Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Federal Title IX Reviews: What They Really MeanOver the last three years, the federal government has stepped up its efforts to perform Title IXcompliance reviews in science and engineering, in response to criticisms in a 2004 reportpublished by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The mere thought of using Title IX to“do for science and engineering what it has done for athletics”1 has fomented a great deal ofcontroversy.2,3 Moreover, the lack of visibility into what actually has resulted from these reviewshas limited any development of public awareness and understanding of why these reviews canbenefit academic institutions in general and their science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) departments in particular.3,4This paper

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sophoria Westmoreland, University of Maryland; Ashley Grenier, University of Maryland; Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

ability to create hand-drawn sketches is still a relevant skill for design engineering. [1] Theidea that thoughts and cognitive processes can be captured by pencil and paper is the basicessence of sketching. Engineers and architects alike have long been used sketching as a tool fordocumenting mental processes, organizing ideas, creating plans, and presenting their ideas toothers via a comfortable medium. The authors present a sampling of literature to remind all thatsketching helps the designer work through his or her own cognitive processes in a self-documenting fashion. This paper reports on the sketching habits of capstone design students atThe University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.Student sketching

Conference Session

Using Technology to Enhance Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Chen, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

enabling technologies have evolved or new technologies haveemerged and spawned new teaching methods of interest.In this study we aim to examine a specific technology-enabled teaching method, namelyenhanced podcasting, which we define as capturing a lecture, both audio and written notes, fortime-delayed playback by students on a computer. This asynchronous learning technology hasalso been referred to as ‘screencasting’1 or ‘lecture capture’2 and a variety of enabling hardwareand software tools are available, as described in the references. This technology is not intendedto replace live, face-to-face instruction but is advocated as a viable replacement for whenstudents miss class, as opportunities for class review, or when the instructor has to miss

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shobi Sivadasan, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Figure 1: Boardman Soft Systems MethodologyBrief Overview of the SytemiTool:We will introduce the use of the SystemiTool8, a modeling tool used for a visualrepresentation of a system. Developed by John Boardman, the SystemiTool is used tosupport the creation, editing, and portrayal, in the form of a storyboard of scenes, ofsystemic diagrams referred to as systemigrams. Boardman’s tool was based on thepremise - Is there value in transforming “rich text” into a structured diagram in which theprincipal concepts are identifiable and the sentence structures recoverable? In otherwords, once the words describing the system and its relationships are translated into thesystemigram, will the reader be able to recreate the words that were used to create

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Carlos Gomez, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

or human power. The generator isdeveloped for these specific applications taking into account the power limitations of suchenergy sources but considering as a very important task to harvest this energy for long timeperiods to benefit our society as well as the environment. 1. Introduction Wind generators could be good electricity providers when moved by other means as long asthere is enough power to rotate them in the neighborhood of their rated speed and to sustain thetorque required to continuously operate them under those conditions for a long time. Humanpower could be used to propel these generators; but, the maximum power a person is able togenerate for several minutes while exercising is in

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Stephen Elliott, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

and economical, accrue to students, faculty and the industrial partners [1], [2]. Muchof this work is done pursuant to graduate students’ masters or doctoral theses/dissertations. Theperspective advanced by this paper is to detail the shaping of such work that has resulted fromWeekend Master’s Program (WMP) in the College of Technology so that it is not solely ofacademic merit, but simultaneously also of direct value to the industry where the problematicsituation arose. This M.S. in Technology degree program for off-campus professionals in an on-campus weekend plus distance education format began in the fall of 1998 [3].“The WMP program was developed in response to industry demand for graduate distanceeducation in technology that would meet

Conference Session

High-School Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Natalie Tran, California State University, Bakersfield; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

descriptive analyses of classroom observations of the instruction and classroominteractions that took place over four days of a high school pre-engineering class, Project Leadthe Way, as participants engaged in project-based learning. Our objective was to study theenacted curriculum and determine how class time was apportioned, the extent to which time wasdistributed between developing technical skills and fostering conceptual understanding inengineering and mathematics, and the degree to which mathematics concepts were implicitlyembedded within the engineering activities or made explicit for students, and therefore moresupportive of transfer of learning.Our coding of the video data support the following three main descriptive results: (1) more of

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Robert McGahern, DDR&E; Robert Stiegler, NSWC-DD

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Fig. 1. The NDEP Logo Fig. 2. NDEP Participating Navy LaboratoriesA few selected facts about each trend make clear the urgent need for the NDEP program: • Shrinkage of the DoD S&E workforce through attrition and retirement The DoD S&E workforce declined by 38 percent, from 45,000 to 28,000 between 1990 and 2000, even before the peak of the retirement wave that is currently depleting our defense laboratories of their most seasoned scientists and engineers. The DoD is facing a stark reality: its Apollo generation is ripe for retirement. Budget cutbacks and ongoing constraints in funding for basic research and other program categories have prevented hiring from keeping pace with

