Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

. The leaves arerich with protein, carbohydrates, and minerals, so it makes terrific fodder for livestock.Sparsely oriented branches and leaves allow lots of light for underlying crops, while itsdeep, confined rooting system ensures compatibility with other plants’ roots. Wind isreduced up to 20-50%, thereby increasing air moisture. Plantings of 40-67 trees per haincrease yield of wheat, corn, cotton, and millet, but not sesame and sweet potato 21. TheInternational Farm Forestry Training Centre has trained hundreds of managers and policymakers from a variety of countries in paulownia intercropping since 1991. “ProfessorZhu’s farm forestry project has planted 900,000 ha with paulownia, bamboo, Chinese fir,and other tree varieties, boosting

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chris Papadopoulos; Adeeb Rahman; Josh Bostwick

pedagogical materials fail to engage students incritical thinking. We believe that these examples are representative of typical situationsencountered by students and instructors at many institutions, and that they provide a clear andaccurate assessment of some fundamental issues that must be addressed.Anecdotes from Student Questions. In the last two years or so, several of our formerstudents have visited us to ask questions pertaining to their current course projects. Strikingly,although their questions varied in topic, all questions fit a disturbing pattern. In each case thestudents began by saying “we just have one question,” implying that only one ‘simple’ obstaclestood in the way of completing their project. After a few minutes of

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

communication in educationalsettings promises considerable insights into the learning process.The Research Communications StudioThe Research Communications Studio (RCS) is a research and education project in threeengineering departments at the University of South Carolina(http://www.che.sc.edu/centers/rcs/rcsmain.htm). The project focuses on language andcommunications as tools for conducting research, as well as the written and oral means of Page 9.869.1disseminating the results of research. Supported in part by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation, the project investigates the effect of the Research Communications Studio conceptin improving

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education c. Develop the cash flow diagram for a project. Sunk cost; nonrecurring cost; salvage value; revenues and expenses. d. Perform an economic analysis. Sensitivity analysis of alternative projects using cost of capital/minimum annual rate of return. Alternatives with equal and unequal project lives as well as with and without project replacement; additional techniques including benefit/cost analysis, incremental internal rate of return, and payback period. e. Determine the effect of taxes and inflation on profitability of projects

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

control,analog and digital electronics, microcontroller technology, interface electronics and real-time programming. The laboratory sessions focus on small, hands-on interdisciplinarydesign projects in which small teams of students configure, design, and implement asuccession of mechatronic subsystems, leading to system integration in a final project.For example, as an introduction to digital design, students apply the fundamentalprincipals of combinatorial and sequential logic to the design of a quadraturedecoder/counter circuit that is used to interface an incremental optical encoder to amicrocontroller. The design is implemented using the appropriate software development

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mukai

Session #3630 Effectiveness of Various Components in a Mechanics of Materials Course David J. Mukai University of Wyoming Civil and Architectural EngineeringIntroductionThe pressures on undergraduate Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology (SME&T)education are well documented (1). Some of these problems include: undergraduateSME&T courses tend to filter out students, leaving only a few highly-qualified graduates;low retention in SME&T courses because students find them boring; and an increasedamount of knowledge that needs to be transmitted. This project modifies materialsdeveloped by Gregory Miller at the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lunt Barry; C. Richard Helps; Joseph Ekstrom

team projects in most of the courses, including the sophomore level Page 9.496.5 course, and continuing the application-oriented labs in all IT courses. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & 5 Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 8. Including the use of state of the art tools through educational copies and the use of the 30 day free trial of the software. (Vendors who allow free academic use of their products get a big advertising bonus here.) 9. Providing deeper coverage of enterprise systems deployment in the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Corr

! Somethinghe had not been able to do before being exposed to AWIM. The remainder of classroom B was taken on a trip to classroom A and wasastounded to see what was happening. They saw graphs; diagrams and posters of thedifferent companies the students had produced and listened to them explain what theywere doing. On return to their classroom the teacher was impressed enough to set thingsin motion. They were behind everyone else but they were able to become excited andmotivated enough to finish the project in an appropriate way. Even though theirpresentations were weak in comparison, they were able to do it. The Middle School In the Middle school we introduced Challenge III, the principles of flight. In thisthe students formed

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

techniques and conventions, taught through a sequence of orthographicdrawing exercises. The exercises were followed by a design project structured to requirestudents to synthesize course material as well as to introduce them to design problems and thedesign process. The academic majors declared by students enrolled in the course includedarchitecture, interior design, construction, education, and mechanical design. Page 9.231.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

students work together on Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationhomework sets, lab experiments, course projects, and team-based exam questions. In short,cooperative learning is similar to team-based course projects common in many engineeringcourses, but cooperative learning is more formalized and structured to reinforce positive teamingand learning skills while avoiding common teaming problems [13], [15]. Cooperative learningmust meet five criteria [18]:• positive interdependence Team members must rely on each other to achieve the group’s goals.• individual accountability Members are held

