Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

10.677.1 and available. Even if they are not experts in everything, they can appreciate the work of Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005. American Society for Engineering Education others, and they can collaborate with others to achieve integrated solutions. Such an approach would enable graduates to apply their learning to the needs of real world problems and real people. Cross disciplinary education enlarges students’ awareness of issues and methods beyond their own disciplinary inquiry, enabling them to explore the relationships among these issues and encouraging students to view their studies from a

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

logically addressed in the basic level criteria, because of their direct association with ABET Criteria 3(a) through 3(k). BOK Outcome 12 is logically addressed in the advanced level criteria, because it requires advanced, specialized knowledge. BOK Outcomes 13 through 15, however, might reasonably be addressed at either the basic or advanced level. These professional practice topics— project management, construction management, asset management, business, public policy and administration, and leadership—could logically be integrated into the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum or offered as part of a professional practice- oriented master’s program. From an accreditation perspective, however, it is

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert McHenry

Plenary Address1. As the panel leadoff paper of this session itintroduces Constructivism as the learning theory and process that is most efficient in thedevelopment of professional competence. And that effectively guides the philosophicalframeworks or curriculum approaches that prepares engineering and engineering technologystudents at all levels for the execution of integrative functions that are particular to therequirements of industrial practice and systems operations and management. Constructivistlearning approach can be crucial in the enablement of sitting professionals making the jump tothe leading edge of the practice-focused engineering that requires massive constructedintellectual fusion. This paper raises fundamental questions that

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thaddeus Fowler; Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Anant Kukreti

activities.Fellows completed an Instructional Planning course prior to teaching in the schools. This gavethem instruction and practice in lesson planning. They were then paired with teachers todevelop ideas for the classes they would be working with. Depending on the needs of theparticular class, they would develop lessons that would enrich or sometimes replace instructionthe teacher was using. Fellows would teach the lesson in entirety or work with the teacher inpresenting the material. Fellows and teachers have implemented over 20 different activities inclasses covering physics, math, biology, chemistry and environmental science. These activitiesinvolve authentic, inquiry based learning and are posted at the project website,http://www.eng.uc.edu/STEP

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erin Cejka; Chris Rogers

Inservice Teachers and the Engineering Design Process Erin Cejka, Chris Rogers Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Educational OutreachDriven by its prestigious academic institutions, high-tech companies, and commitment tosuperior education, Massachusetts became the first state in the country to adopttechnology/engineering standards as part of the state curriculum frameworks in 2001. Thissignificant policy change has produced an increased need for professional development andteacher education efforts in engineering and technology. The overall lack of content knowledgeand experience in engineering and technology among teachers, especially at the elementary level,will

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Devon

brainstorming session, for example, where someonehas a new idea and says “I will send you the CAD drawing next week to show you what I mean.”So, rapid graphical communication, which conveys only essential information, is the key tographics for conceptual design. There are many techniques that are used for this, but we thinkonly one, traditional sketching, is being taught, and the reason why it is being taught is usuallythe idea of working in the absence of a computer rather than the nature and needs of conceptualdesign. we are very conscious of the main problem of parsing: excluding essential information.Informal Design GraphicsWe are not yet sure what the informal graphics curriculum for conceptual design should look likeand this paper is only an

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Westbrook

counterintuitive but it isreal to those who experienced it.Each of the success limiting attributes is discussed below. • The extent to which unit goals are an integral part of the goals of the larger organization. Highly successful units that are not important to the larger organization are an example of this attribute. If an Engineering Management unit in a college of engineering is very Page 10.1318.1 successful due to strong leadership and talented faculty, it may considered important to the college and not be recognized or rewarded. The unit may be treated as a “cash cow” “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Elements” course intheir third year of study. For the last several years, students at the University of Texas at Austintake a redesigned course that combines hands-on projects within a traditional classroom formatof homeworks, tests, and lectures. Integrating projects into the curriculum is part of a larger,multi-faceted departmental effort called PROCEED (PROject CEntered EDucation)1, whichactively promotes projects across the mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum.PROCEED encourages instruction that integrates course projects in order to advance active,socially constructed learning that draws upon a student’s knowledge of theory and principles.That is, students in PROCEED-based courses are going beyond note taking, homework andtesting

