Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen McClain, Baylor University; Christopher Smitherman, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

thermodynamic property functions needed to teach anundergraduate applied thermodynamics course. While the function development was directed atthe applied thermodynamics course, which is commonly taught early in the undergraduatemechanical engineering curriculum, the functions are excellent tools for upper-level electivessuch as HVAC, internal combustion engines, thermal systems design, and turbomachinery.IntroductionLearning with a combination of a textbook and a software package is a contemporaryengineering-thermodynamics pedagogy. Many software tools are available for evaluatingthermodynamic properties of engineering fluids. Many of these software tools are proprietarypackages sold by textbook publishers, such as “Interactive Thermodynamics: IT” [1

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Durward Sobek, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

background of multi-disciplinary engineering educationat MSU and also mentions the multi-disciplinary study we have conducted over the past18 months.1 We offer our student learning outcomes for multi-disciplinary skills, whichwere developed collaboratively, and also recount our failed attempt at establishing abaseline for these outcomes with a fictional scenario and series of questions to whichstudents wrote responses. The main focus of the paper is the development of a multi-disciplinary rubric, a tool that other programs may be able to adapt for their own use.The paper includes a summary of some of the literature about developing rubrics and adescription of the process we used to design and test the rubric. Also included are resultsfrom a pilot

Conference Session

The Critical First Year in Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pilar Pazos, Northwestern University; Denise Drane, Northwestern University; Gregory Light, Northwestern University; Annette Munkeby, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Northwestern University, the majority student population is composedof white and Asian American students whilst the minority population (approximately 10% of thetotal student population) is composed of African American, Hispanic and Native Americanstudents. Table 1 shows number of workshop participants by gender and ethnicity.Table 1. Workshop participation by gender and minority status. * Count Workshop 62 Male Non-workshop 187 Workshop 32 Female Non-workshop 47 Workshop 74 Majority Non-workshop 213

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introduction to Environmental Engineering course aimed at Recruiting and Retaining studentsAbstractIn Fall 2006, the 1-credit Introduction to Environmental Engineering (EVEN) course wassignificantly revised. The goals were two-fold: (1) increase the ability of the course to recruitand retain students in the EVEN major; (2) place a greater emphasis on sustainability and globalengineering in the course. This is the third significant revision since the course first started in2000. Over the first 4 years, the course included 7 homework assignments largely geared atbasic information to help freshman students be successful and guest lectures by faculty. Thesecond course

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Peterson, Arizona State University; Jane Humble, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

following steps were used: 1. The larger engineering management master’s degree programs were selected as the sample. Since the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies complies and publishes this data annually, the most recent version Page 12.647.2 available at the time this research was started was used – Fall 2004 data published in 2005. The enrollment numbers were 5693 in engineering management programs with 4264 students at the master’s level3. The largest 33% of the programs (self-reporting) were selected as the sample. These 28 programs are listed in Table 1. These 28

Conference Session

EMD Recruitment and Certification

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

also common to the very essence ofTQM” (Bailey1, 1968, p. 131). They are reflective in the concept of Deming’s fifth point ofconstant improvement. The point reflects that to move forward with the aim of satisfyingcustomer needs, an organization must constantly seek feedback and subsequently refine anddevelop as well as incorporate new procedures (Walton10, 1986). This systematic TQMframework is depicted in Figure 1. Without this change process, no improvements will result.Everything will, quite simply, be done the same old way with the same old results. Performance Measurements Continuous Product Improvement

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

technology, enterprise systems, and the application of technical analyticsto achieve high performance. Most importantly, they repeatedly stressed the need to providedegree participants with a thorough background in enterprise innovation. This is defined as acomprehensive view of the processes, tools, and disciplines essential to the creation of athoroughgoing culture of innovation.The problems with standard MBA curricula are legion and have been well documented in thescholarly literature.1 In general, the standard MBA curriculum focuses on discrete businessfunctional units, normally in isolation from the enterprise systems. Thus, students aresequentially taught finance, accounting, management, marketing, and so on. Little time is spentattempting to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

EnvironmentalEngineering B.S. students and M.S. students. The U.S. solid waste course is a graduate coursethat can be used as a technical elective for undergraduate or graduate students. Most of theUNESCO course students were from Africa (62%), Asia (24%), South America, and EasternEurope. The majority of the students in the U.S. courses are from the U.S. An overview of thestudent demographics in the 2006 UNESCO course vs. the US courses from 1997 to 2007 arepresented in Table 1. Student interest, background, and motivation varied widely. In general,the UNESCO students were very engaged and actively participated in class discussions withspecific questions about solving problems they knew about in their home country. The studentsin the U.S. courses generally seem

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine; Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine; John LaRue, University of California-Irvine

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

described in this paper: (1)course-embedded assessment which makes use of assessment results already being collected aspart of regular coursework, and (2) a scoring rubric for assessing program outcomes related tothe required senior design project. Assessment results from 2004-05 indicated that a relativelysmall percentage of students achieve some of the program outcomes. After making adjustmentsto the curriculum, assessment results from 2005-06 indicated that the vast majority of studentsachieved all the program outcomes.BackgroundThe Computer Engineering program resides in the department of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science (EECS) in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. As of Fall Quarter 2005

