Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

participants and give every cadet, “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À2004, American Society for Engineering Education”regardless of their major, an opportunity to contribute to the program. This approachbetter reflects how technical programs in the Air Force are conducted, involvingengineers, scientists, managers, technical writers and other experts from a variety offields. Teaming scientists with a keen interest in designing space experiments withengineers who want to build missions, provided great synergy to the program. TheCHAWS-LD experiment flown on FS-1 was conceived and built by faculty and studentsfrom

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

has always included computerprogramming is a reflection of the value attributed to the instruction by the faculty. Even thoughthe faculty recognize that few Civil Engineers go on to careers in programming, they nonethelessbelieve that teaching programming provides tangible benefits in improving the students’ logicalreasoning and problem solving skills. Up until recently the programming language taught wasFortran, but since the beginning of the 2001-2002 academic year we have taught Civil Engineersprogramming as part of instruction in the MATLAB5 modeling language. Adoption ofMATLAB as a high-level language for teaching programming has occurred at a number ofschools lately6,7. In each case MATLAB is valued for its ease of use, its powerful set

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

individualpattern. A pattern sequence may include changes such as: enlargements, contractions, reflections,rotations, and pattern inversions. This may be a further aid to recognition of diagrams viacharacter representations with multiple pattern representations. Such a representation is possiblewith the DPS system although this entails using sequences of characters to simulate such effects.7. Diagram Recognition by the Blind or Partially SightedIn addition to the textual presentation problem there is also the problem of interpretation ofdiagrams by the partially sighted. Mereu and Kazman have used sounds to indicate position in a3D environment for use by visually impaired users. This was achieved by using different types ofsound to indicate the x, y and z

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

staff involved in the CIM unit need to be proactive in respect tohazard awareness. Veal and Maj note that:“Unlike traditional, standard computer science tutors, laboratory CIM workshop tutors mustalso be aware of potential safety hazards and legal requirements. They need to pay particularattention to other potential safety hazards elsewhere in the laboratory even though they may beengaged in dealing with the problems of a particular student” 11.Bell uses virtual reality to simulate potential accidents: “not so much to teach new information orto test students’ knowledge, but rather to stimulate reflective thoughts and discussion” 1. Butrejdraws on case studies of accidents to enhance safety awareness 3.It might be thought that a 5V line inside a

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

Industrial Advisory Committee5.0 EET shall maintain an industrial advisory committee to serve as program advisors and torepresent industry constituent input to the management process. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.225.7 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education5.1 The EET Industrial Advisory Committee shall maintain its own charter and procedures.5.2 The Advisory Committee membership shall reflect the regional industrial constituentsthat hire program graduates. Committee size shall not be reduced below ten members

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

succeeded to continuously improve the quality of its educationand research [11]. Facts that are reflected in the motto used by the present rector, GülsünSağlamer: “pioneer through the ages”. This statement is verified in education by the fact that 12departments got substantial equivalency from ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering andTechnology), 8 others being in the process; and in research by the fact that ITU is the one of thetop two Turkish universities in SCI publications. This is why the behavior of ITU students can berepresentative of Turkish engineering community.Studies in “women in engineering” are generally conducted with female students [1,3].or womenengineers [12,7]. However this paper aims to study the place of women in

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

noted many program strengths, but did indicate one problem area:discrete mathematics. Review of the course material had not demonstrated sufficient amounts of Page 9.594.8discrete mathematics in the computer engineering courses. Upon review and reflection, the ECE Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxfaculty agreed with that conclusion. In spite of good intentions, the desired discrete

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

never equal.From another perspective, student feedback indicates that the module described in this paper iswell-received. The motivation and challenge provided by an interesting project of progressiveintensity in an appropriately-paced group-learning environment is reflected in positive studentcomments. If only for that reason, the use of this module is believed to be of significantinstructional value. Retaining students in the program is directly linked to retaining their interest,and by their own evaluations, this module accomplishes that goal. Similar progressive modulesin other engineering and computer science-related topics are currently being developed andevaluated for future dissemination.Bibliography1. D. Egbert, G. Bebis, and D