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

Simulation and Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 1995 SCS Western Simulation Multiconference on Simulation in Engineering Education, Vol. 27, Number 1, pp. 57-61.2. Patrick J. Starr, “An Integrated Introduction to Simulation Using Deterministic Models, Queuing Results and Jackson Networks,” Proceedings of the 1992 SCS Western Simulation Multiconference on Simulation in Engineering Education, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 235-239.3. Kelton, W. D., “Teaching the Classics of Simulation to Beginners – Panel Contribution,” Presentation for Simulation Education Track, 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, New Orleans.4. Nance, R. E. and R. G. Sargent, “Perspectives on the Evolution of Simulation,” Operations Research, Jan.-Feb. 2002

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Miceli; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball

andstrengthened their technical knowledge of current products and processes in subjects that mayhave otherwise remained uncultivated. In turn, this newly gained knowledge and experience willprove to be valuable in the development of engineering technology curriculum and in futureengagement projects. The project has helped to build stronger ties with industry, bettercommunity relations, and stronger relationships with government agencies. Both educationalinstitutions look forward to future engagement projects so that they may continue to serve thelocal community, students, and industry. Partnerships among government agencies, regionalindustry, and regional educational institutions offer an excellent opportunity for advancingprofessional development

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust; David Myszka

of motivation and reward that stem from designcompetitions. Further, the recent popularity of reality-television provides the evidence ofthe entertainment value from a task-oriented competition.Like other institutions, the Engineering Technology programs at the University of Daytonhave also introduced design competitions throughout the curriculum. Because thebusiness environment is dynamic, we as educators are continuously seeking opportunitiesto improve our processes. Therefore, in an effort to increase student exposure to realisticbusiness situations, we have extended these competitions and integrated a portion of theminto our industry-sponsored senior project course. When using competitive teams, theclient presents an open-ended project

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

Session XXXX A Student Centered Approach to Improving Course Quality Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Madara M. Ogot and Gül E. Okudan School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe aim of this study was to develop an approach based on the QFD method to use appropriatepedagogies found in the literature, that will lead to an increase in student satisfaction with theireducation experience in a redesigned course. The key elements of the approach are to obtain andcategorize in the students’ own words

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

the quality of the projects being completed by students. This paperdescribes the changes and briefly presents the progress that has been made since 2004Spring Semester.IntroductionAn engineering capstone design experience has been defined as “the crowningachievement in a student’s academic curriculum, and integrates the principles, concepts,and techniques explored in earlier engineering courses” [1]. Today, most engineeringand engineering technology curricula include a senior capstone course [2-8]. Two majorsources that led to this status are the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) and industry [9]. While the process for conducting capstone projectsvaries between programs and disciplines, such projects normally take two

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

future courseworkwithout significant integration into the entire four-year curriculum, as in the McMaster ProblemSolving Program15. This is difficult to accomplish at most institutions. Many introductoryproblem solving courses provide the students with a 4-6 step method, but do not emphasizeexplanation and hard problems to develop the cognitive skills required, and facilitate transfer.We believe an emphasis on hard problems and explanation is critical for transfer of skills.For successful transfer to occur, the students must understand well how to solve problems, andnot back off when confronted with a difficult problem2. To achieve transfer, several factors areimportant: i) Self-Efficacy, or students’ confidence in their ability to solve

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

Technical Marketing, High Tech Product Strategyand Technology Commercialization Strategies.Module 1: Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship - this module is a comprehensive overviewof Systems Engineering Principles as applied to Engineering Entrepreneurship and the studentswill start integrating the various components to develop their business plan. The risks, rewardsand challenges of entrepreneurship, and the system-engineering-based strategies and tactics toincrease the chances of success are systematically covered in this module. Each session of thismodule consists of (1) a lecture and case study based on system engineering principles thatparallel an entrepreneurship concept and step and (2) experiential guest lecture/seminar byindustry expert or

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul DeNu; Connie Sketch

Online Technology Career Preparation Course Paul A. De Nu and Connie Sketch Cincinnati State Technical and Community CollegeCincinnati State Technical and Community College is a comprehensive community college withan enrollment of approximately 8500 students. Students attending Cincinnati State are providedan education that features a combination of theory and practice, delivered via appropriateclassroom, laboratory, and cooperative education experiences. Cooperative education isconsidered an integral part of the learning experience at the college. Cincinnati State’scommitment to co-op is demonstrated in part by the large number of student placements eachyear. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

realizing a design, problem solving, projectmanagement, and teaming issues. Their successes were limited, hampered not by a lack of technicalknowledge, but because they lacked skills in design and in teaming.Each D4P course builds on the previous design course with the threading of topical design contentfrom course to course. The courses are team-taught by faculty and local engineering practitionerswho are experienced in engineering design. The sophomore design course, EGR 286, is the coursewhere students fully integrate their current level of engineering education with a semester-long,team-based design activity. EGR 286 was and is currently the cornerstone of the Engineeringundergraduate design curriculum. The use of a semester-long project was

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

focus on requirement 3(g) [1]. Other approaches to engineering education haveincluded interdisciplinary course development [2]. The use of capstone courses haslikewise become a popular medium for integrating business principles into theengineering curriculum [3]. What is missing, however, is a systematic approach tocovering the basics of business education for aerospace engineering students.Process As a part of the Boeing Corporation Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program(Welliver), faculty members are encouraged to submit proposals for an eight-weeksummer program. The proposals are generally technical in nature with the facultymember desiring to learn more about specific components or systems within the Boeing

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

iscentered on the actual creation of goods and commodities. The availability of differentprototyping systems at each of the three partner schools, all connected via the internet, are givingstudents first hand experience in how technologies can be utilized to speed product developmentand production while providing a contextual learning environment which will facilitate theacquisition of relevant skills.There are three major institutions involved in this project: Saddleback College, San Diego CityCollege, and California State University, Los Angeles. Each school plays an integral part of theproject. Through the leadership of the Principal Investigator Ken Patton, the Dean of BusinessScience, Vocational Education and Economic Development at Saddleback

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

tobecome familiar with the overall vehicle and become an expert in their particularsubsystem. They develop skills in researching available technology, evaluating designand fabrication options, and then building or contracting out flight hardware. This paperdiscusses the current status of the FalconLAUNCH program, the challenges of an almostcomplete turnover of personnel every year, and the dynamics of managing the design,construction, and flying of a supersonic rocket every year by a completely student team.Since this program is conducted in the same manner as a typical Air Force science andengineering program, students from other academic departments also participate in theprogram. The program has been augmented by the participation of electrical

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat

. Thus, the course may emphasize the theory of and modeling with HardwareDescription Languages, but the course also introduces the students to additional aspectsof computer architecture and digital design.I. Overview: The design methodology for digital integrated circuits has changed dramaticallyfrom their early inception. Not only has technology advanced to the point where asignificant “system” can be placed on a single chip, but the design methodology to designsuch a chip has also advanced to allow such an implementation. In 1980 HardwareDescription Languages (HDLs) existed but were proprietary. In the 1980s, thedevelopment of a “standardized” HDL began. The language requirements for thelanguage were established in 1981. The first

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

reflect sound engineering design theories and processes. They are complimented by instructional guidelines for teachers and activities for fourth, fifth, and sixth grades students that align with the science curriculum and state academic performance standards. Delivered: A large variety of projects have been completed and implemented into the interactive Rainforest Room: An Air Cannon that shoots tennis balls and helps apply concepts such as force, gravity, air pressure, friction, and trajectories; A Laser Harp that uses lasers in place of strings to play notes; The Memory Basketball Game that demonstrates how memory affects learning via shooting baskets off an electronic-based backboard with and without

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

civilengineering curriculum at the University of Florida that introduces students to a generalpicture of how cities and counties function within the United States.As a senior level, 3-credit-hour elective course, it introduces civil engineering seniors tomanagement and operational aspects of city and county government. Management topicsinclude public works organization, managing people, communication management,contract management, legal issues, budgeting, as well as finance, zoning, planning andpurchasing. The public works operations topics in the course cover transportation,equipment management, fleet management, traffic management in urban areas, wastemanagement, emergency management, code administration, water resource management,buildings management

