Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

electroniccomponents that play a part of your life? You will be amazed to know how much we rely onelectronics to get through our daily routine and be even more surprised that the majority of thosecomponents have a MCU embedded inside. MCUs have been heavily used in the automotive,industrial, and commercial business space. To give you an idea, I have listed several applicationsthat use MCUs in the automotive, industrial, and commercial industry in Table 1. Automotive Industrial Commercial Safety equipment Thermostat Sleep number bed Window lift Fire detection Alarm clock Chassis

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen; Robert Strangeway

their resume with an appropriate cover letter seeking employment. Finally, theprocess of professional engineering registration is presented.” Page 10.1025.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEven though the above course description suggests a rather long list, it is possible tosummarize the course objectives as follows: 1. Be able to write a resume and cover letter. 2. Have a perspective of various areas of the electrical engineering field. 3. Have a perspective of various functions

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

written or oral,and often in the workplace they take both forms. A researcher may visit NSF to discuss herproposal with the program manager prior to sending a formal proposal; a project engineer maysend his client a written progress report before following up with a phone call about the projectstatus and immediate concerns. Engaging students in a complete document cycle thus helps themunderstand more accurately the design process as it occurs in practice, where communication iscentral at every level. At the same time, by capturing the entire process, the document cycle,properly designed, provides a much fuller mapping of the ABET outcomes, as shown in Table 1: Table 1: ABET a-k Criteria Mapped to Design Documents Document

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Homkes; Henry Kraebber; Donna Evanecky

formal process and “disciplined techniques to identify and minimize the impact of designconcerns.”1 It is intended to be used early in the development process, not after problems havebecome evident. The FMEA procedure utilizes cross-functional teams with open discussion andcommunications. Effective preventative and corrective actions based on the FMEA findings areessential, and can be very valuable. FMEA studies without proper action on the findings andrecommendations will produce little value.FMEA, however, has generally not been applied to software. As we continue to move toubiquitous computing, however, software will be more completely integrated into products thatconsumers use every day. This increase in the use of embedded systems is also

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

future success. It responds to the tradition of action research, a deficit model thatviews organizations as having problems in need of solution, and proposes the development of anaction plan to correct the problems that are identified (22). Appreciative Inquiry rejects thepositivist view that social knowledge is derived from objective observation, in favor of the socialconstructionist paradigm that sees reality as constructed through our social interactions (23). Page 10.1139.7 The Appreciate Inquiry process reflects a set of principles drawn from current theory andresearch in the human and social sciences (24). 1. The

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; Jerald Varner

senior levels. The four courses are in the systems area with an emphasison communications systems. This paper summarizes our experience with the ISSL in terms ofimplementation and utilization and its effect on student learning.Laboratory Motivation and ImplementationThe ISSL at UNL is integrated into four separate three credit hour courses that are taught at thejunior and senior levels in the undergraduate curriculum. The laboratory experience is part of thethree credit hours and does not replace any existing laboratory courses. The four courses are: 1. ELEC 304 Signals and Systems: The primary objective of this junior level course is to teach students time domain and transform analysis of continuous and discrete linear systems

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Schwartz

come into the course at thesophomore, junior and senior level, with a wide range of abilities. (The only actual prerequisitefor the course is our CS2 course.) The questionnaire can be given orally and students simplynote the item number and give their responses. (See Figure 1.)Most items on the survey are very self-explanatory. The topics listed under item 8 are purposelyvery general. They also include such “gimmes” as WWW and word processing, so that everystudent can put a high number for at least a few topics. This is especially helpful for thesophomores, for whom this may be their first upper-level course. (I added item 11 when Ibecame Chair of the department, since I’m often contacted by companies in our region lookingfor part-time workers

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

10.1419.1PBL in various courses. Submitted to 2005 ASEE Annual Conference PBL can be defined as a learning process where the desired course outcomes areachieved through the use of a relatively few (1-5), but well designed, open ended, andreal life problems. Solutions to the problems are developed by the students, usuallyworking together in teams of 3 to 5 students. Compared to homework problems andexamples used in class, PBL problems are more complex, involve more of the students’reasoning and evaluation skills, and are more open ended. The students first must definewhat needs to be done, find a solution to the problem scenario, and finally report theirfindings to the instructor for critical comment and grading. All

