Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

here.GoalThe principal goal of this project is to increase awareness of and interest in engineering among alarge, diverse population of middle-school and high-school students. In bringing engineering toa broad audience, we seek to overcome students’ common misperception that engineering is anendeavor for the “technically elite.”We suggest that this goal can be achieved by creating an authentic, engaging engineering designexperience; by offering the experience as a competition that will capture and hold students’attention; and by ensuring that the design experience is readily achievable by any student in thetarget population, while still presenting a challenge to those who are already technologicallyinclined.The Influence of Other Engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rezak

1970s had no reason to anticipate a change inthe 7% annual growth rate for electricity demand, it was ordering new capacity to meet theexpected demand. Utilities were projecting that the lead time between ordering and commercialoperation of a nuclear power plant was eight years. These two parameters led utilities to orderand plan for construction of approximately 200 new nuclear power plants by the year 2000. Circumstances changed radically in 1973. The decision by the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC) to decrease oil production and raise prices, coupled with the Araboil embargo on the United States, drastically affected the price and utilization rate of energyworldwide, and, hence, impacted the world economy. Specifically

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominic Halsmer

submit exhibits to a personal “website” via the internet along with demographicinformation which allows for aggregation and disaggregation of data for program improvement.Faculty members develop rubrics for evaluation of exhibits and assessment of student work.Since students have access to their e-Portfolio accounts for a minimum of eight years, it isplanned to gather additional data from graduates on an ongoing basis. Portfolio exhibits includesupporting documents, evaluations and recommendations, evidence of competencies, writtensamples, projects, evidence of creativity and performance, and evidence of extracurricularactivities. Hardcopy items may be entered by using a scanner. Specific choices for engineeringexhibits are shown in Table 1

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

TIMSS-R). Toaddress this issue and cope with the rapid advancement in science and technology, NationalScience Foundation (NSF) has funded a number of research projects at dozens of universitiesnationwide. One of these projects is Science and Technology Enhancement Program (STEP)currently being conducted at the University of Cincinnati. Project STEP involves nine graduateand eight undergraduate fellows, twenty-two secondary science and mathematics teachers, andten UC professors (from the College of Engineering and College of Education). Every fellow isplaced in a secondary school to work with one or more teachers. The main responsibility of afellow is to develop and implement hands-on activities that are technology-driven and inquiry-based

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

year. While this shows that civil engineering involves measuring the surfaceof the earth and determining boundaries, little more about the nature of civil engineeringis determined. Finally, the students that have stuck it out hit the wealth of courses inCivil Engineering during junior year. However, each course is normally taught as aseparate entity, usually relating very little to other courses being offered at the same time.It finally takes until senior year that the students have enough knowledge to be able tosynthesize that civil engineering is a whole, with all the pieces working together to makea successful project. Indeed, that is one of the purposes of the senior design/capstonecourse. Other academic programs have 1000 level

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

Session 2406 A VIRTUAL TOUR OF A REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E., Mur tuza Aluminiumwalla Texas A&M Univer sity, Texas, USAAbstr actVisits to construction sites are ideally complementing our classroom instruction for constructionengineering and management students. However, various complicating issues, such asunavailability of construction projects during the academic semesters and impracticality due toconstruction site risk for a large group of students make it impossible to rely on site visits.Considerable pedagogical advantages can be

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

because it is felt that students should concentrateon understanding the fluid flow characteristics and not spend time learning how to create andmesh the models. Students are required to enter input parameters such as viscous model, fluidproperties, and boundary conditions. The system’s velocity and pressure characteristics are thenanalyzed using vector, contour, and x-y plots. Feedback from students has indicated that thefluid visualization post processing tools (i.e., vector and contour output plots) gets theminterested in the project and motivates them to do a thorough analysis of how changes inReynolds number affects the fluid characteristics of the system. Furthermore, it is felt that anearly introduction to CFD may inspire some students to

