Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

team wastested. The ME hovercraft was not tested due to safety concerns. These projects have createdconsiderable interest among faculty members from other departments within the University,some of who have expressed a desire to participate in future projects of the type. Suggestionshave also been made that collaborative competitions might be conducted in the future betweenteams from Purdue University and other universities here and abroad.IntroductionDue to the evolution of engineering science research beginning in the 1960s, the emphasis ofengineering education became more strongly biased towards the science of engineering, andaway from the application of engineering (McMaster & Matsch, 1996; Hayes & Wheelwright,1984)1 That shift in

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chintan Parekh; Anthony Warren; Elizabeth Kisenwether

, business and legal. The‘how-to’ literature in this field is largely focused on legal process rather than the human factorissues which are far more important. The subtleties of the transfer must be transacted through Page 9.1378.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual 1 Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”active involvement by the technical staff from both the providing and receiving entities. This isoften called an ‘agency’ model

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Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Russ

the future, so the case sets up a high-stakes situation with considerable timepressure.To give students a starting point for their work, the case contains appendices with drawings andspecifications of the new ballpoint pen patent purchased by Eversharp, sample drawings fromfountain pen patents for comparison, and representative industry advertisements from theappropriate era. A separate handout provides students with annual financial reports forEversharp, Inc., from 1940 – 1942.Overview of Project GoalsA cornerstone of the project is that it requires engineering and business students to worktogether. Cross-disciplinary work is increasingly recognized as an important component ofeffective education,1, 3 and the collaboration between business

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

Maximizing Your Productivity as a Junior Faculty Member: Balancing Research, Teaching, and Service Lori Mann Bruce, J.W. Bruce Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThe majority of new engineering educators are confronted with two daunting challenges: (1)wisely select the tasks on which they spend time and energy and (2) effectively manage theirtime and energy in order to maximize their productivity. In this paper, the authors suggest seven“tricks of the trade” designed to help a new faculty member achieve their tenure and/orpromotion requirements while balancing their research, teaching, and service workloads. Theseseven strategies are aimed at

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

learningenvironment6.Active learning is being promoted vigorously at Union University as the pedagogy that bestpromotes learning. To fill that requirement and the need to “make easy” the study of a Page 9.389.1traditionally difficult subject of statics, a mechanical breadboard is envisioned. It shall meet theProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringfollowing design specifications: (1) compact, (2) portable, (3) inexpensive, (4) comprehensive,(5) easy to use and assemble, and (6) intended for use in classroom.Being able to set up the problem

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

showcase our experience with designing andstarting up a new engineering program from ground zero. Included in the discussion are (1) theidentification of needs both internally and externally, (2) the decision on the type of degree to beconferred, (3) the design of the curriculum to exceed ABET criteria, (3) the training of thefaculty on ABET policy and procedure, (4) the interaction with the State Board of EngineeringExaminers, (5) the establishment of the program’s objectives and educational outcomes, (6) theestablishment and implementation of the Continuous Quality Improvement process, (7) theAssessment methods, (8) the documentation and record keeping, and (9) the self- study inpreparation for the very first ABET campus visit and

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherif Yehia; James Nelson

notinconsistent with the thrust of ASCE Policy Statement 465 and the body of knowledge2developed by ASCE to support the policy statement. In the author’s opinion, solid and thorougheducation in fundamental theoretical principles and well as practical application of thoseprinciples is a thrust of ASCE in this regard.A First Course in Structural AnalysisGiven the previous discussion, the authors offer the following suggestion for the content of a firstcourse in structural analysis. Included with the content suggestions are brief comments as to therationale for including that content. 1. Loads and Load Distribution in Structural Systems Fundamental to structural engineering is an understanding of loads acting on a structural system

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Tutoring with College Success & II Effort of Arts & Program Sciences Figure 1. The Freshman Year Program at the State University of New York at BinghamtonLiterature Review Freshman engineering programs can be categorized using many differentschemas. For the present work, the following model is offered: (1) Introductory lecture orseminar format; (2) “Skills-based” program housed in a separate department; and (3)“Project-based” model, typically placed in the context of a common freshman yearenrollment. Each approach has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. As the StateUniversity of New York at Binghamton’s engineering program has

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

program at the Technological Studies Department and to add fun andcreativity components to bring more student excitement and higher learning [1]. It will alsocomplement a pure teaching department with a research component through the involvement ofstate-of-the-art technologies. Animatronics was chosen as the main area of focus. Animatronicsis the art of bringing inanimate objects to life through computer, cable, remote, radio controlsand puppetry [2] as defined by Jim Henson. From a technical point of view, an animatronic is afigure that is animated by means of electromechanical or mechatronic devices. Its goal is toemulate an actual living being or a fictitious character to entertain. Animatronics will transformthe capstone projects from an

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

planned either to satisfy the ever growing and diverse social needs or theindustrial demands. The likelihood of the present engineering and technology curriculumstructure in the Indian subcontinent countries is illustrated in figure 1 given below: Humanities Basic & Social Thesis Sciences Sciences 3% 25% 22% Applied & Engg. Design Technical

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

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

cooperation with industrial users. A procedure is developed to illustrate the effect ofparameter variation on the design of transformers in order to achieve minimum cost ofproduction. The procedure illustrates that there are many possible designs within a very smallincrement of cost. The objective is to assist undergraduate students to understand the designprocess: determining the efficiency, size, weight and cost of actual transformers, while meetingmultiple transformer specifications. 1. Introduction Most technical papers on computer-aided design of power transformers utilizeoptimization routines which guide the choice of the independent variables to optimize a design[1-3]. Thus, the computer program regulates the design skill and isolates

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Engel; Peter Lehman; Charles Chamberlin; Angi Sorensen; Andy Sorter

/) used UNPEPP funding to hire two student interns fromHumboldt State University's (HSU) Environmental Resources Engineering (ERE) program todesign renewable energy systems and improve energy efficiency in Redwood National and StateParks (RNSP). As shown in Figure 1, the park is located on the northern California coast,approximately 50 miles from the HSU campus in Arcata. Under the supervision of SERCengineers, the students designed systems that combined load reduction and energy production toreduce the park’s reliance on fossil fuels. In this paper we describe the students’ experiences incollecting relevant data, refining project objectives, selecting the alternative of choice, andreporting the results. We also evaluate the benefits of involving

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

& Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”1793Dimension 1 Scale focus• Focus on one scale level without reference to the need to consider other scale levels• Focus on the issue of scale itself and the necessity to work at different scales• Focus on the relation between scalesDimension 2 Focus• Interface is described in terms of a modified fibre or a modified matrix• Interface is described in terms of the sum of or difference between matrix and fibre• Interface is described as more than the sum of the parts, e.g. a new materialDimension 3 Concept and Object• Interface is an object e.g. interphase with four or five layers• Interface is a concept which can be measured by association with

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

scheduled in the second half of the semester so that the theoreticaldevelopment of topics could be synchronized with the lab.This paper describes 1) the learning objectives of the experiment, 2) the basic experimentalmethodology, 3) summary and analysis of student-generated data from the last seven years, 4) anassessment of the lab’s educational value as perceived by the students, and 5) work in progress toadd further educational `value’ to the experiment.2. Learning ObjectivesThe primary objective is to learn, through hands-on activities, the influence of sintering variableson the densification of ceramics. The lab enables the students to explore the effects of sinteringtemperature, sintering time, and compaction pressure on the density, porosity

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

at SUNY-Binghamton offered its owndiscipline- specific capstone design course. (Figure 1) At the direction of the dean inSeptember 2000, a committee consisting of all department chairs, undergraduate programdirectors, and the associate dean for administration was established. This committee metregularly over the course of the academic year and recommended that a pilot multi-disciplinary capstone project sequence be developed and offered beginning in fall 2001. Page 9.932.1The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the Department of Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

with an interesting and creative project for all levels of technology education.What is an Ekranoplan?Ekranoplan is a Russian word for a vehicle that exploits the benefits of ground effect flight. TheEkranoplan or Wing-In-Ground Effect vehicle flies in close proximity to a surface, usuallywater, to improve the lift to drag ratio of its airfoils. The improvement in the lift to drag ratioenables either the size of the wing to be reduced or larger cargo capacity. For a given vehicle Page 9.1253.1and payload, reducing the size of the wing may improve fuel economy by reducing a vehicle’sdrag.1 The ground effect benefit improves as vehicle size

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

the next mentoring session. Thisskills growth process incorporates parts of an employee development method used by the authorat Hewlett-Packard several years ago. Our question is: “What underlying principles emerge as we train undergraduate mentors?”To evaluate the skills growth process we employed several instruments during a four-week pilotstudy. “Snapshot” instruments used during each mentoring session gathered data from thementors, mentees, and observers. Following the study, the mentors and mentees wrotecomments concerning growth in the mentor’s skills. Three underlying principles appeared toemerge from the data: 1. The simple formula of exploring what a mentee knows and then collaboratively enabling the mentee to refine his or

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

Session 3632 Modeling, Simulation, and Control of a Real System Robert D. Throne Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a preliminary laboratory sequence in our introductory linear control systemsclass that combines modeling a real system, developing a control system design based on thismodel, and then implementing the designed controller on the real system. After our first timethrough this new sequence we have found three educational benefits: the students realize that (1)their models are only approximate descriptions of the real systems, (2) even