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

cost factors. Approval from all threeinstructors was required before the teams could proceed with prototyping and then production.Typical products included security devices, desktop water fountains, electronic games, lamps,clocks and lighted picture frames. The desktop water fountain, Figure 1 at left, and lamp, Figure 2 at right, are student-designed products manufactured and sold in previous years. The exterior of the fountain is constructed of plastic pots. The lamp features stars that glow after the light

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

shown in figure 1. Multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, andwritten discussion questions can be constructed on this page as the instructor prepares for class.When the instructor activates a given question, the students then see the screen shown in figure 2for the particular question activated. As the students submit their responses, the instructor canthen monitor the responses in real time by clicking on “view response,” which compactly revealsto the instructor an up-to-the-minute listing of all student responses (figure 3). Since this featureallows feedback to be gathered as the students work, it is particularly attractive in openended/short answer questions. The instructor can address misconceptions in the way the questionis framed before the

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

materialbalances for fuel cycle systems studies. While V:BUDS does not replace more high-fidelitymodels, its simple interface, short computation time, and graphical output format make it auseful tool for classroom demonstration or student experimentation with a wide range of reactorphenomena. V:BUDS is a C-based code bundled with custom cross section libraries and drivenby a graphical MATLABTM front end. It operates at the unit cell level and couples a detailedmultigroup treatment of energy dependence with a simplified collision probability model ofspatial dependence. This approach gives strong fidelity to benchmarked standards for LWRs andresponds correctly to perturbations in relevant parameters such as geometry and composition.1

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

tostudents in classes that they teach. With some training, advanced undergraduate teachingassistants or instructors can potentially serve as a cost-effective way to provide additionalinstructional support. As part of an NSF funded teaching and learning center, the EngineeringTeaching Portfolio Program (ETPP) has designed a four session teaching portfolio program thathelps train undergraduate students to be more effective as instructors. During these 1 hoursessions, undergraduate instructors share and discuss teaching strategies with a forum of theirpeers while documenting their instructional activities through creating teaching portfolios. Thispaper describes the teaching portfolio program curriculum and discusses the curriculum design,the results

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Eljamal; Matthew Mayhew; Eric Dey; Stella Pang

Outcomes Assessment in International Engineering Education: Creating a System to Measure Intercultural Development Matthew Mayhew1,3, Melissa B. Eljamal2, Eric Dey1, and S. W. Pang2 1 School of Education 2 College of Engineering The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 3 Current Address: University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC 28403AbstractThe University of Michigan College of Engineering has developed a

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

the research is a pilot studywith a small sample size (n = 30). A more detailed statistical analysis will be conducted in thefuture. Group 3 can be used as a baseline for comparison across groups, because they did not haveany contact or interaction with the web module. The scores from this group were used as acomparison group in analyzing the impact the web module had on student learning. However,when analyzing the pre- and post-tests scores for the groups, the authors noticed an interestingresult. The mean score on the pre-test for Group 3 was approximately five points higher than theother two groups but only one point higher on the post-test. All three groups learned from theweb module, but Group 1 and 2 learned more and increased their

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

approved interdisciplinaryprogram to develop the new degree program. As a subcontract of NSF grant number DUE-9950085, the university received funds to develop a four-year articulated curriculum in computernetworking. This funding provided the justification to acquire laboratory space, faculty, andequipment that would not have been available otherwise.Program DevelopmentTo articulate the community college curriculum, a faculty committee compared published courseoutcomes to develop equivalent courses offered by the university. Table 1 shows the original listof courses identified as transferable into the four-year degree. Of the 15 courses identified, ninehad academic equivalents already in place leaving six courses to be created. The content

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

completed. Poor design process with excellent results do not indicate successful project completion. To aid in the process of design, a design log will be kept to help detail the steps of your group’s design.Course Laboratories:To provide the necessary skills needed to complete this project, the following laboratories wereperformed in a manner that allowed students to re-use many of the equipment set-ups previouslyseen, and hence focus on the concepts presented.Example of Vertical Laboratory Structure:Lab 1: Introduction to Hydrostatics Purpose: Design and construct an experimental setup to make a series of measurements to determine the conversion factor between two different units of pressure: psi and cm H2O. Also, the

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

critical final link for a thorough understanding and appreciationof scientific and engineering theories. Every possible effort should be made not to deprive thefuture engineers or educators from this vital component of their education [1]. It is thereforenecessary to continue development of effective and efficient pedagogical methods andtechniques for the engineering laboratory experience [2].Laboratory apparatus is generally expensive due to low production levels, specialized featuresand significantly higher Design Costs built into the final cost. For example, the range of cost fora typical educational fatigue testing apparatus is from $28,500 to $32,500. These units arebasically adaptations of the R. R. Moore Industrial Fatigue testing devices

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

classrooms ofteachers that have participated in a Pre-college Engineering/Architecture AcademyProgram (PEAP) professional development workshop. The benefits are three-fold: 1) Theteacher has someone with engineering knowledge and TTU Engineering faculty contacts,in the classroom; 2) The K-12 students have role models they can relate to; and 3) TheUniversity students get mentoring experience, community service experience, and thesatisfaction of making a positive contribution as role models to students who otherwiserarely have an opportunity to interact with the college community. This paper will becoauthored by members of the team that participated in this program, and will look at thedevelopment of the K-12 Engineering Resources from the

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

chemicalengineer, it is necessary to adopt a new paradigm for chemical engineering education. Forexample, many programs are now requiring biology classes in addition to the traditionalchemistry and physics classes. An increasing number of departments are changing their namesto include some reference to biology (e.g., chemical and biochemical engineering, chemical andbiomolecular engineering). Product design is either replacing part of or complementing processdesign in the capstone experience. There is a strong movement to alter the fundamental chemicalengineering curriculum common to virtually every program to include the colloid-scale, nano-scale, molecular-scale, and atomic-scale technologies that are at the forefront of chemicalengineering research.1

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

to correlate and interpret. Through the technique of dimensional analysis,the problem can be reduced from one involving seven parameters to one involving threedimensionless groups, one group of which contains the dependent parameter. Byreducing the number of variables in the problem from seven to three, the necessaryexperimental work is greatly reduced, and correlation of the experimental data is greatlyfacilitated.In the mechanical engineering curriculum, dimensional analysis is typically taught in thefluid mechanics and heat transfer lecture courses, where the Buckingham-Pi theorem isused to determine the appropriate dimensionless groups for a given problem. [1, 2, 3].The procedure used for determining the dimensionless groups is generally

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

these perspectives parallels anational study conducted at Syracuse University in 1995, called the Lilly Study, with facultymembers.4) To reduce costs and simplify data analysis, the survey was conducted online usingFlashlightOnline, an excellent survey application maintained by Washington State University.5The entire survey instrument is listed below. Of particular interest are questions 1 through 8 –the questions on graduate student perspectives. Note that each question is scored on a 7-pointcontinuum ranging from “teaching most important” to “research most important”. For dataprocessing purposes each point is assigned a numerical value as shown at the bottom of thesurvey. “Teaching most important” is equated to –3, “of equal importance” is

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; Amy Moll

’ preparedness for mathematics instruction (as determined by themathematics faculty).Figure 1 shows a chart with this population broken down by percentages and their firstcollege mathematics class. It is worth emphasizing that this chart shows a wide variety ofbackgrounds, not of students entering the program, but of students who have successfullycompleted the program. 2nd Degree AP Calculus Pre-Calc Intermediate Alg. Developmental Alg. 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Percentage of Graduating Class Figure 1: Make up of a 37-member graduating class in Mechanical Engineering as determined

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

outweighed by an obligation to expose (other) unethical activity?To what extent is this action similar to a student viewing someone else’s unprotected computercode and then submitting it as his/her own work? Or suppose the student just viewed it, but didnot submit it; would that still be unethical? This case can serve as interesting, current, case studyin privacy rights in a computer network.1. IntroductionThe ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2001 [1], in its Social and Professional issues area,lists seven “core” units that should be a part of any curriculum. Unit SP7 is “Privacy and civilliberties.” Students need to understand the importance of placing appropriate access restrictionson sensitive information, and of not breaching the confidentiality

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyejeong Kim; Sheng-Jen Hsieh

Web-Based Problem-Solving Environment for Line Balancing Automated Manufacturing Systems Sheng-Jen Hsieh1, Hyejeong Kim2 1 Dept. of Engineering Technology and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering 2 Dept. of Educational Psychology Texas A&M University, College Station, TXAbstractThis paper describes a web-based problem-solving environment designed to teach line balancingof automated manufacturing systems. This environment was designed based on analytic andsimulation models of an assembly line. Simulation models were first designed and used

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Cunningham; Cathy P. Lachapelle; Anna Lindgren-Streicher

Assessing Elementary School Students’ Conceptions of Engineering and Technology Christine M. Cunningham, Cathy Lachapelle, Anna Lindgren-Streicher Museum of Science, BostonAs our society becomes increasingly dependent on engineering and technology, it is moreimportant than ever that our citizens are technologically literate [1]. There are many possibleways to develop technological literacy—one of the most wide-reaching is through K-12 schools.The Museum of Science, Boston is working to create curricular materials and professionaldevelopment for K-12 students and teachers. However, previous research in science has evincedthat responsible curriculum

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

well as their awarenessof nanotechnology.First-Year Themed-Seminar StructureIn their initial semester at Purdue, first-year engineering students complete ENGR 100 –Freshman Engineering Lectures or 100H – Honors Freshman Engineering Lectures. Thetraditional paradigm for this one-credit class has a faculty member from each engineering schoolat Purdue deliver a fifty-minute seminar regarding their specific program and opportunities intheir field. The objectives of the course are to enable students to: (1) chose a field of engineeringto study and (2) understand the academic and career opportunities within the different fields ofengineering.The traditional course structure informs students about the engineering majors offered in theCollege of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

convincingly present an argument.The Circuit X lab experience occurs in the first few weeks of the first 3rd year lab.During the first week of the project each student team is given one of fourteen unknowncircuits to analyze. The circuit is contained in a small black box (Figure 1.) that is rivetedclosed. The boxes and circuits were fabricated by the ECE department machine shop andelectronic technicians. Each box contains a unique first or second order passive circuitthat must be analyzed by the students to determine the circuit topology and componentvalues. The graduate teaching assistants have access to the master record of which boxcontain which circuit. The boxes are numbered for easy identification. Electrical accessto the interior circuit is

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Trabert; Lawrence Carlson

of engineers from relevant industries to provideadvice and help guide their programs. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, for example, ourIndustrial Advisory Committee (IAC) meets semiannually. At a recent IAC meeting, theimportance of including GD&T in the ME curriculum was reiterated.Companies typically send design engineers to intense courses to learn GD&T, often as long as 40hours, which is approximately as many contact hours as a typical three credit-hour universitysemester course. Such a course is typically supported by a comprehensive reference text such asFoster.1 On-line GD&T courses are also available.2A logical place to introduce GD&T is in a first-year design graphics course. However, with thesignificant

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Jeannie Brown Leonard; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

participating in the focus groups readily identified and named roles related to thetasks or technical skills they were contributing to the project (see Table 1). The specific rolesmentioned were linked directly to the project assignment. The variety of functional roles acrosscourses suggests that not all functional areas were needed for every project. For example, theweb site developer for the ENES 100 team will contribute other skills to a subsequent team if aweb site is not a part of the next team experience.Although not a functional role, the position of leader was discussed in all focus groups. In thefirst-year teams, the presence of a team leader was emphasized as an essential role. Consistentwith the teams representing the second and third year

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

design. Decliningenrollments forced universities to reduce program length. In order to accomplish this,many programs reduced application oriented courses and laboratories.1 This shift hasresulted in an increasing gap between what engineers are expected to know and how theyare to perform in industry, and what universities are teaching.2 Engineers in industryspend much time working on complex system integration, yet few engineering graduatesunderstand this process.3 Reference 2 adds “the state of education in this country,especially in science, engineering and technology, has become a matter of increasingconcern to many of us in American industry.”In order to meet the professional needs of industry, engineering educators must place arenewed