Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy Henk

began, adding valuable insights to classroom instruction. In contrast,when homework was solely assigned from the textbook, a less diligent student could simply turnin the answer, hoping the grader might overlook his or her lack of proper solution technique. Our goal is to develop a full set of traditional as well as innovative, conceptual problemsfor engineering thermodynamics. In 2006, we plan to submit these thermodynamics problems toMSU for broad dissemination. The LON-CAPA system is open source and is available to publicand private universities for a minimal licensing fee. Another goal is to expand evaluation of CAPA for thermodynamics instruction. Criteriaused for comparison will include the number of students completing

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert; Lisa Milkowski

rubric to assessprogram outcomes for continuous improvement.[1] The faculty at MSOE plan to apply thisapproach and to use their assessment results for student performance assessment and forcontinuous program improvement. Although the rubric presented by Blanchard is applied to Page 10.1408.1a course that has outcomes defined for a single semester course, the MSOE faculty believethat this process could be applicable to MSOE’s four-year design process. It is expected that Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthis

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

resource constraints,” and “Choreograph asquare dance routine given a description of available calls and timing constraints.” Neither ofthese tasks is obviously Electrical and Computer, Chemical, Industrial, or Mechanical, but bothtasks require engineering skills to complete. Page 10.562.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationMany different “model train layout” projects can be defined. My initial plan is to restrict studentsto just straight track (any length), a specific curve radius and arc

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

. REFERENCESBransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.Clouse, R.W. & Goodin T.L. (2005). Entrepreneurs in action!: Developing the Entrepreneurship Spirit. Nashville, TN: Forum for Entrepreneurship Education, Vanderbilt University.Clouse, R.W. (2003). Entrepreneurs in Action! Entrepreneurship Education: A Five-Year Report and Planning Paper. Nashville, TN: Forum for Entrepreneurship Education, Vanderbilt University, Technical Report.Clouse, R. W. (2002). Humor, creativity and entrepreneurship learning environments. Book of Abstracts, 14th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Stockman; Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

FridayMorning Session Track 1 Preparation for the presentationAfternoon Session Track 2 Project PresentationsThe use of undergraduate student teaching assistants was significantly increased duringthe 2003 program. The undergraduate students conducted a significant portion of theinstruction and participated in the curriculum design and planning. One undergraduatestudent co-authored an academic paper with the faculty participants and presented it in aposter session at an academic conference4.The final changes involved some curriculum refinements. In particular, the MacromediaFlash MX animation program was adopted for the Multimedia track as a replacement forthe digital

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

amechatronics class. Currently the tools are given to the students to freely experimentwith and they serve more as a secondary learning tool or reinforcement activity. Thetools are also used for demonstration of logic devices during lecture. There are plans touse these tools in a more structured learning exercise or tutorial, but this has yet to becompleted. Student qualitative comments indicate that they find these tools useful to helpthem understand the behavior of common digital logic devices. Whether used with anoverhead display and presented as part of a lecture, or given to students to use for theirown interactive exploration, these demonstrations one more tool available to quickly andeasily explain the behavior of digital logic circuits

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, incoming RS-232 characters are placed in a separate queue for processing, and areacted on if a valid packet is received within the timeout period. The system is capable of handlingsimultaneous DTMF and RS-232 commands by implementing a rst-started, rst-executed packethandling algorithm. The RS-232 port and internal arrangement of the DTMF decoder and switchbox is shown in Figure 4.3 A FEW APPLICATIONSAlthough not an all inclusive list, we have used, or plan to use, the DTMF decoder and powerswitch box for the following applications: 1. As described earlier, a voice/speaker recognition algorithm which has as its primary function Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Goldowitz

annular seal, and cement grout. The wellis finished off on subsequent days with a formed-in-place concrete surface completion and alocking cap. In short, the only difference between these wells and a professionally installedmonitoring well is that our boreholes are dug by hand. A complete soil borehole log/wellcompletion report for one of the completed wells is included as Figure 1.Testing After developing the wells students plan and perform hydrologic tests to allowcalculation of groundwater flow characteristics. Students used Darcy’s law in the Q=KAdh/dlform for groundwater discharge in ft3/day, and in the q=(Kdh/dl)/nform for groundwater velocity in ft/day, where Q=discharge A

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janak Dave; Jamiel Trimble; Thomas Boronkay

at the University ofCincinnati. He obtained his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla. Hehas presented papers at ASEE Annual Conferences, ASME International Congress, and several Internationalconferences and conducted CAD/CAM/CAE workshops nationally and internationally. He has held variouspositions in EDG and DEED divisions of ASEE, and local and national committees of ASMEJamiel Trimble received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the University ofCincinnati in June 2003. He had been working as an EMT with the Cincinnati fire department throughout his collegecareer. He continues to work there while finalizing his future plans

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Osman Akan; Fredrick McKenzie; Sushil Chaturvedi

(venturimeter) has been introduced in the undergraduate thermo-fluidslaboratory course as a practice tool. Student participation thus far has been voluntary, but thereare plans to make it mandatory to increase student involvement.Bibliography 1. Strong, R. W., and Harmon, E. G., “Online Graduate Degrees. A Review of Three Internet-Based Master’s Degree Offerings,” American J. of Distance Education, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997, pp. 58-70. 2. Whittington, C. D., Niall Schacter, “Building and Testing a Virtual University,” Computes Education, Vol. 30, Nos. 1, 2, 1998, pp. 41-47. 3. Bengiamin, N. N., et al., “The Development of an Undergraduate Distance Learning Degree for Industry – A University/Industry Collaboration,” Journal of Engineering Education

