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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

Engineering EducationIntroductionWomen and men face different challenges when they enter engineering school. In general, mostmen are more likely to succeed in engineering due to many factors. First, the traditionalstereotype that men are good at math and science, while women are perceived to have lessability.1 To help women succeed, researchers have suggested that students work in teams, receiveencouragement, and learn via various instructional methods.1,2 Because men are expected toexcel in math and science prior to college, this expectation follows them into the universitywhere they have more confidence that engineering is the right career choice for them thanwomen. 3 Women have a tendency to doubt their abilities and frequently question their

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

-directed teams is provided through these projects adding value to student learning in the firstyear.Trends in First Year Engineering Programs:With calls for greater accountability in Higher Education and changes in accreditation standards,the engineering education community has proven to be a highly innovative source for curricularreform and improvement. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in innovations in first yearengineering programs. Many engineering programs have found substantial gains can be made byreorganizing and integrating curricular components in math, science, and engineering [1-5].Although the Coalitions programs provided rich resource of materials for integrating curricula,such a dramatic reorganization requires a substantial

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

oftechnology programs, which are better suited for talented individuals with an applied aptitudeand interest. Clearly our economy and society will need high quality engineering and technologyprograms working together at universities to educate future generations and providing solutionsfor some of the greatest technological problems facing our world today.1 Mann, C.R. (1918). A study of engineering education, Bulletin number 11. NY: The Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching.2 Grinter, (1955). Report of the committee on evaluation of engineering education (A.K.A. The Grinter report).Journal of Engineering Education, pp 25-60. Accessed September 21, 2004 from www.asee.org.3 Taylor, K.D., Buchanan, W.W., Englund, R.B., O’Connor, T.P., &

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; Jorge Tito-Izquierdo; George Pincus

properties such as unitweight, specific gravity, fineness modulus of the sand, and moisture1. This methodology ispresented to the students using examples where they must follow the numerical procedurescomparing the results with a spreadsheet called “ACI-Method,” developed in-house using theACI method. Figure 1 shows the spreadsheet prepared for this purpose. The spreadsheet wasdesigned to include any modification of the theoretical relationships, such as the f′c vs. w/c ratio,admixtures used, and real proportion per cubic-yard after modifications during mixing. Thespreadsheet also computes the cost of the materials per cubic-yard of concrete, which is useful incomparing price versus quality of concrete.The principal admixture used is a super

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivand Lakmazaheri

interpreting evidence todetermine how well performance matches established learning expectations [1]. In engineering,learning-outcome assessment usually occurs during the course of teaching, with studentperformance on homework assignments, examinations, and projects providing evidence of thelevel of learning. The instructor interprets this evidence to judge a student’s learning progressand then assigns a course grade that reflects this judgment. Although this assessment processcould act as an incentive for learning, its primary purpose is to measure the level of a student’slearning, not reinforce learning. Page 10.507.1 “Proceedings of the 2005

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Marvin Abrams; Ian Lewin

equipment and its integrationinto our 63 laboratory suites is key to producing top graduates. Industrial leaders consistentlyapplaud our hands-on education as a most significant strength. Our graduates can immediatelyenter the workforce and solve problems, making the College’s 18,000 alumni highly sought-afterby major local, national, and international employers. To meet our objectives the College ofEngineering has established relationships with our local industry and alumni as shown in Figure1.Figure 1. Cal Poly Pomona University’s Industrial and Alumni Support Program. Page 10.897.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

- not engineering.The problem our department faces is a different one from traditional retention ([1], [2]), inthat, rather than trying to retain students who have already declared mechanical engineeringas their major, we are trying to steer interested students to mechanical engineering insteadof moving into a different branch of engineering. As a way of addressing this issue in a smallway, I’ve turned to the freshman seminar and have offered one each semester for the past sixyears. Far from being a personal invention, the seminar program at Berkeley was createdas a cross-campus offering to help ease first year students into the Berkeley experience andgive them a relatively low-stress course within their schedules.When I first began I gave no

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

models developed by Ned Herrmann [1]. Thisfour-quadrant model of the brain shows most technical and analytical functions reside inquadrant A – the left cerebral side of the brain. Based on data generated by HerrmannInternational, most engineering and technology educators map strongly in that quadrant. Hence,most engineers, technologists, and educators in those areas prefer to work alone in search of asingle, correct answer. However, the new ABET guidelines include such items as teamwork,appreciation for diversity, communication, understanding of the need for lifelong learning, andother “soft” topics that fit in the right side of the brain

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Amuso; Surendra Gupta; Maureen Valentine; Carol Richardson; Robert Merrill

departments who personally visit community collegesin the Northeastern United States each year to recruit transfer students. RIT is successfulrecruiting transfer students as almost one-third of our undergraduate students have began theircollegiate studies elsewhere before transferring to RIT and about 75 percent of our total transferpopulation come from two-year schools. RIT’s success in recruiting transfer students to ourengineering and engineering technology programs has declined in recent year.Table 1 below shows freshman and upper-division fall quarter transfer enrollments for the sevencolleges, and also the subset for MEET departments collaborating on this project. It shows thatwhile RIT’s enrollments have been stable (or mildly increasing), the

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

ortechnology degree.A brief look at the literatureWith a history that can be traced to an experimental educational program in the 1920s(the Meiklejohn Experimental College at the University of Washington), learningcommunities can now be found at four to five hundred colleges and universities acrossthe nation.1 According to Smith, “Learning communities are a broad structural innovationthat can address a variety of issues from student retention to curriculum coherence, fromfaculty vitality to building a greater sense of community within our colleges.” Learningcommunities usually involve purposive groupings of students and coordinatedscheduling. In addition, they may involve coordinated approaches to learning and anemphasis on connecting material across

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhukar Vable

homogenousmaterials. By automation of stress analysis it is implied that the user will not need to know themethodology used in the computer program and will not need to know how to create the meshneeded to solve the problem. The user would only describe the boundary value problem, whichwill be facilitated by a user friendly interface and all analysis decision will be made inside theprogram. Development of e-handbooks on stress concentration factors and stress intensity factorswill further reduce the demands on the user in describing the boundary value problems thus shift-ing the focus from analysis to use of analysis results in design.1. IntroductionThe importance of fracture mechanics, interface mechanics, and stress raisers in homogenous andcomposite

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kang-Mieler

instrumentation laboratory classfocuses on transducers and electrical instruments, similar to an Electrical Engineering Laboratoryclass. While this traditional instrumentation class is important for all engineers, BME studentsneed to be exposed to biological-based measurements. According to the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET), a bioengineering laboratory experience must include anemphasis on solving “the problems at the interface of engineering and biology”1. The ABET Page 10.1055.1criteria also states that laboratory modules must include “making measurements and interpretingdata”1. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi

PARTICLE TRANSPORT, DEPOSITION AND REMOVAL- A COMBINED RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Goodarz Ahmadi,1 David J, Schmidt,1 Kambiz Nazridoust,1 Xiangwei Liu,1 Jeffrey Taylor,1 Suresh Dhaniyala,1 John McLaughlin,1 Cetin Cetinkaya,1 Stephen Doheny- Farina,1 and Fa-Gung Fan2 1 Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13699-5725 2 Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY, 14580Abstract A sequence of two on particle transport, deposition and removal and re-entrainment are described. The primary objective of these courses are to bring the newimportant research findings in the related field available to

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Sawyers

elastoplastic deformation and plastic hinge - is routinely included in the course. Thus,students are prepared to learn elementary limit analysis and extend their understanding of“plastic hinge” into a usable basis for beam design.The author has prepared and taught a two lecture unit on limit analysis within a Strength ofMaterials course. This material is based on and reinforces plasticity topics already addressed inthe course and includes examples of increasing complexity involving concentrated anddistributed loadings. It is similar in spirit to Chapter 13 of Nash’s summary [1]. However, themethod of virtual work is employed here as an alternative to static analysis.Limit analysis offers students a new design methodology and sharpens their geometrical

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

Session 1357 Integration and Synthesis of the Industrial Engineering Curriculum via an Unstructured Problem Solving Course Bryan A. Norman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Bopaya Bidanda, Kim LaScola Needy, Jayant Rajgopal University of PittsburghAbstractThe Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is addressing animportant issue – how to develop a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that (1) ispedagogically sound, (2) thoroughly prepares graduating engineering students for industrialpractice and graduate school, and (3) trains students to

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

electronics.1. Introduction The merits of involving engineering undergraduates in research have been widelydiscussed in engineering journals. It has been suggested that such an initiative may help thestudent become more passionate about the subject, create appreciation for research processand practice, improve problem-solving skills or even serve as motivation for furthereducation in graduate school1-3. Furthermore, it allows advanced students an opportunity tobe exposed to challenging and realistic engineering problems they may encounter in postgraduation work. In some cases, the students participate directly in a funded research thatholds significant benefit to all participants – students, faculty, and the university4. Thegrowing recognition

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

necessity of an engineering education founded on the liberal arts.2 IntroductionIf modernism was founded on concrete, scientific reality; postmodernism has been built oncontingent, divergent interpretation. Postmodernism has swept through disciplines fromliterature to philosophy, from politics to sociology. Lyotard defines the modern as dependenceon grand or meta-narrative, i.e., some overarching or foundational truth. He then definespostmodernism as “an incredulity towards metanarratives.”1 Shawver summarizes: “In otherwords, it is a skepticism towards all grand theories that think they have the last word. Themoderns, Lyotard tells us, believed in metanarratives. They were always thinking that they hadfound the final and correct theory, but

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mauritzen

- R10 LOOP 6 V3 A R3 B R6 C 6.2kohm R1 R8 2.86V + LOOP 1 + + 3.909 V R2 R5 11.631 V 7.027 V

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

approximately 1650 first-year engineering students. All engineering students are required tocomplete a common first year core of classes shown in Table 1 before matriculating to theirrespective engineering major. Minimum grade levels are established for matriculation to themajor of their choice. The department includes seven tenure track faculty and four academicadvisors. This department has the responsibility for all of the academic advising for first-yearstudents and primary teaching responsibility for the engineering lectures, seminars, help andassistance courses as well as the first engineering course, ENGR 106 - Engineering ProblemSolving and Computer Tools.Table 1: Purdue University First- Year Engineering Curriculum Fall

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

theexample of how the partnership process worked over the past two years to create a uniqueprogram. Included in the discussion are streamlining of course content and creditsbetween the three institutions, mechanics of course transfer, admissions, enrollment, jointrecruitment and marketing efforts. The Institute opened its doors for the first time in Fall2004. The current enrollment in mechanical engineering, and in the Institute, projections,success stories, lessons learned and the feedback from the community are reported.III. The InstituteThe Institute is a public/private partnership and an inter-institutional partnership. Itsgoals are to provide: (1) Undergraduate programs giving access to high demand fields forthe citizens of southwest Washington

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

-life” project. The open-ended nature of real-life projects requires students to determinewhich skills to apply as well as how to apply them. This can be a great learning experience forstudents, but there are many challenges presented to students during the senior design project.The main challenges identified include; project and time management, lack of technical depth,and lack of structure.Engineering management is one of the biggest challenges students face during their senior designprojects. American Society of Engineering management (ASEM) defines engineeringmanagement as “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directingand controlling activities which have a technological component” 1. Students need to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Massoumi

language. • Provide a rich set of constructs, which will facilitate description of any digital design at the Register-Transfer-Level[1]. • Where possible, use the same syntax and semantics as Verilog[3]. • Support a close and clear correspondence between the language constructs and the intended hardware[1]. • Guide the user in thinking in terms of hardware partitions[1] such as State Machines, Bus structures, and hardware resources such as arithmetic, logic, and relational functions. • Use the cycle-based model of time.Similar to Verilog, a basic unit in SHDL is a module, which is syntactically defined by thefollowing rule, where keywords are shown in boldface letters: module

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

) highlights two important trends that imperil the workforce: 1) globalcompetition for S&E talent is intensifying, and the United States may not be able to rely on theinternational S&E labor market to fill unmet skill needs; 2) the number of native-born S&Egraduates entering the workforce is likely to decline unless the Nation intervenes in educatingS&E students from all demographic groups.1One NSF program that addresses the national workforce need is the Centers for Learning andTeaching (CLT) program. The CLT program has three goals. First, Centers are expected torenew and diversify the cadre of national leaders in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) education. Second, Centers will increase significantly the number

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

, although women constitute 46 percent of the labor force, less than aquarter of the scientists and engineers in this country are women.1 A July 2001 report released byThe National Council for Research on Women finds that much of the progress that women havemade in these areas has stalled or eroded. The report underscores the increasing need for ascientifically and technologically literate workforce as we enter the new millennium. One yearearlier, the Morella Commission, charged with developing strategies to attract more women andminorities into science, engineering, and technology, reported to the Committee on Science ofthe House of Representatives that significant barriers to attaining that goal are present fromelementary school through college

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

industries. In particular, womencomprise 50% of the population, but fewer than 20% choose to major in subjects such ascomputer, electrical and mechanical engineering. NSF recently reported that, while the numberof women enrolling as freshmen in full-time engineering programs increased by nearly 2,000from 1994-2002, the percentage of female freshmen engineering students dropped from 19.4% to17.2%1.At RIT, the percentage of women engineering students graduating each year from the KateGleason College of Engineering is approximately 11%, significantly below the 2003 nationalaverage of 20.4%2. However, unlike the national trends in engineering student attrition, theoverall retention rate for this relatively small group of RIT engineering women is

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

the quality of the projects being completed by students. This paperdescribes the changes and briefly presents the progress that has been made since 2004Spring Semester.IntroductionAn engineering capstone design experience has been defined as “the crowningachievement in a student’s academic curriculum, and integrates the principles, concepts,and techniques explored in earlier engineering courses” [1]. Today, most engineeringand engineering technology curricula include a senior capstone course [2-8]. Two majorsources that led to this status are the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) and industry [9]. While the process for conducting capstone projectsvaries between programs and disciplines, such projects normally take two

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Border

Techniques for Application of GPS Receiver Technology David A. Border Electronics and Computer Technology Program Department of Technology Systems Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403AbstractThis paper details both the hardware platforms and software techniques used in applying GPSreceiver technology to engineering projects or processes. Two software techniques are detailed:(1) use of pre-existing application level GPS receiver programs and (2) coding of new GPSreceiver application programs using the .Net Framework ™ / Visual Studios

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McLernon; David Hughes

:1) Formal learning, which includes any one of the following characteristics: • A prescribed learning framework • An organised learning event or package • The presence of a designated teacher or trainer • The award of a qualification or credit • The external specification of outcomes, and,2) Non-formal learning which he analyses across two dimensions 1. Intention to learn, which is a continuum with deliberative learning at one end and implicit learning at the other with reactive learning occurring somewhere between the two. 2. Timing of the events providing the focus for the learning, i.e. past, present or future

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

illustrate to undergraduatestudents the concept of nonuniform convergence of successive partial sums over the intervalfrom 0 to B.1. Introduction Gibbs Phenomenon is intimately related to the study of Fourier series. When a periodic functionf(x) with a jump discontinuity is represented using a Fourier series, for example, it is observedthat calculating values of that function using a truncated series leads to results that oscillate nearthe discontinuity [12]. As one includes more and more terms into the series, the oscillationspersist but they move closer and closer to the discontinuity itself. Indeed, it is found that theseries representation yields an overshoot at the jump, a value that is consistently larger inmagnitude than that of the actual

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

education in a variety of ways with the Course, Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program playing a prominent role in supportingresearch and development of engineering education. Most of DUE's programs have beenin place for a few years and the first part of this paper provides a brief summary of each.The CCLI program has undergone a major review this year so that the 2005 solicitation(NSF 05-559) is substantially different from last year's. 1 The second part of this paperdiscusses the rationale for and direction of these changes.Overview of DUE's ProgramsThe following paragraphs, which have been adapted from various NSF documents,briefly describe all of our programs with the exception of the CCLI program – it is dealtwith in the