Conference Session

Novel Courses for ChEs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

Skills in: • Communication and Presentation. • Analysis and Numeracy. • Information Technology. • Planning and organization. • Teamwork and Collaboration. • Innovation and Creativity.These are represented in the core Mathematics, Science and Chemical Engineeringsubjects through years 1-5, with a “business outlook” covered with a full module in Page 9.1255.2Process Economics and attempts to bring in “commercial judgments” made in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

own project information and choose which portions to sharewith which organizations. ProjectVillageTM offers the ability to create custom online workflowpaths to route construction documentation to the proper project participants. It also includes anonline plan room where bid and construction documentation is stored for use in the managementprocess8. Whether there were uses available for construction education or opportunities forresearch to further develop the system, the ProjectVillage organization had no firm objectives intheir offer. However, one facet of the initial meeting between the parties was very intriguing tothe CET program. The construction of the new $45 million residence hall on The University ofToledo campus was to be

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Wayne Unsell

Office, which allowed students to download lecture notes. TheTablet then allowed students to take additional notes on the lecture slide with their Tablet pen.Using the Journal program, example problems that I presented in class could be taken on theTablet and saved with lecture notes. Another important factor in the selection of the Tabletrelated to the term project, which involved a geotechnical analysis of a problem site off campus.Site plans and boring logs were presented on WebCT, which students could download. Theycould then take their Tablet to the site and take notes and sketch existing conditions and possiblesolutions on the loaded plans

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

F.C. Lai

considered. In addition, the floor plan of thebuilding is fixed and it is chosen to be a single-family detached house (Fig. 5). The air-conditioning equipment is located in the garage where no air-conditioning is provided. In thecalculations, the internal loads contributed by occupants and appliances are predetermined forsimplicity. Thus, the factors that have direct influences on the cooling load of the house are:building orientation, outdoor and indoor design conditions, construction tightness, constructionmaterials, infiltration, and ventilation of outdoor air. The equations used for the load calculationare summarized below. (1) qd = Ud (CLTD)d Ad

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

anengineering program would already be familiar with the methodology. A non-traditional studenttaking courses at multiple academic sites would be more productive. This approach would allowthe coalition to market a suite of educational modules and course to regional industry under aunified umbrella. Finally, the breakdown into a modular structure is essential in that courses aredifferent institutions do not necessarily conform to a single model and modularity is desirable.Development of this framework was achieved by comparing the curricular needs at eachinstitution in light of industry needs, accreditation requirements, and articulation plans. Theresults of these deliberations appear in Table I, which shows areas where the institutions havecommon

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

, comprised of multiple stand-alonelessons, form the backbone of the teacher workshop offerings. Teachers benefit by having atested set of standards-based curricula to take back into their classrooms, coupled with theconfidence of having learned how to teach the content. The university K-12 EngineeringProgram benefits from observing the lesson plan presentations made by the teachers during theworkshop and incorporating the teachers’ suggestions to improve the curriculum. Page 9.1154.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

skills and managerial skills through theory and practice in four semesters of MEPH 5811/6811 Operations Management. • Creating a forum for focused discussions in the application of ethical behaviors in professional environments through a full summer seminar series MEPH 5821 Ethics for Scientists and Engineers. • Creating a full summer course in funded program management that requires each student to submit a full funding proposal with his or her major professor to an appropriate agency at the end of the course (MEPH 5831 Proposal Writing and Management). • Requiring each student to use Microsoft Project TM to plan their research activities with monthly reporting of Project Gantt

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

entrepreneurship endeavors.Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Oregon State UniversityOregon State University (OSU) is a land, sea, and space grant institution with a studentpopulation of around 20,000. It is one of four universities in the Northwest to be granted aranking of Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive. There were over 3,000 undergraduatestudents in engineering and over 2,000 undergraduates in business as of Fall term, 2002.1 In2003, the university completed a strategic plan emphasizing five multidisciplinary themes. Oneof the thematic areas is “optimizing enterprise, technological change and innovation.” 2 Tocapitalize on this theme, university administrators are looking at greater levels of collaborationacross disciplines, departments and

