Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

Session 2468 Effective Teaching and Learning of the Conjugate Beam Method: Synthesized Guiding Rules Ing-Chang Jong University of ArkansasAbstractThere are different established methods in Mechanics of Materials for determining deflections ofbeams. No matter which established method is used, one rightfully expects an identical solutionto be obtained for the same problem. Well, not so fast! One will here see a puzzling scenariowhere a certain problem is amenable to solution only by the conjugate beam method, but not byany of the

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

courses withexposure to content in areas such as mechanics, electrical phenomena and programminglogic. In addition the course contributes significantly to the development of timemanagement, teamwork, and oral and written communication skills. Page 9.1025.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationIntr oductionTeaching and learning may be enriched by integrating new technologies in theengineering curriculum, particularly in laboratory-based courses. Traditional pedagogicalapproaches of teaching theory before

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

integrated schedule,program assessment, and an in-depth look at the key components – presentation ofteaching pedagogy, veteran classes, new faculty practice classes, class assessments forboth veteran and new faculty, and administrative classes that help smooth new facultytransition into the department. We will also highlight a one-week course for thoseschools that are not able to devote time to train their own faculty. We will assess the CME faculty training program’s effectiveness both through thecomments of those new instructors who have participated in the program as well ascomparison of their student ratings to other instructors at the USMA. Through thisassessment, we will show whether the faculty training program is an effective use

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

for the tool donations, their MTF colleagues for supportand advice and the Intel engineers who formerly used the Anelva.Bibliography 1. John Robertson, Lakshmi Munukutla and Richard Newman, “Delivery of a common microelectronics technology curriculum at several degree levels”. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 2. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) is fully described in an extensive web site at http://public.itrs.net.Biographical informationJohn Robertson is a professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Technology at ASU’s Eastcampus in Mesa, Arizona. From 1994 to 2001

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

(EDRC), sponsors severalproject-based engineering design courses which are open not only to Carnegie Mellon’sEngineering School, but to the entire university community. The topics addressed includeIntegrated Product Design, Rapid Prototyping, and Design of Wearable Computers (1).The Engineering Design Projects Course, which is now in its fifth year, is unique in that teamsof students, usually from many parts of the campus community, work on design projectssponsored by industries (both local and national), non-profits, or organizations within theuniversity. The intent is to give the participating students a hands-on, integrative,multidisciplinary experience in the important field of engineering design—an opportunity for thestudents to practice

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Beltz; Marie Dahleh

include Statics, Dynamics, and Strength of Materialsin the Summer since they are pivotal courses in our curriculum. Our study targets the Staticscourse and addresses whether the concentration of material into a six-week session affectsstudents’ ability to achieve the desired learning outcomes. We have constructed an assessmentprogram that consists of student focus groups, student surveys, an analysis of the performanceand retention of students subsequent to taking Statics, and a standardized quiz administered tostudents approximately two years after taking the course. In this contribution, we discuss theassessment instruments in detail and our evaluation results to date. We have analyzed data fromthree ten-week offerings of Statics and three six

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Price

Session #: 3249 GIS and Undergraduate Engineering Recruitment, An Exploratory Study at DeVry University, Pomona. Alan Price DeVry University, Pomona, CA.AbstractEnrollment in undergraduate engineering programs in the United States (U.S.) has declined overthe past two decades. Studies have shown that the number of bachelor’s graduates inengineering has declined since 1985, while the number of ABET accredited engineeringprograms has increased by approximately one-third during the same time period. This suggestsgreater competition among new and old

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

-design-implement-operate] initiative has been well received byundergraduates, who have thoughtful suggestions for improvements. Some feeling of imbalancebetween fundamentals and other skills. Offerings in CAD/CAM, machining, fabrication desired."The intent of this course is to respond to this perceived gap, while exploiting synergies withother engineering departments that have articulated similar needs. We have developed an intense6-credit-unit IAP (independent activities period)1 course that takes students through theconception, design, and implementation of a single, complex structural component. This activitysupports the learning objectives of the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) initiative[1,2,3] and leverages the latest technologies

