Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

rather than facilitate student learning. In short, they “teach the way theywere taught” 5, lecturing, developing assignments and tests, and assigning grades. Students movethrough a standard sequence of self-contained courses taught in isolation where they learn tosolve problems within the narrow context of individual courses6. Laboratory courses are oftentaught using a “cookbook” approach, not affording students sufficient opportunity for criticalthinking and synthesis of knowledge; connecting what they have learned to prior knowledge orexperience and applying what they have learned in new applications and/or novel situations.Upon completion of core coursework, students are often expected to synthesize the knowledgegained in each course

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8,9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal course in product dissection at StanfordUniversity (http://www-adl.stanford.edu/), and a similar course in product dissection wasdeveloped as part of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership between Penn State

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. A considerable body of research has shown that learning is significantly enhanced when students engage all of these cognitive processes5,7.Background on RensselaerRensselaer’s commitment to student-centered learning and its innovation in undergraduateengineering education is well known. Between 1993 and 1998, Rensselaer won the Pew Awardfor the Renewal of Undergraduate Education, the Boeing Outstanding Education Award, and theTheodore Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development, the only technological university to win allthree of these prestigious honors. Crossing low walls between schools, and combining thetraditional laboratory-centered education with

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

males are available to fill the SEM positionsneeded. But progress is slow. For the individual woman at a non-ADVANCE institutionthe lack of information is significant. Furthermore, graduate students are often isolated intheir laboratories and have little insight into the faculty search process. For these reasons,a workshop to demystify the tenure-track assistant professor path in SEM fields is sorelyneeded.We present here the design, content and outcomes of the “FORWARD to Professorship”workshop. The aim of this paper is to 1) inform the community of the existence of theworkshop and 2) appeal to higher education administrators that workshops such as thisone are extremely well received by participants and can contribute to increased numbersof

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

bono or fee basis (2) Student interns and employees (3) Access to 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

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

) introducing modern learning practices, (ii) incorporating new laboratory experiences, (iii) integrating powerful software tools using an object oriented approach in engineering design, (iv) incorporating research experiences including use of National Scientific Digital Library (NSDL) to promote inquiry based learning outcomes, and (v) emphasizing communication and interpersonal skills, 2. Develop an assessment scheme to assess the effectiveness of the enhanced program, and 3. Develop a Master in Engineering Education program Page 10.649.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

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 activitiesEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the commercialization of their projects and ideas. In this regard, Florida TechStart’sgoal is provide an accelerated opportunity track for any senior design projects and teams whichmay have market potential for commercial implementation.In addition to Florida TechStart, Florida Tech has initiated a student entrepreneurial club, the e-club, which meets regularly

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

then does experiments to test their hypotheses.”Question 7: Describe what an engineer does.“Engineers use math and science to solve practical problems. They also design, manufacture, and build such itemsas houses, bridges, etc.”“An engineer is someone who invents or creates new thing things. This is much like the job of the scientist in thefact that they would also use the scientific process in their work.”“An engineer takes the theories that scientists develop and then apply them in the field and in everyday life, to see ifthe theories can work outside of the laboratory. An engineer will also examine the theories and fine tune them ifnecessary, in order to make them work outside of a laboratory.” College Student Minute PaperTo

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

additional area of science, consistent with the program educational objectives; C proficiency in a minimum of four (4) an understanding of the fundamentals of recognized major civil engineering four technical areas appropriate to civil areas; engineering; D the ability to conduct laboratory an ability to conduct civil engineering experiments and to critically analyze experiments and analyze and interpret the and interpret data in more than one of resulting data; the

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

education faculty. At Louisiana Tech University we created a team thatwould teach engineering concepts to future teachers. Our course, Engineering Problem Solvingfor Future Teachers is a three semester hour course that is taught every year in the spring. It isconsidered a physical science course by the students. Most of the students who take the courseare sophomore elementary education majors. We have previously reported on different aspectsof this course 1,2,3,4,5 . The most complete description of the course is in reference [1].We teach this course in two class meetings per week that each last 110 minutes. This allows usto utilize active learning concepts in each class. There was a significant laboratory component toeach of the topics.This past

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineering topics and inmastering less tangible skills such as “mechanical intuition.” Page 10.745.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2 Course DescriptionOne prevalent challenge in teaching machine elements within the modern mechanicalengineering curriculum is that it essentially encapsulates a large amount of mechanicalengineering knowledge – most of which is compiled empirically through laboratory tests overthe span of a hundred years or more. In order to combat the tendency to fall into the