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnical problems and team dysfunction. An alumna of the university summarized the teamproblems with: I thought that by doing well in my coursework at Vale, I was preparing myself for my career. However, it obviously wasn't enough. The whole project was a disaster; we were perpetually behind, constantly duplicating or overlooking important tasks, and even when we finished, none of us were satisfied with the design. A few of us slaved over this project, but it is obvious that the amount of "effort" did not ensure

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

, andExcellence in all we do). To support that mission, we firmly believe in “learning space by doingspace.” Every student graduating with an Astronautical Engineering degree completes acapstone design project, either a satellite design (FalconSAT) or rocket design(FalconLAUNCH) effort.FalconSAT provides students an opportunity to participate in the design, build, test, and/ormission execution of real microsatellites that perform DoD missions. FalconLAUNCH providesan opportunity for students to design, build, test and launch payload-capable sounding rockets.Before students can participate in either of these capstone engineering design courses, spacesystems and rocket design issues must be well understood through prerequisite classroomexperiences. The

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Ward; Richard Howell; Debby Knotts; Deborah Fisher; Jerald Rounds; Jennifer Scott

), AlbuquerqueTechnical Vocational Institute (TVI) and several industry associations, including the NewMexico Building Branch – Associated General Contractors (AGC), the Mechanical ContractorsAssociation of New Mexico (MCA), and the New Mexico chapter of the National ElectricalContractors Association (NECA). Based on the results of a CAI funded research project todetermine needs and solutions, the certificate program was designed so that practicingprofessionals could take ten core construction courses offered at TVI and UNM and receive thecertificate. In the fall of 2001, the New Media and Extended Learning (NMEL) unit at UNMidentified the Certificate program as a priority program to disseminate across the state of NewMexico and offered to participate with the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

, Page 9.546.4delivery of courses, and assessment. The students are usually enrolled full-time. The local “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”college provides local administrative and academic support. In their final year, BE students inthese programs attend a two-week residential school on-campus to complete laboratoryrequirements, give oral presentations for their final projects, and gain exposure to Australianprofessional engineering practice by means of industry site visits and guest lectures. Students inthese programs are often employed in industry, and their final-year projects are often

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

-city summer study-abroad program. Thiseffort led to the signing of exchange agreements with institutions in Kiev, Taganrog, andMoscow for a study-abroad program primarily targeted to electrical engineering students.The program was launched in summer 1993 with students earning credits for engineeringdesign projects. A visit to Volgograd in 1992 led to a cooperative agreement between theMSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the VolgogradState University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (VSUACE). Following periodicfaculty exchanges between CEE and VSUACE, the study-abroad program described inthis article was formally launched in 1998 for civil engineering students. Through theintroduction of lower-level classes in

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

Integration as Area Under a Curve (2 hours)Concept of Integration as an Antiderivative (2 hours)Lab:Numerical Integration Using MatlabWeek 10Lecture:Application of Integration to Centroids and Centers of Mass (3 hours)Course Summary and Review (1 hour)Lab:Make-up lab session In order to address the feasibility of EGR 101, lecture notes and supporting laboratorymaterial have been developed for what is arguably the most ambitious topic: DifferentialEquations for Transient Response of Engineering Systems (Week 8 in the tentative courseoutline). Note that the proposed lecture material is pre-empted by a laboratory project in Week 7(Transient Response of a Leaking Water Bucket), and is reinforced by an additional laboratoryproject in Week 8

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

basic question remains; will the professors teaching design courses teach the required infor-mation with considerable added knowledge? Further, does the professor perform knowledging? Page 9.1177.8The capstone course involving design analysis generally has a team of students working on a pro- Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationject, and the class has a number of projects going simultaneously, each with a different set ofspecifications. The knowledge involved in these classes occurs in at

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

Session Number: 2558 Building an Undergraduate Security Curriculum Anne Marchant, Edgar H Sibley, Hugh Tazewell (Taz) Daughtrey Jr. George Mason University/ James Madison UniversityAbstractFaculty at George Mason University (GMU) and James Madison University (JMU) in Virginiaare collaborating on a project to develop a model for an undergraduate Information Securitycurriculum to be implemented beginning in the fall of 2004 at both institutions. The curriculumwill include coursework in programming, operating systems, and networking as a basis for themajor courses in security. Security coursework will

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

of a professional problem solver and engineer through the use of casestudies. The evaluators of the project state that the students' efforts lend credence to the notionthat engagement in case studies enhances problem solving and higher cognitive skills. Given the success of case studies in achieving the objectives, we decided to develop acase study that shows the use of information technologies in engineering. Therefore, wecontacted a cell phone company, Powertel (now part of T-Mobile) and obtained cooperationfrom the engineering managers in developing the case study. This paper describes the case studyand provides details from an evaluation of the use of the case study in classrooms. It concludes

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

communication skills. In addition, part of the goalfor getting students to participate in the project of exploring an ethical dilemma and arguing forone course of action over another was to prepare them for the kinds of experiences they arelikely to encounter when they go to work as an engineer, and the grading criteria were intendedto promote the skills they will need when faced with difficult situations. During the course of Page 9.550.4their career they will almost certainly find themselves in situations where they disagree with the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

engineering studies. Such assessment results can provide the basis for thedevelopment and revamping of effective activities designed to meet program objectives andmissions.This paper reports the development and early results of a survey undertaken as part of theNational Science Foundation-funded Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project. Theinstrument is designed to measure undergraduate women students’ self-efficacy in studyingengineering. Self-efficacy is “belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the sources ofaction necessary to manage prospective situations" 2. Prior work from Blaisdell3 has shown thatfeelings of efficaciousness can be an important predictor in the success of women studyingengineering. In our project, we developed

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

, and interdependence – within a project managementframework.More recent change research appears to blend the two approaches. For example, Gosling andMintzberg (2003) note the “dominant model of managing change is Cartesian: Action resultsfrom deliberate strategies, carefully planned, that unfold as systematically managed sequences ofdecisions.” However, they counter, “change, to be successful, cannot follow some mechanisticschedule of steps, of formulation followed by implementation. Action and reflection have toblend in a natural flow.”These two primary categories of change, staged and complexity, provide us with a usefulframework for organizing the various models of change.In the subsequent section, we further constrain our investigation of

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Judy Collins; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh; Alysia Starkey

collaborate on Inservice visits tailored to the needs of specific courses taught. develop and pilot course assignments that integrate Inservice librarian visits with course content. meet regularly to discuss, evaluate, revise, and reimplement our collaborative project. Review of LiteratureInformation literacy is defined as the capability of a person to recognize the "different levels,types and formats of information and their appropriate uses. The ability to place information in acontext and an awareness of information access issues (copyright, privacy, globalization,currency of information, etc.) are key to information literacy”4. Information literacy is also aninstructional and intellectual

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

thinking in pursuing innovative designsolutions. Teams are first asked to list as many methods as they can to generate creative ideasfor design solutions. Next they are given the listing of Cognitive Domain learning skills andasked to analyze the skills under the creativity cluster. They are then challenged to apply each ofthe creative thinking skills to generate one or more ideas for the problem of fastening two piecesof paper together. Table 2 gives a result from this task. Next, students are asked to select adifficult area of their design project calling for creativity and to apply each of the creativethinking skills to generate a design alternative. Finally, they are asked to discuss how they mightsystematically add creativity to their design

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

help students see that “real world”work experiences are not neatly bound by the schedule of the syllabus, and that learning is notconfined to the lecture hall or lab. What we did with this approach, in the parlance of operationsmanagement, was to create a “pull” system in which students were responsible to a certaindegree for pulling the materials they needed from the online case environment and from thetextbook. We wanted the students to experience the excitement, uncertainty, and dissonance ofhaving dynamic and long-term projects that require them to think “outside of the box,” and to seetheir actions as having consequences beyond simply handing a project into a teacher. We wantedour students to see that the decisions that they make (design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay Howell; Ann Wittbrodt; Alfred Moye

tutoring. A recent National Academy of Science analysis of student assessments, forexample, emphasizes that the challenge of continuously gathering and evaluatingcomplex information about students probably cannot be achieved without newinformation technology. The report notes that “New capabilities enabled by technologyinclude directly assessing problem-solving skills, making visible sequences of actionstaken by learners in solving problems, and modeling and simulating complex reasoningtasks.”3New communication tools allow students to collaborate on complex projects and ask forhelp from teachers and experts from around the world. Learning systems can be designedto adapt to differences in student interests, backgrounds, learning styles and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

first ABET onsitevisit later that year. The design and startup of the Union Engineering program is itself anengineering project as described in this paper.III. The Design Process1. Identify the NeedsUnion was presented with the need of the community for engineering skills. Through theChamber of Commerce, it was determined that there was a need to educate engineers who would Page 9.379.1be willing to stay in the area to support economic growth of the region. The area consists ofProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringnearly 400,000

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

faculty’s skepticism of engineering education as a scholarly activity has created anenvironment at many institutions that make the pursuit of deeply focused and productiveengineering education research program anywhere from difficult to impossible. In someinstances, engineering faculty with a high level of interest in engineering education carry aboveaverage teaching loads and are advised to develop and maintain traditional engineering researchprograms to ensure tenure. These faculty pursue engineering education projects as a sidelineactivity that often must be accomplished with little resources (e.g. time, funding, or graduatestudents). Alternatively, engineering faculty pursuing engineering education are relegated tonon-tenure track positions

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

project presentationWho evaluates: Faculty & Industry AdvisorsHow evaluated: Completion of presentation evaluation form for each presentation by faculty, peers, and/or industry advisorsStandard: Delivers well-organized presentation within specified time, displays confident manner, maintains audience contact, minimal distracting mannerismsWho assemblesdata: Department Assessment CoordinatorSpecifics:Senior design presentations occur in ECET 497 for the EET students and in ECET 396C for students inthe EET Program with CpET Option. The 497 projects and presentations are individual efforts, whilethe 396C projects and presentations are