Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Kuznetsov

. Teaching problem solving and design requires a lot of faculty time for checking and grading individual works of many students. Finding effective ways of using the latest developments in computer technology for this purpose has been my goal for many years. Interactive problem-solving programs in Mechanics were tested and used at the School of Architecture and at the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department at UIUC as well as at Engineering Schools in Alabama A& M University at Normal, Alabama (AAMU) and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE). The development was partially sponsored by several grants from NSF. AAMU and SIUE were coinvestigators in the sponsored projects. Learner-Tailored Teaching Method for Problem Solving

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Alenskis

), “Creating a Course in Engineering Problem Solving for Future Teachers”, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.4. Project Lead The Way, www.pltw.org, Clifton Park NY,5. Wankat, P.C., Oreovicz, F.S., (1993), Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York NY, 68, 76-76. Woods, D.R., et.al, (1997), “Developing Problem Solving Skills: The McMaster Problem Solving Program”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 86 (2), 75-917. Prince, M., et.al, (2002), “A Conceptual Framework for Progressively Developing Students’ Team and Problem Solving Skills Across the Curriculum”, Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition8. Kremer, G.G., (2001), “Teaching a Rigorous Problem-Solving Framework in Entry-Level

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Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Crone

oC must be used. The ability to custom shape SMAs has previously been limited to thosewith access to jigs produced on expensive tools in sophisticated machine shops. In thisexperiment, students assemble training jigs made of an inexpensive perforated aluminum plateand standard nuts and bolts. When bought in bulk, the NiTi wire is approximately 10 cents perinch, allowing students to custom shape an interesting design for under $2 each.The modular nature of these jigs leads to the added advantages of 1) design flexibility (shapes,letters, words, and even three-dimensional objects are possible), 2) unique projects for eachstudent (each student sets wire into his or her own individual shape), and 3) reusability of the jigs(a classroom set of

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

research. A qualified industry partnermay function as a member of the faculty team guiding the doctoral research.The primary nature of the program is to place all its emphasis on independent research. Theprogram is appropriate only for those who are capable of undertaking extensive self study, andhas the determination and willingness to carry out research with very little direct supervision. Itis very appropriate for a faculty member with experience in independent research, a high degreeof self discipline, motivation and a clear understanding of the scope of the research project. Theprogram offers total flexibility and the means to earn broader recognition for the research

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Song; Niranjan Chakravarthy; Leon Iasemidis; Andreas Spanias

in on strand with G in the other. Figure 1 shows an example of complementary DNAsequences. Due to the chemical structure of the nucleotides, DNA sequences have an inherent Page 9.1181.2* Work on J-DSP has been funded in part by NSF-CCLI-DUE-0089075 project Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdirectionality. The convention is to ‘read’ a DNA sequence from the 5’ end to the 3’ end (seeFigure 1). In living cells, DNA double strands typically exist

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Narciso Macia

. BackgroundAutomatic control systems have been evolving over the past 150 years[1]. These systems beganas simple mechanical feedback devices and have evolved into complex electronic and computercontrolled systems. The education of students in control systems is one of the functions ofArizona State University East's College of Technology and Applied Sciences.This project consists of completing an apparatus that demonstrates the automatic control of waterlevel in a tank that is being randomly filled. Random filling of the tank represents a real lifeunpredictable disturbance to the system. Automatic control is accomplished with the use of apersonal computer operated with LabView software. Automatic control is accomplished bysensing the water level and then

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmen Boje; Nicolae Dragulanescu

. Popper, K. – Objective Knowledge: an Evolutionary Approach, Ed. Clarendon, Oxford, 1973 11. Wiener, N. – Cybernetics, Wiley and Sons, New York, 1948Biographical informationCARMEN BOJE is an Assistant Professor of Computer Technology in the Purdue School of Engineering andTechnology at Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis. She taught in various universities inRomania and Italy and worked as Engineer in Electronics/Telecommunications, Technical Writer andConsultant for European (PHARE) projects. E-mail: bcarmen@iupui.edu, ccarmen38@hotmail.com.Dr. NICOLAE DRAGULANESCU (Former Fulbright Scholar at University of Pittsburgh, USA) is anAssociate Professor of Polytechnics University - Bucharest, Romania, a member of USA American

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seetha Veeraghanta; Janice Frost

following social science and engineering-related databases: • Social Science Abstracts C General Science Abstracts C Applied Science & Technology Abstracts C Web of Knowledge/Web of Science, C Compendex C Inspec, and C Scifinder Scholar (Chemical abstracts)C Sustainability and Ethics Project The final assignment for the semester is a professional quality oral presentation in PowerPoint and a written report prepared by each team based on their presentation. The quality of the final oral presentation and the written report are evidence of the effectiveness of this pedagogy. Figure 4 below spells out the details of the final

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

chairs were approached and asked for help in creating additional mini-lab topics.Each department approached the project differently, with the realization that in some respectsthey were competing with each other for enrollment not only in the labs but also eventually asselected student majors. Mechanical Engineering (MCEN) interpreted creation and running ofmini-labs as part of the duties of their Teaching Assistants (TA’s), with the departmentallaboratory coordinator designated as the point of contact for the ENGR101 course administrators.Civil & Environmental Engineering (CVEN) created a TA position to run two freshman mini-labtopics. Chemical Engineering (CENG) discussed labs at their faculty meeting and generatedideas there. Electrical

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

. Erens, P.J., and Dreyer, A.A., "Heat Transfer from Immersed Slender Bodies", Int. Journ. Mech. Engin.Education, Vol. 23, 1995, pp. 203-211 Page 9.1398.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education3. Mullisen, R.S., "Thermal Engineering Design Project: Heat Transfer from a Cylinder in Crossflow", Int. Journ.Mech. Engin. Education, Vol. 24, 1996, pp. 195-2064. Campo, A., and Blotter, J., "A Simple Instructional Experiment on Unsteady Heat Conduction that Quantifies theExisting Competition

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

disk fragmentation. In ComputerNetworks, such a project could be used to demonstrate such concepts as network routingcomputations (such as Dijkstra’s Algorithm), network address computations, timesharingsimulations, etc. The possibilities are virtually endless.When studying Computer Science or Computer Engineering, many concepts exist which are verysimple conceptually, but difficult to demonstrate practically. The writing of simulation programsto demonstrate these concepts is the best way I have yet found for making these ideas accessibleto the students.Bibliography 1. Ontko, R., Reeder, A., Tanenbaum, A. (2001). Modern Operating Systems Simulators. http://www.ontko.com/moss/ 2. Tanenbaum, A. (2001). Modern Operating Systems

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Wankat

teaching improvement, eitherfor specific disciplines or in conjunction with the annual meeting, have been held. Theseprograms continue with popular regional and National Effective Teaching Institutes, the latterheld in conjunction with the ASEE annual meeting. In 1983 the ASEE Quality in EngineeringEducation Project again called for more training of faculty in educational methods.Students suffer when professors do not learn to teach until after their first classes. Workshops arealso always constrained by the time available. A better approach is to learn to teach in graduateschool by taking a course in the College of Engineering on teaching methods. As early as 1972Professor Jim Stice pioneered this approach at the University of Texas at Austin3

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dona Johnson; Harriet Hartman; Beena Sukumaran

literature as female friendly [9]. In the first year, a student takesintroductory courses in all engineering disciplines. In addition, students also take some coursesin mathematics, and the sciences. In the second, and third years, students take foundationcourses, with additional courses in the mathematics and science subject areas, to give studentsthe required level of knowledge. The third year covers much of the core material and is apreparation for immediate professional practice. In the fourth year, the courses aim to developthe in-depth understanding in electives of the student’s choice. In addition to taught courses, thestudent also undertakes work on an original research or design project. In addition, the womenface some of the same issues in

