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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

(www.vanth.org) are concerned about how their innovative efforts to integratecommunication instruction into their classes can be promulgated throughout the curriculum.To investigate these problems and gather data to help us improve the teaching of writingthroughout the curriculum, our interdisciplinary committee--faculty from engineering, writing,and the learning sciences—collaborated to: (1) systematically gather information about the writing standards that engineering faculty want to support (2) discuss the standards with faculty in relation to preferred teaching methods (3) disseminate those standards through a websiteOur primary research question was to determine whether engineering faculty within and acrossdisciplines share

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

, where the top of theboard has a ball grid array (BGA) component, the bottom side of the board may have acorresponding set of chip decoupling capacitors. The pattern of pads for a given component onthe circuit board is called that component’s “footprint”. The footprint can range from 2 pads for aresistor to in excess of 1000 pads for an ultra-large scale integrated circuit. Along with these design advantages, manufacturing is also easier and faster with the useof SMT. Compared to THT components, that require insertion machines to line up all thecomponent leads with all the corresponding holes in the PCB, SMT allows for much fasterplacement since placement is allowed that does not exactly line up component terminations andthe corresponding

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

Learning about Scientific Inquiry Through Engineering Jessica Harwood, Al Rudnitsky Smith CollegeThe broad question addressed by this study is "how should ideas from engineering be integratedinto the school curriculum?" Efforts to include engineering in the K - 12 curriculum haveincreased considerably in recent years. Many of engineering's educational advocates hold theposition that engineering should not be a "stand-alone" school subject or, at the very least, not beexclusively so. This paper is a case study of integrating engineering into the existingcurriculum. The more focused questions addressed here include "what does engineering bringto

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in MechanicalEngineering from the University of Washington. She pursues research in pollutant formation in combustion. email:teodora@seattleu.eduGreg Mason is an Associate Professor at Seattle University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received aB.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University, an M.S. in Computer Integrated Manufacturing fromGeorgia Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.email: mason@seattleu.edu Page 10.1345.13 Proceedings of the 2005

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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June Marshall; John Marshall

(PromotingAccountability, Linking Assignments, and Stimulating the Idea Exchange); 4) ChangingLearning Behavior Outside the Classroom; and 5) Preparing to Teach. Topics included inthe “Teaching” section include: 1) The Seven “Good Practices” for Teachers; 2)Teaching with Hospitality; 3) The Importance of Listening; and 4) Assessment Via theMinute Paper.The presented techniques are not cumbersome or extremely involved. In fact they are funand very straightforward. Learn more about these practical and helpful teaching ideasthat can easily be implemented into your curriculum. Examples and brief case studies areutilized to increase clarity and understanding.Learning Technique Number 1 - Focusing on Learning and Not TeachingSpence’s (2000) article, Maybe Teaching is a

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jill Lane; Sarah Rzasa; Richard Behr; Christine Masters

? Page 10.703.13 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1 Masters, C. and R. Behr (2001). Integrated Statics Experiments in the ‘MechANEX’ mini-laboratory, 2001 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, June 24-27, Albuquerque, New Mexico.2 Behr, R (1993). Concurrent Structural Analysis and Experimentation Using the ‘AN/EX/ Mini-Laboratory, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 1(3), pp. 213-222.3 Belarbi, A, R. Behr, M. Karson, and G. Effland (1994). Formal Assessment of the AN/EX Structural

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

. Part ofthis increase is probably because the faculty members have become more adept at teaching thealternative design. For instance, the faculty members incorporate more examples from previousmechanical engineering students in their instruction. Another part of this increase is probablybecause the students have seen older students use the design in senior design presentations andhave interpreted the alternative design as an integral part of this engineering community. What is also interesting is an examination of the slide designs that these undergraduatesuse after they leave the laboratory course sequence. Our examinations of senior designpresentations over the past three years have found that in these presentations, only about half

