Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erick Jones

Books, 1992).Bauch, Garland T., Chung, Christopher A.., A Statistical Project Control Tool for Engineering Managers, Project Management Journal 32(2): 37-44.Bohlen, George A., Lee, David R., Sweeney, Patrick A. “Why and How Project Managers Attempt to Influence Their Team Members” Engineering Management Journal, Volume 10 No. 4 (December 1998), pp. 21-28.Bureau of Labor, Labor Letter, (Washington: US Department of Labor, 1966).Chermiss, C.(1980b). Staff Burnout: Job Stress in Human Services, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.Chung, Christopher A. Simulation Modeling Handbook, A Practical Approach, (New York: CRC Press, 2003

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Monica Geist; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

-0127806), a team of researchers atthe Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is creating a concept inventory to measure engineeringstudents’ understanding of difficult concepts in thermal and transport science, the Thermal andTransport Concept Inventory (TTCI). [1] Our project began with a Delphi survey of experts todetermine the concepts that were the most difficult and important for engineering studentsstudying thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. [2] Once the key concepts wereidentified, we created open-ended questions related to each concept and asked students to thinkaloud as they answered the questions. Multiple-choice questions were then developed usingstudents’ misunderstandings as documented in the think-alouds as the basis for

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

their self-reported learning/success. The paper also presents recommendationsfor enhancing student learning by enhancing faculty technical currency. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionPurpose of the StudyThis paper presents the results of the second phase of a two part research project. The purpose ofproject was to explore faculty and students’ perceptions of the importance of faculty technicalcurrency for their self-reported learning/success. The first phase of project explored the facultyperceptions of the importance of faculty technical currency for student learning/success

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

commercial systems designed to support web-based collection of assessment data.[6,7]Most of these systems are designed to support portfolio development or to permit individualfaculty members to establish and monitor student performance against self-specified courseobjectives. When looking at the needs of the Penn State programs and circumstances, thesesystems and approaches either did not offer the flexibility that was desired, were focused oncollecting fundamentally different information than was planned at Penn State, or involved much Page 10.867.4more expense than was felt feasible. Instead, a project was undertaken to develop an in-house

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wes Hines; Mary Kocak; Kurt Gramoll

family schedules, lack of class choices, long commutingdistances, and lower cost of tuition. Thus, one of the main objectives of this project was todelivery a high quality Statics class to community college students over the Internet. Ifsuccessful, then other courses could also be developed and delivered to those students that do nothave an opportunity to take the class at their local school for whatever reason. While communitycolleges are the main target, online engineering classes can also help students in larger 4-yearengineering programs by providing an alternative for on-campus students with scheduling issues,interns and coop students, or students in the military to start or continue their engineeringeducation..For comparison purposes, two

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shripad Revankar

– Miscellaneous Results Prototype Ideal Decay Heat 40 MWt 3.317 kW Core Height 3.83 m 0.302 m GDCS Mass Flow 429.3 kg / s 0.036 kg / s K-factor 13.2 15.1 MSL Area 0.397 m2 1.173 * 10-4 m23. Design and Development3.1 HardwareThe design and development stage of the project is discussed in this section. From the previousfacility two structures have been carried over to the new

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

logically addressed in the basic level criteria, because of their direct association with ABET Criteria 3(a) through 3(k). BOK Outcome 12 is logically addressed in the advanced level criteria, because it requires advanced, specialized knowledge. BOK Outcomes 13 through 15, however, might reasonably be addressed at either the basic or advanced level. These professional practice topics— project management, construction management, asset management, business, public policy and administration, and leadership—could logically be integrated into the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum or offered as part of a professional practice- oriented master’s program. From an accreditation perspective, however, it is

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

and STS 304H meetNC State’s unique General Education Requirement in Science, Technology, and Society.E497B, taken in the fall of the fourth or fifth year and also developed especially for the FranklinProgram, is designed to integrate the scholars’ academic programs in engineering andhumanities/social sciences by focusing on the theme of technology assessment and public policy.Topics covered during the first four weeks of the semester include the history, theory andmethodology of technology assessment. During the remainder of the semester, the students workin teams on a specific technology assessment project in which they research an important publicpolicy problem with significant technical components, and develop policy options for solving

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

completedhis design, the Edison company shelved the project. With no bonus in sight, Tesla quit indisgust.20 Tesla was quickly hired by two business promoters from Rahway, N.J., BenjaminA. Vail and Robert Lane, who encouraged Tesla to patent his arc lighting system so theycould commercialize it. Tesla unwisely assigned the patents to this shifty pair, trustingthat they would manufacture equipment and compete with Edison. Vail and Lane,however, decided that the real financial opportunity lay in running a lighting company,not manufacturing equipment.21 Once Tesla had his arc lighting system running inRahway, his backers fired him and reorganized the firm. Abandoned by his patrons,Tesla fell on hard times and was forced to dig ditches.22

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

Educationdishonesty develops less resistance to later engaging in professional dishonesty. Alternatively,the relationship may be strictly correlational such that there are a set of common personal andsituational variables found in both the academic and professional settings that influence aparticular individual’s decision to engage in unethical behavior.To understand what motivates a student’s decision to engage in unethical behavior in college andthe connection between this behavior and future unethical behavior in professional practice, theauthors undertook the Work Experience Study (WES) as part of a larger research project. TheWES was designed as an exploratory study to provide insight into students’ decision makingprocesses in instances where they had

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

that this discipline has gained its rightful place in the company ofengineering and engineering technology. This new level of partnership and collaboration betweenengineering and technology programs promises to be a step in the right direction for society at large.Engineering and technology majors both supplement and complement each other’s knowledge andskills and it is crucial for educators to build bridges of active interaction. This paper takes aim atone specific as well as basic need in teamwork and interdisciplinary projects – ethics and itsimplications for professional practice. The primary focus here is to promote ethics education amonga wider audience that includes industrial technologists.A preliminary study suggests that students

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

thought provoking for the final consequential task sothey had four stations of consequential tasks. I viewed this as an opportunity for the learners tobe engaged in prototyping. One station required the students to another hit a target smaller thanthey had been practicing on twice, varying at least two variable in the system; the next was thelongest possible launch, taking into account all of the variables; another was to hit a height targeton the wall, making an inference from the length data that they had gathered; and lastly, thestudents had to try to project the straw under a table, trying to make it go as far as possiblewithout hitting the table. During the very last day, I allowed the students to design their ownexperiments with the system

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

thought provoking for the final consequential task sothey had four stations of consequential tasks. I viewed this as an opportunity for the learners tobe engaged in prototyping. One station required the students to another hit a target smaller thanthey had been practicing on twice, varying at least two variable in the system; the next was thelongest possible launch, taking into account all of the variables; another was to hit a height targeton the wall, making an inference from the length data that they had gathered; and lastly, thestudents had to try to project the straw under a table, trying to make it go as far as possiblewithout hitting the table. During the very last day, I allowed the students to design their ownexperiments with the system

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Willis

Purchasing,” E-Commerce Times. January 18, 2000. 2) Society of Women Engineering: http://www.swe.org/SWE/ProgDev/stats/stathome.html 3) U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, “The 1998 High School Transcript Study Tabulations: Comparative Data on Credits Earned and Demographics of 1998, 1994, 1990, 1987, and 1982 High School Graduates,” NCES 2001-498, by Stephen Roey, Nancy Caldwell, Keith Rust, Eyal Blumstein, Tom Krenzke, Stan Legum, Judy Kuhn, Mark Waksberg, and Jacqueline Haynes. Project Officer, Janis Brown. Washington D.C. 2001. 4) U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "High School and Beyond," First Follow-up survey; "1990 High

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

specializedsupport for customers that fly Boeing aircraft.5 Their division is actively involved withoutsourcing contracts to Russian aerospace firms. He made the point that work that is“boxable”—easily enclosed, and specified—is prone to being outsourced in the present,and more so in the future. If the constraints around the problem are easily identified, thenit can and probably will be shipped overseas to a low-cost engineering services provider.Asked about giving advice to a young engineer about pursuing a career, he advisedcaution regarding the portability of projects. He also cautioned against following currentbusiness practice in revamping the engineering curriculum. Fundamentals will alwaysbe important. Glavin emphasized that the current round of

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

Chapter. 2002 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. 2002. Page 10.1155.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationCAROL MULLENAX, P.E.Carol Mullenax is a Doctoral Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans whileemployed as a Project Engineer by Bastion Technologies, a NASA subcontractor in Houston, Texas. She holds aB.S. in Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech, an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from WashingtonUniversity (St. Louis), an M.S.E. in Biomedical

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak; Frank Brattain

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”faded. They also commented that they noticed details in repetitive playing of the animation thatthey did not notice in the live test. Furthermore, students commented that it was much easier tofocus on the specimen distortion when isolated from the distraction of the testing equipment.Also, every student in the class had an optimal viewing advantage as the images are displayed ontheir computer screen or as a projected image on a screen. This is compared to students craningtheir necks and competing with each other to get within the limited viewing area available duringa real time tensile test. The display of the images also allows the magnification of the specimensize as opposed to students

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Johnson

. Up until this time, there was no clear indication about theway such a course should be taught, what should be included, or from where suitable coursematerials could be had. The experiences and materials from the University of Maryland are atleast one answer to these concerns, and the reader is invited to explore what is now available.Any one interested in further information or assistance, including exams and projects, maycontact the author of this paper.Biographical InformationARTHUR T. JOHNSONArt Johnson has been involved with bioengineering since its early days in the 1960’s. He has authored three originaltexts in bioengineering, including Biology for Engineers. He has been President of the Alliance for Engineering inMedicine and Biology

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

- 4in x 4 in x ¼ in. Within that volume, they must design a link that may be rapid prototyped, cast,and then tested. The challenge of the project was to develop a link that held the highest load forthe least weight. Students designed a link, made a rapid prototyped pattern, cast the component,prepared it for testing, and tested the link in a universal testing machine. The cast material wasAl 356. The group that developed a link with the highest load to weight ratio took advantage ofthe fact the Al 356 alloy may be precipitation hardened.KeywordsDesign, rapid prototyping, casting, testingObjectiveThe objective of this experiment is to allow students to design a component using solid modelingmethods, develop a rapid prototype model, prepare a

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

Instruments, Austin, TX, 2000.[2] Streib, W., J., Digital Circuits, The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Tinley Park, IL, 1997.BiographyARIF SIRINTERLIKCI is a faculty member at Ohio Northern University Technological Studies and HonorsPrograms. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Industrial & Systems Engineering Program of the Ohio StateUniversity and M.S. and B.S., both in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Hisprevious work experiences include various appointments and projects in Mechanical and ManufacturingEngineering fields. Page 10.811.10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Miller

isolate the source of that behavior.A third case involving temperature measurement is described in more detail below.A recent student project was to determine how vibration assistance affects machiningtemperatures. Figure 4 shows the setup for a temperature measurement experiment. Athermocouple is embedded in a steel workpiece that translates left and right under a grindingwheel. As the grinding wheel removes material from the workpiece, the temperature is recorded.Figure 4 shows the temperature measurement for two machining passes. As was done with theswirl experiment described above, the student evaluated the reasonableness of the data. Basedon similar measurements taken by others, the measurement data looked strange. We then tried anumber of

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

learning experiences in medical device design and manufacturing for a wide spectrum ofindividuals new to the field or with new responsibilities in the industry. As with any rapidlygrowing industry, applied education that covers fundamentals applicable to the long term, butthat can be put to use immediately, is vitally important. The medical device curriculum does justthat, offering applied education in areas of medical device design, development andmanufacturing.The program has been designed for engineers and managers in the medical device industry,suppliers to the industry, professionals taking new assignments or positions, team memberswanting to understand the broader scope of their projects, venture capital executives andprofessionals

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

Session 2461 Discovering the Power of PowerPoint: Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides from a Skillful User’s Perspective Michael Alley Kathryn A. Neeley Engineering Education Dept. School of Engineering & Applied Science Virginia Tech University of VirginiaAbstract Slides projected as overheads or by computers have become a conventional and dominantfeature of engineering presentations in academia, business, and professional societies. Thetraditional

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jayakumar Narasimhan; Erick Jones

bank compare to Arena (Figure 6). This may becritical for software selection. The ANOVA (Table 5) validates that both the software givedifferent results for the same input conditions. When the figure 7 is projected for 100%utilization of the teller, Simul8 suggests that third teller is needed at EXPO(0.5), but Arenasuggests that two tellers are enough. Therefore, the decisions made are differ with the software. Page 10.937.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganesh Venayagamoorthy

training results with that of the backpropagation algorithm. In addition, they doa survey of neuro-fuzzy controllers and write a report on how fuzzy memberships can be usedwithin a neural network structure. Some hybrid algorithms are described in [13].Course AssessmentThe course assessment is made of: Page 10.454.4 • 25% Homework/Assignments “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • 25% Midterm Exam • 40% Group Project Report • 5% Class

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Gregory Spaulding

. Consulting would also address specific problems that may be beyond the scope of the material covered in the standard training, such as design for reliability. Additionally, the Institute could be contracted to provide support in ongoing activities such as analysis of oil samples and periodic thermal imaging sweeps. Research – The faculty and staff at the Institute would be involved in research projects that would significantly impact reliability in the future. These research resources could be made available to address industrial problems that regional companies experience.SummaryImplementing a successful Reliability-Centered Manufacturing Program requires a clear, preciseexecution strategy. Short- and long-term goals must be defined

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Administration, is a tool for projects in a safety or design course which allows the user toevaluate the risk of mixing any of more than 6000 hazardous substances with air, water, or otherchemicals. “Process Dynamics Online Laboratory” and “Control Systems Lab Online”developed by Jim Henry at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga allow students to run actualexperiments remotely. In addition, chemical engineering educators find a variety of usefullearning objects in the chemistry, mechanical engineering, and materials engineering catalogs,and pedagogical tools in the education catalog. Some objects are cross

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Murray

classroomlearning. I found the results surprising. The most frequent answer was lecture with 20responses. Some of these responses included combinations of techniques and some weresolely lecture. Group discussion was cited 16 times and case studies 11. The responsesworking alone, projects, role playing, and quizzes were each given once. One studentanswered “group discussion and role playing” and then went on to comment, “It seemslike we are living in the days of ADD. Damn that television.” Page 10.750.3Revised class Due to a variety of factors, the student enrollment in the safety engineeringmanagement course was smaller than normal. About half of the students

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementThe authors would like to acknowledge the support of The Texas Higher EducationCoordinating Board (THECB) (Grant No. 003652-0096-2001) and U.S. Army ResearchOffice (W911NF-04-1-0024). The participation of Sarah Xie-DeSoto and Sergio Gallardoin this project is also acknowledged.Bibliographic Information[1] Murphy, J. F., “Transverse Vibration of a Simply Supported Beam with Symmetric Overhang ofArbitrary Length,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, JTEVA, Vol. 25, No. 5, September 1997, pp. 522-524.[2] Gomez-Rivas, A., “Natural Frequencies of Transverse Vibration of Curved Beams”, PhD Dissertation,the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1968.[3] Feng, W., Gomez-Rivas, A., and