Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

topics such as impact loads, rain loads, ice loads, and seismiccomponent forces. The author plans to incorporate as many of these additional topics into thenew offering of the course as time would allow in this 2-credit hour course. In any event, theseadditional topics will be included in the next version of the course notes so that students can atleast have access to the information. Page 9.424.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntegration into the CET CurriculumStudents in the

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kukulka

electrical engineering technology department: anevaluation" , Proceedings - 1987 Frontiers in Education Conference., IEEE, New York, NY., pp.127-133.[9] P. Rude, 1996, "Senior design experience", Proceedings of the 1996 Wescon Conference, Wescon, LosAngeles, CA, pp. 245-252.[10] A.H. Bekkala, R.A. Higgins and S. Lekhakul, 1995, “Senior design projects in electrical andmanufacturing engineering”, Proceedings of the 1995 Annual ASEE Conference. Part 1, ASEE, Washington,DC, pp 378-384.[11] O.E. Wheeler and J.L. Anderson, 1995, “Decade of capstone design”, Proceedings of the 22nd AnnualConference on Integrated Water Resources planning for the 21st Century, ASCE, Cambridge, MA, pp.1117-1120.[12] D. McDonald, J. Devaprasad, P. Duesing, A. Mahajn, M. Qatu

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

planned either to satisfy the ever growing and diverse social needs or theindustrial demands. The likelihood of the present engineering and technology curriculumstructure in the Indian subcontinent countries is illustrated in figure 1 given below: Humanities Basic & Social Thesis Sciences Sciences 3% 25% 22% Applied & Engg. Design Technical

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

the working world of scientists and engineers, as well as,an opportunity for them to develop the youth of the nation and potential employees.Industry sponsors and mentors felt that students learned important work-related skills orinformation such as teamwork skills, problem-solving and planning skills, and thinking,analytical and communication skills.Sponsors felt that the FSEA collaboration with schools allowed them to contribute back to thecommunity; motivate and/or inspire students to pursue science careers; help teachers in theirteaching of practical skills; and help others understand the importance of what they do as acompany. Furthermore, it was felt that such collaboration would ultimately provide a betterfuture workforce; build better

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Tatum; Mannur Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

Department of Mechanical Engineering and is participating in the NASA Co-operative Educationprogram at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. He plans to pursue graduate school upon graduationin 2006. He is active in the student section of ASME, and is currently the Vice Chair of the Section.Mannur J. Sundaresan is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University andDirector of the Intelligent Structures and Mechanisms Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He is activein the areas of structuring health monitoring and smart sensors research, with two patents and several technicalpublications. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics as well as vibrations andinstrumentation. He

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

graduate states “immediate opening for a Mechanical Design Engineer: broadknowledge in mechanical design and two or more of the following disciplines is required:electro-mechanical devices (preferably piezoelectric), opto-mechanics, precision componentsand mechanisms; must have demonstrated capabilities in the use of computer-aided engineeringsystems.” A deluge of computers, sensors, microcontrollers, actuators has permeated present-daysociety. Microcontroller-based devices and appliances are found in all aspects of our everydaylife. Even the auto industry, a traditional mechanical engineering fiefdom, is putting tens ofmicrocontrollers in a modern automobile, and plans to increase this number multifold as newtechnologies are being introduced. As

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Bai; Saroj Biswas

implemented atCollege of Engineering, Temple University, and Section 3 is devoted to a new data analysismethodology to remove biasness with students grades. Concluding remarks and a plan forfuture work are given in Section 4. Page 9.959.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society of Engineering Education” 2. Online Course Evaluation SystemOnline survey systems are usually developed using Common Gate Interface (CGI) programs,written in C or Perl. Our on-line course evaluation has been developed using the php EasySurvey Package

