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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

. Another important use of simulations in education is to facilitate efforts at whathas become known as “bridging the gap” between academics of profession and practiceof that profession. Simulations are ideal for connecting factual knowledge, principles, andskills to their application within a profession. Simulations help students with anopportunity for decision making, and for evaluating the consequences of their decisionsthat no textbook or laboratory can. [12]IV. Incorporating Lean Training in Senior Electives The training program and simulation activity has been tested in the ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing course (MET-445) this year. The goal of this course is to

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

based loosely upon the following model programs. Attracting Women into Engineering Summer Workshop, Rowan University College of Engineering [1] Outreach Activities by Benet Laboratories, U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Watervliet, New York [2] IBM Excite Camp at Purdue University [3]Since then, the program has steadily grown in recognition among middle school girls and hightech employers, successfully improving the quality of its native Hawaiian and ethnic minorityapplicants each year, as well as the creativity and educational value of its program activities andmentor presentations.Program ApproachHawaii public schools traditionally rank poorly in math and

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

more desirable. The way the research problem is presented tothe students could make a difference. For an example, consider a research project that involvesstereo vision. One could make students take this project as a laboratory experiment; study themethods of constructing three-dimensional data from two images of an object from two differentpoints of views. The same project would be more attractive to the students as a reverseengineering problem; construction of three-dimensional images of existing engineeringstructures for detecting deformations. We do not wish to undermine the importance of basicscientific and mathematical research. For the future mathematicians and the scientists we shouldprovide necessary nourishment. We will discuss a

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

. He is Founder and President of the Iowa State University chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World he worked to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. He is currently working for Opus West Construction Corporation as an Associate Project Manager in Pleasanton, California. MANI MINA is an adjunct assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and the director of Spacecraft Systems and Operation Laboratory (SSOL) at Iowa State University. He has been a recipient of several teaching and research awards. His research interests include physical layer measurements and testing, optical networking, nondestructive testing and evaluation, and innovative methods of teaching technology

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

Autonomous Navigation System Design for a Smart Robotic Rover Yi Cheng, Kathleen Hayden, Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, Tim Lin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona1. IntroductionIn response to the NASA Research Announcement of 2002, California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) submitted a proposal for the “Partnership Awards for theIntegration of Research into Undergraduate Education” (PAIR) program. The purpose of thePAIR program is to integrate cutting-edge NASA-related research into the undergraduatecurriculum. Cal Poly Pomona proposed to incorporate the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL)robotic technology research into

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

their ownunderstanding of several optics concepts such as Snell’s Law, lenses, refraction, etc. as well asbiology related concepts of eye anatomy, vision, etc. A variety of instructional activities are partof the mosaic including lens laboratories, historical information on eyeglasses and how they arecurrently prescribed, and the LASIK process itself. This mosaic was designed for use in Physicsand Anatomy & Physiology classrooms.The Hemodynamics mosaic has as its grand challenge “You, as a medical student, are presentedwith a patient with a heart murmur that can be heard throughout diastole. Listen to the audio filethat accompanies this module to hear the murmur through a stethoscope. Pressure measurementsmade in the heart are shown below

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhukar Vable

propeller.Students understand the state of stress shown. They can see that it will arise from combined axialand torsional load on a shaft. They can be exposed to the ideas of various modes of fracture,mixed mode, and the role of critical stress intensity factor. They can calculate normal and shearstress on the plane containing the crack and using mixed mode to answer part (a) of the question.They can also calculate principal stress one and answer part (b) of the problem. Problems of thesetype help integrate fracture mechanics with the material they already know. The photographsshow the students the practical relevance of the subject material.Computer laboratory manual: The primary focus of the manual will be on set of computer exer-cises to bring out

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

design capstone course description is: ISyE 490 Industrial Engineering Design Capstone senior design project. Application of principles of Industrial Engineering from throughout the curriculum to a design project. Written and oral reports, design reviews, final project report and presentation. Three hours lecture and one laboratory weekly.This course provides the capstone Industrial and Systems Engineering experience at USD. In thecourse, students are required to complete all aspects of a project from preparing the proposal topresenting recommendations. Students are expected to draw on their principles learned in manyof their courses. At USD, we solicit projects from local companies in order to provide students a“real

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

performed by two teams of students. In fall 2004,there was only one project performed by a team of two mechanical engineeringtechnology students. Their project involved the design and development of an airabrasion machine, LabJet, that has an integrated working enclosure with two chambers Page 10.1079.7containing two micron of aluminum oxide abrasive media for dental laboratory usage. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”This project was sponsored by American Medical Technologies. It is anticipated that

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

. Page 10.542.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”ConclusionDUE has an array of programs that support engineering education research anddevelopment. Individuals who are interested should review the web site to determinewhich program best matches their interests and ideas. The CCLI program, which plays aprominent role in engineering education research and development, has been revised andinterested parties should review the new solicitation carefully before submitting aproposal.Bibliography1. Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

address how to effectively implement these proposed actions.ConclusionsThe Engineer of the Americas concept is tuned with present necessities of the WesternHemisphere. Nevertheless, although taking into consideration a similar program inEurope, it must be emphasized the deep asymmetric economic conditions of LatinAmerica and the Caribbean as compared with North America.The European concept of mobility must be translated to the Hemisphere of the Americastaking into consideration the profoundly different political reality. The extension of theconcept of mobility goes beyond the movement of well prepared professionals, butencompasses also the southbound movement of high tech industries that are willing toestablish their factories and laboratories

