Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

Technology in WorldHistory (6 volumes, Oxford University Press, forthcoming), I will outline in thispaper a framework for thinking about how people use technology to create andsustain their cultures. This framework--that people use technology to createabundance, order, and meaning--has proven useful in teaching about technologyin ways that don't privilege Western developments and conceptions oftechnology. This framework also permits us to treat Western and non-Westerncultures in a balanced or symmetrical fashion and thus help students understandthe impact that engineering can and will have in diverse cultures around theworld.An Overview of the Project It has been over thirty years since the last general history of technologyhas been published

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

broader industry-driven curriculum. Today’s employers are seeking engineering graduates with the ability to work effectively in team-based environments. The Mechanical Engineering curriculum prepares our undergraduates to work in teaming environments in at least two ways: 1) through design projects that require the application of different technical areas of mechanical engineering and 2) through projects and courses that have students from different majors working together.One may notice that other definitions of multi-disciplinary could be adopted but the onepresented above is the definition that our faculty decided to pursue. These definitions arepublished and communicated to our students through pertinent

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mazen Manasseh; Kevin Amaratunga; Eduardo Kausel

Windows Form Controls. Web Service methods are implemented for initiating remote processes on the control server. In this paper, we state the motivations for this project, describe the various online activities and generic administrative features, and provide a description of the implemented technologies and system components.1. Introduction Recent efforts in engineering education have focused on supplementing traditional meansof experimentation with virtual laboratories that are remotely accessible through the World-WideWeb (WWW), despite allegations that such a shift from the physical laboratory environment toan online experimentation space detaches students from irreplaceable real-world experiencesgained through physical

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Session 2131 Characteristics of Good Team Players Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractWorking in teams, especially on multidisciplinary projects, is becoming more and morecommon in engineering as well as in other work environments. However, despite theimportance of “team-work” in engineering, there is little data on the characteristics of“good” and “poor” team players. This paper presents preliminary results from anongoing, horizontal study of this issue in two

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

projectorganization, project work, work analysis, etc. are commonly based on the implicit assumptionsthat the necessary knowledge somehow exists, making the process of designing a system mainlya matter of extracting the knowledge from the participants, be it users or developers. More often Page 9.956.1than not, these assumptions do not hold. Therefore, development projects need to be Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtransformed from production processes to mutual learning processes. Learning must

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

different backgrounds and values to emerge as talented.Further, we believe that adapting these types of activities to engineering courses has the potentialto go beyond “filling the gaps” to “opening doors” to women in engineering. As part of an NSFfunded Gender-Equity project, four MEAs were implemented in a first-year problem solving andcomputer tools course at Purdue University in Fall 2002. This paper will describe the nature ofMEAs, overview the research methodology, and demonstrate evidence of curriculum reform atour institution.I. IntroductionOn the national scene, while overall enrollment and retention trends in engineering are alarmingin the face of a national need to increase the technology workforce, the National ScienceFoundation

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Frame

idea that when they become “real” engineers, they willperform static analysis as part of the design process. Instead of basing each problem on the textbook, some of the assignmentsperformed by the students should involve generating specifications for the design of alarger and more complex project. As the students make their way through theengineering program, they can carry along that project as a PDM file. While they areenrolled in a specific class, they can use the knowledge they gain to add to therequirements for their project. This not only reinforces the PLM method, but it allowsthe students to see the course material from a wider perspective, which should help themretain a greater percentage of the material being taught. Some

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams

. Theseinclude: • Student course evaluations. • Student retention and degree of satisfaction with the freshman engineering course. • The value of the demographic comparisons for curriculum assessment. • Direct student surveys regarding the ARS. • Course material covered and mastered in the senior/graduate course.Application in Freshman Engineering Course The College of Engineering has required a two-semester freshman engineering course for thepast four years. This course has been described and evaluated in prior ASEE publications (e.g.,Pieronek et al.10; Brockman et al.11) and will therefore only be outlined herein. The courseinvolves four projects over the two semesters. Each project, or module, is based on a

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

bridge the divide tothe point of mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual benefit.We are currently in the third year of an NSF-funded GK-12 project, the Student andTeacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP)*, and are preparing to embark on a five-yearextension. A major part of this project has been the building, nurturing, and grooming ofpartnerships between Georgia Tech and local minority high schools. As part of thisproject we have developed a model of partnerships that is grounded in the public policyliterature and that describes the evolution of the partnerships created between GeorgiaTech and four minority-dominated high schools as part of STEP. In this paper we willdescribe the theoretical framework of the partnership model, outline ways to

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

, waste identification and elimination and teamwork in asuccessful manufacturing system. Page 9.143.1 Proceedings of the 1004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionThe “Wagons -R- Us Project” is a production project that allows students to simulate anassembly production environment. The original simulation was developed by Tom Carlisle, aprofessor at Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio. The process is simulated using aproduct developed by K’NEX Industries, Inc. Their mission states, that “K'NEX

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Wangrow; Doug Tougaw

receiving approval for this project from the departmental faculty, the Dean of Engineering, and the Provost, the ECE department chair began to work with Mr. Wangrow to design the new course. It was decided that the most beneficial strategy would be to present an overview of the field, since Mr. Wangrow’s professional experience spanned many aspects of the design of cellular phone infrastructure. Also, because of his extensive business background and the importance of economic constraints in the cellular phone industry, it was decided that the business aspects of the industry would be integrated throughout the course. This decision also embraces the recommendations of engineering educators who urge the integration of real-world problems and non

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack

Session 2533 Outcomes Assessment in an Energy Systems Course Mark Schumack Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Detroit MercyI. IntroductionStudent performance has been traditionally measured through homework assignments, projects,and examinations, with final course grades based on weighted averages of scores in each of thesemeasurement categories. Driven by the EC 2000 criteria, many instructors have revised theircourse syllabi to list course outcomes and associated linkages to program outcomes. The linkageby itself

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

innovation skills, which will enhance their careers.Case studies and examples on how to produce new innovative ideas and patents are given.1. IntroductionThis paper is meant to be a hands-on opportunity for professors and students to experience andpractice the creative problem solving process throughout all undergraduate and graduate coursesin the Electrical and Computer Engineering curriculum. Certainly, the benefit of this paper canbe extended and used in all engineering education disciplines including, but not limited to,mechanical, chemical, and civil engineering.The framework of this paper is also very useful for practicing engineers, project managers, andexecutives. The ideas presented in this paper intend to enhance students’ creativity

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hector Estrada

Society for Engineering Educationcalculation procedures rather than helping the students understand the nature and effect of theseloads on structures. The present project is intended to be responsive to this effort by usingcomputers to perform the tedious calculations. The main advantage of computers is their speedand consistency. The computer program was developed using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 because it is one ofthe most popular object-oriented programming languages and it allows the programmer to usemany of the features typically found in the Microsoft Windows graphical environment. Thisprogram was developed because there is no simple computer programs that isolate the wind loadproblem, though there are a number of “canned” programs that

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

. ✂✁☎✄✝✆☎✞✠✟☎✟☎✡☎☛✌☞✎✍✑✏✒✔ ✆ ✓✖✕✘✗✙✛ ✟ ✚✢✜✎✜☎✣✥✤✧✦★✟✔✩ ✄ ✪☛ ✬ ✞ ✫☎☞★✭✮✆☎✞✬☛✪✯ ✟ ✕✘✰✱✓✂✆✔✳ ✄ ✲✎☞✎✍✯☛✌☞✙✟☎✟✔✄✩☛✌☞✎✴ ✍ ✲✙✡✎✵✯✞✬✫✎✕✘☛✪✆✔☞✥✤✧☞✎☞✢✵☎✫☎✶✢✷✙✆✔☞✎✓✂✟✔✄✝✟✔☞✙✞✠✟✱✸ ✲✑✹☎✺✻✼ ✆ ✽ ✏ ✾☛ ✕✘☛✪✆✔✿ ☞ ✷✙✆✽❀ ✺ ✰☎✄✩☛✌✍✯✗✢✕✳❁❂✚✢✜✎✜☎✣✑❃✢✤✧✦★✟✔✄✩☛✪✞✬✫☎☞★✭✮✆☎✞✬☛✪✟✯✕✘✰✱✓✂✆✔✄✳✲✎☞✎✍✯☛✌☞✙✟☎✟✔✄✩☛✌☞✎✍✴✲✙✡✎✵✯✞✬✫✎✕✘☛✪✆✔❅ ☞ ❄loss, Q, device coupling (electric and magnetic) and fringing become much more important at theintegrated circuit level than at the more ideal “macro” or discrete device level. Componentlayout, choice of conducting material and device size are more easily discussed in an EM course,with the added positive of the components being a topic of contemporary importance. The paperindicates locations in the EM course where these microelectronic component topics can beintroduced. Information on how to obtain sample course materials is found in the paperconclusion.II. Undergraduate Student Research in Silicon RF MicroelectronicsIIa. BackgroundMany universities have undergraduate students involved in faculty research projects, with someuniversities having

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeong-Hoon Kim; Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

Session 1121 Development of Web-based Interactive 4D Block-Tower Model for Construction Planning and Scheduling Education Julian H. Kang*, Byeong-Cheol Lho**, Jeong-Hoon Kim** *Texas A&M University / **Sangji UniversityFor construction projects implemented in a congested area, the ability to understand spatialrelationship between structures is expected to play an important role in construction planning andscheduling. However, students can hardly understand the time-space relationship at the job siteusing a CPM network or a bar chart. Research shows that visual representation of

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

through a mockpublic meeting, the other is through personal testimony. Both have proven to be interesting tostudents and effective in revealing the subtleties of compromising situations that arise inengineering practice. The dual goals of exposing students to the ASCE Code of Ethics andapplying the Code to an ethical situation are being accomplished based upon assessment resultsfrom the RosE-portfolio, the system set up for documenting student learning outcomes.The two methods we have used to inject enthusiasm and relevance into the topic of professionalethics are proven teaching techniques. One method is the mock public meeting. A student team,working on one of our senior design projects, is instructed to hold a public meeting. Their role isto

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

the following design constraints and criteria:Design Constraints The mechanical breadboard will be • Affordable • Compact and portable • Versatile • Comprehensive • Easy to build from standard parts at local hardware storesDesign Criteria • Costs under $50. • Has the size of the laptop computer. • Is able to quickly provide basic 2 and 3-D demonstrations of various concepts of Statics o Reactive force o Normal force o Pin support o Fixed support o Moment o Projection of force and moment on specified axis o Frictional force On the verge of tipping and sliding o Balance of forces and equilibrium o Transmissibility of

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zahed Siddique

product. To betterprepare engineering students for the current workplace, which is distributed and global, aneducation environment imitating design of products in a distributed and collaborativeenvironment is essential. The main focus of this paper is to present an infrastructure forengineering design education for distributed collaborative design and analysis. In the InternetDesign Studio each student is provided with a virtual design studio space for each project, thesedesign studio spaces contain design tools, applications, software, and theoretical materials tofacilitate design and analysis. Conceptually the studio can be thought of as a collection of roomsthat contain different design tools. A student enters these rooms and grabs appropriate

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

students cameup with a variety of designs. These designs were converted to digital drawings by a graduatestudent. Their second project was to design a nose cone that could fit on a model rocket. On thelast class day there was a contest to see whose model rocket design would go the highest.This concept was also introduced to 7th and 8th grade students who attended a series of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.808.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”math/science/engineering summer camps. For this age group the system was

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Fodor; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Engineering of Western Michigan University with the help of aDURIP grant by the Department of Defense [6] and generous donations by ABBAutomation Technology Products. This new lab is to support research, the developmentof advanced courses, and graduate projects in the area of intelligent controls for large,complex hybrid systems. One of the targeted applications is the supervisory level offlatness control for cold rolling mills. Contemporary industrial control systems are designed using Object Oriented methodsand software agents. It si required that the system should reach its goals even whenunexpected events occur in an uncertain environment. The current research focus is onfault detection and automated recovery from faults. A fuzzy automaton has

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

has sponsored the project. BioVentures has provided allmaterials and support while a combination of graduate and undergraduate student team fromMTSU built the system and tested it. The team was supervised by a team of faculty from both theengineering technology and biology departments as well as biotech engineers from BioVentures.These collaborative efforts have resulted in a very positive and promising experience for allparties involved. A brief account of this experience and its outcomes, especially on theengineering technology students, will be presented.I. IntroductionMicroarrays are an orderly arrangement of DNA samples spotted onto glass slides or nylonmembranes. Each spot is typically a sequence of DNA representing a distinct gene. To

