Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Swan

careers.IntroductionTufts University has a number of unique advising program for entering first-yearstudents. One of the options is “Window on Research” course which links a small groupof students with faculty advisor who will expose the students to his/her research. Duringthe Fall 2003 semester, the author lead such a “windows on research” effort that wasfocused on reuse options for waste materials. The objective of the course was two fold: 1. Introduce students to the processes involved in research. Specifically, it was expected that the students would be involved in hypothesis development, data collection, analysis, and synthesis. 2. Provide a common meeting time for student advising.This paper presents the results of this advising program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

1 - 2 hours / $15 - 20 an hour Set-up new member / Hour / Person 1 - 2 hours / $15 - 20 an hour ISP server power usage / Month $10-25 Display of Static and Variable costs involved. Prices were obtained from several vendors and ISP’s.Examination of Table 1 will reveal that costs are concentrated in network access fees. Whileweb conferencing systems may be operated using dialup services, the lack of bandwidth willadversely impact the quality of the conference. While this may not be a factor in personalcommunication or chat systems, higher bandwidths are necessary to attain the desired systemperformance in a group

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sexton

Page 9.1174.2[1] first published 1971 discussed these ideas. Unfortunately, at that time the easy access to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcomputers and user friendly software did not exist; therefore from a practical stand point only thesimplest of energy systems could be analyzed by the student. With the development of computerhardware and user-friendly software the student can now handle much more complicatedsystems. This can be done without spending a disproportionate amount of class time and efforton the mathematics involved in the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

,Technical Emphasis Courses, and Elective Courses. Table 1 below lists specific courses andrequirements. CORE COURSES Mathematics (Choice of 1 course) MATH 5230 Linear Algebra MATH 6030 Statistical Methods with Applications Computer Applications CEE 7830 Optimization with Engineering Applications Technical Communications (Choice of 1 course) COMM 5010 Business Communications ENGL 5000 Technical Writing

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Project DescriptionThe project was chosen to maximize the number of key “bioprocessing” issues addressed,independent of the courses for which the students would be given grades. The assignmentwas given the first day as “to produce 1 to 10 grams of active bovine chymosin using theE. coli cells with the plasmid provided”. They were given a draft of a master’s thesis(Shanter, 2002) concerning the refolding kinetics of prochymosin, and a paper on similartopic in which the researchers had genetically engineered porcine pepsin DNA into an E.coli cell and expressed the enzyme.Though not explicitly discussed with them, in order to

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karel Stryczek; Bryan Griffen; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

the PID algorithm is capable of controlling the vast majority of industrialprocesses, it is due to its lack of ability to control deadtime dominant systems and systems withmultiple interacting input and output variables that advanced process control techniques havebeen a recent major focus of development. “Advanced process control is the intelligent, well-managed, intensive use of technology, systems, and tools based on sound process knowledge,with the objective being to deliver substantial benefits to plant operations in a most cost-effectiveand timely manner”.1 These solutions seek to extract optimum value from existing assets.Model predictive control (MPC), a branch of advance process control, is a viable control strategyfor production

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

engineering, test engineering, and marketing. A competition was held to determine thewinning team across two categories – 1) distance and 2) flight endurance. Teams were requiredto develop their own designs on AutoCAD using construction materials provided only by theinstructors, with corresponding costs for each item used in creating the paper airplanes. Thepaper airplane construction materials were priced individually and were charged to the teams asthey were consumed. Students were integrated into functional positions on each team,independent of their individual gender and age level. Of the 17 students who completed the fullprogram and attended the awards ceremony, ten of the students (or approximately 60%) werefemale. This paper will detail the

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

before. An example of thisis the space shuttle orbiter. A reusable liquid fueled rocket had never been built before.In this section of the camp, we had the students solve some problems with the use ofmanipulatives. Some of the problems were from the excellent book by Fogler and LeBlanc6.The goal of this section was to teach some problem solving skills as well as get the students usedto working in teams. A couple of these problems are described below. Problem Number 1 Take twelve sticks and put them in the pattern shown below. Now rearrange four sticks so

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

procedure and commercial FEA software can also be involved.IntroductionFinite Element Analysis (FEA) is a very powerful tool that is used in virtually any area in the fieldof Mechanical Engineering and many other disciplines. Many institutions have an FEA course asa technical elective in senior level [1, 2] . However, it is beneficial for the mechanical engineeringstudents to have exposure to this tool as frequently as possible in their engineering education [3] ,and as early as possible. Many educators introduce FEA in lower level mechanical engineeringcourses, most likely in Mechanics of Materials [4, 5, 6] . Page 9.1179.1FEA can be

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

goes a long Page 9.1400.1way to assure continuation of projects such as the UMESAIR project. The project involves design,development and utilization of an instrumented tethered blimp for aerial imaging and analysis. Figure 1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 2470shows a schematic of the UMESAIR project and various components. To avoid cluttering the winch

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

prototypingtechnologies. Questions are given in the form of multiple choice and designed to be answeredwithin 5 seconds. Calculations are almost nonexistent or so trivial that a calculator is not needed.Seven sets of questions with a total of 105 questions are developed using MicrosoftPowerPoint including vocal instructions. Figure 1 shows some example slides of thecompetition.Each team consists of four to five members depending on the size of the class. A total of fourteams will be formed prior to the competition. The same team will work as a group for theirfinal trophy project. Each team will compete against each other by blind draw at the beginning.The sequence of competition is similar to the double elimination tournament. The winning teamin each round

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Peerman; Michael Payne; Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2651 Yosemite Slough San Francisco, CA HPNSY South BasinFigure 1: Location of Yosemite Slough, South Basin, and the former Hunters Point NavalShipyard (HPNSY) in San Francisco, CA.The visible remnant of the creek is the Yosemite Slough which serves as the interface betweenthe watershed and the South Basin of San Francisco Bay, Figure 1.The Yosemite Watershed faces severe environmental

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

creditsof professional engineering courses at the end of the career that someone took to get their major.It is no easy task to get the teachers of well-established engineering schools with a long and solidtrack record and renowned programs to even consider the possibility of changing andtransforming the curriculum to fit current circumstances. Why change if we have done so welluntil now? No doubt there are plenty of valid reasons to keep the current models. But, how elsewill we now if we could be doing better? The only alternative is to give ourselves the time andspace to be critical, to objectively revise the programs in depth to be fully convinced that it is notconvenient to change.Bibliographic Information:1. ABET, CACEI, CEAB of CCPE (November

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Radke; Evangelyn Alocilja

thecommercialization process. Commercialization encompasses many fields, includingproduct development, finance, marketing, intellectual property law and management.Engineering students are uniquely positioned to make significant contributions in leadinga product to the marketplace.Such a task was given to three biosystems engineering graduate students at MichiganState University in the form of an E-Team. The E-Team, intent on commercializing abiosensor developed at MSU, worked across disciplines to set up a business plan, amarket analysis, intellectual property protection and licensing, securing funding sourcesand developing a workable prototype biosensor. The E-Team followed the processillustrated in Figure 1, conducting project selection, team formation

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

, which is a natural extension of the PBL experience. In additionto illustrating how we have incorporated PBL experiences in our curriculum, this paper willinclude examples of problems, tools, and assessment techniques designed to promote thelearning of these soft skills.IntroductionIn order to achieve ABET accreditation, engineering programs must demonstrate achievement ofa minimum set of program outcomes, as described in ABET’s Criterion 3. These outcomes arestatements that describe skills that “students are expected to know or be able to do by the time ofgraduation from the program.”1 A closer examination of these skills suggests that they can bedivided into two sets as illustrated in Table 1. The first set, one which engineering educators

