Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Russell D Jamison, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

technical staff and less often with cliniciansand nurses. In these setting the engineering departments did many jobs unrelated to medicalequipment maintenance. The biomedical staff served as plumbers, carpenters, and electriciansfor the clinic or hospital. Students who expected to be intensively engaged in repairing medi-cal equipment, found themselves engaged in a scope of work that included many other things.They encountered, and adjusted to, a pace of work that was different than they anticipated.Students also reflected on the difficulty of maintaining, or even using, some of the medicalequipment donated by NGO’s and medical device companies. User training was typically notprovided by the donor. The equipment was often inoperable because parts

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Guangyu Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Affairs Division of Dalian University of Technology, November 15 Page 20.28.6  http://teach.dlut.edu.cn/tsjyzx/tsk/1/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E8%BF%9B%E6%AD%A5%E7%B1%BB/13-1.doc.8 Luegenbiehl, H. 2004, “Ethical Autonomy and Engineering in a Cross-Cultural Context,” Techné: Research inPhilosophy and Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1.9 Cao, N. 2004, “Dui Zhong Guo Gao Xiao Gong Cheng Lun Li Jiao Yu De Si Kao,” (“Reflection on the Educationof Engineering Ethics in China”), Gao Deng Jiao Yu Gong Cheng Yan Jiu (Advanced Engineering EducationResearch), 5. Wang, Q. 2009, “Gong Kai Ke: Ke Xue Ji Shu

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Duane B Swigert, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

appraisal, it was determined that the most appropriate project (7) for the students toengage in was a solar water heater for the local school. The students designed and built a verysimple but effective water heater using local materials and costing less that $100 to build. Thedesign was very specific to the region as the proximity of Costa Rica to the equator allowed ashallow angle for the panel that water flowed over which contributed to a measured 70˚Ftemperature gain which made the design applicable and effective for the design challenge. Upon completion of the trip, students were required to write a reflective project report andpresent the experience to an audience through the avenue of the undergraduate researchsymposium at MSU Denver

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan; Velina Zlatkova; Azeem Mohammed; Adnan Walid

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

PriceManufacturerPyranometer Separate Direct solar $7,402CM22/ power radiation,Kipp & Zone source solar insolation, sky radiation on the level surface, global- inflected and reflected

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

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

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Massoumi

thequarter.Starting from the third week, SHDL was used extensively to describe various CPU architectures,memory controllers, bus arbiters, and arithmetic algorithms. It served as an effective tool toillustrate the timing details for various operations and how they can be changed for betterperformance. Although students were improving their SHDL skills throughout the course, thelanguage was never a hindrance in the flow of the course and did not overwhelm the main focus.Overall, the students had a very positive experience with using the language, as reflected in ananonymous survey that was taken on the 9th week. Basically, the students were asked (1) ifSHDL was readily learned, and (2) if SHDL helped them in learning the material. A total of 36students, who

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

members.While those outside our field may not have a clear conception of what industrial engineering is,our programs show strong consensus about what courses should be included in an industrialengineering program. In fact, my choice to record courses may overemphasize the differencesamong programs. I believe that recording topics covered, however they are packaged amongcourses, would have shown more consensus; such an approach would have involved much morework.Also not reflected in the information I recorded is variation in the year in which students areadvised to take different material. For example, some programs recommend leaving engineeringscience courses (such as thermodynamics) until the senior year, presumably because noindustrial engineering

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

members.While those outside our field may not have a clear conception of what industrial engineering is,our programs show strong consensus about what courses should be included in an industrialengineering program. In fact, my choice to record courses may overemphasize the differencesamong programs. I believe that recording topics covered, however they are packaged amongcourses, would have shown more consensus; such an approach would have involved much morework.Also not reflected in the information I recorded is variation in the year in which students areadvised to take different material. For example, some programs recommend leaving engineeringscience courses (such as thermodynamics) until the senior year, presumably because noindustrial engineering