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

been definedto cover the key features of integrated circuit fabrication technology as well as theorganizational and solution management skills needed by any effective practitioner in theindustry.Industrial participation has included a very active Advisory Board, senior staffassignment, seminars on specialist topics and company visits. Although this activity hasa specialist microelectronics focus, there are many general features that are applicable toall branches of technology.1. Refocus the goalsThe interface between industry and academia is never comfortable. Nor should it be ifwe are to meet changing market needs with independence and measured forethought. Allacademic technology programs profess a close interaction with industry with the

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

students to realistically assess technological implications within the worldstage and to bridge the gap between the developed world and the developing worlds. The coursefalls into the inter-disciplinary STS classification (a field known as Science, Technology andSociety whose main focus is to explore the influences of technologies on society and therelationships between societies and technologies). The course emphasizes an integration of alltheir previous studies at DeVry in addition to professional group work, research, researchpresentations and technical reports, communication, critical thinking and analysis, solutions andapplications of the moral and ethical dilemmas the use of technology sometimes presents. Thecourse also identifies conditions

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationundergraduate student as compared to the typical university or college. The differences do notcome so much from aptitude or motivation but from the constraints of a Military Academy. Thestudent’s time at the USAFA is in high demand, as they are required to graduate fromchallenging academic programs with extensive core course requirement in addition to theirengineering curriculum. All students must graduate in no longer than four years. They are alsoloaded with military, leadership, and athletic requirements. It is not unusual for students to haveless than an hour free every other day that they can use to take advantage of “extra instruction”(office hours

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

asthe director of the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory discussed a project known as LDIS, orLocation Dependent Information System. The concept for LDIS was originally conceived as a solution for creating self-guidedtours. The principle is fairly simple and is depicted in Figure 1. Someone interested in touringthe Texas A&M campus could check out an iPAQ equipped with a radio frequency interrogator.As they tour the campus, they could point the interrogator at sites to get information about them.Each building and landmark on the campus would be equipped with an RF tag that could respondto interrogation with a unique URL. The iPAQ would then use wireless network capability tolook up the URL and access information about the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh

10.411.8Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 11. Summary of ILS results for Visual/Verbal attribute.5. DiscussionThese results suggest that the Ladder Logic Tool Kit design is instructionally effective, and thatstudents’ subjective impressions of the system are positive. It appears that we may safelycontinue to develop similar types of lessons. It also appears that the Toolkit’s visual, exploratoryis a good fit for active, visual learners.6. Conclusion and Future DirectionsThis paper has described continuing steps in the process of developing an Integrated VirtualLearning System, called

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren

Optimizing Student Learning and Retention of Time- and Frequency- Domain Concepts Through Numerical Computation Projects Steve Warren, Ph.D. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State UniversityAbstractThe ability to analyze signals and systems in both the time and frequency domains is an essentialoutcome in most engineering curricula. However, concepts such as time-domain convolutionand frequency-domain spectra can be elusive to students. While most students can learn themathematical procedures whereby they obtain correct answers on homework and exams, manylack the higher-level understanding that aids long-term retention. This paper addresses thecreation of

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. 2002. Denver, CO.12. Mayer, R.E., Elements of a science of e-learning. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003. 29(3): p. 297-313.13. Sweller, J., J.J.G.v. Merrienboer, and F.G.W.C. Paas, Cognitive architecture and instructional design. Educational Psychology Review, 1998. 10: p. 251-96.14. Miller, C.L. and G.R. Bertoline, Spatial visualization research and theories: Their importance in the development of an engineering and technical design graphics curriculum model. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 1991. 55(3): p. 5-14.15. Holliday-Darr, K., D.G. Blasko, and C. Dwyer, Improving Cognitive Visualization with a Web Based Interactive Assessment and Training

