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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi L. Patton

groupsthat had purchased the information. Since none of these experiments were performed inadvance, the results were occasionally surprising but that, too, was part of the lesson.Once all experiments were completed the groups met again to summarize their data andinterpret the results. They were asked to brainstorm ways of correcting any problemsthey found (in either the testing procedure or the environmental site). The finaldeliverable was a written memorandum with a summary of their data and an oralpresentation on their results.Conclusion The response of the students was quite positive throughout the semester. It wasgratifying to walk into the classroom planning to facilitate a discussion and find that thestudents were already discussing it

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Z. Carpenter; J. C. Diaz; G. R. Kane

playbackmessages are of random length and subject to change, the timed control loop that ispeculiar to the IFI software must be adapted to handle an external untimed event, i.e. aninterrupt. This is a sophisticated topic for an introductory programming class. The fidelityof the recorder chips is such that the gender of the person recording the feedbackmessage is easily recognized. We have boy and girl rovers!Calibration:Although the fleet of rovers have identical capabilities and sensors, each of these motorsand sensors require independent calibration. At one time, it was planned to build a sensorboard that would have calibration hardware to reduce the sensor output of the black/whitesensors to a single bit instead of an analog voltage. The response of

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Kris G. Mattila; Dennis Johnson

rehabilitation were to identify unhealthy areas,develop rehabilitation work plans, implement a series of educational programs for MCCCparticipants, and manage the project work The MCCC was responsibility to provide anadequate workforce to the project. In addition to funding the project the MDNR through theFisheries Division provided technical data about the watershed. The general public providedadditional input and support. The organization of the project is shown in Figure 1. The projectwas begun in the summer of 1999 and continued through the summer of 2000, at which time theproject was extended for two additional years. Without this partnership the project would nothave been implemented because of lack of funding and staff

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ester B. Johnson

fit intoany of these categories.Many students that graduate from MPS go to college and are successful. They receivescholarships within the community and from foundations. They have good GPA’s andhave high rankings from high school and many of their parents support their endeavor incollege and pay their tuition. But those students generally do not attend UWM. Thereare also those students that work and receive financial support from within thecommunity, family members and financial aid, but the majority of them do not attendUWM.The mission of the Office of Diversity in the College of Engineering and Applied Science(CEAS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is encompassing and addresses manyconcerns. A strategic plan has been developed that

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Stockman; Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

FridayMorning Session Track 1 Preparation for the presentationAfternoon Session Track 2 Project PresentationsThe use of undergraduate student teaching assistants was significantly increased duringthe 2003 program. The undergraduate students conducted a significant portion of theinstruction and participated in the curriculum design and planning. One undergraduatestudent co-authored an academic paper with the faculty participants and presented it in aposter session at an academic conference4.The final changes involved some curriculum refinements. In particular, the MacromediaFlash MX animation program was adopted for the Multimedia track as a replacement forthe digital

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

amechatronics class. Currently the tools are given to the students to freely experimentwith and they serve more as a secondary learning tool or reinforcement activity. Thetools are also used for demonstration of logic devices during lecture. There are plans touse these tools in a more structured learning exercise or tutorial, but this has yet to becompleted. Student qualitative comments indicate that they find these tools useful to helpthem understand the behavior of common digital logic devices. Whether used with anoverhead display and presented as part of a lecture, or given to students to use for theirown interactive exploration, these demonstrations one more tool available to quickly andeasily explain the behavior of digital logic circuits

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, incoming RS-232 characters are placed in a separate queue for processing, and areacted on if a valid packet is received within the timeout period. The system is capable of handlingsimultaneous DTMF and RS-232 commands by implementing a rst-started, rst-executed packethandling algorithm. The RS-232 port and internal arrangement of the DTMF decoder and switchbox is shown in Figure 4.3 A FEW APPLICATIONSAlthough not an all inclusive list, we have used, or plan to use, the DTMF decoder and powerswitch box for the following applications: 1. As described earlier, a voice/speaker recognition algorithm which has as its primary function Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Goldowitz

annular seal, and cement grout. The wellis finished off on subsequent days with a formed-in-place concrete surface completion and alocking cap. In short, the only difference between these wells and a professionally installedmonitoring well is that our boreholes are dug by hand. A complete soil borehole log/wellcompletion report for one of the completed wells is included as Figure 1.Testing After developing the wells students plan and perform hydrologic tests to allowcalculation of groundwater flow characteristics. Students used Darcy’s law in the Q=KAdh/dlform for groundwater discharge in ft3/day, and in the q=(Kdh/dl)/nform for groundwater velocity in ft/day, where Q=discharge A

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janak Dave; Jamiel Trimble; Thomas Boronkay

at the University ofCincinnati. He obtained his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla. Hehas presented papers at ASEE Annual Conferences, ASME International Congress, and several Internationalconferences and conducted CAD/CAM/CAE workshops nationally and internationally. He has held variouspositions in EDG and DEED divisions of ASEE, and local and national committees of ASMEJamiel Trimble received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the University ofCincinnati in June 2003. He had been working as an EMT with the Cincinnati fire department throughout his collegecareer. He continues to work there while finalizing his future plans

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Osman Akan; Fredrick McKenzie; Sushil Chaturvedi

(venturimeter) has been introduced in the undergraduate thermo-fluidslaboratory course as a practice tool. Student participation thus far has been voluntary, but thereare plans to make it mandatory to increase student involvement.Bibliography 1. Strong, R. W., and Harmon, E. G., “Online Graduate Degrees. A Review of Three Internet-Based Master’s Degree Offerings,” American J. of Distance Education, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997, pp. 58-70. 2. Whittington, C. D., Niall Schacter, “Building and Testing a Virtual University,” Computes Education, Vol. 30, Nos. 1, 2, 1998, pp. 41-47. 3. Bengiamin, N. N., et al., “The Development of an Undergraduate Distance Learning Degree for Industry – A University/Industry Collaboration,” Journal of Engineering Education

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Summers; Julie Phillips; Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

”management, and is renowned for advocating that organizational leaders need to reevaluate howthey approach problem solving and innovation.Ackoff received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.He was a member and former Chairman of the Social Systems Sciences Department and theBusch Center, which specializes in systems planning, research, and design - both within theWharton School Center for Advanced Systems Practices at the University of Pennsylvania(2000). His work in research, consulting, and education has involved more than 350corporations and 75 government agencies in the United States and abroad.Ackoff is the author and co-author of twenty-five books, including Redesigning the Future, TheArt of Problem

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

and educators are often concerned with performance skills (i.e.,interpersonal, communication, and teaming). Lewis et al. [14] correctly observed that ifstudents are to develop effective teaming skills, then teaming must be an explicit focus ofthe project. A metacognitive approach would encourage students to become conscious oftheir team skills. Thus, metacognition may be valuable for improving an individual’srelationship not only to their own learning processes, but also to the learning processes ofothers and to the collaborative learning process in general. At the 2003 ASEE Conference, we presented a plan [15] intended to promotemetacognition in teams working on engineering clinic projects. This paper presentsresults from the Fall 2003

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

Trillion Global Nanotechnology Market.” (Wednesday November 19,8:52 am ET). Available: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031119/195398_1.html3 National Nanotechnology Initiative: The Initiative and its Implementation Plan, National Science andTechnology Council Committee on Technology, Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering andTechnology, July 2000. Available at: http://www.nano.gov/nni2.pdf4 See http://nanobusiness.org/downloads/2001BusinessofNanotech.pdf5 See http://www.nano.gov/html/edu/eduunder.html6 National Nanotechnology Initiative: The Initiative and its Implementation Plan, http://www.nano.gov/nni2.pdf,October 2000.7 Adams, J.D. B. Rogers and L.J. Leifer. “Microtechnology, Nanotechnology, and the Scanning ProbeMicroscope: An Innovative

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Lim; James Kokernak; Dean Lewis; Abhijeet Golwelkar; Paul Schoch

receivestipend and not tuition support. Even the stipend is at a lower effective rate of $8-$10 per hourcompared to an effective graduate TA stipend of $13-$14 per hour. Figure 5 Course home page, litec.rpi.eduInter active tutor ials and the web:The LITEC Tutorials have been an important part of the course since its inception5. The originalcourse developers foresaw the potential of computer-aided instruction tools, and planned fromthe start to incorporate these into the course. In the early 90s, when LITEC was being Page 9.839.6developed, the best machines available for such tools were Apple Macintosh computers. The “Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers; Jeff Goldberg