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann

. Based on the source of funding, there are four major types of interdisciplinary designprojects. First, there are university-sponsored projects that require additional fundraisingactivities from the students. These projects are typically student competitions that areestablished by engineering professional societies. Examples from recent years are Mini-BahaCar and Super-Mileage Vehicle Competitions (SAE), Micromouse Competition (IEEE), andMine Madness (ASME). The second type of project includes those sponsored by individualfaculty. These projects often involve design and fabrication of devices for use in research orteaching activities. Some examples are an electrically controlled fixture for a microscope and anautonomous robotics laboratory that

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

Female Students" SIGCSE Bulletin, 25(3), 3-12.14. National Science Foundation. (2000). Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. Arlington: Author.15. National Science Foundation. (2002). Science and Engineering Indicators. Arlington: Author.16. Seymour, Elaine. and Hewitt, Nancy M. (1997). Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. Colorado: Westview Press.17. Spertus, Ellen. (1991). "Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?" The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 1315. Available at << http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/why.html>>18. U.S. Census Bureau. (1998). “American Indian Heritage Month: November 1-30” Census

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

technician who is not a supervisor * BMET specialist: a BMET specializing in a particular area, such as radiology or the clinical laboratory * BMET supervisor: a BMET with group or department supervisory responsibilities * CE: clinical engineer who is not a supervisor * CE supervisor: a clinical engineer who supervises a group or department * Director/manager: the overall group or department director or managerBioinstrumentation is the subdiscipline most closely related to BMET and refers to theapplication of electronics and measurement principles and techniques to develop devices used indiagnosis and treatment of disease. Computers are important in bioinstrumentation, from themicroprocessor

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

wireless communications systems. Emphasis is on transmission lines, Smith charts,noise, random processes, modulation, and antennas, especially at the higher frequencies.One of the curriculum stalwarts in BMET is medical imaging: X-ray, ultrasound, magneticresonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET). Each is based on EMradiation.4 MRI, for example, uses a strong superconducting magnet to align the magneticmoment of the hydrogen protons that exist in the water (H2O) content of the body. Thisalignment (equilibrium) is in the z-direction (laboratory frame) and is known as longitudinalmagnetization. A set of radiofrequency (RF) pulses (transverse magnetization) are applied thatdisplace the magnetic moment of the protons from

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome McCoy; Leslie Keiser; Michael Kessler; William Potter; Peter LoPresti; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Year I Shirley Pomeranz, Peter LoPresti, Michael Kessler, William Potter, Jerry McCoy, Leslie Keiser, Donna Farrior The University of TulsaIntroductionA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) has begun work on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This projectuses Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as a vehicle for strengtheningconnections among the science, engineering, and mathematics

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Wick; Bradley Bishop

. Page 10.199.95 Murphy, R., Introduction to AI Robotics, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., 2000.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Biographical InformationBRADLEY E. BISHOP is an Associate Professor in the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department at theUnited States Naval Academy (USNA). He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan StateUniversity in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in1994 and 1997, respectively. He is the founder of the Mobile Robotics Laboratory at USNA. His research interestsinclude robot swarm

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Bishop

Theory, March 2004, pp. 451-455.Biographical InformationBRADLEY E. BISHOP is an Associate Professor in the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department at theUnited States Naval Academy. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan StateUniversity in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in1994 and 1997, respectively. He is the founder of the Mobile Robotics Laboratory at USNA. Page 10.1228.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Lakeou

deRadioelectricite de Grenoble (ENSERG) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1978. He iscurrently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UDC. He was formerly a staffmember at the New Products Laboratory of RCA’s Consumer Electronics Division in Indianapolis, IN (1984-86). Page 10.635.13 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

practical and challenging projects instead of writingresearch papers.Identifying and Recruiting Good Candidates for the ProgramThe ECET faculty teaching the freshman courses in introductory circuit analysis and digitalelectronics identify students through their scores on exams and their performance in lab. Welook for students who are willing to take the initiative in the laboratory, are inquisitive both inlab and lecture, and are mature and responsible individuals. When potential students areidentified, a meeting is arranged between the student and the faculty advisor for the ECEThonors students. The requirements of the program are discussed, questions and concerns areaddressed, and a general plan for completing the requirements is outlined. The

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter

Program Educational Objectives and ProgramOutcomes5. These Program Outcomes can be viewed as curricular learning objectives. Insupport of these objectives, faculty can write course learning objectives as described above, withmore specific objectives written for chapters, units, laboratories, or lectures (Figure 1).As a specific example, the Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments atLawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI have implemented the use of courselearning objectives as part of their ABET Accreditation Process. The author has conductedseveral workshops during the past several years to educate the faculty on the writing and usageof learning objectives. In addition, books have been placed on reserve for faculty

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

tracking lab at North Carolina State University is looking into manyof the issues listed above. Current studies include looking at the effect narration has on makinguse of both printed text and graphics in PowerPoint presentations. Another line of work iscomparing simplified 2D schematic representations and complex 3D representations of DNAreplication in biotechnology instruction. Finally, work is also ongoing to better understand howto best represent terrain for students trying to visualize 3D land forms. The laboratory looksforward to taking a closer look at how other spatially challenging information such asmechanical devices are represented and how animation affects how graphic information isacquired and processed.AcknowledgementsThis work was

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

faculty of RIT after completing a 32-year career with Bell Laboratories. Page 10.1316.12 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karan Watson; John Weese

; electronics, and materials, as well asME courses in design, fluids, mechanics analysis, materials & manufacturing, anddynamics & vibrations. Controls and heat transfer courses may have been completed bysome of the students. At Texas A&M University, the ME department had only onetenure/tenure-track woman faculty member and she has been on professional leaveworking at a national laboratory for the past two years. Thus, it is unlikely that any of thestudents involved in this study have taken a course from a woman ME instructor.Beginning with the fall semester 2004, this condition changed significantly since three ofthe six newly-hired tenure-track ME faculty members are women. Within the College ofEngineering, of the 47 new tenure/tenure

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

inputs. Therefore, the software should be designed to consider all these, and deliver a predictable, safe and effective response. All modes of operation and failure should be consciously considered and addressed. 2. The variety of organizations and standards: a. UL11 (Underwriters Laboratories Inc., USA) is an independent testing and certification agency, and author of over 800 standards related to product safety world-wide. b. CSA12 (Canadian Standards Association, Canada) functions as a neutral third party providing a structure and a forum for standards related to community safety and well-being. c. VDE13 (Association of

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Graunke; Jeffrey Will; Peter Johnson

.[12] V. S. Pantelidis “Virtual reality in the engineering classroom.” Computer Applications in EngineeringEducation, vol. 5, no. 1, 1997, pp. 3-12.[13] D. Tougaw and J. Will "Visualizing the Future of Virtual Reality" Computing in Science and Engineering,vol. 5, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 8-11.BiographiesPeter E. Johnson is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at Valparaiso University. Hisresearch interests include engineering education, complex adaptive systems, virtual engineering, and thermalsystems.Jeffrey Will is an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at ValparaisoUniversity. He is director of the Scientific Visualization Laboratory, dedicated to promoting applications

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Janice Singleton

laboratory facilities using their native language of Spanish. On a smallerscale, a difference in technical diction between the three parties involved was also apparent atthis stage. A Northrop Grumman specified tolerance of “one thousandth”, for instance, would beconstrued as “0.001 or 1.0 x 10-3 inches” by an engineering technology student or “0.025millimeters or 25 thousandths of a millimeter” by M. Torres engineers. The students often foundit difficult to properly phrase questions when addressing the industry representatives. Thiscommunication barrier was gradually improved through continued interaction. Additionally,research assistants often consulted published information as a means of troubleshooting CNC

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rassa Rassai; Mensah Patrick; Jean-Pierre Bayard; Valerie Young; Joseph Tront; Edward Perry

notes or tutorials about prerequisite (butoften unmastered) material. If you give students tools to remind and reteach themselves, andencourage them to use them, then you help them develop as independent learners. Of course, theway that you direct students to these tools is important, particularly for the new engineeringeducator for who teaching ratings may be of particular concern. “Hmm, yes, to do this, you haveto remember how to calculate the pH of a basic solution. Here, let me show you a tutorial. Tryworking through this; I think it will help you. After you’ve been through it, come back if youhave some specific questions.” For chemical engineers encountering distillation in their seniorunit operations laboratory, point them to

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Internal Combustion Engine,” SAE paper 670931.11. Patton, K. J., Nitchke, R. G., and Heywood, J. B., 1989, “Development and Evaluation of a Friction Model for Spark Ignition Engines,” SAE paper 890836.12. “CHEMKIN Database”, Sandia National Laboratory.13. Lea, R., Matsuda, K., and Miyashita, K., 1996, “Java for 3D and VRML worlds,” 1st Edition, New Riders, Indianapolis.BiographyVINOD MATHAM is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. Hejoined Lamar University in January 2003 and is expected to receive his Master of Engineering Science degree inMay 2005. This paper is based on his Masters thesis.KENDRICK AUNG is an assistant professor in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

higherdegree of accuracy than the simplified models ordinarily identified in the classroom orlaboratory. And this paper has found a practical means to investigate aspects of devicebehavior from simulation that is more accurate and less complicated to implement than simpletheories or laboratory measurements.The capability to analyze devices is a demand item, since circuits of micron and sub-microndimensions are difficult to assess both before and after the fact, since the devices are onlyassessed as part of a test vehicle, which leaves the engineer at the mercy of the complexrelationships developed thereto. For example the level-49, BSIM3V3 model[3], as acceptedand continuous form simulation model as it may be, is an engineer’s nightmare, since