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

© 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographiesDR. JAVIER A. KYPUROS is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UTPA. He received his B.S.E fromPrinceton University, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and 2001,respectively. He is actively involved in researching methods to implement and assess virtual or Web-accessibleexperiments and exercises used as supplementary curriculum for System Dynamics and Controls courses.DR. THOMAS J. CONNOLLY is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the UTSA. He received his B.E.in Mechanical Engineering the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988. He earned an M.S.E. inAerospace Engineering in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Solt; Ashbjorn Osland; Anuradha Basu

awardingbachelor’s degrees to Asian Americans” (personal communication, Nancy Stake, September 14, 2004). 2Silicon Valley: SJSU is the primary source of human resources for Silicon Valley enterprises andour students show strong interest in entrepreneurship, an integral characteristic of the area. TheCity of San Jose lists the following facts ( http://www.sjeconomy.com) which describe how thearea depends on innovation and establishes a climate conducive to entrepreneurship: • “One-third of all venture capital invested in the United States is invested in companies in the San Jose area--$5 billion in 2003 alone.” • “San Jose leads the nation in patent generation, and is home to more patent

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the community of other programs andtheir status. At this conference, much advice was received on how to start a CubeSat program.As a result, the NevadaSat team immediately began planning a ground-based satellitecommunications station, which will be tested using both BalloonSats and CanSats.In addition to the various project activities, the development of an engineering course dealingspecifically with student satellites was viewed as a critical task. To this end, a curriculum for anew interdisciplinary Student Satellite course to support NevadaSat activities has beendeveloped. The course will be offered for the first time in the spring of 2005. During the pastyear, the instructors developed the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

to a realistic embedded system designexperience, while giving them an opportunity to bring their accumulated knowledge to bear ona specific design of their choosing. The course philosophy centers on the idea that the studentshould work through a challenging project, but that student success with their project is a vitalpart of the overall experience. This course serves as a capstone design experience for students, sothey have generally completed most of the curriculum by the time that they enroll in this course.The prerequisites effectively limit the course to students who are in the computer engineeringprogram (as opposed to the electrical engineering program).The design projects are accomplished by self-selected teams of three students. The

Conference Session

The Citizen Engineer

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; barbara waugh; Charles Pezeshki; Lueny Morell; Tom Roberts

institutions (UPRM, Penn State University and the University ofWashington in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and industry) to developan undergraduate product realization/manufacturing engineering option the partnerscalled the Learning Factory, an outcomes-based undergraduate curriculum integratinglaboratory facilities and industry partnership. The Learning Factory was successfullyinstitutionalized at the three partner institutions by 1997. Under the leadership of AlSoyster and John Lamancusa from Penn State, the program had a significant impact atUPRM, on its faculty, students and partners. I was fortunate enough to lead thecurriculum development activity at UPRM and the system-wide outcomes assessmentstrategy.One of the most

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

will not be an extraneous use ofclassroom time. On the classroom level, the software has to fulfill the needs of the teacher notonly with curriculum but as a means of tracking student progress and getting meaningfulfeedback akin to the more traditional use of hand grading. Teachers need to feel comfortablewith the software as a teaching or reinforcement tool and feel confident in allowing their studentsto use valuable class time on such software. The students have very different needs from thesoftware, such as reliability and ease of use. Each of these levels represent a set of stakeholders,or those with a controlling interest in the software; as such, each will be discussed in furtherdetail later in this paper along with the approach used to

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Graf; Ann Christy

spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Overseveral years, the first author has assigned essays inviting students to reflect on their attitudestoward the General Education Curriculum (GEC) at the Ohio Sate University (OSU). Fewerthan half expressed an appreciation for the value of the GEC component of their education,especially the arts and humanities. Likewise, OSU’s College of Engineering annual alumnisurvey includes questions about the importance of and ability/preparation gained at OSU in avariety of areas including math, chemistry, physics, and humanities. Every year, humanities isranked the lowest in both categories: importance and ability/preparation.ObjectivesThe objectives of the poetry contests were