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

schools followed a trend of ever increasing focus on thedetails of one particular sub-discipline of engineering. Our program emphasizes breadth not onlyacross engineering disciplines, but also uses a solid foundation in the liberal arts that provides thebroad worldview on which effective leadership arises. Our outcome-based assessment of recentyears appears to reflect an industry need for more breadth and thus less depth. While depthprovides good preparation for entry level positions and the first five years or so of a career,contextualization better supports the full career span, which requires continual self-learning andoften has leadership opportunities in technical and non-technical areas.While engineering analytical skills are important

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

for Engineering Education5. Student responseThe first version of the SCEFMAS is in use with the Automatic Control and SystemsEngineering Department of University of Sheffield (UK). This package is used as a supportingtool to deliver a module of a M.Sc. program with the department. Although, there is no formalassessment for the effectiveness of this environment as a leaning tool, but students has expressedtheir opinion during the module end questioners. These opinions reflect that the softwareenvironment enables the students to understand the behaviour of a flexible manipulator systemand also the effect of parameter variations. The learning process could be much difficult withoutthis package. In addition to this, student can test the

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

surveys using a questionnaire designed differently for each college, in our case for the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR). The exit survey is given to graduating seniors at the end of the fall and spring semesters. In years past, the questions did not match properly with the outcomes, but lately modifications were introduced to the survey to reflect the outcomes pursued by most engineering disciplines within the college. We have historically achieved about 60% response from graduating seniors, but recent directives from the administration “encourage” faculty to allow class time for completion of the survey in an attempt to improve the return rate.2. Alumni Surveys. The department mails alumni surveys to recent

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

langauges In addition, a national digital library that contains the information-technology oriented casestudies would be of interest and use to engineering educators and students. That would make itpossible for educators to tap into a rich source of real-world problems when explaining complexengineering concepts and theories in the classroom.AcknowledgmentsThis research was based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantsNo. DUE# 9752353, DUE# 9950514, DUE#0001454 and DUE#0089036. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Weappreciate the help of Randy Bradley in performing the

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

physics of the topic. The ability to define a problem’s physical model and to construct the corresponding mathematical formulation of the model should reflect this understanding. Having written the governing equations, any convenient mechanism may be employed to execute a numerical solution.2. Engineering Tools. The students gain a working familiarity with one or more of the available equation solving programs, and it is stressed that the programs, as well as the general approach to problem solving, has a carryover to their other courses. A symbolic formulation can be naturally and easily solved with the modern engineering tools such as Mathcad, MATLAB™ and TK Solver. Furthermore, these engineering tools reduce to a minimum

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

listened to the designer and was first to marketwith the now popular minivan. Interestingly enough, Ford made a similar mistake later, optingnot to pursue a driver’s-side sliding door on their minivans until well after the competitionintroduced that hugely popular feature. There are also examples of “technology-push” products which reflect that, even in thosecases, satisfying existing needs is a key factor for success. For example, when Percy Spencer, aRaytheon engineer working on radar systems, noticed that a candy bar melted during a radarsystem test, that ultimately led to the development of the microwave oven, which in today’ssociety has essentially become a requirement of every kitchen. While no customer ever said“please give me an

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

activities inorder to reflect macrocontexts found in their own learning communities. While the instructionalsystem design model/template specifies the task complexity through the specified competencies,it currently does not provide guidelines for the problem abstractness or problem structuredness.A second issue is that the instructional design does not provide for a specific scaffoldingtechnique to enhance the transfer of the student’s problem solving skills to a new context. Inorder to improve the quality of the NCME instructional materials and to aid in the adoption ofthe materials by potential customers, these questions and concerns were addressed in the study.Purpose of the StudyThis research investigation answers the primary question: What