Conference Session

Professional Practice and AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mwangi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

senior years. The courses are sequenced inpairs where the material behavior (characteristics) and element design courses are taught to Page 14.979.4juniors. The first half of the pair comprise of: ARCE 303 Steel Design (3 units) ARCE 304 Timber Design (3 units) ARCE 305 Masonry Design (2 units) ARCE 444 Concrete Designs (3 units)These courses are taught in lecture format common to most other civil engineering programs.The difference however occurs in that, as is common in some programs to teach large number ofstudents in large lecture halls holding as many as 200 students as in Figure 1

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jordon Schultz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Larry Villasmil, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

1 shows the P6231 Bernoulli apparatus along withthe test bench. The P6100 hydraulics bench consists of: P6103 constant head inlet tank, P6104variable head outlet tank, variable speed centrifugal pump, and volumetric measurement tank.Initially, a total of eight different flow rates were run, and each consisted of five volumetric flowrate trials. This was done in an effort to eliminate any measurement errors that could occur whilereading the volume sight glass. The manometer heights were recorded for each flow rate usingthe 1/16th inch scale on the Bernoulli apparatus. Figure 2 shows a section view of the apparatuswith the numbered manometer taps. The fluid enters on the left side of the channel from the

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative-energy Concepts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

question is how to usethis opportunity to demonstrate how wellpeople can learn and integrate knowledge thatwill serve them for a lifetime.Our course is based on the idea that enabling Figure 1: High-intensity solar converter pluspublic participation is the fastest route to wind turbine. Courtesy Laura Hershberger.sustainable energy independence. For instance, Page 14.7.2a new 1GigaWatt renewable-power plant will take 10 years to go online, given the capital needs,policy issues, local permissions, environmental integration and infrastructure development. Atthe optimistic cost of $1 per installed watt7, this takes at least $1B of capital. Though

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University; Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

valid for students to learn that not all journals are available electronically, and that will betrue after they leave academia as well. Thus some familiarity with print journals and how tolocate them in a library collection is still important for life-long learners.The other question that was missed by almost half the class (16) was #1: “Where is the firstplace you would search for authoritative information related to an engineering materials topic?”Possible answers included both Google and a library database of technical articles. Some of theincorrect answers were due to the wording of the question. At the beginning of the test severalstudents asked if their answer should reflect what they really do or what the librarian mightexpect of them

Conference Session

Technical-Capacity Building & Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Akram abu-aisheh, University of Hartford; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; Nasir Ali Ahmady, Herat University, Afghanistan; Devdas Shetty, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

Page 14.50.4interdisciplinary engineering field is the study of automata from an engineering perspective andserves the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems”. Figure 1 below describes thevarious fields that make up Mechatronics2 . Figure 1 Aerial Venn diagram from RPI's website describes the various fields that make up MechatronicsWe consider it a multidisciplinary major that generates simpler, economical, reliable, andversatile systems. Such a major would serve developing countries, such Afghanistan, in severalways. • Professionally, it would prepare graduates with a background in more than one area, electrical and mechanical, that function well in both electrical and mechanical

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiecai Luo, Southern University; Fred Lacy, Southern University; Pradeep Bhattacharya, Southern University & A&M College; Perry Daniels, Texas Instruments

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Page 14.1173.2parameters. Mixed signal IC tests are very sensitive to structural details and hence tofabrication techniques. The course combines educational elements to produce a uniqueclass environment. These elements include the use of industrially sponsored design andbuild projects, a fabricated design approach and its modification, the integration ofproducts and manufacturing process design, and emphasis on engineering and peopleskills. In this paper, the innovative design and testing parameters, the course teachingprocedures, and some course materials will be discussed. 1. Introduction Currently, mixed-signal IC test and measurement has grown into a highlyspecialized field of electrical

