Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

INTUITION Manner in Which a Person Evaluates Information T Focuses on objective facts and causes & effect. Focuses on subjective meaning and values. F THINKING FEELING Manner in Which a Person Comes to Conclusions J Focus is on timely, planned decisions. Focus on process oriented decision-making. P JUDGEMENT PERCEPTION Page 10.165.3 Figure 2: Overview of

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

collaboration with CSEmaster’s students, CSE programs at other institutions, national labs and research centers, andhigh performance supercomputing community and industry. The program will attract studentsfrom a variety of disciplines with experience in industry, business, education, and government.The CSE program will also encourage enrollment of women and minority students such asHispanics, Caucasians, Asian and Native Americans. The planning and development of thecomputational science and engineering program and the enrollment of diversified studentpopulation are directly linked to the University’s Enrollment Plan to increase the population ofgraduate students, nontraditional students and working professionals, to increase participation ofwomen in

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George York; Daniel Pack

08 Oct 04for the major milestones in the robot • System Requirements Review 14 Oct 04 • Initial Design Review 21 Oct 04project is shown in the table to the • Draft Integration Test Plan 18 Nov 04right. The entire spring semester • Preliminary Design Review 09 Dec 04course is devoted to the project with • 1st Draft Technical Report 14 Dec 04major events being the completion • Second Semester Begins 06 Jan 05of the Critical (detailed) Design • Critical Design Review 08 Feb 05Review and the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Hickey; Raluca Rosca

decidedto break into 3 smaller groups, two groups of 8 people each meeting at the same time on Mondayin two different locations on campus and one group of four people meeting on Tuesday. Fourstudents have announced via email that they have interest in the program, but time conflicts forthis semester and plan to participate in it in the future. Two other interested parties were off-campus students, so they were referred to the web-resources available on the University ofWashington web-site.While the number of the respondents (20) may feel very small, it is comparable in size with thenumber of 2004-2005 possible Ph.D. graduate students that take a first job in academia. Indeed,University of Florida graduated 127 Ph.D. in 20032 and historically about

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Stephen Frempong; Willie Ofosu

processes without incurring such expenses. An easy option is to plan aneducational trip to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).PennDOT is responsible for all Federal and State roads within Pennsylvania. It is theresponsibility of PennDOT to conduct all surveys for road construction and to monitor bridgesand other infrastructure that are owned and managed by the State. As a federal agency, thedepartment has the resource to acquire the necessary equipment to enable it to perform it duties.Besides, the department is always involved with real world activities which apply most of theprinciples and processes that are taught in a surveying engineering program. Therefore, the fieldtrip to PennDOT serves to encapsulate a large component

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

provide a description of the course design, highlights of specificprojects, and results and evaluation of the course. Conclusions and future plans are alsoprovided.2. Course DesignIt is our belief that future educators and practitioners must understand engineering design from aprocess perspective first, prior to focus on specific characteristics and methodologies of aparticular field of engineering. As such, an interdisciplinary, rather than discipline specificapproach is adopted throughout the course. Moreover, as design is a creative, team-based,problem-solving process, our future teachers and practitioners enrolled in the course arepresented with technical science-based methods and tools of analysis and decision-making, aswell as non-technical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

there is no perfect answer, the most appropriate answerwas the use of a geodesic dome as a means to mount the light fixtures. The geodesic dome ismade of a number of triangles that, in turn, compose five identical sectors (in plan), see (Figure1). Although not all triangles are exactly identical in size, the geodesic dome provided the bestclose-to-uniform distribution of vertices. Differences in the length of different struts can beignored. Because the geodesic structure is a special open form, its selection eliminated the needfor a ventilation system to exhaust heat generated from the light fixtures.The frequency number of the geodesic geometry was selected to be an even number. Evenfrequency numbers result in a complete hemisphere, i.e., a

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Misna; Erica Liszewski

significantreduction in translation errors compared to the control group. There was also a major reductionin “good map, bad equation” errors in the POS problem. The control group had considerabledifficulty with this, but the K-Mapplet group had almost none. There was no improvement in the Page 10.514.8“not fully minimized” error rate. We plan to investigate these questions more formally in thenear future. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationConclusions and Future PlansThe results of this work have proven

