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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

,Evaluation of Small Dams, Measurement of Chemical Transport Rates in Laboratory and Natural Systems,Laboratory and Field Instrumentation, and Physical and Numerical Modeling. He is a registered ProfessionalEngineer.Beena SukumaranBeena Sukumaran is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University,Glassboro, New Jersey. She obtained her Ph.D. from Purdue University in the School of Civil Engineering withparticular emphasis in Geotechnical Engineering. She obtained her M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from AuburnUniversity and her B.S. degree from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Her research interestsinclude evaluating the performance of suction caissons in different soil conditions, effect of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

conceptual understanding is a costly process for the instructor in terms of both time and effort. Page 9.1360.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIdentification of Problem and Implementation of LON-CAPA Enhanced PBLEGTE 321 is a four-credit lecture/lab course that meets weekly for two one-and-a-half-hourlectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. EGTE 321 is a required course for theConstruction Technology and Technical Management concentration in the department’sEngineering

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Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

% Laboratory Classroom 20% 10% 0%Figure 2. Number of students in engineering internships and co-ops at Iowa StateUniversity. 250 Internship Co-op

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

. Page 9.379.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering7. Analyze Each SolutionEach solution was analyzed taking into account the needs of the industries as well as the practicalavailable resources for classrooms, laboratory space, supporting library, faculty and the timerequired to get an engineering program up and running. The department Chair, who also wasresponsible for assigning the various numerical values, conducted the study.Table 1: Summary of Type of Program AnalysesCriteria Weight Discipline BS in BSE with Discipline BS in BSE with specific General

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

approximately 300hours of preparation time to get his class online, the hardware and software systems areavailable to him. His university has made the high fixed cost investments. However, hecan consider his personal development time of 300 hours as a fixed cost for his course.RevenuesThe fees charged for online and traditional classes may be different. The justification fordifferent and usually higher fees for the online offerings is that there is higher instructorcosts in preparation and more time spent in online questions/chat and in the overhead orfixed costs of the online system. Usually there are different fees for laboratories thannon-laboratory courses, so the precedent for different and higher fees is established.In general, there is

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

- ing in several.The following provides some of the reasoning for the CEES assessment shown in Table 3. 1. Technical core - Level 3. CEES maintains a science-based approach to engineering education, where students receive a grounding in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering science before embarking on sub-specializations of civil engineering. Through this course sequencing, the students do have an ability in (at least) four areas. 2. Experiments - Level 3. Besides general chemistry and physics labs, six required courses have formal laboratory/field components. In addition, courses that have Sooner City design components use a combination of virtual and real data sets for

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Page 9.1058.2faculty member or professional scientist mentor at an industrial, governmental or“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”university laboratory site. The objectives of this program are:• To increase the number of students who participate in undergraduate research.• To enhance students’ learning and commitment to their studies.• To increase the number of students attending graduate schools.• To provide students with professional development training. Research in the undergraduate engineering curriculum remains a significantcontributor to the educational preparation of new practitioners for an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-technologysector. Several companies have investigated re-locating to the region or establishing start-upcompanies in the area. A key concern voiced by these companies is the need for a professionalworkforce in the region that can be drawn on to fill critical technical positions. In addition, therecurrently exists a dearth of trained individuals with expertise in optoelectronics, which is criticalto many high-technology products and future development.In response to regional high technology industry needs, a master’s program in opto-electronicswas established at WSU, combining the research strengths of the physics and electricalengineering departments. NSF funding was obtained to develop and support the initial stages ofthe program. Course and laboratory

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

the B.S. and M.S. degrees,respectively, in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Pi TauSigma and Tau Beta Pi. He worked for the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH, during the summers of2000 and 2001. He is currently a doctoral student at Polytechnic University. His research interests include control ofmechanical and aerospace systems.VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSFfunded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

computer laboratory period per week. The lectures focus onfundamental engineering concepts and problem solving. Prior to Fall 2002, each lab period wasorganized into a series of four or five tasks to be completed either by teams of four students orindividual students, as specified by the instructors. Typically, tasks provided the students withstructured exploration of the use of new computer tool syntax/procedures and simplefundamental engineering problems. Each lab concluded with a "check for understanding" on thenew concepts covered in the lab. Students then applied the theory introduced in lecture and thesyntax/procedures learned in lab to the solution of homework problems and team projects withengineering context.In Fall 2002, four MEAs were

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hancock; John Norton

scholarship of teachingand learning.Graduate student instructors (GSIs) are an important component of the CoE teaching staff.There are 318 faculty, including assistant, associate and full professors, as well as 62 non-tenuretrack instructors. An average of 215 GSIs supplement the instructional faculty each term, along Page 9.596.1with an untold number of graders. The duties of a GSI are varied and range from leading Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussion and laboratory sections to holding

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

• Signal Flowgraphs • Schematics and Diagrams as necessary • Circuit Responses • Summary or ConclusionAdditionally, other pictorially descriptive materials that the student designer deems necessary toget the point across to the reader should also be included. This report must be grammaticallycorrect and organized as professionally as possible. These reports were not meant to be the quickand dirty physics laboratory reports of old, but rather state-of-the-art professional documents.Students must also produce a PowerPoint presentation and present it in front of their engineeringpeers (classmates). This may also seem trivial for those academics reading this article, but it isreally a traumatic experience for those students who take

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

themselves as learners, problem-solvers, and creative thinkers. In this paper we will present the underlying concepts, describe some sample, discuss some of the issues,and our ideas for continuation. For the purposes of this paper, we combine a number of different initiatives of oursfrom a variety of settings. The principles of learning through design and construction of engineering projects isconsistent throughout. However, we have applied this in schools, in informal settings such as community centers inpoor, urban neighborhoods, and in projects with children in our laboratory. What is important is not the setting, butrather the nature of the activity and what the children accomplish. Significantly, children, including minoritychildren

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

partnerships for networking and leverage • A professional services referral network • Linkages to faculty consulting and collaborative proposals • Access to specialized equipment, laboratories and other university capabilities • Coordination and offering of curricula, courses and training • Other special activities Page 9.1152.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringEach form was returned to the instructor who evaluated the peer review. Then individualinterviews were conducted by the instructor to assess each student’s progress.In the last week a laboratory activity was conducted. A single-phase resistive-inductive-capacitive circuit was analyzed on paper with phasor diagrams and evaluated in the laboratoryusing an oscilloscope. A take-home final test was conducted, with comprehensive problems.At the end of the five-week period the instructor individually met with the students to discussthe problems of the final exam and assess their overall

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

learning in a course takes place in the context of projects, with lectures playing asubsidiary role or not taking place at all. The way the capstone design course is usually taught isproject-based learning, as is the engineering laboratory in which each experiment can beconsidered a project. Several engineering departments have shifted some of their traditionallecture courses to project-based courses, and a few universities have made the switch for all oftheir courses, the best known of which is the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Whetherproject-based learning or one of the forms of problem-based learning is adopted, if student teamsare involved, all of the methodologies of cooperative learning can be used to maximize theeffectiveness of the

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Cockney College”, because of its aim to extend access to universityeducation from the very rich to the growing new middle class.The first academic sessions of the University started in October 1828. Chairs were established inseveral subjects which had not previously been taught in English universities, for instancemodern foreign languages and English language and literature. The systematic university studyof law began at UCL. Instruction at UCL was primarily by means of lectures and writtenexaminations - reflection of practice in Scotland and Germany rather than Oxbridge. Theteaching of engineering was pioneered at UCL, the first Professor of Mechanical Engineeringwas appointed in 1847. Also the first undergraduate teaching laboratories in

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

technicallabs, facilities and equipment (4) Access to databases and researchers (5) Access to research anddevelopment financing through programs such as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatlyenhanced when incubator clients submit a joint proposal with a university or federal laboratory(6) Additional services and resources including patent knowledge, alumni who may act asadvisors, business contacts and strategic alliance facilitators or investors, access to a far-flungnetwork of laboratories and technical expertise, and access to investment by universityfoundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing the entrepreneurship programs at the University of Central

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

Page 9.734.3distributed energy systems (fuel cells, solar cells, wind turbines), sensors for monitoring well Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwater levels and quality, and sensors for contaminant transport and containment. Thisknowledge and the associated technical skills will enable CSM engineering students to helppeople in remote communities improve their access to energy and power.Modifications to existing Engineering CoursesIn soil mechanics laboratory, civil engineering students will be introduced to sensor technologiesfor identifying and quantifying soil contaminant species and

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

as their Page 9.696.1“laboratory” to test their learning in real organizational settings.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004,American Society for Engineering EducationThe survey was based on the learning objectives for the course. It was sent to all former studentsof the course.Structure of the CourseIt is with the Mission of our programs and the desire to enhance innovation leadership skills inour students that we created a new course on Implementing Innovation for our graduate studentsin Engineering and Technology Management at the