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

inslightly more than four years.The Evaluation and Design Pr ocessHaving concluded that our BOK curriculum plan should feature learning outcomes 1-11 and 13-15 in our BS degree, we explored whether we already meet those learning outcomes or whetherchange was needed. A thorough review of the required courses and course content in ourcurriculum revealed we did not likely meet BOK learning outcomes to a satisfactory level inlearning outcomes 13-15: management, policy and leadership. Further examination of ourrequired curriculum also revealed we might also choose to modify our program to better addressoutcomes 9 and 10, lifelong learning and contemporary issues. We also studied elective coursestaken by our students over the past three years and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn FY 1998 and FY 1999 a precursor to the NSDL program was conducted through the SpecialEmphasis: Planning Testbeds and Applications for Undergraduate Education under the auspicesof the multi-agency DLI-2 program (http://www.dli2.nsf.gov). Information about these prototypeprojects may be found at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/nsdl/projects.asp. Whilemany of these projects focused on what is most easily recognized as collection development,others began to explore organizational and managerial functions of a distributed digital library.Program elementsIn FY 2000 the NSDL program began its first formal funding cycle and has had four to

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

student were broadened toinclude the beauty of everyday fluid flows. These comments suggest that the class has had animpact on these students “motivation for life-long-learning,” since perception is a necessary firststep to understanding. More direct assessment of this motivation is planned for future courseofferings.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank the students who contributed so creatively. Note that the imagesreproduced here are published online at http://www.colorado.edu/MCEN/flowvis. We also wantto thank Erik Fisher for his leadership in bringing our disparate cultures together, and the CUBoulder administration for supporting this project.References1 “The CDIO syllabus: a comparative study of expected student proficiency”. Bankel

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

address this needdirectly by requiring that engineering graduates demonstrate an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams 4. And, efforts to enhance required senior design experiences oftenaddress the challenges of team communication and multi-disciplinary projects 5. A majorchallenge of educating engineers is to balance development in meeting technical aspects of aproject and in handling the process of teamwork. Planning, scheduling, organizing, etc. allbecome more difficult if multi-disciplinary work is required. Specialists frequently tend to limittheir perception of technical problems and options to their own discipline. Awareness of theconstraints, terminology, and needs of the other disciplines can be key in many situations.Research

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

course at WKU, and serves as avaluable tool for continuous course improvement.Lessons LearnedThis course is being offered for the third time in spring 2004. Based on the course outcomesassessment, specific student comments, and observations by course instructors, several majorimprovements have been made to the course. The most substantial change to the course occurredbetween the first and second offerings. The original plan was to pair ME and EE studentstogether on a single set of hardware. Course assessment proved this to be relativelyunsuccessful. Students were unable to divide the work of programming, with the ME’s lettingthe EE’s do the programming while they wired the systems and built any necessary hardware.Funds became available to fully

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ella Fridman

include astudy of flow through diffusers. Jonathan's original plan was to make a set of diffusersthat are interchangeable with the discharged duct of the Centrifugal Compressor, but afterworking on the project, he has come up with a better idea. He has constructed a diffuserfrom an unevenly rolled heater duct held by hose clamps in a way that the cross-sectionalarea gradually increases from the inlet to outlet. By changing diameters of the hoseclamps, the cross-sectional area of the duct can be changed at the inlet, outlet, andanywhere in between, creating a set of diffusers in one duct. Using this duct and sensorsincorporated in the Centrifugal Compressor unit, the pressure and temperature of the flowthrough the diffusers can be measured. The

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

technologyprogram and start a brand new engineering program. In year 2000, a new engineering jointprogram with University of Louisville was established and first batch of engineering studentswere enrolled. In year 2004, we will have the first batch of graduates, and we plan to apply foran ABET accreditation visit in 2004/2005. Page 9.465.1 Proceedings of the 2004American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFrom day 1, our goal has been to develop an entirely new engineering program that is moresuitable to the relevant local industries and the students

