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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

the KCI • Introduced instructors • Presented an overview of the course including schedule and work expectationsFrameworks (30 minutes) Chris Emery • Introduced teachers to the Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Frameworks • Presented a brief overview of the Engineering Design Process and encouraged the teachers to use this model for understanding the engineering concepts they would learn over the next weekDiversity Case Studies (45 minutes) Omnia El-Hakim, Professor of Civil Engineering andAssistant Dean for Diversity in the College of Engineering, Colorado State University • Presented theoretical case of issues surrounding diversity that may occur in the science

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Cook; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

Performance: Cross-Validating Assessment Instruments.” Proceedings of the AnnualConference of the American Society for Engineering Education, June.6. Gentili, K.L., J. Lyons, E. Davishahl, D. Davis, S. Beyerlein. (2005). “Measuring Added-Value Using a TeamDesign Skills Growth Survey.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, June.Biographical InformationKENNETH GENTILIKenneth Gentili has been an instructor at Tacoma Community College for 35 years as an instructor in engineeringand physics. He is currently on leave at the National Science Foundation serving as a Program Director in theDivision of Undergraduate Education. He has developed curriculum and assessment tools in engineering design,introductory physical science, and

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

at the Colorado School of Mines. Their teams participated in the Spring2004 EPICS Challenge – a Versatile Weather Station. As an award for their outstanding work on the project, theywere selected to submit this paper to the ASEE.ROBERT KNECHTRobert Knecht’s 23 years of experience in the engineering industry focuses on technical and management support forminerals, energy and waste projects. He currently directs an engineering design program based on a curriculum thatfocuses on projects from industry. His projects require students to implement a design methodology in teams to solveopen-ended problems and to communicate these solutions both in written and verbal forms

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

needed to answer two questions: What are other engineering schools doing to increasetheir enrollment? And what do we need to change in our recruiting process? The search forthese answers prompted my university to fund travel to evaluate other universities’ processes,look for common themes, and develop an action plan for our department. This paper will lookat the methodology of my research, the results and conclusions.Methodology As I considered how to best answer these questions, I decided that qualitative researchmethods were most applicable to this process. Lincoln and Guba (1985) summarize well the keyqualitative process concepts of: natural setting, human instrument, tacit knowledge, qualitativemethods, iterative research, and case

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Trine Kvidal; April Kedrowicz

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEducators generally adopt one of four approaches to improving the communicationcompetence of engineering undergraduates: (1) a required communication course, (2) acommunication lab, designed to provide assistance to students on a voluntary basis, (3)integrated communication and engineering courses, or (4) an integrated communicationand engineering degree program.In the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, a series ofengineering courses have been revised to include significant communication components,such that students will have received instruction in and practiced

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

create greatdifficulty for EET educators in identifying the future directions of the program of study.Today, these boundaries are dissolving rapidly and therefore confusion is rampant in theability of educators to layout sustainable EET curriculum directions that confidentlyaddress the future workforce needs of industry and society. The focus of this paper is toillustrate the whole process of road mapping to create new program focus areas in thefield of electronics and closely related fields that yield employment to our graduates intothe new emerging technological disciplines.Introduction:To build a successful technology enterprise, it is vital to have a knowledge basedworkforce with skills in science and engineering (S&E). In addition

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

WEB MODULES: NEW TOYS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO LEARN WITH Jason FitzSimmons, Barbara Hug University of Illinois at Urbana - ChampaignAbstract How far do we integrate technology, if at all, into our teaching? Instructors in engineeringclassrooms have traditionally used the chalkboard as the main medium to communicateengineering concepts to their students. The current movement within academia is to move moreof the traditionally taught classes to an online learning environment. These two pedagogies canbe thought of as the bookends of our current spectrum in education. Both techniques areappealing in their different application aspects, but they also have their own unique set

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Qian

. Vericut is a powerful CNC verification software, which detects errors andinefficient motions in CNC programs [2]. Vericut can also perform realistic 3D simulation Page 10.1219.1of entire CNC machines, just like they behave in the shop. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThese cutting edge technologies are being integrated into a senior ManufacturingEngineering Technology (MNET) curriculum at the South Dakota State University (SDSU).Projects shown below provide a curricular module for students

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

curriculum. This study,known as the Engineering Writing Initiative (EWI) seeks answers to the following questions: • How do the writing skills of engineering students develop during the course of their studies? • What are these students’ attitudes, practices and skills with regard to writing, and how do those attitudes, practices and skills develop over time? • Does writing in engineering courses help students become more involved with those courses and understand and apply the ideas of those courses? • Do improved writing skills help students become stronger engineers? • How can we incorporate we learn about students’ attitudes, practices and skills in order to improve our instructional

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Brandon W. Olson

on performance, attitude, and group behaviors in a technical team environment”, Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA: 1994.Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 114 Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., Smith, K. A., “Cooperative learning returns to college”, Change, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1998.5 Jutras, P. F., “Developing student’s capacity for learning and thinking through integrated curriculum and team learning experiences”, Annual International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education, Portland, OR: 1994.6

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

Understanding Student and Faculty Attitudes With Respect to Service Learning: Lessons from the Humanitarian Engineering Program E. Heidi Bauer, Barbara Moskal, Joan Gosink, Juan Lucena, David Muñoz Colorado School of Mines, Golden, ColoradoAbstractNow entering its second year, the Humanitarian Engineering Program, which is sponsored by theHewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines is creating curriculum that will supportengineering students in developing an understanding of their responsibility for solvinghumanitarian problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, baseline data hasbeen collected on both the faculty and student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

) which addresses this needthrough the integration of both wireless communication system test methods and devicecharacterization techniques into its curriculum. In its first year, this program, enabled by a NSFCCLI A&I award, developed infrastructure and adapted experiments from the University ofSouth Florida into a senior-level laboratory course1. Now in its second year, new experimentshave been developed and have been integrated into a junior-level introductory communicationsystems course and two senior/graduate-level courses in digital and wireless communicationsystems. Herein, we discuss the new experiments, enabling infrastructure, and longitudinalassessment data.Laboratory Enhancements Our motivation for integrating laboratory

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ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

electronics.1. Introduction The merits of involving engineering undergraduates in research have been widelydiscussed in engineering journals. It has been suggested that such an initiative may help thestudent become more passionate about the subject, create appreciation for research processand practice, improve problem-solving skills or even serve as motivation for furthereducation in graduate school1-3. Furthermore, it allows advanced students an opportunity tobe exposed to challenging and realistic engineering problems they may encounter in postgraduation work. In some cases, the students participate directly in a funded research thatholds significant benefit to all participants – students, faculty, and the university4. Thegrowing recognition

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

in teaching an IC Engineclass to undergraduate students is the lack of computational tools that enhance and improve thelearning process of students. With the widespread availability of multi-media software andhardware tools, development and integration of web-based tools to the undergraduate curriculumbecomes essential. This paper discusses the development of a web-based IC Engine Simulator(WICES) to be used in an undergraduate IC Engine class. The simulator is written in Javalanguage for easy use and portability. The simulator can be used to predict performance of ICengines using gasoline, diesel, methane, and hydrogen as fuels. Physical models for heat release,friction, heat transfer, and pollutant emissions were included in the simulator

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

Water Level Forecasting along the Texas Coast: Interdisciplinary Research with Undergraduates. G. Beate Zimmer, Philippe E. Tissot, Jeremy S. Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley. Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412.Abstract:While pure mathematics makes it sometimes difficult to involve undergraduates who have notyet completed the higher level math courses in research projects, research in applied mathematicsis generally more accessible to these students. We present an example of an integrated researchenvironment including faculty, research professionals and students which has facilitated theproductive

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

High Performance Computing for High School Students: A Dam Design Competition Kanthasamy K. Muraleetharan, Caroline A. Cochran University of Oklahoma, Norman, OklahomaAbstractHigh performance computing is an integral part of modern engineering design and research.Advanced computing techniques such as parallel computing are increasingly being used to solvedifficult engineering problems. Many high school students are, however, unaware of theseadvanced computing techniques and their usage to solve real world problems. This paperdiscusses a pilot design competition conducted at the Westmoore high school in Oklahoma toexpose high school students to

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

: The chair of the department shared her thoughts on the current direction of the field of technical communication. The chair presented a diagram illustrating the scope of activity in the field, and invited participants to comment on how the diagram was consistent with (or different from) their prior understanding.7. a) Preliminary exam: Participants met with the PhD advisor and discussed varied questions and issues related to the first PhD program milestone, the preliminary exam. b) Creating curriculum vitas: Participants reviewed guidelines for helping graduate students generate curriculum vitas, and discussed strategies and challenges for getting their own curriculum vita started.8. Authorship: The facilitator and an

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mincer; David McDaniel; Laurence Caretto

Thermodynamics without Tables – Isn’t it Time?” Proceedings of the 2001 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2001.6 C. C. Ngo and F. C. Lai, “Web-Based Thermodynamics Tables Wizard,” Proceedings of the 2002 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002.7 Kyaw Aung, “Integration of Computational Tools in Engineering Thermodynamics Curriculum,” Proceedings ofthe 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002.8 Susan T. Hudson , “Laptop Computer Integration in a Lower Level Mechanical Engineering Course,” Proceedingsof the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002.9 Craig W. Somerton

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

practices an applied approach to learning. Thisentails hands-on activities supported by a solid practitioner knowledge base. In addition, thecurriculum presents a strong business orientation to the practice of all technological disciplines.The undergraduate course structure uses a traditional lecture/lab method of instruction withlaboratory activities providing students the opportunity to learn the technical aspects while thelecture supports the concepts and business context. One learning objective persistent throughoutthe undergraduate curriculum is to develop problem-solving skills – to develop our students’skill to solve open-ended, high-risk problems that may have multiple potential solutions

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite; David N. Pocock; David Dutton

learning environment: Operating lab-volt electro-mechanical system using web-based tools from national instruments” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, p 5599-5608.12. Goolsby, L.K. “Converting a traditional lecture/lab programming course to an online course “ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2003, p 5371-5392.BiographiesYOLANDA GURAN-POSTLETHWAITE is a Professor Emeritus of Electronics at Oregon Institute ofTechnology. She is the program director of the Electronics Engineering Technology program for OITcampus in Portland, Oregon. Professional interests focus on analog integrated circuit design andengineering education improvement techniques. She is registered as a professional engineer in the state ofOregon.DAVID N. POCOCK is an

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted an NSF-sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the past fiveyears, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State project utilizes thetalents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers, mentors and role modelsfor the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developing skills of students in the areas ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics through the use of Advanced TransportationTechnologies. A new project component was devised and implemented--the interaction of K-12students with college freshman via a website project. The college freshmen were asked to createa website describing a component of "Clean Energy", which was to include an assessment tool toprovide

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

general education requirements leading to anine semester, 149 unit dual B.S./B.A. degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering.Introduction Page 10.1428.1Senior ISyE students are required to take a one semester senior capstone design course. As withmany capstone courses, the capstone experience is meant to be an integrative experience in “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”which students apply their Industrial Engineering knowledge and skills acquired over theprevious four years. The senior

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

be given to the engineering students and they should be able to create anautomaton, either a push-down stack for a context free grammar, a Turing machine for acontext sensitive grammar, or a finite state automaton for a right linear grammar. Thesewould be good programming assignments for undergraduates.ConclusionLanguage theory is usually taught in compiler theory, operating systems, and othercourses, that are in an engineering student’s curriculum. Using these familiar concepts isa good way to introduce bioinformatics without spending a great deal of time onreviewing genomic concepts at the onset of a bioinformatics course.This paper included a brief review of language theory, including alphabets and grammars.It also included ways to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

competition concerns.Our “course within a course” style also includes guest specialists working with the students ontopics such as safety, ethics, standards, resume and interviewing techniques, and evenprofessional behavior. A “trade show” with a prototype and poster competition completes thecourse’s professional experiences. Employer response to the efforts has been very positive andencouraging.I. IntroductionThroughout the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (EE) program at MSOE, design isstrongly integrated into many courses. These projects are generally short-term, and involveindividual or two-student teams. The projects lead to the major capstone design experience,Senior Design, which is a three-quarter course sequence: EE-407/8/9

