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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramakanth Mandalika; Enno Koehn

10.386.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEnno "Ed" KoehnEnno "Ed" Koehn is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Professor Koehn hasserved as a principal investigator for several research and development projects dealing with various aspects ofconstruction and has experience in the design, scheduling and estimating of facilities. In addition, he has authored/co-authored over 200 papers and presentations in engineering education and the general areas of Civil and ConstructionEngineering. Dr.Koehn is as member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Warren; Abolghasem Shahbazi; Jianzhong Lou; Keith Schimmel

(such as Tone polymer by former Union Carbide)2, and polylactic acid(pioneered by Argonne National Laboratories). Although there are issues related to both cost andmonomer supplies, development of lactic acid based biodegradable polymers appears to be mostactive, and a number of commercial projects are under way.While there has been a lot of research on biodegradable polymers and increasingcommercialization of biodegradable polymers, the availability of educational materials on thisimportant subject are disproportionate to other areas of polymer education.3 There is anincreasing demand for skills in this area from companies involved in the research and productdevelopment activities of this class of polymers.4-6 Therefore, a biodegradable

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francisco Aguiniga; Hector Estrada

development ofthe program presented here. This required the instructor to spend a large portion of the courseteaching the calculation procedures rather than helping the students understand the nature andeffect of these stresses on structures. Furthermore, students were able to solve only very simpleproblems with no practical applicability. Also, students commented that the processes was amathematical exercise and did not help them understand the mechanical behavior of differentcomposite systems. Therefore, the project presented here is intended to be responsive to thiscomplain by using computers to perform the tedious calculations, taking advantage of their speedand consistency. Since the program has been unitized in the class, the student comments

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

laboratory where they learn the basics of Cprogramming and computer-assisted mathematics. Each laboratory session also includes a briefdemonstration designed to illustrate qualitatively some physical principles important in electricalengineering. An effort is made to identify those students with more advanced programmingskills and give them appropriately challenging projects; however, the emphasis is oncommunication, with the laboratory grade based on student reporting.An optional second semester (EE186) is also offered. It is a single credit hour class thatcomprises only a laboratory section, and gives the students a great deal of latitude in choosingprojects according to their own interests. The grade is again based on communication andreporting

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul DeNu; Connie Sketch

projections, and average salaries.Lesson 3, Job Search Methods, is designed to assist students in finding job leads in their chosenfield of study and preparing a cover letter, resume, and professional portfolio. A FLASH movieis used to expose the students to ten of the most successful methods for finding a job opening.After reviewing the material the students are required to identify their own network and visit theappropriate web site of the professional organization associated with their profession. Asupplemental software package supplied in support of the course is used by the students todevelop a cover letter and resume. Students are also exposed to the characteristics of a qualityportfolio and then are required to critique an online portfolio

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carla Purdy; Mara Wasburn

graduate students is how to find sufficient mentoring and rolemodels. This need is not limited to academic subjects. Much more than undergraduate students,graduate students are establishing themselves as independent adults, and possibly taking onfamily responsibilities. These can be particularly overwhelming for a student who may be farfrom friends and relatives and who needs advice on how to combine the heavy studentresponsibilities with other important responsibilities. Advice on how to handle stress is verynecessary.Such a supportive community for doctoral students was initiated at Purdue University in 1999.This pilot project sought to provide support and guidance for doctoral students across campus,especially those whose progress on their

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivand Lakmazaheri

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

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

used to gauge student’s learningprogress along with other techniques.AQM involves a) Active listening, b) Maintaining a Portfolio that reflect student work in total,c) Interactive learning, d) Intro to concepts through project implementation, d) Cooperativecollaborative learning 4 through team approach, and e) Assessing students at the micro levelusing what we call a “ten minute” quiz that is given at beginning of every lecture hour to keepthe students in a continuous study and inquiry mode.The AQM was initiated in our department back in fall 1994 with stream lining of theprerequisites to our circuit courses. College Algebra was changed to a prerequisite rather than apre/co requisite. This change helped the students in applying algebra to

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

, improvinginnovation systems through applied research, development of information and information-sharing and pilot project activity. To assist in the process of initiating interest and activity in thisarea, an “International Focus on Engineering, Technology and Poverty Eradication” was held inWashington in April 2004. The Focus identified the particular need to support the networking ofuniversities and related institutions in engineering and technology to promote the sharing ofinformation, experience and applied research and related activities promoting the application ofengineering and technology to poverty eradication. The Focus also called for a largerinternational forum to promote this, and an “International Forum on Engineering andTechnology for Poverty

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

may not affect a student’s moral reasoning, it does increase theirsensitivity or awareness to ethical dilemmas, including some norms of professional practice.Second, the material should integrate various aspects of engineering curricula. In this way,ethics is not viewed as something distinct from engineering, but as part of the problem-solving process. Integrating ethics in the learning experience does not necessarily mean in aclassroom setting. One possibility is to use service learning (engineering projects in non-profitorganizations or needy areas) to promote understanding of ethical dilemmas and the potentialimpact of technology. Finally, in order to reinforce the material, it should be provided atmultiple points in the curriculum.There

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Magun-Jackson

planning the physicalarrangement of the classroom, organizing effective groupings, modeling acceptance, fosteringlistening and communication, and encouraging student-to-student interaction. From the firstmeeting with the students, the faculty must create a setting in which it is safe and acceptable todiscuss sensitive issues and to disagree with one another. Positioning the standards andexpectations of respect in the beginning of the term fosters good discussion, both in theclassroom and online. Many courses include group projects or group activities; faculty shouldthink about the arrangement of the room as well as the individual group participants. Bymanipulating group membership to include students who are in several different Kohlbergstages

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Hall

construction projects. Asignificant number of engineers, including construction contractor, consulting, andAHTD personnel, report that the training and certification program was their firstexperience in truly scrutinizing and fully understanding testing specifications – withsome reporting that the CTTP programs forced them to read testing specifications for the Page 10.369.4Kevin D. Hall Page 4 of 11Creating Professional Laboratories versus Academic Laboratories for Construction Materials Coursesfirst time. The laboratory certification program also

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Randal Direen; Frank Barnes; Edward McKenna; Driss Benhaddou; Deniz Gurkan; Alan Mickelson

webserver software so that they could be used together in thefuture. Page 10.496.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2: OTDR virtual instrument front panel with readings illustrating the measurement of abreak after a short piece of single mode fiber.VI Student Instructor InteractionThe technological advances with the test and measurement equipments allowed themanufacturing facilities at various production lines to have a remote monitoring and controlover the processes. This e-learning project is in a

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia White; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

based on competencies and STARs areessentially a demonstration of a particular competency. STARs are used by students as artifactsin their ePortfolio. A student’s ePortfolio is a collection of artifacts that demonstrate thedevelopment of the fourteen ISU competencies. Other artifacts could be, for example,classwork, design projects, and/or video of presentations.An ePortfolio consisting entirely of STARs would not be an acceptable demonstration that astudent has developed the competencies. There needs to be examples of actual student work thatprovide verification that the competency was achieved. However, some experiences may bedifficult to present in any other manner, as the demonstration of a competency may not result inan artifact that could

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Guoping Wang

to sequential logic designs using VHDL. During the lecture and labsessions, students showed very positive feedback. In the exam and lab projects, most studentsdemonstrated the ability to design moderately complex sequential logic blocks. The course andthe lab sessions were rated 3.69/4.0 overall in the 2004 Spring semester.Conclusion VHDL is a challenging course for electrical and computer engineering students due to itscomplex features. This paper introduces a new approach to teaching sequential VHDL models.The simple D flip-flop VHDL models are introduced first, and then the design concepts aremigrated to the complex logic blocks. The author’s experience in IPFW (Indiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne) shows that it is very

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

LOKESH JOSHI; James Sweeney; Edward Hall; Alyssa Panitch

, green integrated technology,omnipresent computing including implanted systems, nanomachines, designer foods and crops,intelligent goods and appliances, and the development of “super senses” using sensors andelectronic or genetic technologies.2 In the 2004 annual technology opinion survey of IEEEFellows, 72% of respondents listed biomolecular engineering as the field that will have the“biggest social impact” over the next 10 years.3 The National Academy of Engineering also hasincluded biotechnology within its projected core knowledge set for the “2020 Engineer.”4 Inrecognition of these trends a one-semester ‘Biology for Engineers’ course is now indevelopment at ASU that will become a required component of the undergraduate curriculumfor all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jing Pang

. For example, they can use the JK Flip-Flops designed in Figure 2 as Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcomponents to build a 4-bit binary counter with parallel load.Usually, the fun lab projects greatly fascinate students. Students are very excited to see somereal world applications such as displaying the year and date in a serial shifting sequence on aseven-segment display.Other general designs are the data transfer circuits, the serial/parallel shift register, themultiplexer, the encoder, the decoder, the finite state machine, the arithmetic logic unit, thesimple microprocessor, and so on.For

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

turbulence.These results add to the growing body of evidence supporting alternative instructional techniquesas effective methods for teaching engineering. Future research will expand upon the findings of this pilot study. This study will berepeated with a larger group of engineering undergraduates. In addition, the order of instructionaltechniques will be switched with the lab demonstration presented prior to the lecture.AcknowledgementsFinancial support for this project has been provided by grant # 0126842 from the NationalScience Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.Bibliography1. Reynolds, O. (1883) An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which Determine Whether the Motionof Water in Parallel

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed

sequence. Byintegrating with the preceding and succeeding course coordinators a course coordinatorestablishes the following: 1. Course learning objectives to meet departmental established outcome 2. Course syllabus 3. Course textbook 4. Course exams and projects. 5. Course feedback and assessment 6. Course continuous improvementAt the teaching faculty level adhering to the established course syllabus and continuousfeedback to the course coordinator is essential for the local and global success of theprocess.Implementation of the Lean Academics ApproachTraditional educational approaches lack educational output uniformity due to un-enforcedcommon course standards. For example, in nearly every multi-section core course veryfew exams are

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

the VaNTH ERC, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored projects, “Biomedical ImagingEducation: Safe, Inexpensive Hands-On Learning” and the Vanderbilt BME RET Site Program.ROBERT D SHERWOOD – Dr. Sherwood works in the area of science education within the Teaching and Learningat Vanderbilt and has been an investigator on the VaNTH ERC since its inception. He is currently on leave fromVanderbilt at the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the Division of Elementary, Secondary andInformal Education within the Education and Human Resources Directorate. Page 10.1402.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

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John L. Falconer; Janet deGrazia; Al Weimer

to the multiple-choice questions by aiming the clicker at a wall-mountedreceivers and pressing A,B,C,D, or E. The H-ITT acquisition program display is also projected ontoa screen for the entire class to see. The ID number (or the student initials) of each clicker isdisplayed indicating that the student response has been successfully collected, but it does not showthe student answer. The H-ITT Acquisition program summarizes the data and displays the classresponses in histogram form,. After class, a separate program associates student names with the remote ID numbers andgrades the responses instantly. It allows the instructor to assign point values to each answer for eachquestion (e.g., 3 points for correct answer, 1 point for incorrect

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

(1996).5. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/rockets/act1.html6. M.E. Loverude, C.H. Kautz, and P.R. Heron, “Student Understanding of the First Law of Thermodynamics: Relating Work to the Adiabatic Compression of an Ideal Gas,” American Journal of Physics, 70(2), 137-148 (Feb 2002).MICHELE PERRIN (MS EE & CE) has fifteen years of experience introducing students to pre-engineering throughthe use of technology. She has taught classes at the high school and college level in physics, robotics, and computerprogramming. In 1998, she was named a Tandy Technology Scholar and in 2000 she studied in Japan on a teacherexchange. Her current projects include designing electronic sensors and presenting workshops to teachers

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

information was given on non-power applications in the field of nuclear engineering. It was felt necessary to give thestudents a full breadth of the scope of nuclear engineering to get them interested andinvolved in the concepts presented later in the course. Students were also asked to pickone of the many topics discussed in class to be part of their project topic. The projectrequired each student to do a short Power Point® presentation and write a brief 5-pagereport to be submitted at the end of the semester. The list of lecture topics is given inTable 3.Table 3:- Lecture Distribution for CHEG 4103.002 Lecture 1 Syllabus Day & Introduction Lecture 2 Historical Journey Lecture 3

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

introductionof linked and team-taught courses, with an HU/COM instructor added to the College ofEngineering (COE) faculty who would typically teach the course. The HU/COM instructorprovides students with additional guidance in technical writing, group presentations, andteamwork. The senior design courses were chosen for this project in order to provide studentswith supplemental HU/COM instruction just prior to their entering the workforce, therebyaffording them timely training.This paper begins by explaining the context that led to the introduction of linked and team-taughtcourses. The evolution of three such courses is described in detail, followed by a discussion ofthe successes and challenges encountered in developing revised course content. The

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

research lab with the purpose of gainingexperience in the research and development process. The Hinman program supportsinternships with startup companies to help students become familiar withentrepreneurship processes and in selected faculty laboratories to help the students gainexperience in the R&D process. One particular student, Blake Robertson, is profiled hereas an example of the potential for creating an environment that opens the door to productdevelopment in the CEOs community.Blake began his journey into product development during a summer internship in 2002.After the internship was over, the faculty member hired Blake to continue working onprojects in his VLSI lab. Since then, Blake has worked on a number of projects. Amongthem, he

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

emergencyrepair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. University application of this interest includes instruction in thefollowing courses: Machine Design, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design aswell as student Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Bajavehicle competition. He and his colleagues have instituted a Capstone Senior Design Project course forengineering technology students that includes an integrated group of Computer, Electrical and MechanicalEngineering Technology students. He has also structured an Intro. to Product Design course for non-engineering majors as part of the University’s new School of Technological Entrepreneurship .In 2002 Prof. Di Bella was awarded the

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

just before it willbe used, for example in a laboratory exercise or an assigned project. JiTT, on the other hand, is atechnique used to enhance the interactivity of a lecture period by creating a feedback loopbetween the instructor and the student.The JiTT strategy reflects recent efforts in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, as well as education research in general and inspecific disciplines, such to understand how people learn. A recent report by Bransford(4)discusses what principles of knowledge organization underlie people’s problem solvingcapabilities, how people transfer learning in one setting to another, and how these results can beused to design new and better learning

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terence Weigel

number of other (heavier) angles on the project have been selected and thedesigner wishes to minimize the variation in angle size used on the project. In any case, the pre-processor can permit the student to proceed with a less than optimal choice, but it should explainthe ramifications of doing so. For example, if the student chooses to connect the short leg of theangle, a window such as shown in Figure 5 should popup, and the student could decide to changehis / her choice based on the information provided.Grader Extensions Plans for extensions of the grading systems include the following: • For design problems, add the capability to consider sections that might not be the lightest acceptable section, but could

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Hudson; Laurence Merkle; Joshua Holden; Richard Layton

Conf., Salt Lake City.2. MUPEC 2004 conference website, www.rose-hulman.edu/MUPEC2004/RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His interests include student teambuilding and laboratory curriculum development. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years Page 10.1373.10in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Resnick

computing, and be sure to include thetrivial stuff such as how to turn on the computer, the directory system of the project, andpasswords.Research the reason for the creation of the language, determine the perceived advantages anddisadvantages, and record this information in the language section of the notebook. Later, afterapplying the language, update the advantages and disadvantages based on personal experience.This information will help with language selection activities of the future. Page 10.1235.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright