Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lie Tang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Robert Landers, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Manufacturing

≡ = = = 0.1659 (1) Tl ωm ω$ mwhere Ti is the torque drained from the motor by the leadscrew (N·m), Tl is the torque supplied tothe leadscrew by the motor (N·m), l is the leadscrew angular velocity (rad/s), and m is themotor angular velocity (rad/s). The leadscrew pitch is Ta v v$ m p≡ = = = 2.022 ×10−4 (2) f a ωl ω$ l radwhere Ta is the torque drained from the leadscrew by the linear axis (N·m), fa is the forcesupplied to linear axis by the leadscrew (N

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2010 ERC

Authors

Arun Majumdar

    u al u s a s­ s ­ e s Opportunity s in B uPACE AND SCALE OF INNOVATIONS NEEDED IN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Game Changers from 20 th  Century  §  Artificial Fertilizers  §  Green Revolution  20 years  §  Polio Vaccination  Imagine all of this happening  in the next 20 years…  §  Antibiotics 100 years  §  Airplanes

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2010 ERC

Authors

Arun Majumdar

    u al u s a s­ s ­ e s Opportunity s in B uPACE AND SCALE OF INNOVATIONS NEEDED IN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Game Changers from 20 th  Century  §  Artificial Fertilizers  §  Green Revolution  20 years  §  Polio Vaccination  Imagine all of this happening  in the next 20 years…  §  Antibiotics 100 years  §  Airplanes

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Jianhong Ren, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University; Sheryl Custer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Joyce Coleman, Academy High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

people who motivated you to engineering fields?Question 4-9 What do you think about the most effective assessment method(s) to verify student learning during the camp?Question 4-10 What do you think about the most effective team forming method(s)?Question 4-11 Can you state a unique YESTexas camp feature different than other usual summer camps? Page 15.154.5Improvements in camp application and participant selection. The application form wasimproved to comply with the requirements of the external funding agency and to enhance theselection process. Demographic, educational and career

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

A.M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

utilizedteaching methods that were customized to how people learn most efficiently. Analysis ofVariance (ANOVA) and Pearson‟s correlation were used to study the relationship betweencontent knowledge, self efficacy, cognitive level, and critical thinking level.It was found that critical thinking and self efficacy scores are positively correlated with eachother, but neither is correlated with the student‟s course grade. In addition students who statedthat they believed they would earn an „A‟ in the first year course performed significantly betterin critical thinking. Critical thinking and self efficacy scores did not have a correlation withoverall course grades, which suggests that course grades may not be the best method for definingthe quality of a

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Lawretta C Ononye

then remained stable. Figure 1 is a schematic of the anodization experiment. At theend of the experiment, the sample was rinsed in distilled water and air dried. The morphologiesof the titanium dioxide films obtained were characterized using Hitachi S-900 field emissionscanning electron microscope (FE-SEM). Figure 1: Schematic of the anodization experiment. 2Result Figure 2 shows SEM top view image of unique nano-porous titanium oxide film. TiO 2 , awide bandgap oxide semiconductor is the material of choice due to its stability, inertness, andlow cost. The optical bandgap of TiO 2 is 3.2 eV which lies in the ultraviolet

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashpal Ahluwalia, West Virginia University; Atul Phadke, West Virginia University; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0525484. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.learning and designs with more than one possible correct outcome depending on designconstraints; and because students could compete against their peers using the same designconsiderations.In 2009, the West Virginia University Engineers of Tomorrow research team reviewed regionalliterature on STEM career opportunities for Appalachian students, and noted, "It has long beensaid that high tech industries with higher paying jobs would improve the lives of residents of theAppalachian region. Careers in the sciences

Conference Session

Business Meeting

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

traced back to a single member‟sinitiative in late December 2000. From that initiative, the MULTI Division membership hasgrown to its rank as the fifth largest ASEE Division in 2010. At this ten-year mark, it seemsappropriate to document this decade of development of the ASEE MULTI Division, as it is nowknown. This paper reviews the MULTI Division‟s development over its first decade with arecord of the highlights of each year of that first decade and the steps that led from that initiativeto recognition as an ASEE “constituent committee” in 2005 and then the MultidisciplinaryEngineering Division in 2006. This initiative also contributed significantly to ASEE‟s currentrole in the ABET EAC accreditation process. MULTI is now the fifth largest

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Fries, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brad Cross, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Susan Morgan, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

argue that using real-world projects provides students exposure to working withchallenging clients and imperfect design information 2. Students need this experience with realworld problems to become effective civil engineers 3.This paper presents a synopsis of previous studies on engineering design courses in the nextsection, particularly those including industry collaboration. Next, the case study methodology is Page 15.159.2discussed in detail, including the new course‟s integration with the Civil Engineering Body of 1Knowledge for the 21st

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Wright; Thad Welch; Michael Morrow

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Figure 3: A plot showing the z-plane annotated for discussing bandpass sampling.dents that allows them to evaluate Equation (1) in a way that promotes exploration and “what if” thinking.A simple m-file that provides this capability is shown in Listing 1, with an example output given in Figure 4for the bandpass signal parameters from Figure 2(a). Listing 1: M ATLAB program to evaluate valid sampling frequencies for bandpass sampling.f u n c t i o n vFs = bp samp ( fu , B )% vFs=bp samp ( f u , B )%% C r e a t e a s e t o f min and max v a l i d s a m p l e f r e q u e n c i e s% f o r bandpass sampling .% For Q= f u / B ,% 2B (Q / n ) <= Fs <= 2B ( ( Q− 1 ) / n −1))% where n i s an i n t e g e r s u c h t h a t 0> bp_samp

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology; Scott Bellinger, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Joseph Stanislow, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

always proven to be verysuccessful. Even today, a large percentage of the deaf community has reading comprehensionand writing deficits and this has not changed much over the past 30 years.3When deaf or hard of hearing students arrive at college, they have high expectations ofthemselves for completing bachelor‟s and graduate degrees.4 The research led by Cuculick andKelly has shown through statistical analysis that only about 17% of incoming deaf students atNTID, 2001 and 2002 had the requisite reading and language skills to enter a baccalaureateprogram in their first year. Also, with the same data, it indicated that at NTID it takes longer forthe deaf students to complete Associate of Occupational Studies (AOS), Associated of AppliedScience (AAS

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University; Roland Lawrence, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Students in this knowledge-deficitsituation generally benefit from direct interaction with an instructor, such as in the traditionalvisit to an instructor‟s office for private one-on-one tutoring. In this personal interaction, theinstructor will assess „in real time‟ the student‟s understanding of any number of prerequisiteskills and knowledge and will adjust the direction and pace of the meeting, and ideally respondwith sensitivity, insight, and accuracy at teach point of assessment during the tutorial session.The long-term goal of this effort is to create, using interactive software, an effective substitutefor the one-on-one, across-the-desk tutorial experience for the advanced placement engineeringor engineering technology student needing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lie Tang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Robert Landers, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Richard Hall, Missouri University of Science and Technology

(1)where is the time constant (s), x(t) is the axis position (mm), K is the gain ((mm/s)/V), and FC isthe Coulomb friction (mm/s), which is modeled by ⎧ FC + if v (t ) > 0 ⎪ FC = ⎨ 0 if v (t ) = 0 (2) ⎪F if v (t ) < 0 ⎩ C−where v(t) is the axis velocity (mm/s). The X, Y, and Z axis parameters are listed Table 1.Ignoring Coulomb friction and using position and velocity as the system states, the linear axisstate

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

on characteristic patterns in time.A quantitative technology forecast includes the study of historic data to identify one of severalcommon technology diffusion or substitution models. Patterns to be identified include constantpercentage rates of change (so-called “Moore‟s Laws”), logistic growth (“S”- curves), logisticsubstitution, performance envelopes, anthropological invariants, lead/lag (precursor)relationships, and other phenomena. These quantitative projections have proven accurate inpredicting technological and social change in thousands of diverse applications, on time scalescovering only months to spanning centuries.Invariant, or well-bounded, human individual and social behavior, and fundamental humanagency and evolutionary drives

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Spencer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students to matriculate intocollege science and engineering programs, or to enroll in the state‟s technical and communitycolleges. There is a strategic imperative for Georgia Tech to promote teaching as a valued careergoal and to support those STEM majors who wish to pursue a career in teaching in the K 12arena. As part of a new, campus-wide initiative, supported by the NSF, Georgia Tech hasimplemented a series of activities to promote careers in K-12 teaching, and has set up theinfrastructure to track and evaluate these initiatives. This paper will describe the initiativesimplemented so far, the types of road blocks encountered, and the numbers of students enteringteaching from various engineering fields. Our goal is to change the perceptions

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glen Dudevoir, United States Air Force Academy; Andrew Laffely, United States Air Force Academy; Alan J. Mundy, United States Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

team resources. Page 15.3.2ABET‟s adoption of “Engineering Criteria 2000” (now just “Engineering Criteria”), introducedan entirely new dynamic.1 The new criteria required students to demonstrate the ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams. This outcome requires that students work with (ordemonstrate the ability to work with) members of other disciplines on a projects where both (all)disciplines are required for success of the project. Moreover, the ABET requirement forassessment requires the program to assess the students‟ accomplishment of this outcome.Assessing Individual Performance on TeamIn the early days of team projects, before the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Israel Urieli, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

extensive use of pressure-enthalpy(P-h) diagrams that enable intuitive visualization of even the most complex steam power plantsto a high degree of accuracy. This is contrary to all current thermodynamic textbooks in whichtemperature-entropy (T-s) diagrams are used to represent steam power plants. This standardtextbook approach is non-intuitive in that there is no indication of the turbine power output, andincorrect in that the ideal feedwater pump process is always represented by a line when in fact itshould be closer to a single point.Another significant departure from traditional thermodynamic texts is the use of the ideal Stirlingcycle machine to represent the ideal reversible machine. The ideal Stirling cycle machine has athermal efficiency

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

anoption. The reason was that programming at the bit level could be cumbersome and it took thestudents a long time to set hardware configurations, timers, interrupts, etc. There was asignificant amount of code and hardware preparation just to get the robot going. Therefore in2009, the controller was changed to the Robotics Connection Serializer that could beprogrammed with Visual C# using MSRS services54, 55. This format was actually moreappropriate because it moved the focus from components to higher level functions and behaviors.The object oriented programming in an IDE afforded the creation of a GUI to make it possible tovisualize the framework of the student‟s work. By changing to this software platform, studentswere able to accomplish more

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fleisig, McMaster University; Harry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

AC 2010-247: SCHOLARLY CREATIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN?Robert Fleisig, McMaster UniversityHarry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design Page 15.1052.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Scholarly Creative Engineering DesignAbstractMcMaster University has initiated a new Master of Engineering Design degree inengineering practice aimed at educating tomorrow s leaders in engineering designGraduates of engineering schools are well versed in first-principles approaches totechnology application and must acquire new skills and competencies in innovation anddesign in order to become global leaders in their field. The leading thinkers in engineeringdesign must be

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

parallel concepts but perhaps with a slightlydifferent vocabulary (and spin). Adam Smith (1723-1790), the noted Scots philosopher left anexcellent trove of ideas relating to wealth creation and the societal importance of engineeringmethodologies for contributing to the quality of life. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),1 a notedprecursor of socialist ideas under the banner of “Utilitarianism” followed with an objective oftenexpressed as the axiom “It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure ofright and wrong” In 1784 Samuel Gregg (1758-1834) opened Europe‟s largest cotton mill atStyal, near Manchester. David Dale (1739-1806) ultimately assisted by Robert Owen (1771-1858) followed in 1786 with a huge mill at New Lanark in

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint; Anita Ainsworth, University of Michigan-Flint

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First-Year Programs

/Nov). Ausubell‟s learning theory: An approach to teaching higher order thinking skills,The High School Journal, 82(1). Research Library[13] Ausubel, D.P. & Robinson, F. G. (1969). School learning: an introduction to educational psychology. (p.46). New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.[14] Oxford, R.L. (1990). Looking at language learning strategies. In Language learning strategies: what everyteacher should know, (pp. 1-37). New York: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.[15] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R. (2000). How people learn: brain, mind, experience andschool. (p.20). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, manyengineering programs have incorporated international service projects4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.. In his Ph.D.dissertation regarding humanitarian aspects engineering in the engineering curriculum, Page 15.896.2Vandersteen provides and eloquent history of the evolution of engineering education discussinghow the profession has evolved to see the interconnection between technology and humanity.He further states that the “2000s (have seen an) increased interest in social, environmentalimpact of engineering”12. In fact, six years after the advent of ABET‟s EC-2000, thefundamental change in engineering accreditation, the International Journal for Service

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2010 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Thomas W Peterson

