Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul S. Steif; Anna Dollar

overview of connections appearing frequently inmechanical and structural systems, describe their various roles, and familiarize students withcommonly used terms. It is emphasized that most joints permit some relative motion betweenthe connected members, but prevent other motions. Students are shown digital images of a widevariety of systems with actual connections (fig. 1), and then are asked to reflect on the permittedand prohibited motions, for example, through in-class multiple choice questions (fig. 2).There are a number of distinct types of connections, termed, for example, pin, roller, rigid.Sometimes we refer to connections as supports. The term support (for example, pin support), isused when only the forces on the supported body are of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

vaccines, wireless internet distribution and access, or using Global PositioningSystem (GPS) technology for farming or fishing, they are all faced with the challenge ofkeeping up with increasingly stringent global regulatory environments.In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, this may be reflected in food and regulatoryrules and certification for manufacturing facilities and output quality that may beadministered differently by market and by new trading rules and WTO guidelines. In theinformation technology and telecommunications industry, this may be pressure fromnetwork externalities and the need to tie in to critical mass usage of a certain system orstandard. Thus, neither innovation alone, nor even cutting edge technology, determinesthe

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

serviceindustries must improve their productivity in order to remain competitive.In May of 2004 the National Academy of Engineering unveiled its report “The Engineer of2020”.7 In this report the need for engineers to be involved in solving the problems of theservice sector industries is clearly articulated. However, even though NSF and the NAErecognize the need for engineers to work within the service sector, present-day engineeringcurricula are inadequately suited to meet the needs of the sector. The curricula reflect a focus ondesigning and building better machines, instruments, and other devices or manufacturingprocesses. Major design experiences are geared towards solving problems in the manufacturingand construction industries. Thus, if we are to

Conference Session

Visualization

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Charlesworth; Thomas Drummer; Kedmon Hungwe; Sheryl Sorby

practice should help learners to reflect on theirlearning and become more metacognitively aware of their learning process. These skillsare important in the overall development of learners.There have been several studies examining what type of pre-college activities tend to bepresent in students who have well developed spatial skills (Deno, 1995, Leopold, Sorby,& Gorska 1996, and Medina, Gerson, & Sorby, 1998). Activities that require eye-to-handcoordination are particularly useful in developing these skills such as: 1) playing withconstruction toys (e.g., Legos) as a young child, 2) participating in classes such as shop,drafting, or mechanics as a middle school or secondary student, 3) playing 3-dimensionalcomputer games, 4) participating

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Wild; Constance Holden; Karen Horton

education and electrical engineering technology studentsused PhotoShop and PTGui to develop the photographic skins to apply to the models.The forestry student developed the model of the terrain from the survey and GPS data.Outcomes were assessed relative to the project goals through a review of the finalproducts and their written documentation.The travel and internship in the Park were not part of MET220, so no related learningoutcomes were assessed.Student PerceptionsComments reflecting student perceptions regarding the benefits of the project are taken from aletter, course evaluations, and an interview for an article.One MET220 student who did not work as an intern found student management and learning thetechnical skills a valuable experience

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

theychoose tasks that are likely to have risk factors as it makes the assignment more interesting.What they discover, however, is that it is often easier to identify a problem than it is to come upwith a reasonable solution, which in turn gives them more appreciation for the challenges ofimplementing an ergonomic program. Overall the assignment serves its purpose as anintroduction to ergonomic assessment, and differences in grades are more of a reflection ofstudents’ ability to clearly and concisely express ideas than in the quality of their assessments.Lifting AssessmentFor the lifting assessment assignment, students are required to analyze a lifting task using both

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

the educationmajors had in their individual math and science skills. They realized that if they could do thesame math and science based projects that engineering students do, they must have some ability.If the students had been separated, there would be a lingering feeling that it reflected on theirability.The education majors enrolling in this course are juniors and seniors based on the prerequisiteswe have set for this course. We have found that this gives them a greater maturity level than thefreshman engineering students. This maturity advantage has allowed them to lead better andmore than makes up for their weaker math skills and the lack of confidence that comes with that.We have also found that while we don’t announce to the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

Page 10.1469.5and economy (COPE). Clarity means to write in unambiguous, easily understood style.Organization refers to the structure of the document, attachments and content. Precision refers to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education.the ability to present appropriate and reasonable numbers, rationale and conclusions, and to usedescriptive language and modifiers with great care. Economy means to work and writeefficiently, without unnecessary language. These COPE emphases, as well as the use of memos,also reflect the concerns and priorities mentioned in the surveys (see Attachment 2).Fall

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

personal reflection, and several iterations, I settled on the current philosophy of theclass. It is based on the principle called “The Circle of Treats,” a somewhat humorous Page 10.912.3phrase I coined in order to explain how the class would be structured from a meta-level Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2005 American Society for Engineering Educationmanagement structure. All decisions about modification of the class must fit into thisphilosophy. In short, the philosophy is one of enlightened self-interest between allparties involved in the clinic

