Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

6 are also followed. Themore rules that are used, the more shocking and awing the presentation will be. Keep in mindthat the presentation took very little time yet was effective at LTU.There are many ideas for shocking and awing presentations that take very little time. To recruitmechanical engineering students, a university may want to present a demonstration aboutprojectile ballistics. A shocking and awing demonstration can accompany the presentationinvolving the burning of smokeless gun powder and black powder. The resulting smoke andflame will shock and awe the students (see Figure 2). The SAE Formula Car performing variousmaneuvers can be used as an awing demonstration. One of the senior projects teams built a 2person hovercraft (see

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

proud ofhimself. He had learned a great deal about online course design. His pride however wasnot sufficient to overcome his sense of frustration at how long the project was taking andhow it was interfering with his other responsibilities, especially his research, writing andhome life. Twigg kept track of his time on the project and had logged about 200 hours onthe project thus far. He feels like a permanent fixture at the Center for Teaching andLearning. He even attended an office birthday party for one of the center’s staff memberslast week. He had attended way too-many-to-count group training sessions, not tomention all the individual consultations with the center’s staff. The really depressing part,Twigg kept thinking, was that he was only

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

“alternateconceptions”).1 The topic has garnered considerable interest among engineeringeducators over the past few years and several concept inventories on engineering-relatedtopics are being developed, most notably by the group led by Evans associated with theFoundation Coalition.2 The goal of our project, funded by the Assessment of StudentAchievement (ASA) program at NSF, is to develop and test an inventory for the thermaland transport sciences, based on the model of the Force Concept Inventory pioneered byHestenes and colleagues.3 Once our CI has been developed and validated, it will be madeavailable to interested engineering faculty for use as a classroom formative assessmenttool that can provide valuable information for tracking student understanding

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

of the undergraduate curriculum (freshman through senior) andcan be used in multiple classes (Freshman Engineering, Intro to Chemical Engineering,Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Transport, Laboratory Practice, and Electives) to illustrateappropriate material. Figure 1 contains a concept map linking modules to concepts within thecurricula that are addressed in this paper. Use of the modules can be preceded by classroomdiscussions of the hydrogen economy, its projected political, social, and environmental impacts(both locally and globally) and/or the challenges associated with converting to such an economy.The modules can also be modified for use at the pre-college level for a wide variety of projectsand/or simple in-class or public

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

and thetime element assigned to the particular project. In addition, the user must have a thoroughunderstanding of the software functionality and the ability to gather information related toimplementing a particular modeling strategy. This process of strategy development andimplementation coincides with components of learning theory. As engineering graphicseducators, it is helpful to reflect on how students learn in our classrooms and laboratories as wellas reflect on how we develop instruction. This paper outlines three theories of learning that areapplicable to graphics education, discusses the assumptions about the learner and the learningenvironment, presents the components of learning for each theory, discusses major issues relatedto

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

persistence in science and engineering graduate programs. Uncovering Page 9.646.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe nuances of underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students’ experiences is key toaddressing issues of enrollment, persistence, and attrition. To this end, the National Consortiumfor Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is proposing aqualitative research project designed to understand the socialization of underrepresented minoritystudents in STEM

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

such programs.7, 16 However, The New Faculty Project, which studied new faculty hiresfor the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, discovered thatdespite the attention paid to mentoring programs, the proportion of new faculty who have Page 9.219.2mentors has remained unchanged for the past ten years. Of those who do have mentors, most are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationassigned pairings within their departments. Very few mentoring programs exist

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Easton; John Stratton

. The tabulated resultsindicate a projected annual growth rate of nearly 20 percent.The FutureTechnology improvements have permitted the rapid growth in distance learning. Not only hasthe geographical reach of a university been expanded, but the concept of coursework without aclassroom setting has been fully accepted. Already, the transition to “blended courses”, that iscourses that combine classroom activity with online learning, is underway. The convenience ofanytime, anywhere a laptop can access the internet is too attractive a concept to disappear. Thefuture will bring more innovation, faster access, and greater utilization. Distance learning is hereto stay

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yakov Cherner

). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 7. G.Gibbs. Learning by Doing. A Guide to Teaching and Learning Methods (1988) http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn/gibbs/ 8. Mary E. Lee, Distance Learning as "Learning by Doing". Educational Technology & Society (1999) 2(3), http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_3_99/mary_e_lee.html 9. National Science Education Standards, National Academy Press, (1996). http://www.nap.edu/html/nses/html/ Page 9.792.7 10. Benchmarks for Science Literacy (Project 2061), Oxford Univ. Press, NY

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

9.889.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclassifying normal movements. The module could then record whether the students usedthese examples. It is hoped that the new module will include the training of the modelingof joints for statics and dynamics. This project demonstrated the potential power of the learning about how studentslearn; however future work will review alternatives that may involve less developmenttime.References 1. Felder, R.M., Felder, G.N., Dietz, “The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering Student Performance and

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Asghar Bhatti

range of additional design topics were suggested for inclusion at theundergraduate level also, including high rise buildings, bridges, shell structures, advancedconcrete structures, advanced steel structures, earthquake resistant design, and blastresistant design.In the area of practice and marketing, topics of project management, marketing services,business development, communications, quality control, and cost estimation weresuggested as being needed at the undergraduate level.There may be a number of themes that can be developed from the results, although in abroader sense the results simply appear to be all over the place. The first theme is thatperhaps practicing engineers are not as familiar with the various examinations needed toobtain

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

calculation of performance, giving the projected life of the bearing inhours that is compared with the desired life. Subsequent trials may be done quite quickly to worktoward an optimum design.Helical Compression Springs Module:The method for the design of helical compression springs illustrated in the author’s book is usedin this module. The user supplies values for forces and lengths, end type, wire type, type ofservice (light, average, severe), and initial estimates of the mean diameter of the spring and thedesign shear stress (typically in the range from 80 to 140 ksi). The program determines anappropriate wire diameter, computes the actual stresses, and outputs the geometry of the spring.Allowable stresses for several types spring wire materials

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

Page 9.1051.3Center (MATEC). The main goal of this grant is to develop a series of instructional “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004. American Society for Engineering Education”modules that fill the gaps identified in electronics curricula by covering key high-technology topics missing from the most popular electronics textbooks. Known by itsformal title, Work-Ready Electronics: An Industry Supported System for SynchronizingCurriculum to the Rapidly Changing Workplace, the project is developing instructionalmodules that are delivered on-line. The modules incorporate a “learner-centered”approach that

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

management program (EMP) needs assessment project report. Edmonton: Universityof Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Institute for Professional Development. (1999).17. Babcock, D.L., & Sachet, D.R. Continuing education for Engineering Management. In, L.P. Grayson & J.MBiedenbach, (eds.), 1986 World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education (pp. 228 - 232). May 7-9, 1986,Lake Buena Vista, Florida. New York: IEEE Education Society (1986).18. Ferguson, C. The continuous professional development of engineers and flexible learning strategies.International Journal of Lifelong Education, 17 (3), 173-183 (1998).19. National Academy of Engineering. Focus on the future: A national action plan for career-long education forengineers. Washington, D.C

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenming Zhang

Transport Processes in BiologicalSystems Engineering (BSE 3504), which is taken in the same semester as Unit Ops.After taking Unit Ops, the students will take the following courses: Food Engineering,Protein Separation Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Industrial Bioprocessing, Page 9.1342.2 2Bioprocessing Plant Design, and Senior Design Project and Report. Fundamentals thestudents learn in Unit Ops will be applied to all these courses. Therefore, it is notexaggerating to say that Unit Ops is the cornerstone course for students pursuing theBioprocess Engineering option in BSE. Given the importance of Unit

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cajetan Akujuobi

Session Number 1320 ADC Automated Testing Using LabView Software Ben E. Franklin, Cajetan M. Akujuobi, Warsame Ali Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research (CECSTR) Dept. of Electrical Engineering Prairie View A&M University, Texas 77446AbstractThe focus of this project is to implement automated test algorithms for testing analog-to-digital converters using LabView software. With the increase in bandwidth hungryapplications the need for high speed and high resolution ADCs are needed on the frontends of the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

, and grant funds,etc. can be used. In regard to service, items such as: club advisor, software donations, committeeduties (national, state, university, departmental), undergraduate and graduate academic advisingresponsibilities, outreach programs and consulting can be classified. In teaching, the number ofcourses, labs, independent studies, supervised students’ projects, teaching evaluations (bystudents, fellow faculty, alumni, and department head), developing new courses, etc. can be used.So, it is important to communicate effectively what the department goals, objectives and visionsare and what is expected from the faculty applying for tenure and/or promotion. This should beconsistent at all levels. Therefore, the tenure process will foster

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”ALIREZA RAHROOHAlireza Rahrooh is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of CentralFlorida. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Akron, in 1979,1986, and 1990, respectively. His research interests include digital simulation, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, controltheory, system identification and adaptive control. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.FARHAD KAFASHIFarhad Kafashi received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical Univ. in AnkaraTurkey in 1995. He was automation project engineer for OKA Engineering Systems for Energy Generation

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Hsiao

this material has beenheated for a given time. This quantification of the fraction of nanocrystallites that form out ofthe glassy matrix illustrates the model of crystallization kinetics and equations for nucleation andgrowth learned in lecture. Through the presentation of a specific research topic, principlematerials science concepts of structure, property, processing, and performance are illustrated. Inaddition, several students respond to this example shown in the course by participating in on-campus and off-campus individual projects with the professor.Description of Research and Pedagogical MethodThe materials science course at Union College is taken by all mechanical engineering majorsduring their sophomore year. A chemistry prerequisite

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

calculations such as homework, quiz, and exam solutions. I foundthat the students would write when I wrote on the chalkboard. It is also a good tool forpresenting an overall picture of each topic. When using the chalkboard, I always printedwith large letters and neatly. I found that students had no problems reading myhandwriting. I used the overhead project at the beginning of each lecture to presentoutline, graphics, definitions, examples, or tables related to that class.BenefitsI gained valuable teaching experience after teaching this course. I was exposed to theother side of teaching (the instructors). Moreover, I now have a better understanding ofthe engineering economics topics that I taught (and how they relate to my dissertation).This

Conference Session

BME Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

. Page 9.258.4“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”1. Whitaker Foundation. (January 14th, 2004). Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit Meeting, 2000.[Online]. Available: http://summit.whitaker.org.2. R.A. Linsenmeier. "What Makes a Biomedical Engineer? Defining the Undergraduate Biomedical EngineeringCurriculum". IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 22:4, pages 32-38. July/August, 2003." © 2003IEEE.3. R.A. Linsenmeier, T.R. Harris, and S. A. Olds. “The VaNTH Bioengineering Curriculum Project”. Proceedingsof the Second Joint EMBS/BMES Conference (CD-ROM, Omnipress): 2644-2645

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

Page 9.671.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education[5] Er nest & Young LLP: Global Information Security Survey 2003 http://www. ey.com[6] O. Geoffr ey Egekwu and Mar co DeMar tin: “The Need for an Integrated Security Solution for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System used in Manufacturing Infrastructures” Critical Infrastructure Protection Project: Workshop I Working Papers, edited by Alexander Woodcock and Kevin Thomas, August 2003, George Mason University Press, Fairfax, VA., pp. 125-133.[7] Cisco Systems, Inc.: Cisco Security Agent Data

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

A Low-Cost Approach to Teaching Transmission Line Fundamentals and Impedance Matching David M. Hata Portland Community CollegeAbstract:As part of a NSF-funded Project, Portland Community College has developed a series of low-cost experiments to teach transmission line fundamentals and impedance matching techniques.Using a MFJ-259B SWR Analyzer, experimental exercises to measure reflections coefficients,standing wave ratios, and input impedance have been developed and used in the teachinglaboratory. With the addition of a matching unit and simulated load, impedance matchingexercises can also be implemented. These laboratory exercises

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ward; Robert Martinazzi

engineer. Interests include engineering economics,management and leadership development. Worked as project engineer for Armstrong World Industries,does engineering management and leadership consulting work and presents seminars on effectiveness andleadership at both the individual and corporate levels. Colonel (Ret) in United States Marine CorpsReserves.DAVID WARDDave Ward is currently an Associate Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Hereceived his PhD in Anglo-Irish Studies from the University of Tulsa in 1970. Page 9.1187.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Johnson; John Weese

master’s level programs include thosefor the baccalaureate level programs with the addition of one year of study beyond thebaccalaureate level plus a project or research activity culminating in a report demonstratingmastery of the subject at a higher level and with commensurate communication skills. TheCriteria 2001 for associate degree programs restate the eight criteria, reflecting lesserexpectations than for the baccalaureate level programs.Some of the criteria are quite similar to those for EC 2000 and ET2K. For example, Criterion 3for the ASAC baccalaureate programs has items (a) through (k) that are similar to those in EC2000 with the word engineering being replaced with engineering-related.Criterion 4, Professional Component, is less

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wise

employees) may be perilously close to a final judgment about your manuscript after reading the executive summary. Through the CPR process, you will learn how to write a good executive summary of the project you complete in the ChE407 Unit Operations Lab.The assignment was implemented three times during the semester. This is unusual, as most CPRassignments are taken only once. It is possible that repeating the same assignment affected theresults of this study and this should be kept in mind.ResultsStudents were resistant at the beginning of the semester, but appeared to learn using the system.Initial resistance to CPR has been reported by other researchers and should be expected.5,6Furman and Robinson7, in fact, report

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman

of Art.He previously served as the Multimedia Specialist for research and development at Federal Express corporateheadquarters. His specialty is teaching interactive multimedia, 3D and supporting corporate and industrialdevelopment projects. Page 9.259.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Educational Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Sener

and deliver a credible testing procedure and anassessment of their work satisfactorily.Students, working in teams, demonstrated that the author's doubts were not warranted. Studentsemphasized the importance of a collaborative teamwork for the success of their speciallaboratory testing design project. They have proved that the ABET 2000 Criteria (specificallyCriterion 3-(b)) for program outcomes and assessments are appropriate and deliverable. Studentswere able to design and conduct their own integrated laboratory experiments, develop newtesting apparatus and methods, make necessary modifications and revisions as required, andcritically analyze and correlate data with interpretation of test results.Students were given an opportunity to bring

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

to the learning process. In some areas,students present project posters at the end of the two-week period. Overall, the studentsparticipate in an interactive curriculum that shows them firsthand how they can applybioengineering to societal concerns.Benefits to the high school students are both perceived and measured. The students have achance to interact with female professors who are balancing family and work, therefore showingfirst hand that women can achieve professional and personal aspirations. The undergraduateswho serve as LITE mentors demonstrate collegiate success. Both faculty and coeds are positiverole models for the high school women. A post-program assessment of the LITE participantsindicates that after attending the two-week