.The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina hasrecently introduced an introductory course in land development issues for engineers. In order togive the students exposure to many of the aspects of a land development project ‘system’, andalso to increase comprehension for the time related items in construction, it was decided that thestudents follow a nearby project with a field journal instead of the more traditional approach of Page

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

thisway, teachers gain a deeper understanding of embedded system design. They also have manynew practical skills that can be put to use in the upper elementary and middle school classroomsimmediately. This project involves the active participation of thirty elementary/middle schoolteachers (ten each year), from both rural and urban areas in Kansas, and provides participantswith the tools and knowledge necessary to feel confident as resources for students and otherteachers.The next section provides some background information. Then, Section 3 describes the researchexperience through on-campus activities completed last summer and on-going activities inprogress during the current academic year. Finally, the paper concludes in Section 4 with asummary

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

program which promotesthe development and commercialization of products and processes throughindustry/university research partnerships. Through MIPS, University faculty andgraduate students conduct research projects for Maryland companies. The feature thatdistinguishes this program from other research programs is that MIPS proposals areevaluated not only on technical merit, but most importantly on potential for economicbenefit. Maryland companies with MIPS projects gain access to the creative talents and Page 9.1249.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe; Tim Mulroy

more difficult to define. The concept of quality is a highly contested within HE3resulting in a variety of views as to what features a high quality placement might have. Fromthe educational viewpoint, the key quality indicator might be evidence that studentsundertaking placement perform better than their peers who did not, and most engineeringeducators would probably accept this as being the case. In the UK, the government fundedPROFILE project has sought evidence for better academic performance from students whohave undertaken an internship, and conclude4, ‘It has long been realized that students returning from work experience out perform students who haven’t been in the workplace in terms of performance in their final

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

Session 1426 A Microfluidics Laboratory Teaching Module A. J. Aranyosi *,+, Aleem Siddiqui*, Hür Köser#, Dennis M. Freeman *,+ *Massachusetts Institute of Technology / #Yale University / +Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a teaching module to engage undergraduate engineering students in anintroductory research project. Pairs of students proposed and carried out self-designed projectsto study diffusion in microfluidic