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kim, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

graduates. The ABET requires all engineering programs todemonstrate their students’ achievement and to develop an assessment program that ensurescontinuous improvement and successful accomplishment of the outcomes.Although there are other desired outcomes1 that are added by some schools, accomplishing theselearning outcomes are generally accepted by educators as a benchmark for successfulassessment. Consequently, most engineering programs adopt an assessment program with atypical feedback loop process2, as shown in Figure 1. The skills and ability associated with these Page 12.881.2learning outcomes are essential for the success of engineering

Conference Session

Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Ben Zoghi, Texas A&M University; Rainer Fink, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, thestudents are well-prepared for their capstone design project.1. IntroductionTypically, a graduating engineering technology student will find a significant gap betweenwhat they learned in the classroom and what they face at work. The educational goal is toreduce the gap by giving students opportunities to work on practical projects in differentcourses and by creating an environment in the classroom/lab that is as close to the real worldas possible. A course project, designed to familiarize the students with real world productdevelopment processes, is discussed in this paper. The goals for the course project are threefold: to familiarize students with product development process; to familiarize students withtools commonly used in product development

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kim, Youngstown State University; Hazel Marie, Youngstown State University; Suresh Patil, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the pump capacity.The development of computational projects and research positively affect undergraduate andgraduate education in this small mechanical engineering program. The use of commercial CFDsoftware enhances students’ learning and understanding of complex flow phenomena. Theexperience obtained through this analysis will be incorporated by expanding the computer use inundergraduate design courses and graduate courses.1. IntroductionDevelopment of a productive research program through a strategic focus on technologydevelopment in emerging areas such as controls and computing has been one of the primarygoals of the mechanical engineering program at this University. In order to accomplish this goaland expedite the development, the program

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

International

, organizing and completing theseprojects from the perspective of faculty advisors (each of the co-authors has served as facultyadvisor in one or more international projects). Three projects are described with faculty advisorsproviding insights on project team development and organization, travel coordination issues,project delivery, and personal reflections of the benefits and detriments observed during and afterproject participation. Finally, the paper provides some concluding remarks on how internationalprojects can be more successful as a result of improved advising.Project 1: Kwabeng, Ghana - Schistosomiasis Control in a Community Impacted bySurface Gold-MiningBrief Project Description:Between 30-40% of the children attending elementary school in

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

International

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kausalai Wijekumar, The Pennsylvania State University Beaver; Brian Cameron, The Pennsylvania State University

tasks.Finally, research has been conducted on the types of conferencing systems and their effects onlearning outcomes8, how discussions can be used in classrooms10, fostering socialcollaboration14, and knowledge creation13.None of the current research studies have focused on relating the assigned tasks and thediscussion forum outcomes. For example, can a discussion forum task framed as shown in figure1 differ in the posting quality compared to a discussion task framed as shown in figure 2? Theexample shown in Figure 1 sets the context for the problem followed by questions about Page 12.363.2advantages and disadvantages of the “networked” society. They

Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; Jesse Cooper, Tufts University; Amanda Stockwell, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

future research, either in extendingtheir first-year effort or exploring new research avenues. This assessment indicates that manystudents did not continue to pursue research efforts beyond this initial effort, mostly because ofmore traditional academic restraints; e.g., course work and other extracurricular activities.However, those students who did continue to pursue research have found their academic livesenriched by the experiences.IntroductionTufts University has a number of unique advising programs for entering first-year students. Oneof the options is “Window on Research and Scholarship” program which links a small group ofstudents with faculty advisor who will expose the students to his/her research.1 During the Fall2004 semester, the

Conference Session

Best Practices for Campus Representatives

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McIntyre, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Campus Representatives

used by Campus Reps forrecruiting new faculty is the Dean’s Program, which basically offers two (2) years of freemembership in ASEE. Thus, recruiting new faculty by means of the Dean’s Program wouldseem to be a very simple and painless process. However, this is usually not the case. CampusReps must exert some effort, sometimes great effort, in the recruiting process. As practiced bythe author, the basic procedures for attaining one-hundred percent of new faculty recruits areoutlined below. 1. Prior to the start of the Fall Semester, contact the Dean’s Office for a list of new engineering (or related field) faculty, including contact information. 2. During the first week or two of the semester, contact all new faculty via email

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Mangement

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmad Sarfaraz, California State University-Northridge; Tarek Shraibati, California State University-Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

engineering degrees forpositions in middle and upper management. Thus, a total of 18 credit hours are required of allstudents as illustrated in Table 1. The student is then required to select 12 credit hours from a listof elective courses as shown in Table 2. The descriptions of these courses are relevant tounderstanding of case study outlines that will be presented later. Finally, each graduate studentmust complete a comprehensive examination given by a committee consisting of the mainadvisor and two other faculty members. It is note worthy that core courses, as shown in Table 1,are supported by two financial analysis skills (Engineering Economic analysis and Engineering

