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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

, project, and construction management. Work has included internationalinstitutional strengthening, management consulting, national housing policies and implementation plans. Page 9.1429.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Patricia Fox

faculty research opportunities will be pursued with industries and our academic partner, theBerufsakademie, Mannheim in the future. This was the first study abroad course for the IUPUI School of Engineering andTechnology. The school is very grateful to the German industry sponsors who welcomed ourstudents and faculty and provided all of them with a unique opportunity to look at theirsustainable practices and developments. The course instructors are looking forward to addingnew industries to the course in the future. Currently, plans are underway for subsequent yearlyofferings of the course. Page 9.1237.7 “Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

home use bought by the department for them, as the number of students isusually small for this class (around 15), and also because Silicon Chalk has not yet finalized theirfinancial model for various licensing modes at this time. The cost is $33 per PC installation andlicenses need to be renewed every year.As we plan to use Silicon Chalk (peer-to-peer and using UDP protocols) together withNetSupport Manager (client-server and using TCP/IP protocols), we had some initial concernswhether they are compatible with each other, but we are glad to report that they work together Page 9.144.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

ActivitiesConclusionsIncorporating these activities into the classroom is not always simple. A lot of planning,preparation, several trial runs, internet searches, and more may be necessary. It can alsobe very difficult to keep these activities going. It’s much easier to stand in front of theclassroom and lecture as has been done in the past. However, in the interest of thestudents, their understanding of the material, and their continued desire to learn, it isbetter to teach outside the box and engage the students in some experiential learning.Bibliography 1. Learning Styles vs. Teaching Styles, www.sosu.edu/cidt/briefs/tb1.htm 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology web page at IUPUI, www.engr.iupui.edu/met 3. Experiential Learning in

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Jao; Khalid Al-Olimat

theinstructor to custom design and individualize instruction and learner to “plan, execute, andmanage” his or her learning experience at the rate, place, and time of the learner’s choice.Folkestad and De Miranda [11] have used multimedia through screen-capture to teach studentshow to use CAD software. They reported that students were unsatisfied with this instructionaltool due to its fast pace and the need to switch back and forth from the recorded lecture to theCAD software. In this paper, a new instructional tool is presented and the problems encounteredin reference [11] are solved by having a variable pace (slow, medium, fast) which allows thestudents to proceed at their desired pace. The files in this instructional tool have a differentformat and

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kun-jung Hsu

Construction Technology, Leader University. He isalso a senior lecturer of the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, Taiwan University. Dr. Hsu has twentyyears’ experience in professional practice as a senior architect and construction manager. Current researchinterests include housing economics, construction economics, community design and special topics on projectevaluation. Page 9.1229.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Accreditation and Related Issues in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Christy

poetry contest judges. Detailed results willbe presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference. Potential future plans might be to expandthe contest to include fine art in addition to the poetry and/or to extend the contest college-wide.The results from the weekly essay assignments included a marked improvement in students’written work as judged by the instructor. Students’ initial resistance to the essay requirementconsistently decreased over the time span of each course. Several students claimed they actuallylooked forward to the weekly essay assignments because it gave them the opportunity to think innew ways about what they were learning and how. One student, after graduation, returnedspecifically to tell the instructor how much he had

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

)16. McGregor, M., CCNP Cisco Networking Academy Program: Remote Access Companion Guide. 2002, Indianapolis IN: Cisco Press. 492. (2002).17. Lewis, W., CCNP Cisco Networking Academy Program: Multilayer Switching Guide. 2003, Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press. 636. (2003).GUPREET KOHLIGurpreet is a PhD student at Edith Cowan University with two years of experience in Lecturing and DevelopingNetwork and Data Communication units at Edith Cowan University. Gurpreet is currently investigating web servicesand capacity planning of e-business sites as part of his research at ECU.PAUL MAJAssociate Professor S. P. MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientific information systemsintegration and management

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Systems units at eCentral TAFE.GUPREET KOHLIGurpreet is a PhD student at Edith Cowan University with two years of experience in Lecturing and DevelopingNetwork and Data Communication units at Edith Cowan University. Gurpreet is currently investigating webservices and capacity planning of e-business sites as part of his research at ECU.DAVID VEALDavid received an honours degree in theoretical physics from the University of York in England. Aftercompleting a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Keel after which he lectured inphysics at South Devon College UK for 10 years. He now lives in Western Australia where he has taughtcomputing, mathematics and physics at high school level. He now lectures in computing science at ECU

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Roth

Workplace Learning,” International Conference on Engineering Education, 2001, Session 7B6. 2. Nitterright, Fredrick; Roth, David; Fisher, Kenneth, “Implementing and Managing Summer Internships at the Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College, for Seniors in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program,” International Conference on Engineering Education, 2001, Session 3149. 3. 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Technology Programs, ABET Technology Accreditation Commission, ABET Inc., Baltimore, MD, website: http://www.abet.org/criteria_tac.html 4. Rogers, Gloria M.; Sando, Jean K., Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1996

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

necessary equipment and cost.In the near future we plan to move the project to the Motorola 68HC12 processor, whichprovides more on-chip memory and faster speed. At that time students will program in acombination of C and assembly, thereby introducing students to a mixed programminglanguage environment. Additional emphasis will be placed on an experimentaldetermination of the Ethernet efficiency, and simulation software will be introduced tomodel the network performance.Bibliography1. Halsall, F., Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards. Addison-Wesley, 2001.2. Leon-Garcia, A. and Widjaja, I., Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and KeyArchitectures. McGraw-Hill, 2000.3. Kurose, J. F. and Ross, K. W

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

employed part-time by the GPRPC to perform day-to-day tasks,serve as production workers for short-run manufacturing projects, and conduct applied researchand problem solving for consortium partners. Seminars, workshops, and regular universitycourses have been delivered on Lean Manufacturing, ProEngineer™, and Rapid ProductDevelopment. Demand for specifically tailored short courses for industry is growing and thereare plans to consolidate student industry internships with faculty research interests under theGPRPC umbrella.Rapid Product Development in the Undergraduate CurriculumFor students in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MNET) program, the GPRPC hasbeen used as a teaching tool and source of employment. We have integrated rapid

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

discusses problems which were encountered in this and othercapstone projects supervised by the author. It includes suggestions for avoiding, or at leastminimizing, such problems in future similar activities. The information should be very useful tofaculty in planning and directing capstone design courses, regardless of topic.“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Page 9.108.1©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The student-centered approach followed in this project is consistent with actions being taken bymany educators to change the educational

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Litwhiler

beupgraded and modified by simply changing the software (or firmware). Planning ahead forinevitable system change is an important lesson for engineering technology students.LabVIEW software is popular in engineering technology curriculum and students are oftenfamiliar with at least using LabVIEW applications. The ease of use, low cost and functionalityof the student version of LabVIEW helps to make it a natural first choice as the software forstudent design projects.2 Even students that are not familiar with structured programming canquickly be creating LabVIEW code.3 The student version also runs on either IBM-compatible(PC) or Apple Macintosh (Mac) computers which makes it ideal for home use by the students.This capability allows the students to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby

in teams representing various corporations and government entities. They interface via e-mail, Internet Chat, or tele-conferences. • Using new long distance learning technologies for research and communication. • Improving students’ verbal and written communications, team work and leadership skills, thus better preparing them for management roles in the global economy. • By being offered free of any charge to all participants, it does not tax the budget of any school. Schools are able to offer a superior collaborative experience at basically no extra cost.Plans for the Future Based on our positive experience, we plan to continue teaching the Global Perspectives inTechnology Management course

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

students receive in these areas.Based on the more in-depth personal interviews with industry professionals, students often havesome understanding of the basic theory but little practical knowledge of the overall process or ofproblems typical of these studies. This may be explained in part by the typical textbook coverageof these topics. Problems and exercises often involve a given data set that is used to demonstratevarious applications such as the calculation of control limits or Cpk values. In many casesstudents are not exposed to critical ancillary issues such as determining the timing and size ofsampling plans, dealing with inaccurate data collection, using basic measuring equipment, andrelating the results of the study to specific

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

eliminated two of the solid modelersoriginally selected to be in the short list for comparison. Because their educational materialswere not found to be adequate for implementation or integration to the course. • Step 4) Conduct Experimentation With The Customized Curriculum.For the remaining two solid modelers, a classroom experimentation was planned to comparetheir effectiveness on student learning and student design performance. The experimentationinvolved the same instructor teaching two sections of the same Introductory Engineering Designcourse -- teaching solid modeling with one software in one section, and using the other in thesecond section during the same semester. When students completed the pre-prepared manuals,for which they needed

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikunja Swain; Mrutyunjaya Swain

FOR FUTURE WORKWe are thankful to DOD/AirForce for providing us the funding to design and develop thislaboratory. This work was funded in part by a PAIR grant from NASA-MURED to SCSU underNCC 5-454. We are thankful to NASA for providing us with this grant. We are also thankful toDr. James E. Payne, Associate Dean of SETS and Professor of Physics, Dr. Donald Walter,Associate Professor of Physics and Principal Investigator for the NASA PAIR project for theirhelp and support to conduct this work.We plan to incorporate the following provisions to our VI in the future: 1. Data Socket and FTP provisions to save files in the client machine generated by the VI. 2. Real time image acquisition using Web camera and web

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda; Thomas O'Neal

Research at the University of Central Florida. In that role, he directs theoperation of the UCF Technology Incubator, perennially ranked among the top incubators in the country.He has served as business development manager for several entrepreneurial ventures and has UCF degressin electrical engineering, business administration and engineering management. He is currently a doctoralcandidate in Engineering Management at UCFDENNIS J. KULONDA is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. Hisresearch and teaching is focused in Engineering Management. He has extensive experience in thedevelopment and management of industrial engineering projects in operational and financial planning andis developing a third edition of

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Lin

optimize a knowledge management with information technologies is acontinuous effort. As a greater number of people adopt it, they will look for moreopportunities to share and collaborate in other ways. Page 9.836.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTypical enterprise applications, including ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM(Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and ERM(Employee Relationship Management), require various types of integration of businessprocess

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

institutions have de-emphasized these traditionallanguages and have instead used an approach that teaches programming skills within the contextof a mathematical toolkit environment. The review team decided not to recommend such anapproach for T.U. at this time but the toolkit approach will be reconsidered in the future.Our internal examination showed that our students were not making the best use possible ofavailable software, in particular Excel. We have therefore made plans to include an Excelinstructional computer in our introductory chemical engineering course. In a similar move, wehave instituted dedicated sessions in which the use of Aspen Plus is taught. It is hoped that ourstudents ability to use the computer tools available to them will

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Blake

challenge. Since it can be clearly related to automobiles andother machines of interest, this topic can be very attractive to students. The broad range ofapplications for this topic should ensure that this component is useful to students later, both inthe classroom and in their careers.Plans for Future DevelopmentsAs the primary instructor for this course, my plans are to reduce the lecture aspect and to domore with team-based instruction and student projects. This topic is adaptable to changes ininstructional format. Some formal explanation of the material will still be required, but one canredesign problems to be solved by groups of students. Also promising as group activities aresimple and inexpensive experiments.Demonstration and student

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Invention and Design 2, theTCC Engineering Ethics site 3, and the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden GraduateSchool of Business Administration 4. This paper will review the nature and use of case studies,discuss their value for developing higher level thinking skills, and describe some of the ethical,environmental and design issues we introduce through cases.The Case for Cases:Case based learning is again becoming popular in engineering education. A case can be used topresent open-ended engineering problems (design, analysis, selection, planning), ethical issues,and business decision situations. Teams of students must analyze the problem presented by thecase, develop a solution, present their results to the class, and be prepared to

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

extendedmarket and technology research phase, many aspects of the design have already been drafted bythe time the SE students begin working with the BE students. Although not ideal, the timing ofthe collaboration is the best feasible option. The second year BE students are not far enoughalong in their research to provide the needed input on requirements and constraints. In fact, thetiming is appropriate for documenting requirements that are unambiguous and measurable, sincethe BE students have developed the appropriate domain knowledge by the third year.This collaboration was planned before the quarter began by the two faculty teaching therequirements course (the authors) and the faculty member advising the third year BE students.The BE faculty member

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

solving the entire MineMadness problem was too difficult in the time allocated so the design problem was simplified to focus exclusively on “getting-over-the-wall,” i.e. the 4 x 4 or 4 x 8’s and no longer was stability, steering and mine management functionality required. Thatsaid, design teams were advised to plan for the addition of eventual steering and mine management modules to be incorporated(in a stable sense) into their machines. Detailed design and manufacturing ensued with students heavily utilizing the CADsystem (SolidWorks [6-9,10]), machine shop, and machine component suppliers (note: no “parts kit” was provided). The lattercomment is important since most students were totally unfamiliar with where to find and purchase real

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James W. Boggs; R. Chris Williams; Kris G. Mattila; Todd Scholz

Michigan Department of Transportation Adopt-a-Highway program by going out twice a year and maintaining the roadway on a section of M-26in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula. Another way in which the program has partnered has been by performing project work inthe area of civil engineering design and planning for the local community. One recent exampleis the work done by students that looked at redesigning a section of a local road in order todevelop a bypass for the section of highway that passes through Michigan Tech’s campus andthe local community. The student's work on this project met with the approval of the AdvisoryBoard members who regularly do this type of work.Primary Education The Pavement Enterprise has partnered with the

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

and with inputs from the faculty, the officers of various studentorganizations, the ABET Committee within the Department, the ABET Coordinator for theSchool of Engineering at UM, and the Board of Advisors for the Department. Periodic reviewsare planned every five years to review the objectives, using the same process, and refine ormodify the objectives and consequently the curriculum, if necessary. These UM ME objectiveswere reviewed and reformulated for the collaborative program, as the goals of the program areslightly different from other programs offered by UM.The program educational objectives for the program area: 1. The program will prepare students for successful engineering careers. 2. Students will learn the fundamentals of

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

in changing strategic or curricular plans. Within this kind of environment,people feel free to experiment and grow, but there is an expectation that what they learn,especially if it could help others in their development, should be shared. Even if somebody is going to go off and do their own thing, the rest of the institution has to support it. We have people in this department who do their own thing different[ly] than other people in the department would do. But the support that they have from the rest of the department is real support. It’s not “Well you do that and I don’t want to have anything to do with you,” it’s “Oh, you’re going to teach that course that way? Fine, that’s really neat. I’ll

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

plans. Instruction andinternalization appear to occur during half the session, more or less.Not surprisingly, both critique and elicitation appear to be present throughout the entire session;however, negotiation occurred towards the end of the session when participants discussed S1’slesson plans, letters of recommendation, S2’s poster abstract and a related topic involvingaudience analysis.Notably, explanation of students’ own research also seemed restricted to those topics. Onereason for this might be that the session was less focused toward the end, such that participants’roles were less strictly defined so that all participants may take on a relatively equal role as co-negotiators.In addition to the types of interactive contributions studied

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

EducationThis approach is similar to that of Cogito, in which 88 subjects used both the Cogito system andthe interview process. Neural net models were then fit to this data and, as noted, correlationswere obtained that were judged to be sufficient for aggregate program assessment measurementsof groups of students over a long time periods. We plan to report on these results next year atASEE.References1. Augustine, N and Vest, C. Engineering Education for A Changing World, Joint Project by the Engineering Deans Council and the Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE, 1994.2. National Science Foundation. Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change, Division of Under- graduate Education, Directorate