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Feemster

, respectively). Thoughthe score of PCs (1e) and (1f) are not poor, these lower scores are believed to reflect the fact thatthese two performance criteria represent a more comprehensive understanding of system modeling(i.e., performance prediction and model feasibility) rather than simple analysis. Since this projectmay be their first exposure to a complete control design cycle, the lower scores in the more synthesisoriented criteria are not surprising.As with outcome (1), the students performed well in the more analysis oriented outcomeperformance criteria (2d) scoring a 2.8 out of 3.0. Within PC (2d), the students were required toutilize simulation models in order to evaluate their controller design against design objectives. Thestudents tended to

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

typical wireless broadcasting scenario where thereare multi-path channels (i.e. the transmitted signals arrive at the receiver using variouspaths of different length due to signal reflection from barrier materials). It becomes veryhard to extract the original information because of multiple versions of signal interferewith each other. Wide applications of OFDM in the European market as the Digital AudioBroadcasting (DAB) standard, in ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) standard andWireless Local Area Networks and the outlines of using OFDM in the 5.8-GHz band asin IEEE 802.11a, has stimulated the search for the optical realization of such technique.The ISI has become an issue in today’s DWDM system. However, the amplitude onlymodulation

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Schinnel Small; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Pamela Leigh-Mack

students construct meaning. An important aspect ofacquiring and integrating declarative knowledge is constructing meaning. Students draw uponprior knowledge and then link it to new knowledge during the declarative knowledge integrationprocess. Most note taking research has been directed at understanding the roles of encoding andexternal storage. Encoding serves to increase the learner’s attention and external storage servesto improve memory retention4. We use the Tablet PC and specialized note taking software tofacilitate the three minute pause technique and summarizing5. This allows the student to shiftfrom listening to reflecting and talking. The pause exercise is done in an active learningenvironment and serves as a formative assessment for the

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” Session #1649in this program reflect the world of work that the Verizon employees encounter. Besides using aninnovative curriculum, this program places a heavy emphasis on employee soft skills. Integratedwithin the curriculum are numerous projects and assignments designed to increase the student’scommunication skills, leadership qualities, problem solving ability, and other soft skills.VIII. ConclusionWhat about today’s electronics engineering technology teaching fraternity? Will they be quick toembrace change? I think the answer to that question is, most likely not

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

peer-to-peer instruction. The PMT students will receive training in teaching strategies and methodsand the role of actively engaging peers. The process, training and methods used will bedocumented and will form the basis for dissemination to other courses, including but not limitedto the Mechanics I and Mechanics II courses mentioned above. The project is seen as a catalystfor change whereby “gate-keeper” courses become new “gate-ways” to success. It is planned toincorporate a variety of pedagogical approaches – strategies and approaches that have provensuccessful in many engineering education environments8. These include collaborative learningarrangements, team teaching and an emphasis on reflective observation, abstractconceptualization and

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

means of assessing performance of transportation Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsystems. While these metrics are familiar to planners, engineers, policy makers and evencitizens, many of them were developed more than 50 years ago, do not necessarily reflect localconditions and are not extensively validated. The use of these simple qualitative (A-F) measuresbegan in response to the lack of data available to create “actual” quantitative metrics.It has been said that “if you cannot tell how your system performed yesterday, you cannot hopeto manage your system today.”1 With this in mind

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Baughn

, McGraw HillBiographicalProfessor James W. Baughn is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.S.) and of Stanford University(M.S. and PhD) in Mechanical Engineering. He spent eight years in the Aerospace Industry and has served as afaculty member at the University of California, Davis since 1973. He is a Fellow of the American Society ofMechanical Engineering, a recipient of the UCDavis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and theauthor of numerous publications. He is currently on assignment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs as the2004-2005 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Aeronautics.DisclaimerThe views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Air Force

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

of 300 km. The payloadfor the spacecraft is designed with 8.5 m x 55 m reflector, 0.3 m x 50 m phased array and 8 mfocal length. The peak payload power is 5 kW and 200 minutes operations in orbit. As shown in Fig. 7, two reflector configurations were evaluated for reflector structures.In the large circular reflector, only part of the reflector area is used for a signal reflection. It wassimple to build and deploy, but its mass was too high and therefore was not selected. Figure 8shows the selected deployed configuration. It is a three-axis-stabilized spacecraft with controlmoment gyros (CMGs) as actuators. Because of the large inertia of the spacecraft, CMGs arenecessary to provide fast slew maneuvers. It is a 12 satellite

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

, 13, and 14 in Appendix B) asked participants to listcomprehension strategies that they could apply when faced with difficultiescomprehending their textbooks, lecture notes, and CD materials. Table 2 summarizes thefrequencies of participants’ responses. Overall, participants suggested somewhat morestrategies for textbook difficulties, perhaps reflecting greater familiarity and facility with Page 10.1169.8those materials. One noteworthy difference was in the Make Notes strategy, whichparticipants suggested frequently for textbook difficulties but not for CD materials, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

emphasized the need for clear communications among engineers, a themethat is reflected in recommendations from the engineers (next theme). One engineer Page 10.598.7summarized this theme of unanticipated problems quite well: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education For a project that size, it's my experience that you're always going to have things come up that you don't anticipate.8. Engineers rarely recommend more engineering in engineering curricula. Mostengineers felt well prepared for core