- a sample homeworkinformation by describing their search demonstrating the introduction ofstrategies and documenting the search results. information literacy skills.Students are asked to document their searchstrategy so that credit can be given for theirattempt to find the information. On the day the assignment is handed in, a short discussion with the students about theresources they used and the problems they encountered with each resource is held. Thisintroduces all students to the resources and helps them in formulating a plan for handling newinstances of having to find information. Specifically, students should be made aware of journalsearch engines, how to find texts in their library, the importance of

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Modesitt

of Michigan- Dearborn13. The PAB is a group of 36 chieftechnology officers, chief information officers, presidents, and chief engineers of large, medium, Page 9.471.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand small corporations, many of which are multi-nationals, founded by the author in 1995. Inline with the RFP, ISEUC is to have both faculty and professional advisory boards.The plan for ISEUC called for a small number of courses, universities, and students fromindustry to be used in a pilot test

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stout; Ken Bosworth; Brian Williams; Habib Sadid; Mike Ellis

or even built on other topics did not yield similar results. This could implythat engineers are using these math topics but seldom need to understand the underlying theory.It could also imply that the respondents are simply not cognizant of all of the mathematicalconcepts that they are using to perform their jobs. Some of the inconsistencies in the responsesimply that the respondents did not recall enough detail about the subject material in the survey toprovide a useful evaluation. In either case, this issue needs to be resolved before the surveyresults can be fully utilized as a curriculum-planning tool.In an effort to verify the survey results, a similar survey was given to a group of fourteenengineers that are employed in an electrical

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

plans for future development are outlined. The resultsshow that the system is effective at meeting the instructor’s criteria for good team formation andsaving the instructor time. The source code for the application is available under an open sourcelicense for free distribution and modification.1. Introduction1.1 Problem statementForming student teams for group work often entails a major time investment for instructors. Tomake teams according to guidelines given in the cooperative-learning literature, instructorstypically design a survey, issue copies to students, collect them, and shuffle the surveys around Page 9.246.1until satisfactory

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

between different group members’ values’ • ‘Have one person press the parts on the same machine. Different people pressing and using different machines can give too much variation to the part’. • ‘Time is a factor; get started early on the project as sintering takes a great deal of time’. • ‘Plan enough time to complete the project ahead of time (pressing parts, sintering parts, and completing a report take a lot of time)’. • ‘Use the same press for all trials’.Whereas the student concern about the variability of compaction between different teams isvalid, it was felt necessary to have each group go through all the steps in order to benefit from ahands-on approach. Unlike an upper level course in which the

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

American, 4% asHispanic, 17% as Asian or Asian American, 66% as White or European American, and 6%reported other (e.g., multiracial) racial/ethnic identifications. Mean self-reported mathematicsSAT scores were 708.80 (SD = 59.70). The large majority of participants were planning to Page 9.1052.3“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”continue on in engineering, with most expressing preferences for mechanical (27%), electrical(16%), aerospace (15%), or computer (13%) specialties.Procedure and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

programs tobe offered. An email list solely for the executive board exists to discuss administrative mattersand a separate email list exists for graduate student members who simply attend ASEE-sponsored events and may be interested in helping to plan events or to volunteer to be part of apanel discussion. Officer turnover and transition is especially critical for maintaining the student Page 9.217.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright „ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationchapter’s activity from year to year. New members are

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

chart previously developed. A Gantt chart encompassesthree critical items: (1) Milestones – what are the major tasks for the team? (2) Deadlines – whenwill these milestones be achieved? (3) Responsibility – who is the person responsible for eachmilestone and sub-tasks? We believe it is important to have individual responsibility even onmulti-person tasks. Figure 2 shows a significantly scaled down version of a typical Gantt chart.Documentation: If the team is going to pass forward their knowledge and experience to futureteams, a documentation plan is needed. We are still in development of this item. Documentationand the quality of the documentation is time consuming as well as difficult to convey. We havethree levels of documentation: (1

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Kaitlyn Conroy; Melissa Pickering; Emily Ryan; Brian Gravel

classroom or setting do you or have you worked in?4. What do you find interesting or engaging about your field of engineering?5. Was there any person or experience that impacted your decision to become an engineer?6. How did you get started doing outreach? a. (if chose outreach) Why did you choose to be involved with outreach?7. What interested you about outreach?8. Do you participate or do you plan to participate in research? a. (If they do research and outreach) – How do you balance research and outreach? b. (If they plan to do research) – Do you think you will you continue to do outreach when you do research or will you need to stop doing outreach?9. What do you find interesting or rewarding about outreach?10. What do you

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

mathematics, science, and engineering principles and engineering design in a real world practice setting. • Develop understanding and gain experience in interpersonal, team, and presentation abilities. • Develop understanding and gain experience in the economic, legal, organizational and business realities that operate in a commercial company or government agency. • Acquire an appreciation of the social, environmental and ethical implications of industry or government decision-making and practice. • Gain experience in setting and carrying out career plans through resume writing, interviewing and networking training. • Further develop as an individual, gaining self-awareness and appreciation of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

Session xxxx Time-Based Versus Quantity-Based Breakeven Analysis Robert C. Creese Ph.D., PE, CCE Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department College of Engineering and Mineral Resources West Virginia UniversityIntroduction Breakeven analysis has traditionally focused upon quantity-based breakeven analysis,which determines the production quantity at the specific breakeven point. This has worked formarketing, sales, and top-management for planning yearly goals, but it provides little assistanceat the plant management level where the production quantity is not a variable

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre Sayles

, Encourage Creativity At All Levels. 5. Assessment At Individual and Organizational Levels. Plan For Improvement. Table 2. Example LDPM ImplementationBenefits of the LDPM will be revealed in many ways. A common understanding of howdiversity works opens the door to conversations that otherwise would never take place. Thiscommon understanding also promotes creativity and innovation from individuals who werepreviously uncomfortable discussing diversity. Finally, organizational members begin to valuedifferences and voluntarily support organizational diversity efforts.AssessmentSince the LDPM is a new concept, a formal assessment process is yet to be developed. On thesurface, it appears that both

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"management. The College of Engineering at NC State is experimenting with the integration ofservice-learning especially at the freshman and senior year. The remainder of this paper willpresent our experience with a two-year service-learning project in a senior design ChemicalEngineering course.Description of Service-learning Projects in CHE Capstone Design CourseSpring 2002 In planning for the Spring 2002 offering of senior design, both instructors (Bullard andPeretti) had recently completed an on-campus Service-learning Faculty Associate trainingprogram and were

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

courses in the previous semester: EAS Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering Education107, Introduction to Engineering and EAS 109, Project Planning and Development, as well asone semester of General Chemistry, Calculus I (or precalculus) and English Composition.For most students, EAS112 replaces a combination of spreadsheet applications (1 credit) and Cprogramming (2 or 3 credits). Engineering students in several majors at UNH have haddifficulty with the C programming courses, and very few have chosen to use C when solvingproblems in subsequent engineering courses . Our experience in this regard is consistent

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

important aspectof this second phase has been the handoff of the project from one team of students to thenext. Information transfer has been smooth, and continuity has been maintained. Theexperiences of the students in working through this phase of the project are described.IntroductionThe Microturbine Demonstration Project is a collaboration among the Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering, the City of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy.The City of Milwaukee was planning the renovation of a city-owned building into a smalloffice complex. City engineers hoped to incorporate cutting-edge energy technology intothe building redesign. Their choice was installation of a 60-kW microturbinemanufactured by Capstone Turbine Corporation, along

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

launched, there must be a ground station for the operationof the satellite while in flight. While planning the launch of FS-1, the Department ofDefense Space Test Program needed a ground station in the United States for a micro-satellite named PICOSAT. PICOSAT was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd(SSTL) in Guildford, UK and was partially funded through the DoD ForeignComparative Testing Program. This ground station was located in the USAFA SpaceSystems Research Center (SSRC). The ground station for FS-1 was collocated with thePICOSAT Ground Station and has developed into the present system. A floor plan of thepresent FalconSAT Ground Station is illustrated in Figure 6. The PICOSAT section ofthe Ground Station is an automated system and