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

departmental unitto assemble the expertise necessary to offer an integrated curriculum, interdepartmentalcooperation in the development of fuel cell related courses and curricula is beneficial. At ASU,the introductory fuel cell course is taught by a team of three faculty made up of an electricalengineer, an electrochemist, and a mechanical engineer.10 Each faculty member teaches thematerial appropriate to their background. The goal of this course is to provide technically maturestudents with broad based understanding of fuel cell physics and technology at an introductorylevel.The philosophy of the ASU programs is based on the recognition that fuel cell technology will bedeveloped by teams of experts, and that few individuals will attain a depth of

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

Pacific CrestABSTRACTDevelopment of a complex set of life-long learning skills in the cognitive, social, and affectivedomains is an important goal of engineering education. This is complicated by the reality thatlearning skill development transcends the temporal and spatial boundaries of isolated courses(SCANS 1991). This work responds to the need for a shared language to promote and reinforcelearning skill development between courses and across the curriculum. The research questionthat motivated this work is whether greater specificity in learning skill definition than thatprescribed by ABET Criteria 3 and 4 can be a useful tool for daily teaching/learning. This paperoutlines the philosophy, organization, and application of a classification of

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

. 2 (2003): pages 292-93.10. Splitt, Frank G. "The Industrial Needs of the Engineer in the 21st Century: An Update", ASEE New England Section 71st ASEE Annual Fall Conference. Boston, MA: Northeastern University, 1993.11. Al-Holou, Nizar, Nihat M. Bilgutay, Carlos Corleto, John T. Demel, Richard Felder, Karen Frair, Jeffrey Froyd, Mark Hoit, Jim Morgan, and David L. Wells. "First-Year Integrated Curricula Across Engineering Education Coalitions" Proceedings of the Frontiers of Education 28th Annual Conference. Session 1240, Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1998.12. Cortese, Anthony. "Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future." Engineering Education

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman; Dugan Um

aidedmanufacturing. However, students in MFGE 4376 were not able to see an immediate practicalneed for the course. Therefore, we decided to use robot systems (robot manipulator and its Page 9.1166.1sensor and actuator based accessories) to teach controls theory. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOur Approach – The EquipmentThe key approach of this paper was to use multi-degree, robot manipulators as a vehicle fordemonstrating the practical aspects of automatic control theory. Robots were chosen for avariety of

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Adams; Faramarz Mossayebi

capturing a signal and playing it back. The hardwaresetup consists of a personal computer connected to a Texas Instrument’s DSP Starter Kit(DSK), namely the TMS320C6711 DSK [1], in addition to speakers and a microphone.Texas Instrument provides an integrated software development package, named CodeComposer Studio, for this hardware platform to write, debug, and download the code,normally written in assembly (or C). The students are not required to develop the codebut rather become familiarized with this hardware/software platform, which is used in thenext three follow-up experiments.Spectrum Analysis experiment At the beginning of this lab period a brief lecture is given to impress upon thestudents the importance of sinusoidal signals in DSP

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

access. However, it is also possible to make lectures accessible to the generalpublic by serving it through the standard web port (Port 80).Theory of Operation The development of the LIVE system is predicated on one underlying assumption dealingwith capabilities that were currently available in all classrooms at Texas A&M University,College Station. Each classroom has been previously mediated with an instructor podium thatprovides a touch screen display connected to a computer with its video output routable to anLCD projector which can select from multiple inputs and project this information to a screen atthe front of the classroom. The LIVE development team was able to make use of the some ofthese resources so that an integrated

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebeca G. Book; William Pfannenstiel

citations, andcase studies.What are ethics? Most people would agree that ethics are “making good decisions” or “havingprinciples or integrity,” following the “Golden Rule.” The American Heritage Dictionarydefines ethic as, “a principle of right or good conduct, or a body of such principles.” Mostpeople have a warm and fuzzy notion of ethics.However, teaching about ethics is much more than having an idea of ethics, individuals need torealize the impact of their decisions. These decisions may not only affect them, but have mayconsequences affecting people socially, globally, culturally and may even affect theenvironment. We can see the negative examples of this in our society with Enron, the spaceshuttle, and the recent Martha Stewart trial. With