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Nicholson

guidelines, and are as follows: 1) Select and Develop Sites to Promote Livable Communities. 2) Develop Flexible Designs to Enhance Building Longevity. 3) Use Natural Strategies to Protect and Restore Water Resources. 4) Improve Energy Efficiency While Ensuring Thermal Comfort 5) Reduce Environmental Impacts Related to Energy Use. 6) Promote Occupant Health and Well-Being in the Indoor Environment. 7) Conserve Water and Consider Water Reuse Systems. 8) Use Environmentally Preferable Building Materials. 9) Use Appropriate Plant Materials. Page 9.773.6 10) Plan for Recycling During Construction

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

academic dishonesty. This fear is confirmed tosome extent by studies that reveal students’ admissions that cheating is common.1 Research in both the UnitedStates and Great Britain confirms that about fifty percent of college students admit to cheating.2Online learning forces instructors to deal with new practical issues. Web-based courses take teaching to new levelsas the profession wrestles with authentication of students’ work, proxy students, instant messaging during exams,computer security, electronic forgery and other novelties. It is not obvious that technology to stop cheating willkeep pace with technology to cheat, and the legal and ethical constraint on using it obviously will not deter cheaters.Sophocles said, “No treaty is ever an

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Camille George

spent on hydrogen generation, storage & distribution.ENGR 297 fulfills four credits of engineering electives.”1 Fourteen undergraduate students at thejunior and senior levels and two-adult learners from the community participated in the course.The course met three times a week with a lecture time of 65 minutes, over 14 weeks. The classwas featured on the Minnesota journal, a weekly local environmental program. A video clip ofthe program and student interviews can be viewed atwww.stthomas.edu/engineering/News/FuelCell/Default.htm . Table I. Learning Objectives for Fuel Cell Engineering KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT 1. To learn the current state of fuel cell technology. 2. To understand experiments and data acquisition

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

1 Session Number 2675 Opportunities for Engineering Education Funding at the National Science Foundation Krishna Vedula Program Officer Division of Engineering Education Centers (ENG) & Division of Undergraduate Education (EHR) National Science FoundationAbstractNSF has become increasingly concerned with the need for changes in undergraduate engineeringeducation to meet the challenges of the changing workforce as

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Boucher; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

software and reversed so that logic (1) in the ACL software atthe controller site is a logic (1) at the Host.Power Connection to the RSAIDS The RSAIDS prototype unit runs on 9 Volts DC. This power is supplied by a standard plugin power module as used by many modern electronic devices. There is no power switch on thisRSAIDS unit. If re-initialization is required, the operator simply unplugs the power from the 9Volt wall power adapter cord where it goes into the power plug on the RSAIDS then reinsert thecord into the RSAIDS a second or two later. Although this is somewhat more inconvenient thanusing a reset button, there are few times that reset of the RSAIDS has been required.RSAIDS Communication Commands The command interface between the

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

achievethe desired precision, these spots are typically applied by machines called microarrayers. Theoverall array dimensions are approximately 2 cm by 2 cm. Each spot of DNA is 100 to 200microns in diameter and up to 20,000 can be applied to one slide [1]. Figure 1 shows how amicroarray is printed. Figure 1. Printing microarrays [2]. The principle underlying the use of microarrays is DNA Hybridization. DNA is a double stranded molecule with each strand consisting of a stand of nucleotides. Each nucleotide consists of a sugar, phosphate

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

of civil engineering projects. For example, students in ageotechnical engineering course can obtain soil characteristics data from the program and usethat information to design a building foundation. In a structural engineering class following this,students design the structure that will be supported by this foundation.Our adaptation of the Sooner City concept was to take the design across the curriculum conceptand apply it to the first-semester introductory engineering course. Rather than an entire city,freshmen would complete five design projects centered on a park on campus.The goals of the project are: GOAL 1: Stimulate interest in engineering among freshmen; GOAL 2: Ensure that freshmen find the revised course “fun” yet challenging

