Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

, orlanguage arts. The projected initial numbers of students impacted could be as many as 3,000students with as many as 1,500 added to the group each year. Faculty members and students arebeing surveyed concerning the items to be placed in the brochures and on the web that will helpprovide needed connections between courses required in the lower levels and courses in themajors at the upper levels.The above foci are addressed within the proposal by providing students with a means to lookclosely at the connections between their current courses and those courses that will be requiredof their majors through quick reference materials (brochures) and more detailed materials(website content.) Engineering careers require mathematics, chemistry, physics, and

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wien Lohachit; Gary Jeffress; Alex Sadovski; cody ross; Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

include difficulty in covering large territories and the presenceof inaccessible areas due to a variety of reasons such as a soft bottom or contamination. There isalso a high probability of disturbing the test area while placing the sensors. This paper describesa NASA-funded project, which has had a great deal of student involvement and is currently inthe test phase, to develop a remote-controlled, shallow-draft vehicle designed as a supplementaltool for our studies of the South Texas Coastal waters. The system transmits environmental datawirelessly via a radio to a docking and control station in real-time.IntroductionData collection in shallow water areas normally requires setting up sensors in several places. Inaddition to being redundant and

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

involvement after graduation and togive university students a hands-on engineering and computer programming project. Arecent study shows that about one-third of the middle and high school Botball studentssurveyed felt that participating in Botball had influenced their career choice; and of thosewho were influenced, ninety-four percent decided to pursue a career in a technical orengineering field. A discussion of how colleges and universities are using Botball as anengineering outreach and recruiting tool is included.IntroductionIn 1997 a high school student who was a single mother at a continuation school, signedup for the Botball Program at her school to earn some extra credit towards graduation.She learned about robots, but more importantly, she

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lucas Howard; Jonathan Hayes; Pat Buford; Wayne Helmer

Innovative Mass Air Flow Measurement Mr. Lucas Howard, Mr. Jonathan Hayes, Mrs. Pat Buford, Dr. Wayne Helmer, Mechanical Engineering/Electrical Engineering Arkansas Tech University Russellville, ArkansasAbstractThe purpose of this project is to design and fabricate innovative air flow lab equipment usingstandard, low-cost components. The major equipment components are automotive mass air flow(MAF) sensors and an M68HC11EVB evaluation board. Students using the equipment will takevoltage readings from an LED display of the microcontroller based output of the

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Phillips; Joseph Fuehne

, Discovering Fluid Power: Hydraulics andPneumatics at Work in Your World, also is shown to the students to allow them to relate thesimple machines and principles demonstrated in the LEGOs to the larger, more complexmachines they see in their world.This project is done in conjunction with the Center for Teaching & Learning, an initiative of theCommunity Education Coalition, in Columbus, Indiana, which has recently received a grant tobring educational opportunities to at-risk children.While this idea may be simple in thought and execution, it introduces some at-risk youth totechnology and to positive role models that may help them to build constructive and satisfyinglives

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Goldowitz

, comparing the results obtained through classicaltechniques and popular software. Each group prepares a “consultants report” and presents theirfindings to a “client”, the professor. Students enjoy this innovative five week project, and reportthat it makes a relatively difficult topic understandable. This paper presents technical issues, fieldtechniques and learning outcomes. Examples of student work are included, along with adiscussion of how this activity could be replicated at other institutions.Introduction Rochester Institute of Technology enjoys a 1,300 acre campus south of Rochester NewYork . It lies within the Ontario Lowlands physiographic province, an area of 10,000 year oldglacial deposits. The state was covered by up to a mile of

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janak Dave; Jamiel Trimble; Thomas Boronkay

Session #3649 Portable Video Intubation Stylet Thomas G. Boronkay, Janak Dave, Jamiel Trimble University of CincinnatiStudents working toward the Baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati are required to complete a “Design, Build & Test” Capstone designproject. Some of these projects are geared to meet the needs of the local community.Intubation is a procedure by which an endotracheal tube is inserted into the trachea of a patientwho requires assistance in breathing. It is a blind procedure that relies on imperfect, indirectmethods