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

. The results from this project identify and document four key categories, namelyinteraction, navigation, fidelity, and components of education. Each of these key categories isfurther divided into sub-categories that provide the needed guidelines to develop educationalmaterials using virtual environments. It is the intent and desired impact of this paper to establishcriteria for virtual environments for education, which will enrich collaboration and knowledge ofthis technological resource for educational facilities. This is important because with the ever-increasing technological advancements available in most universities, virtual environments couldhelp education to reach new heights1. IntroductionEducational communities are facing many

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mel Mendelson

integrated and facilitated by the materials science faculty member. Thecourse focused on three applications: micro-arrays, micro-fluidics and nanostructures. Thestudents were grouped into multidisciplinary teams for study groups and a class project. Theexamples of our assessment methods (both formative and summative) are in accordance withABET’s requirements.I. IntroductionNanotechnology has been predicted to contribute $1 trillion per year to the global economy andto require 2 million new workers by 2015 [1, 2]. These new workers will have to bescientifically literate in nanotechnology. In order for this to happen, U.S. universities will haveto offer undergraduate courses in nanotechnology. However, few, universities offerundergraduate courses in

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

, American Society for Engineering Educationinvolves students in real-world projects and problem solving from the freshman through the senioryear1-2. This interdisciplinary experience enables students to work on exciting and cutting edgeapplications of the very technologies they learn about in the rest of the engineering curriculum andsee how those technologies improve life for business and people. In this project, a group of utilitycompanies and their hardware suppliers requested that Rowan engineers develop a low cost,hand-held device that would assist them in the management of their field assets. As utilities mergeand the electrical infrastructure changes to meet ever-growing customer electrical demand keepingtrack of the location and maintenance

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Alsaialy; Dalia Tawy; Thomas Schubert; Susan Lord

Instruments.1 It has become a vital tool forengineers and scientists in research throughout academia, industry, and government labs. Mostsignificant to this project is its ability to be used to create an instrument control interface at auser-appropriate level. Thus, LabVIEW is an excellent candidate for creating a user-friendlyinterface for the Tektronix 370. Two USD EE faculty members were motivated to develop suchan interface to alleviate the observed laboratory bottleneck and enhance the utilization of themore complex curve tracer. Fortunately, several USD Electrical Engineering students hadpreviously developed expertise in LabVIEW while working on interfacing projects 2,3. Two ofthese students and the two faculty members thus formed a team to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Smolleck

Page 9.1044.2 Students in the program have been exposed to a range of projects, as indicated inSection 4 below. The continued development of the undergraduate course laboratory has Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationbeen the most emphasized of these projects in terms of numbers of students and resourceexpenditure. A key challenge in the continued development of the mentoring program hasbeen to provide challenging on-campus opportunities for the students in a way thatsupports their academic endeavors. Students have worked with faculty and advancedgraduate students on their research

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

board isECE 375 Project programmed to be a remote and another AVR board is used as aRemotely Operated Vehicle receiver on a TekBot. All the knowledge gained through the quarter isCombine past knowledge and needed to do this lab. All the previous labs have sections of code thatingenuity to create this final can be reused during this lab.group project. Table 1: The labs used in the Computer Architecture Course Table 1 shows all of the labs used in the Computer Architecture and Assembly Programming course at Oregon State University. The labs begin by assuming that most students will have some basic programming experience in a higher-level language but no experience in assembly level

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

designed allowingfor a great deal of flexibility. The material covered can in many cases even be somewhat tailoredto the particular class’s interests. In reality, no two classes are ever quite the same.Course AssignmentsThis is a writing intensive course requiring that five written projects be completed. The studentsare challenged to respond to technical and historical scenarios by writing a three to five page essay Page 9.30.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsupporting their conclusions

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

data for analysis and application;thus, it is critical to be knowledgeable of these when undertaking a program evaluation project.Knowledge of standards and guidelines does not automatically create an assessment system.Critical elements remain to be developed including specific goals for the assessment system,specific and reliable and valid ways to measure indicators of those goals, and a manageableprocess for the execution of the evaluation.The project described herein was grounded upon substantial contributions in the fields ofassessment and evaluation and the development of system elements based on feedback. Theeditorial work of Bransford, Brown, and Cocking in How People Learn: Brain, Mind,Experience, and School[7], for example, added much