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

, at the same time as the students undertake their project, they are also enrolled in atleast three examinable subjects. By having a group of two or three students work on onetopic, an extensive amount of work can be achieved.From the commencement of the project the students are given the choice of submitting eithera formal engineering report (of approximately 35 pages) or preparing a technical paper inaccordance with guidelines of the ASME9 or SAE10. These two organizations provideextensive information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission to conferences orjournals. Should the students decide to submit a “paper” they are also required to submit adetailed laboratory manual for corroboration of their work.Very few students from an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationteaching and learning and attend conferences such as ASEE where we interact with our peers.But I contend that we, as academics, are isolated from the day-to-day activities in industry. Evenour research work is generally done in our own labs away from the industries we are doing thework for. Given that very few graduate engineers with bachelor degrees pursue research, alsogiven the fact that I teach mostly first year students, it seemed appropriate that I shouldinvestigate work in industry rather than doing research at a laboratory. I felt that this experiencewould be more directly transferable and of more

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Wangrow; Doug Tougaw

. Many engineering educators have recognized the importance of a close relationship with industrial constituents and the benefits that such a relationship can have on student outcomes.1-4 The second challenge is to continually develop new laboratory facilities and faculty expertise necessary to teach courses in the emerging areas. As part of the extensive assessment efforts required by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology5, Valparaiso has established a close relationship with a number of key stakeholders and routinely seeks their suggestions for revisions to the curriculum and the program learning objectives. However, in a relatively small department such as ours, it can be very difficult to recruit faculty members whose

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yogesh Thakar; Vinay Kadekar; Todd Sparks; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

mostinterest to them. Both teachers, Table 3, and students, Table 4, found rapidprototyping and industrial design to be a engaging topics. Table 3 – Teachers: What Sub-Topic(s) are most interesting to you? Teacher Comment NotesThe FDM fused deposition modeling.The new research At the end of the day, workshop attendees were introduced to research at the Laser AidedHands on activity with the LAMP. Manufacturing Process laboratory at UMR.The FDM process in general to learn the use ofdifferent polymers can result in working parts.Modeling in the computer using Unigraphics.The FDM machine's

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

technologies offered by this service. In the near future, UMIPS will support IP specific toour own internal solid-state electronics laboratory as well as MEMS foundries.C. UMIPS interface and accessUMIPS is managed internally at Michigan, but it is currently accessible by all researchers in theacademic community for noncommercial use. UMIPS has received and posted submissions fromboth the University of Michigan and other research institutions. The repository can be viewed viathe main internet portal, pictured in Figure 2, where nonproprietary descriptions of the IP compo-nents are listed and organized by function and process technology. Researchers wishing to utilizeIP in their designs submit a request for IP to the management team and authentication

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

individual work at the blackboards • Laboratories • In class design challenges • In class “jeopardy” (game show) • In class student presentations on material of choice Page 9.1095.6Figure 4: Captivating students with the tension test lab and newspaper bridge design challenge “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The last element of generating intellectual excitement was essentially a degree ofpropaganda. Referring to other courses and electives in the department, talking aboutongoing

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

building strategies. Through weekly meetings, the team focused their research effortsand learned a great deal about each system. During this semester, several architecture studentsbecame interested, and in the spring twelve students enrolled in a studio class. Together,engineers and architects completed the prototype house design in April 2001 (McGowan, 6). The architecture studio, similar to an engineering laboratory course in the practical,hands-on experience it provides, but more open-ended and design oriented most labs, provides afavorable environment for approaching large design/build projects. The studio class was verytime-consuming for everyone involved. The classformally met twelve hours a week, with a weeklyreview in which industry

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Das

Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent ResponseAs mentioned before, the student assignments were group activities. The intent was toencourage cooperative learning. In general, students were quite receptive to the use of Mathcad,although they had no prior exposure to the software. The author had to familiarize the studentswith the essential features of Mathcad, before they were given the assignment. As part of thecourse, a two-hour-per-week computational laboratory makes it possible for the author to teachthe basics of this software. Eleven students answered a survey which is summarized in Table 1

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

link between our research activities and activities at other institutions by bringing theirresearch experience to the University of Nevada classroom and laboratory and by buildingrelationships during their stay.Assessment: Assessment will be a collaborative effort between the College of Engineering andCollege of Education and the Office of Institutional Analysis. The formative and summativeevaluations will be both quantitative and qualitative in nature. Evaluations will includeattitudinal questionnaires, student evaluations, enrollment databases, observations, personalinterviews, and demographics. This mixed-method approach will allow both multivariate anddescriptive analyses.3. Activities and ProgressCurriculum Reform of the First Year