Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

Page 8.495.6hands-on activities excited the majority of the students, resulting in significant interest in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe Lost in the Amazon curricular unit. Students commented that they had “never donefancy experiments” and were wondering how “engineering can be fun?” This excitementtowards the hands-on projects was maintained throughout implementation, and createdinitial student interest in the required worksheets. By having fun with Lost in the Amazon,students seemingly changed from their conception that engineering “can’t be exciting,” asexemplified when students

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

the certification program.Table 1 shows a matrix of courses appropriate for introducing sustainable engineeringconcepts, as identified by the committee. We targeted required courses for insertion ofmaterials related to sustainable engineering. The idea was to ensure that students would becontinuously exposed to the concepts of sustainable engineering without interfering withtheir degree plans or discounting the contents of the courses. A packet containingsustainable engineering concept examples and modules has been distributed to theinstructors of the targeted courses. Instructors of the targeted courses are expected torevise the contents of their courses to incorporate the sustainable engineering concepts inclass examples, course projects

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

concept of an industrial-scalecrawfish peeling machine. The graduate students and undergraduates worked together toemploy a structured design methodology in a course which satisfies many of the ABET2000 objectives and gives the students a window on the process of developing intellectualproperty and bringing it to the marketplace.I. IntroductionThe motivation behind this design effort is a direct result of Louisiana losing its positionas the leading producer of crawfish tailmeat. While thousands of people still work in thestate to produce millions of pounds of tailmeat, recent years have seen a less expensiveChinese product being imported into the U.S. resulting in a loss of market share and jobsfor Louisiana companies. This project seeks to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Jenny Golder; Lawrence Genalo

move backward for 5 seconds. Thestudents are shown how to compile and download the program to their robotic device (inthis case, the car), and then execute the program on their cars. Next students are asked tochange the code to have the car move forward some specified distance. It should be notedthat the given program specifies time, but not distance or speed. The students are left todiscover the relation among the three variables. This exercise is the beginning of mostfield experiences for grade 3 and up.The students quickly progress to using bumper and light sensors, traversing mazes andfollowing (or avoiding) dark lines, and many other projects that become increasingly lessdirected and more creative and open-ended. Two examples of the more

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Noble; Karen Schmahl

presentation format. Schmahl and Noblesuggested that the poster format facilitates creation of “better products, fosters student interactionso students learn from each other and enables students to develop some planning and teamskills.”2 To assess the effectiveness of this approach in the engineering economy course, surveyswere administered to students.The CaseThe final case focused on evaluation of after-tax cash flows of multiple alternatives of equipmentpurchases with uncertainty of projected production volumes. A modified version of “TheCutting Edge” case from Cases in Engineering Economy was used with permission of Ted. G.Eschenbach.3 In the case, means of adding production capacity must be evaluated in order to bid

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Walker; Chang Kim; Caye Drapcho

solving a 1D steady state heat transfer problem. This technique provides amore accurate solution with the estimation of error. The concept of error reduction through meshrefinement was also introduced. Each student was required to conduct an independent semesterproject incorporating mathematical modeling and simulation of a biological engineeringproblem. One of these projects, fixed bed ion exchange modeling, is discussed in this paper.The outputs from these class projects illustrate that the students gained experience in using FEMto solve dynamic biological engineering problems.Introduction Computer aided modeling of new products has allowed industry to quickly optimizedesign while spending less time and money on physical prototypes

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

week on Tuesdays for the firstsix weeks of class. Grading is satisfactory/unsatisfactory, and is based primarily on attendanceand the completion of one or two small projects. Section sizes vary from as small as 8 to as largeas 25, with an average class size of about 15 students. Their major determines the section ofEngineering 100 students register for; thus, Engineering 100 students are in class with peers fromtheir department for the first time--their colleagues and classmates over the next 4 years. Effortis also made to match ELAs from a particular department with sections corresponding to thatdepartment. With incoming classes of approximately 1,100 engineering students annually, thereare about 60 sections of engineering 100 taught by

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen

for engineering practice. They mustalso have (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (h) a broad education inorder to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context; (i) arecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning; (j) a knowledge ofcontemporary issues. Criterion 3 coverage will be addressed in the next section.Much of the above content Criteria are met by some physics degree programs; indeed, other thanthe senior design project and the specialized engineering requirements, Criterion 4 was met bythe Physics major at UW-P. The professional engineering science and design requirements aremet in the EP major in part by a 15-credit Professional Engineering

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

bookintroduced the “tall, thin designer” paradigm – the idea that VLSI systems designersneeded expertise at several different levels of abstraction, starting with CMOS layout,devices physics, transistor and parasitic characteristics, and working up through thecircuit design, logic design, and architectural levels. While the last 20 years have broughtdramatic changes in technology, CAD tools, and design methods, this bottom-upapproach to teaching has proven to be effective and remains in use today.At the same time, Mead and Conway recognized the value of fabricating and testingstudent design projects, and pioneered the use of multi-project chips to fabricate chipprototypes in a cost-effective way. Again, this approach has proven to be popular

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Hickman; Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

electronictexts but allow students to question a faculty when reviewing the material. There is also interestin the materials at the community college level.In this paper we report on the development effort and the difficulties involved, both in facultybuy-in and in course development. We have run a small experiment using the materials forengineering economics and our results are included.1. IntroductionIn Spring 1998, the General Electric Foundation (GE) granted $450,000 to the University ofArizona (UofA), College of Engineering and Mines (COEM). The project covered three mainareas: 1. The development of 1-credit web based modules on various topics of engineering science. 2. The development of materials in systems/statistical

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Droms; John Jantzi; Daniel Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

Area Network Routers Two Cisco 2500 WAN routersIP Telephony Cisco IP Phone Starter Kit Page 7.197.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 1: Network System Laboratory Configuration.The fourteen computers also are connected to three experimental (private) network systems:100MB/sec, gigabit Ethernet and wireless. Each computer has an interface and connection toeach network, and is be able to support instruction and research projects involving any of

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mooney

curricula areinquiry-based and open ended; activities are designed to facilitate concept understandingand immerse students in the engineering design experience. The AE curriculum units aredesigned to more effectively teach required math and/or science concepts in the sameamount of time traditionally devoted to these concepts. Further, the curriculum units arespecifically developed for existing middle grade math or science classes to reach allstudents during the regular school day and to enable adoption in any school withoutmodifications to the infrastructure, e.g., creation of new classes, after school program,etc. This paper chronicles the curriculum development process used by the AE program,focusing on the project participants, effective

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rui Shen; Maruthi Dantu; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

(IDDM).BG Tracker 3 is an application designed to help patients manage diabetes. This programaccepts point data from a blood glucose curve and outputs a graph of the data to the screen.D-Net Blood Glucose Monitoring 4 allows patients to create personal blood glucosemonitoring database on-line. Patients can enter daily blood glucose values, get graphicfeedback of daily blood glucose values over a number of days, and check the values theyhave entered in database.The Diabetes Research online glucometer project 5 is a free resource designed to assist in theself-management of diabetes.The MyDiabetes Web site 6 has a personal "Daily Diary" for tracking blood glucose levels,medication usage, diet, exercise and care schedule.The Diabetic Daily Log

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Horton; Chad Kidder; Mark Yeary; Rainer Fink

: Device Orientation with Wireline and Wireless InterconnectsII. Literature ReviewKalia, et. al. discuss the efficient practices for increasing the Bluetooth capacity which pertinent toour project 1. These span from the modes of operation for slaves in a piconet to how to bestmanipulate these modes to achieve 255 slaves per single master in a piconet to the intricacies ofparking and unparking slaves. Since our project stems from the premise of tracking how manyslaves are in a particular piconet at a time (and channeling information accordingly), these areareas of interest to our task at hand.The premise of their discussion is that by manipulating between active and parked modes, thenumber of slaves participating in a piconet can be increased from

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

lifelong learning, the vital importance of interpersonal skills, the intrigues of corporate politics, the centrality of teamwork in engineering, the existential pleasures of completed projects, the varieties of motivation for engineering practitioners, the frequent career path transition of engineers from focusing primarily on technical work to focusing on management, the unrelenting pressures on personal life. • The Civilized Engineer by Samuel Florman 2. This book is a collection of essays in which Florman, a practicing engineer, explores the origins of engineering, engineering ethics, conflicting loyalties, women in engineering, engineering curricula, the existential pleasures of engineering

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda A Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

% Students > "Agree" F09 Sp10 F10 n=160 n=91 n=155Mock Interview DayPrepared for co-ops, internships or FT employment 84.4% 94.4% 89.7%Interviewer gave useful feedback 81.9% 85.4% 83.2%Found it valuable 86.3% 96.6% 85.8%Sponsored Senior Design ProgramThe sponsored Senior Design Program aligns teams of students to work on company sponsoredtechnical projects. The companies provide a technical contact for the team to work with. Thiscontact insures that the team is working

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian D. Koehler, North Carolina State University

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International

experiencing living abroad,observing international workplaces, and performing research about international workplacecommunication. In addition to readings and lectures, students use the resources of London as anextended classroom. Following the existing ENG 331 curriculum and emphasizing theinternationalization of students’ current and future workplaces, students complete the typicalassignments for ENG 331: business memo/email, proposal, progress report, instructions, resumeand letter, presentation, and website or project. All these assignments are directly related to theirobservations and interactions in London and the site visits at engineering / technologyworkplaces

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Anthony J. Petrosino Jr, University of Texas, Austin ; Theresa A. Dobbs, UTeachEngineering and University of Texas, Austin; Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering; Jill A. Marshall, University of Texas

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering Cheryl Farmer is the founding Program Manager and Project Director of UTeachEngineering. Funded through a five-year, $12.5 million Math and Science Partnership grant from the National Science Foun- dation, UTeachEngineering offers a well-designed, well-rounded, design-based high school engineering course that can be implemented at low cost in virtually any setting, as well as a variety of professional de- velopment programs for pre-service and in-service teachers who want to add engineering to their teaching portfolio. Prior to co-founding UTeachEngineering, Farmer spent several years managing programs for both K-12 and higher education. Before entering higher education, Farmer

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Iqbal Omar P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Amit Verma, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David W. Stollberg P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3735: A MODULAR APPROACH FOR TEACHING A FIRST UN-DERGRADUATE COURSE IN NANOELECTRONICSDr. Syed Iqbal Omar P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville Syed Iqbal Omar is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. The areas of his current research interests are computational nanotechnology and spintronics.Prof. Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Reza Nekovei is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Texas A&M Univer- sity, Kingsville. He has many years of experience in developing graduate and undergraduate programs. Nekovei is currently co-PI for two NSF projects related to teaching by design research and develop

Conference Session

Engineering Management Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Managers, and Campus Recruiters charged withsourcing and acquiring baccalaureate-level technical talent and the potential role of EngineeringTechnologists in meeting this need.IntroductionDuring the 2010/2011 academic year, the author participated in a collaborative project betweenRose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Ivy Tech Community College, Terre Haute campus.The opportunity sought to provide engineering and technology students with project experiencefocused on a new product development process that is truly reflective of the 21st centuryworkplace. A primary goal of the project was to provide students with an educational experiencethat mirrored their potential work environment in terms of technical rigor, managerialresponsibility, and

Conference Session

Middle School Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cher C. Hendricks, Georgia Institute of Technology; Barbara Burks Fasse Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Barbara Burks Fasse is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives, specifically problem-based and project-based learning, in classrooms, instructional labs, and undergraduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007, following 10 years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By Design problem-based learning curriculum development and research project. She also conducted an NSF-funded ethnographic study of learning in a problem-driven, project-based bio-robotics research lab at Georgia Tech. In addition to her duties in BME, she

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

thought that doctoralprograms would well prepare them to design experiments, communicate in writing, givepresentations, review literature, write peer reviewed papers, write reports, learn independentlyand work independently. Over 40% of the undergraduate respondents believed that doctoralprograms would prepare them well in the following areas: innovation, finding problems, designcomputational studies, follow environmental regulations, work across disciplines, createproposals, work in teams and manage multiple projects. Approximately 12% of undergraduateparticipants felt that doctoral programs would not prepare them for marketing products/processesand identifying customer needs, but most participants indicated some degree of preparation inthese

Conference Session

Development of Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Bret Alan Davis

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Manufacturing

, Interna- tional Journal of Management Science, OMEGA, and others (more than 100 refereed publications). He has been serving as a principle investigator of several research projects funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an Editor of the Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Mr. Bret Alan Davis Page 25.1136.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Robotics and Mechatronics-based Solar Cell Roughness Measurement LaboratoryAbstractThis paper discusses the design and implementation of a mechatronics-based solar

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

of this paper is to present the resultsof a student assessment of a specific web-assisted teaching methodology that has been used toteach twelve engineering courses.The MethodThis particular method grew out of the one of the author’s familiarity with the use of PowerPointbriefing charts in a business environment. In business, engineers, project managers, andorganization managers routinely communicate information to employees, customers, and peers ina briefing format. The ability to pull together technical briefings on very short notice is animportant practical skill. It is becoming standard practice in industry for briefing charts,calculations, drawings, and computer models to be stored in intranet-based databases that can beaccessed by

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

that topics could be presented and used immediately.Early in the semester the students were given detailed tutorials that guided them towards theknowledge needed to build the workcell. In the last half of the semester the project was assignedso that they could integrate their knowledge into one working system. There are several benefits tothis pedagogical approach. First, the students gain an awareness of the issues involved in thearchitecture and design of an Integrated Manufacturing System. Second, the use of a databasemakes them acutely aware of the structure of data and events in an integrated system. Third, thestudents gain a firsthand knowledge of the details that would be hidden if a Graphical User Inter-face based package were used

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjiv Gokhale; Hadi Yamin

individual and group projects, experiential learning and off-campus service-learning, all of which form important ingredients of the newly proposed course in constructiontechnology.V. New Approach to the CNT 105-Introduction to Construction Technology CourseThe primary objective of this three-credit, lab-based course is to expose the first year students, tothe world of construction through classroom lectures; field trips, videos, and guest speakers.Additionally, the course emphasizes communication, critical thinking, and problem solving.An important aspect of this course is engaging the students in common, community basedresponsibility. In this case, construction of a home for the Habitat for Humanity of GreaterIndianapolis. The selection of the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaile Griffore; Craig Somerton

experience.To investigate other trends, the learning assessment ratings were plotted against the teachingevaluation rating for specific groups of courses. The only service course taught in the departmentis thermodynamics, ME 201. In Figure 5 we see that there is a similar relationship as that for allrequired mechanical engineering courses, including the trends noted at both the higher end andlower end of the teaching evaluation rating scale. The learning assessment rating data for juniorlevel courses in mechanical engineering are presented in Figure 6. Again the trends areconsistent, though it should be noted that the two courses represented by the data points at theupper end of the ratings are project intensive courses, which have been recognized as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Lau; Merredith Portsmore; Scott McNamara; Chris Rogers

LabVIEW. Thelimitations of the RCX (3 inputs and 3 outputs) do provide some restrictions in terms of robotcapabilities. However, the benefit of rapid prototyping and ease of programming usingROBOLAB permits students to address a wider range of issues and topics. The freshmenrobotics course allows students to get excited about engineering and learn about robotics with noprevious building or programming experience. Freshmen were able to use the icon basedsoftware with little or no instruction and build and program robots in their dorm rooms.Freshmen projects ranged from robotic animals to a search and rescue for the lost “Mars PolarLander”. At the senior level, students were able to address distributive intelligence issues withmultiple robots

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Goddard

, these students then explain actualengineering design projects and the field of engineering to students who can be motivated andrecruited to the engineering profession.I. BackgroundAn electronic search was performed at the web page “Search the Journal Engineering EducationDatabase” which allows searching for articles in the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education.The search was executed using the search words “high school” and yielded 128 “hits”.Amazingly, in the entire 128 hits not a single paper had the term “high school” in the title. Iassert that this is amazing because of the number of my colleagues who complain about thequality and quantity of students coming into our programs, how ill prepared these students are,and how uninformed they are

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eli Fromm; Jack McGourty

members of ourNational Visiting Committee as well as to our Dean’s Council.The above process generated a final list of 39 quantitative metrics (See Appendix A) that theinstitutions have been using to track the institutionalization of curricular and pedagogicalinnovations. Once each objective had its set of related metrics, the schools initiated the datacollection phase of the project. This included the gathering of current data as well as informationsince the inception of the Coalition program. Types of data collected included mostly archivalinformation in such areas as enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. Other data was derivedfrom program records and faculty recollection regarding participation rates and use oftechnology in the