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Billy Koen

accomplish is a “’practice-oriented,’” . . . or‘active-learning’ approach to ethics education.” Our goal in the pilot study we undertook was touse an “active-learning” approach that would integrate ethics more seamlessly into the coursecontent and allow students to feel that the topic was a “routine part” of the course and theengineering profession. In this article we will describe and evaluate that pilot study beginningwith a definition of the Engineering Method. We will explain the assignment we used inEngineering Communication, describe students’ performance on the assignment, evaluate theeffectiveness of the assignment, and discuss our plans for the future.The Engineering Method The engineering method (or engineering design as it is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Karlin

about potential pitfalls before your event occurs. For example, discussions with the admissions and public relations groups at SDSM&T helped E-Week GIRLS plan for parking and student drop-off for the program. • Details matter. The attention to detail the parents experienced before the event began supported the positive reaction received by the event programming itself. It also translates to parents as “this is a place where my child will be well taken care of as a student”.Without the involvement of current students, programs of this type are not onlylogistically difficult, but also lose a large amount of their impact on the participants. • Current students as group guides. Have students act

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

. The project was conducted over the full academic year. At the start of theproject the team together with the faculty advisors (the authors of this paper) held a kick- Page 10.419.4off meeting at the Intrepid to discuss constraints, including the planned renovation of theProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationpier which was anticipated to also include some widening that could be valuable to helpaccommodate the proposed structure. Regulation issues such as limits on the shadow thatcould be cast on the water (due to concern for

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johan W Joubert; Dolf Steyn

, industry, engineers andstudents. It is universally adaptable for all engineering schools with collaborators throughout theworld adopting CDIO as the framework of their curricular planning and outcome–basedassessment. [1]The University of Pretoria, as the CDIO regional co-ordinator for Southern Africa, werepleasantly surprised to find that while we did not formally follow CDIO guidelines previously, alarge percentage of what we have been doing based on the South African change to outcomesbased education, was in fact well aligned and in keeping with CDIO thinking. Isolated efforts,no matter how well intended could hardly hope to have the same impact as international

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

this point. At this point, the teams are often directed to make certain hardware/software trade-offs. The point of this is to ensure that they have sufficient complexity in their hardware design. 3. Requirements definition - this explicitly defines the detailed functional capabilities of the device/system being built. Teams also submit an updated schedule and cost/time estimate. 4. Schematic diagram, test plan, bill of materials (BOM) - the test plan specifies in detail how the team will demonstrate conclusively that their project is in fact functional. 5. Timing analysis - teams complete an analysis of the timing margins for PC-Card bus activity at the prototyping board interface with their circuitry. Teams also submit an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

teachers, university andcommunity college professors, engineering Ph.D. students, and multimedia professionals. Thetypical mode of operation for the team is to review the topics currently presented specificallywith the high school teachers. These discussions lead to the module's science and mathematicscontent as well as identification of the science, mathematics and/or technology standard that thematerial will address. Ultimately, the science and mathematics objectives are blended withtechnology and engineering related examples, to produce a module that integrates technologywith the specific science principles and mathematics skills required of the lesson plan, which themodule is designed to support.The HSTI team believes that HSTI modules can be

Conference Session

Professional Development & Women Faculty

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

F. Carroll Dougherty; Cheryl Schrader

% assistantprofessorships, 12.3% associate professorships, and 5.2% full professorships in 20031. Womenare making slower inroads into administration: from data collected in 2000 from Association ofAmerican Universities (AAU), 2.7 % women were department chairs4. It is more difficult to findup-to-date data on women holding assistant, associate or full dean positions. Rough data suggestthat 4.6% of approximately 350 engineering schools/colleges nationwide are headed by women.Some of the checkpoints to be addressed in this forum are tenure, promotion to full professor,and moving onto the administrative track.The focus of this panel will be to discuss some of the steps towards a successful academic careerand the importance of making plans, considering options, and

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

. Most ofthese companies rely on obtaining this knowledge through seminars and consultants. Studentsthat have obtained the basic knowledge of lean manufacturing and the methods ofimplementation are more desirable than those without. Most undergraduate students do not havemuch industrial experience, so any additional exposure in the industrial arena is an added bonusfor job applicants.In an industrial setting, Lean Manufacturing is typically taught on-site by a consultant. Suchseminars, typically lasting two to five days, are designed to give a detailed explanation of onlyone or two of the many lean manufacturing processes. For a company planning to train manyemployees, a seminar given by a consultant is a good method, although very

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

marketconditions when planning to introduce a new product, addressing challenge 3. Students will haveadditional opportunity to make use of business decision making concepts during CHE 418. Table 1. Course topics for CHE 416 – Design I. Topic Class Simulation Periods Tool 1 Preliminary Process Synthesis 2 2 Principles of Steady-State Flowsheet Simulation 2 Aspen Plus 3 Separation Trains Heuristics 2 4 Distillation Column Heuristics 2 5

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

ofengineering graphics.Developing the new curriculum from scratch allowed a fresh examination of engineeringgraphics education in the context of today’s computer driven society. One advantage wasavoiding the “we’ve always done it this way” mantra. An additional advantage was theopportunity to examine today’s computer based drawing, modeling, and design tools, and to plana curriculum around them, rather than integrating them into an existing course sequence.Significant thought and planning went into the effort, and included input from several sources.Major decisions were made on several key issues such as: Should any work be done with manualinstruments on the board? Is hand sketching an appropriate topic? Should some level of handwork (board or

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

were critical to creating the atmosphere of trust and respect necessaryfor the coordinated degree programs discussed below to function effectively.Universal Donor Degree CSM's B.S. Engineering Physics degree is one of 17 such programs accredited by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Our last general review tookplace in 2000 under the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000), and our next review will occur in2006. As is by now well known to the engineering education community, under EC2000,accredited programs must identify their constituents and implement a process for developingprogram goals and objectives, as well as a delivery plan that makes use of assessment andfeedback to demonstrate continuous improvement

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Schwartz

” projects from the list. I tally the results and let the students know what projects we’lltackle. (I still reserve the right to include my “favorite” project to this final list, but have actuallydiscovered that the students usually pick good projects, so I rarely have to “force” my choice intothe final mix.) Figure 1 – Self-Assessment FormDuring the first week, I have the students enter their schedules into the Outlook calendar tool,including classes, meetings and work schedules. (Meetings and work schedules are to be listedas “tentative” events.) I also enter my information into Outlook. As the various groupsdetermine their meeting times, I have them “invite” me to each meeting via the “Plan a Meeting”feature of

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

Lean implementation projects. In addition a semester project onproduction simulation using ProModel software is also required.VII. Ship Repair Simulation Exercise This simulation exercise incorporates repair of two ships of different sizes. One ofthe ships is shown in Figure 1. During the simulation, students track performance metricslike lead-time, cycle time, rework and distance traveled by material handler whileimplementing various tools of Lean in three phases. This exercise takes into accountlogistical issues such as inspection reports, master repair schedules, emergent repairs, inaddition to planned repair activities. This simulation exercise simulates repair activitiessuch as painting, blasting, engine overhaul, shaft

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

experience teaching high school classes, while others had “typical”experience with teaching as graduate students. Some had had some formal training in the formof teaching workshops, classes or mentored graduate student experiences. Most of the cohortwere not married and had no dependents. While this may mean less responsibility to otherindividuals, there was also no assumed support network for most of the cohort.During the middle of the first week of orientation, the group met at a local tavern and developed Page 10.345.4a plan to meet regularly. Along with the desire for social interaction, the feeling that we were all Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Duncan; William Swart

