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Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Connolly; Herbert Rabin; Eric Schurr; David Barbe

institutions. MIPS accelerates the commercializationof new technology by jointly funding commercially directed collaborative research anddevelopment projects between USM faculty and company researchers. Faculty,postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have the opportunity to perform research thatdirectly leads to commercialization of new products. Companies are able to access expertuniversity faculty and state of the art facilities to conduct cost effective research anddevelopment. They also benefit from access to a vibrant student labor pool. MIPSprojects have covered a wide range of technologies in engineering, computer, physicaland life sciences. Since 1987, MIPS has provided matching funds for more than 445projects worth a total value of $120

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

, policy makers and politicians, as well as teachers and parents,demonstrated frustration with education research. Many persons claimed that the results ofeducation research were not helpful for changing classroom practice and the research was not“scientific” enough (NRC, p. 28). Eventually, legislation was proposed that defined controlledexperiments as the only rigorous method for conducting education research, with the implicationthat federal funds should only fund this type of research. In response, the National ResearchCouncil (NRC) conducted a study “to examine and clarify the nature of scientific inquiry ineducation and how the federal government can best foster and support it” (NRC, p. 1). In thispaper I will focus on the first goal and

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

wants. A casestudy for developing a two-semester senior design capstone course at Brigham Young Universityis presented.IntroductionCapstone courses have become widely used in engineering education throughout the UnitedStates1,2,3. The objectives of these courses vary, but in general they are designed to help studentsprepare for the practice of engineering. ABET accredited engineering programs require acapstone experience4. Unlike engineering fundamental courses such as statics, thermodynamicsor strength of materials, capstone courses usually involve students in synthesis or designactivities and often require the building of hardware. Since engineering design tends to beinterdisciplinary in nature capstone courses often require significant

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

atheoretical question as well as a practical question. It is an important part of the mission of theCenter for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) to provide research-basedevidence as part of the foundation for change in engineering education as well as a thoroughexploration of models and best practices for change.In this brief article we provide a (1) brief review of change literature, especially in highereducation; (2) a summary of selected models of change; and (3) a case study of one approach tochange at CAEE.Exploring Change ModelsThe purpose of this section is to explore the quantity and variety of change models available asresources for engineering educators. Change models have been developed in disciplines asdiverse as philosophy

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

ENGR 302 appears as Appendix A of this paper, thefollowing are the key themes and objectives of the course.Themes and ObjectivesStudents who have completed ENGR 302 should understand and be able to apply the followingconcepts/skills: ‚ critical thinking about the process of problem definition; problem definition as a research process, a creative process, a social process, and technical process ‚ the need for problem oriented (vs. project oriented) approaches to engineering design ‚ an integrated (vs. fragmented) view of technological systems ‚ the interactions among the technical, organizational, and cultural dimensions of engineering practice ‚ how aspects

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ping Wei; Thomas Quimby

. In 2003 the workshop was expanded to include Practitioner Advisors (PA) andrenamed the Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Training Workshop (PFATW). In practice, thePA is often as key to student chapter’s success as the FA.To address the reasons for the lack of success in some chapters, the workshop was designed withthese three main goals: 1. Impart the vision of the value and purpose of ASCE student chapters. 2. Give advisors the tools that they need to make their student chapters function. 3. Create a network of ASCE faculty advisors.The workshop consists of presentations on the organization of ASCE, the intent and purpose ofstudent chapters, resources that are available to assist chapters, and case histories from

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

forengineering practice. Engineering graduates must also d) be able to function onmultidisciplinary teams, f) understand "professional and ethical responsibility", g) "communicateeffectively", i) "engage in life-long learning", j) have "a knowledge of contemporary issues", andh) have "the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal and societal context." The professional component of criterion 4 moreover, requires that "Students must beprepared for the engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in a major designexperience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier coursework and incorporatingengineering standards and realistic constraints that include most of the following

