Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; John Hansen; Thomas Hall

act on a continuum of either behavioral scale—task or relationship—so, the fourquadrants merely simplify the discussion of styles. The following four descriptions are adaptedfrom their book. • Telling: High Task Behavior and Low Relationship Behavior. The leader is very directive and provides close supervision of the project. Often, communication is one-way from the leader to the followers. • Selling: High Task Behavior and High Relationship Behavior. The leader may still make the decisions, but will explain them to the followers and give them opportunities to ask for clarification. While “selling,” the leader remains heavily engaged in the project, but opens up two-way

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Alfadala; Andrew Wilson

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsectors of the economy in the next five years. The magnitude of the proposed projects is simplystaggering.With this rapid and significant development has come the challenge to make the ChemicalEngineering program of the national university a national technical resource and asset. Thischallenge has forced the program to redefine its identity, refocus its mission, and develop avision as ambitious as the developments taking place in the country.One of the early conclusions of the College of Engineering and the Chemical Engineeringprogram was to recognize the need to obtain ABET “substantial equivalency

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Biwu Yang; Tijjani Mohammed

community colleges, in the military, or in private and other publicsectors.The ECU program grew out of strong needs for affordable, graduate, DE based, hands-ontechnology programs in information technology for students who would not otherwise be able tophysically attend a college or university due to work load, family commitments, distance, orother limitations. To that end, the online programs at ECU are designed to provide maximumflexibility for the working professionals, allowing them to take courses, conduct hands-on labactivities and projects, and collaborate with their classmates in their available time.For on-line or Internet-based programs to be successful, however, several key issues must beaddressed. These include advanced planning

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder

in part by theNational Science Foundation’s GK-12 and U.S. Department of Education FIPSE initiatives, this“engineering in everyday life” program concurrently develops standards-based scientific,mathematic and technological curricula focused on engineering for an NSDL-sponsoredTeachEngineering digital library project.7, 8The preparation and guidance of elementary, middle and high school students — especially thosewith backgrounds typically under-represented in engineering — towards the universityengineering and technology pipeline is important for their success in an increasinglytechnologically-driven society. During the academic year and through various summer offerings,K-12 students are introduced to the world of engineering and the

Conference Session

Innovations in Library Management

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Weiner; Honora Nerz

Situation Regular and realistic self-assessment is a critical component of effective careermanagement. Professionals must always be surveying the landscape of their current situation,thinking about future goals and, most importantly, how to attain them. Three assessment areaswill be discussed here. The first area is job satisfaction – what makes work good or bad and howimportant these are to one’s position. The second area is more about development; i.e., how oneis learning and growing on the job. This can mean keeping up with trends and new technologies,and managing the workload so that there is time for those projects that teach new things. Thelast area involves looking at how organizational values impact development choices. A form foruse

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Walker; Sean Brophy

presentation methods used in large-scale classroom settings can inhibit students’ ability to follow their instructor’s thoughtprocess because either the format is too small to be viewed effectively by the entire classas in the case of whiteboards, or too static to illustrate the problem-solving process as inthe case of overhead projection of transparencies or prepared Powerpoint slides. TabletPCs connected to large-screen projection systems offer one solution for presentingmaterial in a large-scale format while maintaining a dynamic presentation. We evaluatethe potential of this classroom technology by considering both an instructional point ofview and a learning point of view. In terms of instruction, the pen based tablet PCs offerseveral inherent

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

given to attitudinal differencesbetween male and female students and among students in different age groups.I. IntroductionSince the Marshall Plan of 1947 and President Truman’s famous ‘Point Four’ of his secondinaugural address, United States foreign policy has stressed the importance of applying technicalknowledge to aid ‘under-developed’ countries2. This has resulted in more than five decades ofU.S. funding for humanitarian projects; however, because most U.S. engineers choose to work inthe corporate sector, few have made substantial contributions to the solution of the humanitarianproblems that face other nations. The few engineers who do work in U.S. aid and developmentorganizations must commit to the objectives of U.S. foreign policy

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Undergraduates notes that many students graduate having accumulated the necessary number of courses,but still lacking a coherent body of knowledge or any inkling as to how one concept might relate to others.This project recognizes the importance of incorporating the most current research on learning whendeveloping new curricula that include modules that are being used by “old faculty.” Thereforeconnections of the research modules with the existing theory and topics covered in the affected EEcourses is a priority. In addition, our challenge in developing the innovations

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

purposeful strategies they use to “get out ofthe box” of familiar thinking and found they deliberately followed systematic practices to fosterinspiration and innovation. Here, however, we take advantage of elicitation techniques lessfrequently used in studies of engineering expertise. We see these kinds of investigations as animportant complement to the existing ethnographic and verbal-protocol literature. Each type ofstudy is needed if we are to understand the underlying conceptual models that guide the moment-to-moment thinking and heuristics of expert engineers. The data analyzed was collected as part of a larger verbal protocol study, one part of a 5-year project investigating engineering design expertise across three concurrent activities

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

multi-media, group exercises,Internet exercises, and group lab projects to enhance and support direct instruction. Educatorscan enhance student learning by conducting lectures in a friendly manner, so that nobody feelsstress or is afraid to ask a question. No learning can take place in a tense environment.IV. Technology, Society and Culture Objectives and MethodologiesStudents at DeVry University are given the challenge and opportunity to guide and direct theirtechnological knowledge into responsible awareness and choices for local/global solutions ofproblems and 21st Century urgent issues. All DeVry students must pass a senior-level inter-disciplinary capstone Humanities course entitled “Technology, Society and Culture”. Thiscourse challenges

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

,participation in a virtual design experience, or extensive study abroad opportunity. While thetraditional study abroad experience has centered on an immersion type program, we propose thata global studies experience can be equally valuable, and, if designed appropriately, may be morevaluable to the engineering student.We describe a ten-week global studies experience that we have designed and taught forengineering and business students as part of the summer Semester at Sea Program. In particular,we describe how an engineering topic - manufacturing and the global supply chain - can best bestudied if classroom work is combined with truly multidisciplinary team projects and well-designed field visits at each country on the itinerary. Further, if

Conference Session

The Citizen Engineer

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; barbara waugh; Charles Pezeshki; Lueny Morell; Tom Roberts

Session 1161 Citizen Engineers: Why and How We Engage City, State and Federal Governments On behalf of Engineering Education and Research Barbara Waugh, Ph.D. Director, University Relations Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California Lueny Morell, M.S., P.E. Director, University Relations Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California Isadore Davis Engineering Project Manager

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhiyong Zhao; Joe Hagerty; J. P. Mohsen

Underground Space Utilization [evaluation of an underground quarry for other uses] 3 Being an Expert Witness [Labor Day holiday precluded usual format] 4 2 Offshore Structure Design/Build [risks in launching an offshore platform] 5 3 Geotechnical Value Engineering On a Design/Build Project 6 4 Changed Conditions?? [evaluating a contractor’s claim] 7 5 Cryptosporidium Chronicles [industry response to proposed regulations] 8 The Hyatt Collapse [literature review and discussion; fall break precluded usual format] 9 6 Building a Tunnel…to Leak [riverbank filtration using a rock tunnel/pumping

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

” -pu ex d pe an ns cta e m io ti on s “d ta t c pe ex Figure 1. Triangular Perspectives of the “Stakeholder” PopulationsIn summary, the current research project seeks to answer those questions by presenting amethodological approach to define an expert

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

to transform the system of architectural education, we must adopt new modes ofthinking and managing resources (NSC, 2003). To arrive at a new era in architecturaleducation, we need to establish cultural values and incorporate them in university curricula.The need for reform is not limited to architecture. Reform in other disciplines is important toarchitecture because architectural projects do not take place in a vacuum. Students majoringin other disciplines such as management, the natural sciences, and engineering should alsodevelop artistic and humanistic qualities to complement their technological competencies.Major projects almost always require the combined efforts of business managers, scientists,and engineers for their successful

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole May; Marguerite Mohan; Marco Castaldi; Nada Assaf-Anid

Page 10.260.1principles taught in class (i.e., as phase equilibria, solubility, fugacity, etc). Such an open-ended “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”approach is common in engineering education and has been used in thermodynamics courses5because it resembles problem solving situations encountered in industry6.The open-ended problem presented in this paper was given as a final project to a graduateprocess thermodynamics class. However, portions of it could be suitable in an undergraduatethermodynamics, modeling3 or design class7 if presented in a less open-ended manner, or ascontinuing

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

different implications for the allocation ofpublic and private resources, a matter of concern in a world still characterized by scarcity inmeeting the basic needs of many. There may be widely held values concerning the environmentand sustainability that are separate from health and safety concerns. The twenty-first-centuryengineer must be aware of and competent to address these sorts of ethical and social issues—andthis imposes new demands on educational programs for engineers.11,12 As ABET recognizes incriterion 3(f), students must understand their “professional and ethical responsibility” [emphasisadded] and, in criterion 3(c), students must be able to design a project to meet “desired needswithin realistic constraints such as economic

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

instruction and practice in identifying which phase of problemsolving they were in, so they could develop meta-cognitive skills to better control their problemsolving activity.2. Description of the CourseIn Fall 2004 the course was taught as one of eight sections of GES 131 Foundations ofEngineering I at the University of Alabama. GES 131 is a two credit course that meets threetimes per week, twice for 50 minutes, and once for 110 minutes. The 110 minute section isuseful for extended exercises, student presentations, or special projects. Two sections of GES131 were set apart for first semester freshmen who had the appropriate math placement scores(Calculus ready or one semester before Calculus). One section received the experimentalproblem solving

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

actively engaged. Studenttopics ranged from the drying of grain to high pressure washers.The thermal systems course was organized around four major design projects; three smaller oneswhich focused on an individual component of the thermal design process (i.e. process design,optimization, and cost analysis) and a larger cumulative design incorporating at least two of thethree design components. Initially it was hoped that the student topics could be integrated astopics for these design projects. Unfortunately, formulating a suitable problem with sufficient Page 10.268.1background information proved to be too time consuming once the semester had

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

Page 10.158.8successful change. Some of the existing factors are: “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education” (1) The faculty reward system is one of the major levers of administrative control in universities (2) The axis of control is the T&P process where the existing operational values are: a) Publication in refereed journals b) Funded projects and grants that pay the federal overhead rate c) Outside evaluation of performance by respected academic peers (3) 1 and 2 above form the core of an ingrained system that we are not likely to change in a short

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

Math, Engineering, and Science: Applications for Grades 4-8 Mary M. Hofle, Ken W. Bosworth College of Engineering, Idaho State UniversityAbstract:We present what we believe is a novel outreach program providing grade 4-8 math teachers a“grade-appropriate” exposure to real-world engineering and science situations, and how themathematics they teach has real, interesting, and fun applications. The project originated in thespring of 2004, and culminated in a week-long mid-summer workshop attended by some 25grade 4-8 math teachers from several local SE Idaho school districts. We present our motivationfor developing this program, an overview of the structure of the workshop and

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

. Students who were Comprehensive Pre-Calculus or Pre-Calculus I ready, based on their placement tests scores, were placed in thespecial course. Some who placed in Basic Algebra were placed in the course as well,considering their high school Pre-Calculus or Calculus exposure and course grades. The mathematics instructor identified the non-negotiable Pre-Calculus concepts and aquestionnaire for the participants was developed based on this. A pre-test and post-test designwas used to determine the effects of the instructional framework on outcomes. The tests werescored using a rubric.Role of Performance Tasks A performance task is a performance assessment mechanism. It is a carefully constructedactivity or project designed to achieve a

