Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Nespoli, University of Waterloo; William Owen, University of Waterloo; Colin Campbell, University of Waterloo; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

, andconsisted of 17 questions. The questions are listed in an Appendix below. We were also veryinterested in how group and classroom discussions, activities that are not commonly planned fora traditional lecture method and setting, helped the students engage in their learning.The foot-brace design case was intended to introduce and/or remind the students of theengineering design method, to reinforce terminology, and to practice non-technical andprofessional skills such as teamwork, communication, and time management. The case wasdelivered in the earlier part of each course, and the surveys were delivered in about the 10th weekof term (each term is 14 weeks).Observations and ResultsThe response to the case implementation was generally very favorable

Conference Session

Engineering and Other Disciplines

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Boutell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Fisher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

including robot components, sensors, locomotion, feedback control, reactivecontrol, behavior-based control, and other key topics in robotics research.Multidisciplinary Robotics Senior ProjectsThe goal of the program’s senior design projects is to bring together students across departmentalboundaries to work together to solve difficult problems in robotics. The PIs planned to formalizethis process over the next three years as students transitioned through curriculum. However, theapproval of this robotics curriculum in Fall, 2008 was met with such a huge reception thatseveral upperclassmen expressed a desire to earn the certificate. Although exciting, this meantthat the PIs had to immediately identify multidisciplinary senior design project

Conference Session

Engineering and Other Disciplines

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Chang, United States Military Academy; Peter Hanlon, United States Military Academy; Kirk Ingold, United States Military Academy; Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

crawl, walk and run approach. During the crawlstage, the instructors will review the critical material focusing primarily on lectures. The walkstage lets students read and investigate possible solutions to the problem presented thus focusingon student reading and learning outside of the classroom. Finally, during the run stage thestudents will integrate the review and research material and discuss/apply the solution with teammembers to a robotics platform. This provides the students time for experimentation andteamwork. The final design project allows the students to be innovative and creative with theirdesign. In the end, the final design project is briefed to the instructor with a demonstration of thedesign, explanation of plan, and an oral

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University

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New Engineering Educators

students to the implementation of PPF sheets incourses ranging from sophomore to senior level and class sizes from small (~15) to mid size(~50 representing the largest engineering courses at this university).Future evaluation is planned with regards to different students in the same course as well asfollowing cohorts through different courses to determine if 1) a larger number of students will Page 14.945.8find the use of PPFs valuable to their learning, 2) if students find PPFs valuable to their learningin various courses and 3) if PPFs can be as valuable on a weekly (or more) basis as on a lessonby lesson basis.Example PPF SheetThe PPF sheet

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Environmental Engineering

many of their peers who feel more confidence in this area a confidence that ispostulated on the latter’s choice of an industrial career. The authors plan on using this initial survey to form a basis for a qualitative instrumentthat more pointedly asks the respondents to give their perceptions about what an engineer doesand how she/he works in a typical setting. The instrument would also gauge perceptions abouthow this image is being supported by the curriculum in general, and by the CI class in particular.AcknowledgmentsThe authors gratefully acknowledge Dr. Zahra Hazari in the Department of Engineering andScience Education for conducting the statistical analyses, and in assisting with the interpretationof the results. We also wish to

Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Iskander, University of Utah; Paul Gore, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

’ interestsand historical trends were analyzed in reference to specific career aspirations and collegemajors. Every student taking the ACT during those years was included in the currentstudy. (estimate current number). Demographic information includes gender, ethnicity,religious background, socio-economic status and geographic location were all part of theavailable data source. ACT scores, as well as expressed interests and generaldemographic information were compiled. Expressed interest in academic major andfuture career were assessed on the ACT registration profile using two items (e.g., whichcollege major [program of study] do you plan to enter and what career aspiration do youhave). Students were presented with over 300 choices that included 25

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Connolly, University of Texas, San Antonio; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Javier Kypuros, University of Texas, Pan American

the suspension dynamics when subjected to animpact force. They also performed experiments in which they rode their bikes over differentterrain profiles: a paved surface, an unpaved road, and rocky terrain, and recorded and analyzedacceleration time histories to assess how shock levels and energy absorption varied among bikeswith different suspension systems. Figure 4: Mountain Bike Suspension Vibration StudiesAssessment PlanTwo levels of evaluation are planned – project assessment and student assessment. Project-wise,the authors will assess qualitatively and quantitatively the impact of meeting the goals andobjectives previously outlined. Student-wise, the authors will assess students’ mastery ofmeasurements concepts and

