Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

5. Perceived Importance of Engineering Knowledge & Skills 7. Ability to Solve Open-Ended Problems IDENTITY 2. Motivation for Studying Engineering 3. Interpersonal Confidence 15. Extra-Curricular Fulfillment EDUCATION 8. Opportunity to Solve Open-Ended Problems in Courses 9. Exposure to Project-Based Learning Methods 10. Interaction with Faculty 11. Interaction with Teaching Assistants 12. Satisfaction with Academic Facilities and Services 13. Overall Satisfaction with Collegiate Experience

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

A Modeling and Controls Course using Microcontrollers Hugh Jack, Associate Professor School of Engineering, Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractMicrocontrollers are being used to support the laboratory and project components of a junior levelmechanical/manufacturing engineering course in system modeling and control. Previously thecourse primarily used Labview and Data AcQuisition (DAQ) cards with Personal Computers.However, upon completion of the course students were not able to design and implement practicalcontrol systems. Recently the course has been evolving towards low cost commodity hardwarefound in mass produced consumer products. This past year the course used

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff

necessary to design and delivercourse-related content through technology-enhanced learning environments for faculty who teachin Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) related areas. The coursesdeveloped for the graduate certificate enhance faculty abilities in both online and classroomenvironments. Current community college faculty from North Carolina and South Carolina havebeen recruited into the program. The project meets the broader goals of the NSF-AdvancedTechnological Education (ATE) program by institutionalizing the means by which workingprofessionals can be recruited to fill shortages in community college faculty teaching positions inSTEM fields. It also provides a means whereby current community college faculty can

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasemin Jones; Elaine Maldonado

The Adjunct Academy at City Tech: Academic Support for First Year Engineering Students at an Urban College Yasemin Jones, Elaine Maldonado College Learning Centers New York City College of Technology, CUNY AbstractUrban students in engineering programs can face certain challenges including: 1)Inadequate academic preparation for college 2) Family and work responsibilities and 3)Lack of in-school support in the formation of their academic/ professional identities. TheAdjunct Academy at City Tech (CUNY) project was created to improve the lives ofadjunct, engineering faculty and engineering students

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

advanced student can simulate an entire design or project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper demonstrates how to integrate co-simulation of VHDL and SPICE into existingcourseware. It also highlights the benefits of using co-simulation in conjunction with traditionalwaveform-based simulations across all levels of digital design.Introductory Digital Logic CoursesEducators have found that students who are used to working with circuits and components canhave difficulties adapting to a hardware description language7, 13. With co-simulation, studentsand instructors can create a component

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Zecher

homework problems and previous exams are posted for students on the web. Byeliminating barriers of time and distance, this improved distribution mechanism makes it easierto provide reference materials and examples to students. Much of the material delivered in thismanner, however, is no different from that which could be photocopied and handed out in theclassroom.The project described in this paper takes advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the Page 10.472.1computer to improve the quality of material used to describe example problems. A combination “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

. Differentiating one’s self from one’s advisor and establishing one’s ownresearch identity is critical to earning tenure. The examples below illustrate how the authors usedtheir time as a post-doc to begin the establishment of their research identity.Most people will build on the results of their Ph.D. thesis and it is possible to arrange the thesisso that papers are easily written from the chapters. As most thesis-related papers will besubmitted for publication after the thesis is defended, the post-doctoral time period is a good timeto submit these papers. However, it is recognized that the work completed for the Ph.D. wasperformed under the supervision of the thesis advisor. In all likelihood the advisor solicited thefunding to support the project, and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

general theme is to create a job and not take ajob. Much of our academic learning is based on a system of compliance and heavy structure.Thus, there is very little room for creative thinking and entrepreneurial development in thiskind of structured learning environment. It is our assumption that students can beencouraged to think creatively and entrepreneurially in a cross-disciplinary, problem-basedlearning environment. Researchers at Vanderbilt University (VU), Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU), Tennessee Wesleyan College (TWC), Francis Marion University (FMU),and Anderson College (AC) are engaged in a research project to develop a cross-disciplinary,cross-university on-line learning environment to teach and encourage multiple

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

Structure Technology and Engineering Knowledge Knowledge Lifecycle TypesIn turn, Technology and Engineering Knowledge Types block might include: o factual knowledge (concerned with an accumulated wealth of past, present, future, or expected topics associated with what in engineering), o actionable knowledge (concerned with processes and procedures essential in each engineering field for knowing how), o judgmental knowledge (concerned with knowing why in assessing complex engineering developments), o communication knowledge (concerned with means of communication with project teams, administration, standard-developing organizations, competition, government

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Braun

process occur inside nitrogen gloveboxes. Working in theinert atmosphere gloveboxes serves at least three purposes: 1) The inert atmosphere reduces corrosion of the reactive calcium cathode, 2) Filtering dust out of the inert gas maintains a relatively dust free volume that avoids the need for a full cleanroom, and 3) Performing procedures inside the glovebox, behind lexan windows using 15 mil rubber gloves provides a rigorous degree of safety protection for the students for the steps that involve organic solvents or metal evaporation in the vacuum system.The lab web site provides more information about semiconducting polymers, lab projects, coursemodules and the course lab manual.2Objective 6 expresses the desire