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

possible that Year 3 students spend more time reflecting on college and career choices thanthe younger students in Years 1 and 2.Since the origin of the TexPREP Program in 1979, over 20,000 students have completed at leastone summer component at one of the eleven sites around the State of Texas9. Of the 11,033former participants who are of college age, 5,380 responded to a survey in 2002. This surveyrevealed that: • 99.9% graduated from high school. • 88% are college students (2,661) or university graduates (2,059). • 76% of the college graduates are members of minority groups. • 51% of the college graduates earned degrees in science, mathematics or engineering. • 71% of the science, mathematics and engineering are members of

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

leadership inventory assesses five leadership practices with ratings by the individual aswell as several observers. Comparisons between Self rating and those of the Observers indicatedthat participants, as a group, rated themselves lower on Model the way, Inspire a shared vision,and Challenge the process. In contrast, participants rated themselves higher on average thanobservers on Encourage the heart, and Enable others to act. This last finding suggests that thesewomen faculty in STEM disciplines perceive their interpersonal leadership to be more positiveor effective than do others. Participants reported that reflections such as these were interestingand helpful.Overall, participants’ evaluation of the leadership institute was very positive

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

quantitative data, male engineering students were much more likelyto use the male pronouns to describe their fictional engineer, or take on the first person in theirnarrative. Females often used they or “he/she” as pronouns. Interestingly, one female reflectedthe male engineering stereotype in her response to Situation 1, “Read newspaper with wife attable, get ready for work, feel like it is just another day.” This particular students feelings aboutengineering work were reflected as well in Situation 2 “Cubicle, meetings, bored, lookingforward to the time to leave, sick of upper management” Those feelings of hating the job werecommon among the responses for the engineering students, but nonexistent for the educationmajors.DiscussionThere is a need for

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

in 2002 and thecombined organization’s official name has become ABET, Inc. A new Computing AccreditationCommission (CAC) encompassed the accreditation activities of CSAB. Concurrently, but for Page 10.222.21 The seven Founder Societies, by their present names, are: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical &Petroleum Engineers; AIChE; ASCE; ASME; IEEE; NCEES; and ASEE.Weese, Jones, and Kerns, ASEE & ABET Collaboration Page 3unrelated reasons, the RAC was renamed the Applied Science Accreditation Commission(ASAC) to more accurately reflect the nature of its programs.Assessment of ASEE Capabilities

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 12possible that these support mechanisms help counter the “chilly” classroom experiences andincrease their interest in the field of engineering.For institutions wishing to improve the undergraduate experience for engineering students, wesuggest a self-analysis of specific learning practices as outlined in Kuh, et. al. text. Thefollowing questions are designed to help institutions reflect on their commitment to studentsuccess:Are students academically challenged in their coursework? What expectations do faculty have forstudents? How are these expectations communicated in

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Conrad Newberry

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

implications andlimitations of the experiment as well as other effects that may have influenced the experimentalresults. This may reflect a lack of comprehension of the experiment on the part of the students.The juniors, like the freshmen, seemed quick to attribute discrepant results to human error or toresistor tolerances without a supporting rationale.The criteria for evaluation of style, format, and organization were as follows: • How well is the introduction written? • How well is the theory written? • How well were equations and mathematics presented? • How effectively were figures used? (This criterion includes both clarity of the figures and the quality of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

integration” isonly peripherally reflected in the NAE’s list. The “good understanding of design andmanufacturing processes” and “profound understanding of the importance of teamwork”important to industry are absent or muted on the NAE’s list.Table 1: Comparison between the Attributes of the Engineer from the mid-90s, and the 2004NAE vision of the attributes of the Engineer of 2020Boeing: Desired Attributes of the Engineer,15 NAE1 Attributes of the Engineer of 20201. A good understanding of engineering science 1. Strong Analytical Skills fundamentals: Mathematics (including statistics) , Physical 2. Practical Ingenuity and life sciences, and Information technology (far more 3. Creativity

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

(Fall 2003); (2) Replace existing individual cesspools and septic systems in the community of Guadalupe, CO (Fall 2002); (3) Provide reliable water and sanitation for a primary school in Jalapa, Nicaragua (Fall 2002); (4) Provide treatment to achieve safely potable water for San Pablo, Belize (Fall 2001); (5) Provide treatment of animal manure to safely use as a soil amendment for growing human food crops in Mayapan, Belize (Fall 2001). Prof. Bielefeldt received a grant from the CU Service Learning Program to expand SL in this course. Of particular importance is having the students reflect on their experiences5,6. Future plans include expanding the multi-disciplinary nature of the course

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

staying focused on problem solving.The IS elective introduces students to object-oriented programming using COBOL, an alternativeprogramming language. In total, students will spend 30 semester hours between their freshmanand junior years learning problem solving and critical thinking. Figure 1 shows the adoptedsequence of courses4 from the first to the third year. The levels in problem solving and criticalthinking increase with the course content and this is reflected by the change in color in thediagram that lists the sequence. Page 10.1411.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &