Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

mechanics.This course is well positioned to demonstrate the connections between solid and fluid mechanics,as well as the larger mathematical issues shared by both fields, to students who have not yettaken courses in fluid mechanics and/or strength of materials. The context and foundationprovided by this course are available to students as they specialize (by choosing electives, byselecting career paths, or by going to graduate school) in either solid or fluid mechanics, orspecialize in the connections themselves by returning to a deeper study of the overarching field ofcontinuum mechanics.Over four academic years, we have had success in introducing this subject at such an early pointin the curriculum. Such a course could replace statics and first

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

venue.An example of a project completed by a recent graduate is given to support this thesis.Foundational NeedsStudents, at all levels, acquire concepts more easily by putting in a sufficient amount of time inthe art of practice. This idea may seem trivial, but many experts have said that continued practiceis a major contributor to being successful in any field. Students can be made proficient in this artif they are required to present technical ideas in professionally prepared reports.Industrial experience has proven that communication skills will be the largest contributor toenhancing a student’s technical career and advancement. Instilling this concept into studentsearly on should be a top priority. In order for students to prepare properly

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

they are not at the beginning of their careers, they may have invested wisely and donot feel that salary is as important as it once was. Further, improved flexibility and/or less stressmay now be very important. But each individual’s situation is unique and a decision can be madefor a wide range of reasons. The point here is that the experienced new faculty may be lookingmore for intrinsic rewards then extrinsic (remuneration) rewards.Table 1 contains a synopsis of the primary differences between industry and academia across alarge number of attributes. The higher the attribute in the table, roughly the greater thedifference. So, mission is at the top. In industry, it is very clear why you are there and that is tomake money for the company. At

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

delivered. In the product-to-market sense, they represent the documentation generally developed for the principal gates of a traditional stage-gate system, and are relevant to what entrepreneurs must consider, formally or informally, as they bring their new products to market. There are two caveats: 1) The senior design sequence of courses are core courses and must be taken by all undergraduate engineering students, regardless of their career interests or abilities and 2) Even on entrepreneurial teams, not all team members are intending to follow an entrepreneurial path after graduation The authors observe that the teams and

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

maintaining course projects in an engineering curriculum. In treating acourse as a targeted product market domain we have been able to apply the same techniques usedin software product line development to course development. At Arizona State University we are currently developing a concentration track in embeddedsystems1. As part of the curriculum we are creating a course in Embedded Systems Engineering £ This research supported in part by NSF Experimental and Integrative Activities Grant EIA-0122600. Ý This author supported in part by NSF CAREER Grant CCR-0133956. Þ Contact Author. Page 8.1237.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

classes. Due to theemphasis on using computational software, students will become familiar with numerical andmathematical tools and will be able to use them for their careers in engineering as well as otherclasses. Finally, because of the freedom in learning and variety of examples and learningopportunities, we will see more conceptual thinking rather than manipulation to get the answers.All in all, we believe students will become more satisfied with their EM education and becomebetter engineers for it.5.4. General areas of concernMany instructors and programs are not comfortable with this method of teaching and, if not doneright, with a large-scale perspective it will not be very useful. Most instructors confusemathematical rigor with

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

IGVC on a yearlybasis. The relevancy of the IGVC challenges orients participating students toward careers in theunmanned systems technology area. Page 8.760.8The Society of Automotive Engineers' Interest in the IGVCProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe SAE, as a supporter of the automotive industry, is primarily concerned withautomotive vehicles such as passenger cars, trucks, busses, and off-road vehicles, aswell as the features that can enhance their use. Safety is a major concern

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

muchneeded to confront these problems. An alternative to the damaging effects of monocultureis intercropping.A number of solutions can be implemented in order to combine different areas of interestfor a common goal. Engineering advances, through the use of even the most basicformulas, may brighten our socioecological future with a confident sense of economics.It is highly important that current engineering students are introduced to the methods ofagricultural and biological engineering that are described in this paper. The world’spopulation grows rapidly while its resources deplete just as quickly. If engineeringstudents are introduced to innovative methods of agricultural and biological engineeringearly on, some may decide to pursue a career in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

(CSM) offers a design-oriented,interdisciplinary, accredited non-traditional undergraduate program in engineering withspecialization in a branch of civil, electrical, environmental, or mechanical engineering. In theDivision, we have a tradition of innovation with respect to interdisciplinary curriculum, a Page 9.616.1young and dynamic faculty (currently five NSF Career awardees), and relative freedom from Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringState control on credit allocations. This provides us with

