Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

employed to modify class procedures and as well as to evaluate the impact on thestudent’s experience using these two techniques.ProcedureThe process control class at Washington State University is taught in the first semester ofthe senior year. The class is typical of many ChE-based control classes. The CourseObjectives state that the students should be able to: 1) analyze the dynamics of process operations 2) understand the dynamic response of various operations 3) understand PID controllers for process operations based on both theoretical and empirical process characterizationThe outcomes arising from the objectives outlined above are intended to partially satisfyABET outcomes a, c, e, and k as well as the AIChE outcomes of demonstrating

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

program 1.Acknowledging the need for pre-college engineering and technology, at least seven states havealready placed pre-engineering into their k-12 curricula, and others are sure to follow.Formal federal initiatives include legislation from the Education Reform Act of 1993 and the NoChild Left behind Act of 20012. Other formal initiatives are being sponsored by professionalorganizations such as The American Society for Engineering Educators (ASEE) 3, The AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science, and The American Society of MechanicalEngineers. Organizations such as the National Science Foundation Math and SciencePartnership Program and NASA also have funded and/or established formal outreach programs 2.In addition, colleges and

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz; Stacy Gleixner

. Page 9.1351.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright . 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFor this reason, most engineering programs require their students to take an introductorymaterials class. This includes community colleges with engineering transfer programs. In theU.S. alone, the “Introduction to Materials” course enrolls over 50,000 students a year.1 Theprimary goal of the class is to provide a foundation in materials science and engineering that thestudents can build upon in their major classes and future careers.The curriculum and lab content for the existing “Introduction to Materials” course taught at SanJose

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Kotteri; Joan Carletta; Amy Bell

following metrics. 1. Mean-squared error (MSE): the average of the squared difference between the magnitude response of the fixed-point (quantized) filter and the floating-point (unquantized) filter over all frequencies. Page 9.1035.2 2. Hardware size: the total number of logic cells used on the FPGA. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 3. Throughput: the rate at which output samples are generated, in samples per second. 4. Latency: the elapsed time from the first filter input

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

mechatronics module theythen used the parts created on the rapid prototyping machine to link a servo motor to a slidingdoor that was provided to them, and wrote the program to control the motor and thus the openingand closing of the door.Here are some of the comments the 2000 participants in the Summer Design Institute for Womenmade about their Mechatronics course: • “Cool!” • “It was fun when I finally learned how to program”, • “Very interesting”, • “I thought the programming was very interesting and I liked how he had the notes already prepared, it made it a lot easier to understand”.Of the eleven participants who completed an evaluation that year, this course scored a 4.0 on a 1-5 scale when asked how interesting and informative the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leotis Parrish; Devdas Pai

Office, the program is nowcoordinated by the five departments in the College of Engineering and coverage extends to 18course sections. The program provides its client students with two or three opportunities every week tointeract one-to-one with SI leaders to review and reinforce the fundamentals introduced by theinstructor in a formal classroom setting. The program has expanded coverage to as many as 18core courses from the engineering and basic sciences. Each CoE department assigns a faculty SIcoordinator. The responsibilities of the faculty SI are to: 1) identify the high failure courses ratewithin the department, 2) select SI leaders, and 3) be a champion for the SI program in thedepartment. In addition to the faculty SI coordinator

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

into engineering courses.Introduction Former Massachusetts’s congressional representative and Jesuit priest, Robert F.Drinan, suggested that to serve as a university faculty member is, in his words, “to be amember of the priesthood of the intellect.”1 At its best, what values can we ascribe tosuch a community of scholars? Some that come immediately to mind are: selfless serviceto the greater community and the common good as well as contemplative action inpursuit of peace and justice. Yet today, in my view, such ideals are sadly lacking fromengineering education. Rather there is an ever-tightening knot linking the university tocorporate interests and an ever-increasing emphasis on developing “exit-skills” in ourstudents that will help

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kosbar; Judy Duffield; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

