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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3565 Advanced Mathematics Preparation for Graduate School of Undergraduate Science and Engineering Students Kenneth E. Siegenthaler Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe difficulty of inspiring spring-semester senior science and engineering students totake another elective advanced mathematics course is well known. Mathematical Physicstaught from a text such as Mathematical Methods for Physicists by George B. Arfken andHans J. Weber has a particularly bad reputation among undergraduates. But any

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

the four summer high school satellite Page 9.757.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprograms held at the partnering universities (24 teachers per university.) With this achievementin mind, 118 teachers would have been trained directly through the PCET program to introducethe engineering design process into their classrooms. With an average class size of 20, thismeans that potentially 2,800 high school students in Massachusetts could be exposed to theengineering design process during

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ying Tang

AbstractThis paper focuses on the project of design and simulation of a disassembly-to-order system that providesa unique “hands-on and minds-on” research experience for undergraduate students. This project iscompleted by a multidisciplinary group of faculty and students from Electrical & Computer Engineeringat Rowan University and Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Pacific Lutheran University(PLU). In such a system, the disassembly of discarded products is processed to satisfy certain demandsfor parts and/or materials, while economic and environmental goals are achieved. Two scenarios in thesystem are analyzed and their performance is compared.1. Introduction Due to the increased awareness of the state of environment by consumers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

introducing them to the breadth anddepth of their chosen field. In addition, the assignments have been structured so as not to require gradingin order to be effective. Page 9.1429.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Theory--Learning and Teaching StylesAllan A Gatthorn in Curriculum Renewal suggests that writing can be used as a method of learning.“The idea of using writing as a method of learning is grounded in sound theory, as Yinger and Clark2have noted in Reflecting Journal Writing

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

AC 2004-555: CREATING MORE TIME IN A DAY: EFFECTIVE USE OFE-COMMUNICATION TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING AND OPTIMIZEINSTRUCTOR TIMEDawn Conniff,James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military AcademyMatthew Morris, Brigham Young University Page 9.352.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session # 1793 Creating More Time in a Day: Effective Use of e-Communication to Enhance Student Learning and Optimize Instructor Time J. Ledlie Klosky, Matthew R. Morris, Dawn E. Conniff United States Military AcademyAbstractThe

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

, Page 9.297.1 or making and implementing difficult decisions. A key part of transformation is Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education changing mind-sets, which, in turn, alters behaviors, appreciations, commitments, and priorities …people develop new beliefs and interpretations and adopt new ways of thinking and perceiving that help create the foundation of significant change. Transformation is about making new sense. Without exploring what the changes mean for the institution and capturing the minds and hearts of faculty, staff, students and trustees, institutional

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Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

Session 2540 “TO MOVE PEOPLE FROM APATHY”: A MULTI-PERSPECTIVE APPROACH TO ETHICS ACROSS THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Donna Riley, Glenn Ellis, and Susannah Howe Picker Engineering Program, Smith CollegeAbstractHumanist Algernon Black wrote that the unifying goal of ethics is “to move people from apathy,from an acceptance of the evils in life, to face the possibilities of the world….” To this end,faculty in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College are teaching ethics across thecurriculum, employing a range of pedagogical tools that are learner-centered, grounded in

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lee Harper

engineering are involved in the ComprehensiveEverglades Restoration Project (CERP); the science in one piece or sub-project may be narrow,but because this is a systems problem, with each decision and action affecting the whole, theapplication is very broad. Systems engineering is technology-intensive, and it may be useful tobear in mind that the technology needed to repair the damage to the Kissimmee and Evergladesecosystems is more advanced and sophisticated, by an order of magnitude (at least in a rhetoricalsense), than that which caused it. The restoration projects, in other words, could not have beenundertaken successfully in an earlier period. For example, advanced technology has enabledhighly detailed computer simulation and modeling. Two

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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S. Natasha Beretvas; John Pearce, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Creating an environment for learning Helping students become autonomous, self-regulated learners Reflecting on and evaluating their teaching5.With these strategies in mind, ELVIS was employed during lectures for real-time demonstrationsof circuit performance in a second electronics class, EE 338K (a junior/senior level elective with20 students) in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in the summer2003 term. The experienced faculty member (JP) was aware of the perplexing nature of thetopics for many students and he wanted to integrate ELVIS into his lectures in order to helpstudents visualize concepts that are more traditionally taught using only mathematical formulasand to give them a context for theoretical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodger Dalton; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

Session 2004-761 TECHTRONICS: HANDS-ON EXPLORATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Paul A. Klenk, Gary A. Ybarra, Rodger D. Dalton Duke University Pratt School of EngineeringAbstractTechtronics is an after school science enrichment program that encourages at-risk middle schoolstudents to pursue careers in engineering and technical fields. A joint venture between the PrattSchool of Engineering at Duke University and Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham, NorthCarolina, Techtronics seeks to stimulate intellectual curiosity in engineering through exposure tofour engineering

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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

Session 2004-1557 The Aalborg Experiment University - Industry Interaction: A Means for Stimulating Engineering Excellence in Technology and Learning Systems Sven Hvid Nielsen, Associate Professor Department of Production Aalborg University, Denmark e-mail: i9shn@iprod.auc.dkAbstract: This article presents what an engineering school at a university may do tostimulate the engineering excellence. The Aalborg University experiment will be used as acase example with its unique use of problem-based education methods in connection withproject and group-organised studies – to stimulate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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April Kedrowicz

sufficient.The third level of negotiating comfort in difference is fostering an atmosphere of trust. In otherwords, awareness of difference leads to dialogue which serves to clarify and increaseunderstanding of difference, which in turn, fosters trust. Through dialogue, we learn that we allhave the students’ best interest in mind, regardless of our beliefs about how to best equipstudents with the proper skills and knowledge to be successful upon graduation. So, if we trustthat both engineering and humanities faculty are student-focused, rather than personally focusedtechnical skill development), it is not in the best interest of this type of program for one group to convert another.Rather, through trial and error and experimentation with various

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Bowen

by asking for assistance with MATLABprogramming that they were working on as part of a subsequent math or engineering course.This indicates that students are using MATLAB, even though no formal steps have been taken toimplement it across the curricula, as has been done at other schools11. Results from theassessment of learning outcomes related to MATLAB programming have been somewhatdisappointing so far. These assessments indicate the just over half of the students attain aminimum capability to write MATLAB programs to solve simple quantitative problems. Withthese assessments in mind, a number of changes have been made in the portion of the course thatprovides MATLAB instruction. We have also experimented with different MATLAB texts touse

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

1451 Las Vegas Energy Project An environmental investigation for the ninth grade science class Matthew G. Barbera, Nicholas B. Harthb a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering b Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science College of Engineering University of CincinnatiAbstractAs part of a National Science Foundation grant at the University of Cincinnati, a projectfocusing on environmental issues and engineering impact was implemented in two highschool

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

is to type the TELNET command, the HOSTNAME or IP ADDRESS,and a PORT NUMBER on one line. In the example below, I have connected to a computerthrough port 25 or the SMTP port. The response indicates that the SMTP service isrunning on this computer. Page 9.998.14C:\>telnet 192.168.0.5 25 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education220 Servername Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.1600 ready at Sun, 14 Jul 200215:03:19 –0500There a few things to keep in mind while using TELNET. First, beware

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Drez; Deepthi Werapitiya; Jerald Rounds

Education to Practicing Professionals: A Case Study has been submitted forpresentation at this conference discussing the evolution of the CAI program.The two courses under study are Construction Safety CE 475/575 and Methods Improvement CE479L/579L both offered by the Civil Engineering Department. These two courses have beenoffered in a traditional mode for many years, but were offered fully online for the first time inspring 2003 using the WebCT platform. A majority of the students enrolled in these courses arepracticing professionals in the construction field.This case study begins by describing the evaluation methods developed for CAI courses. Thefirst evaluation step was to conduct an initial instructional design evaluation of the two

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

Session Number xxxx Creating a Process to Design a Capstone Program that Considers Stakeholder Values* Robert H. Todd and Spencer P. Magleby Department of Mechanical Engineering Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, USAAbstractDesigning or redesigning a Capstone Program is a difficult and complicated task since theseprograms often embody complex relationships internal and external to the department and/orcollege, and can be costly in terms of funding, space and faculty time

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay Howell; Ann Wittbrodt; Alfred Moye

to stimulate research and development in learning science andtechnology, worked with over seventy leading learning science and informationtechnology researchers over a three year period to produce the Roadmap. The Roadmapdefines research priorities, a development chronology, and short- and long-termmilestones. While the roadmap focuses on post-secondary science, math, engineering,and technology education, its research plan should be useful to all learning markets,including K-12. The roadmap provides a comprehensive strategic view of the learningscience and technologies field which can guide researchers, industry, and fundingagencies as they strive for innovation in educational technology. This paper describeshow the roadmap was developed and

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

an effort to provideeducational software, involving all students in authentic learning situations by having themparticipate in all phases of the software engineering lifecycle. Through a development processknown as participatory design, curators from The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center inMontclair, NJ teamed with 5th graders from St. Philip’s Academy and undergraduates from NewJersey Institute of Technology to produce interactive software that assists visitors to the museumlearn about the history of the Negro Leagues through chronology and biography; learn aboutstatistics and probability through the databases that draw on records of individual players fromthe Negro Leagues; and learn about the geography of the state of New Jersey and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

?• How does the lecturing task comply with the research task?• How can we connect different lecturing subjects?The questions listed above are all open-ended; and we are also open-minded about the prob-lem-based learning method. For more detailed information about this, I can strongly recom-mend [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5].Case: The new master programme in Architecture and Design and its study curriculumThe new master programme is considered innovative and a combination of the best from tra-ditional architecture and design curriculums and the best from traditional engineering curricu-lums within the frame of the AAU problem-based learning model. Name Urban design Architecture Industrial de- Digital design

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

”In case of a reduction of our programs it might seem that we were going against our obligation tohelp the student mature during his training at the university, which in more industrializedcountries is achieved by the very practice of the profession or through training provided by thecompanies who hire them after graduation. On this regard it would be opportune to establishwhich academic factors determine professional success. At any rate, it is difficult to distinguishbetween the key elements that make a good engineer. Nonetheless, it can be said that in thecorrect practice of engineering, a solid training in basic sciences and exposure to challengingproblems that form the mind for the decision making process are more important than the

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

, rural exodus, and pollution,which demanded institutional, cultural and political transformations1,2. Nowadays, we are thewitnesses of a new revolution. The generalized use of computers and computerized systems havebeen changing again the means of production, and also, personal relations. Once more, thecourse of History has been modified, at this time by the so-called “information revolution”,which has been altering lifestyles, educational practices, production relations, etc3. And, the main“engine” of these processes has been the discoveries in science that make possible thedevelopment of new technologies, which give support to a massive industrial production andpromoting several transformations in social relations. But, this process brings new

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

Society For Engineering Education7.0 When to Approach College AdministratorsBefore presenting a new program such as the professional engineer graduate program touniversity administration, there are several principles that must be kept in mind. Briefly, they areas follows: - Do not go to the administration requesting funds. Administrators know from many passed experiences that when unsolicited visits by faculty are made, at some point a request for funding will be forthcoming. These requests are usually accompanied by statements from the faculty member to the effect that the funded project will surely be successful – a promise usually made without any meaningful substantiation. - Have funding in hand

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

Engineering at the University of Cincinnati during the summer of 2003.This opportunity helps in attracting and retaining the brightest undergraduate students byproviding special programs that capture their interests and challenge their scholastic potential.Nine undergraduate students from six different institutions participated, and included threewomen and six men students. The students’ scholastic standing ranged from sophomore tosenior level. Each group was supervised by a Faculty Mentor, one Graduate Student Mentor, anda Lab Technician during the complete duration of the REU Site. The paper presents how thewhole research program was planned and conducted, the details of the projects selected for thestudents, and procedures used to evaluate the

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

It is apparent that some shifts that have happened may have been due to students’perception changes. For instance, due to the sense of “self flagellation” felt in theclassroom due to human suffering, and engineers’ precipitation to that plight, a sense of“whistle blowers attitude” prevailed in the classroom as the responsibility of whistleblower and heroism prevailed over the young mind. Nothing more can be predicted,except that the students were positively affected by the design failure episode.* HUMANMETRICS OF THE ETHICS CLASS Jung-Typology Post-Test Averages of the class INFJ Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers, National Academy Press, 1995.3. Ferguson, E.S., Engineering and the Minds Eye, MIT Press, 1993.4. Sherwin, C. W. and Isenson, R. S., Final Report: Project Hindsight, Director of Defense Engineering, Washington, July 1967.5. Bright, J.R., Ed., Technological Forecasting for Industry & Government, Prentice Hall, 1968.6. Council of Competitiveness, Picking Up the Pace: The Commercial Challenge to American Innovation, 1988.7. Keating, D.A., Stanford, T.G., Cope, R.S., Leadership of Systematic Technology Innovation and the Advanced Professional Education of Engineers, IEE Conference Proceedings No 435: Fifth International Conference on Factory 2000, Churchill College, Cambridge University

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephan Hussmann; Nitish Patel; Julainne Sumich; Bruce MacDonald; Abbas Bigdeli

-professional Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationflavor in mind and interviews and demonstrations are between the Design Engineers and theUpper Management of this imaginary company.Each project is split into at least two phases – an investigative phase and the finalimplementation. The actual names and time duration of these phases differ for each of the threeprojects. The investigative phase is a ‘paper design’ phase during which the students explore thevarious avenues that could achieve the objectives of the design brief. At the conclusion of thisphase each group is individually interviewed to assess

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Karim; Ardie Walser

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Acting Associate Dean of theSchool of Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York. Dr. Walser is presently theDivision Chair of the Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) of the American Association ofEngineering Education (ASEE). He was the treasurer of MIND from 1996 to 1998, and the MIND ProgramChair from 1999 to 2000. He has collaborated in the creation and direction of numerous facultydevelopment workshops that have been held through out the country. Dr. Walser is the recipient of severalfaculty awards including the faculty of the year award from the Eta Kappa Knu engineering honor society.He has given numerous workshops and lecture demonstrations at grades schools

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmen Boje; Nicolae Dragulanescu

Department of Applied Electronics and Information Engineering (e-mail: nicudrag@artelecom.net)Abstract Today, information - rather than labor or capital - is becoming the key factor inproduction. Thus, the actual so-called “Post-Industrial Society” is the Information Society,whose fundamentals are Information Science and Information Technology. In this paper, anattempt is made to outline the epistemological1 approach of information concept withindifferent disciplines as well as the need of a general higher education in Information Science.Problem solving, decision-making and paperwork reducing are some of most frequentinformation processes currently involving engineers and managers in multi-disciplinaryteams

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Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

engineering courses at universities all over the world. Soundsstraightforward and simple, but how to make students’ minds follow that path of thinking whenthe vast majority of their time and intellectual effort while studying engineering is spent onlearning mathematical principles and procedures with a goal of using them for optimization andnumerical assessment of mostly classical, hence canned problems. Most engineering curriculastill bare scars of teaching design through engineering drawings (blueprints, not conceptualdrawings) and design calculations based on analysis methods that are rooted in specific subjects1-3 . Understandably, due to the nature of learning, engineering problems need to be initiallysomewhat canned to prompt, if not require