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

, he was Director in Motorola’s Semiconductor ProductsSector and before that, Professor of Microelectronics in Edinburgh University, UK.Brian Wales is a pre-silicon design engineer for Intel Corp – Consumer Electronics Group in ChandlerArizona. He is also currently a Graduate Student at Arizona State University. From 1996 through1998, heworked at Intel’s Fab-6 facility where he ran day-to-day operations with the Anelva 1015.Jon Weihmeir is currently a visiting professor at ASU's east campus from Motorola's SemiconductorProducts Sector. From 1996 through 2002, he held management positions in process engineering, deviceengineering, and manufacturing at several production facilities in Mesa, Arizona

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

. Planning and preparation often occur long before studentsreturn from their winter leave to ensure that adequate time and resources are available tosuccessfully complete the project before graduation in May. There are essentially three basicgenres of senior capstone projects: research-based, competition-based, and service-based. TheMotor Pool Bridge project fell into the most sought after form of project in the department—theservice-based project. The three seniors selected for this project expressed a strong desire todevelop the need of the motor pool staff into a well-articulated plan, and finally construct aphysical product allowing employees convenient access to their break area across the stream.The project began by meeting with motor pool

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

database software and ColdFusion web-application software to establish a more efficient method for tracking the data associated with the manufacturing films and masks from silicon wafers. The final product was a thoroughly tested, web-based system in which the user has the ability to scan a bar code and retrieve or input data associated with a wafer’s manufacturing process. A comprehensive user’s guide was provided. A “Feeling” Robotic Hand This was a haptic feedback, demonstration project, and represented the first step in the design and implementation of a “Feeling” Robotic Hand that could be used, along with other sensors, to practice medicine at the distance. A pressure sensor (acting as a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

, American Society for Engineering Education” Table 2: Students practicing the RP in Fall 2003Evaluation PlanIn order to evaluate the impact of these courses’ enhancements through RP, the following toolswere developed:TTU Assessment Office conducts course assessment every semester through the official facultyevaluation process. Through the feedback of this evaluation, results are used to further improvethe RP courses.An unofficial TTU evaluation team was formed to monitor the course enhancement with RP. Aspecial assessment instrument was designed with a mix of multiple choices and written detailquestions on the efficiency and effectiveness of the RP portion of the courses and labs in relationto course objectives. Figure 2

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Frame

acronyms is given in Table1) The first of the methods, QFD, emphasized the overall quality of the product, butdid not consider any other factors. In order to facilitate faster time-to-market, CEmethods allow a product and its manufacturing plan to be developed simultaneously 2,but did not move past the production of a part. Realizing that a more comprehensivemethod was needed for production of large, complex, and technologically superiorproducts, industries developed a method that would account for the entire usable life of aproduct. Additionally, the Internet made it practical to securely share design data aroundthe world 3. In the early 1990s, the best features of QFD, CE, and the sharing of dataworldwide were combined into a new

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

, American Society for Engineering Education ‚ Increased study and work abroad participation by students. ‚ Increased exchange of first-rate US, Chinese, and German engineering students. ‚ Graduates of engineering programs at all partner schools who are better prepared to: - function in a global technical environment and relate productively to the challenges of a global marketplace - transcend cultural issues to collaborate effectively in diverse, international teams - incorporate best practices from global technical experience and a range of engineering and company cultures ‚ Development and demonstration of the GEARE model that can be adopted by other engineering

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

laundry list of issuesdeemed important in the practice of the profession from safety to environmental impactto the societal and global contexts of engineering design decisions. Still, no mention ofpeace is ever made. With these experiences and observations, I began my search for a differentparadigm for engineering education, one that put peace as an explicit goal, one that didnot assume or presume that the reader would somehow identify it as part of the code ofconduct. My search has identified one such model that will serve as the focus of the Page 9.84.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

(individual’s contribution to the team). In broad terms the earlier three earlier modules were designed to give students a technical background to prepare them for this exercise. This module represents the “practical” or “doing” part of Technology 21. In this module students will be given a real world technological issue to attempt to solve. The problem is never a trivial one, the answer may be quite difficult to find and in fact, asking the right questions may prove to be just as challenging as finding the answers to the problem itself. Fortunately students will not tackle the problem alone. Each student will be a member of a team of 8 to 10 students that must all work together to arrive at the best answer possible. Students are asked

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

and speaking skills. When Dr. Foroudastan first arrived in the United States to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstudy engineering, he found that he was perfectly capable of fulfilling the technicalaspects of his coursework including math and computer skills. However, when it came towriting papers or speaking in front of a class, he noticed himself struggling. He foundthis to be especially true when having to lecture to undergraduate classes while workingon his Ph.D. Soon he realized the best way to overcome his anxieties in these areas wasto practice writing and speaking for a real and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

Learning Object Exchange (CLOE), a collaborative project of several universities inOntario, establishing an infrastructure for joint development of multimedia-rich, interactivelearning resources. Since development of such resources is very time-consuming, one of theemerging trends in instructional technology is to focus on modular learning objects that can beshared among many users. Surveys of faculty confirm high interest in utilization of such objects.The module being developed by the authors consists of a series of interactive online tutorials. Itis designed using Flash and streaming video technology and provides graphics, video, andanimation to support the basic concepts. At any time the learner has access to several reviewquizzes, providing

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Zekavat

Michigan Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics(ME-EM): 1) undergraduate students who had already taken the traditional EE service course, 2)graduate students, some of whom had taken a similar undergraduate course, and some who hadnot, and 3) the faculty. The results of this preliminary study indicate that more than 75% of thosesurveyed believe that there are problems associated with the traditional curriculum and teachingstrategies for this course. This depicts that this course should be optimized and new techniquesshould be developed for presentation of the course. We explain a novel technique for optimizingthis interdisciplinary.I IntroductionThere is a remarkable development that is having a profound impact on the full

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Patricia Fox

methods using best practices in industry as real lifeexamples. However, after the course was initially designed and conceived it was decided thatstudents from all areas of study could benefit from the topic and it was opened to all IndianaUniversity- Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) students. Universally “sustainabledevelopment” represents development that meets that needs of the present without compromisingthe ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Germany’s industries were targetedbecause of their known sustainable practices as well as an opportunity to give students a globalbusiness perspective. A prerequisite of a one to three credit hour course in “sustainability” wasrequired along with a junior standing

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

Chemical Engineering, Washington University. He received M.S. from WashingtonUniversity in 2003 and has been nominated as a web page designer for Association of Graduate EngineeringStudents at this University.Dr. PRATIM BISWAS is the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science and Directorof the Environmental Engineering Science Program at the Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory atWashington University in St. Louis. His major research interest focuses on the examination of particle formationand growth dynamics in high temperature environments. He has published extensively in his field and has made

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

), the TPC program addresses critical issues and needsregarding the recruitment, preparation, enhancement, and retention of science,technology, and mathematics (STM) teachers for grades K-12. Its goals are to improvethe quality and coherence of the learning experiences that prepare and enhance STMteachers; to develop innovative resources that prepare and support STM teachers andschool and district administrators; to research and develop models and systems thatsupport the teacher professional continuum; to research teacher learning and its impact onteaching practice; and to disseminate this research as well as innovative models andresources to a national audience. Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. This program seeks to encourage

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

Session 3161 Service-Learning in CHE Senior Design Lisa G. Bullard, Patti H. Clayton, and Steven W. Peretti North Carolina State University ABET 2000 Criterion 3 explicitly states that engineering graduates must have “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility,” “an ability to communicateeffectively,” and “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal context.” Service-learning is the approach we chose to enhanceour students’ capacities in these areas. For the past two years, senior projects containing

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

possess communication skills to interact effectively in thecommunity and within the professional and political arenas. Today’s ethical issues will assumeglobal proportions and our graduates must have the strong ethical foundation they will need todeal with issues involving equitable distribution of resources, byproducts of design, proprietaryinformation, sustainable development, environmental conservation, genetic engineering, andhuman cloning. They need to be familiar with legal and business aspects of engineeringsolutions and their social impact and have a foundation in best business practices andfundamentals of entrepreneurship.To position our graduates to compete and lead in a dynamic future, we must first ask ourselves:• What understandings