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Jiusto; David DiBiasio

taxonomy.The outcome elements include a range of abilities such as: basic communication skills,developing learning plans, dealing with information including evaluating integrated information,critical thinking, and analysis of one’s ability to reflect on their own understanding and thinking.As educators our interests involve what we do with our students for four years and how thatprepares them professionally, intellectually and emotionally for post-graduation life. Because ofits many dimensions it is important to understand LLL, or students’ preparedness for LLL, andits connection to the curriculum. Few studies have really probed this connection. AlvernoCollege pioneered work in this area related to liberal arts education. However, theirmethodologies

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

incorporates cooperative or clustered learning and experimentation by students; 2. Create a structured critique process based on performance assessment for CG, developing a rubric for the critique which takes into account program objectives and which documents student learning; and, 3. Eventual integration of the critique-based learning outcome assessment into the program assessment for eventual accreditation. The CGT program at PUC is currently in year one of the three year process described above. PUC’s initial example of this process was to create an integrated set of rubrics for a mid-semester and a final project in each class (total of six critiques and rubrics) for the following courses: CGT 111, CGT

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell; Juliet Hurtig

design a proprietary force monitoring and analyticalmeasuring system which will be used in conjunction with machining and assembly equipment.The final system consisted of an industrial PC with LCD display, data acquisition card, and acustom user interface which allows the user to control the various applications of the system, andultimately determine the integrity of the parts being tested. This statistical software is not fixedfor specific applications, but rather allows for further customization as needed. The prototype iscapable of monitoring industrial processes by creating pressure curves and depth measurementsvia the data obtained from the inputs. All data collected is stored on a self-maintaining archivalhard drive. The computer scientist

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Strauss; Patrick Terenzini

faculty and student focus groups, a large pilot test, and afield administration involving 4,558 seniors at 39 randomly selected colleges of engineering.The resulting nine factor-scales align closely with the EC2000 criteria and retain 72% of theoriginal item variance. All but two scales have internal consistency reliabilities above .83. Theinstrument appears to be a conceptually faithful, psychometrically sound, and practical tool forassessing student learning on Criterion 3.*************************************************************************** In 1996, the ABET Board of Directors adopted a transformative set of criteria forprogram accreditation that shifted the reaccreditation focus away from an emphasis on meetingcurricular

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach; Heather Cooper; Bill Hutzel

proportional, integral and derivative components. At the lowest level of instructional design, performance outcomes determine the contentof each experiment. The four performance outcomes listed below are specific to the closed loopcontrol experiment used in MET 382. Preface each statement with the phrase “After completingthis module students will be able to:” 1. Recognize common sensors and actuators used in commercial HVAC systems. 2. Evaluate closed loop control algorithms used for regulating temperature, pressure, or flow in an HVAC system. 3. Compute the output signal from a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. 4. Identify how software features like scheduling, trending, or runtime monitoring are used to

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

Lengths of Algebra with Polynomials Sides of a Tract LandECE Battery Depletion Through Parasitic Equation of Lines LossesECE Understanding Moore's Law and How Coordinate Geometry to Graph and Analyze Integrated Circuit ProductionECE Mixing Digital Music Signals Transformation of functionsCE Sizing Pipes for a Sewer Line Based Graphs of Functions on the Required Flow VolumeIMIE Minimizing the cost of production in Composition of Functions manufacturing of an oil storage tank.ECE Design of a Direct Broadcast Satellite Quadratic Functions Dish AntennaECE Synthesizing Sound Effects for Toys Exponential, Log and Trig