ERC Strategic Framework: Proposal #, PI Name, ERC Name, Lead University Name Barriers Testbed(s) Systems Research QoLT 3-plane chart Requirements Testbed(s) Stakeholders Systems Research

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Lau, Universidad del Turabo; Sastry Kuruganty, Universidad del Turabo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

( ) p.u. 2 = p.u. ( ) p.u. ( ) (1) synwhere = power angle in radians, p.u. = angular speed of the rotor in p. u. , = time in seconds, syn = synchronous angular speed in rad/s = machine inertia constant in seconds, p.u. = mechanical power in p. u. , p.u. = electrical power in p. u. Page 15.19.3In the per-unit swing

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M. Minnucci; J. Ni; A. Nikolova; L. Theodore

to define this important property. It isnormally designated as S with units of energy per absolute temperature, e.g., BTU/˚R or cal/K. Furthermore, entropycalculations can provide quantitative information on the “quality” of energy and energy degradation (2, 3). There are a number of other phenomena which cannot be explained by the law of conservation of energy. Itis the second law of thermodynamics that provides an understanding and analysis of these diverse effects. However,among these considerations, it is the second law that can produce the means of measuring the aforementioned“quality” of energy, including its effect on the design and performance of heat exchangers. Exergy is another term that is closely related to both

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

M. Minnucci; J. Ni; A. Nikolova; L. Theodore

to define this important property. It isnormally designated as S with units of energy per absolute temperature, e.g., BTU/˚R or cal/K. Furthermore, entropycalculations can provide quantitative information on the “quality” of energy and energy degradation (2, 3). There are a number of other phenomena which cannot be explained by the law of conservation of energy. Itis the second law of thermodynamics that provides an understanding and analysis of these diverse effects. However,among these considerations, it is the second law that can produce the means of measuring the aforementioned“quality” of energy, including its effect on the design and performance of heat exchangers. Exergy is another term that is closely related to both

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conry, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

engineering is a young discipline. Although the term “software engineering” wascoined in 1968, development of the first undergraduate programs in the discipline did not beginin the United States until the mid to late 1990’s. The first software engineering programsdeveloped in the United States were not baccalaureate programs. Early programs were focusedat the graduate level, working with students who already had a base of knowledge in computerscience. Although there were isolated courses in software engineering offered at someinstitutions as early as the mid-1980’s, it was not until the early to mid-1990’s that softwareengineering concepts began filtering into undergraduate programs. Sometimes these conceptswere incorporated into computer engineering

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

themean Treasure Hunt grade has remained fairly constant with a slightly positive slope. 100 95 90 Mean Project Grade 85 80100 75 90 70 6580 6070 55 60 50 50 S '00 S '01 F '02 S '03 F '04 F '05 S '06 F '06 F '07 S '07 S '08 S '09 S '00 S '01 F '02 S '03 F '04 F '05 F '06 F '06 F '07 S '07 S '08 S '09 SemesterFigure 1. Average grades for the Treasure Hunt from Spring semester 2000 -- Spring semester2009. S = Spring semester , F = Fall semester. Data was unavailable for earlier semesters and forsome semesters during this timespan.Evolution of the Project: Anecdotal Observations

Conference Session

Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

of structural engineering, fresh graduates often producecomputational models of a building structure that bear little resemblance to reality.Unfortunately, the construction of a computational model is typically one of the first tasks ayoung engineer is asked to perform. An understanding of the phenomenon being modeled aswell as the limitations of the software is necessary to accurately model the behavior of abuilding. In order to address this issue, the authors are constructing a series of experimental andanalytical laboratory exercises which challenge the student‟s confidence in computer results.Last year, the authors presented a paper6 comparing student computational modeling before andafter a simple ambient vibration test7 to determine

Conference Session

Women in Biomedical Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University; Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT; Gilda Barabino, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

diversity are substantial – both forstudents in BME and society at large. Actively pursuing strategies to remove or reduce thebarriers to women’s success in BME will promote a more diverse workforce in BME disciplines,which may in turn create a more productive workforce.Bibliography1 Lane, N., Why are there so few women in science? Nature Debates, 1999.2 Nemeth, C., Dissent, group process, and creativity: The contribution of minority influence. Advances in Group Processes, 1985. 2(57).3 McLeod, P., S. Lobel, and T. Cox Jr, Ethnic diversity and creativity in small groups. Small Group Research, 1996. 27(2): p. 248-264.4 Hong, L. and S.E. Page, Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability