Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Misna; Erica Liszewski

example dialogfor an error in the translation of the truth table is shown in Fig. 8. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 8: Example dialog box describing a student errorResultsThe K-Mapplet was first integrated into our digital logic course in Fall 2003. From then on, thestudents were given roughly three hours of laboratory time during the semester to practice K-map problems using the applet. During this structured time, the professor and a teachingassistant were present to answer questions. Grades for this activity were based on the level ofparticipation, not

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

aseries of design scenarios by which we will implement stochastic methods into EngineeringDesign VI. This course is taken by mechanical engineering students in the junior year.Previously, this course was based on deterministic approaches for integrated product design,spanning the entire process from product conception to product realization, following thesyllabus outlined by Ulrich and Eppinger.1 This paper discusses how the newly developed lecturematerials based on the framework by Hazelrigg2 have been integrated into the existing coursesyllabus. Furthermore, it describes the design scenarios together with appropriate MATLAB andMS Excel analysis modules that were developed for student usage in laboratory exercises. Thepilot course is currently

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ryan Dupont; Mary Feng; Hailey Christine

at the Utah WaterResearch Laboratory, and the Head of the Division of Environmental Engineering. He leads the ADVANCE Scienceand Engineering Recruitment Team. His research interests focus on the bioremediation of petroleum andchlorinated solved contaminated soil and groundwater.KIM SULLIVAN is a Professor of Biology at Utah State University and a fellow of the American Ornithologists’Union. Her research focuses on ornithology, animal behavior, and women in science. She led the original researchconducted by Utah State for the NSF ADVANCE proposal and is a co-PI on the ADVANCE team. Page 10.1062.10 “Proceedings of the 2005

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Fisher; Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0086427. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors.Biographical InformationDr. Lyons is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and the Directorof the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratories, design, andmaterials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. He is the principal investigator for the GK-12 program.Dr. Fisher is a Research Associate in the College of Education’s Office of Program Evaluation. He received his PhDin

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Peter Baumann

suggestedwhich place design in the initial year to maintain interest 9, 10, 15, 17, 22, 32, 8, 9, 13, 15, 18, 26, or whichare laboratory-based 2, 4, 7, 12, or finally those which emphasize the development of problem-solving skills. 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24 Baylor University uses self-paced mastery of subjectmaterial as an interesting further refinement for a problem-solving course.24 During presentationof previous work1, interest was expressed in the team design project used in the introductorycourse at CCSU to reinforce several learned problem-solving principles and skill sets and toculminate the course with an experiential learning experience. This team project effort is similarin many respects to the Building Engineering Student Team

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

used in lower level courses, and thetime allowed for completion has been reduced to two weeks. This time frame allows for teamdeliberations and the formulation of well-structured team presentations. In addition, among anumber of “extra-credit” options, students are invited to solve the problem by alternate methodsand/or by using additional software packages.Instructor’s supportThe Sledder can be integrated as a mini-project in a basic Physics course or even as a simulation-lab in a Physics Laboratory session. In addition to problem-solving skills, computer proficiency,and teamwork, the students are challenged by the fact that they have to carefully plan for thevarious parts of the exercise and to allot a reasonable amount of time to different

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

Page 10.587.5required course for all engineering students. Specifically, one formal lecture was delivered on Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationestimation followed by a homework set of six problems and mini-projects, similar to the setdescribed in this paper. One laboratory session was also dedicated to the height estimation,followed by crude measurement, of a tall building on campus. Students actively participated inthese exercises. We are hoping to continue to strengthen our coverage on estimation throughoutthe curricula with the goal of equipping our students for this important

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The process of identifying and validating the ISU Competencies also confirmed our contentionthat engineering experiential education programs, such as our cooperative education andinternships, present the best place to directly observe and measure students developing anddemonstrating competencies while engaged in the practice of engineering at the professionallevel. For most of the ISU Competencies, stakeholders ranked the engineering workplace as theplace to best develop and demonstrate the Competencies, followed by coop/internships. Theclassroom consistently ranked last. Other settings included laboratories, professional activities

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

Page 10.136.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinterface device (hid) compliant. There is no support for force feedback steering wheelsyet. TORCS provides a built in tool for calibrating joysticks/steering wheels.5. ClosingIn a recent article on the role of computing in education, G.V. Wilson writes [8]: Good computing practice is just as important to physical scientists and engineers today as good laboratory practice and sound mathematics. My experience has been that it takes a few months to teach a physicist, geologist, or biochemist enough to make a big difference in her

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

Page 10.1371.3 Pipelined 5ns 13 65ns Table 3: Sample Performance Results for Previous Example Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs can be seen, a Pipelined implementation combines the short clock cycle length of the multi-cycle implementation with the low number of clock cycles found with the single-cycleimplementation. At least in the absence of branch and data hazards, the pipelinedimplementation represents the best of both worlds.Performance MeasurementThe goal of the laboratory

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

Teams. American Pyschologist, 1990: p. 120-133. Page 10.1426.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical InformationBRIAN J. SAUSER holds a B.S. from Texas A&M University in Agriculture Development with an emphasis inHorticulture Technology, a M.S. from Rutgers University in Bioresource Engineering, and a Ph.D. from StevensInstitute of Technology in Technology Management. He has worked in government, industry, and academia formore than 10 years as both a researcher/engineer and director of programs. He has managed an applied research anddevelopment laboratory in life

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

University andhas over 28 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, agovernment laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee. Page 9.71.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

Technologywhere she teaches design, controls, graphics, and mechanical measurements. Her BS and MS are from theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

departments and a topic well discussedin the 2001 ASEE conference2,3. The curriculum of the course was built around fourpillars: drawing, design, communication and teamwork.The Engineering Design LabThe University of Calgary invested 1.28 million dollars as a start up contribution to thedesign and construction of four technologically advanced laboratories for the first yeardesign course. The four linked labs circle around a central broadcast booth; instructorscan broadcast to all labs simultaneously and are able to monitor lab activities throughfeedback screens. The four labs accommodate 150 students at one time; students work atlab tables in teams of four. Each lab has a document camera, a projection screen, acomputer terminal for every two students

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

designed to improve the interactive learning environment that students have inlearning material science in their undergraduate studies. Various courses such as metalprocessing, strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, principles of engineering materials,materials laboratory, senior lab, senior design, and metallic corrosion require a goodunderstanding of engineering science and materials for the success of the undergraduate students.The goal would be to enhance and improve the student's materials & engineering sciencebackground and knowledge and also their computer skills using the web in an interactive user-friendly environment. Rather than simply reading

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

/Answers (1 point) • ORAL GRADE (12 points) Page 9.958.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education MINI DESIGN PROJECT 2 DESIGN OF A COMMERCIAL-SCALE CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR A GOURMET-QUALITY FOOD DISH • BACKGROUND: Batch processes in batch reactors (such as pots & pans, ovens, etc.) are used for preparing most gourmet foods in a food laboratory (kitchen). The

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

for relevance and incorporated into existing or new courses. This processwith faculty externships will provide an ongoing opportunity for the RCNGM faculty to staycurrent. NSF’s ATE program has already invested in the development and implementation of sixonline technology courses in photonics and telecommunications (NSF 0101654). The results ofthese piloted courses have demonstrated the need for a blended delivery of online courses, usingon-site laboratories to augment online delivery of thereby. In addition, the followingcurriculum elements were identified as being critical to the development of a Next GenerationManufacturing focus within the COT: (1) quality control courses; (2) Information Technology;(3) Precision

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

. degree from Sardar Patel University in 1970; and M.S. in 1972, Ph.D. in 1975, both inMechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University. He is a Professor in the Division of EngineeringTechnology at WSU. He has served as Chair of the Division from 1987 to 2003. His prior appointments includeState University of New York at Binghamton, Tuskegee University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and IBM.DEBORAH DIAEKDr. Daiek is the Associate Dean of Academic and Assessment Services in Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI. Shealso serves as the chair of General Education and president of SCAAPP. She received her B.S. degree in Educationfrom Western Michigan University in 1978, M.A. degree in Community College Education from Western MichiganUniversity in 1986

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

. Page 9.564.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringSecond, we can form exchange programs, where students can spend a term or summer awayfrom their home university, taking courses in other universities, working at a public agency orprivate company, or conducting research in a national laboratory. These programs can bemodeled upon successful existing programs in government agencies, many of which havesystems in place that can actually pay for this type of programs. Students can also work inpractical field projects that are useful to agencies, use available data for projects, and/orparticipate in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

exam and the computer basics with a vision course would bethe crucial determining factor for getting the student at the right starting point in the degreeprogram.References1. Urban, Joseph E., Reyes, Maria A., and Anderson-Rowland, Mary R., “Minority Engineering Program ComputerBasics With a Vision,” Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston,Massachusetts, November 6-9, 2002, pp. S3C-1 – S3C-5.2. Comerford, Richard, “Handhelds Duke It Out For the Internet,” IEEE Spectrum, Volume, 37, Number 8, August2000, pp. 35-41.3. Sutherland, Karen T., “Undergraduate Robotics on a Shoestring,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume, 15, No. 6,November / December 2000, pp. 28-31.4. Horswill, Ian, “A Laboratory Course in Behavior

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

technology, aviation (including professional pilot), and business. Theacademic programs are designed to directly prepare participants for the world of work,and the programs are very application oriented and laboratory intensive. KSU-Salinastudents learn by doing. Over the last five years, the college has placed 96% of itsgraduates, and each year several employers actively recruit on campus.With the size of the campus, the diversity of study, and the large number of activeentrepreneurs in the local community, this campus provides the ideal environment forimplementation of a broad-based entrepreneurial transformation. With very little fanfare,this transformation has already begun and will continue to be implemented, untilentrepreneurship permeates

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

. 120 EECS 18 Lego Line-Follower Build a functioning remote car using Lego, then program it using Lego Mindstorm's Graphical User Interface. 122 BMEN 20 Totally Hip Replacement Modeling Use laboratory instruments and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software to reverse-engineer a simple biomedical implant to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

theresearch laboratories. Payroll and consumable supply expenses were funded through the TIDESbudget. Target enrollment for any given lab session was two or three freshmen. Composition,duration, and requirements (reports, etc.) for each lab topic were left to the discretion of the labinstructor (with suggestion and input from us).In the first iteration, graduate students submitted ideas for mini-labs which were approved firstby the TIDES instructors and then by the faculty members controlling whatever equipment & labspace was needed. Documentation for each lab included a mini-syllabus and pre-lab documentposted to the website so that students could decide which labs to select

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

if” tool. Excel also includes tools for data visualization such as graphs and charts.Excel has many additional built in tools, such as Solver, Goal Seek, and the ability to add TrendLines. Excel can also be augmented with VBA Macros, a programming tool. A screen shot ofExcel’s basic interface is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 – Screen Shot of Excel InterfaceMatlab was originally developed as a Matrix Laboratory, and matrices are still a large part of itsarchitecture. Matlab’s interface is command driven and includes Workspace variables and aCommand History. It has numerous built in functions for basic and advanced computations andsupports 2-D line plots and as well as 3-D surface plots. Matlab’s capabilities can be

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

, as well as, lessons learned for future improvements are presented and discussed.I. IntroductionThe Technology Department at NIU offers three undergraduate programs: Electrical EngineeringTechnology (EET), Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET), and Industrial Technology(IT). All technology students are required to take Electricity and Electronics Fundamentals(TECH175) and its companion Laboratory (TECH175A) that can be viewed at the department’sweb page http://www.ceet.niu.edu/depts/tech/academic/classes/class. For some students, this ispossibly their only opportunity to learn basic electricity skills before graduation. Due to theirmultidisciplinary nature, these courses have traditionally been a challenge to teach, andtherefore

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

delivery methods (lecture,laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web-basedcourse supplement to the complete delivery of courses online4,5. The choices that faculty mayconsider range from simply posting a syllabus to creating web-based content to enhanceclassroom instruction to exclusive online delivery.While the primary focus of web-based delivery has been in the development of standalone web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the web tosupplement and enhance classroom instruction, creating “hybrid courses”1,4,6. The author haschosen to supplement a traditional face-to-face on-campus CAD (Computer Aided Design)course with an online supplement using WebCT. These

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

problem”, sulfur / CO poisoning of electrodes 8. Research and development efforts in fuel cells 9. Fuel cell system economics and marketA good introductory book on fuel cells (that will be recommended, but not required) hasbeen written by Larminie and Dicks19. Supporting laboratory experiments will also bedeveloped in future years. These experiments can easily be integrated into the chemicalengineering curriculum.What Went Right / What Went WrongWorking with a large number of undergraduate students on a research project is achallenging task. This section will highlight some of the things that were a success andsome of the things that could be improved upon.Student evaluations of the instructor were excellent. This may be because the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Cliver; Mike Eastman

ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Robots and Programming ChallengesThe second main activity was to program the robots to negotiate the campus models asefficiently as possible. The robot selected for this endeavor was the JM IQ-Bug from JoinMaxDigital Technology. Each team of four was given a robot and used a laboratory computer tolearn about programming and controlling the robot. Programming was performed via asomewhat cumbersome graphical user interface, and the instruction manual provided with therobot was very minimal. This required that a simple instruction manual be developed with someexamples of programs that the students could readily use. The robot was able to respond toseveral forms of stimulus from a variety of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

Over September 11 Remarks” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, A12.36. G. Yasuda. (1994). "Regents Board Member Seeks to Abolish Tenure" The Orlando Sentinel, May 31, B1.BiographyRoli Varma is an associate professor of public administration at the University of New Mexico. She alsoteaches a Technology in Society course for the School of Engineering. Her research interests andpublications include restructuring of corporate R&D laboratories, women and minorities in informationtechnology, Asian scientists and engineers in the United States, and engineering ethics. She can be reachedat varma@mgt.unm.edu Page 9.1295.8

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Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Darnell Austin

ofscientific notebook. A good example is the instruction page at the website Scientific NotebookCompany9 which provides instructions on keeping journals, including laboratory and engineeringnotebooks. Page 9.861.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringStudent’s Final Report Journaling should not take the place of a final report, which could be written or oral.Capstone projects need final report which should include elements gleaned from the studentjournals. Possibly the greatest value of the journal