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education3.1 Knowledge and Skills from Prior Program ExperienceStudents write a short essay that addresses how their co-op experiences and previouscourse work have prepared them to undertake their senior design project. The assignmentis loosely specified (2 paragraphs, 6 sentence minimum addressing the impact of co-opand course work), thus allowing for greater freedom of expression and creativity than astructured survey. As a result, students give highly individualized and candid answers,but do not necessarily address all outcomes that would be of interest to us. However, itgives students the opportunity to reflect on the course

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

(1998) recommends a series of activities to incite creativity when faced with anengineering problem: • Immerse yourself in a domain or problem; • Be prolific—generate lots of ideas; • Use tools for representations and thoughts (e.g., brainstorming, notebooks, and sketches); • Play with ideas; • Avoid premature closure; • Don’t be afraid to be different; • Be open and receptive to new ideas; • Do it—practice your craft; • Maintain a product orientation; • Relax—indulge your diversions; • Reflect—review what you have done; • Have fun!This list can be viewed as steps in an on-going process, as individual milestones in creativedevelopment, or as inspiration for a professor or

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

reflect fluidvelocity. Faster velocities can be measured by strobing the LED light source; using one pin ofthe computer’s parallel port to gate a transistor driving the LED works well for this purpose. Theresulting double-image of the beads can be used to estimate fluid velocity. Alternately, smallermarkers such as water-soluble, fluorescent semiconductor quantum dots[3,4] can be perfused.Because of the small size (<15 nm) of these nanocrystals, Brownian motion keeps them insuspension. Rough estimates of fluid velocity can also be determined from changes in height ofthe input reservoir, or velocity can be controlled using syringe pumps.A straightforward application of this lab is to ask students to measure brightness gradients andfluid

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

1793Bibliography 1. Harris, James G., “Journal of Engineering Education Round Table: Reflections on the Grinter Report”, Journal of Engineering Education, Jan. 1994, pp. 69-94 2. Rittel, H.W.J., “Impressions of Architecture 130: Notes and Observations of Prof. Horst W.J. Rittel’s Classic Design Methods Course at Berkeley as taught circa-1969- 1971” Design Methods, Theories, Research, Education and Practice, 1996 Vol 29 no. 1 to vol. 32 no. 4 3. Fauvel, R., Winkelman, P., “Organization of Technological Information for the Novice Mechanical Designer”, International Workshop on Pedagogics in Design Education, International Society for Design Science of Engineering Design, Pilzen, Czech Republic, November, 1998. 4

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Fisher; Jed Lyons

itemswere smaller than the differences seen for the initial survey. The variability associated with theresponses to the items was smaller for Cohort 2 on items 2 through 7 as compared to Cohort 1.The difference in variability is an indication Cohort 2 responses were more consistent as a group.The differences in means and variability might be a reflection of the differences between the twocohorts in past teaching experience. However one cannot rule out the possibility of effects dueto one cohort being in elementary school classrooms and the other in middle schools. Page 9.511.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

and plot the deflected shape.Figure 10 shows the displaced shape of a bar pinned on both ends. Students computed thebuckling loads for fixed ends (simulating the grips of the test machine) and compared it to theload recorded during the buckling test. The comparison of test results to hand calculations forthese tests is interesting in that results for tests withpinned ends agreed very well with calculations (usuallyless than 5% error), while the test results for fixed-endtests were not as good (typically up to 20% error).Students learned that the idealized fixed boundarycondition may not accurately reflect the actualgeometry. A loose fit between the rod and the adapterallowed some rotation of the rod end, while theassumption in the calculated

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

strategies at their institutionsin order to provide the necessary support mechanism for ET faculty scholarship and thusmotivate their faculty to become engaged in scholarship. As much as possible, ET scholarshipshould be student-centered, involve students, and enhance student learning and classroominstruction. As ET faculty begin to reflect on their teaching, consulting and other activities on acontinuous basis, and writing or presenting on their findings to a broader audience, and receivingfeedback, classroom instruction will be enhanced; however, for this to happen and for thescholarship culture to become ingrained in ET, adequate support and enablers for facultyscholarship and an adequate reward system are needed; such support could be in the