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Bluestein; Pete Hylton

has participated in five different Collier Award winning aerospace projects. Page 9.704.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadezda Berezkina; Ilya Leipunsky; Guido Lopez

necessary because the flux of gas molecules into the indicator is also afunction of its affinity for the gas penetrant. Calibration of the process using known defectstandards is required in order to obtain the proper correction constants that can be used in actualapplications.GAIM: AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL TO CONVEY ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES OFSAFETY AND RELIABILITYVirtually all undergraduate engineering programs aim to enrich and culminate their curriculawith capstone projects where students are encouraged to apply their knowledge and skills in oneof the most fundamental activities of their future profession, i.e.: The design of artifacts, systemsand procedures that aim at satisfying human needs. There are innumerable aspects involved inengineering design

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

Document, London, Engineering Council (1988).5. Engineering Council, Standards and Routes to Registration, London, Engineering Council.6. IEE, Issues in Engineering education, paper at IEE Policy Forum on the education and initial professional Page 9.320.8 development of professional engineers (1996). Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. G. M. Blair, Project management skills for electrical engineers in Proceedings of the Teaching of Electronic Engineering Degree

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

Refrigeration systems Alternate energy sources Page 9.1306.6 Thermal analysis project Table 1: Comparison of Conventional and TFSE Sequences “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”1 Moran, M.J., H.N. Shapiro, B.R. Munson, D.P. DeWitt. Introduction to Thermal Systems Engineering:Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer. New York: Wiley, 2003.2 Moran, M.J., and H.N. Shapiro. Fundamentals of Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

. Workshop for the 1995 Civ. Engrg. Educ. Conf., ASCE, New York, N.Y., 11-12.ENNO “ED” KOEHNEnno “Ed” Koehn is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. Professor Koehn hasserved as the 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 hasauthored/co-authored approximately 200 papers and presentations in engineering education and the general areas ofcivil and construction engineering. Dr. Koehn is a member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, ChiEpsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi and is a registered Professional Engineer and Surveyor.Rajesh D. MalaniRajesh D

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

were 37 students enrolled in the on-campussection of the course and 5 students enrolled in the online section.The course delivery method for the on-campus section consists of four 50-minute lectures eachweek for ten weeks and includes weekly homework assignments carried out in groups of fourstudents. Each student is required to complete every assignment individually before meeting withtheir group to decide on the best solution that will be submitted. To enable students acquire somehands-on learning experience, a group structural analysis laboratory project using the ANEXsmall-scale laboratory is also assigned. The main text used in the course is a 230-page set ofconcise and practice-oriented course notes developed by the author. This is

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Raed Abou Fakher; Deborah Sharer

Board: WebCT tools for asynchronous communication between the instructor, SI leader and students. • Homework and Test Solutions: A compilation of homework and test solutions (automatically posted after their due date), in addition to sample tests and their solutions. • Personal Space: Used by each student to submit his/her homework and final design project. Access to a student’s personal space is restricted to the individual student, the course instructor and the SI leader. • Calendar: Complete information of course requirements and announcements in a calendar format. • Grades: Showing homework, quiz and test grades for each student. Access to a student’s grades is restricted to the individual student, the course

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz; Gülsün Saglamer; Ekrem Ekinci

engineering education establishment was allocated for the training ofcivilians as civil engineers and architects with the aim of teaching essential skills needed inplanning and implementing the country's new infrastructure projects. The School of CivilEngineering then assumed the name “Engineering School (Hendese-i Mülkiye)” in 1909 offeringa six-year program of study, and was removed from the military jurisdiction and placed under theauthority of the Ministry of Public Works.After the independence war, the Turkish Republic was declared in 1923. The republicanadministration was quick to realize that one of the sturdiest foundation stones inherited was theEngineering School. The government duly transformed it to the Engineering Academy (YüksekMühendis

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Moran

communication projects and a relevance to theirfuture careers is considered important for student success in technical communication courses.10Some problemsBringing troubleshooting and other types of fault identification/isolation procedures into theclassroom is not an easy task. Most students have a writing background of essays, letters andreports that has concentrated on producing linear narratives. Most technical writing exercisescontinue this, asking students to write physical descriptions, process descriptions, reports usingthe IMRAD format, and instructions following a numbered step pattern that provides a sense ofthe beginning (step 1), middle and end (last step).Troubleshooting procedures ask the student develop an information product that may

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

engineering software is to have them check their classical solutions(i.e., homework) with appropriate software. Another instructional method is to have them useengineering software for class projects. This is particularly apropos in the capstone designexperience.What Does the Educational Literature Say?Now let’s go to the recent educational literature to briefly examine if there is support for all threeteaching themes. First, let’s examine the importance of introducing students to theory (basicprinciples). Clearly the definition of “engineering” rests on obtaining specialized knowledge inscience and mathematics, as well as the engineering sciences.2 The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) also supports this concept. Indeed

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

‚ What the beginner needs to learn at once regarding relationships with colleagues and outsider ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: individual behavior and technique 3 ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: managing design and development projects ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: on organizational structures 4 ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: what all managers owe their employees ‚ Professional and personal considerations: laws of personal character and personality 5

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Bai; Saroj Biswas

SourceForge.net. Available on-line: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpesp/, accessed August 2003.LI BAIDr. Li Bai is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia. Hisprimary area of research are computer security, signal processing, and statistical analysis.SAROJ BISWASDr. Saroj Biswas is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University. His areas ofresearch include control systems, neural networks, and stochastic systems. Page 9.959.11 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

andrelative conceptual simplicity, it has been difficult to present electronic neural networksin a form convenient for the university classroom or electronics laboratory setting. In thispaper we describe an approach for implementing a neural network though which manymajor analog and digital MOSFET circuit concepts can be illustrated and demonstrated.This approach is amenable to realization in discrete electronic modules through whichassociated laboratory exercises and design projects may be created. Furthermore, thesame concepts can be extended into Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), where thelimitations of component count and performance can be overcome and addressed to a fargreater degree.IntroductionThe fundamental motivation to study neural

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yen Shi Gillian Hoe; Seth Townsend; Ryan Kon; Robert Allen; Richard Boyer; Peter Goldwine; Mathew Kung; Mary McDonald; Laura Sprowls; Gary Tong; Artin Shoukas; Ankit Tejani; Elizabeth Johnson

baseline levels, and modeled this as an exponential decay. Other teams normalized observed responses to baseline or maximum values. Upperclassman students presented the results and fielded questions from faculty and team leaders. 2) A foamcore ‘competition’ was used to introduce the design process to undergraduate students. Students engineered and constructed devices that would transport a ping pong ball around the four sides of a square at least four meters in length using limited materials. Scaled drawings with tolerances were created for each device prior to construction, and material properties were tested. The project culminated in a ‘competition’ in which students displayed and used their devices

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

Page 9.1401.7MC68HC11 microcontroller. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences 1. Carroll, C. R., R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, “New Life for the MC68HC11 Evaluation Board,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada (2002). 2. Spasov, Peter, Microcontroller Technology: The 68HC11, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002. 3. Internet web page defining composite video signal, www.rickard.gunee.com/projects/video/pic/howto.php.BiographyCHRISTOPHER R. CARROLLChristopher R. Carroll received a Bachelor of Engineering Science from Georgia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Herz

then insert the translated versions. Much work was left tobe done, however, and I recommend that developers plan for display text and languagetranslation from the start and follow the rule to "keep code and data (i.e., display text) separate"in projects. The Portuguese translation was followed by a Spanish translation. Currently, theSpanish version of the Lab is downloaded at roughly the same rate as the English version.Over 8,700 people downloaded the Lab from 96 countries in the first three years of downloadlogging (through April 2003). We have heard from students and instructors using the Lab incourses in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Turkey,and the U.S

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Kresta; Alan Nelson

reflect.Sensing Like concrete data, well defined Identify key words and classes methods, explicit expectations. of problems. Introduce innovation in small steps to build confidence.Intuitive Interested in relationships between Use open ended questions, ideas, easily bored by repetition, relate course material to other drawn to open ended projects and courses, emphasize ways to innovation