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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Session 1630 Learning from the NRC report “Scientific Research in Education” Alisha A. Waller Georgia State UniversityAbstract In 2002, the National Research Council released a report of the Committee on ScientificPrinciples for Education Research entitled “Scientific Research in Education.” One goal of thecommittee was to examine and clarify the nature of scientific inquiry in education. Theyconcluded that the following six principles underlie scientific inquiry: 1) pose significantquestions that can be investigated empirically; 2) link research to relevant theory; 3

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Fitzhugh; Robert Goodrich; Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

Page 9.1138.2from both disciplines. They are introduced to robotics using the Lego Mindstorms1 product that "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"is used as a rapid prototyping kit. Most students have experience earlier in their life with Legos.No additional learning is needed. MLCAD2 is available as an intuitive drag and drop tool forproducing engineering drawings. The robot programming software used is RoboLab. RoboLab3is a more powerful programming tool than that supplied with the Mindstorms kit. As illustratedin Figure 1, the students drag and drop program icons on the screen and connect

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Engineering, testified, “Without diversity, we limit the set of life experiences that areapplied, and as a result, we pay an opportunity cost – a cost in products not built, in designs notconsidered, in constraints not understood, and in processes not invented”1. In 1986, 14.5% of all engineering bachelors degrees were earned by women, and by2000, 20.5% were, an increase of six percentage points. At this time, many engineeringeducators believed that these numbers indicated that sex equity would be achieved in engineeringas quickly as it was in medicine. Unfortunately, further investigation by Waller2 illustrates thatsuch analysis does not provide an accurate picture. First, the total enrollment in engineeringdeclined dramatically during the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George DeSain; Farid Tranjan; Ken Burbank

supplemental instruction by qualified content experts approved by the ProgramDirectors. Each institution will support the program with qualified technical staff. Liberalstudies (general education), mathematics, and sciences courses will be taught on-site by WCUfaculty using existing courses.The following example is taken from the sophomore year. The table of course offerings for thatyear is below:EE 201 Network Theory I (3) EE 202 Network Theory II (3)EE 200 Comp. Util. in C++ (3) EE 222 El. Eng. Design I (2)EE 221 Logic System Design. I (3) EE 212 Instrumentation/Networks Lab (1)EE 211 Logic/Networks Lab (1) Oral Communications (C3) (3)MATH 253 Eng

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Raed Abou Fakher; Deborah Sharer

asdeveloping study and learning strategies.Figure 1 represents a screen capture of a playback of a typical eSI session conducted by the SIleader and having one student as participant. As observed in the figure, the SI leader used awhiteboard, available in CentraOne, with the student to discuss a given problem. Such aninteractive process was achieved through live voice and data sharing between the two parties. Ifdesired, control may be given to the student(s) attending to allow them to actively participate inproblem solution. Figure 1: Screen Capture of a CentraOne SessionThe kinds of questions and problems facing the IADE students were similar to those discussedearlier in the on-campus section, except that the IADE students

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationV. SummarySpacecraft attitude dynamics can be made accessible to all undergrad AE students (without self-selection by students with aptitude). The use of computer simulation, model spacecraft andphysical reference frames enables the students’ learning. Minimizing new notation andmathematics also helps to make this course accessible to undergraduate students. Depth insingle rigid body dynamics allows the students to fully understand spin-stabilized spacecraft.REFERENCES:[1] Hall, C. D. Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, 2003..[2] University of Southern California, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

across-section of information sources for the reader interested in pursuing the topics further, butmay also be read without attention to the footnotes.IntroductionA few years ago when concerns were being raised about the impact of the global marketplace onthe employment of US engineers, the authors drafted a paper entitled “Are current engineeringgraduates being treated as commodities by employers?” 1 We questioned whether engineering inthe United States was still an attractive profession offering productive and satisfying careers andlifestyles. One of the important problems we noted was the churning in engineeringemployment, with more experienced engineers living under the constant threat of being replacedby younger, more recent graduates, and

