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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsiao-Shen Tsao; Belle Wei

trip experience as transformative, and many of them changedtheir study and career plans after the trip. Each of the 25 students presented the lessonshe or she learned from the study tour to an enthusiastic crowd of over 100 engineeringstudents. Such increases students’ awareness of global issues and we expect to havemany more students interested in the GTI study tour of 2005.1. IntroductionAs the debate on the costs and benefits of offshore outsourcing rages on, manytechnology companies in Silicon Valley have already established extensive globaloperations. Furthering the globalization trend are compelling economic considerationssuch as low costs, availability of a large talent pool, and potential markets of regionsoutside the U.S. It is a fact

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

be an effectiveproject manager: Page 10.1148.1 • Know how to write a project proposal. • Know how to prepare a project plan. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Know how to prepare a project schedule • Know how to establish a project budget. • Know what it takes to be an effective team leader and/or member. • Be able to solve PERT/CPM network problems and determine the critical path, early start, late start, slack times, etc., using Microsoft Project software. • Be

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; Eugene DeLoatch; Sherra Kerns; Carla Purdy; Lueny Morell

Doctrine by the Johnson and Nixon administrationsestablished the vision and mechanisms for under-represented ethnic groups and white women todemand through the courts, executive and legislative branches of government progressiveinclusive policies and practices. That is, businesses, corporations, school districts, colleges anduniversities were required to develop and implement Affirmative Action plans that consideredpast discrimination in their history. This need for inclusive diversity plans, policies, andpractices was paramount for America to move forward on race and gender issues.Numerous court cases have since reaffirmed the practices of Affirmative Action and the need fordiversity in the United States.Clearly, higher education has been one of

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

environment called the Engineering Learning Portal (ELP), which focuses on improvingengineering problem solving throughout the industrial engineering curriculum. In the ELP,students are engaged in a structured process for solving unstructured problems whileencouraging metacognitive activities, such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating. This helpsstudents acquire the higher order cognition and integration of knowledge domains needed foreffective engineering problem solving. In particular, a key element of the ELP is that it requiresstudents to explain and evaluate their work while they are solving complex engineeringproblems. The underlying premise is that such metacognitive tasks are valuable to studentsbecause they eventually improve their

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lane; Sarah Rzasa; Richard Behr; Christine Masters

offer some help to others.The innovation, called “MechANEX,” is a set of software modules and matched, bench-scalelaboratory exercises aimed at seven key statics concepts. The assessment consists of acombination of pre-tests, post-tests, on-line surveys, and phone interviews. Discussed are detailsof the proposed assessment plan and the logic behind the individual assessment instrumentsemployed. Preliminary results are also provided.IntroductionIn the fall of 2004, an innovation was incorporated into an existing introductory statics course atPenn State (EMCH 011). The innovation consisted of a set of software and laboratory exercisesinvolving key concepts related to the course. Because this innovation had not yet been utilizedin the classroom in

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

, Technical Marketing, High Tech ProductStrategy and Technology Commercialization Strategies have been offered successively over foursemesters. As part of the course project requirements, students work in E-teams tocommercialize innovative product or university/research lab-developed technology. The E-teamis not restricted to students in the class - outside technical experts can be included as teammembers or advisors. The E-teams have to seek funding by completing NCIIA E-team proposalsor SBIR/STTR proposals and presenting their business plans at investor-attended colloquiumsand competitions.The “Entrepreneur in the Spotlight” seminar series is another innovative facet of the four-courseseries. Struggling/successful local technical entrepreneurs

