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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

a well-developed awareness of theways in which the context of engineering practice shapes the technical aspects of engineering Page 9.555.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand engineering shapes the larger organizational and cultural contexts in which technology isdeveloped and implemented.All aspects of our society (industry, government, and education) are infusing technology intotheir work processes to gain competitive advantage and improved productivity. Internationalcompetitive

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationGraduate Program is in the rigorous implementation of this total combination in the academicenvironment.This rigorous implementation fosters management skills development without intruding on theacademic hours needed for academic courses in technology. The glue that binds thesetechniques together is the simple, yet profound, technique of creating a community of studentswith a common goal of maximizing the academic success of each student in that community.The creation of this Cohort community, rather than having just a group of students in a commonset of academic classrooms and laboratories, is

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ward

career options that use mathand science, to provide an introduction to the profession of engineering, and to provide positivefemale role models.The camp is limited to 48 girls, 6 groups of 8. The camp is multidisciplinary with universityfaculty from the areas of civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering, physics,biology, chemistry, technology and math all taking part as instructors for the many workshops.Because of our strong Pharmacy College, a pharmacy workshop has also been added. Each ofthe days is full, starting with their first workshop at 8 am, immediately after breakfast, andusually ending at 10 pm with recreation or speakers in the evenings. Each workshop typicallyruns 1 hour, but some are scheduled for one and one-half

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

community.NCSU’s specific goals for its program were as follows: • To integrate science, technology and engineering topics with math, reading and writing in the K12 classroom • To encourage underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through role models and particular teaching techniques • To teach STEM content to diverse populations, including hearing-impaired students, students for whom English is a second language, students identified as being low income, and others • To adapt STEM content to appeal to different learning stylesTo facilitate the program’s implementation, the director hired a longtime collaborator, herself amechanical engineer, as the

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

. Ruggiero, “Infrastructure and Tools for a Computer Network and Data Communication Laboratory for a Computer Engineering Undergraduate Course,” Session T4C, in Proceedings of the 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October 10-13, 2001.7. D.E. Comer, Hands-on Networking with Internet Technologies, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, 2002.8. D. E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets, Prentice Hall Publishing, 1st edition (1997), 2nd edition (1999), 3rd edition (2001), 4th edition (2003).9. L. Fabrega, J. Massaguer, T. Jove, and D. Merida, “A Virtual Network Laboratory for Learning IP Networking,” in Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science

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How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rich Shiavi; Christopher Rowe

,focusing on computer modeling and simulation techniques for solving engineering and mathproblems. Since technology was just becoming user-friendly, MATLAB was a good choicebecause of its uncommon combination of ease of use and breadth of functionality.MATLAB originated in the late 1970's when Cleve Moler wanted to provide interactive accessto the FORTRAN linear algebra software packages EISPACK and LINPACK, motivated by hisbelief that a person should not have to learn FORTRAN in order to learn numerical computation.MATLAB was initially focused on constructing and manipulating matrices, and applyingalgorithms for eigenanalysis and linear algebra (“MATLAB” stands for “matrix laboratory”,reflecting these origins). In 1984, Cleve Moler and Jack Little

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

programs to meet the standard, whichaffects the quality and performance of students.IntroductionCivil Engineering program of the University of Florida (UF) is accredited by the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) since 1936 until present with full accreditation status. The Universidad Catolica delNorte (UCN) is in the process of accrediting the civil engineering undergraduate program,following the directions provided by the Comisión Nacional de Acreditación de Pregrado(CNAP), created in 1999.The criteria of ABET at the UF civil engineering program along with the accreditation and selfevaluation at the UCN are presented

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

Mechatronics course was.The Summer Design Institute was replaced beginning in 2002 with STEPS (Science,Technology, and Engineering Preview Summer Camp for Girls), a week-long residentialprogram sponsored by the Society for Manufacturing Engineers, Ford Motor Company, andother corporate sponsors. The STEPS Program at the University of Detroit Mercy is based onthe design, construction, and programming of an autonomous vehicle that uses light to navigateand avoid obstacles. The idea came from the earlier success with mobile robots in the DAPCEPcourse. In the summer of 2003, three groups of about 40 girls each spent a week living oncampus and engaging in experiential learning about the engineering and science fields thatpertain to the mobile robot they

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

the GEAR-UP program were from area middleschools including Sulphur Springs, Greenville, and Commerce, Texas, an area of roughly 250square miles. Transportation, snacks, and the mid-day lunch were provided to the students whoattended class for three consecutive weeks (Monday through Thursday) between 9:00 AM and12:00 noon. Students participated in an engineering project to design, build, test, market, andcompete in a paper airplane competition. The program resulted in 36 classroom contact hoursbetween the faculty and the students in the program. Three full-time engineering, technology, and educational administration faculty membersfrom TAMUC were involved in daily events that included project management, cost engineering,design

