Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

features are common to all design but some are specific to foundationengineering practice. The discipline-specific features are associated with the sitecharacterization requirements of foundation engineering.Preparing the studentsThe specific discussion of ethics was not done up front. Instead, the topic was introduced as itnaturally occurred in the design process. The setting for the instruction was largely role playing.The students were told at the first class meeting that they have been hired out of college into ourgeotechnical design firm. They were new project engineers and I was their supervisoryprofessional engineer. The students have had a soil mechanics course as a prerequisite and wereenrolled in a concrete design course during this

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

University. Bothconventional and alternative energy resources are covered in the course. Design aspects ofenergy conversion devices such as gas turbines and photovoltaic cells and contemporary topicssuch as distributed power generation, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), and environmentalimpacts caused by energy generation and consumption are introduced in the course. The paperprovides the contents of the course in details: textbooks, reference materials, course topics, webresources, computational tools, exams, and group projects. The results of the course outcomeassessment based on student surveys are also provided.Introduction Energy affects the lives of everyone in so many ways, economically, technically, andenvironmentally. Thus, integration

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

their appearance is frequently a focus of attention.”12 In addition, the report found that fewerwomen and girls than men and boys were represented in all forms of media except teenmagazines. The report concluded that “the combined effect of these studies provides allconcerned about America’s girls with a clear agenda: give girls an unequivocal message that theyare valued for who they are, what they do, and who they want to become.” This project seeks todo just that.RationaleThe Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) at the University of MarylandBaltimore County (UMBC) applied to and received funding through the National ScienceFoundation (HRD 0404813) to develop a video that would use the power of media to give youngpeople

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Troy Harding

Experiences in Developing a Web-based Assessment System Troy Harding Engineering Technology Department Computer Systems Technology Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractLike many departments around the country, the Engineering Technology Department at KansasState University – Salina is trying to find ways to effectively manage assessment of its programs.Students in the Web Development Project course were assigned the task of developing aprototype assessment system to manage and track student learning outcomes. In addition, thespecifications called for a way to track suggestions for program and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

pitfalls related to their particular projects. Additionally,advanced ethics topics are explored in two upper-level technical electives, examining key issuesof environment and sustainability and considering critically the role of engineering in globaldevelopment.The theme of celebrating multiple perspectives unifies this work. Not only are studentsencouraged to develop the skills of approaching ethical problems from many differentviewpoints and engaging in respectful dialogue with peers who hold different positions, but alsothis difference of perspective is modeled throughout the curriculum as students experience ethicsthrough varying pedagogies, teaching styles, and learning activities. Assessment of student progress includes evaluating student

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

, and each involves a design challenge thatrequires creativity and teamwork. 1This project involves faculty and students at the University of Virginia (from both theCurry School of Education and the School of Engineering and Applied Science), teachersand students in local middle schools, and administrators and parents. So far over 150middle school students have used these materials. Thirty-seven fourth-year MechanicalEngineering students participated in this project last year as part of a new senior designsequence; this year thirty-five new undergraduate students are involved. Eight middleschool teachers have used these ETKs in classes so far, and, in August 2003, seventeenmiddle school teachers came to a workshop at UVA to evaluate our

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

semester of2004.Introduction The CWRU-Valparaiso teaching/research partnership is designed to experiment with a newmodel for involving undergraduate students in Civil Engineering research. The fundamentalconcept is to have faculty from CWRU and PUIs team-teach special topic research courses takenfor academic credit at PUIs during the academic year. The goal of improving research exposurefor PUI students was recently identified at an NSF workshop. Team-taught courses offered atPUIs that focus on the topics of ongoing NSF research projects at “research universities” appearto be excellent opportunities for accomplishing this. Furthermore, students of these courses willbe given the opportunity to continue on into more advanced summer research

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

EducationCurricular materials adhere to and follow recent trends in engineering education and incorporatesproject-based learning 6, 9, 18, cooperative learning 6, 8, 14 and technology-enabled learning 13,14.Aspects of the curriculum have been taken and or modified from the EPICS program at ColoradoSchool of Mines, Foundation Coalition, and the SUCCEED Coalition, (see, for example 1, 2, 4, 6-8,14, 16 ).Course sections are limited to 25 students that are subsequently divided into five 5-memberteams. All sections are taught in a common classroom that is equipped with tables and chairs(each team has a dedicated table), overhead LCD projection, and wireless notebook PCs. Thereis also a sixth table that is used as a common work space. The course is 2 credit

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

conversation regarding what kinds of research should be fundedwith federal and state tax dollars. The NRC report was an attempt to encourage that conversationthrough an initial discussion of scientific research which is seen to provide the most valuableevidence. Hence, having one’s work seen as “scientific” opens doors to funding sources that arenot available for “non-scientific” work. Funding, of course, is critical to the tenure and promotion process. Faculty members inSTEM disciplines who want to make education research their primary research program must beable to get funding for their projects. Furthermore, funding from federal sources, such as theNational Science Foundation, may carry more prestige than funding from small