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

understanding of and competence in goal setting, personal time management, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. Page 9.624.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” In addition to the preceding, professional development can, include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

of the engineering workforce, we must look to the elementary and secondarygrades.Though much attention has justifiably been focused on elementary and secondary students’proficiency in math and science, there is also a compelling need to increase their awareness ofengineering as a career path and their interest in engineering as an academic program of study.In responding to these challenges, we must also address the common student misperception thatengineering is appropriate only for the “technically elite.”4There is no single best answer to this challenge. In the absence of a well-coordinated nationalprogram, engineers and educators have responded with a variety of creative grass-rootsapproaches.5,6 We propose another such approach

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

Page 9.397.3all researchers come to a consensus. The next to last step was to pilot test the rubric with data. In Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationorder to examine how well the rubric captured the data, we selected two students for preliminaryevaluation. One of the selected students was a male and the other one was a female. We analyzedtheir data using the scoring rubric. As a result of this evaluation, we added two subcategoriesunder the transfer to the classroom category, engineering as a career and critical perspectives.The final rubric included 46 specific categories for the six

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

’ perspective.The Academic Pathways Study draws on previous research on how students learn, as well aswhat factors influence attrition in science, math and engineering majors. However, this studyextends previous research in a number of fundamental ways: Page 9.1133.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 1) It is a longitudinal study, following the same students from freshman through junior years, and other students in career transition into engineering practice. 2) It is specific to engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

. His major isIndustrial Education with a minor in Construction. He has also completed coursework towards a Master of Scienceand Technology degree, from the same institution, and will graduate in June 2003. Mr. Wiley is a former trainer,with the 20-20 Group, of sales force automation software and currently Program Development Manager for theAssociation for Facilities Engineering (http://www.afe.org). In addition, he is a member of the Golden Key NationalHonor Society and is presently working on a draft of his first book entitled, the Soul of Business. During hisundergraduate college career, he was elected to the Scholar, Dean and Honors lists at Northern Kentucky University.His Honors appointment came while working full time with a local

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

and frequently from one continent to another. As a result,the trend towards smaller, more independent collaborative development teams over the last twodecades of modern engineering practice has rapidly evolved into international collaborativeteaming. Any recent engineering graduate can expect to work, at some point in his or her career,on teams with members from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds, geographicallydistributed across several international locations.Although international programs for engineering students have had some success, their impacton engineering education as a whole has remained curiously limited and peripheral; the numberof student participants remains relatively small. Even the relatively successful

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bebis; Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

helped them with the basic course contentwhich was one of our main goals. Future plans also include working more with communitycollege instructors and assessing their requirements.Computer vision systems are already becoming commonplace, and vision technology will soonbe applied across a broad range of business and consumer products. This means that there will bestrong industry demand for computer vision scientists and engineers, for people who understandcomputer vision technology and know how to apply it in real-world problems. As a result of ourintegrating computer vision research experiences throughout our curriculum, many students mayconsider pursuing careers in computer vision. Likewise, the use of the computer vision modulesby community

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

Session #3454 Program Evaluation Vision Goals Components Mechanisms § Coordina te with Iacocca To develop a pre Institute to lay ground work o Document the num ber of college outreach for programs applications, participants program for high- § Implement a Career in CAP and eventual quality Awareness Programs (CAP

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Crowe; Sally Schwartz; Mary Marrs; Luis Occeña; Jose Zayas-Castro; Douglas Moesel; Cathleen Burns; Bin Wu

programs to inspire, train, andcoach new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT.”Although coming from different paths and environments, these successful endeavors are drivenby some key fundamental objectives: · stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in education and research related to manufacturing enterprises, · conduct interdisciplinary teaching/research activities at all levels, · provide a real/hands-on learning/research environment, · insure strong industrial participation, · make available this scenario as early as possible in the careers of young, promising engineering, science, and business students

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

parameters of the mechanismwere tested and adjusted before the final design was submitted for rapid prototyping. Page 8.1325.10 Figure 5: Virtual model of single cylinder engine and rapid prototyped model Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents continue to remember ME444 throughout their careers and in specific work situationswhen their work benefits from their learning. They even bring their parents to the school to showoff their project creations. It creates a relationship of the students to the school and

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

. Its mission is “To educate, train, and inspire the Corpsof Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values ofDuty, Honor, Country; professional growth throughout a career as an officer in the United StatesArmy; and a lifetime of selfless service to the nation.”1 There are approximately 4,000 students called cadets at the USMA. The USMA annuallyscreens approximately 10,000 applicants for grades, athletics, extra-curricular activities, andphysical fitness. Applicants must also receive a nomination from one of their state’s congressmen.This lengthy process results in about 1,300 cadets being admitted to the USMA each year,however, the graduating class size is typically less than 1000 by the end

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. Page 8.236.7“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education” • Professional development can, in addition to the preceding, include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the profession, considering self

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

physics. With the increased possibilities provided by the internet, many young peoplesaw themselves trying to cash in on their abilities to write web pages, rather than sufferingthrough a rigorous science curriculum. Now with the outbreak of peace and the threat of bio-terrorism, the biological and medical sciences are currently seen as promising careers. With theincreased power of modern calculators and computers, many students question the reasons forlearning algebra and calculus. All these reasons, and more, have caused faculty in physicsdepartments at smaller institutions to re-evaluate the direction of their programs. One approach that is being taken to maintain the relevance of the physics department is tochange the curriculum into a more

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

internet. • Get to know your new colleagues. • Stay in touch with friends who are on a parallel path. • Establish relationships with engineering faculty at other schools in the region.Long-range PlanningWith hopes of having a long, enjoyable career as a college professor, it is never too early to startplanning for the future. This section briefly covers a few ideas that might make academic lifeeasier down the road.Keep good records on your class notes! If an idea works well, make a note of it and plan to dosomething similar that next time you teach that class. If an idea doesn’t work well, make a noteof it and plan to improve it next time around. Discipline yourself to spend less than five minutesmaking these notes right after each class

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

Operations Laboratory that has begun during the 2000-2001academic year. A newly created Endowed Chair, the Linus Pauling Engineer, was hired fromindustry to identify and incorporate the highest priority professional practices to senior lab. Sheserves as “project director” for this class to help new graduates become immediately prepared forindustrial practice. Thus the unit operations lab provides students with the array of skills theywill need to perform effectively in industry. The ChE Unit Operations Laboratory inMicroelectronics Processing is targeted at undergraduate students who are interested in careers asprocess engineers in microelectronics and related industries. The students will both develop anin-depth understanding of the underlying

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

department 95.9 2.5 1.6Advice of Private Counselor 94.6 4.9 0.5As a class, half have ambitions of obtaining advanced degrees - 45.6% plan on getting a MS and24.3% plan on getting a doctorate; 3.6% are interested in medical school and 1.2% are interestedin law. However, not all are completely committed to engineering - 4.6% entered with a verygood chance of changing major field and 34.3 % with some chance of switching, suggesting thatretention may remain a problem. Likewise, 7.9% indicated there was a very good chance ofchanging their career choice and 39.5% felt there was some chance of a career change.Almost a fourth (22.4%) indicated there was a very good chance that

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Competitionshowing one of the multi-level apple orchard test courses described earlier in Section 3.1 isshown in Figure 1 below.Figure 1. The 2002 FEH Robot Competition.4. Lessons LearnedThe lessons learned during the offering of the robot design/build project for several years in theFEH program are summarized as observed successes and opportunities for improvement.4.1 Observed SuccessesParticipants in this first year FEH program are well prepared for success in their subsequentacademic career and are at a strong advantage when seeking co-op or internship job Page 8.553.10 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

engineering students to demonstrate what engineers do and what software and hardwaretools they use. Various experimental techniques are taught while design and construction skills aredeveloped within the context of a semester-long project. Engineering disciplines that may differfrom a student’s chosen major are introduced. The departmental goal is to provide a solidfoundation for success as students proceed in their educational careers. Critical to the overallsuccess of the course is the development of good technical communication skills, both oral andwritten. The students are required to submit written work each week. In addition, they are askedto prepare and deliver an oral presentation detailing their laboratory work

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

math and science-related careers. The Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) at theUniversity of Oklahoma was one of 24 projects selected for funding by the NSF GK-12 program Page 8.129.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationin 2001. The ATA utilizes a cross-curriculum design that combines the talents of engineering,science, and education professionals to devise new ways to teach math and science to secondarystudents. The ATA also seeks to reduce the fear and confusion surrounding new

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”science and math enrichment for minority and disadvantaged students in grades 4-12. SMILE’smission is to increase the number of minority and disadvantaged students who graduate from highschool qualified to go on to higher education and pursue careers in STEM professions. Theprogram functions as a "pipeline", taking students from 4th to 12th grades and ultimately into post-secondary education. SMILE conducts a year-round schedule of activities designed to providehands-on science experience, strengthen students' knowledge, and raise students' academic andcareer aspirations