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

respectively for the satisfaction and thequality models. From the learning results, it was observed that the network architectures had a Page 9.1256.9good “memory” and the trained matrices of weights and bias reflected the hidden functionalrelationship well. Thus the models can serve as a reasonable surrogate to reality. Finally, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationbecause the testing and validation errors (MSE) were small and the R-Sq values low, the modelsdeveloped can be considered reliable for the

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

an evaluation, a participant in a 2000 workshop reflected, “time wellspent; I believe all instructors would benefit by learning more about WAC and how theycan help students become better writers.”physics i and iiThe Physics courses, unlike the Writing Program, already existed in the CSM curriculum,and were required of each CSM student. As a general requirement, the existing course,largely lecture or other passive forms of content delivery was plagued with lowevaluations, student dissatisfaction, and high rates of failing grades. This course needed amakeover, and the Faculty Mini-Grant program helped to provide the means. As Dr.Thomas Furtak, the principal developer of the Physics I course describes it, “we hadarrived at a point where I

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

encounter with the BSC are revealing and similar to theinstructors’ perceptions of the experience. The design teams did not integrate the BSC into theirday-to-day operations to the extent that had been hoped. It was viewed more as an “add-on”, asanother “thing to do”, than it was as a system that could improve team effectiveness. Theinstructors believe this is due to a lack of regular insistence, on their part, for project progressreports reflecting the BSC objectives and initiatives. Both the students and instructors fell intoold habits and relied almost exclusively on milestone charts and task planning sheets to trackproject progress.The instructors view some of the student assessments with skepticism: “I just filled it in withthings that I knew

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

ability towork effectively on a team.The results from the four classes consistently indicate higher SAT Verbal scores andlower SAT Analytical scores for the “good” team players compared to the “poor” teamplayers. These results are suspect, however, since the SAT scores are probably the leastreliable of the input variables. Also, this result may simply be a reflection of the fact that Page 9.302.10a large fraction of the “poor” team players (40%) were Asians, who usually do well inmathematics but tend to have (English) language difficulties. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

is carried out, align with a conceptual framework, reflect careful and thorough reasoning,and disclose results to encourage debate in the scientific community” (p. 6). Applying these ideasto education research is perhaps a bit more fuzzy and unclear than applying them to disciplinaryresearch in STEM fields. In order to make these applications more clear, let’s discuss some ofthe similarities and differences between engineering disciplinary research and STEM educationresearch.Engineering Research and STEM Education Research “Education is multilayered, constantly shifting, and occurs within an interaction among institutions (e.g., schools and universities), communities, and families. It is highly value laden and involves a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

considerable extent according to human resource, expenses and economic re- sults,• they are guided to a result of essential extent and importance – in the light of relations to a number of people who will be affected, and to the result’s functionality (lifetime) and economic influence.,The above characteristics naturally involve special attention to reflection and awareness ofthe potential possibilities and resources in connection with human, social and technical di-mensions in a necessary interplay between innovations, development, decision and executingprocesses.The risk of a close co-operation between university and enterprises is that the studies and stu-dent groups can seem like free consultative partners and with short term solutions only

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

to support the students’ interaction andexploration. A human factor experiment was conducted accounting for the different educationalbackgrounds and learning styles of the students in order to achieve the highest learning effectiveness.We suggest that students without a background in CDF prefer using streamlines to vector field todisplay vector data such as flow speed. For scalar data such as product concentration, students preferusing isosurfaces to contour surfaces.There are some concerns to be addressed in the future work:♣ The engineering models are an essential part for the virtual reality model to reflect the actual fermentation process, as well as the plant process. It is necessary to work closely with the industry to ensure that