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

international dimension of higher education and theon-going major reforms regarding innovative approaches to content, practices and methods inhigher education, stress the trend towards a future World Higher Education and Research Area.Many events confirm de rapid onset of the internationalization and globalization of highereducation, such as the Declaration of Bologna and the Creation of the European Area for HigherEducation in 2010, preliminary talks for creating a similar Area for European-Latin AmericanHigher Education, the addition in 2003 of Germany, Malaysia and Singapore as new –provisional- members of the Washington Accord, and in November of 2002 the signing of theMemorandum of Understanding by the organizations in charge of accrediting

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

fields, itsresearch use has expanded in other disciplines, such as electrical engineering, industrialengineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Currently, many undergraduate andfirst-year graduate students in the aforementioned fields do not have exposure to recent researchtrends in Machine Learning. This paper reports on a project in progress, funded by the NationalScience Foundation under the program Combined Research and Curriculum Development(CRCD), whose goal is to remedy this shortcoming. The project involves the development of amodel for the integration of Machine Learning into the undergraduate curriculum of thoseengineering and science disciplines mentioned above. The goal is increased exposure toMachine Learning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

two specific objectives: (1) to provide ECE students with fundamental and contempo-rary BME knowledge for future career and graduate study opportunities; and (2) to improve stu-dents’ interest in and comprehension of ECE concepts by acquainting them with engineering so-lutions to real world problems in medicine. These objectives are achieved by integrating a set ofexperiments – designed to demonstrate a wide spectrum of BME concepts – into core ECEcourses, along with a new elective providing a comprehensive BME overview. Expected outcome of this project is a learning paradigm, serving as a model for integratingnovel content into core engineering curriculum. If proven successful, the full development of thisapproach can serve as a building

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Carter; Paula Leventman; Katherine Ziemer

glass of orange juice contains 100% of the daily-required vitamin C. As an Engineer at Tropicana® you are trying to sell your OJ to the Director of Food Services for Boston Public Schools breakfast program. However, due to recent budget cuts the director will not buy it unless it meets the budget constraint of $0.15 per student. How can we get nutritious, good-tasting orange juice from Florida to the breakfast programs in Boston in an affordable way?In this activity students are introduced to the engineering design process (Figure 1) and theywork on the first 4 steps; identify the need or problem, research the problem, develop possiblesolutions, and select a best possible solution. First the students identify

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

. This program is designed to provide engineering students andresearchers with tools and opportunities for entrepreneurial success, establish deeper and moremeaningful community ties, and facilitate the incubation of technology-based start-ups.Packaging the “incubator concept” into a series of graduate, undergraduate and continuingeducation short courses is a unique aspect of UCF’s entrepreneurship program. This program hasreceived very favorable reviews from local, state and national organizations. Theentrepreneurship initiatives at UCF have had a positive impact on other universities and inmaking the Central Florida area a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity.IntroductionEngineers are excellent sources of high growth potential

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

change. In engineering terms, one aspect of the shift can bedescribed as a shift of focus from “input” to “output.” Although examples of student work were,and are, an important component of an accreditation review, program faculty are now asked todo a much more extensive job of assessing and documenting the “abilities” that have beenimparted to graduates by the program. Annual national meetings have come into existence withthe express purpose of bringing together engineering educators to share best practices foroutcomes assessment (i.e. Best Assessment Processes IV Symposium2). Another example ofchange is that the new criteria require program faculty to define and publish ProgramEducational Objectives (PEOs) and Program Outcomes (POs), or their

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

beintroduced which focused on building these skills for our students at the upper division. Thisnew course would not only build upon the UGS series, but also ensure inclusion of our transferpopulation. We also decided that the course should be a part of the General Education programat the University and be a Humanities Designation. As initial discussions began with the Collegeof Humanities on the ethics class, a similar effort was being undertaken with the College ofHumanities in the area of written and oral communication. It was decided to combine all ofthese skills, including team work skills, and submit a grant to the Hewlett Foundation, under theauspices of CLEAR (Communication, Leadership, Ethics, and Research). The grant was fundedand the