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Stockman; Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

provided a good learning experience for the faculty involved. Lessonswere learned about different aspects of the program, including: the curriculum selection,marketing, delivery methods and outreach to the target students. Results of the first yearwere reported in proceedings of the CITC 32 and ASEE 20031. Changes were made tothe program in its second year of implementation and this paper presents those changesand discusses the results.Introduction: Review of Changes in SAITThe original 2002 session of the Summer Academy for Information Technology (SAIT)was held over a two week period. Three focus areas from Information Technology werechosen for curriculum tracks and a master project was devised that would combine thesub-projects from each of the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Smith; Steven Nichols

Projects FilmCompany in New York City, Incident at Morales is a 36-minute dramatic case study cast in aninternational setting which emphasizes the ethical responsibilities of engineers and the resultingbenefit to the public.BackgroundIncident at Morales is the result of efforts of an 8-member team, serving as executive producers,plus several assistants and advisors, and a producer and writer. The executive producersconsisted of engineers, engineering faculty, philosophy faculty, and practicing professionalsfrom industry.Executive Producers 1. Jimmy H. Smith, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASEE, Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University, Project Director 2. Steven P. Nichols, Ph.D. J.D., P.E., M.ASEE, Mechanical Engineering & Assoc. VP/Research

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Janis Terpenny

, leave the income taxintricacies to finance/accounting people. The purpose of this paper is to reinforce the necessityof after-tax economy studies in practice. An example is presented that illustrates four methodsfor taking income taxes into account. Two of the methods produce the correct rank ordering ofprojects while the remaining two do not. We recommend that an income tax specialist beconsulted in practice when the projects under consideration are complicated with respect to theirtax ramifications.1. IntroductionWhen deciding among mutually exclusive alternatives, managers as fiducial agents for acompany’s owners are principally concerned with the after-tax profitability (present worth,annual worth, internal rate of return) of a capital

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

, effective engineering innovations begin with strong engineering leadership forimprovement with the creative recognition of meaningful unsolved needs as the driving force, which thenmust be solved creatively and responsibly through application of the purposeful systematic engineeringmethod and approach which is integrative with directed applied research when the need for researcharises during the directed creative technology development project.4.4 The Changing Concept of Scholarship for Changing TimesFrom these perspectives, the panel believes that it is time to redefine scholarship in a broader context especially that of professional scholarship, teaching, and engagement for the advancement of engineeringpractice to meet real-world human needs

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Classr oom Par ticipation System (CPS) The Classroom Participation System (CPS) is an interactive, computer-basedinstructional tool that allows the presenter to poll the audience on important topics during a livepresentation or lecture. Each attendee is issued a handheld responder that looks like a televisionremote-control device. The presenter can pose a multiple-choice question to the group duringthe talk, and each audience member in return presses a button corresponding to their answer tothe question. Using a classroom computer or laptop hooked up to a projector, the CPS registersall the responses to the question, calculates class data, and then projects it onto the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) increases theeffectiveness of undergraduate engineering education in preparing engineers for careers in theglobal technical economy. The unique 18 month program developed at Purdue in partnershipwith Karlsruhe and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities integrates: language education; culturalorientation; three month domestic and three month international internships at the same partnerfirm; study abroad; and a two semester face-to-face-, multinational design team project, with onesemester abroad and one at home. The program is bilateral, with nominally equal numbers ofstudents from each university participating in the paired exchanges. Curriculum articulation is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

tohelp motivate children to develop interest in STEM courses. Too many graduates go out into theworkforce ill prepared to solve real-world problems in a cooperative way, lacking the skills andthe motivation to continue learning (NSF, 1996). Therefore, the first goal of this project is todevelop course material to show the relevance of STEM education in solving real-worldengineering and technological problems. The teaching of domain-specific knowledge has long been recognized to be the primaryobjective of school and college education, but many students lack the breadth of knowledge andskills that are fundamental to the practice of their profession (Aldridge, 1994; Leidner andJarvenpaa, 1993; Fergusson, 1992). There is now a growing

