Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

Page 10.904.1would find this effort worthy of potential adaptation in their program. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationII- OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECTThe following major objectives were set at the inception of the project; 1. To develop an experiment for examination of fatigue failure theories, 2. To create an opportunity for collaborative research and design efforts between engineering student(s) and faculty, 3. To generate a modular, cost-effective, reproducible apparatus with outstanding design characteristics, 4. To make all information necessary

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

, honorscontract students are required to maintain a project journal to record ideas, data, test results, andexperiences throughout the project.IntroductionThis paper utilizes an Honors Contract to present simplified test procedures for determining theequivalent electric circuit parameters of a quartz crystal. First, the electrical characteristics andparameters of the crystal are defined followed by a description of an experimental setup. Thehardware setup is simple and relies on a homemade signal generator and crystal test fixture. Theremaining components of the system were purchased at a very reasonable price on eBay. For testpurposes a batch of twenty 3.579 MHz "TV color burst" crystals were purchased from anelectronics supplier. A detailed test

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Martini

Section 1526 Real-time, Non-linear, Dynamic Simulation in Teaching Structures: Elementary to Advanced Kirk Martini Department of Architecture, University of VirginiaAbstractThe paper describes a project to develop software and teaching methods which employ real-timenon-linear dynamic structural simulation in topics ranging from introductory statics to advancedsteel design and earthquake engineering. The software is called Arcade and its computationmethod is based on a physics engine, a method which has been widely applied in computergames. The physics engine

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven P. Thomas

projects that by 2006, 50 percent of all U.S. workers will bewomen, and that 44 percent of the U.S. workforce will be employed by industries that areengaged in producing or using information technology products and services (DeVoe, 19989;Newton, 200138). This is not surprising given that information technology accounted for morethan a third of the nation’s real economic growth from 1995 to 1997 (U.S. Department ofCommerce, 199947). In addition, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that approximately137,800 new jobs in information technology (IT) occupations have been and will be producedeach year from 1996 to 2006 (U.S. Department of Commerce, 199947). Adding to this problemis the fact that these occupations are experiencing a significant

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Goedert; E. Terence Foster

students, 1 graduate - North Carolina University, 140 students, 39 graduates - North Dakota State University, 70 students, 17 graduates - Purdue University, 124 students, 39 graduates - Western Michigan University, 110 students, 20 graduates - University of Wisconsin – Madison, 70 students, 35 graduates - American University in Cairo, no data available at time of writingThe U.S. production of ConE graduates has been insufficient to meet the demand of aconstruction industry which accounts for about 11 percent of the GDP and affects a muchlarger portion of the GDP 3. Construction projects are increasing in complexity as isevidenced by the “Big Dig” in Boston and the Bay Bridge renovation in San Francisco.These

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Amrine; Caroline Kayser; James Swanson

Cincinnati:Like many colleges, the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC) is movingin the direction of integrating technology into the learning experiences of our undergraduatestudents. For several years, UC has required each entering freshman to purchase a portablecomputer for use on homework assignments and class projects. Portable computers are requiredinstead of desktops so that students can bring them to classes, laboratories, and use them betweenclasses while on campus. In support of the portable PC requirement, UC has invested in awireless networking infrastructure. Although an early goal was to incorporate the use of PCsinto classes, most of the faculty has been slow to modify course content to directly integrate PCsinto

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

third of the programs reported thatmeasuring achievement of general education goals is attempted as part of the assessment activity.The kinds of assessment methods included a wide variety of student, alumni and employersurveys and interviews, and to a lesser extent, portfolios, capstone projects and practica, andstandardized testing. The survey also found substantial variability in the extent to which Page 10.193.2program outcomes were mapped to course goals and outcomes. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

. Page 10.1305.2 meet regularly to discuss, evaluate, revise, and reimplement our collaborative project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1661Review of literatureInformation literacy can be defined as a set of capabilities; however, it is also an instructionaland intellectual movement13, similar to cross-curricular writing programs that emerged in thelate 1960s with the writing-process movement. Instruction in IL is now viewed as an array ofactivities in an institutional, collaborative

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

forthose meetings. Class meetings should not be dominated by lectures. There is a certain tendencyto feel that the students must be busy every minute in class or that time is being wasted,but if the students are productive only 30 -50 % of the class time they will still be doingand accomplishing more than a typical lecture class. If the technology is available, thestudents should be encouraged to cruise the internet during class, for that is one of themain ways they will gain basic and background information for the project. Laying the groundwork for a particular problem should take no more than one 50minute lecture period. After that the students should be encouraged to seek informationfrom the instructor by asking for specific

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

have worked with the magnet specialist at Estacado HighSchool to develop four high school courses in engineering:4 • Technology in Engineering and Architecture, • Project Management and Basic Engineering and Architecture • Product Engineering and Architecture • Engineering & Architecture Applications and ProfessionalismWhat emerged from the TEKS workshop is the eight-volume TEKS Teachers ResourceGuide. Each grade level has six parts: • Systems • Critical Thinking • Scientific tools • Communication • Patterns and Structures • TechnologyWithin all six categories, and in almost all of the disciplines, the teachers were able tofind ways to integrate engineering concepts, from identifying patterns using DUPLOblocks

