Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

environmental burden of a product, process or activity byidentifying and quantifying material and energy usage and waste outputs at every life stage.LCA involves three steps: identification of scope of analysis, life cycle inventory, and impactanalysis. Such an approach has two attractive features for engineers. First, it is a rational andquantitative process that is easily appreciated by engineers. Second, because it examines allstages of the life cycle, it allows engineers to easily identify what design or processimprovements will lead to the greatest reduction in environmental impact.The present paper will describe a laboratory experience used in a senior level materials andprocess selection design course developed by the author. The project

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

the professional learning process by abalancing of teaching/experience, theory/practice, disciplinarily/interdisciplinary and bystrengthening the link between research, education and practice. This presentation draws onthe author’s experience since 1974 with the never ending development and implementation ofthe Aalborg experiment.Introduction: The Aalborg ExperimentAalborg University (AAU) was established in 1974 as an innovative experiment in highereducation with 900 students from four different schools, now with more than 13,000 students.The innovation was mainly to use the project-based educational approach to overcome someof the problems of the traditional course-based educational system. The curriculum inengineering as well as in the

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

facultymembers have sufficient qualifications to teach the courses and areas to which they are assigned. It isalso critically important that faculty members participate in professional development activities (i.e., life-long learning) in order to stay current in their fields as the self-study report requires detailed descriptionsof such activities for each faculty member. The department should have a professional developmentplan for faculty development, which should be available during the accreditation visit. As previouslymentioned, the faculty will be interviewed and if opportunities for professional development are lackingthat will probably come out in the interviews.Criterion 6Not every program can have new facilities and equipment, but every

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

serve to showcase evaluation challenges as engineering educationcontinues its drive for reform. Recommendations are offered for meeting these challenges andimproving evaluation capabilities in engineering education programs.BackgroundThe last decade in engineering education has seen considerable interest and work in the teachingand learning aspects of engineering education programs. Faculty across the country haveengaged in systematic investigations of programs, revised curricula, piloted and institutedalternative teaching strategies, and developed educational competencies for the technical andprofessional practice components of engineering education programs1,2,3.The focus on competencies has inevitably led to the need to develop and measure

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

@iastate.edu Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ® 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexploit” new knowledge. It has been pointed out that in the current engineering classroom, students areoften taught using abstract symbolic and mathematical formulas “without a context, without anopportunity to interact with the course material or apply it through practice” [1].Most engineering courses are designed to teach students real-world problem solving, but most oftoday’s undergraduates lack real world experience and find it difficult to construct the "mental models ofthe course materials” [1]. Hence one of the challenges facing educators is to

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

outcomes. Further, faculty teaching such courses willnaturally gather data relating to student performance on these course objectives.Therefore, it is logical to propose that this data be used independently of the classroomgrading for the purpose of program outcome assessment.Based on available literature, relatively few schools appear to be using student work in aformal way to assess program outcomes. This may be due to a variety of reasons,including legitimate questions that have been raised in the assessment literature regardingthe validity of using transcript data to assess program outcomes. However, by not usinggraded course work, it is possible that a large quantity of potentially valuable assessmentdata that is routinely gathered by faculty

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite– wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structuraland Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol 2 pp. 1459-1465.8. Carpenter, C.L. and Oloufa A. 1995. Postoccupancy Evaluation of Buildings and Development of FacilityPerformance Criteria. Journal of Architectural Engineering 1(2):77-81.9. Chapman C. and Ward S. 1997. Project Risk Management Processes, Techniques and Insights.Chichester, Wiley.10. Colaco, J.P. 2003. Uses of composite

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

agency, museum or school, or government agency), and a faculty orindustry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistants provides technical guidance and administrativeassistance. Each team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.Each team is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through final deployment. Eachstudent may earn academic credit for several semesters, registering for the course for one or two creditseach semester. The credit structure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects of significant scope and impact to be tackled by the teams. Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

in-depth by working directly with the SWE members on their projects, then having the opportunity to teach what they have learned to the younger girls. The SWE members become involved in reaching out to the next generation of potential engineers. When the SWE members become active in helping others learn about science and engineering, they are more likely to feel camaraderie with their peers, mentoring each other, and thus are less likely to feel isolated and drop out of engineering. Thus, by this tiered mentoring approach, we are recruiting the younger girls into potential engineering careers and working to retain the college level women in their engineering programs. Planning for this project was done using a Logic Model formulation

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

theavailability of support facilities, such as labs and shops. Past topics have included the design oftrebuchets, sumo cars, hill-climbing vehicles, and rope climbing devices. While few of thesetopics meet all of the desired criteria mentioned above, they are all easy and inexpensive toimplement, require minimal lab/shop support, and are relatively inexpensive in terms of studentcosts.During the fall semester of 2003, there were three sections of BE 1210 with a total enrollment of401 students. Limited faculty resources and a lack of teaching assistants resulted in a singlefaculty member teaching all three sections. This scenario has been the norm for this course formany years. In an effort to again improve the team design project experience for the

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

Technologywhere she teaches design, controls, graphics, and mechanical measurements. Her BS and MS are from theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