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

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

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Chapman; John Brocato; Jim Harden

technical aspects of organizing and composing research papers • Develop sentence structure and writing skills • Practice critical reading • Become familiar with the resources in the libraryThe emergence of the ESL course for TAs helped crystallize three research questionssurrounding the screening exam: 1. How accurately would the first screening-exam administration reflect individual TAs’ abilities to grade technical written English? 2. How much (if any) would TAs’ screening-exam scores improve on the second screening-exam administration? 3. Would the ESL course factor into the scores (improved or not) from the second exam administration?Screening Exam Results and DiscussionThe average

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

, Bertinoro, Italy, July 3-7, 2002.Clouse, R. W. & Goodin, T. L. (2001-2002). Entrepreneurs in action!: A web case model. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 30 (3), 311-321.Clouse, R. W. & Goodin, T. L. (2001). Entrepreneurship Education: Reflecting on the Present, Forecasting the Future. Nashville, TN: Forum for Entrepreneurship Education. (Available online at http://entrepreneurship.vanderbilt.edu) Page 10.576.6Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationClouse, R. W. & Goodin

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Andrew Clark

order to have a self-sustainingbusiness incubator however, some literature suggest that there is a trend for smaller profitableincubators6. The responses from the benchmarked facilities were interesting and varied, but Page 10.580.8tended to reflect the university administration’s view on the specific purpose of the university “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”managed business incubator. This point reflects on the importance of having a strategicalignment between the business incubator

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

signal-processing techniques. Oftentimes generalized functions are implemented in a casualway and not reflecting the need to establish results on a mathematical platform. A few ofthe important connections between the applications and mathematical foundations areincluded together with several illustrations.I. IntroductionThe rapid descent test functions with the inclusion of a few very needed principals aregiven in section 2. It also gives a brief introduction of tempered distributions includingsome very important theorems. The paper then moves into section 3 giving thefundamentals of a discrete Fourier transform pair. This is then embedded into a tempereddistribution setting. Section 4 gives an introduction to windowing signal data and

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Jouny

be usedas a tool for evaluating PEO’s but the results do not constitute a proof that the programPEO’s are being achieved. Visitors and recruiters may speak of few graduates, and mayoffer general comments on the program, but their input cannot be regarded as concreteevidence that the educational objectives of the program are be achieved as expected.Small institutions should not abandon using these tools but should realize that input fromthese evaluators is based on limited experience and cannot be generalized. Smallinstitutions may have fewer recruiters than their larger counterpart, and these recruiterscan be local and do not reflect a national opinion of the graduates.Bulletin boards are often not accurate and, at Lafayette’s ECE Department

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

quality of modern education, increase student interest and participation, andexplore avenues for optimizing distant-learning delivery models.This research focuses on modeling of an interactive online educational infrastructure (OEI) byintroducing four major modules forming this OEI: a) knowledge management (KM) module, b) client/server applications (CSA) module, c) group information sharing and collaboration (GISC) module, and d) an interactive workflow (IW) module.The architectures, processes and procedures in support of each of these modules reflect differentfeatures of the online interactive enterprise and are used for assessment of the OEI outcomes.Proposed model has been tested during the five-year period of offering

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Smith; Steven Nichols

longer reflective paper. In these assignments, students should articulate what theylearned from the video and from subsequent discussions.To encourage wide-spread use of this educational tool, the National Institute for EngineeringEthics has sent a free copy of Incident at Morales to all engineering deans for use in engineeringethics education and to all major engineering societies for use by practicing engineers. It hasalso been used in Central and South American countries as well as several countries in Europe.It is the belief of the authors of this paper and the video team that Incident at Morales is a highlyeffective method of communicating ethics to students in engineering education and to engineersin industry.Reference: Davis, Michael

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

Figure 5 – TPC-W Database SchemaFor RAIDb level 1 and 2, database tables were evenly distributed throughout the cluster. InRAIDb-1 organizations, the entire database was replicated on each node. For odd-numberednode RAIDb-2 systems, one node contained the entire database, while the remaining nodesprovided equally partitioned redundancy. For even-numbered node RAIDb-2 systems, all tableswere equally distributed and replicated among the available nodes.Testing ClientThe Java–based testing client was created to gather data about database performance by playinga series of “recorded” SQL statements. By using the same statements, and the same series ofstatements, change in performance reflects actual change in throughput and disassociates anychange in

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

. Page 9.1073.6 The first suggestion was that when the groups have completed the drawings and planningfor the engine, they should exchange the manufacturing responsibility with another group to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”make. Any changes to the design would require a consultation with the design team and thedrawings altered to reflect a revision change. This is the method that the manufacturing industryactually follows; machinists do not normally alter the dimensions, tolerance, or design withoutthe engineering designer’s approval. This suggestion will be incorporated in the current

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Braun

that the course could teach teamwork skills. Unfortunately,recent implementations of the course haven’t quite addressed this goal successfully. Certainly,the students work in groups as they complete various lab procedures. However, instructors havenot taught students to organize their teams or perform specific roles in their team. Reflecting theintrinsically interdisciplinary nature of the field of semiconducting polymers, students from themajors of chemistry, physics, materials science, computer engineering and electrical engineeringhave taken the Polymer Electronics Lab course in the last few years. Students from the differentmajors do gain the opportunity to interact, discuss, and learn from each other during the lab.The course does

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert McHenry

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”ConstructivismConstructivism is a theory of learning founded on the premise that, by reflecting on ourexperiences, we construct our own understanding of the world. Each of us generates our own"rules" and "mental models," that we use to make sense of our experiences. Learning, therefore,is simply the process of adjusting (reconstruct) our mental models to accommodate newexperiences.There are several guiding principles of constructivism: 1. Learning is a search for meaning. Therefore, learning must start with the issues around which students are actively trying to construct meaning. 2. Meaning requires understanding wholes as well as parts. And parts must be understood in the

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh

competitiveness and productivity in manufacturing. Since projects are often unique,engineers from multiple disciplines need to work closely together in order to design, integrate,and develop robust automated manufacturing systems. The success of the system integrationindustry will increase this country’s production efficiency. Needed is a better understanding ofhow engineers develop expertise in system integration and high quality educational curricula thatwill equip students with the necessary skill sets.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis material was supported by a National Science Foundation grant no. 0238269. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

several enabling technologies that makes manufacturing atthe nanoscale possible today. It is absolutely essential in the manufacture of integratedcircuits as well as a variety of surface coating applications.We benefit from gas plasmas everyday. Gas plasmas produce the visible light in ouruniverse, including our sun. In our offices, fluorescent lighting is based on producing agas plasma within a coated glass tube. We seldom think of the variety of materialscoated by a plasma deposition process, e.g. our eyeglasses with anti-reflective coatings.Gas plasmas are briefly mentioned in chemistry courses, but students enrolling inengineering technology programs lack an understanding of gas plasmas. The laboratoryactivities described in this paper are

Conference Session

A Century of College Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

engineers.They reflect the need and the opportunity to raise the bar in all three dimensions of thecivil engineering BOK—the what, the how, and the who.Although civil engineering faculty and practitioners must be instrumental in advocatingand teaching the BOK necessary for 21st century professional practice, civil engineeringstudents ultimately have the primary responsibility for their own education. Studentsmust be committed to excellence in their education. Success in the study and eventualpractice of civil engineering is likely to be enhanced if a person’s aptitudes, interests, andaspirations resonate with the unique and special attributes of civil engineering.The Next StepsWhile the First Edition of the BOK is now complete, updates are likely and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

within their chosen concentration.From 1997 through 1999, the retention rate for the ET Department at MTSU dropped a total of18%, while recruitment into the department dropped 20%, reflecting a nationwide trend in ETenrollment. In 2000, the first Solar Vehicle team was formed at MTSU. The project receivedconsiderable attention from ET students at the time, and after the competition, the vehicle wasused as a recruitment tool for the department. In 2003, a Moon Buggy project was added toaccommodate the growing interest in student engineering projects, followed by a Formula SAEproject in 2004.Since the formation of these projects, the enrollment rates for the ET department have improveddramatically as shown in Figure 2. Exposing prospective

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

American Society for Engineering Educations Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. R.M. Felder, “The Intellectual Development of Science and Engineering Students. Part 1: Models and Changes,” Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 269-277 (Oct 2004).2. B.M. Kroll, Teaching Hearts and Minds: College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press (1992).3. D. Vernier, “Data Collection with Computers and Handhelds,” Catalog for Vernier Software & Technology, 2- 5 (2004).4. National Science Education Standards, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington DC

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

May 2003 resulted in not a reduction of nine “pit” musicians, as the theaters hadproposed, but a slash of six. To fill in the void of the missing pit musicians, virtualmusicians are used.There is overwhelming empirical evidence that link engineering and music, but this is thefirst time in history where engineering innovations may render musicians obsolete. Infact, “virtual orchestras” may be the wave of the future. A pit musician costs around$88,000 a year. The small reduction mentioned above, substituting six pit musicians withvirtual musicians, will save a theater over $500,000 a year. That figure reflects merelythe monetary amount saved; not included are other intangibles, such as the stress ofhuman problems that may occur with the

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Young; Sanjiv Sarin; Xiaochun Jiang

infaculty-mentored research projects for six or eight weeks on each campus and preparedoral or poster presentations for the end of the program and at the annual NC-LSAMPUndergraduate Research Conference.The North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance was awarded the Bridge to the Doctoratesupplemental grant to support graduate students in their pursuit of a Masters degree in aSTEM field. North Carolina A&T State University has been designated as the leadinstitution for Cohort 1 of this project. Ten students have been awarded for 2003 through2005.Project OutcomesTotal minority STEM enrollment has grown since the baseline year from 4,632 in fall1994 to 6,230 students in fall 2000, reflecting an increase of approximately 35%.Since the baseline year

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leijun Li; John Pan; Ismail Fidan

journals and conferences using online reviewinclude IEEE Transactions, IEEE conferences, ASME Journals, ASME conferences, ASEEconferences, IMAPS conferences, and NSF Fastlane System. The percentage of facultymembers who conduct online reviews for journals reflects the number of journals that provideweb-based review services and require the reviewers to do online reviews. As more journalsswitch from traditional hardcopy-based submission and review practice to more efficient onlinereview practice, faculty members who conduct online reviews will grow rapidly.The survey results show that the use of online tools for research is not as common as that forteaching. While many factors may have attributed to this result, one relevant factor may be

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Stephen; Jerry Weinberg

of voice. When users are brought into the lab, a partition is placed sothat the user cannot see other members of the design team (See Figure 8). This helps reduceuser’s anxiety. Figure 8: Observation room partitionThe construction cost of the HCI Lab was approximately $20,000 (USD). This includes thecameras and monitoring equipment, cost to split the room, cost of the writing walls, and thecomputers. We have explored a few alternatives to reduce this cost significantly. For example asingle pan camera could be used instead of two cameras. To capture the user’s reactions a mirrorplaced by the monitor would reflect the user’s face into the camera’s image. Some of theactivities can also be accomplished even if a

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

interdisciplinary approach, with critical thinkingand problem solving skills, and who possesses the required communication tools. Page 7.142.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAnother job skill that can be easily implemented through case-based instruction is teamwork.Cases are often assigned as small group work to be completed both in and outside classroom.Groups must share resources and work toward a common goal. This reflects the problem-solvingmethod most often employed in industry