Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yogesh Thakar; Vinay Kadekar; Todd Sparks; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

layers, tool paths, support structure necessaryto build the model, then uploads the information to the FDM machine. It offers theuser the ability to precisely control many aspects of the process and reports build timeand material usage.V. HardwareRapid prototyping machines build models layer by layer using a variety of processes.The process begins with a 3D model from the desired part. The user then loads the3D model into some proprietary software specific to their rapid prototyping machine.This software cuts the model into a set of stacked 2D layers in a process known as“slicing” and plans the tool paths necessary for the machine to create each layer. This

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

American Collegiate Test (ACT)2.Description of the undergraduate programs in both universitiesThe civil engineering program at UNAH is a five-year program based on two 20-week academicsemesters and one 8-week summer semester per year. The curriculum is rigid in which studentsmust take courses according to a predetermined plan of study. Elective courses are offeredtowards the end of the program to select between 4 specialization areas and acquire moreknowledge in the selected area (e.g. transportation, structures, concrete structures, andconstruction).Table 1 shows the plan of study developed in 1984 for the civil engineering undergraduatedegree at UNAH. The program consists of twelve semesters, with an average of six courses persemester. The

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Reising

identify the problem and formulate itssolution (Criterion 3e). During the next course in the sequence they will be required to developspecifications for the finished product and a plan for testing the prototype.The remaining three class sessions are devoted to brief oral presentations by the students,typically three to five minutes long, in which they describe the project they have chosen and theirapproach to solving it (Criterion 3g). The instructor can at this time determine if the clientrequirements presented by the students are appropriate to the projects as presented by thesponsors.Each student is also required to select a faculty project advisor to serve as a technical consultantfor the project chosen. The project faculty advisors play a

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Ford; Jana Goodrich; Robert Weissbach

seminaris similar to that described by Swamidass and Bryant1, except in addition to having studentswork on team-related activities, there are also guest speakers who present their entrepreneurialactivities, and the teams begin to concentrate on identifying a single product idea. For eachoffering, 3 teams of between 3-5 students were selected.Course outcomes include being able to: • Understand and experience selected elements of the product realization process. • Demonstrate that students can function effectively on multidisciplinary teams. • Develop a complete business plan for the introduction of a new product. • Have a demonstrated understanding of intellectual property and ethical issues associated with new product

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

to the eleven weeks timing with two 120minutes sessions per week.Process Educational Objectives To provide students with a comprehensive and realistic product realizationengineering/management experience and be applicable to any capstone class, the following arethe main preset educational objectives of the developed process:Objective 1: Creative thinking in design1.1 Students will be able to brainstorm and think creatively to achieve alternate design solutions.Objective 2: Teamwork and communication skills2.1 Students will be able to form teams and work effectively with others to achieve design goals.2.2 Student will be able to present their ideas, plans and design alternatives in written and oral formats.Objective

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

promise of being a successful and enduring venture.Greg and Kathy plan to build on their previous successes and continue to promote agradual entrepreneurial transformation in the College of Technology and Aviationthrough a multi-component approach. • Create an entrepreneurial advisory board. • Develop and support the newly formed student entrepreneurial club. • Incorporate entrepreneurship across the curriculum.Entrepreneurial Advisory BoardOf the three components, the Entrepreneurial Advisory Board is pivotal to long termsuccess. The planned entrepreneurial board will consist of accomplished entrepreneurs,dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship across the KSU-Salina campus. The board willbe both directly and indirectly involved in each

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

to the trebuchets 77.8% 22.2% 0.0%I plan to enter the writing/speaking competition 13.3% 32.2% 54.4%I will be in the club next year1 82.5% 15.9% 1.6%1 Responses from Freshman, Sophomore, and Juniors onlyNinety-four percent of the club members have enjoyed being a part of the club. This indicatesthat there are high school students that are looking for this type of activity in which to beinvolved. Ninety-five percent of the club members have enjoyed working with the robots. Onlyforty-four percent enjoyed preparing for the TEAM+S competition (97 students participated inthe

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Russ

productdesign, a manufacturing plan, and a marketing plan – all of which must meet a tight timeschedule and a specified budget. Second, we require our engineering students to work withmarketing and accounting students from a business policy class, creating a multi-disciplinaryteam with the task of developing a solution that is technically feasible, financially viable, andappealing to the target market.This course structure exposes students to problem-solving techniques in real-world situations,while also providing a natural platform for relevant classroom discussions. In terms of real-world exposure, the case study is based upon events that occurred in the writing instrumentindustry during the World War II era, giving students an opportunity to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

high school through university.The origin of the MIMIC conceptIn 1995, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplaceexperiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integrated their students intoteams to develop, produce and sell a product. The design and business courses were scheduledto allow the student teams, called “companies,” a common meeting time and to facilitatespecial training in such areas as group dynamics and communication. Student teams simulatedan industrial environment not only by designing, producing and marketing a product, but alsoby participating in the types of communication situations

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Scienceand Math Content Directors, Content Manager, and working group of advisors, she oversees theprocess of transforming kids' ideas into educationally rich science and math segments. She isalso a producer on the NSF-funded preschool science series, PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD.A first step of the WGBH team was to secure a planning grant from the National ScienceFoundation. The goals under the planning grant were to: establish a board of advisors; identify acontent director; develop ways that viewers can become involved with LAZYBONES activitiesthrough outreach and Web; write the series curriculum; design the game; test the engineeringchallenges with kids; develop evaluation plans; and create a business model.To complement the skills of the WGBH

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

OverviewThe Professional Component of the ABET assessment plan for the ME program at WKU has astrong emphasis on design, as documented in the program’s Design Plan.1 The Design Plandeveloped by the Mechanical Engineering faculty recognizes that the Engineering design processmust be integrated into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum as a continuous process from thefirst year to the final semester. This is necessary to provide students with the opportunity toacquire design tools and skills, as well as competency in mathematical and technical analysis,and communication.2The Mechanical Engineering faculty accepts the following as a representative statement of theattributes of Engineering Design taught in this department: • Engineering design is

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

part,through a seminar style approach. Overall, the resulting course is a departure from a typicaldesign course.Course OutlineThe course plan can be roughly broken down into four parts. The major material introduced ineach part is as follows: Part 1. Introduction to design, team skills, professional writing, and reverse engineering Part 2. Human, social, and environmental issues in the design process; Introduction to oral communication, and critical reading Part 3. Project management and project planning Page 9.1171.1 Part 4. Major design project“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yoram Koren; Nazmi Cem Dincer; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

start a project involving a simple product from the concept anddesign phase, and take it through the manufacturing stage. Throughout the program, the studentswork in groups of two, and this helps them to develop their problem solving and teamwork skills.The Portable Manufacturing System Project was initiated in September 2001. Upon it’simplementation in February 2002, the PMSP has worked directly with all of the six middleschools and one of the three high schools in the Ann Arbor Public School District. This programhas introduced manufacturing engineering to over 950 students and is planning to impact 500students in the Ann Arbor school district annually

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leann Yoder; Stephen Kuyath

principals required in manyengineering technology programs. The students enjoyed watching the robot competitions as theycheered their team (Figure 2b).Trebuchets:Were you aware that you trebuchet kits are available on the Internet? They are available with asimulator (see Figure 3) that helps the students understand the physics behind the fun. There iseven a kit that will “toss a human” (this is not the one we plan on using with the high schools). Figure 3: Sample Trebuchet Simulator (from Trebuchet.com)Figures 4 and 5 show some example trebuchet kits. These can be purchased for relatively little Page 9.476.6money and built by high school

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

, is to provide classroom teaching experience, with an emphasis on learner-centeredteaching methods, to future engineering educators.Those engineering graduate students interested in an academic career have limited options whenit comes to preparing to teach the next generation of engineers. These options can includeteaching assistantships (TAs) which can be accompanied with a teaching workshop, teachingseminars, and under rare circumstances a graduate course on engineering education that canincorporates lesson-planning and learning theory1. The GK-12 fellowship program provides Page 9.601.1USC’s engineering graduate students experience

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

9.1418.1Program that female students consistently fail to connect wellness issues with their ability toperform well. Finally, kinesiology research points to the fact that exercise and physical activity Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcan lead to improved self esteem, thus providing a sound platform for addressing theengineering-related factors. (Kinesiology is the study of movement). We hypothesized that (1) Abetter awareness of career opportunities and planning tools would encourage female students todevelop more effective success and stress management strategies; that (2) women who developeda

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; John Demel; Richard Freuler

MechanicalEngineering course (Mech. Eng. H210) that covers statics instead of the third course in thephysics sequence, Physics 133I. In this statics course students are placed in study groups forsolving the assigned homework problem sets.4. Key Features of the Engineering Design/Build ProjectIn Engineering H193 the students are formed into teams and then given the scenario for the robotcompetition. They learn about team formation and teamwork, project planning, management anddocumentation. One of the teams' first tasks is to develop a team working agreement thatspecifies the expectations for each member, how decisions will be made, and what happens if ateam member does not do her/his share of the work. The second task is to look at when thecompetition is held

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Ezzell; Paul Gordy

as a planning team member for an NSF sponsored grant on engineering education. Similar contacts led to Gordy’s participation in reviewing grants for NSF on two occasions. • Ezzell now participates in board meetings for the local NSPE chapter and was voted as 1999 Engineering of the Year. • Gordy was voted 2002 Professor of the Year at TCC.Integrating Team Projects into the Engineering CurriculumTCC’s involvement in competitions has been highly beneficial to the program, but not allstudents have been directly affected as participation has been primarily on a volunteer basis.Gordy and Ezzell feel that the next step is to provide similar opportunities to all TCCEngineering students by integrating design projects and competitions into

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Mary Huba; Kevin Saunders; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationenterprises. A common IT-based environment can be used to integrate these courses. As anotherexample, such an environment can also be used to encourage the development of specificlearning skills. In traditional educational environments, it is difficult to monitor and encouragestudents’ higher-order cognitive activities, such as planning how to learn a given task,monitoring comprehension of the task, and evaluate the progress towards completing the task.On the other hand, such metacognition has been found to be important to learning and we believean IT-based environment can

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

GraduateBiomedical Engineering Program of University of Memphis (UM) and University of Tennessee(UT). The major goals of our mentoring program are peer-mentoring and community building.We achieve our goals by providing (1) a support and discussion group, and environment duringthe transition time of the graduate studies, (2) career and study planning, and (3) professionaldevelopment for the women in our graduate biomedical engineering program. Higher percentages of female students and tenured/tenured-track faculty in our BMEprogram provide us with a great potential for role models, thus our future goal is to expandmentoring to female students in our engineering school.Mentoring In her book [2], Dr. Emily M. Wadsworth, former Administrator for Women

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

of the terms thathave been evolving in the educational quality culture are terms such as goals, objectives,outcomes and assessment. These terms are frequently used in the new TC2Kaccreditation criteria. In addition to learning new terms, new ways of doing things must Page 9.1279.1be developed and documented as plans, processes and procedures. These plans,processes and procedures then aid an organization in developing their new qualityProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationculture. Requirements such as

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peggie Weeks; Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano

subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—changes in philosophy. For example,the popular Six Sigma methodology5 being used by many industries today has at its coreDMAIC: Define, measure, analyze, improve and control. This is in many ways similar to theoriginal CQI PDCA cycle: Plan, Do, Check, Act. At the heart of philosophies like Six Sigma iscontinuous improvement: a systematic pursuit of excellence and satisfaction of the needs ofconstituencies in a dynamic and competitive environment.It is easy to count the number of courses taught, list how many faculty are professionalengineers, how many have PhDs, etc. It is even relatively easy to list topics “covered” in eachcourse. And it is a straightforward task to list a program’s equipment, and how many

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Mary Vollaro

developmentopportunities for faculty and students, effective educational and outreach programs, andindustry/academia collaborations.ASEE Materials Division EffortsIn order to create a record of the activities of the Materials Division, the session information forthe last five years has been tabulated below 3,4,5,6. From this data, assessment efforts can berefined, trends in our technical field as well as within our membership may be identified, andbetter planning by the Materials Division officers and members for future conferences may befacilitated.Session # ASEE 1999 DESCRIPTION3: # PAPERS (25 abstracts total)0564 NEW Experiments 71364 Matl’s Eng. In the Real World 31464

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

competitiveness during the last four decades and the nation’s professionally orientedfaculty at the nation’s schools of engineering and technology have been undervalued, under rewarded, andunderdeveloped as well. This situation will continue, in all probability, unless corrective change ispurposefully planned and put into action. Although the advancement of fundamental scientific research,the training of future academic researchers, and the development of research-oriented faculty is crucial tothe nation’s scientific strength, so is the advancement of creative engineering practice, the furtherprofessional education of the U.S. engineering workforce for leadership of creative technologydevelopment and innovation in industry, and the development of

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Rufe; Tracy Tillman; Bob Lahidji

and sells theproduct. Students in each class form a small business, select job functions, and performthe responsibilities of those respective job functions.MFG 316 students generate original product concepts. The products developed mustcontain at least five discrete components. The class votes on the "best" concept and theremainder of the semester is spent developing a prototype, bill of materials, tooling, etc.The MFG 316 class forwards its concept to MFG 421 Manufacturing EngineeringAnalysis. MFG 421, further develops the product forwarded from the previous MFG 316classes. Students in MFG 421 form a small business and select job functions such asdesign engineering, marketing, finance, sales, production planning, packaging, quality,and

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okamoto

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education • A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Mineral Science Instruction Using Project-Based Learning and XRD Analysis • Collaborative Research: Adapting and Evaluating Online Materials for Undergraduate Statistics Using LON-CAPA Technology • Developing a Research-Rich Introductory Biology Curriculum • Towards an Integrated Polymer Education: Development of Biodegradable Polymer Laboratory Unit • Adaptive Online Laboratory in Computer Science Education • Bug Power: Fueling our Future with Microorganisms • Remotely Accessed Energy Laboratory

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

Session 2548 Sophomore Project/Capstone Course Glenn R. Blackwell ECET - Purdue University West Lafayette, IN blackwell@purdue.eduabstract:This paper describes a new project course in ECET at Purdue University. It is a course taken bystudents in their 4th semester of the 2+2 ECET program, and may be considered a capstonecourse for the AS degree. In it the students must work with a time plan, and must follow adesign guide that has them combine both analog and digital

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

products and project.The First Three ETKs:In our initial Senior Design class, six teams undertook projects aimed at developingETKs. Three were ultimately successful; our criterion for success was that the lessonplans were actually used in a middle school classroom. Three other teams achievedacceptable lesson plans, but failed to develop a meaningful Design Challenge. The twodefining attributes of engineering teaching kits are: (1) they realize the guided inquiryapproach to teaching science and math, 6, 7, 8 and (2) they teach the engineering designapproach to problem solving. 5, 9, 10 Page 9.222.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

of rural schools needassistance in the following areas: (1) appropriate education materials to stimulate and challengestudents; (2) strategies to enhance problem-solving ability in students; (3) means to conductinquiry teaching; and (4) ways to foster cooperation between mathematics and scienceeducation. Engineering and education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville hadconceived an approach and a plan to address the above needs and to foster teachers’professional development. As pointed out in a recent report by the National Commission onMathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century [3], teachers' competence is pivotal forimproving quality of education in U.S. schools. One of the seven recommended strategies fromthat

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

offered ageneral technical writing course, but never on a regular basis. The College of Technologycontinues to offer a technical communications course, but because it is geared toward anothercollege’s majors, and based on their curriculum, it is considered inadequate for engineeringstudents. Technical communications training in the College of Engineering has been more or lessthe task of individual faculty members in discrete courses. Laboratory courses usually requirewritten and sometimes oral lab reports. Typically, design classes have a reporting component:students develop, manage, and execute the work of a project, writing periodic documents thatboth aid in the planning process and model reporting to clients. In both cases it is the