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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationhave been in publishable form and have been subsequently submitted for inclusion in eitherconference proceedings or archival journals [1]. One of the goals of this course sequence is to prepare students in the fundamentalmicrofabrication technologies so that these may be implemented in their research. Data indicatethat this goal is being achieved and that the students are much better prepared to design andfabricate microsystems for their individual research projects. This paper presents details on thedesign of each course, and on the implementation challenges related to the

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

applications problems and create new tooling designs. Overlay engineering anddesign skill with the ability to apply cost analysis and basic business operations management andit becomes apparent that it is no small task to be a tool design engineer.There has also been an evolution in modern manufacturing operations where modular fixturinghas become a key application in cellular and demand flow systems.1 The appeal of modularfixturing to manufacturing management is it’s relatively low cost when considering all factorswhich included interchangeability and standardization across product lines. Purchasing modularfixturing elements, when available and appropriate, decreases the need for skilled toolmakers tofabricate one-of-a-kind fixtures, allows recycling

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Waldron; Rose Robinson; Michael Gregg; Jenny Lo

of the slides to the Internet. This also holds true for uploadingother common documents and generating hyperlinks to other websites needed for the class. Duringspring 2003, approximately 25 lessons (each containing two PDF versions of 3 to 20+ slides), 12reading assignments, and about 30 homework-related documents were posted to the sharedBlackboard course. Each file had to be uploaded to Blackboard one at a time. To access Blackboard,add a new item to a folder, and upload a 1 MB file takes approximately two minutes. Time is alsonecessary to set up the course so that the proper areas are available to the students and items in eacharea are arranged in the order as desired by the instructors. For EF1015/EF2984, two hours eachweek can easily be

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

month program:Fall Semester • CprE 530 Advanced Computer Networking • CprE 531 Information System SecuritySpring Semester • CprE 532 Information Warfare • CprE 533 Cryptography2 year Program:Fall Semester (Year 1) CprE 531 Information System SecuritySpring Semester (Year 1) CprE 532 Information WarfareFall Semester (Year 2) CprE 530 Advanced Computer NetworkingSpring Semester (Year 2) CprE 533 CryptographyCourse DeliveryThe courses are taught on campus in the EDE classrooms. These rooms hold 60 students oncampus and have a series of video cameras, microphones, SmartBoards, and other advancedinstructional technologies operated by trained student technicians. The faculty member teachingthe course has

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

players. The ETP – training program was designed based on the ETP - team trainingframework (See appendix 1). This framework assume that team members need to know,understand and be able to address the causes of team failure through understanding andlearning about the factors that will be present during their team process. They also needto learn how these factors can affect their effectiveness. The framework proposes that Page 9.567.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationteam members understanding in

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1475IntroductionEmployee training is one of the most overlooked aspects in many organizations. Collinsand Porras, in their exhaustive examination of the most successful visionary companies,advocate that training programs and orientation programs are part of what make manycompanies great [1]. Additionally, Bolman and Deal, in their book on ReframingOrganizations, discuss the necessity of investing in people by providing excellent trainingopportunities [2]. They advocate that while there is some cost involved

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

process that projects the need for IT workers to grow to 146,000 by 2008, a 90% in-crease over 1998 figures 1. National figures also predict an increased need for workers in the ITfield. Most studies show that the greatest need is for people who constitute the researchers, crea-tors and designers of the new and advancing technologies. Page 9.1121.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Cycles of layoffs and shortages have been the labor market reality for technical profession-als in recent

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”broken into three groups, each meeting on a separate day. For each of the three groups, varyingamounts of structural theory and concepts were presented. Group 1 was given no information onstructural design, and had to rely on their intuition when designing and constructing their tower.Group 2 was shown images of tower types and basic structural concepts, but given no lecture onstructural theory. These images consisted of basic structural concepts, and images of existingstructural towers that utilize the three basic methods of stability: Vertical bracing, Shearwall, orRigid Frame construction. Group 3 was shown an enhanced version of the images of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University

include:1. Discussing the need for multimedia-rich courses for teaching technology-based subjects in online environments2. Developing multimedia based online courses3. The effects of using Multimedia in teaching technology-based concepts4. The results of the study on the effects of using multimedia in an online environment5. Results of student attitudes toward learning through multimediaIntroductionThe advancement in technology is shaping every aspect of our life, including education. Onedecade ago, the Internet was not critical to education. However, now, it has become anintegral part of learning process. Internet technology is having a dramatic effect on colleges

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

years. These 6 credits cannot be applied to the graduationrequirements for the Information and Systems Engineering degree. Normally the I&SE degreerequires 132 credit hours. A student in the ISELP program needs to complete 138 credit hours tograduate and complete the ISELP program.Students are admitted to the program at one of two possible times: 1) as an entering freshman or2) at the beginning of the sophomore year. For a student who is an entering freshman, selectionis based on application information including high school record, leadership positions in extra-curricular activities, and SAT scores. Positions are offered through the Office of Admissions.Students who enter the program at the beginning of their sophomore year indicate a

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

found it very effective in their learning.1. IntroductionAll educational institutions emphasize that teaching is important, and give high priority todeveloping effective learning and teaching strategies.(1-6) Effective teaching may include highlevel of creativity in analyzing, synthesizing, and presenting knowledge in new and effectiveways. It should instill in the students the ability to be analytical, intellectually curious, culturallyaware, employable, and capable of leadership.Student’s native ability, background, and the match between the learning and teaching stylesdetermine the level of learning. To maximize students learning, we should improve theeffectiveness of our teaching by incorporating a multi-style approach to engineering

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Connolly; Herbert Rabin; Eric Schurr; David Barbe

transfer andeconomic development program that promotes the development and commercializationof products and processes through industry/university research partnerships. ThroughMIPS, University faculty and graduate students conduct research projects for Marylandcompanies. Two features that distinguish this program from other research programs arethat (1) MIPS proposals are evaluated not only on technical merit, but most importantly Page 9.888.1on potential for economic benefit and (2) projects are jointly funded by the companies Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Beth Lakin; Gary Crossman

providing a formal mechanismfor the assessment of college level knowledge and skills gained outside the college classroom.(1) Experiential learning has a rich history in the United States and around the world. In the1930's Dewey (1939) focused on the importance of experiential learning in the natural sciences.After World War II, returning veterans pushed America's educational system to recognizealternative systems of learning. This resulted in the development of standardized examinationssuch as the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). The American Council on Education (ACE) is an umbrella organization for our collegesand universities, located in Washington, D.C. In 1942 it founded the Center for Adult Learningand Educational

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Partnering Across Cultures: Bridging the Divide between Universities and Minority High Schools Marion Usselman1, Donna Llewellyn2, Dara O’Neil3, Gordon Kingsley3, 1 Center for Education Integrating Science, Math, and Computing (CEISMC) 2 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) 3 School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe historical mission of most engineering-dominated Research-1 universities is to create newknowledge and to train students in technological fields. In the

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

, andengineering. In short, there’s nothing lazy about it.Throughout the series, two teams compete, using their problem-solving skills to design,construct, and test challenges proposed by the LAZYBONES audience. The show’s host, who hasused his or her knowledge of engineering to create a domain that would make Rube Goldbergproud, keeps tabs on the contestants. Injecting the show with humor and wit, she or he offersviewers a running commentary – pointing out the successes and pitfalls of each team’sengineering endeavors.Behind all this fun lies a serious educational purpose (1) to teach kids to learn about engineeringby using science and technology to solve real-life problems; (2) to help bridge the critical yearsfor keeping kids interested in science and

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

was adopted by the TotalQuality Management (TQM) movement and is now associated with business processreengineering, organizational learning, knowledge management, and most recently,competence-based management.16 In a comprehensive review of the literature, Lewis17categorized research in organizational culture into four themes: 1. work related to whether organizational culture can be directly observable behavior or only lying in tacit assumptions 2. work investigating whether culture should be viewed as one variable within an organization or used as a root metaphor for the organization, i.e., “is it something an organization has or something an organization is?” (p. 14) 3. studies related to culture’s effect on an

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Joseph Goodman

drop the programming instructionmaterial from the first course and to teach whatever computer programming language(s) theother engineering departments desired in separate courses. This resulted in a 1-credit hourFortran 90 course (EF 2324) and a 2-credit hour C++ course (EF 2314). The Electrical andComputer Engineering Department decided to offer its own 3-credit C++ course (ECE 1574).Some departments dropped the programming language component from their curriculum Page 9.955.1completely.The ProblemThe first course offering of EF 2314 was scheduled for fall 1999. At that time, there was onlyone available C++ programming instructor in the division

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rich Shiavi; Christopher Rowe

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

Environmental Science andEngineering5. They also are provided articles and web pages to read. Table 1 below summarizesthe topics and related readings.Lecture Topics and JiTT QuizzesThe air quality module is taught over a three-week period with two 50-minute lectures eachweek. Table 2 below summarizes a potential list of topics that have been addressed over thethree-week period in the lecture periods and the JiTT quiz topics. Due to the nature of JiTTpedagogy, the students drive the specifics of what is discussed in lecture periods and eachsemester the focus has been different in terms of the details of coverage in the course. Likewise,JiTT quiz topics vary as a result of answers to previous quizzes and questions raised in lectureperiods. The CCLI

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

enough challenges forcollege students, international students face several additional pressures. These includeadjusting to an entirely new culture and surroundings, as well as building relationshipswith their new peers 1. Page 9.796.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAdditional pressures are placed on those international students who do not speak Englishas their native language. This is one of the major obstacles facing international students.Language barriers can exacerbate struggles with class work

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre Sayles

Model—The ConceptThe Leading Diversity Process Model (LDPM) is very simple. In fact, the simplicity is whatmakes it work for different audiences. The LDPM shown in Figure 1 has the three primarycomponents of accept differences, understand differences, and value differences, while the rolemodel section at the top is external to the primary process, but part of the overall concept ofenhancing organizational effectiveness through diversity. The core thread in the model is howdifferences in people are handled by individuals and organizations or institutions. Role Models Value Differences

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Karim; Ardie Walser

* SpringMAT 1642 Calculus 4 MAT 1644 Calculus II 4ENG 1302 Expository Writing 3 English 1303 Literature and 3 CompositionCHE 4002 General Chemistry I 3 Soc 1232 Introduction to Sociology 3LectureCHE 4102 General Chemistry I Lab 1 MAT 1698 Modern Programming 3Psychology 1032 General Psych 3 Liberal Arts Elective† 1 Waived

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

into a small company designed by the faculty. The students mustdetail the attack plan and then provide a detailed description of how to defend against the attacks.The labsThere are several labs assigned throughout the course, all of the labs are designed to becompleted remotely. Most of the labs require the use of the computer lab at ISU, which studentsaccess via SSH or telnet via the internet. The lab environment will be described later. Whilethese lab experiments are not the focus of this paper they are important to help set the stage forthe break-in lab assignment.Lab assignment #1Using the tools discussed in chapter 1 of Hacking Exposed footprint Iowa State University. Youshould not do any scanning or anything else other than gather public

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples; Andrew Rose

course, they are able to specifically identify “what” and “why” these “leaders”were so effective or ineffective in the student’s opinion. Encouragement is given to the studentsto constantly monitor, assess, develop and implement those characteristics and traits essential foreffective personal and interpersonal leadership effectiveness. Finally, student evaluations andpersonal comments regarding this course rank it among the very best the students have taken intheir undergraduate education at the University.Bibliography 1. Technology Accreditation Commission, ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs Effective for Evaluations During 2003-2004 Accreditation Cycle.” URL http://www.abet.org/criteria.html 2003-2004

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

graduation of 61students. The average student/faculty ration was 23:1. The largest program is atColorado School of Mines with just over 1000 BS students. The next largest program isthe University of Illinois with 562 students. Table 3 shows the demographics of the sevenlargest general engineering programs in the US based on the available responses. It is notclear from the data if the student and faculty numbers represent full-time equivalents. Table 1 Demographics of Selected General Engineering Programs Annual Student School Type Model Graduates Enrollment Faculty Colorado School of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and NSF's PFI

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

for broadeningimplementation. Page 9.489.1 1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThe National Science Foundation in February 2001 funded the University of Arkansas under thePartnership for Innovation program to initiate a new effort based on the “teaching through doing"paradigm. This program is a new concept targeted at providing a stimulative effect on very earlystage technology-based company development. Importantly, the

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

system.II. Automated Inspection ProcessThe flow chart depicted in Figure 1 shows the automated inspection process. The componentsthat make up the AIP consists of a Mitsubishi RVN10 industrial robot with a input and outputcontroller2, an Allen Bradley Micrologix 1000 Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), aconveyor belt assembly, a pneumatic actuator arm, and a DVT Smart Image Sensor Camera witha I/O board3. The robot program activates the input/output controller, which sends and receivessignals from the conveyor belt assembly, the DVT camera, and the pneumatic actuator arm. TheSmart Image Sensor is a machine vision device that uses soft sensors to look for changes incontrast on a two-dimensional plane. The soft sensors are tools drawn on an image of

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

, money now is more important than a future Page 9.1200.1later. Nevertheless, there are industries that go above and beyond to ensure that the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationenvironment is not harmed as well as ensure that the resources they consume now can beavailable to later generations. For example, just last year, IBM was given an award fromthe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their contribution to environmentallysafe commuting practices 1. The Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers, includinga project to add a meaningful hardware experience and providing a means for students toinexpensively program their MCU’s at home. We selected the PIC12F675 microcontroller and the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kitdevelopment board from Microchip Technology, Inc. for our microcontroller studies. Teamsof students construct, code, debug and test complete design solutions at home and verify theirimplementation by real-time execution in class. The paintball chronograph project requireshardware and coding for both the PC and PIC12F675, focusing most of the pertinent coursematerial into a single effort. Course assessments show that the chronograph project was very successful and highlymotivational. Hardware construction was relatively

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

sessions and help students to construct their own understandings of courseconcepts. The integration of lab work directly into the course makes the lab work more relevantand ensures that the lab and course materials are in step. Evaluations conducted by Wilson7demonstrate that students learn the material better and faster when compared to the traditionalscience courses. Additionally, students’ attitudes towards science improved and both studentsand faculty enjoyed the material8.The Studio Approach requires that one has a facility that can accommodate students working ingroups about computers, with input from a faculty member. The Environmental ResourcesEngineering Design Studio9 was created for such a purpose. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, theERE