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Harvey

LCI. The LCI, developed byChristine Johnston and Gary Dainton of Let Me Learn™ and the Rowan University Center forthe Advancement of Learning, is a survey that asks students to respond to statements aboutpreferred ways of learning and expressing their learning (for example, they are asked whetherthey would rather write a paper or build a project, or whether they want explicit instructionsbefore doing an assignment or would like to figure it on their own). Respondents also givewritten answers to three open-ended questions about what promotes or obstructs their learning.Responses to the LCI statements, using a Likert scale ranging from Always to Never Ever, yieldscores for each pattern in the ranges of Avoid, Use as Needed, and Use First.8,9

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

developed through oneof the projects of the Center for Information Technology and Community Development(CITCD) at the College of Applied Science.7 It was first created to supplement theoperation of the walk-in learning center after realizing that more students are utilizing thewireless network of the university and are doing their projects and homework away fromthe department labs. The idea behind this application was to provide a tool for students tofind assistance and help even if they are doing their work outside department labs.The walk-in learning center (Programming Learning Center or PLC)8 is staffed by juniorand senior students and is available to assist students in their programming projectsand/or homework. However, students have to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

was back to attempting to find a fit for myself at H-D®. After relaying thisinformation to my initial contact at Harley®, he told me that he might have a project for me thatwould fit very well and gave me the names of a couple of managers to contact when I got toMilwaukee.The Successful InterviewI left Blacksburg, Virginia on July 27th, 2003 to ride my 1999 Harley-Davidson Electra GlideClassic® on a 4,000-mile journey. Initially, I rode to Milwaukee to meet with the folks atHarley-Davidson®, then out to Sturgis, South Dakota for the biggest bike rally in the U.S., thento Boulder, Colorado to see the hands-on learning facilities at the University of Colorado. Thendown to Taos, New Mexico to house sit for a couple of weeks. Finally I started

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

the classparticipated in the design process, experiencing the iterative nature of the process andlearning basics of software evaluation and web programming.The course was first offered in the spring of 2003 with an enrollment of five and again inthe spring of 2004 with six participants. Both the in service teachers who participated inthe design process and the high school students who tested the resulting simulationsreported positive experiences.Why is it so hard to explain engineering to people who are not engineers?This project is based on the idea that high school students could be best informed aboutengineering indirectly; using the high school teachers with whom they were already incontact. We sought to make the participating teachers

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

describe a datawarehouse, developed from the registration web pages at Union College, which allows facultyand students to get on-line access to course enrollment trends, classroom availability, studentclass schedules, and other pertinent information. The results of this project were so successful inthe type of information that could be obtained that the administration became concerned aboutstudent privacy issues.IntroductionTraditional database systems, such as those used by bank tellers, librarians, and airlinereservation assistants, are often characterized as online transaction processing (OLTP) systems.They are required to process frequent queries, usually in real-time, that request information aboutthe current status of specific objects and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

; ExpositionCopyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering”that others do not see and to stress self-fulfillment. The general theme is to create a joband not take a job. Much of our academic learning is based on a system of complianceand heavy structure. Thus, there is very little room for creative thinking andentrepreneurial development in this kind of structured learning environment. It is ourassumption that students can be encouraged to think creatively and entrepreneurially in across-discipline, problem-based learning environment. Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are involved in a research project todevelop an on-line course that will use principles of the Entrepreneurs in Action!research project as its theoretical

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

materials, manufacturing processes, and shapes for approximately 3000 engineeringmaterials. The program is very powerful, and is potentially useful for students in mechanicalengineering. Page 9.1350.2 1 The objective of this paper will be to describe the use of the CES-4 software in a juniorlevel materials and manufacturing course. During the course, students’ practice using thesoftware through several homework assignments and team projects. These will be discussed.Pr ocedur e: The Company, Granta Design, Ltd., has an educational arrangement