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ellen Ford; Keith Levien; Ellen Momsen; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

witha 1st grade class (http://engr.oregonstate.edu/momentum/k12/march04/index.html) as a sciencefair project. This same concept can be used in the informal education programs that will bediscussed in the paper.Background – Women and Minorities in EngineeringOver the last twenty years, women have made great progress in the biological sciences and havereached parity, or close to it, with men in medicine, veterinary medicine, and biological research.But Engineering remains a field dominated by men, and in fact, there has actually been adecrease in the percentage of women in this field over the last 15 years such that today just 8 %of professional engineers are female. Table 1 shows the percentages of women earning theirBachelor’s degrees in

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

Session # 3613 Making Memories The Penn State Bioprocessing Cluster Program 2000-2002 Alfred Carlson Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractAs part of a larger National Science Foundation grant to Penn State, I ran a special hands-on, “real life” educational program in bioprocessing for senior chemical engineers. Thestudents took all of their courses for the spring semester, senior year, from a singleinstructor and pooled them into a seamless laboratory project to produce a recombinantprotein at pilot plant scale. The students were able to learn how to design experiments,plan and execute runs, and operate a

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

venue.An example of a project completed by a recent graduate is given to support this thesis.Foundational NeedsStudents, at all levels, acquire concepts more easily by putting in a sufficient amount of time inthe art of practice. This idea may seem trivial, but many experts have said that continued practiceis a major contributor to being successful in any field. Students can be made proficient in this artif they are required to present technical ideas in professionally prepared reports.Industrial experience has proven that communication skills will be the largest contributor toenhancing a student’s technical career and advancement. Instilling this concept into studentsearly on should be a top priority. In order for students to prepare properly

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Albee; Laura Dillon; Jonathon Oleszkiewicz; George Stockman

the examsthemselves and the particular outcomes under assessment. These courses at CSE/MSU use C++for programming; however, the issues and methods discussed apply to any programminglanguage.IntroductionWorking on programming projects is perhaps the most common method for students to learn theskills necessary for programming. The use of individual programming projects in teaching isgrounded in modern pedagogical theories, such as problem-based and active learning.1, 2Programming projects may be graded to help in assessing student progress in learning andeffectiveness of instruction, and also to motivate students to carry out the projects and to providethem constructive feedback. However, using programming projects in assessment isproblematic

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

with, rather this class as a whole and our group project has forced me tothink about its appropriate applications at the K-12 level.” and “Both technology educationpapers addressed the difference between technology education and educational technology – twodifferent concepts I had not thought of before”). Our technique allowed us to capture thesubtleties of understanding and the progression of metacognition. The rubric demonstrated thatthe DET course had a strong impact on students thinking about and applying DET to teaching.IntroductionQuantitative approaches to assessment can tell you how much, how many or whether group Aoutperforms group B and provide descriptive statistics for a data set. However, quantitativeanalysis is unable to tell us

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

next 10 or 20 minutes of lecture. ‚" Be creative – students like creativity from a professor instead of boring “textbook” problems. A month long project is part of the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer course that I teach. I try to come up with a silly name for the chemical they are making. Since the Detroit Red Wings are the favorite sports teams of students attending my university, they work for the Steve Yzerman Chemical Company. (Steve Yzerman is the team captain and one of the most loved players on the team.) They have an assignment to produce Di-Red Wing Ether, Red Wing Acetate, or a drug patch to cure Avalanche-itis (the Avalanche are a big rival of the Red Wings). Students love it and

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

. Also, members of underrepresented minorities in engineering should not beoutnumbered in a team.Regarding prior work, a program for assigning teams is described in [5], but it is not as adaptableor user-friendly as the web-based application described here. And no reference was found in theliterature to an application created to meet cooperative-learning guidelines.The goals for the project are: • Reduce the amount of time needed to create a satisfactory set of teams. • Increase the likelihood that cooperative learning guidelines (or other instructor preferences for team-formation) are met. • Provide metrics to assess the extent to which the team-formation criteria are met.1.2 Solution overviewThe primary goal of this project is to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leann Yoder; Stephen Kuyath

that hasserved the pre-college engineering community for over 50 years.The engineering clubs will participate in the Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics andScience (TEAM+S) competition developed by JETS. The TEAM+S competition is anacademically challenging, open-book, open-discussion exam taken by teams of four-to-eighthigh school students. TEAM+S presents the multidisciplinary aspect of engineering work byillustrating how math and science concepts work together and are applied to solve real-worldproblems.JETS and the Diversity in Engineering Technology project promote interest in engineering andengineering technology and are dedicated to providing real world engineering and problem-solving experiences to high school students. Through