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Soda

) basedamplifier is one of eight executed in our two semester required course sequence inelectronics. Laboratory exercises are integrated with lecture and classroom exerciseswith the same faculty member responsible for both forms of instruction. Laboratoryexercises throughout our curriculum follow a cycle of theoretical analysis or designfollowed by computer based simulation which are subsequently compared with hardwarecircuit performance. The first course in the electronics sequence, Electronics I ( El Engr321 ), covers semiconductor physics and the theory of operation of the junction diode,bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor(MOSFET). Circuits involving small numbers of these active devices are used

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Perry Li; David Waletzko; William Durfee

Session 1526 At-Home System and Controls Laboratories William Durfee, Perry Li, David Waletzko Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of MinnesotaAbstractWe are piloting the concept of distributed laboratories in the form of kits that students take homeand work on much like a problem set. The kits have an embedded microcontroller andcommunicate to the student’s home PC over a serial port. The home PC provides the neededcomputational horsepower for experiment control, data collection, data analysis and reporting.The microcontroller handles real-time control tasks. Two kits have been developed

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

the undergraduate curriculum of the Electrical and ComputerDepartment, the Engineering Technology Department and the Computer Science Department.Our proposal, “Deep Space Exploration using Smart Robotic Rovers”, was selected for fundingand we established our first interdisciplinary team of students and faculty to develop a smartrobotic rover.During the last two years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project. The rover iscapable of climbing 30o inclines, rotating about its center axis, strafing, and maneuveringdiagonally while maintaining stability. It was also designed to protect the vital internalcomponents from outside contaminants

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Johnson; Donatus Cobbinah; Ahmed Rubaai

junior-and senior-levelundergraduate lecture classes.1 BackgroundIn recent years there have been enormous financial pressures on engineering departmentsstruggling to deliver to increased enrollments, unchanging budgets, and the need to maintaineducational quality. As departments look for ways to cut costs, hands-on instructionallaboratories, typically expensive to develop and maintain, are slowly being replaced withsimulated experiments [1-3]. While simulations are an important component for teachingstudents about general system behavior, they cannot always account for all the details that mustbe considered in designing and analyzing a physical system in an interdisciplinary, team-orientedenvironment. Furthermore, a laboratory curriculum based

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Khandan

that it is asummative evaluation of engineering education and is a prerequisite for professional licensure,such poor performance is alarming. This paper presents a computer-based system that has thepotential to improve and assess problem-solving skills of engineering students.Literature ReviewThe importance of conceptual knowledge as one of the prerequisites for expert-like problem-solving has been recognized in several studies [5-11]. Dufresne et al [9, 11] have proposed amodel for problem solving, identifying three key knowledges: i) concept knowledge, ii)operational/procedural knowledge, and iii) problem-state knowledge. According to this model,the conceptual knowledge of an expert is richly clustered and hierarchically arranged with

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Brewer; Johannes Boehme; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

curriculum; complyingwith graduate school policy and procedures; and recruiting faculty and students. Glenda Scales,associate dean for distance learning and computing in the College of Engineering at VirginiaTech, and John Boehme, associate dean for Academic Computing and information sciences atWake Forest University School of Medicine, were co-project leaders for launching the distancelearning infrastructure in support of the SBES program.The vision for the technical team was to provide and maintain an advanced stable network and astate-of-the-art distance learning environment between Virginia Tech and the Wake ForestUniversity School of Medicine that promotes educational excellence. Specific goals for theinstructional technology team were

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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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

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Blair Rowley

from the students. The seniors’ response varied from dislike toenjoyment. The freshmen reported in increased interest in engineering due to the interaction withthe seniors.MethodologyThe overall goals for this teaming effort were: 1. Provide the seniors an opportunity to practice team leadership skills 2. Have seniors apply design tools learned in class to an actual problem 3. Meet the senior writing across the curriculum requirement through the project report 4. Provide the freshmen with upper classmen contact on a project 5. Expose freshmen to the design processAt week six the freshmen were introduced to their final project and divided into teams so thateach senior could be assigned as the team leader. The freshmen were

