Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

scope and depth of the subject,but typical modules are designed for two to four hours of contact instruction and severalhours of study and/or research outside of class. All or only specified parts of eachmodule can be assigned by instructors as needed to accommodate course integration andscheduling.Many activities involve team strategies that are practiced with other students to simulatework styles and job activities assigned by companies that employ technicians. Additionalteaching and learning resources are also provided to support adoption of the modules.These include strategies for assisting teachers: integration plan for integrating moduleactivities within extant courses (by excluding or decreasing outdated topics) and pointson how to use

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

the IndustrialTechnology Program, School of Technology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois. He is the chair of ACIsub-committee on Polymer Concrete Structural Design and Analysis, and chair of the Construction Focus Group ofthe National Association of Industrial Technology (NAIT). Dr. Wahby offered special technologically focused Page 9.729.6study abroad courses in China and in Egypt. He is planning another course in Brazil. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim Saherwala; Mohammed Haque

-based 3-D animations and walkthrough model ofdesign and construction processes for formworks for concrete construction. All the techniquesthat were used in this research employed a generic programming architecture, which wasdiscipline independent and could be adapted to any other similar domain. These visualizationtechniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching in the classroom but also an effective self-directed tool for open learning via the web.Introduction and BackgroundIn the design of reinforced concrete structure, formwork design plays a crucial role. It is veryimportant for a designer to consider economy while planning the formwork for the reinforcedconcrete structure. Efficient and economical use of the material of which the forms

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

familiarize youwith the format, style, and emphasis expected in a review. You can even select the object youwant to review! Then, while you prepare your review, you can also plan how you could use thislearning object to enhance a course you teach.Even if you are not ready to review, join MERLOT, use what you find there, and add materialthat you find or develop. MERLOT’s engineering catalog is at a critical point. With a littlemore “grass roots” participation, it is likely to grow and increase in value to engineeringeducators rapidly.Biographical InformationValerie Young is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering at OhioUniversity, and a member of the MERLOT editorial board. She has a strong interest in

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

different measures are in use, most of which rely onself-reporting by the student. These include: a) Use of internet or library for self-directed learning; b) Additional degrees or certifications; c) Additional classes (e.g., continuing education) or in-house training; d) Subscriptions to newspapers, journals or magazines; e) Memberships in professional organizations; f) Participation in research/publication; g) Attending conferences; and h) Tutoring students.One institution requires that students develop a life-long learning plan as an assignment in theirundergraduate engineering seminar class. These plans are then evaluated by faculty.Ethics was specifically mentioned by a few respondents, two of whom mentioned that they

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Urbina; Hirak Patangia

economy when technological innovation is central to wealth creation and long-term economicgrowth. Post ‘nine eleven’ era demands that more American citizens are attracted to STEM education toinsure safety and security of the nation. For high school students to be motivated to enter engineering, theteaching and content of high school mathematics must be refocused. One approach to mitigate thissituation is to involve high school mathematics and science teachers in engineering education with thegoal that they will be able to use engineering applications in their mathematics curriculum to motivatestudents into the field of engineering and technology.The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) received a NSF planning grant under Bridges

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neha Goel; Johnathan King; Ellen Chen; Danny Le; Alene Harris; Ragu Vijaykumar; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

Northwestern University who has been engaged in the ArtificialLimb outreach project since its inception. She has received a Ford Grant to work on this project and manages theassessment portion of the module. She has also actively recruited new students. She plans to attend medical schoolafter she graduates. Page 10.582.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

: National Academy Press, 1999. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education3. Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center (VaNTH) AnnualReport. Volume 1- Strategic Plan. Website URL [http://www.vanth.org], 2002.4. Jansen, ED, Brophy, SP, McKenna, A, Mahadevan-Jansen, A and Walsh, JT. Implementationand Assessment of Challenge-Based Instruction in a Biomedical Optics Course. Proceedings ofthe American Society for Engineering Education (CD-ROM DEStech Publications) Session1309: 8 pages, 2003.5. Roselli, RJ and Brophy, SP. Redesigning a Biomechanics Course Using Challenge

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

it was part of the advisor's larger research program. Thismeans that if one plans to focus only on the area of their thesis, they will be competing with theiradvisor, who already has established a research program for funding and recognition. Furthercollaboration with the advisor may be one way to do this, but the research community may notrecognize this as the individual effort of the recently graduated Ph.D.Palmer chose to pursue a different area of research and took a post-doctoral position in RPI'sCenter for Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing. His Ph.D. thesis focused ongrain growth of thin films and was not related to the focus of the post-doctoral position. As apost-doc, he was able to establish his own program

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

materials, structural engineering, transportation, environmental engineering, andwater resources engineering. The primary objective of the material is to expose high schoolstudents to the great opportunities the profession of civil engineering has to offer. The program has been a success, with one of the participants enrolling in the CivilEngineering Program at TAMUK following the institute in the fall of 2002, three of theparticipants from 2002 enrolling in the fall of 2003 and one from the summer of 2003 enrollingin the fall of 2004. This is particularly important because these students had plans to enter adifferent discipline and were not aware of any engineering careers! Furthermore, all but one ofthe remaining participants from 2002 have

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

Outline for Designing a Hybrid First Year Language Course with WebCT. Alabama: Auburn University, 2003.4. Salzmann, C., et al. Requirements for Real-Time Laboratory Experimentation over the Internet. Accessed 12/2004. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/10/f6/e9.pdf.5. Spires, Michele S., Janet Jaeger. A Survey of the Literature on Ways to Use Web-based and Internet Instruction Most Effectively: Curriculum and Program Planning. Virginia: Old Dominion University, 2002.BiographyHEATHER L. COOPER, P.E.Heather L. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University, where shehas taught for four years in thermal science and machinery diagnostics. Her areas

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Page 9.243.1ACT score of 22 (or a SAT score of 1030). Students usually sign up for one of the ET majors Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand start to take the technical courses in their sophomore year. Those who plan to major inengineering technology can take the freshman-level Introduction to Engineering Technology.The three-credit course provides an introduction to the engineering world with a technologist’sperspective to provide the skills and knowledge required to pursue an engineering technologycareer8. A 20-questions survey instrument was used to measure the attitude and

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

institutions, NJCATE, will continue to organize conferences around topics of particular interest to the engineering technology community, highlighting the work of ATE projects. Specific topics might include recruitment of students from underrepresented populations, planning and management of successful ATE projects, and integrating core disciplines into technical instruction. • Summer institutes – provide members of the engineering technology education community, as well as secondary school educators, with hands-on, in-depth experience in adapting curricula, materials and concepts developed by ATE engineering technology projects • Workshops and seminars – on emerging technologies and technical

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

astronauticsoption, minimizing the amount of new mathematics and notation helps to keep the student fromgetting lost in the mathematics and unable to see the physical interpretation of the spacecraftdynamics. Since a course in controls is not a pre-requisite to the course, I have chosen toconcentrate on single rigid body dynamics and covering this subject in some detail. With thestudy of rigid body dynamics, the students can learn about the spin-stabilized spacecraft behaviorunder a variety of conditions and can understand how to plan any maneuver required, such asnutation damping, reorientation maneuvers, apogee or perigee boost maneuvers and spin changemaneuvers. In addition, stability conditions for rigid body and gravity gradient stabilization

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

affairs staff and Page 9.1319.2 student mentors. Each cohort will take two gateway classes together per semester during their freshman year. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education • Planning academic and social activities for each community within and outside the classroom. • Integrating problem-based learning, leadership development, and service learning into the courses freshmen take together. • Interacting with student mentors, who will

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

management program (EMP) needs assessment project report. Edmonton: Universityof Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Institute for Professional Development. (1999).17. Babcock, D.L., & Sachet, D.R. Continuing education for Engineering Management. In, L.P. Grayson & J.MBiedenbach, (eds.), 1986 World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education (pp. 228 - 232). May 7-9, 1986,Lake Buena Vista, Florida. New York: IEEE Education Society (1986).18. Ferguson, C. The continuous professional development of engineers and flexible learning strategies.International Journal of Lifelong Education, 17 (3), 173-183 (1998).19. National Academy of Engineering. Focus on the future: A national action plan for career-long education forengineers. Washington, D.C

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

or a device are interrelated. Troubleshoot a piece of equipment through logical deduction. Analyze an engineering system to see how it works. Key Words: analyze, separate, subdivide, interconnect, distinguish, examine, inspect, question, contrastSynthesis Combine elements in a new way to create a new product. Combine ideas to create a new idea or concept. Devise a new experiment to obtain information. Relate knowledge from different areas. Key Words: synthesize, create, build, design, invent, devise, plan, organize, revise, manage, compose, formulateEvaluation

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

, and confidence that will facilitatetheir completing a Bachelor’s degree in engineering. We present here a description of theprogram and the results of the first run of the program during Summer 2003. Our plans for thesecond iteration in Summer 2004 are also outlined.The problem of recruitment and retention of students in engineering programs is widelyacknowledged and many solutions have been proposed. One solution that has been particularlysuccessful is the San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP), which was founded in1979 as an attempt to motivate middle school students to begin studying for careers in science,engineering, and technology. The PREP program has been so successful over the last 24 yearsthat it has been replicated at

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

localmaterial constraints and manufacturing capabilities. For business students, problems will focuson market analysis, financing models, and the development of business plans based on theproduct and the local community.DtM project mentors create and maintain our design challenge portfolios, and develop ourcollaborative network. The project mentor keeps the design challenge portfolio up to date byincorporating new resources and the progress made by student teams. The project mentorcoordinates the communication between student design teams and the collaborative designnetwork, connecting groups, relaying questions and broadcasting changes in the designspecifications or problem parameters. Finally, the project mentor connects promising studentprototypes

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

Chemical Sciences. National Research Council Report, National Academy Press, 73-81. 5. National Science Foundation. (2000). NSF GPRA Strategic Plan, FY 2001-2006. NSF Publication 0104. 6. Sabatini, D. A. (1997). “Teaching and research synergism: the undergraduate research experience,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 123(3) July 1997, 98-102. 7. National Science Foundation, “Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)”, NSF 00- 144 Program Announcement.Biogr aphical Infor mationSUBHI M. BAZLAMIT Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio NorthernUniversity. He is currently the director of the Pavement Management Center for Counties

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

Society for Engineering Education4. Future ImprovementsFrom the above, we can see that many problems were caused by the inaccessibility of thedatabase implementation course to undergraduate students. In the near future, we plan to proposeto push the contents of current CS643 to the undergraduate level and, consequently, reshape ourdatabase courses in the following way: CS343 or CS443: Introduction and database applications CS543: Database implementation CS643: Advanced topics in DBMSPlus seminar courses in database applications such as data warehousing and data mining.References: 1. Final Report of the Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Task Force on Computing Curricula 2001 for Computer Science, http

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Kowalski; Paul Santi

Exploration class at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and we have used the computerprogram for two years (2002-2003) in a Site Investigation class at the Colorado School of Mines,impacting over 140 students. Students have overwhelmingly supported the use of simulatedinvestigations, and they recognize the value of integrating their knowledge and applying it tosolve complex, open-ended problems. [1] As one of several methods to evaluate the program’s effectiveness, we created an open-ended assessment test to gauge an individual’s abilities to plan and carry out a site investigation.Because the test also requests information on educational background and work experience, it is

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

: Pre-College Educator Resources.Session 1532, ASEE proceedings, Montreal, Canada, 2002.4. Krupczak, J.J. and Green, C., The Perspective of Non-Engineers on Technological Literacy, Session 1387, ASEEproceedings, Charlotte, NC, 1999.BiographiesAHMAD SARFARAZ is a full time lecturer in the Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering andManagement at California State University, Northridge. He earned his Ph.D. degree are West Virginia University inIndustrial Engineering. His research concerns operations research, AHP, economic analysis, and lean manufacturing.At the University, he teaches facilities planning and design, engineering economic, operations research, andengineering statistics. Prior joining to California State University, he taught

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

Engineering and Technology Programs@ (Mark Thom).11Promotion and tenure: Professional advancement is another continuing issue for the engineeringtechnology community. For decades, engineering technologists in academia have grappled withthe appropriate standards for promotion and tenure, and for 17 years, the bibliography has listedarticles that are variations on a common theme, from John Goodlet=s 1986 AProposed Model forTenure and Promotion Criteria in Baccalaureate Engineering Technology Programs@3 to OnerYurtseven=s 2002 AEffective Use of Faculty Development Plan for Promotion and Tenure ofEngineering Technology Faculty.@12Accreditation: While ABET accreditation has remained a consistent concern over the years,nothing has ruffled technology (and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti

student, and felt that therewas a great contribution in planning and creating phases of the design. The capstone project discussed above further strengthened our commitment at the MEDept to provide opportunities for our students to appreciate creative designs from arts as well asother perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of multidisciplinary design techniques. It isvery likely that multidisciplinary design projects such as the one described above, will beincreasingly developed and implemented in institutions of higher learning across the country asmore art and engineering collaborations lead to creative design projects and valuable learningexperiences for students. Such design projects also have the potential to attract women

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

documented in Designing and Building File-Folder Bridges2 was modified for a sophomore-level applied probability and statistics course forcivil engineering students during the fall semester of the 2001-2002 academic year when theauthor was teaching at Valparaiso University.Learning ObjectivesBy the end of the project, students were expected to be able to:• Conduct experiments, collect and analyze data to develop empirically-based design models for structural members.• Design a model truss bridge to meet a set of design requirements.• Construct a model truss bridge, consistent with their set of plans and specifications.• Analyze and Assess the performance of their model truss bridge.• Explain how construction quality affects

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jones; John Hackworth

digital time-base circuits and/or gated counters in accordance with the planned project. 5. Design various state machines to meet prescribed specifications. 6. Develop a prototype model of a complete digital circuit to meet a set of prescribed specifications. 7. Develop the ability to maintain a legal engineering journal 8. Develop good technical reporting skills. The population base of this study consisted Course On-Campus Distanceof 3 DL sections (43 students) and 4 on-campus Objective Learningsections (68 students). In the results shown in the 1 76.4 88.1table to the right, note that the DL sections

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

and placed third in the competition, which we feel, is very goodconsidering a PhD candidate won the contest. Page 9.523.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn all, our experience with using a different processor has been very favorable. The easy of useand short learning curve of this particular processor were useful for quick projects. The lowoperating power allowed for more interesting portable applications in the projects. We plan tocontinue using a processor, other than the one used in

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Swan

, the plans to assess the student’s reaction to theproject once the poster presentation is completed.Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank his advisees for the Fall 2003 semester forworking on the project. The authors also thank the University College for Citizenshipand Public Service at Tufts University for supporting this effort.CHRISTOPHER W. SWANDr. Swan is the Chair and an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)department at Tufts University. His current interests are the use of service learning as pedagogy, reuse ofrecovered or recyclable materials, and environmental site remediation

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ligia Carvallo; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; Raluca Rosca

Page 9.413.5employees and maintain the continuity of the technical support. The project manager had also toProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education and ExpositionCopyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstress the good work practice of thoroughly documenting the thinking used in programming andthe organization of computer files.Future ImprovementsA first needed improvement is to devise and implement an assessment plan of the learningefficacy of the modules. Indeed, in its present form, the module content is scientifically soundand up-to-date, while the module presentation is graphically pleasant and bug-free. However,there was no formal assessment testing conduced on the module efficacy or on the