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

. Data-setdevelopment for these exercises is also discussed. MATLAB and the Image ProcessingToolbox are utilized to allow students to focus on higher-level understanding ofcommonly available image processing tools. The use of advanced tools allows students toattempt and finish meaningful examples. This paper focuses on exercises that serve as auseful complement to robotics curriculum and student robotics projects.1. IntroductionThis paper describes a single semester computer vision course tailored to fourth yearundergraduate students with strong engineering backgrounds and moderate computerprogramming skills. The students referred to in this paper are in the Weapons andSystems Engineering department at the United States Naval Academy. They have

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

) Instruments Design & Project Nuclear System Design Measurements Shielding Nuclear Weapons Military Experience Fig. 1. Learning Model for the NE Major at USMAprincipal topics of study. Courses in general engineering, science, and atomic and

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

Session 3120 Virtual Laboratory for Machine Tool Technicians – Concept, Development and Examples Xueshu Song1, Radha Balamuralikrishna1 & Philip Pilcher2 Northern Illinois University/Rockford Abilities CenterOverviewThis paper is an outcome of an NSF sponsored project designed to pave the way for an Internetbased learning tool for training machine tool operators and technicians (Song et. al., 2000). Theobjective in using this novel approach is to accelerate and improve the process of learning anddevelopment of skills in machine tool technology. We present concepts using

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

from multiple engineering disciplines.Many universities utilize a design project approach when introducing undergraduate students tothe use of engineering science in a creative manner. [1,2,3,4] These design project courses aretypically “team-oriented;” that is, two or more students are required to work together to form asingle design solution to a problem. In such team-oriented design courses, there is a need for anorganizational mechanism whereby the students can report the level of participation of theindividual team members. The NAU Design4Practice [5,6] curriculum uses peer evaluations as ameans by which the students can self-report team participation, one of several methods used insimilar engineering courses. [7]The Design4Practice

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Kulkarni; Chung Leung

approximation coefficients (from application of the low-pass filter) ofthe transform. The multi-resolution theory is ‘per se’ defined only for one-dimensional signals.Since still images are two-dimensional discrete signals, our current research is restricted toseparable filters. The successive convolution of filter and signal in both dimensions opens to twopotential iterations: standard and non-standard decomposition. Since we are dealing with non-standard decomposition strategies, it iterates only the purely low-pass filtered approximationswhile leaving the mixed terms unchanged.Bi-orthogonal FiltersWith orthogonal filters, the wavelet transform can be viewed as projecting the input signal onto aset of orthogonal basis function. However, the standard

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

Page 9.40.2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering 270: Applications of CAD and RP for Biomedical EngineeringThe enormous potential of being able to scan existing objects, including complex organicfeatures, modify them or create new designs using CAD technology, and “print” a functional partis self-evident to anyone who has seen the equipment in operation. We have found that RP holdsextraordinary fascination to students and industrial visitors of all backgrounds, capturing theimagination and providing a strong attraction into the fields of science, engineering andtechnology. Rapid Prototyping provides an attractive environment for multi-disciplinaryactivities and projects, crossing

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

Session 2148 – Building Bridges with Community Colleges Building Bridges to Engineering Careers for Underserved Students Ray J. Walter Waukesha County Technical Collegeabstract A project with Waukesha County Technical College, Marquette University, and other partners,funded by a Congressional Award, increases the number of underserved individuals completing adegree to enter rewarding engineering careers. This model program removes barriers throughcollaborative linkages with secondary and post-secondary institutions, businesses, andcommunity, minority, and professional organizations to recruit

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”relating to structural as well as foundation systems, applied computer methods, andawareness of integrated applications of the project are included in the curriculum. In fact,the current curriculum is so robust and relevant that SDCET currently has a 100% jobplacement for all graduates for the last seven years. Graduates can look forward toserving in various positions of leadership and responsibility dealing with structural designand construction of building, bridges, or other similar public or commercial private sectorprojects. Graduates may also see opportunities working for government agenciesincluding construction of state or