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi; Wael Ibrahim

Online Engineering Education: A Comprehensive Review Wael Ibrahim, Rasha Morsi ECPI College of Technology/Norfolk State UniversityAbstractDevelopment and assessment of synchronous and asynchronous distance learning curricula is anever growing research due to the new emerging virtual universities. Recent reports confirm thefast growth in online education at an even higher rate than anticipated by educational institutions.The suitability of online learning to engineering disciplines however has been questioned. Thispaper researches online degree granting institutions and attempts to gain an insight in the growthof online education and its correlation with engineering

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rhode; Allen Jaedike; Michael Hennessey

, 2001.[13] Nikolic, V., “Pro/engineer and I-DEAS based courses favorite among mechanical engineering students,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, November 17- 22, 2002.[14] Ray, J. and J. Farris, “Integration of design and manufacturing processes in first-year engineering curriculums,” 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference – Building on a Century of Progress in Engineering Education, Kansas City, MO, October 18-21, 2000.[15] Jensen, G. C., J. D. Haslam, J. A. Hoech, and M. B. Thompson, “Project based Computer-Aided- Engineering Applications,” 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference – Building on a Century of Progress in

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Monica Geist; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

at Manoa. She also holds aMaster of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biologyfrom Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying EngineeringStudent Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences (DUE - 0127806), Center for theAdvancement of Engineering Education (ESI-0227558), and Rigorous Research in EngineeringEducation: Creating a Community of Practice (DUE-0341127).BARBARA M. OLDS is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the ColoradoSchool of Mines. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and hasbeen active in the engineering education

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Furterer; Lesia Crumpton-Young

. P.O. Box 162993 Orlando, FL 32816-2993 furterer@mail.ucf.eduAbstract:The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University of CentralFlorida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum within aTotal Quality Improvement course. This graduate level course teaches the Six Sigma body ofknowledge, including quality management principles and problem solving tools. It provides just-in-time experiential learning opportunities to reinforce the in-class instruction. This paper willprovide examples of Six Sigma tools applied in the project case studies including Voice of theCustomer, Design of Experiments, and

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

why. In order for thenew professor to smoothly integrate their course into the culture of the department, theauthors also suggest gaining familiarity with the entire departmental curriculum. Oneway to do this is review prerequisite classes with faculty or to read through the last ABETpacket submitted.During this information gathering phase, it may be beneficial to ask what worked andwhat did not work. For example, after teaching his course for one year, JMK realized thathis students had difficulty applying mathematical concepts to course material,particularly on exams. This may have been avoided by finding out more information fromother faculty prior to the start of the semester.To try to alleviate the problem, a handout was prepared for

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Gerhart; Andrew Gerhart

paper are threefold. First, undergraduate students that have used theRankine Cycler were surveyed to assess the effectiveness of the device as a learning tool. Theresults of the survey can be applied so that the equipment is used in the undergraduatecurriculum in the best possible manner.Inevitably, when a power generation plant is scaled-down and it has few efficiency-enhancingcomponents (e.g. lack of feedwater heaters, etc.), energy losses in components will be magnified,substantially decreasing the cycle efficiency. Although the Rankine Cycler is a useful tool forteaching fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and instrumentationsystems in an undergraduate laboratory, a comprehensive analysis of the equipment has not

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shumon Alam; Matthew Sadiku; Cajetan Akujuobi

premier telecommunication companies in the area of interoperability andreliability studies. It is also used for the training of our students in this emerging area oftechnology and for research, especially, the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modem technology.DSL is a new technology for providing higher data rates over the twisted telephone copper wire.The Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is one of the first derivatives of this DSLtechnology. The DSL Forum has defined an ADSL interoperability test specification, known asTR-048, which is supported by all key Service Providers, access IC manufacturers andIndependent Test Labs. This research project follows the test plan TR-048 to produce a completeautomated testing suit, which can be used in