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

Session 2439 Using Concepts from Statics and Mechanics of Materials to Teach Engineering Economy David Elizandro, Jessica Matson Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThe spectrum of topical knowledge ranges from an awareness of a lack of knowledge toapplication of the knowledge without thought about the implied knowledge. The acquisition ofknowledge can be facilitated when previous knowledge or experience can be applied to thelearning process.In Engineering Economy, the toolbox calculations are based on algebraic expressions for therelationship

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Karim; Ardie Walser

author’sknowledge, this is the first time that a joint program has been formed between acommunity college and the School of Engineering. The program was designed to meet theguidelines of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) andprovide HCC students with the same curriculum of the first two years of the existingBachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (B.E.E.E) program required at CCNY.Students entering the program are admitted to both HCC and CCNY and for thosestudents that successfully complete the Associate of Science (A.S.) degree in ElectricalEngineering Science at HCC they are granted admission to the SOE of CCNY. Thedual/joint program increases the opportunity for Hispanics, African Americans,nontraditional students

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Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

Session 332 Innovative Modern Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping Course: A Rewarding CAD/CAE/CAM Experience for Undergraduates Il Yong Kim, Olivier de Weck, William Nadir, Peter Young and David Wallace Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139AbstractThis paper presents a new undergraduate design course in the Department of Aeronautics andAstronautics at MIT. This course combines design theory, lectures and hands-on activities to teach thedesign stages from

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

cannot be assembled. The advantage of the Monte Carlo simulationis that different tolerance variation distributions can be applied to each dimension. The result isa more representative assembly variation than either of the other two types of analyses [3, 4].The Monte Carlo simulation for tolerance stack analysis has been applied in industry for manyyears [5, 6].This project was introduced to students in MIT3600 course, Process Engineering, in the Divisionof Engineering Technology, in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University. It is anelective and three credit hours course for students’ majors in Mechanical EngineeringTechnology or Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering Technology. The course has been offeredin every semester and usually

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe project evaluation was carried out under the auspices of UMR’s Laboratory for InformationTechnology Evaluation (LITE). Several assessment and evaluation studies have been carried outfrom the beginning of the project, representing diverse methodologies and measurement tools,based on an assessment framework described below.3. LITE Assessment ModelThe Laboratory for Information Technology Research (LITE) at the University of Missouri –Rolla has developed a comprehensive framework for the assessment of learning technologyprojects. This assessment model has evolved over the course of a number of projects, involvingthe evaluation of software tools for engineering and science education [4, 6, 7]. A

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

Page 9.418.2goal of the service-learning project was to provide the students with an opportunity to enhanceProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir soft skills including program management, teamwork, creative problem solving, computerand communication skills. Additionally, it was hoped that this project would provide the studentswith the opportunity to draw upon knowledge gained from prior courses. The final educationalgoal of this project was to expose the students to ideas of appropriate technology, environmentalresponsibility, ethics and cultural diversity and sensitivity. In an

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Grant Norton; Charles Pezeshki

Session 1566 Preparing Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Students for the Global Marketplace—New Demands and Requirements Charles Pezeshki, Russell T. Frame, and Brian Humann School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920AbstractWith the maturity of such technologies as the Internet, advanced design and analysissoftware, and database management software, more and more companies are shifting to aProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM) software base in which engineering activities arenow located in cyberspace, as

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

able to achieve their personal and their employers’ desired goals andobjectives. These expected characteristics of the graduates are captured in the list of expectedoutcomes in the ABET Guidelines for Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs1.The first level of an Engineering Design Graphics course, as normally taught in many two yearand four year colleges and universities, leads a student through the steps in the development ofan industrial product. These steps range from idea generation to the final product specifications.Along side, and equally important, the students learn the standard methods of interpreting andcreating engineering drawings. Usually, the students work in teams and either pick projects oftheir own choice or one

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury

Effect of Personal Contact in Improving the Outcome of Minority Engineering Students Dr. Showkat J. Chowdhury, Dr. Ruben Rojas-Oviedo Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University P.O. Box 1163, Huntsville, AL 35762 Voice: (256)-372-8401, Email: schowdhury@aamu.eduAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has set up somecriteria, which the graduates of all accredited engineering programs must satisfy. Inaddition to the ABET requirement, the Mechanical Engineering (ME) program atAlabama A&M University has been designed to meet some additional requirements bythe American Society of Mechanical

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Olds

-weekprogram that meets state and national education standards and introduces students to the societalbenefits engineering brings. In this paper, we will discuss: 1) our development model, 2) gainsto university student developers, and 3) the effectiveness of this module for middle schoolstudents.Development ModelIn conventional science and technology education, many K12 students do not have theopportunity to learn about engineering until they attend college and are faced with choosing amajor. Similarly, many university students do not engage in activities to increase theirunderstanding of teaching and learning at any point during their student careers. In an attempt toreverse these trends, university engineering students at Northwestern University

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

Division of Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Session 1526 Development of a Slow-Speed Engine for Enhanced Understanding of Thermodynamic Concepts Tim Cooley Purdue University Today’s engineering and technology students are often challenged to understand thefundamentals of thermodynamics and the devices that use these principles to power our society.A significant part of the problem lies in the fact that operational systems don’t easily lendthemselves to integration into the majority of traditional classroom environments. Bydeveloping a small, slow-speed internal