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

processing.Development of the program entailed the establishment of (1) a series of specialized upper-levelBME courses, (2) a BME laboratory capable of supporting basic experimentation andundergraduate research, (3) a BME capstone experience, (4) a BME summer internshipexperience, (5) guest workshops, and (6) a series of modules that fit within our core courses tofacilitate “biomedical engineering across the curriculum.” The first BME graduates willcomplete the program in May of 2004.IntroductionFor over twenty years, LeTourneau University has offered a Bachelor of Science in Engineering(B.S.E.) degree with electrical and mechanical concentrations, recently adding welding andcomputer engineering. Most of the courses taken in the first two years are common to

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

perABET’s new Engineering Criteria 2000.Focus of ABET’s EC2000ABET’s periodic review of engineering programs is well accepted as a form of programassessment and quality assurance. Since its enactment, Engineering Criteria 2000 have beenwell publicized in various sources, and effective Fall 2001, all programs coming up foraccreditation review, are being evaluated for compliance against these criteria. These essentiallyconsist of eight criteria with a goal of continuous program improvement as opposed to the earlierfocus on rigid quantitative inputs5. These criteria encompass: (1) Students, (2) ProgramEducational Objectives, (3) Program Outcomes and Assessment, (4) Professional Component,(5) Faculty, (6) Facilities, (7) Institutional Support and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

into the center of the activatedresin. The thermocouple output was tracked with a strip chart recorder. Figure 1 is a schematic ofthe arrangement.The surroundings of the activated resin were thermally passive, not active. Thus the resultingresin temperature rise is considered quasi-adiabatic, not truly adiabatic. The resultingtemperature-time curves obtained with the strip chart recorder provided the gel time (to thenearest 0.5 minute) and associated temperature (to the nearest 1 C), as well as the time andtemperature of the inflection in those curves. A typical time-temperature curve obtained in thisinvestigation is shown in Figure 2 Typically, the temperature rose very slowly as the exothermicreaction proceeded. Upon approaching gel time

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

important. The public has anincomplete understanding of engineers and engineering as a profession [1, 2]. Indiscussions about the public’s understanding of engineers, many reference the“conventional” stereotype of engineers as train operators [3, 4]. Though this stereotypemay exist among students as well as the public, few investigations to date have focusedon students’ ideas about engineers and engineering. The recent introduction ofengineering into the K-12 curriculum in Massachusetts has increased interest amongeducators in assessing students’ knowledge of engineering. Though we are surrounded by the products of engineering in our everyday lives,students often don’t understand what engineers do [2]. Few students come in contact

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Jennifer Beller; Donald Elger

student rank ordered the individual events from “most helpful in learning,” to“least helpful in learning.” The third instrument was end of term qualitative data where thestudents described in writing what made the “most helpful” events helpful and the “least helpful”events least helpful.We rated the events from excellent to poor based on the collected data. The spread of the eventratings allowed us to discover two important design features. (1) Design each event so that thestudents begin with the concepts and are guided through the application. This connection of theconcept, application, and interrelationship between them greatly enhances learning. The learningenvironment is weakened when concept and application are taught separately. (2) Design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

by some con-siderations about project work carried out within Industrial design and from continuousevaluation results.IntroductionAalborg University (AAU) was established in 1974 as an innovative experiment in highereducation starting with 2,200 students from three different schools. It is the newest universityof the six universities and institutions of higher learning in Denmark and now it has morethan 13,000 students. It was established to explore the project-based educational approach toovercoming some of the problems of the traditional course-based educational system [1], [2].The majority of universities in the US are similar to each other in their educational, financial,and administrative approaches [1]. Aalborg University is

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Roselli

. Thus, the traditional method provides an Page 9.295.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationenvironment that is largely knowledge-centered, with some summative assessment, but with littleattention to formative assessment, learner-centered activities, or community involvement.Many recent advances in learning science are summarized in the book "How People Learn"(HPL).1 A key finding, referred to as the "HPL framework", is that the most effective learningenvironments are those that are

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

than lecturers.• Innovation; to emphasise integrated problem solving, considering social, economical and political aspects as well as technological aspects.From 1990 to 1994 The University of Twente [1, 2] planned the innovation from classical toproject-led education for the mechanical engineering studies. No other institution hadsuccessfully made this changeover when they started in 1994 and this probably remains truein 2004, although some other universities have started developing similar initiatives on ascale which matches their needs and perceptions.In the following some important elements of the concept will shortly be pointed out, somecases will be given together with experience from interaction between AAU and industry willbe

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

, students thenconstruct a prototype of their selected project and experience first-hand the iterative engineeringdesign process. Through reflection and discussion with other students and through large groupdiscussions, they make sense of their learning and connect the construction process to theunderlying scientific and mathematical theory and equations. They post their learning on theConnections page where other students and the teachers may comment and ask questions. Thedesired result is a deep conceptual and applied understanding of the topics.Web Page ComponentsFlick and Bell23 suggest five guidelines for using technology in science teaching: 1. Technology should be introduced in the context of science content. 2. Technology should