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Harper, Denison University; Richard Freuler, Ohio State University; Stuart Brand, Ohio State University; Craig Morin, Ohio State University; Patrick Wensing, Ohio State University; John Demel, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

group were ME majors and twowere ChBE majors. There were five women in the pilot group but only one in the control group. Page 14.345.6AssessmentThe assessment plan was two-pronged. The first was to compare student performance oncommon questions on the final exams. The second was to administer a programming beliefssurvey both pre-course and post-course.I. Exam Performance -- The final exams contained two styles of problems that were of interestfor this study. Two problems on the final exam asked the students to write programs toaccomplish specified tasks. These problems were worded identically and were graded on verysimilar scales. Statistically

Conference Session

Research and Project Initiatives in IT and IET

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Davis, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University; Sorraya Khiewnavawongsa, Purdue University; Regena Scott, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

” knowledge. The result will be a clearly-defined economic difference between sourcing methodologies, complete with specific methodsof quantifying (in terms of money) many of the benefits of VMI that impact the bottom line, butare not easily converted to a dollar figure.IntroductionVendor management of inventory (VMI) has a distinguished recent history of progress andsuccess at the highest levels of industry.[1] From Procter and Gamble’s 24-year-old partnershipwith Wal-Mart to the current environment of widespread big-box retailer adoption, VMI hasgrown up from its roots as a wishful thinking plan to combat the bullwhip effect to a legitimateand even dominant idea for optimization of a retail supply chain.[2]Even so, VMI remains difficult to sell to

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer McDonald, Daniel Webster College; Alexandra Sobin, Daniel Webster College; Marie Planchard, Massachusetts Bay Community College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

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Engineering Design Graphics

for two years now which allows for her to gain practical insights into real world applications. She plans on pursuing a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and working towards a career in aircraft design. Email:sobin_alexandra@dwc.eduMarie Planchard, Massachusetts Bay Community College Marie Planchard is Director of Education for SolidWorks Corporation. She is responsible for worldwide development of curricula and content for the SolidWorks educational products across all levels of academia. For 10 years, Marie Planchard was an engineering professor and technology outreach coordinator at Massachusetts Bay Community College. Before developing the CAD program, she spent 13 years in

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eduardo Chappa, Texas A&M International University; Terutake Abe, Texas A&M International University; Fethi Belkhouche, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University; Qingwen Ni, Texas A&M International University; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University

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Mathematics

, University Administration required departments to develop programoutcomes. This would be general objectives for each program that would be assessed each year. Thisrepresents a paradigm shift in assessment, since in previous cycles, assessed outcomes were directlylinked to the university strategic plan, and now assessed outcomes are linked to the needs of a program.Each program must develop a list of three to five program outcomes and choose one to three of these, tobe assessed each year. At the time of this task the department offered six degree programs, so potentiallythere could be thirty program outcomes and eighteen of them to be assessed each year. Therefore, in orderto simplify the job of assessing program outcomes, the Assessment Committee

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Tiffany Walter Choplin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Educational Research and Methods

. This core groupof eleven faculty members prepared for a leadership role in the communication project byattending a CxC-sponsored Faculty Institute during the summer of 2005. The engineering teamreceived a comprehensive orientation to the campus-wide CxC program and explored how theirparticipation could lead to the integration of communication goals in the COE curriculum. Theyworked on their individual syllabi, as well as college-wide plans for a COE CommunicationStudio. They shared their ideas about an engineering graduate’s need for communication skillsand their newly-revised syllabi with faculty members representing all colleges, who provided aninterdisciplinary audience for their perspectives. In many cases, the necessary communication

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nipul Patel, Purdue University, North Central; Bryan Marshall, Georgia College and State University

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Information Systems

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/07/28NF-cloud-computing-security_2.html Last Accessed on: February 6, 20094. Biggest Cloud Challenge: Security http://cloudsecurity.org/2008/10/14/biggest-cloud-challenge-security/ Last Accessed on: February 6, 20095. Why Cloud Computing Needs Security http://gigaom.com/2008/06/10/the-amazon-outage-fortresses-in-the-clouds/ Last Accessed on: February 6, 20096. Privacy, security issues darken cloud computing plans http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/091608-andreas.html Last Accessed on: February 6, 20097. Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/02

Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research in ET

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Denton, Purdue University; Nancy Denton, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

opportunity to obtain employees with a wider base ofknowledge and experience and subsequently work across a wider base of the industry. The workdiscussed here is industry based certification performed by the professional and industrialsocieties representing the both the employers and employees.Professional certification has numerous advantages for the employer and employee. For theemployer, benefits include: ≠ A pre-defined assessment tool to identify individuals with a required competency, ≠ Guidance for setting up employee professional development plans, ≠ The ability to verify applications and practice-based knowledge and skills of individuals using objective criteria, ≠ Potential business advantages such as

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Musselman, CMA Engineers

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Civil Engineering

engineering disciplines, particularly those for whomgraduate engineering education is less common for engineers practicing in the built environment,have expressed significant opposition as the Model Law requirements have been adopted. Someengineering disciplines in addition to civil and environmental engineers have begun work ondefining their bodies of knowledge, while others, particularly those with limited numbers ofpractitioners, likely will not focus on requisite bodies of knowledge for professional practice. Inthat context, and with these disparate views among engineering disciplines, planning forimplementing changes in engineering education requirements for the future continues.References (1) “Educating the Engineer of 2020, Adapting

Conference Session

LABVIEW-Based Experiments and Robotics Laboratory

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanfei Liu, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

the course was upgraded. The resultsof students’ survey on laboratory experience showed positive feedbacks in working with theVEX robotic kits and the MPLAB programming environment. However, students raisedconcerns that the VEX robotic kits did not offer enough sufficiency to build their designedsystem (Question 1 in Table 3). The author is constantly improving the course content and thelaboratory using students’ feedback. More VEX parts were added to the kits during the summerof 2008 based on students’ feedback. The score for Question 1 in the survey in the fall of 2008shows a small improvement. More parts are planned to be added during the summer of 2009.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by 2007 Summer Instructional Development Grant

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Industrial Engineering

teachingfocus, three identify primarily with the BSIE, three primarily with the BSE, and 1 with both.However, these distinctions are stated too strongly and we all feel responsible for students inboth programs; the BSE and BSIE programs share most of the courses in the first two years andmany higher level courses as well.I will now explain each step in more depth.Obtain job descriptionsFirst, we asked the faculty to obtain job descriptions from company websites and from job searchwebsites. Each faculty member searched job web sites such as Monster.com andEngineeringjobs.com using specific key words; we used a faculty meeting to plan that search andsplit up the keywords among us. Faculty members also find jobs on the websites of specificcompanies that

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tayte Nelson, Oregon Institute of Technology; Jialu Xie, Oregon Institute of Technology; John Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

slanted at both sides. Each module again has a corresponding female geometry thatconstrains the module in the mobile robot’s tool space. The main difference between thisgeometry and that of the footholds, though, is that this geometry is constant along thedirection of the forks. As such, the modules are fixed in only 5 axes, allowing for slidealong the fork under substantial force to break static friction.Navigation and orientation for the autonomous shuttle are carried out predominantly byan overhead machine vision system. Across the workspace floor, position and orientationof the mobile shuttle is monitored through a standard machine vision program. These dataare used to continually update the status of the robot and plan its path to reach its

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Bonner, Texas A&M University; Felecia Nave, Prairie View A&M University; Sherri Frizell, Prairie View A&M University; Carmen Villa, Texas A&M University; Helene Cook, Texas A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

, Y. S., Guba, E. G. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Newbury Park, CA:Sage17. Strauss, A. & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. (2nd ed). Thousand Oaks:Sage.18. Creswell, J. C. (2002). Educational research. Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. NJ: Pearson Education. Page 14.784.9 7

Conference Session

Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaoqing Qian, Alabama A&M University; Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University; George Seweryniak, DoE Computational Science Division; Debbie McCoy, Oak Ridge National Lab

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Minorities in Engineering

Science (RAMS) Program inspired him to include ORNL into his plans for graduate school in mechanical engineering. "As long as I can do research with them, I'll be happy no matter what university [I get into]," he says. This is music to the ears of … RAMS program administrator, because attracting more underrepresented minorities to careers in science is exactly what she's trying to do. "The long-term goal is to prepare [underrepresented minorities] to become those critical staff scientists that we need for the future workforce, hopefully here [at ORNL]."….”RAMS program is aimed at increasing the number of under-represented populations in theworkplace by encouraging students to pursue advanced degrees in

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Garry Warren, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; David Cordes, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

added. Informally, discussions withstudents indicate that they enjoy discussing issues outside of the classroom with their faculty.Our only metric of success, to date, is the continued regular attendance that we see from thestudents. We believe this is a positive sign.While we have not done any formal assessment in the past, we are planning on including thisactivity in the senior exit interviews of mechanical engineering students this semester. In thepast, senior exit interviews in ME found that students indicated that they never did anythingrelated to contemporary issues. The faculty in ME could rattle off numerous topics from theircourses, e.g. alternative energies, biomedical implants, and a host of others that were clearlycontemporary, but

Conference Session

Design Methodology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Rinehart, NIOSH; Donna Heidel, NIOSH; Andrea Okun, NIOSH; Michael Barsan, NIOSH

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Design in Engineering Education

four over-arching functional areas ofpractice, policy, research, and education.13 The diagram shows the framework for the initiative.More detailed and current information is available on the NIOSH PtD website.14 Page 14.489.4 3One of the initiative’s functional areas focuses on “education,” and there is a paper available thatsummarizes current and potential future activities in this area.15 There is also a comprehensivePtD National Strategic Plan being developed with input from stakeholders across manydisciplines and industry sectors, which will be available for public comment in 2009. TheNIOSH PtD

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Educational Research and Methods

