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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

designed a mitigation plan for homeowners and distributed apamphlet on health concerns and well water. Many of the residents who had thought that theirgroundwater was contaminated and were purchasing bottled water were relieved to learn thattheir water was safe.An international example involved the design and construction of an onion storage facility inSenegal. The population of 1200 in the rural community of Rao, about 19 km south of St. Louisin Northern Senegal, is sustained by agricultural activities mostly in growing purple onions. Theselling price of this vegetable, which is widely used in Senegalese kitchens, is very low at thetime of harvest as the supply is greater than the demand. Thus the farmers must sell their onionsat below-cost rates

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

Laboratory (UOL)offered in the Fall of the senior year. In tandem with this course, students are enrolled in anoptional “Introduction to Biomedical Engineering” course. In UOL, students work in teams of three, on three different projects. Teams are assignedby the instructors and care is taken to avoid repetition of members in more than one project.While assigning the project, the bio-related projects are allocated preferentially to the studentseither enrolled in the biomedical course or committed to the Bioprocess Engineering courses. Page 10.822.1Each project covers a 5-6-week period. It includes a week of planning which has to be

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

Taiwan”, Proceedings of ICEE, 1997.(4) Jennie Y.J. Wu, “Strategic Planning of Engineering Educational Programs in Ministry of Education, Taiwan”, Proceedings of ICEE, 2000.Professor TZE-CHI HSU received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1990. His research interests focuson experimental and computational solid mechanics, including tribology and metal forming, and engineeringeducation. He was the Director of the International Cooperation Department at the National Science Council,Taiwan, from 1999 to 2001. He is now the Secretary General of Yuan Ze University.Dr. N. YU received his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego, in 1992. His research interests focus onmicromechanics of advanced materials and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasoul Saneifard

seminars in the above-mentionedareas in major oil industries like Exxon, Shell, ARCO, and Texaco. Research interests includeapplied electromagnetics, instrumentation, computer hardware and software designing, andnumerical methods.Oyekunmi Akanni Fakunle received a BS degree in Electronics Engineering Technology fromTexas Southern University in 2003. His accomplishments include Team Leader of a group ofsenior students that built an autonomous mobile robot for a Senior Electronics Project class,winner of the First Place Business Plan at the 2001 MOOT Corporation Venture Competition atClark Atlanta University, and Third Place winner at the Inaugural HBCU Business PlanCompetition

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Cummings; John McMasters

across the enterprise • provide mentoring, training and networking opportunities for those at all experience levels • create a sense of community - instill pride and enhance morale • bring into the company new ideas, methods and knowledge from the wider technical community (academe, etc.) • develop clear, vivid visions (roadmaps) of key technologies - present and future - and the context within which they are applied (to aid recruiting, technology planning, etc.)These goals hold incredible potential for making the technical side of the company vital andexciting, giving younger engineers and scientists a viable career path for success and promotionwithout having to go into the

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert; Deepti Suri

. We plan to develop some assessment techniques in the near future.6. ChallengesAs mentioned earlier, we believe that significant improvements have been made as thecollaborative experience between the BE and SE students has evolved and matured. We believethat such an experience is unique both to the students in both programs and provides them with acritical understanding of how things may be in the “real-world”. Yet, some major challengesremain. Some of them are:• Disparate Expectations: SE students take a 4 credit course during this collaborative experience where as the BE students take only a 1 credit senior design course. The time

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider

parties. The web site address is http://blue.utb.edu/bceil.It is also important to notice that another methodology in integrating BCEIL into theCS/CIS curriculum has been through senior projects. Senior projects have beenintroduced into the degree plan three years ago and have been a great factor in integrating Page 10.800.4knowledge from many different courses into a capstone project. BCEIL has givenstudents a great deal of freedom in choosing realistic projects that accentuate their “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; John Chen; Bernard Pietrucha

with a solid idea, they can start early and spend more time to test drive and improve.For those need extra time to finalize, they can put more machining time toward the end. Bydoing this, we can also spread the usage of the machining tools more evenly. There are tenteams, but only 3 milling machines and a handful of hand tools. The waiting will beintolerable if all the students are competing for the machine time.The second tool to control the schedule is to employ the progress report. At the beginning ofthe semester, we asked the students to divide their work into several manageable parts. Theyneed to make plans, stick to them, and submit a progress report each week to document their