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang; Linda Head

10.239.6extremely successful in assessing the impact of these project topics. At the conclusion ofthe workshop, the participants were further asked to rate the overall workshop on how thecomponents of the entire project came together. All participants strongly agreed that theyhad a better understanding of engineering careers. Some of them expressed their interestsin Electrical and Computer Engineering because they enjoyed the learning through theabove ECE modules with great fun. The student evaluation is available in [2].5. CONCLUSION This paper presents two electrical and computer engineering modules developedthrough a successful summer program titled “Attracting Women into Engineering”.Participants are exposed to the ECE principles via fun and

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Salim Saherwala; Mohammed Haque

). Page 10.108.1Complementing the more conventional classroom instructional tools would ideally include visitsto construction sites or site training (AbouRizk and Sawhney, 1994). There are, however, various Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcomplicating issues that make it impossible to rely on site visits. Most importantly, the instructorcannot control the availability of a project at the necessary stage of completion. In addition, visitsof larger groups to construction sites may not be welcome, involve risk, and are unpractical.Finally, the high cost of site training is a further impediment

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Massoumi

mathematical techniques are used to proveproperties about a design. Due to the fact that formal checks are exhaustive and no test-vectorsare needed, supporting tools have gained significant momentum as an add-on solution tosimulation. It is the focus of this paper to present the formal or static approach and encourageuse of the available tools in design projects for Senior/Graduate-level HDL-based courses.Advantages of the static approach will be discussed by presenting property formulation for a fewRTL designs. Moreover, the property language PSL (Property Specification Language), whichhas the promise of becoming an IEEE standard, will be used in presenting property formulations.Introduction:A widely practiced approach for functional verification of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

still in its pilot phase, evaluation of the center is crucial. Evaluation is definedas “a systematic investigation of the worth or merit of an object” by the Joint Committee onStandards for Educational Evaluation (1981)7. The purpose of the educational assessment is toreduce and eliminate the gap between what is taught by the professor and what is learned by thestudents. The assessment performed for the EPSC course took a modified form of a formativeevaluation, which is defined by NSF as an assessment of ongoing project activities, beginning atthe start of the project and continuing throughout the project life8. A formative evaluationtypically starts with an implementation evaluation phase, which analyzes whether the project isfollowing its

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kellen Maicher; Patrick Connolly

by Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationbecoming more familiar with manipulating objects using their “mind’s eye”. Orthographicmultiview projections are developed to provide two-dimensional representations of an objectfrom various orientations. An adequate number of these 2D representations allows for the targetobject to be fully described using two-dimensional media. This description can then be used tomanufacture the desired object or to effectively communicate it to others [8].However, it is often difficult for students who have no background in traditional engineeringdrawing to

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

theengineering design process and quality of the designed solution3. Developed in conjunction withsimilar courses at the University of Calgary, the Engineering Design and Communicationcourses span the entire first year and are taught by a team of interdisciplinary instructors.Students spend only 1 hour per week in lecture, and 4.5 hours per week in labs where activitiesare mostly team-oriented. Students are assessed with equal weight on visual communicationskills (technical drawing and sketching), oral and written communication skills (presentations,report writing as well as grammar and organization) and design (team project designperformance, analysis and quality).However, most entering students in science and engineering believe there are unique

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, limiting the ability of students to create stand-alone, interactive projects using the DSK. To solve this problem, the authors have created an interface to the TMS320C6713 DSK that uses the Host Port Interface (HPI) to provide both a means for a PC host application to boot software onto the DSK, and to permit the transfer of data between the DSK and the host PC application. A software package makes it possible for students to create stand-alone Windows applications that communicate directly with the DSK. In addition to parallel port communication, the interface provides USB, RS-232, and digital input/output ports as user selectable resources available to the DSK software. This paper discusses the specific

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

help from the students and instructors tofinish projects and etc. They also can look into some of the students as potential full-timeemployees for future.This paper will discuss some innovative approaches and the evolution of the advantages of theco-op and collaboration between high schools, universities and industries. It also covers the co-op from traditional partnerships between academe at university level and industry to morehighly structured and expanded collaborations between universities and high schools andindustry. Some of perceived advantages and benefits of this extended co-op will also bepresented.Cooperative Education BackgroundIn the past, some universities started internship programs with industries. This has offered thecollege