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Lyall; Rachel Shinn

course is afollow on course to a one-semester preliminary design course. Together, they constitute theprogram capstone design component. In detail design the principles of design are taught andapplied to the multiple subsystems and integration required for spacecraft. This requiresconsideration of the practical requirements and constraints typically required for spacecraft. It isimportant to note that the design course employs the entire class as a single team, and that thefinal result of the course is a design and tested prototype of an integrated spacecraft model.The objectives of the Spacecraft Detail Design course are to 1) teach the detailed design process,including analysis leading to configuration managed specification drawings, assembly

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

theireducational focus, examine teaching and learning styles, experiment with new and innovativeapproaches to assess students’ learning, and above all put in place an improvement process[1].Kettering University, like all accredited engineering schools, has adapted and responded toABET EC 2000[2,3]. A formal curriculum reform process occurred over 1999-2001, and produceda curriculum that embodied EC 2000 criteria. Trial assessment practices began on Fall 2000,both for core courses and capstone design courses as well, and a formal multi-tier, multi-methodassessment process began on July 2001. In relation to ABET EC 2000’s Criterion 3, ProgramOutcomes and Assessment, assessment and demonstration of outcomes achievement are not onlya part of the improvement

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

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LTC Robert Powell

found that in “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”Germany and Japan, the workplace played a crucial role in the education system. A close look atAmerica’s education system revealed that U.S. schools were not teaching the skills needed forwork and that the transition from school to a stable career-oriented job was a haphazard anddisorganized process.The reformers identified many problems with U.S. schools. Essentially, they were failing toprepare the nation’s workforce. U.S. schools were not doing their job because 1) they providedno incentive for students to work hard; 2) did little to help students find good jobs

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

development andeducational research have become important. Of the fifteen teaching departments, eleven have similar formal summer programsfor new faculty.1 These departments require all new civilian and military faculty toparticipate in the summer programs ranging from four to six weeks in length. Six ofthese departments call the program a “workshop” (Faculty Development Workshop-5,Instructor Summer Workshop-1), while four call the experience “training” (NewInstructor Training), and for one department it’s an orientation (New InstructorOrientation). Of the four remaining departments, three have programs for new instructors.These three programs are called New Instructor Training and differ from the programsabove in that they are shorter

Conference Session

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

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2004 Annual Conference

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S. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz; Gülsün Saglamer; Ekrem Ekinci

Selaniki (in Turkish), edited by Mehmet Şipşirli, Vol. 1, p. 334, Istanbul, 1989.7. Scipio, L. A., My Thirty Years in Turkey, Richard R. Smith Publishers Inc, Rindge, New Hempshire, 1955.8. Freely, J., A History of Robert College, Vol. 1, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, p. 1352, 2000.9. http://www.istanbul.edu.tr/universite/tarihce.htm, January 2004.10. Ceyhun, D., Ah Şu Biz Kara Bıyıklı Türkler, Fifteenth edition, Sis Çanı Yayınevi, 2000.11. http://www.yok.gov.tr, December 2003.12. http://www.osym.gov.tr, December 2003.13. Serbest, H., Karpuz, C., Durman, M. Ünal, N. Toprak, T., Ikiz, Y., Engineering Faculties Substructure and Other Problems, Engineering Deans’ Council Report, 2003.14. The 2002-2003 Academic Year

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

Session 3515 Balancing Classical Solutions with Computer Technology in the Undergraduate Geotechnical Curriculum Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractOne of the desired outcomes of civil engineering technology education is to prepare students forthe practice of civil engineering after they graduate. This requires developing student knowledgeand competence in the use of standard design practices, tools, techniques, and computerhardware and software appropriate to their technical discipline.1 To accomplish this, technicalcourses must

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

of research in science education concerns how people learn ininformal environments, including museums. Leaders in the field, such as Elsa Feher and LéonieRennie20, ask how we can “use our ingenuity to investigate what happens when learning is offree choice and out of school?” (105). The policy statement proffered by the Board of NationalAssociation of Research in Science Education Ad Hoc committee consists of six aspects that canbe extended and generalized to other domains. When developing this project, we focused onhow each of the aspects could be addressed. Below are the particular aspects, followed by howwe sought to meet the challenges they presented.1. “Such learning is self-motivated, voluntary, and guided by learners’ needs and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

restructuring, downsizing,process reengineering, outsourcing, delayering, globalization, lean manufacturing and supplychain management. These changes in the workplace have resulted in the need for continuousimprovement, speed, cross-functional teamwork, empowerment, boundarylessness,entrepreneurialism and increased emphasis on competitiveness. These shifts have all impactedthe way that engineers work and the competencies needed by engineering graduates to besuccessful in corporate positions. This was noted in 2000 by George Harrison, President andCEO, Southern Nuclear Operating Company when he wrote ”… for a student to be fullyprepared for the workplace they must be exposed to more business related courses during theiracademic career”1.Several

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

degree.Professional Development Workshops: The Professional Development Workshop (PDW)Series consists of four one-semester credit courses developed especially for STEP. Participantstake a PDW course each of their four semesters in the program.Goals of the PDW Series are to 1. Help students bridge the gap between the classroom environment and the expectations and realities of the workplace 2. Provide learning and career development activities not generally available in engineering and computer science curricula 3. Help prepare students for successful placement upon graduationThese goals are accomplished through activities that assist students with: Self-knowledge and awareness Work and communication in teams Career planning

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Moran

CommunicationPfeiffer Technical Writing 5 709 - 3363 7 Figure 1 Troubleshooting coverage in technical writing text books.2,3,4,5,6 The final column shows the small amount of space accorded to coverage of troubleshooting procedures in technical writing texts. The page count includes troubleshooting, diagnostic or fault isolation coverage in text or graphics.Most technical writing texts provide very little coverage of troubleshooting instructions and offerlittle or no guidance in their creation. A comparison of five contemporary technical writing andcommunication texts shows only seven pages containing any reference to

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kukulka

student in that course.IntroductionCollege enrollment is growing and the make up of a college classroom is changing with morestudents attending college in a nontraditional manner. The diversity of students in the mechanicaldepartment at BSC (see Table 1) is similar to many institutions. It is made up of males andfemales, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans andforeigners. However, the typical individual enrolled in our program is a caucasian, employed(working full or part time in an industrial position), male student that is a resident in ourgeographic area. Many of our students are transfer students that may have a college degree.Almost any course on a student’s transcript can be transferred from a previously

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

theadvancement of computers and other new technologies. Within a span of two decades, thediscipline has gone from teaching manual drafting, to teaching 2-D computer drafting, and nowto the use of 3-D solid computer modeling. Near-future trends in digital analysis, virtual reality,and 3-D printing bode for even more dramatic changes in EDG practice. Attempts to define themodern course content for Engineering Design Graphics have been presented in recent journalpapers.1, 2, 3, 4 Development of a modern taxonomy for the EDG curriculum is the logical nextstep for the discipline. In an effort to attain consensus on a modern EDG curriculum, a student outcomes surveywas conducted at the Midyear Meeting of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aranggan Venkataratnam; Ashok Goel

replacements for MOSFETs include carbon nanotube transistors, nanowireFETs, single electron transistors (SET) [1-11] and quantum dots [12-14].One of the REU students (CR) worked on a project whose goal was to extend the widelyused MOSFET-based CMOS technology to designing CMOS logic gates using the singleelectron transistor technology. First, she learnt the physics of these devices and their Page 9.1337.1“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Session

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi; Bob Lahidji

characterizeeffective leadership. For example, Covey1 has identified seven habits of highly effective people.These include: 1. Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision; 2. Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Leadership; 3. Put First Things First: Principles of Personal Management; 4. Think Win/Win: Principles of Interpersonal Leadership; 5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood; 6. Synergize Principles of Creative Communication; and 7. Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal.Within the context of this paper, the authors will define and explore the application of Covey’sprinciples to academic leadership at Eastern Michigan University