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

general. The positive student feedback from previous curriculum innovations has created an interestin providing similar experiences to all students in our undergraduate ME program. The Industryand Professional Advisory Committee (IPAC) for the MNE department also supports theincrease of active learning in the curriculum. The positive impact of active learning on astudent’s education is supported by findings at other institutions and is documented in theliterature.4Define Problem This step can be divided into three substeps: gather information, define objectives, and form Page 10.1432.2an action plan. Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Affairs. Part of her job was to establish a “Women In appliedSciences and Engineering” (WISE) Program and to strengthen the Minority EngineeringProgram (MEP) for engineering and computer science students. As part of that development,space was secured for a WISE Center and additional space for the WISE administration, and alsofor an MEP Center and MEP staff offices. The permanent presence of a WISE staff and WISECenter was very helpful to SWE in two important ways. First, students who worked in the WISEOffice oftentimes were also SWE leaders which enabled a more stable succession planning ofSWE activities from year to year. This also assisted with improved coordination in the WISEOffice. Secondly, a small corner of the WISE Center provided desk

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Franke; David Devine

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”AssessmentAssessment is common in many facets of academe. It is often now required to demonstratehow well objectives are met through continuous improvement plans. Various methods ofassessment exist and multiple measures of assessment are often specifically obligatory,expected, or desired. TAC-ABET1 Criterion 3 states that Each program must utilize multiple assessment measures in a process that provides documented results to demonstrate that the program objectives and outcomes are being met. Assessment measures typically consist of, but are not limited to, student portfolios, student performance in project

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

. The controls portionbenefits from the transition directly from the vibrations portion of the course. The students arevery familiar with the topics, as opposed to trying to recall the information from a previouscourse they may have taken earlier. In fact, they are pleasantly surprised to find how the twotopics can mesh together each other. In addition, the students recognize the value of theirAdvanced Engineering Mathematics course with additional Laplace Transforms content beyondthe Differential Equations course.This course does not sit alone in the curriculum. A Professional Component Plan1 has beenestablished for the curriculum, with an integral component being an experimental plan. Thiscourse and its lab strongly support this plan. In

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen; Robert Strangeway

career option. These presentations and discussions give a vital overview over the many different career options in EE and EET. C. Aspects of professional registration, professional and honor societies. Graduate school opportunities and the mechanics for applying to graduate school are discussed. Long term financial planning is also introduced.The above areas are then covered by one ore more individual sessions as follows:Area A: 1. Gaining employment Presentations are given by in-house placement office staff. Placement office procedures, guidelines for good resumes and cover letters, interviewing styles and techniques, and internet resources for company profiles and

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

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Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

authors found that there are great potentials tocollaborate with Chinese universities in E&T education. Though issues exist during the processof establishing such collaborations, they can be resolved through a thorough understanding ofChinese engineering curricula and careful planning. Introduction The globalization of our economy has stimulated international collaborations on collegiateeducation. Previous research and successful practices demonstrated that these collaborations haveprovided valuable experience for our faculty and students to better understand the needs and thedeveloping trends for engineering professionals from a global perspective1,2 . As a predominantmanufacturing base and a vast market itself, China has attracted a

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Adams; William Manion

When Less is Mor e: Integr ating Technical Wr iting Instr uction in a Lar ge, Fir st-Year Engineer ing Cour se William P. Manion and David Adams Univer sity of Maine Abstr act Providing technical writing instruction within a large, first-year engineering course involves both logistical and imaginative challenges but can also yield substantive results. In the fall of 2003, the University of Maine initiated a new plan, called the Engineering Communication Project (ECP), to integrate technical writing instruction throughout the College of Engineering

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Society for Engineering Education”created isometric and elevation drawings and floor plans and completed comparativeassessments for each of the final designs. The second design project involved theapplication of a computer-aided design (CAD) software package that guides the userthrough the design of a truss-type highway bridge, based on a specified design scenario;design submittals included isometric and elevation drawings for this unique commercialengineering application. Finally, students’ end-of-course assessments are used to validatethe effectiveness of the projects. Due to space limitations, examples of student solutionsare not included; however, the author can provide copies of student solutions to interestededucators upon request.Project

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Fernando

this fact most students are keen tofollow courses in robotics and manufacturing automation and as explained earlier, vast majorityof students are constrained by the distance and time in following these courses. Hencedeveloping web based courses for this sort of subjects is an important step.Software DevelopmentIn the planned web-based robotic lab we are using Visual Basic (VB), Active X, HTML, andASP (Active Server Page) to build graphical interfaces to write the robot programs and a windowbased ladder logic program editor to upload/download ladder programs to/from ProgrammableLogic Controllers (PLC) that will serve as the cell controller in a robotic work cell setup.According to the planned research all a student has to do is to access the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Stier

” Session 2248 While the advancements in the IMS labs and curriculum have taken a giant leap forwardin recent years, this is only the beginning of a major initiative that started with a proposal fromthe sequence in the latest capital campaign drive at ISU. The thrust of the proposal was torenovate a current laboratory with high technology automation hardware and software. Theproject will consist of the development of a high end, integrated manufacturing laboratory for theDepartment of Technology. The scope of integration will range from design formanufacturability, to process planning and process control, through data acquisition andmanagerial decision-making. This scope will not only ensure maximum utilization, it is alsoconsistent with

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

broughtin a consultant to work with nine area public school teachers (elementary through highschool) to align our Pre-College Engineering/Architecture Academy (PEAP) curriculumwith the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). One result of the workshop is aneight volume set of Engineering Resources for the TEKS and a plan to vertically andhorizontally align engineering curriculum within a group of schools in area of Lubbockwith predominate populations of low-income African-American and Hispanic students.To support this Engineering Resource Guide and to help teachers introduce engineeringconcepts and skills to their students, TTU Engineering students act as mentors andfacilitators in the K-12 classrooms. These student mentors work in the

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

.) Application – Motion 15. control of a robot system. Homework project – 16. Exam #43. Project Plan, Progress and Results Table 2 highlights a detailed plan for the undergraduate research experience linked toan introductory course on power electronics. During the second week of classes students Page 10.474.3were given access to a variety of power converters – printers, PC power supplies, PWMdrives, etc., from which to choose. Students were also encouraged to consider other Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Niewoehner

. Page 10.723.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the U.S. Professional T&E communities and their respective practices and disciplines have arisen as aconsequence of the costs associated with poorly performed test and evaluation: - Death or injury among test participants or spectators. - The cost of tests can run tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Careful and methodical planning is comparatively cheap and can thereby yield enormous value by optimizing T&E resources. - Schedule costs associated with damage or loss of test articles

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

, and become familiar with the Small MS4 General Permit and the town’sstormwater management plan. Presentations by Bloomfield’s Town Engineer and an engineerfrom the CT Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) helped the students betterunderstand the NPDES Phase II Rule. Page 10.967.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThe civil engineering curriculum at the University of Hartford includes a required 4-credit WaterQuality Engineering course. Physical, chemical, and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Engineeringengineers and scientists how to plan and execute a persuasive argument trumped those concerns.By introducing the assignment late in the semester, we attempted to mitigate the erosion of theirobjective writing skills.Teaching these skills in an engineering course affected our instructional decisions. Proposalwriting in an introductory technical writing course is usually a standard part of the curriculum.The instructor has ample time to lecture on the topic and offer a number of opportunities forstudents to practice the form. In EG, the writing consultant has a limited amount of teachingtime. To address this fact, we decided to refine and simplify the assignment to allow us to get tothe fundamentals of teaching persuasive writing quickly.BackgroundEG

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

, engaging in collaborativecommunity service, and empowering its constituents to become responsible citizens in aninterdependent, pluralistic, global community. NU students earn their degrees in a uniqueone-class-per-month format, and attend classes at night so they can continue to move forwardin the workplace. Programs in this format can be completed faster than at a traditionaluniversity, albeit in an intense fashion. Each graduate course has 40.5 hours of class roomcontact. Students are allowed to take only one course at a time. Initially, the introduction of an Engineering Management program was planned for aclass room environment offering. Later, developers were asked to explore ways to expandoptions, particularly for those students who

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

with their Caucasian male peers atRIT. In response to the relatively low number of women enrolled in the Kate Gleason College ofEngineering, and the desire to improve their retention, an Internal Advisory Board formed inearly 2004 as part of RIT’s Women Engineering (WE@RIT) Center. Active members of thisboard consist of engineering faculty, administrators, and students from three different collegeswithin RIT. In its first year of existence, the WE@RIT Internal Advisory Board created andapproved a mission, supporting objectives, and an in-depth strategic plan. The group hasdeveloped a comprehensive plan aimed at improving retention of current women engineeringstudents. In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the WE@RIT program, with a

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Development of Teaching Strategies and Assessment Methods for Course “Mechanisms” based on Students’ Outcomes Shyi-Jeng Tsai1, Pei-fen Chang2, Jiunn-Chi Wu1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering/2Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Jong-Li, TAIWANAbstractThe introduction of accrediting programs in colleges is now the main topic of the engineeringeducation reform in Taiwan. This paper presents therefore our current research results oncurriculum planning and evaluation of the mechanical engineering course based on the learningoutcomes proposed in ABET EC-2000, with example of the course “Mechanisms”. With aid

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

planning grant for curriculumreform. The goals of our curriculum redesign are to maintain our curricular flexibilitywhile introducing a theme-based structure focused on major concepts and principles, andto integrate this theme throughout the core and the technical focus areas. This theme,Integrated Sensing and Information Processing, reflects the active research areas of themajority of the ECE faculty, and embodies key concepts of all components of ECEwithin a real-world framework. During the planning phase, we developed andimplemented an assessment plan and obtained baseline results, investigated modernpedagogical techniques and integration approaches, and defined a process for ourcurriculum redesign. In 2004, NSF awarded Duke a curriculum

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

University 5 Morgan State University 6 / New Jersey Institute of Technology 7 Rochester Institute of Technology AbstractThis is the third of three papers prepared for a special panel session of the National Collaborative TaskForce on Engineering Graduate Education Reform that addresses reform of faculty reward systems toadvance professional engineering education for creative engineering practice and technology leadership.This paper presents a roadmap for planned reform in defining a model template for professionallyoriented faculty reward systems that supports professional scholarship, teaching, and engagement inadvanced engineering practice for the

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

possible.In learning how to work effectively on a team of this kind, students must develop a number ofattributes and skills. In particular, engineering students need to learn: how to work within the dynamic of a large (more than 6) group of people with diverse backgrounds that a personal commitment to contributing one’s own share is critical to team success that each team member must stay focused on the common goal and on his or her own assigned tasks that once a collaborative team decision has been made and a plan for the team formulated, everyone on the team must support the outcomes that each individual’s thoughts and ideas must be respected and valued as the collaborative effort develops that it takes “give and take” to

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Georgios Anagnostopoulos

students). Furthermore, the project’s focus enhances partnershipsamongst 4 neighboring institutions, and many more affiliate Universitiesdispersed within the US and abroad. The University partnerships constitute the Page 10.1034.1anchor of an elaborate dissemination plan that is multi-faceted and self-sustained.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society For Engineering Education1. IntroductionThis paper describes “PROJECT EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development through theIntegration of Machine Learning Research into Senior Design Projects“, a prototype

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

emphasise learning instead of lecturing is the main idea behind both project work and problembased learning. Learning is the active process of investigation and creation based on the learner’sinterest, curiosity and experience, and it should result in expanded insight and knowledge skills.The main element of the pedagogical concept is study plans, which for each semester (½ year)describes courses and prescribes a theme for each term. Within the semester theme each supervisortogether with a student group can choose a project. The project time is calculated theoretically tocover half of each semester except at the final where the project can cover from one to twosemesters. The five-year’s education for a master degree is divided into 4 phases – for

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

solid technical education with a real-world appreciation ofmany of the tools, techniques, and processes used by practicing project managers. Instead of afrustrating experience that produced little value, the new course sequence is allowing manyteams to plan, design, develop, and demonstrate viable product prototypes. By implementing theTechnical Assistance Team (TAT) approach to the development, each team now receives thereview, guidance, and appropriate assistance to provide a high probability of success. TheBenefit/Cost ratio of this undertaking continues to be high. The private sector and other external Page 10.914.2 Proceedings of