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

laws of nature. This kind of knowledge underlies technological development and product and process advances in most industries. The production and reproduction of know-why is often organized in specialized organizations, such as research laboratories and universities. To get access to this kind of knowledge, firms have to interact with these organizations either through recruiting scientifically-trained labour or directly through contacts and joint activities. ◊ Know-how refers to skills or the capability to do something. Businessmen judging market prospects for a new product or a personnel manager selecting and training staff have to use

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

credits each semester. The credit structureis designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects of significantscope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A majority of the lectures are by guestexperts, and have covered a wide range of topics related to engineering design, communication,and community service. The long-term nature of the program has required some innovation inthe lecture series since

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

(s) is completed and delivered, new projects are identified by the team andcommunity partner allowing the team to continue to work with the same community partner formany years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit for several semesters,registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The credit structure is designed toencourage long-term participation, and grants multi-year projects of significant scope and impactto be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman

industry as well.This paper will describe the scope and layout of this class, student projects, and the equipmentused, associated costs of running a laboratory and lessons learned as well as the impact on otherfaculty, departments and local industry.Course OverviewMETBD 410 (Rapid Prototyping, a technical elective) has the following Goals/Objectives:1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different additive processes currently on the market.2. Reverse engineer a product by digitizing geometry, importing the data into Pro/ENGINEER and creating a solid model from surfaces.3. Build the model (Objective 2) on the Z-402 3-D printer and re-digitize the prototype using a non-contact scanner to verify the geometry

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

Laboratory Green Engineering Experiments Heat and Mass IntegrationDesign for Pollution Prevention Process AnalysisSenior Engineering Clinic/Senior Project Real Industrial Projects in Green Engineering Page 10.605.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGreen Engineering ModulesThe following sections give examples from courses that have been developed for various coursesby the

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

. Page 10.894.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationPedagogic IssuesThe obvious question in this project is: "How do you teach engineering to a second (or third,fourth, fifth, or sixth) grader?" Engineering is a process, not a body of knowledge. Hence, it isquite different from much of the elementary-level science content. However, the scientificmethod is also a process, so engineering can grow naturally from the laboratory and exploration-based aspects of the science curriculum. Also, science provides the knowledge base forengineering. There does seem to be a tendency to slip back from

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

reviewed jointly. Thesummer institute in Taiwan was originally a bilateral program between NSF and NSC in which it sponsored 10 to 15graduate students from the USA to work in the laboratories in Taiwan during the summer time. Since it receivedoverwhelming responses from the students, this programs will be expanded to become a multinational program sothat more foreign graduate students can start to build up his/her research experience in Taiwan and this experiencewill definitely play an important role in future international cooperation. Bilateral seminars are an efficient means to initiate international cooperation especially for a group ofresearchers who are not known to each other. They can use this activity to share their research results

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasoul Saneifard

. If nodata sheet can be obtained, laboratory tests can be conducted to acquire the desired data. It isimportant to have knowledge of the type of motor in the vehicle (continuous, stepping, servo,etc), the operating voltage range, and the maximum current the motor can handle withoutsuffering any damages.In this undertaking, direct current (DC) continuous motors are used in the “Tigerbot.” A DCmotor will spin steadily in one direction when a battery is connected across the terminals. If thebattery polarity is reversed, the motor will spin steadily in the opposite direction. Theknowledge that a motor can be switched ON and OFF by connecting a battery in either way isnot enough to make our robot functional. The robot must be able to move in any

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Page 10.1091.2designing an imbedded system that would be used to implement a True RMS Voltmeter. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education v(t) vi A/D Converter microProcessor 7.23 voltsrms Displayv(t) is the laboratory voltage that is to be measured and vi is the sampled input signal.For this assignment, the sequence of samples, vi, will be drawn from a test file, and thedisplay will be the terminal window. This assignment can per presented to the students atseveral

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

safety in laboratories ishighlighted. The groups familiarize them selves with the device. At the end of the firstclassroom meeting each team prepares a one-page preliminary report summary (speculation) ontheir thoughts of how a trimmer works. This is accomplished by carefully examining the trimmer Page 10.600.4externally to determine how it is operated and what it does. This is done prior to any disassembly Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationor reference to user’s manual. In other words, what

