Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Dupen

Beer dthe moment of inertia of a complex shape, as 7.295" C x'shown in Figure 1. O x Y Student notes consisted of a series ofequations accompanied by a single Hibbelerdiagram…a mirror of the textbook format. Thediagram in the notes was created in a several 100 mm

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Cyrus Hagigat

loading. Figures 1, 2 and 3 illustrate typical fatigueloading (stress) cycles. Page 10.1404.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1 is an idealized situation which is produced by a rotating-beam fatigue machine andwhich is approached in service by a rotating shaft operating at constant speed without overloads.For this type of stress cycle the maximum and minimum stresses are equal.1 Figure 1: An illustration of a reversed stress fatigue cycle1Figure 2 illustrates a

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

often used to summarize the progression of historical events. To make the richhistory of the field fluid mechanics more accessible to both educators as well as students, thedevelopment of this discipline has thus been delineated according to key people who developedideas and theories (Table 1), the ideas and theories themselves (Table 2), and significant inventionsand events throughout history (Table 3). Table 1. Key people in the history of fluid mechanics. Lifespan Person 287 – 212 B.C. Archimedes 40 – 103 A.D. Sextus Julius Frontinus 1452 – 1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1564 – 1642 Galileo Galilei 1608 – 1647 Evangelista Torricelli 1623 – 1662

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

of social, economic, and technological factors are converging to createincreased demand for distance education.1 The rapid growth of access to the Internet anddepth and breadth of information found therein has caused a rethinking of teachingmethodologies within the educational community.2 Synchronous and asynchronousdistance learning methods have become important components of undergraduate andgraduate education.3 Distance education is becoming increasingly important to themission of many institutions of higher education.4 As a result, non-traditional studentsnow have enhanced academic opportunities in many academic fields, includingengineering and engineering technology. Distance learning comes as a powerful tool tobring education to non

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nashwan Younis

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowing non-traditional assessment tools enhances the approach of the assessment process: 1. Cooperative education student evaluation 2. Cooperative education employer evaluation 3. Coordinator report 4. Student forums 5. Nationally normed examinationsEducators prefer classroom assessment because they are comfortable with their systematicapproach. The above tools are not intended to replace the faculty assessment of student learningoutcomes. Rather, they are supplementary methods to enhance the assessment plan. It is notnecessary that we use an analytical approach in which the

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

Research and commissioned by industry.Bibliography 1. http://www.pw.edu.pl access date: 12/26/04 2. http://www.ee.pw.edu.pl access date: 12/26/04BiographySOHAIL ANWARSohail Anwar holds a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Vocational Education from the Pennsylvania StateUniversity and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Hecompleted additional graduate coursework in control theory and applied mathematical sciences at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington. He is currently serving as an associate professor of Engineering and theProgram Coordinator of Electrical Engineering Technology at The Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaCollege. Since 1996, he has also served as an invited professor of

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

Integrated Technology Assessment (ITA) ProcessEvery student enrolled in the BS-Electronics Engineering Technology program atExcelsior College is required to participate in the ITA development process by taking asenior-level course labeled ELEC 495.Every student who enrolls in ELEC 495 is assigned a faculty mentor. The entire courseprocess consists of a 15-week timeline. The first four weeks consist of a WebCT self-paced asynchronous portfolio development process resulting in a professional resume andan ITA plan/outline. Weekly assignments for students during the first four weeks are asfollows: • Week 1 – Review course policies and procedures – Develop professional resume • Week 2 – Develop ITA plan/outline • Week 3 – Develop draft

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

involvement in the trainingand assigning of visitors to engineering and engineering technology programs that do not havetraditional lead society sponsors. This paper describes the on-going developments as well as theopportunities these evolving new relationships may offer to ASEE members to provide valuableprofessional service to engineering and engineering technology education as program evaluators.ASEE & ABET Interactions and InvolvementASEE was almost 40 years old when it and six other professional societies established ABET’spredecessor, the Engineers Council for Professional Development (ECPD) in 1932 [1]. ASEEhas actively interacted with ABET ever since. ABET and ASEE are vitally interested in thequality of educational programs in

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

elective UG course entitled “Introduction to signal processing forcommunications research,” is being developed for Fall 2005. Evaluation and assessment procedures are inplace to evaluate the modules and measure the success of our objectives.* This work is sponsored by the NSF CRCD-EI award 0417604. Page 10.19.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”1. IntroductionTraditional undergraduate (UG) topics in electrical engineering and computer science rely on structuredclasses, laboratories

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

behavioral, dataflow, and structural modeling of bothcombinatorial and sequential logic, design methodologies, synthesis and optimization. An IEEE-1076standard VHDL development system will be extensively utilized to synthesis VHDL for PLD, CPLDand FPGA applications. The prerequisites are Digital System Design and a formal, structuredprogramming course. Class 3, Lab 2, Credit Page 10.1446.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 1 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationRationale & Goal Upon success completion of the course

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

Session 3155 PATHWAYS TO REVITALIZATION OF THE NAVY RESEARCH ENTERPRISE-- TWO PROMISING EXAMPLES Eugene F. Brown1, Robert A. Kavetsky2, Ernest L. McDuffie3, and Robert L. Stiegler4 1 Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech/ 2Director, S

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

valuable data for the faculty, staff andadministration, as a whole. All can be designed to have a built-in mechanismthat primarily focuses on closing the loop. Modern technology can help inimplementing all the above tools successfully and efficiently in a Universityenvironment.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 10.231.7Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The Twenty Principles : 1. Breakdown all barriers. 2. Create consistency of purpose with a plan. 3. Adopt the new philosophy of quality. 4. Establish high

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leijun Li; John Pan; Ismail Fidan

The Effectiveness Analysis of the Online Tools for Engineering Faculty Needs Ismail Fidan1, Jianbiao Pan2, Leijun Li3 1 Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505/ 2 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407/ 3 Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322AbstractAs the use of Internet is increasing dramatically, many faculty members are using it in theirteaching, research, and services. The Internet also provides faculty easy access to employeebenefits and other information. Many universities are using or

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

of writing iscurrently emphasized in this discipline pedagogically? Two, are there significant writing styledifferences in the discipline that that require faculty in the discipline to guide the student thoughtand writing process? The current emphasis in engineering and engineering technology programsis placed on highly formatted technical and scientific laboratory reports.1 The problem with thistype of technical writing in the discipline is that it doesn't really prepare students to communicate1 It is interesting to note that students have had a difficult time writing the conclusions in their laboratory reports. Page

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Walter Bankes; Michael Eastman; Anthony Trippe; Jeffrey Lillie; George Zion

assignment: Page 10.1167.1 1. Upper Level students share their co-op knowledge and experience with freshman and sophomore students who have not yet been on a co-op assignment.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 2. The faculty gets first-hand exposure to what all levels of students are doing on co- op assignments. 3. The students get to interact with the faculty in a much different atmosphere than they normally do

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

– he builds student expectationfor the future. Relating his own career experiences is one approach to transforming studentthinking.ConclusionAs faculty transition from the ways of old - the authoritarian, dictator, Machiavellian ways ofteaching - they must search within themselves and ask, “How should I act so as to achieve therank of loving professor? Which behaviors, activities and actions will allow me to successfullylead my students and best promote their learning?” The model of the loving professor may bethe answer to these questions. A loving professor seeks to alter and elevate the motives, values and goals of students by 1. accepting responsibility for student success 2. always keeping in

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach; Heather Cooper; Bill Hutzel

justtwo decades the U.S. will need 175 quads (1 quad = 1015 Btu’s) to meet annual energy demands.1That is 75% more energy than is used today and runs counter to expectations for future energyavailability from traditional sources. It is important to recognize that the energy challenge extends beyond the need for newsources. “Sustainability” is a popular term that takes a comprehensive view of energy. Inaddition to energy efficiency, sustainability incorporates renewable sources, life cycle costs, andenvironmental impacts into energy decision making. The resolution of complex issues likeglobal warming or an over-reliance on foreign oil requires a broad sustainable view of energyresources. Commercial buildings are one obvious point of

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael R. Sexton; Mehmet Sozen

chemicalequilibrium assumption. The authors implemented the second law (minimization of Gibbs freeenergy) in two different but equivalent methods: one used chemical equilibrium constants asfunctions of temperature correlated from data tables, and the other computed the equilibriumconstants using the change in Gibbs free energy computed from elementary thermodynamicproperties. The latter method was implemented using MathCad for the solution of the problem.Solutions were obtained for fuel to oxygen ratios covering fuel rich to fuel lean conditions. Thesesolutions were compared with those obtained using a FORTRAN code based on the firstapproach and originally reported by Sözen and Majumdar [1] at the 2004 ASEE AnnualConference. Excellent agreement was found

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Schurmann; C. Stewart Slater

., reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, microfiltration and gaspermeation exist that can also be integrated into the curriculum and are described elsewhere [1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].Background Pervaporation selectively separates a liquid feed mixture, typically using a nonporouspolymeric membrane. The generally accepted mechanism for pervaporative transport issolution-diffusion [9]. Transport in a pervaporation process is generally considered to followthree steps: 1) Sorption of the liquid mixture on the feed side of the membrane 2) Diffusion through the membrane 3) Desorption on the permeate side of the membrane to the vapor phasePreferential solute permeability, which is based on solubility and diffusivity of the solute in

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

Bachelor of Science degree. The divisionbetween cadets majoring in Math, Science, and Engineering (MSE) and Humanities and SocialSciences (HPA) has been relatively even (Figure 1). Regardless of major, every cadet’s corecurriculum includes an MSE thread. Courses in this thread are intended to “provide cadets afoundation of fundamental scientific facts and principles, an understanding of the engineeringprocess by which these principles are applied to serve human purposes, and the capacity to usesound methods for analyzing and dealing with scientific and technical matters.”1 This MSE Page 10.1220.1thread is in part fulfilled by a three course

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

are waysto increase the size of the applicant pool, how to reach minorities and women, how to evaluatethe applications you receive, how to conduct your interviews, and how to do reference checking.Finally, there is an overview of what you should be looking for in the final selection process.IntroductionThere are two very critical times in the employment relationship between a faculty member andhis or her institution, the time of hire and the time of granting tenure. As Gmelch and Miskin putit, "No other decision your department will make will be as important as the selection of afaculty colleague.” 1 Another important point about the hiring process is that "Despitesignificant expenditure of human and economic capital, most academics have

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

Expanding the Frontiers in Green Engineering Education C. Stewart Slater1, Robert P. Hesketh1, Daniel Fichana1, Jim Henry2, Ann Marie Flynn3 (1) Rowan University Department of Chemical Engineering Glassboro, NJ 08028 (2) University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Department of Chemical Engineering Chattanooga, TN 37403 (3) Manhattan College Department of Chemical Engineering Riverdale, NY

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Craig

. Theyrequire a substantial amount of energy and thought to answer, but they are perhaps thesections in which the student is most invested and interested. Page 10.1480.4∗ Professor Stephen Hall, MIT, personal communication, 12-1-04 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • The advisor can also prompt the student to prepare the quantitative graphics thatdisplay data but, more specifically, to prepare them separately from textual interpretation.δφ Again, inexperienced writers often struggle

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephanie G. Adams; Lance C. Perez

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephanie G. Adams; Jeffrey W. Rieske

language training and stepped out of the familiar to encounterdifferent and diverse people, cultures, and lands which broadened their world view. We will discuss how this experience prepares the next generation of engineers byexposing them to different cultures prior to entering the workforce and improves theundergraduate experience. The outcomes of the experience were: 1)to improve students’knowledge of, as well as a demonstrate proficiency in, culturally competent research skillsrelevant to their major field of study under the mentorship of a faculty member; 2) to increasestudents’ level of comfort when working with people from different cultures through exposure tothe technological, economic, and socio-political aspects of Venezuelan

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

Student Recruiting: A Report on Successful Techniques at Other Universities. Larry N. Bland, Ph.D., John Brown UniversityIntroduction There has been much discussion regarding the recruiting and retention of engineeringstudents. The 2004 ABET annual meeting looked at the changing demographics thatengineering schools face. Historically the white male has dominated our profession. Ournational demographics are shifting with Caucasian population falling as a percentage of thetotal. Minority population percentages are growing. With this change ABET is encouragingschools to emphasize diversity. [1] Multiple sessions at the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Danielle Julie Carrier; Katherine S. Vaughn; Carl Griffis

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Z. Carpenter; B. Carden; J. C. Diaz; G. R. Kane; JD Haack; E. Hangs

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Carter; Mary Gomez