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhonda Lee-Desautels

for six years in theEnvironmental Technology Department. She has held her current position since July 2000. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Page 9.112.12

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Arvid Andersen

acquired knowledge to develop a deeperunderstanding of technical subjects and integrate them through international teamwork in anintegrated engineering context. All participants have completed at least four academicsemesters at university or college in engineering, business or technology. The coursestructure is short intensive and project supportive subjects in 16% of time and team-basedproject work in 84% of time. During the first two weeks of the semester short intensive andproject supportive courses are taught1. All projects stand in the real world and are providedby industry. They are located in the technical engineering areas with supportive wide-rangeactivities including marketing and business elements2. Further, the paper

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ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reginald Tomkins; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Joseph Kisutcza; Deran Hanesian; Howard Kimmel

Session 2113 Integrating Chemical Engineering as a Vehicle to Enhance High School Science Instruction Deran Hanesian, Levelle Burr-Alexander, Howard Kimmel, Joseph Kisutcza, Reginald P. T. Tomkins The Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering The Center for Pre-College Programs New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey 07102AbstractThe National Science Education Standards (NSES) support the teaching of engineering andtechnology principles and design within the traditional

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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Mowry

several engineering and physics courses. In thispaper the fundamental importance of these two theorems is discussed. A method that has beenused to incorporate fundamental concepts into existing courses is reviewed. And finally, thefoundation for a new course based on this approach, titled “Introduction to the Physics ofEngineering,” is discussed.IntroductionStudents typically begin taking core undergraduate science and technology classes during theirjunior and senior years. By this time, the students have usually taken the prerequisitemathematics and physics. A typical mathematics curriculum for physics and engineering studentsusually includes calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, multivariable calculus, andoccasionally complex

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Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

Session 3213 Use of Online Tools to Improve the Teaching of Graduate Courses in Chemical Engineering Dana E. Knox Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractModern conveniences abound in the world today. This is sometimes not evident in graduateclassrooms. While innovative teaching techniques are often discussed in regard to undergraduatecourses, they seem to be less frequently seen in graduate courses. This is

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

, teamwork and otherprofessional skills, thereby gaining some sense of the excitement of the engineering profession.The Engineering Faculty at the University of Toronto has developed such an introductory coursefor its first year students that draws resources from across its various disciplines. It uses existingstrengths in design, preventive engineering and social impact of technology, human factors, andlanguage across the curriculum. The course development team started by defining the studentneeds that were unmet by the previous first year program and then constructed a list of goals forthe new course in terms of expected student accomplishments. This list was reformulated into aset of learning objectives, which were then clustered to form a

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

accreditedengineering and/or engineering technology programs. SLCC’s EngineeringDepartment offers associate degrees in Chemical, Civil, Computer-Engineering,Electrical, Manufacturing, Materials Science, Metallurgical, and MechanicalEngineering. The majority of the SLCC transfer students move from SLCC to the U ofU, College of Engineering. The U of U, College of Engineering includes sevendepartments (Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science andEngineering, Mechanical Engineering, and School of Computing) and threeprograms (Computing Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and NuclearEngineering), over 2,200 undergraduate students and over 700 graduate students.The

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dona Johnson; Harriet Hartman; Beena Sukumaran

the Developing World on Improving Female Enrolment in Engineering,” ASEE regional conference, Manhattan, NY. 2. Etzkowitz, Henry, Carol Kemelgor and Brian Uzzi. 2000. Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. Colorado: Westview Press. 3. Mapsofindia.com web page, http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/india-political-map.htm. 4. Ramachandran, V.K. (1996), “On Kerala’s development achievement,” Published in Indian Development, Selected regional perspectives, Edited by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, Clarendon Press, Oxford. 5. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (1989), Indian Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Clarendon Press, Oxford. 6. Indian Census

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

content of new course materials, or the results of changes, e.g., howincorporating new teaching strategies affected student learning. Some of these reportshave come from the work of faculty in the NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition (FC),currently consisting of six institutions: Arizona State University (ASU), Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology (RHIT), Texas A&M University (TAMU), the University of Page 9.298.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAlabama (UA), the University of Massachusetts at

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Matzen

Alter natives in the Implementation of Inter net-Enabled Labor ator y Exper iments in Under gr aduate Civil Engineer ing Cour ses Abhinav Gupta, Mohammed A. Gabr , and Ver non C. Matzen Assistant Pr ofessor of Civil Engineer ing, Nor th Car olina State Univer sity/ Pr ofessor of Civil Engineer ing, Nor th Car olina State Univer sity/ Pr ofessor of Civil Engineer ing and Dir ector , Center for Nuclear Power Plant Str uctur es, Equipment and Piping, Nor th Car olina State Univer sityAbstr actRecent developments in information technology have generated considerable interest in the fieldof internet-enabled remote observation and control of laboratory experiments. This