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity:Path Forward for Action

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Sherra Kerns, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Paige Smith, University of Maryland; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Barbara Waugh, Hewlett-Packard Company

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie Galarza, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Mariela Figueroa, UPRMUniversity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Cristina Lugo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Ricardo Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Francisco Rivera, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

needed. Homogeneity within the groups wasestablished as a necessary feature of focus groups and it was obtained based on tencharacteristics to categorize showed in Table 1. TABLE 1: FOCUS GROUPS CONTROL VARIABLES Male Gender Female Internship Industry Experience Coop Public Type of School Private English School Language Focus Spanish

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Michael Gregg, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

freshman engineering courses in theGeneral Engineering program at Virginia Tech are being transformed to follow a similar 1-lecture, 1-workshop per week format. The team-based approach helped to successfullyimplement the new delivery format of the course. Lo and Lohani shared responsibilities fordeveloping lecture and workshop material as well as managing personnel including graduate andundergraduate teaching assistants and graders. In spring 2005, there were 4 graduate studentswho taught the workshop sections. In fall 2005 and 2006 semesters, the authors managed 14graduate students who were involved in teaching the workshops. The new format has been byand large a successful experience. Some other advantages are noted below.Multiple faculty could

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shayna Stanton, Student; Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

willhave on society in the future.What is Being DoneMany companies and organizations are working to alleviate the growing problem oftechnological illiteracy. There are resources for those seeking education. The NationalAcademy of Engineering and National Research Council have established a committee ontechnological literacy. This committee produced a report entitled Technically Speaking: Why AllAmericans Need to Know More about Technology4. Through their research they developed threedimensions of technological literacy: Knowledge, Capabilities, and Ways of Thinking andActing. Competency in these dimensions moves from limited to extensive, low to high, andpoorly developed to highly developed respectively (see figure 1

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John Hackworth, Old Dominion University; Richard Jones, Old Dominion University; June Ritchie, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

simplycannot be made identical.1 The on-campus student has an apparent advantage over the distanceeducation student in that he/she is part of a physical community with ready access to theuniversity laboratory facilities, the instructor, and fellow students. Similarly, the instructor haseasy access to the circuitry designed by the student, thereby apparently making the correction ofany mistake, evaluation of student performance, and grading relatively easy. Providing a similarenvironment to a distance education student is more of a challenge. It is the purpose of thispaper to concentrate on the evolution of methods implemented at Old Dominion University thathelp to "level the playing field" for both the distance education student and the instructor in

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; Greg Cloutier, University of Hartford; Matthew Brown, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

methods for determining surface roughness have also beendeveloped. All of these methods operate under the principle that a reflection of a surface carriesinformation about that surface1. An example is shown in the figure. Figure 1 Reflected laserThere are many variations of using light to perform non-contact surface roughness measurement.One apparatus capable of accomplishing this has been developed by the EngineeringApplications Center at the University of Hartford. This design uses a solid state red laser toprovide a monochromatic collimated light source which is aimed perpendicularly to the surfacein question. The backscatter or diffuse reflection2 from the surface is reflected coaxially backtowards the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley; Sara Beckman, University of California at Berkeley; Leslie Speer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, develop auser interface using LabView that acquires the temperature signals from each of the partitions.Depending on the room temperature, if the temperature difference between the two partitionsexceeds a given value, a red LED and a fan simultaneously turn on. The fan blows cold air fromoutside into the heated chamber causing the temperature to drop. When the temperature is belowthe set value, a green light turns on. Because the control voltage from the DAQ is only 5 V DC,relays are used to control the operation of the fan and the LEDs. Figure 1 shows a completed boxwhile figure 2 shows the schematics of the project. Figure 3 is a sample of the program (block

Conference Session

Developments in the Energy Laboratories

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ke Chen, Cleveland State University; Ana Stankovic, Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Laboratory that consisted of line-fed motor generator setshas been completely dismantled and replaced with seven modern test benches.This paper presents the construction of the newly developed laboratory along with the structureof the Power Electronics and Electric Machines program. It has been shown in literature thatnumber of power electronics and electric machines laboratories use either modular Lab-Voltequipment [1] or integrative approach [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6]. Unlike the majority of powerelectronics and electric machines laboratories that have recently been renovated, the laboratory atCleveland State University has been designed to take the advantage of both traditional as well ascontemporary approach to teaching power electronics and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

utilize when developing a new problem. 1) The Model-Construction Principle requires that the students come up with a procedure for explaining a “mathematically significant” situation and stresses discovery learning. 2) The Reality Principle puts the problem in context and offers a client who needs a realistic engineering solution to a problem. 3) The Self-Assessment Principle enables students to analyze their problem solutions and revise their approach to open ended problems. 4) The Model Documentation Principle teaches students to create a mental model of their process in solving the problem. Documentation of their model and solution