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

non-traditional educational focus is in the management of the systems and human resources thatmove these technologies from the laboratory into full commercialization for the benefit ofsociety. Specifically, the microEP graduate program strives to emulate an industrial work groupin an academic environment, an environment that is based in assessing performance throughevaluation of individual projects and knowledge rather than in meeting group objectives.The microEP program also stresses the concepts of civic responsibility through the concept ofthe “citizen technologist”. All microEP students are trained in their responsibilities to lead theircommunities after graduation to repay the large investment that society has placed into theirgraduate

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

solutions to manage them moreeffectively. These essays ask students to: (1) Identify the rewards and challenges of being afemale engineering student and determine how they help or hinder the development of a healthylife; (2) Describe persistent emotional stressors and develop new strategies for managing them;and (3) Identify risky physical behaviors and develop a plan for changing these behaviors.Students are also required to collect data sets to help them to analyze their responses to specificsituations. The Time Management Log project asks students to record how they spend their timeeach day for 7 days. Based on these data, students evaluate how effectively their daily activitiessupport their long term personal and professional goals. Using this

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

science and engineering education during the last threedecades are common. Yet, undergraduate education looks very much the same today as it didprior to reform agendas. This is not to say that change is non-existent. The published literaturedescribes new instructional techniques or assessment adopted by individual faculty, a small team,or even a multiple institution consortium. Entire courses or degree programs are frequentlydeveloped to accommodate proposed reform. However, even when backed by NSF funding,these reforms have proven difficult to institutionalize and disseminate beyond pilot projects.1At issue with reform and its dissemination is a tension between the complexity of an educational

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

engineers, Kwasitsu found thatwork roles were an important factor in information-seeking behavior and that the top three typesof information needed were product and technical documentation, specifications, and conferenceproceedings or white papers.14 Because many of these documents are proprietary, they are notalways available through corporate libraries. Often they are collected on internal project websites. It is interesting to note that manufacturing engineers rated the corporate library of lowestuse to them as an information source, while design and process engineers rated the library as Page 9.865.3moderately important or highly important as

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pichai Rusmee

week.The textbook used at Utah was Beer and Johnston, Mechanics of Materials, 2nd edition. Neweredition of the text was used at SIIT. It was Beer, Johnston, and DeWolf, Mechanics of Materials,3rd international edition. While there were certain differences in the two editions of the book, thetopics covered in the courses did not differ appreciably from edition to edition.Grading was based on exams, weekly assignments, and one term-length project. Three exams(two midterms and one final) were given to the Utah group versus three midterms and one finalfor the SIIT group. The exams were one hour long, four problems for the midterms and doublethe time and number of problems for the final exams. Average homework assignments were 3-4problems per class

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

challenges engineering educators to structure learning so that competency is builtprogressively throughout a curriculum. The engineering community well understands the needfor proficiency in all modes of communication, with written communication considered of highimportance. For example, a panel of ten representatives from biomedical companies, assembledat Northwestern University in the summer of 2001, stressed the importance of communicationskills for entry-level biomedical engineers. Representatives from Abbott Laboratories, Datex-Ohmeda, and Nova Bionics said that entry-level engineers in biomedical engineering specificallyneed to be able to detail all project subtasks in project design, find and evaluate research relevantto a project, write

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carryn Bellomo; Korinne Caruso; Rafic Bachnak

inadequateeducational preparation.The current US workforce is comprised of 77% White, 4% Asian, and 19% Minority.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Science Foundation,however, among engineering professionals, 88% are White, 6% are Asian, and only 6%are minority1. To improve minority representation in engineering and engineeringtechnology programs, institutions of higher education may use a number of approaches,such as the increase of visibility of the engineering profession, mentoring students, andacademic support2. Strategies to recruit and retain students include hands-onapproaches3, 4, field trips5, 6, summer workshops7, and software training programs8. Thispaper describes a project, Furthering the Underrepresented in Science and