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

Document: 2004-2305 Software Engineering Emphasis for Engineering Computing Courses: An Open Letter to Engineering Educators William Hankley Department of Computing & Information Sciences Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 hankley@cis.ksu.eduAbstractSoftware is an important component for engineering development for all engineering fields, notjust for computing sciences. This paper addresses what might be included in a service course forengineering majors on the topic of software development

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Per G. Reinhall; Paula R.L. Heron; Lesley Low; Brian C. Fabien

this issue and assist in a seamless transition forthe students going from physics into engineering.MethodologyThe tutorials developed for use in the instruction of freshman physics by the PEG wereused as a model for the engineering tutorials. The main goal of the physics tutorials is toincrease student understanding of the concepts of introductory physics. The developmentof the physics tutorials takes place in an iterative cycle of research, curriculumdevelopment and curriculum implementation as described below.Research on student learning of specific topics indicates the areas of student difficultythat the curriculum must address. This research includes the systematic analysis ofstudent responses to questions administered after lecture

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

Page 9.340.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”degrees awarded (695) during 2000-20013. The strategic plan of the College of Engineering wasapproved by its faculty on October 13, 1998, and subsequently revised on September 25, 2003.The vision and mission statements, which are an integral part of the strategic plan, are well inconsonance and they subscribe to preparing “best professionals in engineering” and “strongeducation in engineering.” This commitment to excellence is reflected in our college’sphilosophy “to provide a firm educational

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

-media software and hardware tools,development and integration of 2- and 3-dimensional visualization tools to the undergraduatefluid curriculum becomes necessary. This paper discusses the development of a Virtual RealityModeling Language (VRML) application to be used in an undergraduate fluid mechanics courseat Lamar University. Simple fluid flow problems such as fully developed flow in a pipe aresolved by an application written in Java programming language. The solutions obtained aredisplayed in a VRML application that also provides user interaction. Users can change certainparameters of each problem within a given range, and the VRML application provides thesolution of the problem with new parameters.NomenclatureH

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”create a greater awareness of communication, provide readership in the engineering area, and obtainfeedback that will be valuable to the writer. It is with these ideas in mind that graduate students inmechanical engineering were chosen to provide the means by which to accomplish the above tasks.RationaleGraduate students in MSU's Department of Mechanical Engineering have for many years beenevaluating the technical content of reports in a variety of courses. Using their own expertise theyread text, make appropriate comments on technical content, and suggest ways to improve thecontent material. The act of critiquing and correcting as a process is an integral part of the system. Itbecame

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

, 1998, pp. 70-76.39. Bommer, M, C. Gratto, J. Gravander and M. Tuttle, “A Behavioral Model of Ethical and Unethical Decision Making, Journal of Business Ethics, May 1987, pp. 265-139.40. Steneck, NH. 1999. “Developing Teaching Assessment Tools for an Integrated Ethics Curriculum,” Proceed- ings, Frontiers in Education 1999, November 10-14, 1999.41. Miner, M. and A. Petocz, “Moral Theory in Ethical Decision Making: Problems, Clarifications and Recommen- dations from a Psychological Perspective,” Journal of Business Ethics, 42, pp. 11-25, 2003.42. Shuman, LJ, ME Besterfield-Sacre, H. Wolfe, CJ Atman, J McGourty, RL Miller, BM Olds and GM Rogers “Matching Assessment Methods To Outcomes: Definitions And Research Questions,” American

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

results complementdocumentation from the American Institute of Steel Construction including comments fromstudents participating in the steel bridge competition.I. IntroductionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) believes that the practice of civil engineering is broad and diverse, including numerous disciplines. As a result, the breadth of the professionalComponent of civil engineering education is necessarily broad. This precept is recognized bythe ASCE Committee on Curriculum and Accreditation and has been adhered to in thedevelopment of the criteria for accreditation.In this regard, numerous students and practitioners believe that being involved with theAmerican Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) steel bridge and/or ASCE concrete