/Answers (1 point) • ORAL GRADE (12 points) Page 9.958.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education MINI DESIGN PROJECT 2 DESIGN OF A COMMERCIAL-SCALE CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR A GOURMET-QUALITY FOOD DISH • BACKGROUND: Batch processes in batch reactors (such as pots & pans, ovens, etc.) are used for preparing most gourmet foods in a food laboratory (kitchen). The

Conference Session

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

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

delivery methods (lecture,laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web-basedcourse supplement to the complete delivery of courses online4,5. The choices that faculty mayconsider range from simply posting a syllabus to creating web-based content to enhanceclassroom instruction to exclusive online delivery.While the primary focus of web-based delivery has been in the development of standalone web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the web tosupplement and enhance classroom instruction, creating “hybrid courses”1,4,6. The author haschosen to supplement a traditional face-to-face on-campus CAD (Computer Aided Design)course with an online supplement using WebCT. These

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

tradition ofaddressing this issue of entrepreneurship in our curriculum by the universities and colleges is thesenior capstone project. But the author thinks that the recent tendency of developing coursesaimed at teaching entrepreneurship must be accelerated throughout the United States andbeyond. The ultimate outcome will enable the engineering and technology graduates to work forsomeone or to start their own companies. This will benefit the society by reducing burden ofunemployment. Entrepreneurship in the engineering and technology curriculum is presented hereafter studying from different perspectives.Global Accreditation of Engineering and Technology ProgramIt is a familiar fact that we are not producing enough engineers and technologists from

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwell known that “doing science” results in basic understanding and long term retention, and yetthere has been a steady movement away from “hands-on” to lecture and ineffectivememorization.GoalsThere are four major goals for this model K-12 program. 1. To provide for these needs with a program that has the potential for being available in every public and private school in America. 2. To make a systemic change both in participation and in assumption of responsibility in teaching Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, (SMET). It is imperative to get local colleges

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

and statistics on occupations by gender. During theworkshops, teams discussed how to teach material that traditionally favors boys in a genderequitable manner, and assembled criteria for gender equitable methods. At the workshops, eachteam started to work on units to pilot in their respective 8th grade classes. Following theseworkshops, each of the four schools held several teacher training meetings (mini workshops)where the middle school teachers participated in the development and were trained in thedelivery of the pilots.Each of the four teams’ projects are outlined in the sections below.Northeastern University Project – The Great Orange Squeeze4Northeastern University’s project has students using basic science concepts and an 8

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Kenrow

in maintaining anIC fabrication laboratory.We propose using professional Technology CAD (TCAD) simulation tools [1] as a powerful, yeteconomical aid in teaching undergraduate students about silicon wafer processing,semiconductor device physics, and device operation.Who uses TCAD?TCAD simulation tools are widely used throughout the semiconductor industry to speed up andcut the costs of developing new technologies and devices. Since a decade the R&D departmentsof semiconductor companies have incorporated TCAD in their design process, and recently themanufacturing sector has begun to utilize TCAD as well, e.g., to analyze the impact of ICprocess variation, and to investigate possible IC process optimizations as well as for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

relating to quality control education were identified. The followingrecommendations are made considering this input: • Provide additional coverage of the most common applications in quality such as capability studies, statistical process control, and gage control. These areas should be practiced enough to become second nature so that students are ready to apply them as they begin their careers. • Supplement problem solving with hands on exercises that encompass the entire process. If a laboratory section is not included in the course, bring sample parts to Page 9.416.7

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Farid Tranjan; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley; Deborah Sharer

.Institutionalizing SFSIn the past two years, the College of Engineering and the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at UNC Charlotte have committed $66K in matching funds to the SFS program tosupport student salaries. Faculty have eagerly assumed teaching and mentoring responsibilitiesand provided opportunities for undergraduate research to ensure student success and facilitate aneasy transition to graduate school. The department has also provided support for internships inthe microelectronics clean room and in research laboratories, thus incorporating SFS into itsacademic infrastructure and annual budgeting process. The program is now part of the Collegeculture and this commitment will continue once external funding is no longer

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dae-Wook Kim

ornaments at a low cost. The teamsbrainstormed their production strategies, and the team spokesperson then communicatedthe plans to the larger group which incorporated public speaking. After listening to allthree presentations, Mr. Leonard then conveyed Dillon Works’ strategy for making thisproduct for an actual client. The PSCME staff concluded the field trip by linking themorning activities in the Material Science Laboratory with the process that Dillon Worksemployees undertake when experimenting with ways to manufacture innovative products.5. Pr ogr am AssessmentAll aspects of the workshop were evaluated by the students. At the end of each field trip,students were asked to complete an evaluation form. The questions inquired aboutdemographic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

communities) of many civilengineering projects and provide continuity for design projects that extend over multiple courses.Undergraduates go to the Garden City website to access projects and related data and designinformation. They are also able to store reports at the website, creating an electronic portfolio.Finally, the Garden City website provides a central location for course webpages, tutorials,modules etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide detail on the Garden City project,particularly as it affects teaching design principles throughout the curriculum.INTRODUCTIONThe following text is the Project Summary of “Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum”,NSF grant # 9872505.1 It is included here to provide a brief summary of the Sooner