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

Tables Units Reference citations Appendix: Outline of a Laboratory Report I. Project Description II. Methods and Materials Equipment Experimental procedure III. Results IV. Discussion V. Conclusions VI. ReferencesThe Appendix (Outline of a Laboratory Report) is intended as a template for student laboratoryreports. Students may use the template by opening the Style Guide (which is available to themon the UT-T engineering file server), stripping off the General Guidelines section, and

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

33% 43% 4% 18% 2% my technology classes.3. I participate equally in group projects 22% 44% 10% 22% 2% with male teammates.4. I feel comfortable asking questions in class. 31% 37% 12% 18% 2%5. I feel comfortable going to my technology 20% 46% 10% 20% 4% professors for assistance outside the classroom.6. I feel confident in my abilities in my technology courses. 18% 52% 24% 6% 0%7. I feel a technology career is an appropriate 45% 25% 22% 8% 0% choice for women.___________________________________________________________________________________________n = 51

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

increasing participation and persistence14,systemic change is necessary to implement the move toward equal representation of women andURM in STEM. Curricular reform that integrates inquiry, real-world applications, and teamwork in a format that demonstrates the relevance of coursework has shown documented successat moving participation and persistence rates for women and URM towards parity. 17, 18Admissions reform that compensates for lack of prior experience, that includes a mechanism toreach able students in underserved school systems, and that allows for a qualitative assessment ofstudent abilities is vital for assuring equal access to higher education in STEM.AcknowledgmentsThe Maui Economic Development Board, Inc. Women in Technology Project is

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Ford; Jana Goodrich; Robert Weissbach

. Currently, the course is taught without industrial sponsorship, to provide teamswith more flexibility for brainstorming product ideas.The course is separated into 6 main subject areas: • Project proposal o Team creation o Brainstorming o Market survey o Competitive and patent analysis • Specification development o Identifying marketing and engineering requirements Page 9.859.1 o House of Quality “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

decisions. End of chapterhomework problems in these texts can be broadly placed into two categories:1) Strictly computational problems, such as “calculate the rate of return of this cash flow diagram,” and2) Questions such as “should the equipment be replaced or not?” or “Which of these three possible designs is best?” that ask the student to make a practical decision.The inclusion of some problems from the latter category is crucial both because they provide themore thorough test of the student’s understanding of the material, and because they underscorethe practical value of the material.In the spring 2001 and spring 2002 semesters, an economics game was developed and integrated,as a semester-long project, into a senior/graduate engineering

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suryaprasad Jayadevappa; Ravi Shankar

; sc_inout > data_bus; sc_in clk; SC_HAS_PROCESS(sisc1); sisc1(sc_module_name name):sc_module(name) { init1(); SC_THREAD(main_action); } void main_action() { while(1) { instr_fetch(); wait(CYCLE, SC_NS); instr_decode();wait(CYCLE, SC_NS); instr_exec(); wait(CYCLE,SC_NS); } } …. }; // END of SISC Module Figure 18. SystemC code snapshot of SISC module.The above SystemC code of the SISC module was extended in the term project by thestudents by suitably extending the instruction set to include a larger

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

, and to network with peers around the globe. The conferenceoutcomes listed below only hint at the potential gains an Engineering program may haveby becoming involved in similar activities. • Real-time course problem/solution presentations to a global audience • Continuous exchange of students’ innovative projects and ideas • New opportunities to collaborate with businesses • Students’ early introduction to the latest technologiesThis paper outlines the general guidelines for successfully hosting an internationa lconference and provides tips on building collaborative relationships with universities andindustries around the world.INTRODUCTIONGlobalization is fast becoming a norm in most industries and higher educationalinstitutions are

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

students. It willprovide the club members with valuable leadership experience and will cultivaterelationships between the campus and the community business leaders. Mostimportantly, this lectureship will generate a spirit of innovation and free enterprise acrossthe campus.Funding possibilities for creating a student venture capital fund are being investigated. Itis anticipated that the previously formed entrepreneurial advisory board will act as theEntrepreneurial Angel Network, so named for its guardianship characteristics, to assessand evaluate the marketability of student projects and ideas. From among itsmembership, this group will nominate and select a chairperson who will act as a liaisonbetween the board and the