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Harding

curriculum.Jitter in the EET CurriculumIn-depth jitter analysis is much too complex to cover all at once in an undergraduate curriculum.The basics, however, are suitable for first and second year students. It makes sense to introducebasic topics in the first two years, then ramp up to more technically challenging subjects in thethird and/or fourth years of an EET program. Moreover, the early topics are worthwhile for allstudents, not just those planning to specialize in the digital arena. For instance, RF systemdesigners must contend with phase jitter in transmitted/received signals. By including jitterbasics in the underclassman portion of the curriculum, all EET students would be exposed tothose concepts. More advanced topics could be reserved for junior

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cathcart; Shanti Bhushan; Sandun Fernando

/bme-definition.shtml in “NIH WorkingDefinition of Biomedical Engineering” web publication. (2002).Opara L.U. Outlook for agricultural engineering education and research and prospects fordeveloping countries Outlook on Agriculture, 1 May 2004, vol. 33, iss. 2, pp. 101-111(11) IPPublishing Ltd. (2004).Purdue. https://engineering.purdue.edu/FrE/ESCAPE/fields/agricultural/defn.html in “TheEngineering Specific Career Planning and Problem-Solving Environment, Purdue University,Freshman Engineering” accessed on 27th May, 2004. (2004).Singh, G. Agricultural Engineering Education in India. Agricultural Engineering: the CIGRJournal of Scientific Research and Development. Vol. II. October (2000).Singh, G. and Gajendra Singh. Agricultural Engineering

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cote

, contemporary issues, and the impact of engineering and/or technical solutions within a global perspective. {2} (i-k)The TAC of ABET TC2K criteria require that “Each program must utilize multiple assessmentmeasures in a process that provides documented results to demonstrate that the programobjectives and outcomes are being met.” Additionally, the criteria state, “Each program mustdemonstrate that the results of the assessment of program objectives and outcomes are beingused to improve and further develop the program in accordance with a documented process.”[2]PET program faculty then prepared an assessment plan, which described where and how each ofthese outcomes would be assessed within the PET curriculum.Program assessment using the Co

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

university:‘…as a group we never received any answers to our specific questions, and were required toanswer them ourselves. We therefore lost potentially valuable feedback on our project…’‘ …..The concept of our group and discussions being linked to the other university initiallyappeared constructive in terms of valuable feedback……..however I felt the feedback during thevideo conferencing could have been more direct and tailored to our product…’Evaluation – Tutor viewsThe ‘teamwork and leadership course’ requires a great deal of careful and detailed planning. Thetime taken in this preparation cannot be underestimated. One of the other major issues is that ofhow students are assessed during the residential course. With 50 students it was necessary

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

. Page 10.1362.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright . 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”7. Chinese or Indian Proverb, widely quoted.8. Peterson G. D.: Engineering Criteria 2000: A Bold New Change Agent; ASEE Prism 9/97, pp. 30-34.9. Rogers G. M., Sando J. K.: Stepping Ahead-An Assessment Plan Development Guide; Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology with Support of the Foundation Coalition (National Science Foundation Grant EEC-9529401) ©1996.10. Palmer M. A., Riffe W. J: Course Level Assessment - Keeping it Simple and Comprehensive; TMS Fall 2002 Annual MeetingBiographic

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

McDaniel William; Ferguson Chip; Aaron Ball; Phillip Sanger; Wesley Stone

, American Society for Engineering Education”that pre-instructional planning time and post-project group processing time be integrated into theclass.The self assessment instruments used throughout the class were kept simple due to the maturityof the students in teaming. Students were asked to allocate $100 to team members in proportionto their contribution to the project. Contribution was described as attendance to meetings,relevant contribution to discussion, organization etc. In a second instrument, each team memberwas asked to rank all team members including themselves from greatest contribution to leastcontribution. No ties were allowed. Finally students were asked to assign grades to each teammember including themselves assuming that 100 is the

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

] as samples of bestpractices and of how an institution might put together a plan to better focus on these twoimportant areas.” The topics covered in both toolkits are shown below. Recruitment Toolkit Retention Toolkit Faculty Hiring Policies and Procedures Monitoring the Health and Welfare of Departments Search Tips for Diversifying the Pool Transparency in Operations Including Fair and Open Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Resources for Diversity Creating a Welcoming Department Climate Language and Ads for Announcements Mentoring Benefits and Resources for New Hires Valuing Diversity in the Department Resources from other

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

research, and his non-academic experience includes service to the Louisiana Department of Natu-ral Resources first as Head of Economics and Statistics and then as Director of Policy and Planning. Page 10.313.13 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

technologyliteracy course, teaching the pilot course in fall 2004, and plans for a second semesteroffering in spring of 2005.Spring results will be reported at the June 2005 ASEE meeting.Formatting the Course In more detail, we have developed a two lecture and single lab per week formatwith the following characteristics: Lecture 1: CONTEXT: define the historical origin and technical evolution of priordevices which served the same or related functions (e.g, for digital camera, survey optics,drawing, camera obscura, Daguerrotype, black and white film, Kodak and the personal(Brownie) camera, color film, Polaroid camera/film, and video camera). Lecture 2: CONTENT: describe principles and key operations of the moderndevice (e.g., digital

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Glenn Wrate; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

defined that will be offered once each year and will be a logical extension of the key EE topic areas developed in the junior year. c. Linear Algebra – this course was added to enhance the math skills of our students and as an essential course for all who had plans for graduate school. We have found that valuable course time is otherwise too often used for explaining mathematical operations students should be more familiar with. It replaces a course in Vector Calculus. 5. Senior Design: The essentials of the academic year-long team project were retained. What has been or is being added is a greater integration of non-technical topics into team

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming Sheu; Michael Ohadi; Arman Molki

and lab engineer to the four labs to supportthe professor in charge of the labs, thus eliminating the uncertainty associated with variousprofessors teaching the courses involved and the degree they may consider the lab integration intheir courses important to better learning of the subject matter by the student in a typicalmechanical engineering curriculum. We believe the information provided in this paper can serveuseful for academic institutions who are considering revising their laboratories and/or plan tointroduce new labs in their mechanical engineering program.References1. Lambert, J.M., “Team Projects in Computer Science and Engineering”, Proceedings of the ASEE Mid-AtlanticConference, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1996, pp. 104-107.2. Uhran, J.J

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Irina Nelson

- microgravity drop tower demonstrations - satellite image processing - management of space debris - Earth climate change - crew selection for space missions - cardiovascular measurements and diagnostic - design of future Mars missions - designing governance settlements on Mars - communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence - futures studies and strategic planning - answering requests for proposals - commercial negotiations - crisis communication and media training - intercultural awareness and team building - report writing and communication skillsThe following three Team Projects were published and presented in local public sessions and atinternational meetings (e.g. the IAC in Vancouver, Canada, and the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” and retention in at least four modules; student, faculty, college, and industry satisfaction; and institutional and industry return on investment when compared to face-to- face or pure web based instruction; 5. Research and create a dissemination plan that addresses adoption barriers identified in the project.The next section addresses the current progress towards the objectives and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

Page 10.341.2focus and improve the instructor’s planning and delivery throughout the course. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”With this background and in this context I started thinking about what features and opportunitiesare embedded in a circuits course. Some thoughts have evolved from daydreamed insights andinspirations, towards facilitating and developing desired professional traits and attitudes in thestudents.A place to start could be a critical analysis of the contributions of a circuits course to the a-kattributes, mentioned under ABET criterion 3 (Program Outcome and Assessment

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Hasenberg

its history using patentsearches, technical journals and user observations; defined benchmarks to measure success;documented the results; and planned the completion of the design in the spring quarter.Third termThe third term of the pilot will emphasize the social responsibilities of the designer throughstakeholder analysis and case studies such as the Narmada Sagar hydroelectric project in Indiaand the failure of the Playskool Travel-Lite crib. The ethical challenges that designers face willbe illustrated with case studies such as engineer Le Messurier and the Citicorp building and theFord Pinto case. In the case studies, issues of diversity in relation to design professions, andethical and social responsibilities of the designer will be

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven York; Lynn Nystrom; Elizabeth Joyce; Michael Gregg; Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor

allows the SEC to give directlyback to the college: faculty members submit proposals for projects that will directly benefit theundergraduate engineering student body, and our general assembly votes on the allocation offunds.Engineering is all about hands-on problem solving and the SEC provides another forum for that.Beyond the obvious benefits of such programs, these events give students the opportunity to Page 10.1154.2work on event planning, product design, team management, group cooperation, and a variety ofother skills better learned outside the classroom. Such activities foster a sense of unity not often Proceedings of the 2002

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon-Michael Hardin

. While hands-on demonstrations or exercises mayaid in student understanding of the physical nature of forces, for example, the linkbetween that understanding and the formulation and solution of an engineering problemcan remain tenuous, at best. By using the definitions of Statics ‘skills’ and ‘concepts’given above, the content-based Into, Through, and Beyond instruction method mayprovide students, as it has in its linguistic usage, the motivation to learn and retain boththe ‘skills’ and the ‘concepts’ required to comprehend and master Statics.Statics Lesson-Planning Example Using Into, Through and BeyondIn addition to its clear distinction between ‘skills’ and ‘concept content’, the Into,Through, and Beyond method makes use of a ‘scaffolded

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Ekstrom; Joseph Ekstrom

request to the central server which then sends therequest to an open node. The node processes the request and returns the results, just as anormal function would. A test application was made for this system that did large matrixmultiplication. The system worked and plans were made for future research.[4]The second implementation of DOGMA was an attempt to separate the scheduler fromthe distributed Java machine. This would allow the running of multiple programs on thesystem at once, something the original version did not support. Instead of working withthe old code base however, and separating the pieces, the graduate student doing the workdecided to do a complete rewrite. His project never reached a usable state.The third version ofDOGMA, called

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garcia Julio; Patricia Backer

courses.These considerations for engineering-related instruction include, but are not limited to: more “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 10.799.3 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”self-discipline is required to get through lecture material than in a traditional class; the studentdoes not have the benefit of face-to-face interaction with the instructor; and communicationbetween student and instructor is not immediate and requires more planning (Cohen & Ellis9,Kubala10, Lake11).The laboratory exercises for Tech 167 will be

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

Society for Engineering EducationLaboratoriesSeveral different laboratories were planned to provide the students with hands on experiencewith biomedical engineering. Most classes were held in an electrical engineering classroom, sobasic circuitry and oscilloscopes were readily available for smaller projects. Labs werecompleted in teams, which were assigned to maximize group diversity (e.g., one EE or Astromajor per group). It was hoped that these labs would provide the students with appropriatebackground to assist with their final projects.ECG LaboratoryThe first lab accomplished in the course was measuring andanalyzing the ECG signal from the heart. A physiologylaboratory in the Biology Department was available for ourtesting. An iWorx 214

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Ingalsbe; Jess Godbey

-of-datetechnology. Because the majority of JSU technology graduates begin their careers in theNortheast Alabama area, this relationship is particularly important.The need for feedback is also rooted in the requirements of the accrediting bodies3. TheNational Association of Industrial Technology (NAIT)7 accredits JSU’s IndustrialTechnology program. NAIT specifies that the institution have an assessment plan thatincorporates evaluation of student learning outcomes and competencies. Programassessment should measure student mastery of competencies and then use these results toimprove the program. While some of that feedback is fulfilled by way of an activeindustrial advisory committee, it is valuable to supplement that feedback with theopinions

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jonathan Meckley; Fredrick Nitterright, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

not be studied because the machines were performing production runs. • The ability of choosing machines, molds, and parts were for their educational value didn’t exist as we were only able to observe what happened to be in operation at the time of the visit. • Floor plans in the facilities that were visited did not allow students to position themselves where they could hear all portions of the discussion or observe the entire process. • Students were not able to experience the total process, only segments of the process.In addition to some of the above issues, many other issues resulted from showing videos of thePIM process. The videos did not captivate the student’s attention or allow them hands