Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry

they forgot to take oneof these daily assessments.The Classroom Performance SystemTM (CPS) wireless response technology was used in the samemanner in the Spring and Fall offerings. Each student signed out a response pad (“clicker”) at thestart of the course. In each class period, I would typically pose two to three multiple choicequestions or problems intended to reveal common misconceptions, often in a “think-pair-share”format and, whenever possible, focusing around a demonstration. The system records studentresponses and projects them onto the screen in the form of a histogram. Students were graded ontheir participation, not whether their answer was correct. This participation in “in-classproblems” contributed 10% toward the overall course

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

learning, instruction, andevaluation and how to properly implement those theories in an engineering classroom. TheMEngE program is a non-thesis degree, which will require a minimum of 30 credits, includingthree to six credits for a project report.The proposed minimum entrance requirement for these two programs is a Bachelor of Science(BS) degree in engineering, physics, mathematics or any of the natural sciences and a 3.0 GPA inthe last 60 hours of the undergraduate program. Other applicants will have to meet specifiedrequired mathematics and science courses. Typical courses for these degrees include: Preparingfor the Engineering Professoriate (3 credits), Design in Engineering Education and Practice (3credits), Foundations of Engineering

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

becarried out in order to use this instrument in a larger scale. Also implementation of the unusedfunctions on signal analyzer is necessary to get an apprehension of a complete instrument.AcknowledgmentThe project is sponsored by The Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development. Page 10.1073.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCES 1. J.S. Bendat and A.G. Piersol. Random Data Analysis And Measurement Procedures. John Wiley & Sons, third edition, 2000. 2. D. J. Ewins. Modal Testing

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

worry about itsimplementation.Java provides a mechanism for incorporating DBC information from source code through the useof Javadoc3, a utility program distributed with the Java SDK that builds API documentation inthe form of HTML files from specially embedded comments contained within the source code ofthe classes that constitute the project. Javadoc has been used to generate the vast majority of APIdocumentation; in many cases, it constitutes the only documentation for a class. As it is part ofthe source code, responsibility for proper documentation rests with the programmer4;accordingly, it is incumbent upon the instructor to discuss the need for proper documentation, asbad documentation is just as severe an affront to software engineering

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

franchises.and tend towards starting servicebusinesses. It has been projected that in 2010 more than half of all business owners willbe female- or minority-owned. 3 This is already a reality with the Kumon Franchisees(Fig. 3). Presently, 87% of Kumon franchisees in the United States and Canada areowned by women. Women in general cite three common reasons for becoming entrepreneurs. Theprimarily motivation, cited by 46% of women, is a desire to set their own hours.4Another major factor is frustration with the “glass ceiling” at big companies (23%).Additionally, a number of women say they saw a lucrative niche and decided to fill it(24%). Certainly, all of three of these common motivation for an entrepreneurial careerare satisfied with the Kumon

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

as course content revisions, curriculum modifications, modernization of capstone design project requirements, and updating of laboratories. Always keep in mind that the reviewers are going to be specifically looking at the process of program improvement, and the documentation must show that the programs are improving.4. Find an ABET champion and reward him/her Although the entire faculty in the department should be involved in preparing for ABET accreditation, there should be one individual that is responsible for preparing Page 10.1145.7 the ABET self-study report. This individual should be conversant with the latest

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Trev Harmon; C. Richard Helps; Michael Bailey

be done to reduce the size of the resulting TIFF, itgreatly impairs readability and usability for the student.While MHTML is defined in IETF RFC 2557, which is currently classified as StandardsTrack,5,8 it was originally intended for use only in email. Since then Microsoft has expanded itsuse into its other Office products. However, due to this and the fact that Microsoft requires thatOutlook be installed on the system with its Inetcomm.dll,6,7 several students had a difficult timeaccessing these documents.Anecdotal Experiences Page 10.522.8One of the authors used tablet PCs for all homework and project report grading for a

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

. Page 10.224.13 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationSTACY S. KLEIN teaches high school physics courses at University School of Nashville, TN, and undergraduateengineering courses at Vanderbilt University. An active developer of new high school and undergraduate curriculathrough the VaNTH ERC, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored projects, "Biomedical Imaging Education: Safe,Inexpensive Hands-On Learning" and the Vanderbilt BME RET Site Program.ANITA MAHADEVAN-JANSEN received her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Physics from theUniversity of Bombay, Bombay, India, her Master and Doctoral

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

arrive the day before the competition. Coaches and mentorstraveling with the team are anxious to find activities to keep the students occupied prior to thetournament. Since the state competition has been held in Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech(VT), for each of the four years the FLL program has existed in Virginia, it is natural to takeadvantage of the strong presence of the VT College of Engineering and offer the FLLparticipants an opportunity to learn more about engineering. For the past four years FLLparticipants have had the opportunity to visit the WARELab2, a facility where the studentengineering competition teams have space to work on their projects, and/or attend a talk onrobotics in engineering delivered by Dr. Charles Reinholtz, a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi

., “Reinventing the Teaching of Statics”, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. 5. ABC News Primetime Live Video Collection, Segment Two, February 11, 1998.ROBERT MARTINAZZIProfessor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. B.S. AerospaceEngineering from the University of Pittsburgh, M.S. Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.Registered professional engineer. Interests include engineering economics, management and leadershipdevelopment. Worked as project engineer for Armstrong World Industries, does engineering management andleadership consulting work and presents seminars on effectiveness and leadership at both the individual andcorporate

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Yasuhara

high school system. In Proceedings of SIGCSE’05: the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education.[11] National Center for Education Statistics. Digest of education statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/ pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005025, 2003.[12] Irene F. Goodman, Christine M. Cunningham, Cathy Lachapelle, Meredith Thompson, Katherine Bittinger, Robert T. Brennan, and Mario Delci. Final report of the women’s experiences in college engineering (WECE) project, April 2002.[13] Denise G¨urer and Tracy Camp. Investigating the incredible shrinking pipeline for women in computer science. http://women.acm.org/documents/finalreport.pdf, June 2002.[14] Andrea Jepson and Teri Perl. Priming the pipeline. SIGCSE

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Holles

articles and extract criticalinformation. Finally, the faculty state that students have shown an improved understanding ofthe research process allowing them to get organized and more quickly proceed through thebackground research of their project. In line with the course goals, the students also state that the class has improved theirpresentation skills. The students also demonstrate enthusiasm for the lectures on copyrights,patents, and ethics. Finally, the students have indicated that the assignment they like the mostand learn the most from is the critical journal article review (assignment 7). Most students alsocite this assignment as most useful when performing future research.Conclusion Although this class has evolved in many

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

” Koehn is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. Professor Koehn has served as the principal investigator for several research and development projects dealing with various aspects of construction 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 construction engineering. Dr. Koehn is a member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi and is a licensed Professional Engineer and Surveyor. RAJESH D. MALANI Rajesh D. Malani was awarded the M. Engr. Degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

generated at random (within broad limits).Consequently, each movie user gets a somewhat different experience each time they use thesoftware. Module development required approximately 200 man-hours total to develop bothmovies. Since all problems in both movies are dynamically generated, the need to periodicallyupdate the software is greatly diminished.References[1] Oglesby, D.B., Carney, E.R., Prissovsky, M., Crites, D., “Statics On-Line: A Project Review,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1998.[2] Zecher, J., “An Interactive Graphics Oriented Beam Analysis Program,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1996.[3] Hubing, N., Oglesby, D.B., Philpot, T.A., Yellamraju, V., Hall, R.H., Flori, R.E., “Interactive Learning Tools: Animating

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

opportunity for a student to reworkcategories of problems until they receive their desired score. From an assessment standpoint, theresulting database offers opportunities to correlate module scores with scores received on otheronline modules, projects, or exams, where scores can be aggregated or associated with specificproblems. Cross-semester comparisons can also be performed. Additional parameters such ascompletion date/time, the number of attempts per module, the location of the student’s machine,and the time required to complete an exercise provide a rich information set for understandingstudent work habits. The ultimate goal is to close the assessment loop and improve coursecontent based upon previous semester analyses. Early surveys and

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

uncertain or disagree. Additionally, almost one-quarter indicatethat they do not feel like equal participants when working on group projects with maleteammates.16Development of Tech 101 Women in Technology: Exploring the PossibilitiesWith seed money from John Deere, Tech 101 Women in Technology: Exploring the Possibilitieswas established as a first year seminar, tailored toward helping entering women students gain abetter appreciation of the career opportunities available with a technology degree, the ways inwhich technology benefits society, and how women with technology-related careers balancework and family. Funds were made available to bring women professionals to campus to serveas speakers for the course.The course was designed to create a

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

-10th grade girls. Park and Ride has beenoffered twice to date (April 2004 and December 2004) and EYH once (October 2004). Thissection describes efforts to publicize and recruit for the new events as well as descriptions of theactual events themselves.Development, Recruitment, and Application ProcessesMost of the initial planning for the two new events was done with the help of a RIT co-opstudent. RIT’s engineering and engineering technology students are required to complete 48weeks of co-op experience prior to graduation, and one of these students, who was already activein the women in engineering programs at RIT, was hired to work on these two projects full-time.While the student worked closely with faculty members on many of the ideas for

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Li; Kai Li; Jing Zhao; Xin Tang

environment for students toobtain hands-on skills. To address security issues for accessing the remote laboratory, a simplecost-effective firewall mechanism is designed to alleviate the risk of the malicious attacks fromthe Internet. As a companion for one of networking course taught in the fall semester of 2004,the laboratory has undergone extensive tests and demonstrated satisfactory robustness andreliability. The results of this work create a prototype for other institutions to adopt to developtheir own online secure laboratories.9. AcknowledgmentThis project is funded through UNC OP e-learning initiative grant.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Sixto, O., “Virtual Private Networks: Leveraging the Internet,” IEEE Computer Magazine, pp.18-20, Nov. 1997.2