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harder

course consists of three hours oflecture and one three-hour laboratory per week. Teams which consisted of two students eachdesigned and developed laboratory experiments for this new course at a fraction the cost that itwould have taken to purchase similar experiments from an outside vendor. In the process, thestudents gained useful insights into thermal design methodology and developed a greaterappreciation for the fundamentals of heat transfer, than would have been realized by simplyperforming “canned” experiments. Student design teams prepared a full laboratory handout aswell as an operations manual as a part of their laboratory experiment design projects. Teamswere given a fixed budget and were required to submit a cost analysis with their

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Session 2005-2282 MIND Links: Resources for Minority Students and Minority Faculty María M. Larrondo Petrie College of Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida USAAbstract. MIND is the acronym for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)MINorities in Engineering Division. One of its latest initiatives is the MIND Links project togather useful web links and information on resources that would allow minority students andminority faculty to find and take full advantage of the myriad of programs and informationdesigned to promote their participation in the engineering and

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rusk Masih

in the industry for twenty years as senior design engineer, project engineer and project manager. After joining the university, he published more than seventy papers in the professional journals and conference proceedings, in the field of lift slab structures stability, geotechnical engineering and engineering education. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Page 10.351.4 copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

Communication (3 credit hours) 2. ENGR 8300: Engineering Leadership for Innovation (3 credit hours) 3. ENGR 8500: Research Methods in Engineering I (3 credit hours) 4. ENGR 8550: Research Methods in Engineering II (3 credit hours) 5. ENGR 8700: Engineering Research Project Development I (3 credit hours) 6. ENGR 8750: Engineering Research Project Development II (3 credit hours)As part of the final requirements for Engineering Research Project Development II, studentstake rigorous written and oral examinations. When a student successfully completes this courseand passes the oral and written examinations, he or she can then start the research fordissertation. Thus, the Engineering Research Project Development

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

10471Abstract“Greening” the engineering curriculum is an important consideration for sustainable engineeringeducation from fundamentals to design in the 21st century. This paper describes the latestadvances in an educational project sponsored by the United States Environmental ProtectionAgency to integrate green engineering principles into the chemical engineering curriculum. Thisproject has engaged faculty from engineering schools across the country to develop web-basedinstructional modules to allow for the seamless integration for green engineering principles suchas risk concepts, green chemistry, mass and energy integration, life-cycle assessment intochemical engineering courses. Currently, faculty have contributed to chemical engineering

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Llewellyn Mann; David Radcliffe

or project management, aspart of their formal continuing professional development. The course was based arounddeveloping the students’ reflexive abilities as engineers[10], in order to facilitate a deepapproach to learning[11]. It was initially set up for external students to obtain formal credit forwork-integrated learning they were experiencing already while in the workplace through astructured reflection process. This was soon changed as primarily internal students enrolledin the course, presenting a unique opportunity to investigate the basis behind work-integratedlearning, and whether or not its ‘essence’ can be applied effectively within a formal setting. Itis important to note that this was not to mimic work-place learning, but rather

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Guerriero; Elizabeth Chain; Mary Vanis; Donna Zerby; Bassam Matar; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Foundation,is a collaborative project between the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity and five community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District.The project has two main goals. The first is to increase the interest in engineering and computerscience by students (especially women and underrepresented minorities) at the communitycolleges, to ease the transition of such students from the community college to the university,and to retain and to graduate engineering community college transfer students through events onall six campuses. The second goal is to build a model collaboration between a university and acommunity college system for engineering students.This paper will describe the activities that have

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

enormously successful for many years, but changing technological and global competitive realities make such a limited approach no longer appropriate. With the emerging need for multidisciplinary teams, non-technical design constraints, and the ethical implications of engineering projects, it has become evident that engineers must understand and consider the larger context of their work and have the knowledge and attitudes necessary to foresee the potential impact of their work on society and the natural environment.1 Achieving this important goal begins with the way we educate our students. The question is how can we go about doing this? The authors of this paper found useful insights into this question from an unlikely source – a graduate program

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

but wanted it integrated into other subject matter15.Research on teachers trained to use DET concepts, however, has shown that DET has a positiveimpact on students. For example, The Materials Technology Institute project provided teachersin Singapore with the background and curriculum needed to create a high school course inMaterials Science and DET16. Students reported the courses: a) made them more interested in ascience career; b) increased enjoyment of laboratory activities; and c) helped develop skills forworking with equipment and in the lab, and 96% said they would recommend the class to theirpeers.PurposeThis study documented the effect of a course designed to help teachers integrate Design,Engineering, and Technology (DET) into their

Conference Session

Accreditation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Painter

survey indicates that 80% of engineering graduates attend schoolsthat have no ethics-related course requirements. Even at schools that have courses withethics-related content, the courses are usually in philosophy or religion and have nospecific engineering ethics component (Stephan, 1998). The American Society forEngineering Education’s (ASEE) Statement on Engineering Ethics Education states: Page 10.1321.1“…To educate students to cope with ethical problems, the first task of the teacher is tomake students aware of ethical problems and help them learn to recognize them. Asecond task is to help students understand that their projects affect people for

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberley R. Breaux; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

multiplies opportunities for reality to interfere with design.As engineering education evolves, many more researchers must become familiar withmethodologies outside traditional technical disciplines. Mixed-methods research calls fordocumentation of processes of research so subsequent projects can benefit from the learningcurve of prior research activities [2]. This paper examines CSM’s implementing research designinto practice, describing both successes and stumbling blocks.introductionFounded in January 2003, the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) isa higher-education Center for Learning and Teaching, funded by both the Directorate forEducation and Human Resources and the Directorate for Engineering (ESI-0227558). The goalis

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Jenny Lo; Bevlee Watford

Session 1526 Promoting Undergraduate Research by Creating a Research Option in a Technical Communication Course: Initial Project Phase* Michael Alley, Jenny Lo, and Bevlee Watford Engineering Education Department Virginia TechAbstract Although many institutions such as the National Science Foundation, the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science, and the National Research Council have called formore undergraduate research, incorporating significant research experiences into undergraduateengineering

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley

presents lessons learned from this pilot symposium and discusseshow we intend to incorporate these lessons into next year’s symposium.Introduction The Boyer Commission Report has urged universities to “make research-basedlearning the standard” for the education of undergraduates [1]. Also calling for more Page 10.73.1* This work was supported by the National Science Foundation: NSF Project 0341171. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationresearch by undergraduates in science, technology

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

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

and prioritize skill sets.The agenda for each focus group included: Identification of local/regional job needs, including job titles and job descriptions Review of existing national skill standards in biotechnology Identification of required entry-level skills, suitable for short-term training programs Recommendations for training delivery methods and preferred training providersSeveral key findings resulted from the meetings, including: 1. The biotechnology industry is very diverse and there isn’t a single organization currently in place to provide a program endorsement. However, one could be created/established. It was generally agreed that, for the purposes of this project, the scope of the

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Kephart; Robert Weissbach

region would require throughout the year. From this data, theaverage daily, weekly, and annual power requirements for a 2,000 square foot home wasdetermined. Hybrid energy systems (using wind and solar power only) were then researched andpriced to determine feasibility in the Great Lakes region. Alternative and supplementary sourcesof home and water heating were also explored in an attempt to reduce energy consumption inorder to meet the specified cost requirements of the renewable energy project. Successes andchallenges of developing a completely self-sufficient (off of the commercial electrical grid)home in the Great Lakes region of North America using renewable energy will be discussed.IntroductionThe purpose of this project is to consider

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Stier

possess specified basic personal skills, technical skillsand business professional skills, b) compare the skills identified as important in this study withthe SME competency gaps listing, and c) use the results of this study as one criteria to revisecurriculum and update a laboratory in the IMS Sequence at ISU. The methodology for this project consisted of randomly selecting small and mid-sizedIllinois manufacturers from the 2004 Illinois Manufacturers Directory. The participants in thestudy completed a survey consisting of questions with regard to demographics, basic personalskills, technical skills, and business/professional skills. A 5 point likert scale was used. The results of this study are being used to help modify a

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted M. Stilgenbauer; Thomas Nicholas; Anthony Brizendine

: Conditions of Learning. Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State University. Page 10.708.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”AuthorsThomas Nicholas II is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at Fairmont StateUniversity. He has received a B. S. in Civil Engineering Technology degree from Fairmont State College and a B.S.and M.S. in Civil Engineering from West Virginia University. Mr. Nicholas’ scholarly activities have includedfunded projects in transportation and structural

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

effects through practical experimentation, as onecannot simply compare the performance of a non-pipelined CPU versus a pipelined CPU, sincethe performance will likely have been strongly affected by other optimizations in the(presumably newer) pipelined CPU.This paper will examine one project I use to demonstrate this concept. In this project, studentswrite a simulation of a series of “instructions” moving through a CPU data path. This simulationtakes three forms: a single-cycle implementation, where each instruction takes exactly one clockcycle to execute (but this clock cycle must be long enough to handle all of the requirements ofthe longest instruction type); a multi-cycle implementation, where each instruction can takemultiple clock cycles

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

in small group projects. Active learning exercises, specifically facilitated by the new tabletPC technology, were devised by the instructor for almost every classroom session. Studentswere able to capture the instructors electronic ink notes made on PowerPoint slides andelectronic whiteboards. Along with the instructor’s notes, the software also captures studentelectronic ink notes as well as e-ink input generated by other students. Throughout the course,students kept journals of their experience. Additionally, the performance of the Tablet PC groupwas monitored and compared to others in the sophomore cohort who took the course withoutTablet PCs. In general, students were very satisfied with the use of the tablet PC and their abilityto take