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

whole experience are summarized. Hopefully, thisdocumentation will help others in planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduates. Enhanced analytical and computational capabilities and higher strength materials have led tolighter, larger and more complex and unconventional civil structures. To design such structures,one must be able to evaluate their overall behavior under both static and dynamic (seismic)heavy overloads, both in laboratory and field environments. The inherent non-linearities indescribing the material behavior and the interaction between the components of a structure,makes simply using analytical tools for studying the response inadequate. This can only be doneby experimental testing. Research projects for the

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

readily recognize and apply theirengineering background to solve unstructured problems, both locally and beyond US borders.We present an innovative and unique approach to curriculum reform that contains fouroverarching objectives: (1) the integration of fundamental concepts across the curriculum; (2)teaching students to synthesize different concepts to solve unstructured problems; (3) providingproblem solving methods and strategies within a societal framework that allows for theirapplication in a local as well as a global context; and (4) creating a portable developmentmethodology that can be readily adapted to other engineering disciplines. Our broad objective isto develop a technically sound undergraduate IE curriculum that will (a) be tightly

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”After four decades of an unbalanced emphasis on research at the nation’s schools of engineering, manyengineering faculty are expert for teaching research, but they are ill prepared and have little experiencefor teaching engineering practice at the graduate level. Yet, less than 5% of U.S. engineers are engaged inacademic scientific research, which represents a major “disconnect” between U.S. engineering educationand practice. Fred Gary, former corporate vice president of engineering at General Electric Company,pointed out several years ago that technology development is the primary function of engineers inindustry.10 Most engineers work on development and production-related tasks and in

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

. Each of the other goals from Table 1was addressed chiefly through use of a design project, which was the focus of laboratory work aswell as several supporting class lectures. The specific goals of this project, and their relationshipto the course goals, is given in Table 3. A further characteristic of this project was that, becauseit occurs early in the semester, it should be non-discipline specific and require no more than themath and physics skills the students have developed after 2-3 weeks in those courses.Table 3: Module 1 Project GoalsGoal Teaching Course Goal Assignment medium medium (Table 1)Work on an ill 1 course lecture 4

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Wayne Unsell

with new situations in industry.Assessment MethodologyStudent attitudes towards new technology used in a learning environment are an important factorin the assessment of student learning. An extensive survey was developed to assess studentattitudes toward the Tablet and use of the Tablet in the classroom, laboratory, and outside ofclass. Significant research has been conducted to study student attitudes toward the integrationof information technology in the classroom. Many of the survey questions were taken from theseprevious surveys. Doolen, Porter and Hoag used a survey to measure six areas related to PDAusage – anxiety, confidence, liking, usefulness (general), usefulness (course), and enthusiasm3.This PDA study used constructs from a

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

testing.Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) enables manufacturers to directly utilize information generatedby designers to manufacture parts. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) ties all of these innovationstogether tracking mountains of data, enabling distributed multidisciplinary teams to share information inreal-time over the Internet. In 2002 Georgia Tech and PTC of Needham, MA founded the PLMCenter of Excellence at Georgia Tech to explore the concepts of fostering and teaching multidisciplinaryDistributed Collaborative Product Development (DCPD) in an academic curriculum. With several pilotprograms securely under our belts, we embarked upon a “Grand Experiment” involving students frommultiple schools and many disciplines collaborating virtually to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

Page 9.637.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationits current, more formal form, Engineering 4: Introduction to Engineering Design16. Designed asan introduction to conceptual design, and adopting a Clinic-style approach of student teamsworking for real, not-for-profit clients (e.g., schools, hospitals), the course has been successfullytaught since 1992 as both a prerequisite for Clinic itself and a motivator that attracts students tothe Engineering major. It has also served as a pedagogical laboratory, out of which has evolved astudio style of teaching the course, very much in the traditions of

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

bemade in the design process. The procedure was completed by using the decision making processto rationally select the design which best satisfied the criteria.11.0 Program Availability The program utilized in this paper is available to Electrical Engineering Educators at nocost. Interested individuals may contact the lead author at arubaai@howard.edu.12.0 References 1 M. Polujadoff and R. D. Findlay, “A procedure for illustrating the effect of Variation of parameters on Optimal Transformer Design,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 202-206, November, 1986. 2 W. M. Grady, et. al., “A PC-base Computer Program for Teaching the Design and Analysis of Dry-Type

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

as a "do-and-say" exercisedeveloped to help students to overcome difficulties of absorbing the simple truss vs. frameconcepts. To an observer a bicycle frame is a spatial combination of triangular elements; to amechanics course student that immediately constitutes a truss. However, the experiment andtheoretical analyses help the student to realize that the working loadings in the bicycle violate thetruss assumptions. Using this experiment as an example, the authors follow to emphasize that theperceived need for reforms of the undergraduate education in mechanical engineering is notnecessary; rather the teaching tools and methods used should become more proactive and studentoriented.Statics and Solid Mechanics at Grand Valley State University