Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McLaughlan

outcome based impact evaluation of large-scale complex engineeringsystems.Learning activities within the subject are organised around all students completing the threeassessable Tasks. These tasks are;Technology Assessment Quizzes Task 1: The online quizzes comprise 8% of subjectassessment and focus on student understanding of approaches to decision-making, technologyassessment models, public participation strategies and the causes of conflict.Structured Controversy Activity (32%) Task 2: This activity comprises 32% of the assessmentfor the subject and requires students to actively participate in either an online roleplay-simulation9 or a Structured Controversy Forum. To accommodate the large student numbersand the varied interests of students

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

, support, and retain underservedstudents. It integrates program curricula and creates detailed plans to replicate this program atother institutions.introduction There is a need to increase the number of women and minority engineers and the number ofwomen and minorities in engineering education. Women accounted for approximately 35 percentof employed engineers between 1993 and 1999, Asians made up about 11 percent, African-Americans and Hispanics each made up about 3 percent and American Indians made up less than0.5 percent [1]. Although engineering is “gaining in popularity at all degree levels” [2],according to the results of ASEE’s 2001-2002 survey, women and minorities areunderrepresented in engineering with women earning engineering degrees

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

(ABET) 1 is toimprove the overall quality of engineering education. This can be done through improvingcommunication skills, encouraging team work, and providing an environment that allows thestudent to acquire the knowledge they need through technology as well as traditional methods. Page 9.129.1The use of computer technology in engineering education has been a topic of ongoing interest for Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe last few decades. Computers are everywhere in our society and

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

undergraduate studentorganization open to the general University populace, but also a laboratory of the undergraduatecurriculum in analog and digital communication and electromagnetic waves, which is supportedby the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (www.temple.edu/ece). The highfrequency (HF: 1.8 to 30 MHz) and the very, ultra and super high frequency (VHF, UHF, SHF:50 MHz to 2.4 GHz) communication station equipment (Figure 1) and antennas were providedby the ECE Department as a modest part of the undergraduate communication laboratory. Figure 1. HF (left) and VHF/UHF/SHF (right) communication station equipment Page 9.1049.3

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

Session Number: 3486 Center for Adaptive Optics Akamai Summer Internship Program Christine L. Andrews, Lisa Hunter, Malika Moutawakkil, Leslie Wilkins Maui Economic Development Board/University of California, Santa CruzIntroductionIt is estimated that over the next ten years, the U.S. will need an additional 1.9 million workers inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).1 Traditionally, the STEM workforce hasconsisted of mostly white, non-Hispanic men, who made up 70% of the STEM workforce in1997.2 In the same year, underrepresented minorities - African-Americans, Hispanics, andAmerican Indians - comprised just over 6% of the general STEM workforce.2 This reliance on apredominately white, male workforce is

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Albee; Laura Dillon; Jonathon Oleszkiewicz; George Stockman

the examsthemselves and the particular outcomes under assessment. These courses at CSE/MSU use C++for programming; however, the issues and methods discussed apply to any programminglanguage.IntroductionWorking on programming projects is perhaps the most common method for students to learn theskills necessary for programming. The use of individual programming projects in teaching isgrounded in modern pedagogical theories, such as problem-based and active learning.1, 2Programming projects may be graded to help in assessing student progress in learning andeffectiveness of instruction, and also to motivate students to carry out the projects and to providethem constructive feedback. However, using programming projects in assessment isproblematic

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

overall learning experience. In theseclasses, students were asked to rate two questions that address the effectiveness of the LTTprogram from 1 (excellent or strongly agree), to 5 (poor or strongly disagree). The first questionasked students’ opinion on whether it would be a good idea to implement LTT throughout thecurriculum. The second asked whether they thought LTT was useful to their overall educational Page 9.856.3experience.The average response can be interpreted as a quantitative measure of the students’ collectiveperception on the LTT program and a value less than 3.0 is considered positive. The averageresponses of a sequence of five

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

lifting as many soda cans as possible to a height of 1 meter within agiven time constraint. Bonus points are awarded to the teams who can automate the loading andunloading of cans from the lift. This design project allows students to apply many of thepreviously learned concepts in an interesting and competitive forum because a designcompetition is held during the last week of this course. The design project pulls together manypreviously discussed concepts. These concepts include: • Ohm’s law • power and energy capacity of batteries to calculate available energy for the system • dc motors and gear boxes • trade-offs and optimizationDuring the final five weeks (week 11-15), ED&G 100 class meeting generally consists

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

Schultz, Richard R., et al. 2002. An entrepreneurship minor/cognate for engineering graduate degrees. ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, Session F1 H. 32nd Annual, Volume 2: F1H-1 -F1H-6.http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2002/papers/1110.pdf Accessed 15 March 2004.6 Creed, Christopher J., Eric M. Suuberg, and Gregory P. Crawford. 2002. Engineering entrepreneurship: an exampleof a paradigm shift in engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education 91(2): 185-195.7Holman, Richard, Hans-Werner Kaas, and David Keeling. 2003. The future of product development. McKinseyQuarterly 3: 28-39.8 Wang, Eric L. and John A. Kleppe. 2001. Teaching invention, innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering.Journal of Engineering Education 90

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

preparing them forthe situations they may encounter as officers and as engineers after graduation. Just asany space mission is multi-disciplinary, select students from the Management,Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and PhysicsDepartments; participate with the Astronautical Engineering majors in the program. Thisprogram uses an evolutionary design approach in which cadets employ or refine cutting-edge technologies and procedures developed by their predecessors. Lessons learned arethen captured and help USAFA build a catalog of technical procedures for futuremissions. Because there is almost a 100% turnover every year, documentation is crucialto the success of the program[1].After a brief history of the program, this

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon DeReamer; Nick Safai

activities.The activities were diverse, such as; experimenting with concrete and failure in compression,assembling electronic circuits, building and programming robots, working with GlobalPositioning Systems (GPS), learning the binary numbering system and using surveyingequipment as well as several other activities. The intention of the workshop was to promote science and engineering at an early age.However many additional benefits were achieved; some of which include: 1. Introducing the participants to the college environment 2. Providing a social atmosphere of teamwork 3. Giving the participants an educational and enjoyable week during their summer break 4. Providing the parents of the participants the opportunity to visit the campus

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

quickly get out of hand when nothing is done to prevent them andto help students deal with them when they occur. The way to maximize the benefits of teamwork is to use cooperative learning, a subset ofcollaborative learning in which the instructor builds in measures to assure that five conditions aremet:1. Positive interdependence. The students have to rely on one another for the effort to be successful.2. Individual accountability. Each team member is held accountable for everything in the Page 9.1226.4 assignment or project, and not just the part for which he or she may have had primary Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

synthesis using the VHDL.Based on our experience from an “Advanced Digital Design” course, the methodology is veryinstructive. The students appreciated the power of digital synthesis with the VHDL in a veryshort period of time.1. IntroductionSeveral Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies 12, 15, 22 offer synthesis tools supportingthe VHDL and Verilog languages 2, 3, 5, 7. Most of these programs are designed for RTL andlogic synthesis; as a matter of fact, behavioral or high-level synthesis is still in an experimentalphase for the design communities. The main difference between high-level synthesis andRTL/logic synthesis is on the conceptual modeling of digital systems.High-level synthesis assumes a micro-architectural view for digital design

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

graduatescience or engineering student, who realizes the value of advanced mathematics courses,eventually will include this great mathematics book on their shelf as one of their mostused reference books. The trick is to make the course interesting and “enjoyable” enoughthat students look forward to class, without sacrificing the proper challenges for thestudent to achieve a proper level of mathematical expertise as preparation for graduateschool courses. This paper discusses how to use a combination of: 1.) Textbooks, 2.) Special projects, 3.) Personal interest in the students, and 4.) Relating the material in the course to real world situations, to reach that goal. These techniques have resulted in positive student critiques

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Enke; Susan Murray

outline on planned future research activities inthis field. Challenges and Opportunities in Hybrid Class RoomsAs mentioned at the outset, this paper discusses a framework to analyze the variousfactors that impact the student learning experience and faculty teaching styles and lessonplans in the field of distance education, with an emphasis on hybrid education (both on-campus and distance students). Table 1 presents some of the issues associated with eachof the three categories – technology, logistics, and student behavior.Category Some Challenges Some Opportunities Example Key QuestionsTechnology Additional responsibility for

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik Bowman; Kenneth Siegenthaler

often involved community service projects.Engineering Systems Design was the course title. One such project was the design andfabrication by students of a collapsible electric cart/wheelchair ramp for a handicappedwoman who liked to travel on the airlines. See Figure 1. Her goal was to be able to take Figure 1. Lady on Electric Cart Figure 2. The Ramp Page 9.16.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À2004, American Society for Engineering Education”this ramp with her on the airplane as checked

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

[1], Wankat [2], Laurillard [3],Ramsden [4], Knight [5], and Yelon [6].While conducting this study it became clear that many of the skills utilized both as an engineerand engineering manager were directly transferable to engineering education. In practice,teachers were actually managers in many ways. This affirmed the conclusion that practicingengineers could successfully utilize their background effectively in the university environment.The major transferable skills included: planning, scheduling, organizing, exploring, controlling,mentoring, communicating and leading. Other skills were also transferable but usually pertainedto the management side of the university that incorporated budgeting, administrating andallocating scarce resources

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

course include orbital fundamentals, rocket fundamentals, andan introduction to space mission planning/operations. In addition to outside lecturers from thespace operations community, teaching aids used in the course include the following: 1. Large and hand-held orbital elements models, (“whiz wheels”) to illustrate orbital fundamentals; 2. Computer-based demonstrations such as STK to illustrate orbital characteristics; 3. Full-size examples and models of past and present satellites and rockets and their subsystems; 4. A demonstrational micro-satellite that has fully functional compartmentalized subsystems.The micro-satellite is particularly helpful in illustrating the physical concepts, components

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Sener

Engineering, in the Engineering Properties of Construction Materials Laboratory where teamsof students design their own experiments to investigate the particle shape and surface textureanalyses of coarse aggregates.Keywords: ABET, Engineering Education, Enhancing Laboratory Testing Practices, Outcomesand Assessments, Criterion 3-(b).1. IntroductionThe quality of the performance of the students and graduates is one of the most importantconsiderations in the evaluation of an engineering program. [1] The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) has established a 'General Criteria for Basic LevelPrograms', and the Criterion 3-(a) through (k), 'Program Outcomes and Assessments', outlinesthe requirements for engineering programs

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

the BOK. Page 9.624.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”“Bachelors plus master’s or 30 credits” (or “B + M/30”) refers to the total post-secondaryeducation that helps to fulfill the BOK required for licensure and entry into the professionalpractice of civil engineering. Experience (E) is structured and progressive post-baccalaureateengineering experience accomplished before, during, and/or after completion of the M/30. TheBOK is to be fulfilled by B + M/30 and E as shown in Figure 1

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Ali; Marcia Rossi; M. Javed Khan

environment were then undertaken, from creatingExcel macros for determining the performance of the ‘pilots’, to interacting withthe software to provide various standardized flight conditions based on theexperimental protocol. These enhancements involved understanding the flightmodel and performance, stability & control issues. Throughout this process,discussions of data analysis included a focus from a human factors perspectiveas well as an engineering point of view.IntroductionThe ‘Programs Outcomes and Assessment’ detailed in Criterion 3 of theABET2000 document [1] for accreditation of engineering programs is a templatefor educating well-rounded engineers. This criterion arises from an awareness ofthe need for today’s graduates to have skills

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

seeking employment.The consulting in Situations 1, 3, and 5 provide excellent professional development opportunitiesin the individual discipline and translate into excellence in the classroom. They are however,consulting experiences, not traditional professional development through funded research. Eventhe work in Situation 4 does not stand the test of consulting versus traditional professional Page 9.1014.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdevelopment activities. So, why consult at all? Why

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEN486A – Project Management for Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers. Details of EN412and EN445 were described in earlier papers published in these proceedings [1, 2]. EN450 is atraditional course taught with a conventional text, most recently [3], that is supplemental withsample problems and homework dealing with ocean engineering applications. EN486A wasdeveloped by the author and taught for the first time in spring semester 2003 using aconventional management science textbook [4]. Students are initially introduced to variousinventory, queuing, linear programming and

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

school women to bioengineering and the applications forBiomechanics, Ergonomics, Biochemistry, and Automotive Crash Safety.There are very few residential bioengineering summer programs nationwide. Kettering’s LivesImprove Through Engineering, or LITE, is a two week, residential, summer program for youngwomen entering their senior year of high school. Approximately 36 students, recruited fromthroughout the United States and Canada, attend the fully funded camp each year. Universityfemale students receive a stipend to mentor the high school students. The student to mentor ratiois kept low, 3 to 1.Four different professors, one for each bioengineering subject, are dedicated to presenting thecurriculum. Hands-on laboratory experiences are integral

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Hietpas

topics in DCmotors and AC synchronous and asynchronous motors. The trend in the last 10 years has been toreduce the amount of time spent on the fundamentals of DC and AC machines and to incorporate DCand AC electric drives into the course content. To support this trend, South Dakota State Universityhas incorporated major revisions to the Energy Conversion Course which now includes topics inelectric drives. With these changes, a new energy conversion and electric drives (ECED) laboratoryhas been designed and implemented, providing students a laboratory for which they actually operatesystems that make use of these technologies, while conducting the laboratory exercises. Theuniqueness of this laboratory is two-fold: 1) The laboratory is completely

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

clearly stated by Jolley 1 et al.This paper presents a specific example of an assignment used in a junior level machine designcourse which is designed to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of a finite elementanalysis versus a classical analysis of a simple shaft and gear system. Ultimately, a library ofsimilar assignments will be created to enhance other core mechanical engineering courses suchas heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and kinematics.Problem DefinitionA shaft design problem was selected to introduce the use of COSMOSWorks for stress anddeformation calculations and for frequency analysis. This problem, with slight variations, hasbeen used as a “design project” in CSUN’s junior level machine design course for several years,with

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mulchand Rathod

spread throughout the world including a large number being settled in USA. A group of those alumni living in the metropolitan NY/NJ area had a vision of organizing the first ever convention of SPU graduates in the USA. The following sections provide a brief overview of that vision, logistics for arrangements, and successful inaugural gathering during the 2003 Labor Day weekend in North Brunswick, NJ.1 CONVENTION VISION A significant portion of our life revolves around "work," however according to the "Work in America" survey about 40% of us plan our careers.14 The remaining numbers rely on chance, take the only jobs available, or follow tips from friends and relatives. The SPU alumni are no different from this

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams

Session Number: 2531 Observations on Benefits/Limitations of an Audience Response System Stephen E. Silliman and Leo McWilliams 257 Fitzpatrick Hall College of Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Silliman.1@nd.edu Mcwilliams.3@nd.eduAbstractThe audience response system (ARS) used in this study integrates fully into existing presentationsoftware and has been applied in a range of settings from high-school

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Engineeringand Technology, Engineering Council (UK) and the Washington accord. This paper is in partthe result of the authors’ effort to establish a student exchange between their institutions.1. IntroductionUniversity College London (UCL) and Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) have cometogether as part of the ‘The Atlantic Centre for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships(ACCeSS)’. This was formed as part of the US National Naval Responsibility for NavalEngineering sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR). The academic memberspresently consist of Stevens Institute of Technology, The US Naval Academy, UniversityCollege London and Webb Institute. The industrial members are AMSEC LLC Group,Lockheed Martin Marine Systems, and VT