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Nix

solving methodologies tend to tie process to products [1]. At eachstep in the process, one or more products are developed to help bridge the gap betweenthe problem space and the solution space. Our methodology is no different. We beginwith the standard lifecycle process for a system (see Figure 1) [2]. Each step in theprocess has an associated product. During the analysis phase, the students are taught todevelop a simplified Problem Specification. During the design phase, the studentsdevelop an algorithm using either pseudocode or a flowchart that attempts to answer theProblem Spec. At this point, the test plan is also developed. Implementing the algorithmconsists of converting the pseudocode or flowchart into a computer program – in our casethe

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Matzen

chamber for the triaxial experiment is shown in Fig. 1 (a) whilethe computer-controlled loading frame is shown in Fig. 1(b). Figur e 1. Set for Tr iaxial Exper iment: a) Testing Chamber and b) Loading Fr ame Page 9.156.4“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Softwar e Setup for Tr iaxial Exper imentThe software needed to remotely control the experiment and collect the data include threeprograms as follows:Microsoft Netmeetingœ: Most Windows œoperating systems come with a version of

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

something is done to nurture the intellectualdevelopment of these non-traditional students so that the pool of scientists and engineers expandsto include more women, minorities, and persons with disabilities5. UNC Charlotte Community College High SchoolFigure 1: The Charlotte, North Carolina Region: Colleges and High SchoolsThe University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Engineering Technology Department will beworking with four community colleges and seven public school systems in the region in acollaborative effort to recruit students from

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

that are state sponsoredfrequently tend to have a fair amount of coordination administration during the project and thisone seemed to be no exception. Additionally, through a central homepage location, studentswould have access to project meeting minutes, work progression photos, and subcontractorpayment requests (see Figure 1). Through the ProjectVillageTM system PlanRoom portal, accessto the latest bid and construction documents was also available for research and verification ofany clarification or coordination issue that arose on the project. One negative aspect regardingthe project was the lack of an updated project schedule within the system. This was a function ofthe project manager’s desire not to post the information rather than a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

schools thatwill meet these needs. The high school students, through the clubs, will become involved in moredemanding, engineering related activities as well as participate in advanced competitions, such asthe Junior Engineering Technical Society’s (JETS) TEAM+S Competitions (TEAM+S is theTests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science).Mentoring & TutoringAs high school students get involved in the advanced activities, they (and their teachers) willrequire more help. The community college faculty have made the commitment to assist thesestudents and teachers (Figure 1). Figure 1: Community College Faculty working with High School Club MembersFigure 1 shows one of the faculty members working with club members at one of

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

dimensions of professional engineering, mathematical, and scientific practice.” 3 It is written in a general form to accommodate all of our technical majors.Even though the objectives are relatively straight forward, it is not an easy task to get studentsengaged in accomplishing them. It may be easier for the reader to understand this challenge bystating the two parts of the ASCE Code of Ethics1, the “Fundamental Principles” and the“Fundamental Canons.”Fundamental Principles 1Engineers uphold and advance the integrity, honor and dignity of the engineering profession by: 1. using their knowledge and skill for the enhancement of human welfare and the environment; 2. being honest and impartial and serving with fidelity the public

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leann Yoder; Stephen Kuyath

in an open-book, open-discussion, engineering problem competition.From this one test, teams receive local, state and national recognition. Page 9.476.2 Figure 1: Students taking the TEAM+S Test at UNC CharlotteProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTEAM+S is split into two sections. The first section involves ten problem statements withbackground information: i.e.; formulas, assumptions, etc. For each of the problem statementsthere are ten multiple-choice questions. Students must

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

Page 9.310.1of choice at the time. No instruction was given in the use of computer software for the practice of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”civil engineering. Of course, very little computer software had been written at the time. All of theavailable classroom time was spent on theory and classical solutions.In the senior author’s work experiences, both before and after his master’s degree, the onlysoftware he was exposed to in the practice of civil engineering was HEC-1 and HEC-2. Theseare well-know software packages developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers forhydrologic analysis