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Davis, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

without computerized grading 1. This form of quizzing is essentially allowingthe students to practice taking the quiz until they are ready to count their score for real.The idea of low-stakes repeatable quizzing has been documented in a few disciplines includingstatistics 1, general psychology 2, and child and adolescent psychology 3. In the statistics study,the quizzing was found to reduce test anxiety, as well as improve motivation, by allowing thestudents to retake the quizzes and helping direct their studies 1. In the general psychology study,the quizzing improved final exam scores by approximately 14%, though the authorsacknowledge that there may be other aspects that have at least partially influenced theimprovement 2. In the child and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Richter, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Midwest. Next, students were asked to choose the more important teammember and explain their choice. The third question asked students to list, in order ofimportance, any potential difficulties that could arise while the team members are workingtogether. Lastly, the students listed potential strategies to resolve those difficulties. Thequestionnaire is included in the Appendix.Site and Participant Information: An interdisciplinary green engineering capstone designcourse was chosen as the research site to pilot this instrument. The green engineering capstonecourse is notably different from disciplinary capstone courses for three reasons: 1) greateremphasis was placed on design constraints involving environmental issues, 2) one of the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; James Mwangi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

on activity is simple, build four shear walls; attach the shear walls to a foundation;and hit the shear walls with a sledge hammer. With close supervision, this activity can beaccomplished in a two hour period using four groups. Each group is responsible for one of thefour shear walls.The four shear walls differ with intent to demonstrate different behaviors. The four walls andtheir intent are list below. 1. A shear wall with no sheathing. A simple bare stud wall. This wall will demonstrate the necessity of sheathing and the idea of racking. When the wall is hit with the sledgehammer, the students experience how easy the wall moves (one hit). The wall by itself is not sufficient to resist lateral loading

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

teaching graduate students how to operate in thework environment that is established. Of the “Effective Time” activities, new faculty agree thattwo are highly valued – research and publication – with an emphasis on teaching at some level.Then they ask why the rest of the activities are not listed as wasted time?“Wasted Time” is the time that needs to be minimized to optimize every minute of the day. Atransformation of 15 minutes of “Wasted Time” to “Effective Time” represents a 1% increase inefficiency using our “All Time” model. One of the largest potential time wasters is thecomputer. Since the introduction of the computer, faculty members have taken over the tasksonce left to others, such as secretaries. Faculty are now typing, retyping

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Strife, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

color for each question. The questions were on paper for each personto read but were given to the group orally as well. They were given a few minutes to write downthe responses to each question. Then, Dr. Beacham gathered the cards and had the group putsimilar answers together, based on their own interpretation. Dr. Beacham took the cards and putthe answers on a board so all could see the sorted results. Discussion followed, giving eachparticipant an opportunity to give more information.Survey and Focus Groups QuestionsThe survey questions were:1) What would you like to change in the Evansdale Library to make it a more inviting learningand research environment? What kind of collaborative learning/study space do you need in thislibrary?2) Are

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

delivering the educational outcomes promised to its students and as a mechanism toprovide feedback to the students so that they may improve as discussed in McGourty et al.1. Inthis section, a survey of papers related to the assessment of individual students participating inteam projects is presented.In Kaufman et al.2, 3, the authors present an assessment technique for evaluating individuals incooperative learning teams based on a modified version of Autorating, as defined by Brown4.For this technique, students were asked to assess their peers using a pre-defined set of linguisticterms for a variety of criteria. A numeric value is assigned to each linguistic term. Eachstudent’s contribution factor is then calculated as their rating average divided

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Foley, United States Coast Guard Academy; Michael Plumley, United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

a real feel as to what theproperty is telling us. The paper presents an analysis therefore of a simple hot water pipe to show specific issuesand areas of confusion with second law control volume selection. It concludes emphasizingthe importance of consistently listing assumptions both for the student solving, and theinstructor setting an assignment. In summary, this paper highlights and gives an example ofnovel teaching methods that have been successfully used by the authors to overcome this‘bottleneck’ in thermodynamic instruction.Introduction Foley [1] derived the property entropy from consideration of a simple orifice plate in apipe. This derivation was unique in that the entropy term derived did not arise from any heattransfer

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, fairly inexpensive, and portable such that it can be positioned on student desksthroughout a classroom. Advantages of this approach are that students can closelyexamine and fiddle with the system to see cause and effect better than with instructor leddemonstrations. The DEMo system can illustrate conduction of various materials,thermal energy generation, thermal contact resistance, heat dissipation from fins, andconvection across surfaces of varying geometry. These learning tools can also serve asvibrant hands-on experiments with high school students.Keywords: Heat Transfer, Experiment, Inexpensive equipmentIntroduction:The junior level heat transfer class is a first course in conduction in 1-D and 2-D systems(Cartesian, cylindrical and

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

communication more frequently into their technicalcourses but that they are motivated to do so primarily from motivations having to do withhelping their students model professional practice.Project Rationale: EC 2000 and Professional SkillsAdopted in 1996, ABET, Inc. Engineering Criteria 2000 promised to transform engineeringeducation in two fundamental ways. First, EC 2000 expanded the definition of engineeringcompetencies to place much greater emphasis on “professional skills, such as solvingunstructured problems, communicating effectively, and working in teams.”1 Second, the newcriteria “shifted the basis for accreditation from inputs, such as what is taught, to outputs—whatis learned.” 1 These two changes were expected to be transformative