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

that might affect dissolution rates such as temperature, surfacearea, drug and surrounding fluid composition. Conservation of mass concepts were utilized torelate the rate at which the drug dissolves into the liquid regions near the pill to the rate at whichthe drug is transported to areas far away from the pill. Following the overview of dissolutionmechanics, the students were provided with an in-class activity where their three person labgroups were assembled in order to carry out some initial planning for the first lab session. In thisplanning session, the groups were given a memo from a fictitious drug company requesting themto design experiments which will help analyze the dissolution of a new throat lozenge. Thestudents were restricted

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

2002 and resultswill be presented at the 2003 ASEE meeting in Nashville, TN.There are several other courses from which to draw resources and ideas. The SwarthmoreCollege course, entitled “Building Intelligent Robots”9, is an introduction to bothcomputer science and artificial intelligence. This course uses the C programming language.Students read and discuss research papers from the literature in addition to the laboratoryexperience of robot building and programming. In the Hendrix course, we plan toemphasize issues in robot construction to a greater degree, leaving less time for in-depthreadings from the robotics literature. We also intend to emphasize the relationshipbetween reactive and traditional symbolic artificial intelligence in our

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

encouraging younger students to consider engineering careers.Walk On Water at USD is a great learning experience that serves several purposes. It is a designproject for freshmen engineering majors at USD, a project for high school science classes, anevent which creates awareness of engineering in the local community, a forum for interaction ofhigh school and college students, and a vehicle for upper-class engineering students to developskills in planning and executing an event including fundraising and publicity.The paper will introduce the WOW event and then show how the competition provides a vesselto promote engineering and applied science throughout many areas within the local community.IntroductionThe annual Walk On Water (WOW) competition has

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

developing our approach,we examined how lean principles were taught in a number of settings and reviewed pedagogicalapproaches.Teaching Process Design and Lean Principles. We reviewed courses taught in IE programs ata number of universities and found that relatively few had developed a separate course focusingon with lean topics at the undergraduate level. Those that had lean courses typically geared thesecourses to upper-level undergraduates or graduate students. More typically, courses had beenrevised to address the individual tactics associated with lean design, but typically as an add-ontopic (for example, in production planning and control, one might add a session on kanban). Wehad traditionally taken this approach at WPI. As a consequence, we

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

the incentives/disincentives for faculty to teach various courses, to participate in various planning and assessment activities, and to assist the department in meeting its collective responsibilities in certain areas. Consistent with Massy and Wilger 5, most faculty members will not pay sufficient attention to collective responsibilities without some modification in reward structures. Comprehensive reforms involve challenging promotion and tenure criteria, spelling out the relative value of meeting collective obligations. Less radical reforms include giving release time for course preparation and additional conference travel for faculty members involved in educational reforms. In either case, bringing key

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

. We plan to move from a content-intensive, faculty-centered wayof delivering information and skills to a problem-driven, inquiry-based approach with embeddedassessments of student’s outcomes throughout a series of integrated courses. A new set ofintegrated core curriculum is planned which emphasizes the development in stages of specificlearning skills such as critical thinking and collaboration between students and instructors in anactive mode of learning. The integration of a knowledge set involving dynamics, vibration, systemmodeling and analysis, and control systems is the subject of this text. It is believed that thisintegrated experience will culminate in an integrated capstone or specialty experience in which thestudents will apply

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chmielewski

not a raft; it is a ribbed boat thatrequired planning and careful execution. (Odyssey 5:244-231) It is the sort of tight work thatAthena upholds. And, for the Greek mind, it is the technology that makes cities, centers for theexchange of goods and ideas, possible. A ship is a system tool that enables the mind and thecommon life to move out and learn.13:121-122 Building a boat, however, is only one example of “metis” at work. Cunning intelligencemust be carefully distinguished from craft activity. “Metis” involves sizing up a problem, setting agoal, and securing the execution of each directed step. Such planning and one specific form ofexecution required Odysseus’ metis when he had to face the plague of suitors and, thereby

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

construction involves certain challenges that must be tackled in a well-planned manner.For non-engineering students, the module intends to make a meaningful contribution to theircomprehension of the complicated nature of construction. This will be coupled with assignedtechnical readings on simple principles of load-supporting structural components. It is hoped thatthis module will serve as an eye opener for those who have never had any exposure to the buildingindustry. It is also anticipated that the technical content planned for this course will help non-engineering students achieve a reasonable level of understanding of what could be a life-longuseful knowledge

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sundiata Jangha; Richard Peltier; Pamela Reid; F. Scott Cowan; Christal Gordon; David Woessner; Douglas Edwards; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

chapter representing these highschools, GTSBE is responsible for planning programs, events, and activities that cater to the highschool students. GTSBE also provides mentors and access to a leading research institution thatotherwise would not be available.Although GTSBE does programmatic planning for the NSBE Jr. chapters, it is the goal of theorganization to have independent and self-sustaining NSBE Jr. chapters at local high schools.The collegiate mother chapter, ideally, should only serve as a guide and advisor. The NSBE Jr.chapters aim to replicate the structure, mission, and programs of the collegiate chapters, whichincludes active planning and ownership by the students themselves.Implementation: What does NSBE Jr. do?StructureNSBE Jr. at

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

scale, opportunities for growth,broader and deeper pools of mentors and students, and mentor opportunities with industryprofessionals at campuses where these opportunities either do not exist or are limited (See Table1 for MentorNet’s Actual and Projected Growth Plan). Table 1: MentorNet’s Actual and Projected Growth Plan ----------------------------Actual----------------------------- Projected Pilot Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Semester 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 1998 Students 204 515 1,250 2,000 3,500 Matched

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

of thestudent.We have found that this intense interview process is critical to student success, as the studentbecomes the explicit owner of the decision to embark on this difficult curriculum in pursuit of hisown career and lifestyle goals. We plan to continue using this interview technique to screenprogram applicants, and anticipate that we will continue to lose some top academic applicants tothis interview process. But early feedback from students completing their first year in theprogram indicate that we will lose only a minimum number of students to programdissatisfaction, educational failure, or changing career objectives.This interview process has not limited the applicants to the program, and the students currentlyenrolled in the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey A. Wood

product they turn out costs dearly and often falls short in terms of desiredcontent. Now, with powerful and affordable technology available to the consumer andadvertisements that promise the world, many faculty are inspired to author their own in-housemultimedia. A common problem is to invest in multimedia technology without a clear plan ofhow to use it. This may well be caused by inexperience or as a response to pressure from above.In either case it can be very expensive when a special software or hardware component fails tolive up to expectations. All-too-often these efforts lead to blind alleys, frustration, andincomplete or inferior results. A careful examination of the facts coupled with a realistic set ofdevelopment goals will greatly

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Al-Ashkar

, & Wager, 1992) and we may never agree on theirrelative importance. There are some factors, however, that have are critical to the successof students engaged in distance education programs (Calvert, 1989).When the Department of Engineering Professional Development began to design andconstruct a new type of graduate program for adult engineers, three considerationsdominated our planning. The first was that of course content and design: What contentwas important to practicing engineers (and their employers) and what course designcharacteristics were relevant?The second consideration was the process of course delivery: What mix of media weregoing to be the most effective in delivering our specific content and engaging ourstudents? Were we

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

solving, independent learning, teamwork andcommunication, while concurrently introducing basic principles of engineering to a group offreshman cadets. Problem Based Learning (PBL) 1,2 was the pedagogy used to engage the cadetsin a motivational project; design a plan to deploy a manned mission to Mars. Twelve speciallydesigned workshops were used to provide instruction on problem solving skills needed by thecadets to complete the project. A variety of assessment processes were used to evalua te theeffectiveness of the course. Among the findings, the final data show that without follow-on PBLexperiences in the remaining academic program, the problem solving skills initiated in thefreshman course are of little value to the students. Additional data

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

predicted. By noting the change in natural frequency withand without the model, the inertia of the added body can be determined about the axis of rotation. The inertia measurement has not been implemented at the time of this writing, and is beingdesigned as one of the student projects this semester.Power:We currently offer two power labs and have plans for at least one other. Since spacecraft mustrun various devices at different voltages, the bus voltage must be stepped down or up to therequired voltage. One of the experiments has the students build the circuitry for a pulse widthmodulator, which varies the output voltage. The second lab requires that the student build aboost converter circuit. This lab uses a pulse width modulator to boost the

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Thomas Brady; Helmut Knaust; Connie Kubo Della-Piana; Andrew Swift; Jana Renner Martinez

of ownership.Institutionalization plans for ACES includes a student fee of $5.00 per semester hour with a$75.00 maximum fee per SEM student. The money generated from the fees would be used topay student employee salaries, fund workshops, and maintain and purchase electronic equipmentand software.C. REUAs students progress in their studies and begin to make plans for the future, they are given theopportunity to participate in undergraduate research. Each semester, UTEP’s ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) program offers stipends to qualified students so they canperform research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. These stipends provide UTEPstudents, many of whom must work in order to finance their education, the opportunity to

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Johansen; Jens Riis; Henrik Jorgensen; Claus Balken; James Luxhoj

of the risks and resources associated with implementing the developed manufacturing vision. 5. Application and planning Planning how to proceed by making use of the of the next steps organizational momentum created, the potential strategic contri- bution of the manufacturing vision and critical areas for designing a production systemRiis and Johansen1 elaborate that strategy development is typically executed in a spiralingprocess that includes both sequential and iterative elements, as illustrated in Figure 2

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Neal

brokendown into a sequence of smaller well-defined student projects for this course, planned so as t oculminate in a finished web site. Students in the course are working in small teams, each focusedon developing a subsite for a different particular historical attraction. The sequence of projectsincludes, for example, outlining the subsite using storyboards, defining how visitors will interactwith the site, defining the information that is to be included or available on every page and themedia used to present the information, incremental implementation of a prototype of the site,periodic testing with different browsers and platforms, obtaining periodic review feedback from

Conference Session

FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Rippon, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Robin R Hammond, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineers.Staging the eventThe venueIn planning the Freshman Career Exploration Evening, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Page 22.768.4Career Center had to consider a venue that would serve up to 1,100 freshman students, as manyas 100 industry representatives, the engineering administrators who were key to drawingindustry, and the various faculty who would drop in on the event. In researching appropriatevenues, the Career Center found a venue just off-campus and within easy walking distance fromthe Engineering Residential Community. The venue was a converted theater complex thatprovided numerous rooms, lobby spaces, and auditoriums. Despite the

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England College; Michael J. Rust, Western New England College; Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Richard D. Beach, Western New England College; Jason A Criscuolo, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

with the biomedical engineering program at WesternNew England College before and after the program. It is clear that the objective to introduce thehigh school students to the educational opportunities available within the biomedical engineeringprogram at Western New England College was met (p = 1 x 10-10). It is assumed that theparticipants’ impressions of the biomedical engineering program at Western New EnglandCollege were favorable as 9 listed the institution as a college to which they plan to apply on thepre-program survey while 12 listed it on the post-program survey. * Figure 4: Participant familiarity (Likert scale 0-4) with biomedical engineering program at

Conference Session

Objectives, Assessment, and Methods for Teaching Technological Literacy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R. Walk, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

have been developed that reliably project the growth, diffusion,and performance of technology in time, including projecting technology substitutions, saturationlevels, and performance improvements. These forecasts can be applied at any stage of atechnology lifecycle to better predict future technology performance, assess the impact oftechnological change, and improve technology planning and investment. Knowledge of suchmeans to understand and project paths of technology and innovation and related social changeswould constitute important content in a technology literacy program.Often what is published as a technology forecast is simply scenario planning, usually made byextrapolating current trends into the future, with perhaps some subjective

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seunghyun Chun, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Bruce McCann, University of Texas, Austin; Ariane L. Beck, University of Texas, Austin; Eric Dean, National Instruments; Alexis Kwasinski, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and 2007, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he worked for Telefnica of Argentina for four years designing and planning telephony outside plant net- works. Then he worked for five years for Lucent Technologies Power Systems (later Tyco Electronics Power Systems) as a Technical Support Engineer and Sales Technical Consultant in Latin America. For three years, he was also a part-time instructor in charge of ITBA’s telecommunications laboratory. He is currently and Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and his research interests include power electronics, distributed generation, renewable and alternative energy, and analysis of the impact of