; ∋ ( ∋ % ( ∋ ) % ∗ % ∋ ∀ % ∀ ∋ ( % ∋ ( % ∋ + % % ∀ % ∋,∋ , , ∀ − ! − & ∀ ., ∀ & ∀ ∀ / +0∋ ∋ , ∀ ! ∀ 1 2 , ∀ ∗ ∀ &∋ ∋# 1 ) ∋! 3 &∋ ∋ Page 9.557.1 ∀4 ∗ ∋ ! ∀ # ∃ %& #&

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Proteins – Full of “Don’t Cares”A protein is a chain of amino acids. The twenty amino acids are given in Table 1 below withcorresponding three-letter codes and names. Table 1. Amino Acids [7] Three-Letter Code Name 1 Ala Alanine 2 Cys Cysteine 3 Asp Aspartic Acid 4 Glu Gluetamic Acid 5 Phe

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zahed Siddique

generic Internet based communication tools for audio Server and textual discussion. Figure 1: Three-tier architecture The environment has been designed using multiple of Internet Design Studio.Internet-based technologies, such as Flash, FlashCommunication Server, Java, VRML, Perl, ASP, SQL, and a database. These varioustechnologies together form the basis of the environment. Not all of these technologies areutilized for each design tool. In the next section three tools developed for the Internet DesignStudio will be presented.IV Internet Based Collaborative Design Modules and Tools Some of the basic steps in the design process are

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Adams; Vance Poteat

focuses onissues of space, cost, low power and fast development in products such as wireless phones,automobiles, security systems, and pagers. The two course sequence focuses on both categoriesstarting with the Intel x86® Microprocessors (8088 – Pentium 4) and then on to one of theleading embedded microcomputers, the Intel 8051®. Figure 1 - 8051 vs. x86 Item 8051 x86 Standard. Assembly Instructions - Arithmetic 24 19 - Logical 25 32 - Data Transfer

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

the institution.When performing strategic planning, most people quickly learn that the missions,objectives, and outcomes of all units must be mutually supportive for best success.Figure 1 shows the mission support structure as it exists today at PUC of the METSdepartment programs and courses. Note that this is intended to be a generic figure, andnot all units will have all five levels shown, and others may have more. For illustrativepurposes you will note in this figure that course MET 461 is a course in the METprogram which is a part of the METS department in the School of Technology at PUC. Page 9.1279.4Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Stewart; David Elrod

assessment evidence will becollected to document the level of understanding achieved. In the third stage, educators planinstructional activities to enable students to achieve the desired level of understanding. Thebackward design approach emphasizes the use of “formative assessment”: assessment activitiesdesigned to provide feedback which is used to modify teaching and learning activities2.The remainder of this paper describes: (1) problems identified in the initial setup of the course;(2) the application of backward design to revise the course; and (3) implementation of theresulting plan by the team of educators (instructors and teaching assistants) at Georgia Tech.The Initial Course Design – 1999-2002In the fall of 1999, the fifteen-week course

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Wayne Unsell

. Page 9.347.2“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Perhaps the most important factor in selection of the Tablet related to the learning communitiesthat were readily established by the students outside the classroom where wireless access wasavailable. Observation over the years has been that students go their own way after class andfind it very difficult to meet as a group. However, with the Tablet, many group activities wereobserved taking place in the ET building lobby. Finally, the “fun factor” was achieved!Specifically, but not inclusive of all requirements, each student was expected 1

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

. Afternoon activities were to consist ofsupervised study (SS1) and student success (SS2) sessions from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. The SS1sessions were to involve students working with each other in small sub-groups of approximatelyten students from their larger Learning Community of 20-25. Each group was to have aleader/mentor that facilitated the students’ learning activities. This would allow the students towork on some of their homework together, receive assistance with assignments, work on groupprojects, and build a sense of community and shared success. The SS1 Leaders wouldunderstand the purpose and function of Learning Communities and promote the value ofcollaborative learning and peer support, and receive formal training in group learning methods

Conference Session

Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

) of alumni to assist and advise student entrepreneurs.The effort requires the partnership of several academic programs, such as Lehigh’sIntegrated Product Development, Integrated Business and Engineering and Design Artsalong with several internal organizations including Lehigh’s Alumni Association, theDevelopment office and the University’s new thrust in innovation, commercialization andentrepreneurship led by the Vice Provost for Research and the Dean of the College ofBusiness and Economics. The LEN is a critical resource to: 1) help guide successfulstudent e-teams through the product design, development, production ramp-up andmarket introduction phases of new product development, 2) help the students acquireseed funding, and 3) when

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

Scholars, Undergraduate RISE Fellows, GraduateRISE Fellows) and individual interviews with each faculty mentor. The Scholars from the firstyear of the program also completed a follow up survey one year after the completion of theirsummer experience. The RISE program staff conducted a post program assessment (PPA) for allaspects of the program, ranging from soliciting the faculty research proposals to the concludingresearch symposium. The results of the assessments will be discussed in terms of the following:1. time commitment of mentoring undergraduates, 2. importance of setting expectations (forexample, helping the faculty to think through their goals for the project), 3. issues related toparticipant selection (for example, the trade off between

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

1,600 black who earned doctorate degrees in2002 will be hired as university professors. Blacks make up 3 percent of the legal field, 4percent of college faculty and 5.2 percent of entertainers, writers and professionalathletes in the U.S. (1). Under the formula for academic failure Raspberry stated that onestudy found that the home of the average white kindergartner had 93 books, the averageblack less than half as many (2). Recognizing these facts and the discrimination thatexists in the social structure of our educational system, it is essential for every HIS towork harder and use and allocate their resources toward remedying these problems. Thispaper presents a model that may be used by IHE to enhance its existing graduate minorityenrollment

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Howard Kimmel

faster rate than other professions, yet the current trend in the nationalenrollment, at the post-secondary level, may not be able to meet the national demand.1 Theauthors present one state’s perspective on addressing the issue of increasing the enrollment Page 9.994.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand graduation in engineering and engineering technology programs at institutions of highereducation through working with secondary students and their educators.About the StateThe state of New

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

used as ademonstration project, creating paperweights with the university logo engraved into one side andtheir individual names in raised letters on the other side. This provided a useful introduction toengineering design concepts for these teenagers. They were enthusiastic about this project.In conclusion, the rapid prototyping system has been successfully used to introduce materials andcomponent design to students who are at three very different levels.IntroductionIn this paper, the authors describe how this rapid prototyping system was used in three verydifferent contexts. Students in the following groups have been introduced to rapid prototyping:1. Junior level engineering students in an elective course.2. Sophomore level education majors

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

developed to guide the studentsthrough the CACSD process. The simulation experiments covered mostly the design of a range ofcompensators for improving control system performance. The simulation experiments weredescribed in [18]. Later, the funding allowed Matlab to be used in place of Program CC. Thesimulation experiments were rewritten for Matlab in 1999. The list of the simulation experiments isshown below.Experiment 1: Laplace transformsExperiment 2: Step responses of first, second, and higher order systemsExperiment 3: Computation of poles and zeros and determination of stabilityExperiment 4: Transfer function and state-space representationsExperiment 5: Root locus and delayExperiment 6: Root locus design: proportional integral

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

(DTS) and the National Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL). The former program recognizes andrewards individuals who are both meritorious scholars and exemplary educators. Thelatter program aims to create, develop, and sustain a national digital library to serve as anonline network of learning environments and resources for STEM education at all levels.For completeness, brief descriptions of the workforce preparation/development programsare provided but with little or no discussion. These descriptions are taken directly fromthe DUE webpage (1). Detailed attention is given to the curriculum developmentprograms and specific guidance on how to prepare a successful proposal is provided.Workforce