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

Paper 2004-51 The Recognition of and Increasing Value of Professional Engineering Skills Beverly Davis Purdue UniversityAbstractStudies by EAC/ABET have identified skill gaps engineers and engineering technologistslack upon graduation. Some of the skills identified were project management, teamwork,engineering economics, organizational behavior, decision-making, andcommunications12. Hundreds of ASEE conference attendees, in 2003, listened to keynotespeaker, Shirley Jackson, discuss the increased importance of “soft skill” education forengineers today. Dr

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales

session.The final third of the subject is devoted to a project that requires students to design, build, test, 1and debug a circuit for use by others. We work with MIT's Service Learning Initiative to selectthe projects. For example, one term the project was to create a solid-state timer for inexpensivetoy pianos used by autistic children at a school in the Boston area.The autistic students are allowed, at times, to play with the toy pianos for a-20-minute-longperiod. This raises two problems for their teachers. First, a teacher has to remember when achild's time with a piano is over. Second, a teacher then has to get the child to relinquish the toy(often the

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ward

Page 9.281.2week-long project component. Other camps that are similar to Camp GEMS include the Science Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3592Technology & Engineering Preview (STEPS) program at the University of Wisconsin – Stout9which is supported by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and is replicated at other locationsin Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota and the Girls Researching Our World (GROW) programat Kansas State University10. Again, these programs emphasize hands-on

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

majors material, lab, & knowledge synthesis projects OR Figure 2: The five-lectures of core content are applied to three main audiences: the public, college freshman and college seniors/graduate students. The synthesis course content reinforces and builds upon material introduced to the students as freshman. While graduate students have more stringent requirements, the core content themes are consistent. Presentations to the general public can consist of either the first freshman lecture or a one- hour overview version of all five freshman blocks. See Section 3.1 for block content details.2.1 Creation of a Nanotechnology MinorThe

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

detailed, including plant development,improvement and modernization of its systems, and data acquisition and control systems(DACS) programming. Individual student research projects that contributed to thecontinued evolution of the facility are described, and the usefulness of maintaining such afacility as a training tool in dealing with legacy systems is discussed. Through fivedistinct iterations of programming environments and hardware exchanges, some integralcomponents have remained untouched through years of refinement, due to their robustinitial design and continued reliable service. Recognition of system limitations andcapabilities is essential to successful upgrade of systems such as these. Theimplementation of a user-friendly interface for

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Nicholson

continue to survive and remaina vibrant and significant portion of the economy, providing jobs as well as necessaryservices. Historically the construction industry has selected the least expensive initial Page 9.773.1cost alternative to get a project built. Designs have traditionally been undertaken tominimize the initial investment required of developers or owners. With a growingawareness of the negative environmental impacts of the design and constructionindustries, these industries have begun to re-orient themselves onto paths where fewerraw materials are being used and the selection and specification of materials to be usedhas begun to take into

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

projects. The full model and the lessons learned will be described.IntroductionEvaluation of engineering education programs and products is critical to ensure quality andenhance the dissemination of these materials. The National Science Foundation has taken aleadership role in ensuring adequate program evaluation by making it an integral element of Page 9.67.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”proposals and by publishing several evaluation guides.1,2 Education program and productevaluation is a

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

criteria and pertinent, agreed-upon forms of evidence.Principle 5: Assessment should be based on multidimensional evidence: static anddynamic situations; small assignments and lengthy projects; academic, social andpersonal contexts; under a variety of performance conditions (exams and homework,written and oral, performance as an individual and as a member of a group), formativeand summative data and with different persons being the assessors (self, peer, teacherand trained external observers).To remove ambiguity from the assessment, the following six issues in practice should beaddressed.[2-4, 6]1. Goals: What is being assessed? Knowledge in chemical engineering? Skills? Attitudes?Have the goals been expressed unambiguously in observable terms

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

for a rudimentary search and focuses on a small number of well-established sites open to the public, which include tutorial materials and provideinformation, data, and links to other resources.The initial idea of the NSF-funded project was to develop a guide that would includetutorials materials on power and energy. But it soon became obvious the Internetprovides access to useful information, including tutorials. It became clear that the realtask is to develop a reference tool that would quickly bring users to resources fromtrusted sources. This tool, the Pathfinder on Power and energy, was to be more than apage with links. It would organize and vet a set of annotated links with input fromexperts in the power and energy field.To develop the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mauro

Session - 1420 A Robot-Based Computer Engineering Module for Manhattan College’s Intro to Engineering Course Robert Mauro Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College Riverdale, New York 10471IntroductionDuring the past two years the School of Engineering at Manhattan College introduced a newformat for its Freshman Introduction to Engineering course. Instead of centering around a singlesemester-long engineering design project, the course was modified to include

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

fragmented market and rapid hardware obso-lescence. Freely available open-content materials that enable and promote both local customizationand further development by a community of educators offers a fresh approach to lab text develop-ment that can surmount these barriers. In this paper, we overview a joint effort organized by theConnexions Project to develop a large pool of DSP lab modules sufficient to serve as the complete,stand-alone text for several types of DSP lab courses.1 IntroductionDigital signal processing (DSP) laboratory courses are difficult to serve with conventional commer-cial textbooks. First, the market is relatively small, thus precluding a major investment by authorsand publishers in the hope of a substantial commercial