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

; Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationexperience might be worthwhile. Mixing concrete followed by constructing and testing aconcrete beam might provide improved appreciation of the nature of engineering design andanalysis. Projects or assignments requiring students from the engineering course and the finearts course to work together could also be used to further promote interaction, learning andshared perspectives. One possibility would be to have interdisciplinary student teams prepare apresentation on a skyscraper from both an artistic and engineering perspective.The collaboration discussed in this paper resulted from the two instructors realizing the potentialconnection between their course

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Hoffmann

the hands-on laboratory environment, detractionsseem to occur regularly. The lab ‘glitch’ may be related to apparatus, or computer hardware orsoftware, or to any number of human interactions. A case in point is the operation of oneparticular student lab in a course in the standard track that has been negatively affected by pastchoices in computer software and lab procedure.Introduction In the second course of The Ohio State University First-year Engineering Programstandard track, four-member teams of students must design and build a roller coaster as their10-week lab project. Student teams are required to include certain features in their roller coasterdesigns, and must develop a paper design which is reviewed by instructional staff

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

homework. Or your project. [senior, male]Table 1: Distribution of Comments by Gender female male female malenumber of participants 23 18 56% 44%number of participants who 22 18 55% 45%commented on office hoursnumber of comments 90 55 62% 38%average number of comments 3.9 3.1Table 2: Tallies of Student Comments Related to Office Hours total comments female male female male 56 POS IE 31 25 55% 45% 3

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

the titles, funding, and rewards revert,rightfully, to the department, not to the ‘green’ program. A specific program to pursue legitimategreen research would likely infringe upon or duplicate efforts by individual departments andtheir faculty. In terms of engineering education, ‘green’ senior design projects are options ineach of the departments.The departments of Biological Systems Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineeringhave recently agreed to jointly oversee the Green Engineering Program. These departments willnot be contributing financially to the program, but will provide what might be described as moralsupport to those faculty contributing to the program. The current director of the program servesas an unpaid volunteer and a

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

in classical and quantum communication. Page 10.396.10DR. HONG LI is Assistant Professor at Department of Computer System Technology of New York CityCollege of Technology-CUNY. She received Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from University of Oklahoma,“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2005 American Society for Engineering Education”Norman, Ok, in 1997. Her research has been focused on system modeling with numerical method andartificial neural network. She has worked on funded projects that include modeling of drainage of rainfallthrough

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” Session #1649in this program reflect the world of work that the Verizon employees encounter. Besides using aninnovative curriculum, this program places a heavy emphasis on employee soft skills. Integratedwithin the curriculum are numerous projects and assignments designed to increase the student’scommunication skills, leadership qualities, problem solving ability, and other soft skills.VIII. ConclusionWhat about today’s electronics engineering technology teaching fraternity? Will they be quick toembrace change? I think the answer to that question is, most likely not

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

to a step input. The digital controller will provide therequired output with variations in a single plant parameter. A fully adaptive controller will then beimplemented using PC Matlab to allow for any of the plant parameters to vary and still maintain asuitable output. This concept is used in our Senior Design Project Course as well as in Master Programin Engineering Technology.The popularity of the PID controller and the increased use of microprocessors has led to a digitalversion of the algorithm for use in computer control applications. The first part of this paper will lookat the output response of the specified plant to a step input. Some of the plant parameters will beadjusted to obtain the best results. The next part will show how

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Jacobitz; Kathleen Kramer; Rick Olson

. Because of this rotation manystudents are comfortable seeking input from any of the engineering preceptors. Consequently, insome respects, engineering students have three advisors and mentors rather than one.The current approach of rotating students in Engr101 through the discipline is partially a resultof curricular changes that resulted from establishing the mechanical engineering program in Fall2003. In previous years, some of the time currently devoted to ME was devoted to generalprofessional topics (e.g. project management) in preparation for the design activities in Engr 102.The remaining time was used for more discussion of preceptorial topics- particularly study skills,communication, and teamwork.Although these non-technical skills appear

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

head and a project manager. He is a member of the Teaching Page 10.1116.12Workshop Group of the ERM Division of ASEE, giving workshops on building student teams. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

Session 2692 “Networking” (n=2) “Allowed me to understand the dynamics of leadership, the responsibilities that go with it, conflict management, my current leadership style & how to project my image more positively” “Support”In response to the question, "What part of the Leadership Institute was most useful to you,"participants responded Personal inventories of communication and conflict style (n=7) Strategic planning (n=6) Conflict resolution (n=5) Guest speakers, role models (n=5) Leadership Practices Inventory (n=3) General management (n=2) Financial reporting and planning (n=1) Mentoring (n=1) "Know yourself" aspects (n=1) Case studies (n=1) Networking (n=1) Image

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

of the Year" among research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2000. The author has refereed to many of his publications and presentations. Peer Assessment must be a part of the Teaching Evaluations Plan and should be practiced by almost all the faculty in any given department. Peer assessment procedures are a mandatory requirement in Senior Design Projects. (Muchinsky, 1995, Nelson, 1991, Brown, Race and Smith, 1996).“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 10.231.3Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”7. Program