: topic sentence. Paragraph Order Contributes to an Demonstrates a Ineffective or inconsistent Random effective argument; clear plan Points: reinforces the content Transitions Effective and varied Transitions are used Mechanical and/or Transitions are absent (between sentences) transitions greatly consistently repetitive transitions for the most part. assist audience in throughout reading the paper. Points:MECHANICS & LINGUISTICS Word Choice

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Homayoon Abtahi, Florida Atlantic University; Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University

groups from seniordesign classes are utilizing the lab for FC design projects. It is anticipated that the currentdevelopment of the new laboratory will have a direct impact on undergraduate education bycreating a focal point for interdisciplinary learning, a balance between theoretical and hands-onexperience in undergraduate teaching, and application of these educational tools in a vibranttechnology sector. The evaluation plan for the course materials focuses on three general areas.The first focus is on the assessment of the course modules. The second focus is related tostudent-identified strengths/weaknesses of the course/modules. Finally, the third focus is todocument the course/curricular refinements resulting from the evaluative data

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kip Coonley, Duke University; Martin Brooke, Duke University; Philip Ethier, Duke University; Hisham Massoud, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 14.418.2dramatically reduced. To address the challenge of getting students to practice meaningfulelectronics design without extensive theoretical background, a curiosity driven and laboratoryfocused course structure has been adopted. Figure 1 depicts the overall layout of the curriculum.In traditional laboratory courses, students work in groups following a pre-developed laboratorymanual to build circuits from schematics, probe currents and voltages, and report the results inthe form of a standard engineering lab report. Such a course of study in a laboratory curriculumgenerally leads to short-term success with the only goal in mind being the successful completionof the laboratory period. Longer-term planning and project development are

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin

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First-Year Programs

and formal instrument for engagingpresence, we incorporated a countdown clock on our main page (see Figure 7) both as aninformative tool and device for assessing personal time investment. Students are providedcontinuous updates about impending deadlines thus instigating a sense a personalinvolvement in the course without excessive external regulation – one of the features ofPSI.Future implementation plans include creating “virtual study groups”, where the coursecan be subdivided into smaller sections so that students can get better acquainted withsome of their classmates and can help and encourage each other to complete the course.The concept of using performance based test generation to progress students either morequickly, or more slowly

Conference Session

Automation and Robotics Subjects in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Devine, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

functions in the real world,making the software easier to learn. Unfortunately this first attempt yielded less thansatisfactory results. The most obvious problem with this plan dealt with time constraints andcompeting class priorities. Because the instruction on off-line programming came at the end ofthe semester, many students were still struggling to complete other assigned hands-on projects inthe class. Furthermore, workloads from final projects assigned in other classes also preventedstudents from spending quality time working on the RobotStudio lab activities that may havebeen perceived as being “tacked on” the end of the class. Some students also commented that itwas difficult for them to complete the assignments in a timely manner because

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston; Alan Rolf Mickelson, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

figure1 as their set of outcomes to be assessed, conclude that there is a strong tendencyfor the simulation labs to emphasize conceptual understanding. Here we plan to limit the scopeof our investigation to formative assessment of conceptual understanding while further limitingdiscussion to online electrical engineering/technology laboratories which we take to include electrooptical laboratories. Various researchers have discussed implementation of online electrical engineering and network-ing laboratories [3, 8, 13, 29, 31, 26, 45, 40] without detailing their assessment approaches. Mostresearchers who have reported the results of their assessments of such online labs have concludedthat the laboratories were most effective according to the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura L. Pauley, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

insert the appropriate property values. More text description willbe added to the problem solutions as they are refined.Overall, I find the current Mathcad solutions to be readable and easily modified with newvalues of the flow variables. I plan to develop more problem solutions using Mathcad so thathomework and exam problems can be easily modified each year.References1 F.P. Beer & E.R. Johnston “Vector Mechanics for Engineers”http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/engmech/beerjohnston/vm/solutions.mhtml2 Bedford, Keith W., Streeter, Victor L., Wylie, E. Benjamin, Fluid Mechanics 9th Ed., WBC/McGraw-Hill,New York, NY.ISBN 0-07-062537-9(Bundled with The Student Edition of Mathcad 7.)3 http://www.mpassociates.gr/software/distrib/science/mathsoft

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

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Materials

processing. 2) Describe two variations of the technology and the manufacturing process that you observed in the video. 3) List three issues or factors important to the implementation of the process described in question #1 and #2. 4) Describe examples of two parts (or components) that are produced using this manufacturing process and best illustrate the important factors in the process.Industrial field trips are planned to coincide with the topics in lectures and in the readingsassigned for homework. The logistics for getting the entire class to attend are a bit tricky and thelocation of the industrial facility must be within 20-25 minutes of the college. With a 1 hour tour,the trip can be completed in the 2 hour lab