Conference Session

A Century of College Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

civil engineering is practiced.Complexity arises in every aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with variedstakeholders to building with minimum environmental and community disturbance. A2001 ASCE report Engineering the Future of Civil Engineering(www.asce.org/raisethebar) highlighted the significant and rapid changes confronting theprofession, while recent events have demonstrated our vulnerability to human-madehazards as well as natural disasters. The risks and challenges to public health, safety, andwelfare will continue to escalate in complexity, and the civil engineering profession mustrespond proactively. The 2001 report also concluded that the current four-year bachelor’sdegree is becoming inadequate formal academic preparation

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

chipbased logic controller, PLC and general purpose CNC controllers with application examples arepresented.Students who have taken this course welcome such a totally different approach. In a typicalmechanical engineering curriculum in Asian countries, teachers and students spend much longertime in studying sub system design. For example, Machine Element Design course will contain aweek long project to design a speed reducer in great detail. A jig design project will be includedin a Manufacturing technology course which not only teaches detailed step by step processplanning but also special tool design for the established process. When the students and facultycome to the capstone design, it is more an integration process to pull together and

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William W. Ryan; Tiffany Wiederstein; Danny King; Malcolm Fowler

potentialengineering students. Therefore, the Academy was designed to allow high school students(sophomores, juniors and seniors) to attend one-half of each school day at their sending highschool and the other half of the day at the Technology Center.During their day at the Academy, each student is enrolled in one Pre-AP (Honors) or AP mathclass and one Pre-AP or AP science class. Each student also completes two engineering courseseach year. The math and science classes are taught by secondary certified math and scienceteachers and meet all requirements of the Oklahoma State Board of Education. The engineeringclasses have been developed nationally by Project Lead the Way and are taught by the samemath and science teachers – thus providing opportunity for

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

the curriculum; all learners work in alternating quartersstarting in their second year of study. BS learners co-op five quarters and AS learners twoquarters. In addition to co-op, learners at the College of Applied Science learn by experience Page 10.3.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”through the integration of intensive, hands-on activities built into the courses and through theSenior Design project completed in the final year of study.7 The BS degree totals 181 quarter hours

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Krupar; George Suckarieh

Leadership and Teamwork Education for Engineering and Technology Students An Experiential Learning and Community Service Approach George Suckarieh, Jason Krupar University of Cincinnati1. IntroductionThe history of technical education in the United States over the last two hundred years can betraced back to the American Revolution; it evolved from both military and craftsmanship needs.Over the years, the trends in technical education changed from teaching of craftsmanship andbasic science, to assembly and design of sophisticated projects. The present trend in technicaleducation focuses on complimenting the design skills of

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

evaluate their perception of thefirst year engineering courses. The responses were used to assess the students’: • comfort in using the material and software taught in the courses, • experiences in working on a multi-disciplinary team • perceptions of the semester design project • self-assessments of their technical communication skills • reporting of the time spent on this course and if they thought they spent too much time on the course The students were asked to report their gender. When the data were analyzed, there were significant differences between the male and female students. For instance, the women tended to spend more time on homework and report that this amount of work was not excessive. The men

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

Incorporating Complexity into Undergraduate Engineering Development through the Research Communications Studio Nadia Craig, Nancy Thompson, Loralee Donath, Michael Matthews Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Department of English/ Linguistics Program/ Department of Chemical Engineering University of South CarolinaIntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 2020 project addressed the growing need topursue collaborations with multidisciplinary teams of experts, because of the increasingcomplexity and scale of systems-based engineering problems15. These teams must be able tocommunicate effectively with technical and non-technical

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Goodman; Maurice Aburdene

Probability, Computer Networks, and Simulation Maurice F. Aburdene, Thomas J. Goodman Electrical Engineering Department Bucknell UniversityAbstractWe present one project used in our random signals and noise course focusing on the applicationsof probability to the area of computer networks. The project requires students to apply theirknowledge of probability that includes applications in electrical and computer engineering. Inaddition, students analyze the performance of a computer network, simulate a system, and lookinto some design issues.IntroductionABET evaluation criteria for electrical engineering programs state “The program

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Scoff

or 3 of the 3 major pieces of equipment As an example,the meters on the Universal Lab Machine and Series 100 Test Bench could be used on thetransformer experiments. Also, if a meter on a particular bench were broken, the meteron the other bench could be used. With 30 year old equipment, this has turned out to bevaluable at times.After the basic equipment was in place, hundreds of jumper wires had to be organized.Enough unused wall space was found to install wire hangers on both sides of the room.These wire hangers were another small expense. The only source that was found wasPomona. The model numbers used for this project were # 1508 for holding wires up to.201 inches in diameter and # 4408 for holding wires up to .320 inches in diameter