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

. Our students had to createactive learning experiences for the fourth graders so that they could understand the material.Additionally, we also held workshops for in-service teachers where our students madepresentations to them and involved the teachers with actual active learning activities 3,4.When we had the opportunity to become involved in this summer camps project, we were able tobuild upon our past experiences. This outreach program was part of a larger Explorer summercamp program that encompassed much more than just an introduction to engineering.The mission of the Louisiana Tech Explorer Camps was to motivate students of GEARUPschools to begin planning and preparing for entrance into an undergraduate program upongraduation from high

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 2470Initially it was planned to move all the cameras, transmitters, circuitry, power supply and other relevantcomponents from the old to the new gondola. During the development stage it was decided it was best tokeep the old gondola as it is and develop the new gondola from scratch. The original gondola had both acolor and black and white camera. It was decided to go with just one color micro-video camera andtransmitter with a transmission distance of 1000 ft in the new one. This was considered adequate todemonstrate the objective.As in the Phase-I efforts to sustain a blimp launch for

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pavelich; Stephen Krause

PH Electrochemistry Oxidation/Reduction Voltaic Cells Electrolytic CellsThe topics are keyed to the two semesters of a normal general chemistry course for ease of testing.Thus two CCIs have been created and are being tested, one for Chem I the other for Chem II. The goalis to have each, as final products, a 20-question multiple-choice exam that can be administered in 15-20 minutes and give reliable information on misconceptions in these fundamental subtopics.The plan being followed for the development and testing of the two CCIs is outlined below.Table 2. Steps of Development of reliable CCIs1. Pick topic topics and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Matis; Linda Ann Riley

knowledge intothe difficulties and requirement for producing instructional modules using digital video media.We plan on continuing these efforts towards the production of a suite of 10-12 modules that spanmultiple disciplines by applying for the next round of NSF funding. We are consideringexpanding this work to include problems centered on interesting research based problems fromacademia, i.e. spread of AIDS, etc., and developing basic modules for the inclusion in anAdvanced Placement Statistics course in K-12 high school education. Page 9.1202.5Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massoud (Mike) Safavi; James Strueber

, construction and management. Primary focushas been in the area of housing, residential design, project, and const. management. Work has included internationalinstitutional strengthening, management consulting, national housing policies and implementation plans. Page 9.1298.13Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

is currently under development at Cal Poly is based on: • Usability: Students respond to a survey at the conclusion of their experience. Additionally, focus groups are planned that would provide formative data on the usability of the SBL modules during the development stage. • Engagement: The degree of engagement will be assessed through instructor observations and journals. Students will also complete affective survey information at the conclusion of the program. • Learning Outcomes: In order to assess learning outcomes, students will first be divided into experimental and control groups. They will then be asked to complete a conceptual map representing their understanding of specific

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

part of the course preparation process, radiological engineering.embedded evaluation instruments for each 2. Apply atomic and nuclear physics and thecourse block objective are selected that will transport and interaction of radiation with matter to nuclear and radiological systems and processes.both: 3. Demonstrate ability to measure nuclear and radiation processes. 1) evaluate the cadets’ retention of 4. Demonstrate the skills to plan, design, execute, and critically interpret results from

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

. Nocito-Gobel, et al, “Project-Based Introduction to Engineering – A University Core Course”, Submitted to the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 3. Aliane, B., et al,”Project Planning and Development for Engineering Freshman”, Submitted to the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 4. Hoit, M, Ohland, M., “ The Impact of a Discipline-Based Introduction to Engineering Course on Improving Retention”, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1998, pp.79-85 5. Severance, F.L., Suchowski, M., Miller, D. “Benefits of a Hands-On Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engieering”, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe house is a forty square meter (425sf) variation of thenow standard 30 to 40 meter low cost house. The majordifferences are the changes to make it a passive solarhouse and a more functional arrangement of the inside.See Figures 15 - 18. The house has all the elements of anefficient, attractive, and acceptable home—it’s lightfilled and feels spacious, while still giving privacy to theoccupants, which is not normal in this housing. One ofthe authors built houses with a similar floor plan in aSouth Pacific country, which were very popular with theoccupants.The proposed house will be slightly more expensive thana