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Yi Min Huang; Larry McKenzie; Michael Trevisan

competencies for the first 2 years of undergraduateengineering education and an assessment system to evaluate student attainment of competencies asentering juniors. Several institutions across the country have piloted or adapted the assessmentsystem for programmatic feedback. Some programs are using the assessment system as a means tosupport ABET accreditation expectations.As engineering programs in the United States work to integrate ABET expectations, particularlythose focused on engineering design, more information is needed to properly support faculty in thisendeavor. To increase understanding of assessment in the context of design capstone courses, a two-phase descriptive study of assessment practices in capstone design courses was conducted. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcomprised of “competencies” (skills) and “attitudes” (perspectives) about each quality.Engineering educators focus on helping students attain these qualities through the processof creating a product or process in which students learn by “establishing objectives andcriteria, generating alternatives, synthesizing, analyzing, constructing, testing andevaluating.” Although there are efforts to integrate design throughout the curriculum [2],most programs typically rely upon a senior level capstone design experience. A review ofthe literature in

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter E. Thain Jr.

work well. However, for the most part the course did not have a significantdesign component, although there were some design and simulation laboratory problems. Also,using the course as Caltech did as an introductory undergraduate Electrical Engineeringlaboratory would not be well suited to an Electrical Engineering Technology program likeSPSU’s, since every course but two in our curriculum already had an accompanying laboratorycomponent and the subject matter would be too challenging for the average sophomore andjunior.The textbook is very good and the instructions for the laboratory problems are thorough.Occasionally students have trouble understanding the procedures, but a little clarification by theinstructor is all that is needed. It

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

the technological level of theirbusinesses to offset the loss of low skill level manufacturing work to foreign competition. As themanufacturing environment evolves, the level of education of the workforce will increase. To pre-pare for this change in the Grand Rapids area a new initiative was begun to increase the number ofstudents pursuing manufacturing education.The Articulation and Integration of Manufacturing Education (AIME) project [2] is focused onincreasing the number of students pursuing manufacturing education by streamlining the educa-tional process. The first goal of the project is to expand the number of high school graduateschoosing manufacturing careers. This begins in the middle schools when students are starting toform

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

deployment.Despite repeated attempts to recover the spacecraft by the cadet-faculty operations team,the mission was declared a loss after only one month [3].Although it was considered a technical failure, FS-1 represented an academic success forthe program because cadets participated from “cradle to grave” in a real-world missionwith an all too real-world outcome. Cadets designed and built FS-1’s payload andsubsystems, which were integral in the mission operations from devising operations plansto participating in the launch campaign. Cadets also manned the Academy’s groundstation during overhead passes of a satellite not operating under normal conditions.Cadets involved with trouble-shooting the anomalies soon after deployment certainlygained deep insight

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”I. Introduction Undergraduate research should be an important part of our Engineering Technology (ET)curriculum because it better prepares our students for the graduate school. This additionalexperience also helps our majors in their career regardless of the job type because they learn towork independently as undergraduate researchers. However, it has been our observation that ETstudents are far less motivated to do research and report writing than those in other fields such asBiology, Chemistry and Physics. This is more apparent at Middle Tennessee State University(MTSU) since we have a large number

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

spend time interacting with customers to establish their trueexpectations. The problem is that, in the “real world,” an engineer working in PD needs to besubstantially involved in the process of identifying product requirements. In addition, withoutdirect interaction with the customers, it is not possible to have a clear understanding of what theywant. This, in turn, usually leads to the selection of a product concept that either fails to satisfysome key customer expectations or sub-optimally trades-off one attribute against another. To overcome the problems stated above, it is important to emphasize in PD courses aformal process to identify customer needs. Furthermore, students must apply what they learn sothat they can really acquire

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

our star student and truly showed brilliance in his work[Papert, 2000]. His means of working was to take an idea and try to apply it in every means he could conceive. Hewanted to understand things deeply and thoroughly. He would work for weeks on ideas and projects. It is easy to seehow such a student could fall through the cracks in a school environment where one can only work on tasks for shortperiods of time, where a curriculum is pre-determined, where subject matter is divided into the disciplines, andwhere the projects are not one’s own. Page 9.965.3Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education