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Christopher Monsere

Using Custom Transportation Data Collection Software with Handheld Computers for Education, Research, and Practice Robert L. Bertini, Christopher M. Monsere, Andrew Byrd Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State UniversityAbstractIn an effort to facilitate data collection for research, give students first-hand experiencecollecting data for course projects, and generate interest in the transportation field throughoutreach, the Portland State University Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Laboratory hasdeveloped custom data collection software for handheld computers using the Palm OS platform.The software is designed to

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Schurmann; C. Stewart Slater

petrochemical industries. In its industrial application,pervaporation can be used for solvent purification, reuse and recovery – thus enabling greenprocess design for the environment. At Rowan University we have successfully immersedstudent teams in learning the principles, design and applications of membrane pervaporationthrough a project-based experience in our engineering clinics. Through this experimentalproject, students have learned about the industrial uses of membrane technology. Students alsolearn about the various process aspects of pervaporation, from selecting the proper membrane forthe desired separation to examining performance parameters, membrane transport, vacuumoperation and cryogenic vapor trapping, not normally taught in

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

; Silverman 1988). Through afunded project initiative to study student success through the lens of learning styles, a uniqueopportunity presented to gather data to corroborate differences in learning styles that, in turn,support student success. Ultimately, this research project aimed to be responsive to those learnerswhose learning style mismatched the traditional curricula and instructional mode. Page 10.508.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationMethodThe research was longitudinal in nature

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton

practice and to render learning more effective. This researchproject seeks a novel way to blend these technologies and to create and test a new model forhuman-machine partnership in learning settings.The three learning technologies this project integrates are perceptive animated agents (anemerging class of intelligent, virtual tutors with life-like affective features); sharedcollaborative workspaces that enable users in a learning environment to remotely view andmodify the displays of others; and digital libraries of small programs or applets that canillustrate, describe or provide visualizations of curriculum concepts. In each of these, the projectrelies on a steady pace of IT developments that have led to their most advanced current forms,and

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

(recruiting, research, etc.) Curriculum Faculty Enhancement directed Programs • Reward system (Design projects, etc.) • Pipeline issues • Educational standards • NSF Student directed • NAE • [ IUGREEE ] Summer Intern/Coop Programs • ABET • ASEE

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

, learning is centered on projects. Individuals and/or teams of students attack aproblem using a multidisciplinary approach and any number of resources. In these new spaces,students would be encouraged to discuss, analyze, compare, negotiate, hypothesize, and problemsolve through group activity. This change in methodology should influence the design ofuniversities and their classrooms.So if multidisciplinary, multi-source instruction is a good thing, then perhaps we may well seefewer single purpose rooms such as the dedicated biology lab or computer lab. Instead, thegeneral college classroom will be outfitted to afford student teams all of the necessary toolsimmediately at hand. Indeed, the discrete computer lab is already beginning to vanish

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

on projects. Individuals and/or teams of students attack aproblem using a multidisciplinary approach and any number of resources. In these new spaces,students would be encouraged to discuss, analyze, compare, negotiate, hypothesize, and problemsolve through group activity. This change in methodology should influence the design ofuniversities and their classrooms.So if multidisciplinary, multi-source instruction is a good thing, then perhaps we may well seefewer single purpose rooms such as the dedicated biology lab or computer lab. Instead, thegeneral college classroom will be outfitted to afford student teams all of the necessary toolsimmediately at hand. Indeed, the discrete computer lab is already beginning to vanish, becausestudents need

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

2000) that embrace the ESE concept:(http://bechtel.colorado.edu/Abet/ce_objectives.html). For instance, BS graduates in the Civil Page 10.741.2Engineering Program will be able to: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 3. Understand how non-technical concerns such as cost, public safety and health influence Civil Engineering projects. 4. Uphold ethical relationships with both clients and the public at large. 5. Understand broad social and cultural issues so they can participate fully

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Tougaw

-minute presentation, students were immediately presented with a one-page double-sided “In-Class Project” (ICP), which they were asked to complete with a partner. Students were allowed to select their own partners, and most partnerships lasted the entire semester. Groups of two were used for two reasons. First, grouping students into pairs provided team-based benefits such as peer accountability, peer teaching, and paired problem solving, while it minimized the opportunity for one student to rely on his/her partners to complete all the work. Second, the classroom in which this class was taught included two-person tables, which meant that two-person teams could be easily supported without having to rearrange the furniture every day. The questions

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2247 Designing A Free-Space Optical/Wireless Link Jai P. Agrawal, Omer Farook and C.R. Sekhar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis paper presents the design of a very high-speed data link between two buildings in aUniversity campus that will operate at gigabit rates. The project uses a cutting edge technology ofeye-safe laser communication through free space. This is an all-optical design is future-proof inregards to technological advancement in the rate of data transmission and

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

begin to tietogether concepts learned in prior, traditionally less directly tied, courses. This can help build abridge of knowledge between courses and aid in providing an integrated educational experience. New engineering programs at Western Kentucky University (WKU) have recently beenimplemented that are founded upon a projects-based environment with four-year integratedcurricula. The programs in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering produced their firstcohorts in May 2004. This paper discusses the materials science and strength of materialslaboratory sequence of the mechanical engineering program. The objective is to highlight thedifferences in approaches taken to deliver the educational component while commenting on