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

students on-demandaccess to precisely defined learning objects covering specific milling machine operations. Theseshort segments may be reviewed quickly immediately before beginning an operation or during amulti-step production process. This liberates the instructor from reciting basic information tomultiple students in a lab, and allows longer higher-level interactions between student andinstructor. Because the video segments give clear illustrations and explanations of basicoperations, the instructor has more time to guide students in problem-solving other higher-levelskills.Concluding RemarksWe are pleased with the initial results and the interest attracted by the new product described inthis paper. We also plan to develop more lesson modules

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

process used in the sophomore Design4Practice course was converted froma rather inefficient paper-based system to an on-line automated system in the fall of 2002,resulting in both an easier system to use and generation of a data base for analysis and evaluationof the peer review process itself. This paper addresses some challenges in the peer evaluationprocess that became visible through the data provided by the new automated system, discussesfuture plans for addressing these challenges, and provides an overview of the structure and use ofthe computer-based system in the attached appendix. Page 9.223.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

Page 9.1340.6understand tool from the user perspective. In our testing the Figure 3: Barcode/Manual Input Screenshot Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclients were pleased not only with the speed of the system operation, its completeness but also theability to store all the collected asset data in a simple to use database that could easily be downloaded toa PC for further processing and analysis at the home office.Future Plans The demonstration of the prototype to our utility and utility manufacturer clients has

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

”, American Library Association, Chicago; Vol. 40, No. 1, pg. 53-60. 7) Keown, Cherly (1999, August). “A Learning Curve”, American School and University; Overland Park, Vol. 71, No. 12, pg. 116 – 119. 8) McLester, Susan (2001, April 26). “Technology and Learning; Taking A New Approach to Education”, The Los Angeles Times, pg. T7. Authors Profile: Dr. Donald N. Merino is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Professor of Engineering Economics at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches Engineering Economics, Project Management, Total Quality Management, Decision Sciences, Strategic Business Planning and Concurrent Engineering. He won the Morton Distinguished Teaching Award for full professors at Stevens. He was PI

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

any self study is that it may identifyproblems that can be fixed. And once fixed then all should be well, but may not be.Barriers to success can be hidden and subtle. The climate in the college must beconducive to the success of the faculty. This will be the emphasis in a study which iscurrently being planned. In all that we do, we work to be a positive force in effectingchange that makes the College and University a better place for ourselves and others.ConclusionsThe mentoring program for women faculty in the college of engineering at Texas A&MUniversity is truly a ‘grass roots’ effort, initiated by an influential woman administratorwho opened the doors to the College’s internal workings for other women to experiencewhat otherwise might

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lumsdaine Arnold; Jack Waserman; J. A. M. Boulet

effective review, the time availablefor review is usually much less than an academic term. If students had effective, self-paced,computer-based learning tools, they could review and deepen their facility with the basic ideasand skills of applied mechanics relatively quickly.2-6 The goal of our work is to create suchtools, and so help prepare students for solving realistic engineering problems. In what follows, we describe the tools we are developing, as well as our plan for their as-sessment, summarize the status of that development, and discuss our experience with some of thelearning objects we have developed as a foundation for the learning tools.Structure of learning tools In a class in engineering mechanics, we usually find that students

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

sensors Figure 5. Firmware subgroupThe FPGA board has two built-in hardware interfaces to an eBOX-II: a serial and aparallel port. The data rate requirement for communication between the eBOX-II and therover is quiet low, therefore a standard serial communication rate of 9600 BAUD hasbeen selected. Furthermore, our students are already familiar with the design of aUniversal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) for the FPGA Board and theserial communication software for the eBOX-II. Commands are transmitted serially tothe FPGA and sensory information collected by the FPGA is returned to the eBOX-II viathis same serial interface. We plan to add a USB interface in the future to the FPGABoard to handle the