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

but wanted it integrated into other subject matter15.Research on teachers trained to use DET concepts, however, has shown that DET has a positiveimpact on students. For example, The Materials Technology Institute project provided teachersin Singapore with the background and curriculum needed to create a high school course inMaterials Science and DET16. Students reported the courses: a) made them more interested in ascience career; b) increased enjoyment of laboratory activities; and c) helped develop skills forworking with equipment and in the lab, and 96% said they would recommend the class to theirpeers.PurposeThis study documented the effect of a course designed to help teachers integrate Design,Engineering, and Technology (DET) into their

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

Tech. Engineering Majors, 1993-1998, http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/ceismc/programs/ingear/study/appe.pdf[7] M. Elizabeth Cannon, Jean E. Wallace, Valerie A. Haines, Academic Choices of Engineering Undergraduates, CCWEST Conference for the Advancement of Women in Engineering, 2000.[8] Barbara Leitherer, Increasing the Number of Women in Computer Fields: A community College Approach, NSF funded project #: DUE-0302845[9] Jane Butler Kahle, Gender Equity in Science Classroom, NSF funded project #ESI-9619139[10] Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Science and Mathematics for All Students, DOE funded project #: RJ96006501[11] The Northwest Girls Collaborative Project (NWGCP), Resource Center, 2003 http

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

. Electronic submission of work was also utilized, again with no problemsexperienced. Portions of assignments frequently required accessing a website and downloadingfiles, which also wasn’t an issue for this group.A final disturbing development was the numerous cases of academic integrity violations. This isa larger issue that deserves additional study and comment beyond the scope of this paper.Delivery Options – What Worked and What Didn’tThe class was scheduled in a computer laboratory with workstations for each student. It wasequipped with a white board and an instructor’s workstation that was mirrored on monitorsthroughout the room. Numerous delivery techniques were attempted with varying degrees ofsuccess.Initially, faculty would lecture at the

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

McDaniel William; Ferguson Chip; Aaron Ball; Phillip Sanger; Wesley Stone

and any best) broad conclusions are not possible. Figure 2 Self Assessment Data for Project Nevertheless the results suggest an Management Team Contribution encouraging direction for exploration.In the laboratory sections for a junior/senior level Rapid Tooling and Prototyping class, eachsection was formed into a team. Each team, which varied in size from 9 to 14, was given thesame assignment of completing a working prototype of a Roots Engine and designing a process

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bogue

used theelements of the initial camp but eliminated as many of the extraneous (and distracting) activitiesas possible.The interdisciplinary hands on engineering modules developed for the original camp wereoffered as daily activities—girls could choose to go to as few or as many as they registered for.Each module features an active learning experience, exposure to strong role models andengineering career information related to the module. The modules are all interdisciplinary,introducing girls to engineering through interdisciplinary laboratory experiences. This approachaddresses many of the issues that girls face in understanding engineering contextually. (1)Accordingly, MTM aims to prepare girls to succeed through cross-cultural

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University; Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

• Contractor negotiations • Project plans and specifications • Budget, bidding, estimating, planning, scheduling, and time management • Quality assurance, quality control • Dispute resolution, labor, and cost management. CE 304 Construction • Plan and specification reading Management Laboratory • Estimating • Scheduling using software (Microsoft Project) CE 316 Equipment & • Construction operations Methods • Production processes • Equipment utilization

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wasatonic; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

computer vision. They also have opportunity todemonstrate their knowledge through hands-on course projects and laboratory experiences, in theabove fields. In this paper, an example of an image processing application project is developed,in the context of an image-processing course. This paper presents an algorithm that uses stereoimages, obtained from two cameras mounted on the Mars Exploration Rovers, to determine therange of distant objects in the images by using correlation and triangulation. The initial valueobtained by the algorithm was not accurate because it did not take into account the fact that therange of an object beyond the camera’s focal point is non-linear in appearance, and to the non-linearity of the camera lens, thus the range

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Vallone

; Card, David; Jones, Cheryl; Layman, Beth; Clark, Elizabeth; Dean, Joseph; andHall, Fred; Practical Software Measurement. Addison-Wesley, 2002.Thomsett, Rob, Double Dummy Spit and Other Estimating Games. American Programmer,June, 1996. Page 10.1045.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÀ 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAuthor BioIn addition to teaching at Monmouth University, the author, Lee Vallone, is currently employedby Lucent Bell Laboratories. Lee has been leading development teams for over 15 years withteams ranging in