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

andvisualization of SAV motion and control performance. The algorithms have also beenimplemented in C. NCARR graphics package has been utilized in conjunction with the C-program for visualization purposes.1. IntroductionThe study reported in this document is the result of preliminary investigations andsimulations conducted by the primary author, who is a faculty member in Department ofEngineering and Aviation Sciences and two graduate students in the Department ofMathematics and Computer Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore(UMES)in collaboration with a NASA colleague at NASA Wallops Flight Facility(WFF) of theGoddard Space Flight Center(GSFC) during a ten week fellowship program co-sponsoredby NASA, ASEE and Maryland Space Grant Consortium

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

into aworking knowledge of DSP hardware design. We have developed a pedagogical frameworkwhereby students can leverage their previous knowledge of DSP theory and VHDL hardwaredesign techniques to design, simulate, synthesize, and test digital signal processing systems.The synthesized hardware is implemented on FPGAs, which provides a fast and cost-effectiveway of prototyping hardware systems in a laboratory environment. This framework allowsstudents to expand their previous knowledge into a more complete understanding of the entiredesign process from specification and simulation through synthesis and verification.1 IntroductionStudents often struggle to bridge the gap between the theory and the hardware implementa-tion of digital signal

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Tracy; Jin Yoo; Jason Immekus; Brian French; Susan Maller; William Oakes

Session 3230 Developing Self-Report Instruments to Measure ABET EC 2000 Criterion 3 Professional Outcomes Jason C. Immekus, Sara Tracy, Jin Eun Yoo, Susan J. Maller, Brian F. French, William C. Oakes Purdue UniversityAbstract The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s Engineering Criteria2000 (ABET EC2000)1 Criterion 3 Programs Outcomes and Assessment specifiesoutcomes college graduates are expected to know and demonstrate following graduationfrom accredited engineering programs. The generality of Criterion 3 objectives requiresengineering programs

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

. Page 9.1197.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOur intended learning outcomes of the workshop were the following. The student will: 1. become familiar with the field of engineering; 2. become knowledgeable about the Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework; 3. develop a basic understanding of the engineering design process; 4. develop an understanding of engineering as a pedagogical tool that integrates various academic disciplines and provides a mechanism for contextual learning; and 5. develop an

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Reece; Carl White

potential impact of the initial results to future minority students. In addition,ATMO’s infrastructure and the potential impact of ATMO’s human resourcemanagement strategies on student retention and academic performance will be addressed.I. INTRODUCTIONA key factor for motivating students to pursue advanced degrees and research careers inscience and engineering is a productive research experience as an undergraduate.[1]However, how should the university create this productive research experience? Minority Page 9.441.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Carter; Paula Leventman; Katherine Ziemer

Session Number: STEM Teams and The Great Orange Squeeze: A Unique Approach to Preparing Middle School Educators for the Massachusetts Engineering Framework Requirements Katherine S. Ziemer1, Tracy Carter1, Paula Leventman2 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115/ 2College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to introduce engineering as part of the K-12education frameworks. In the middle schools, the engineering framework is tested as part of thecompulsory Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam. The engineeringframework requirement

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3453Purdue University’s Freshman Engineering Purdue University’s Department of Freshman Engineering has responsibility for all of theapproximately 1650 first-year engineering students. All engineering students are required tocomplete a common first year core of classes shown in Table 1 before matriculating to theirrespective engineering major. Minimum grade levels are established for matriculation to themajor of their choice. The department includes seven tenure track faculty and four academicadvisors. This department has the responsibility for all of the academic advising for first

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

capstone design experience thenext year. It has truly revolutionized the way students understand space systems engineering.The EyasSAT concept is not wholly unique. The CubeSat2,3,4,5 effort at Stanford Universityprovided the inspiration for building micro-satellites in a short period of time. However, unlikeCubeSat, EyasSAT was designed purely to meet the educational needs of the classroom and notfor spaceflight.EyasSAT System OverviewEyasSAT is a microsatellite that demonstrates all six of the traditional satellite subsystems:Structural, Electrical Power (EPS), Data Handling, Communications (Comm), AttitudeDetermination and Control (ADCS), and Thermal subsystems as shown in the block diagram inFigure 1 and in the picture in Figure 2. It also has