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fleisig, McMaster University; Harry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design; Vladimir Mahalec, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, “Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?”, BusinessWeek, March 18, 2007.7 A Tan and TC McAloone, “Understanding and Developing Innovative Products and Services: The EssentialElements”, International Design Conference – Design 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 15-18, 2006.8 W Buxton, “Innovation vs. Invention”, Rotman Magazine, University of Toronto, Fall 2005, pp. 52-53.9 Ibid.10 C Owen, “Design Thinking: Notes on its Nature and Use”, Design Research Quarterly, 2(1), 2007, pp. 16-27.11 Ibid.12 N Cross, “Expertise in design: an overview”, Design Studies, 25(5), 2004, pp. 427-441.13 K Kazerounian and S Foley, “Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors andStudents’ Perceptions”, ASME Journal of Engineering Design

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Foley, United States Coast Guard Academy; Michael Plumley, United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

vaguely and randomly enthalpy is introduced inmany engineering texts, many justifying its introduction simply by saying ‘because the sumU+pV occurs so frequently …. It is convenient to give the combination a name, enthalpy”[1]Some texts allude to it is an energy property that includes ‘flow work’, and this in turn issomewhat diversely defined. Indeed the root of the problem could be traced back to theGreek origins of the word itself, ‘enthalpos’ [2], translated to ‘to put heat into’. Again asmost undergraduates will recite, enthalpy is a property and heat is not, so immediately we arerunning into problems here. Another early discussion by Planck [3] does attempt to be moreprecise by referring to Gibb’s description of a property, H called ‘the

Conference Session

Alternative-energy Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bret Bosma, California State University, Chico; Gregory Kallio, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

provided by technicalstaff in the college.The mobile photovoltaic (PV) power system consists of a typical stand-alone battery backupsetup having the necessary equipment for a remote residential setting (Figure 1). The system, asconfigured, would have application as a backup to utility supplied power where it may beunreliable. Although equipped for this use, the system provides an excellent platform forstudents to learn about PV renewable systems as well as providing sophisticated data acquisitionwhich monitors the status and performance of the system. Page 14.1022.3The power source is anRWE Schott 300 Wattphotovoltaic module with amaximum power

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

processors arelow-cost processors that are optimized to perform a specific function. Embedded processors areextensively used in wide verities of applications such as mobile phone systems, automotiveapplications, office and home equipments, aerospace applications, and defense systems.Therefore, embedded system design courses are used to teach interdisciplinary designs.The MicroBlazeTM ArchitectureThe MicroBlaze is a 32-bit RISC Harvard soft processor core that can be embedded in thereconfigurable logic of an FPGA chip [1]. The MicroBlaze processor is based on the IBMCoreConnect bus architecture. The user can instantiate as many MicroBlaze soft cores inside theFPGA fabric as required by the application [4]. Associated peripheral devices for each

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Steven Welch, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

more hands-on 1.From freshman courses to the traditional capstone programs design is often seen as byproponents as a necessary aspect of learning engineering and, as such, plays a unique andimportant role in many engineering programs. Unlike courses which focus on acquisition ofnarrow, domain-specific knowledge, design courses often emphasize application of a broadspectrum of knowledge. The importance of design, particularly capstone, courses arises bothfrom their purported impact on students and because of their disproportionate role in assessmentand accreditation in many program 2. Despite the importance of design courses their formatvaries widely and outcomes are not standardized across programs. The goal of many designcourses is to teach

Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research in ET

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

exits in the curricula. Accreditation bodies such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) place high emphasis on the technical currency of faculty and requireinstitutions to provide opportunities for faculty to keep abreast of the pace of Page 14.627.2technological advances. ABET’s criteria for accrediting engineering technologyprograms state: 1 Overall competence of the faculty will be evaluated through such factors as formal education, balance of academic experience and professional practice, industrial experience

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Lutes, Purdue University; Alka Harriger, Purdue University; Jack Purdum, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

of programming Page 14.496.3  Self-learning skills  Passion  Good communication skillsThe traits found in both lists have many similarities. In fact, it is known that introverts makegood computer programmers in the professional work force. In the article “Best Jobs forIntroverts” published by the Washington Post, Computer Software Engineer (Applications) andComputer Software Engineer (Systems Software) are listed as the number #1 and #2 jobs3.Additionally, the article “The 25 Best-Paying Jobs for Introverts” ranks Computer SoftwareEngineer as #6, Computer Systems Analysts as #18, and Computer Programmers as #254.Given the known