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

solutions that combine and integrate equipment from differentmanufacturers as well as various types of technology to create a real solution, all under thesupervision of one or more instructors and advisory council members as indicated. Studentsmust document their design and findings, and this documentation becomes a part of the students’portfolios.Each project requires the students to perform several or all of the following functions: ‚" Survey the site, interviewing employees of the company and determining the characteristics of the problem being addressed ‚" Perform feasibility studies ‚" Design a solution ‚" Evaluate the design ‚" Test the solution ‚" Implement the solution ‚" Document the solution in a form suitable to

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

potential transfer students. However, if they havenot developed the skills required to identify the resources and form supportive relationships thatwould enable them to persist through the transfer process, the loss is inevitable.3. Project Overview: Page 9.1294.2 The analysis of student background characteristics was used as guideline for developing“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering”the plan of operation for the Tech Scholars Learning Community. The overall strategy adoptedto improve transfer rates of the target

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaston N'Guerekata; Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

this problem. This paper presents a freshman mathematics course reformaimed at reducing Calculus I preparation time by at least one semester, improving pass rates andultimately increasing the retention of engineering and computer science students. TheDimensions of Learning pedagogy, the use of technology and performance assessment are themain components of the framework used. A wireless mobile classroom was the keytechnological feature used in the redesign. The innovative Pre-Calculus course (IPC) redesignwas performed by a multidisciplinary team of faculty from the Schools of Engineering, Scienceand Education. The project design, implementation aspects, assessment techniques andevaluation results are given. The first course offering shows a

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bowman

Teaching Aircraft Design to Undergraduate Students in a Mechanical Engineering Program Dr. W. Jerry Bowman Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602Abstract This paper describes informal methods used to teach aircraft design to undergraduates ina traditional Mechanical Engineering program. Freshman and sophomore students areintroduced to the topic by way of a club environment where they do a series of design, build, andfly projects. This paper will provide details about the specific design projects assigned and themethod used to introduce the students to aircraft design.Introduction

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

assignments or projects; encouragement of relationships and cooperative efforts among the private sector and universities; and emphasis on “engineer-in-training” programs so that succession planning can occur. • Professional organizations can support universities by offering research grants, collaborating with teaching programs by providing guest lecturers and case studies for possible use on assignments or projects, and facilitating cooperative ventures between the private sector and universities. Professional organizations could also take the lead in the development of standardization of definitions for infrastructure management and related terminology. • The

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

design a specific (given) alternative solution. Instead, one should first dig deeper with the client to determine the underlying problem to be solved. Proper definition of the overall problem makes it possible to take a broader view in later life-cycle steps so that there is a greater chance of selecting (and selling) an optimum solution to that underlying problem. On a larger project, one will probably have a multi-background team representing the client in this stage; this can make this life-cycle stage more challenging. This will - in turn - motivate a need to be able to work in and lead a multi-disciplinary team. An impeccable professional reputation will be an asset at this point too.2. Determine its design or performance

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

compromise. One approach is to make it clear to the guest that some basics are important to the context of the course and encourage the guest to present information on the new project via a video, for example.3. The guest fails to show up - the nightmare of every course organizer. This provides an excellent opportunity for the course leader to demonstrate creativity. On the very few occasions on which this has occurred, the course leader has to fill in things in one way or another: • If this is the last class for the session, the subject may simply be dropped for the day and possibly re-scheduled for a later session. • In one case the course leader has filled the hour himself. This involves first admitting that the topic

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Focus groupswere that the top four additional education and training program needs were: basiccomputer training, MCSE certification, development in information technology andprogramming, and E-tools and web development. Graduates of the proposed programwill be well versed in all four of these areas.Nationally, the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects Industries with the fastestwage and salary employment growth for the period 2000-2010 and the number onegrowth industry is projected to be Computer and Data Processing Services with anaverage annual growth of 6.4%9. The BLS also maintains a table of fastest growingoccupations. Data from this table10 is shown in Table 3 and indicates that occupations forwhich graduates of this program may

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

, tooling, and robotics).Although this technology has been advancing swiftly in teaching, training, and learning,it is still in its infancy. Since this vital technology is very important for the progression ofthe manufacturing industry, an NSF grant has been awarded for the RP Education (DUEAward Number 0302314: Technician Education in RP and Virtual ManufacturingTechnologies). Project team members organized a workshop on Training the RP trainersat San Diego City College from July 27 to August 1, 2003. Tennessee Tech University(TTU) faculty and assistants attended this workshop because TTU was in the process ofbuilding a RP Lab and organizing workshops for high school students/instructors. Thispaper intends to report learning practices, adaptations

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Fitzhugh; Robert Goodrich; Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

Session 2220 Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Security Experience R. Lessard, R. Goodrich, J. Beneat, S. Fitzhugh Norwich UniversityAbstractSupervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are deployed in power andcommunication utility, transportation, and financial infrastructures. These infrastructures arepotential targets of cyber-terrorism and protecting critical infrastructures against terrorist attacksis a national and international priority. Norwich University’s first year “Professional Projects”course sequence is designed to give computer and