will struggle with changes, and even resist them if they were not afforded theopportunity to have some level of involvement in the pending adjustments. Some of thestruggle comes out in a form of occupational defiance where performers of the tasks feelthey can accomplish their work without necessarily having to adhere to the standards ofthe instruction.In order for desired and planned productivity to occur, it is essential that employees knowhow and when to perform. When a discrepancy between expected and plannedperformance is due to a lack of knowledge, then the remedy is training. However, lack ofknowledge may not be a yes or no proposition. For example, if the employee possessedthe knowledge, but has not used it and is “rusty”, then the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

thecourses approved by NDSU can be transferred to NDSU. The review includes, but is notnecessarily limited to, (a) the overall course composition of the AIT-NDSU Program, (b)the content and related syllabi for each course which is part of the AIT-NDSU Program,(c) texts and other teaching materials appropriate to each course, and (d) qualifications ofinstructors planning to teach the AIT-NDSU courses.This program will also allow NDSU students to spend one or more semesters at AIT.These students will be able to take the same courses as normally offered at NDSU, alongwith AIT students. They will also be able to take courses in Indian history, languages,and culture, attend cultural events, and visit places of interest. The program is designedto promote

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

.” American Journal of Physics, 66(1), 64-75.3. National Survey of Student Engagement Overview (2001). “Improving the college experience: NSSE 2001 Overview. Bloomington,” IN: Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning.4. National Survey of Student Engagement (2000). “Improving the college experience: National benchmarks of effective education practice.” Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning.5. Hake RR (2001). “Lessons from the physics-education-reform effort.” Conservation Ecology. 5(2):28. Available online at: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art28/, accessed January 4, 2005.6. Mehta S and Kou ZF (2005). “Research in Statics Education – Do Active, Collaborative, and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

has been achieved in our materials lab A detailed plan for development of a prototype product or practice has been prepared.Educational practices generally regarded by the community as effective in enhancing learningare being incorporated into the prototype, or new approaches are being developed. Anassessment instrument and/or an approach to evaluate the prototype’s impact in improvingstudent learning has been developed. A prototype of a product or practice has been developed and made ready for testing. Theprototype has been tested in a pilot program at the instructor’s home institution. Documentationis being prepared so that others can test prototype. Presentations have been given (at professionalmeetings or other institutions

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy; Jamie Phillips

course materials. In this teaching internship, thegraduate student and faculty member met to discuss plans for conducting class sessions and Page 10.935.2developing homework problems at least one week prior to implementation. After discussing and Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationreviewing notes and homework problem sets, course materials developed by the graduate studentwere refined based on feedback. From the perspective of the faculty member, this form ofmentoring has a natural feel that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

goal setting;2. Research, library, and career services resources;3. College of engineering advising resources, academic career planning, and recommended programs of study;4. Use of computer-based tools in engineering;5. Working in teams;6. Introductory problem solving skills;7. Basic written, verbal, and graphical presentation skills for engineering;8. Introduction to design process;9. Career opportunities in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering;10. Professional registration as an engineer;11. Professional engineering organizations;12. Contemporary issues in engineering;13. Professional and ethical behavior related to engineering

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

K. Madhavan

was not clear whether the drainage plans were followed at the time of construction.Even though there were two detention basins, at least one of the drainage outlet pipesfrom the detention basin was clogged. Consequently, water was not draining out of thebasin; instead the water was recharging the sandy silt layer and hence water was seepingout of the cracked pavement.Construction specifications must be followed while earthwork is in progress. Eventhough the geotechnical report called for particle sizes not exceeding three inches are tobe used in the subgrade, large boulders two to three feet in diameter were found buried inthe subgrade. The base course materials were mixed with clay soils; whereas thespecifications called for crushed

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

-dimensional solutions to these problems can be provided best by acoordinated, integrated team of educators, students, and employers working together tomaximize results.6,7 One study described the multi-disciplinary approach succinctly as atype of “bridge program” between attrition and retention of students, meaning that eachmember of the team functions as an integral component in guiding STEM students tosuccess.8One such example in the planning stage involves the overlapping premises of theexpectations of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) E: 2020 report and theexpectations of industry employers. Specific objectives target students, educators, andindustry employers with the following goals: • To meet national needs through increased and