Conference Session

ERM Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Crago, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

example, for use in “enumerating various attributes” forthe ABET Criterion 3 outcomes5. In that project, each of the ABET outcomes [i.e., the Criterion3 (a) through (k)] was broken into a larger number of component parts, and each component part Page 13.658.2of an outcome was described as it might be addressed by a student operating at the various levelsof Bloom’s taxonomy. Verbs from their list 4 were used here in the writing of the performancecriteria because these verbs accurately describe levels of learning as described by Bloom’staxonomy.Taken together, the several performance criteria comprising a particular outcome indicate therequired or

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, Purdue University; Vincent Drnevich, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Do not place your name on this sheetAnswer the questions below on the basis of your current beliefs as to how a professionalengineer may ethically act.The SituationYou are a young engineer employed by the State Transportation Department. You have beenplaced in charge of inspecting a highway bridge project which is being built by a privatecontractor. Because of your education and extensive field engineering experience, you are ableto suggest techniques and procedures that save the contractor both time and money. The work,however, is done strictly according to the plans and specifications.Scenario No. 1It is quitting time on a hot summer Friday afternoon. The contractor comes to the site and offersa can of soda to each of his employees. He

Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Joel Bloom, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

experience in research, engineering, marketing and sales management with several high technology corporations.Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the past thirty years designing and implementing professional development programs and curricula for K-12 teachers in science and technology. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in first-year college courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science.John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of

Conference Session

Mechanics and the Internet

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin - Marathon County; Christa James-Byrnes, University of Wisconsin - Barboo/Sauk County; Luis Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin - Waukesha

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. & Yoshida, M., Lesson study: A Japanese approach to improving mathematics teaching andlearning. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2004.2. Lewis, C., Lesson study: A handbook of teacher-led instructional improvement. Philadelphia: Research forBetter Schools, 2002.3. Cerbin, Bill and Kopp, Bryan, “University of Wisconsin – La Crosse Lesson Study Project,”http://www.uwlax.edu/sotl/lsp/ (Accessed January 2008) Page 13.847.9

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 1

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Merwan Mehta, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2008-767: DEVELOPING A MANUFACTURING PLANT LAYOUT UTILIZINGBEST-IN-CLASS CONCEPTS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING AND THEORY OFCONSTRAINTS OF OPTIMAL MACRO-FLOWMerwan Mehta, East Carolina University Page 13.386.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing a Manufacturing Plant Layout Utilizing Best-in-class Concepts of Lean Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints of Optimal Macro-FlowAbstractDeveloping a plant layout for a manufacturing facility is a project that utilizes a combination ofart and science. Although creating plant layouts has been an activity that has been performed bymanufacturing and industrial engineers

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

student performance in a particular outcome whereas the final letter gradegiven to a student is an indication of his cumulative achievement which is computed using somesort of a weighted average (30% HW grade, 20% exam grade, 10% project grade, etc.).There are three basic requirements to implement this approach: (1) At the beginning of thesemester make a course plan including assessment, (2) Break down grading along courseoutcomes on the assignments/exams using a grade box, and (3) Enter scores into gradespreadsheet for each course outcome.For faculty who have teaching assistant support, most likely items 2 and 3 would be done bytheir assistant. The most critical thing is to have a good course plan at the beginning toimplement this approach

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Bardy, Grove City College; Erik Anderson, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

ofinstitutions have built experiments for various heat transfer experiments.[1-6] In some casesstudents have built heat transfer experiments as part of a design project and then used theexperiment in a thermal fluids laboratory course.[7, 8].We have developed an experiment in free convection for MECE 352 adapted from one used inthe Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The State University of New Yorkat Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) (with permission). In the experiment, students take directtemperature readings from a vertical heated plate using thermocouples and a LabVIEW DAQinterface. The convective heat transfer coefficient can be calculated from the temperature profilenear the vertical plate and compared to analytically determined values. In

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria; A.Y. Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology; Danilo Garbi Zutin, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria Danilo Garbi Zutin obtained his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering form the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) in Brazil. As a student, he has developed undergraduate research during three years at the university and has joined an internship program at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria, where he has worked within the Remote Electronic Laboratory project. The work was focused in developing a system for testing and designing ASICs as a part of the tele-learning system of the institution. The work has resulted in a system that allows designing and testing ASICs by means of an online platform. His areas of interest are

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Dampier, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

the field of digital forensics that encouragesinnovation and creativity, and embraces life-long learning. Academia is able to help inthe digital forensics field by providing more sophisticated tools and equipment. Evencommercially available equipment has addressed the need but further innovation could bespurred from the academic community. For example, a research project at MississippiState University using Field Programmable Gate Arrays was able to produce a tool thatwill image a hard drive, nearly, twice as fast as any commercial hard drive duplicator,and will perform some limited analysis as it images.7 Academia’s vast instructional andresearch resources should be used in any way possible to combat digital crime.Justification of

Conference Session

Cooperative Education and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

technical classroom knowledge to the next level of expertise.With respect to Bloom’s Taxonomy, 5 students appear to engage at higher learning levels, fromBloom’s level 1-5 knowledge of a good quality engineering education program to Bloom’s level4- 6, since co op students in a corporate environment learn through integrating Bloom’scategories of Level 4: Analysis, Level 5: Synthesis and Level 6: Evaluation. Co op students learncommunication, team collaboration, program and project management, leadership ofimplementation, and achieving through consequences, accountability and evaluation, as well asmany other skills.In order to be able to document these educational advantages, one must have a vision of thedesired result. Only then can a methodology be

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

David Lanning

bring entire class sections (20-40 students) into the laboratoryfor demonstrations, during which some students play at least a minimal role gathering data forlater analysis1. The author also collaborated with another member of the College of Engineeringfaculty, who specializes in machine vision, to create a “virtual beam” that students can interactwith in real time, demonstrating beam stresses and deflections2. While these projects helpstudents with understanding new ideas and applying concepts to simple laboratory experiments,they do not address the apparent lack of retention of fundamental concepts from prior courses.This lack of retention of skills and knowledge from one semester to the next has been noticed bymany of the instructors in the

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Christine Pauken

also links to websites thatdiscuss these topics. This permits students to be exposed to a greater variety of engineeringapplications that may be of interest to a subset of the students. In addition, the bioengineering students are required to take a 3 hour lab concurrentlywith the biology course. The lab contains modules on diffusion, biomaterials testing, restrictiondigest and electrophoresis of plasmid DNA, electrophoresis of fish proteins, polymerase chainreactions (PCR) bacterial DNA, fluid mechanics, microscopy, and homeostasis. The students arealso required to do a design project using the ideas of synthetic biology, in some semesters tobuild bacteria that are better sources of biomass fuels. Greater depth and details are given in

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Anne A. Fischer

process only occurs onthe boundaries. However, the computational resourcesrequired to solve the integral equations is fairly great. Thisfact may make this an unsuitable method for symmetricaldomains. In the research conducted for this project, Proceedings of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Figure 6 6increasing the boundary discretization by just a few nodes significantly impacted the amount oftime required to compute a solution. The manner in which the coding is implemented cangreatly affect this

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

the end of the 19th century,Lukens began keeping records of the plate defects and their sources. All of these books were the end product of multiple routines of record keeping by people on thefactory floor and many of them have fingerprints and handprints on them. They are similar to the daybook, journal, and ledger, in that they record data into a transitional location before entering the finalresults into ledgers. However, they are different in that it was a works-wide record keeping project, ratherthan the work of a single clerk or owner. The processes were becoming more complex and more peoplehad to participate in the written record keeping in order to gain the knowledge necessary to analyze andcontrol the industrial

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik

work up inthe race shop computer and meeting room. The result is that students are forced to return to theexcitement of racing just frequently enough that they are reminded of the excitement and stay engaged. 3Despite the programs focus on undergraduate studies, graduates that continue on for a master‟s or PhD,typically use the race shop as a hang out, working on pet projects, and continuing to support the raceteams they crewed on in their undergraduate years. This beneficial support of the teams complements thefaculty effort to guide and lead the teams through the engineering of the race cars.Students and race team internshipsBecause of the great need for race team engineers and because of

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

to certain ground surfaces because they are rigid and donot allow for a normal gait. Therefore this causes excessive moment and shear force to occur andconsequently compensation occurs at the stump and socket interface. This will later in turn causecomplications of pressure sores and discomfort along the stump. In the biomechanics lab at MercerUniversity, students have been involved in several research projects and lab works relating to lowerextremity biomechanics using gait analysis system and measure moment and reaction forces.The authors used Pro-E to model a mobile (full range of motion at the ankle level) and immobile (rigidand no motions occur at the ankle joint) prosthetic devices and analyzed the shear stress in the pylons andsockets

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science andEngineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Instituteof Medicine5; increasing and sustaining women enrollment in STEM can only be possible by acollaborative effort rather than independent individual institutional projects. In this regard, university 5leaders, such as university presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculties and their senatesshould develop and implement regulations to promote women in engineering, technology and computing.Professional societies and higher education organizations should develop and enforce guidelines to ensurethat keynote and

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik

work up inthe race shop computer and meeting room. The result is that students are forced to return to theexcitement of racing just frequently enough that they are reminded of the excitement and stay engaged. 3Despite the programs focus on undergraduate studies, graduates that continue on for a master‟s or PhD,typically use the race shop as a hang out, working on pet projects, and continuing to support the raceteams they crewed on in their undergraduate years. This beneficial support of the teams complements thefaculty effort to guide and lead the teams through the engineering of the race cars.Students and race team internshipsBecause of the great need for race team engineers and because of

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

the end of the 19th century,Lukens began keeping records of the plate defects and their sources. All of these books were the end product of multiple routines of record keeping by people on thefactory floor and many of them have fingerprints and handprints on them. They are similar to the daybook, journal, and ledger, in that they record data into a transitional location before entering the finalresults into ledgers. However, they are different in that it was a works-wide record keeping project, ratherthan the work of a single clerk or owner. The processes were becoming more complex and more peoplehad to participate in the written record keeping in order to gain the knowledge necessary to analyze andcontrol the industrial

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science andEngineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Instituteof Medicine5; increasing and sustaining women enrollment in STEM can only be possible by acollaborative effort rather than independent individual institutional projects. In this regard, university 5leaders, such as university presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculties and their senatesshould develop and implement regulations to promote women in engineering, technology and computing.Professional societies and higher education organizations should develop and enforce guidelines to ensurethat keynote and

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Aasia Riasat; Syed S. Rizvi; Faraz Arain

1989).Author biographiesSYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in Computer 5Engineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases. For last one year, his research focused primarily onthe modeling and simulation of wide range parallel/distributed

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Syed S. Rizvi; Aasia Riasat; Muhammad S. Rashid

., [1999]. "Static and Dynamic Configurable Systems," IEEE Trans. On Computers, Vol. 48, Issue. 6, pp. 556-563, June 1999. 7Author biographiesSYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in ComputerEngineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

to certain ground surfaces because they are rigid and donot allow for a normal gait. Therefore this causes excessive moment and shear force to occur andconsequently compensation occurs at the stump and socket interface. This will later in turn causecomplications of pressure sores and discomfort along the stump. In the biomechanics lab at MercerUniversity, students have been involved in several research projects and lab works relating to lowerextremity biomechanics using gait analysis system and measure moment and reaction forces.The authors used Pro-E to model a mobile (full range of motion at the ankle level) and immobile (rigidand no motions occur at the ankle joint) prosthetic devices and analyzed the shear stress in the pylons andsockets

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Auf Akhtar; Syed S. Rizvi; Khaled M. Elleithy

Guard, a built-in feature of Oracle DatabaseEnterprise Edition, guarantees a disaster recovery solution that is database aware and fully integratedwith other Oracle High Availability (HA) features.Adidas also has a number of new projects in development on Oracle Database 10g. Adidas plans to useData Guard10g Rolling Upgrades, a new feature that dramatically reduces the downtime required toupgrade from one database release to the next (Oracle 10.1.0.3 is the minimum database release requiredfor rolling upgrades). Like many Oracle users, Adidas will soon upgrade existing production systemsfrom Oracle9i to Oracle Database 10g. Adidas’s testing showed that in their environment, the upgradefrom Oracle9i to Oracle 10g requires a minimum of 25 minutes

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

to certain ground surfaces because they are rigid and donot allow for a normal gait. Therefore this causes excessive moment and shear force to occur andconsequently compensation occurs at the stump and socket interface. This will later in turn causecomplications of pressure sores and discomfort along the stump. In the biomechanics lab at MercerUniversity, students have been involved in several research projects and lab works relating to lowerextremity biomechanics using gait analysis system and measure moment and reaction forces.The authors used Pro-E to model a mobile (full range of motion at the ankle level) and immobile (rigidand no motions occur at the ankle joint) prosthetic devices and analyzed the shear stress in the pylons andsockets

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science andEngineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Instituteof Medicine5; increasing and sustaining women enrollment in STEM can only be possible by acollaborative effort rather than independent individual institutional projects. In this regard, university 5leaders, such as university presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, faculties and their senatesshould develop and implement regulations to promote women in engineering, technology and computing.Professional societies and higher education organizations should develop and enforce guidelines to ensurethat keynote and

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jalpa Bani; Syed S. Rizvi

proprietary hardware systems; and enhancingperformance of mobile database query engine. She is currently engrossed in enhancing the throughput of Rijndaelalgorithm and making it more secured.SYED S. RIZVI is a Ph.D. student of Computer Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received a B.S. inComputer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and an M.S. in ComputerEngineering from Old Dominion University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. In the past, he has done research onbioinformatics projects where he investigated the use of Linux based cluster search engines for finding the desiredproteins in input and outputs sequences from multiple databases. For last one year, his research focused primarily onthe modeling and

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Robert Dees; Ken S. Gilliam; Michael J. Kwinn

Academy at West Point where he currently directs the Systems Engineering and OperationsResearch programs. Mike graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984 andwas commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Defense Artillery. He has been stationed at FortBliss, Texas, Germany, Fort Carson, Colorado and Camp Stanley, Korea. He has received a Master ofScience from the University of Arizona, a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies (withDistinction) from the Naval War College, and a PhD in Management Science from the University ofTexas at Austin. He has worked on systems engineering projects for over 10 years and recently served asthe Director of the Operations Research Center (ORCEN) at the United

Conference Session

BME Courses & Curricular Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; David Gatchell, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Recognizing the importance of certain areas in the physiology curriculum, and thepaucity of quantitative problems, we have initiated a project to create problems that can be doneby students electronically and independent of a particular textbook. This project uses thepowerful Courseware Authoring and Packaging Environment (CAPE) and ExperimentalLearning Management System (eLMS) that has been developed by the VaNTH ERC 8.CAPE/eLMS problems have many features which differentiate them from problems madeavailable through other learning management systems such as Blackboard. In a CAPE/eLMSproblem, the student interacts continuously with the computer. When a student enters the answerto a problem, he or she receives feedback immediately on whether he or she

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

% Othera 12% 2% 36%Q15: 522 Full-time 94% 98% 82%Appointment Part-time 6% 2% 18%a Includes research scientist, research professor, adjunct faculty, project manager, and administratorTable 3 reveals that the majority of the time is spent on teaching (42%), with research andadministration relatively similar at 22% and 18%. It is interesting to note the similarity of thisworkload distribution for tenure-track and non-tenure track respondents, also shown in Table 3:Tenured and tenure-track respondents report spending 43