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

F.C. Lai

viewed with a screen resolution of 800 x 600or higher (Fig. 1). Most of the contents in this program were created using MacromediaDreamweaver as the authoring software (Fig. 2) whereas the main calculation page wasdeveloped using Director as the authoring software (Fig. 3). The simulation results produced byDirector are exported as Shockwave files. The advantage of using Shockwave movies is thattheir file size is usually small and hence can be quickly downloaded through the Web. Page 9.196.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2004

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

EducationNeedThe United States may face a shortage of engineers in coming years. The National ScienceBoard’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2002 1 cites these trends: ‚ Undergraduate engineering enrollment declined by more than 20% between 1983 and 1999. ‚ Graduate engineering enrollment peaked in 1993 and continues to decline. ‚ The total number of retirements among science and engineering-degreed workers will increase dramatically over the next 20 years. ‚ Between 2000 and 2010, science and engineering jobs are projected to increase by 47% compared with 15% for all occupations.Women and minorities represent a vast talent pool that can be attracted into engineering fields.Women, who comprise about half of the general

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

administration, in particular the deans. Pertinent information fromthese documents is included in Table 1 and 4.Background InformationTable 1 shows the statistics for engineering. From this table, several things are apparent. First,the entering university freshmen class mirrors the overall university in terms of male and femaleratios. These ratios are much different in the engineering department. The percentage of malesis almost double that of the university value and the percentage of females is approximately onehalf to one third of the university value. It is interesting to note that from freshmen year tograduation the percentage of female engineering students increases by 6% and the percentage ofmales decreases by the same amount. Baylor is obviously

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

student to complete work in greaterdepth. The student initiates contract proposals with guidance from the instructor. The honorsproject is a major research, performance, or creative endeavor, guided by a full-time facultymember. Each student must give an announced, public presentation of the completed honorsproject. In the fall quarter of academic year 2003-2004, authors Middelberg and Stilesapproached the faculty members (the co-authors) about a contract course in the area oftransportation engineering as a part of the CE 351 Transportation 1 course.Synopsis of Resear ch Pr ojectThe area of research in this project was the skid resistance of asphalt pavements. Skid resistancemay be defined as the steady-state friction forces acting on a locked

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nripendra Sarker; Mohan Ketkar

spreadsheettogether with its macro capabilities, on the other hand, is a handy tool that can easily beprogrammed to suit the needs of solving diversified problems. Ketkar and Reddy 1 usedMicrosoft Excel for numerical solution of an unsteady state heat equation. In this study a heatdiffusion problem was solved using the Excel spreadsheet. The time varying boundary conditionof the problem did not follow any pattern. This dynamically changing behavior of the boundarycondition was taken care of by interfacing some Excel macros with values in the spreadsheet.Bala et al 2 wrote an elaborate computer program in BASIC language to simulate temperatures ofwheat stored for two and a half years in a concrete bin of 778.7-m3 capacity with a diameter of5.5m and a height

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

presented by a Certified Financial Planner Career management ‚ Presentation by the director of the university’s placement office ‚ Presentation by an alumnus engineer who has very recently graduated ‚ Presentation by an alumnus engineer who has been out in practice for a number of years. Intellectual Property ‚ Presentation and discussion led by the university’s director of intellectual property Professionalism ‚ Student presentations based on portions of the ASME book The issues Unwritten Laws of Engineering, revised by J.G. Skakoon.1

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

toward developing Engineering Education programs, it appears at thistime that no single institution or engineering education center encompasses all of the componentsthat are being considered here. Centers shown in Table 1 do contain some aspects of what SEEDwill strive to accomplish but lack academic programs in engineering education. In addition,Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University recently received an NSF Bridges inEngineering Education planning grant (NSF Award No. 0342000) to, in part, "develop a newdegree program in education to enable engineering graduates to earn a master's degree while alsoqualifying for licensure as technology teachers in the Commonwealth of Virginia5