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Lucas; Chul Kim

authoring system based on wirelesstechnology. The database is a framework in which exam questions and student assessment dataare stored.Courses Selected for Adaptation and Implementation This project selected two of the construction courses in the Construction Technologyprogram at IUPUI to adapt the wireless technologies with plans to expand later into additionalcourses. The selected courses are: an introductory construction course titled Building Systemsand Materials (ART 165) and a sophomore level course titled Quantity Survey (CNT 280). Thecourses have a great potential for adapting wireless technology and serve as good representativesfor other department-wide courses because of their course contents and student populations. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

LOKESH JOSHI; James Sweeney; Edward Hall; Alyssa Panitch

cycled through two consecutive semester offerings in2004. This course has provided a structure and forum for interested faculty in ASU’s I.A. FultonSchool of Engineering to participate in a series of class meetings focused on a range of topics inmodern biology. In each of its first two offerings at ASU, the Bio-Basics short course hascapped out its enrollment at its desired maximum of forty participants per semester. This paperdescribes the objectives, design, implementation, as well as initial and ongoing assessment andevaluation of the Bio-Basics faculty short course.Short Course ObjectivesThe Fulton School at ASU has committed its strategic planning to a range of use-inspiredresearch themes (e.g. human health, communication systems

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tilo Winkler; Rudolph Mitchel; Jose Venegas

part of the VaNTH program we have incorporated the use of computational and realisticsimulations into the teaching of respiratory physiology at the Harvard-MIT Division of HealthSciences & Technology (HST). The project is part of the VaNTH-ERC strategic plan to developmodules for a systems physiology domain. In the program of a course on RespiratoryPhysiology, we hypothesized that a hands-on laboratory using simulation would challenge thestudent's knowledge, provide insight into complex interactions, and motivate the students toexpand the material taught during lectures. We also hypothesized that improved learning wouldbe achieved by using a realistic simulator based on a computer-controlled mannequin and acomputer simulator with a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

event showcased past vehicles and conceptsfor the 2005 competitions. Professors and students from every department stopped to talk withthe vehicle teams and watch a PowerPointpresentation about the 2005 concepts. A few bravestudents even took a ride in the human powered moonbuggy. The event generated considerable interest inthe vehicle projects, as well as a few recruits for boththe vehicle teams and the Engineering TechnologyDepartment.EVP has also hosted events featuring the vehicles andthe vehicle teams for local middle and high schools,which have encouraged many prospective collegestudents to pursue degrees in science and engineering.During the summer of 2005, EVP plans to host aseries of workshops for high school students andteachers who

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

raisingfunds for vehicle projects and generating interest among studentsin order to fill out the ranks of the vehicle teams.Additionally, it was decided that this organization would overseethe managerial aspects of the three concurrent vehicle projects,which included allocation of funds, tools, and floor space,project planning and scheduling, and resolution of any disputes Figure 3: 2005 Formula SAE designbetween vehicle projects.The founders of EVP quickly recognized the importance of seeking the aid of talentedindividuals from outside of the Engineering Technology (ET) Department2. Many of the EVPoffices are now filled by students with diverse academic and international backgrounds.The diversity of the program enhances the educational experience

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leijun Li; John Pan; Ismail Fidan

plan to use online teaching.Lately, many editorial and funding agencies have also started to initiate online review anddecision-making system. These systems have eased the burden on both reviewers and agencies.In this study, a survey was prepared and conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the onlinetools for faculty needs in authors’ institutions and some other United States universities. Thecurrent online tool practices are presented and survey findings are summarized in this paper.1. IntroductionNowadays faculty members spend most of their time in front of computers and rely on theelectronic communication via Internet for their daily work. The use of technology, in particularthe Internet, has changed and will continue to change

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

traditionallyincorporated into the student assessment. These new activities provide upper class students withan opportunity to share with their classmates, underclassmen, and professors some of their co-oprelated experiences and provide them a formal setting in which to practice presentation andcommunications skills.This paper includes details for all phases of the co-op poster and presentation assignment anddelivery. Planning aspects are discussed along with details of the instructions provided tostudents. Photographs are included to illustrate typical posters, presentation arrangements andvarious other meeting activities.IntroductionComputer Engineering Technology majors at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) arerequired to complete five quarters of co

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

very encouragingresults.II. SEATEC HistoryThe SEATEC grant is a continuation of an earlier two-year NSF-funded grant entitled“Tennessee Exemplary Faculty for Advanced Technology Education, TEFATE.” The purpose ofthe coalition was to develop a group of faculty who would provide leadership in curriculumdevelopment and delivery in emerging technologies. The main outcomes of the TEFATE grantinclude:1. The development of twenty-five work-based case studies in the areas of telecommunication, computer networking, and network administration.2. A comprehensive Internship Guide that helps faculty in other institutions in planning, applying, and using industrial internship experiences effectively in the classroom.3. A comprehensive Faculty

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan ElKishky

state or regional board of education on the other hand. Moreover,trimming undergraduate engineering curricula to match the requirements of a B.S or B.A inliberal arts will have its negative effects on plans to increase course offerings or to enhancespecialization in electrical engineering. Page 7.610.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationTables 1 and 2 show the number of electrical engineering faculty engaged in electric powerteaching at some of the schools compiled by the IEEE Electric

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Kauser Jahan

. Heat up measuring spoon by dipping into water bath containing melted wax at front of room. 7. Add _______ tsp of wax to oil mixture and stir until well-mixed with stirrer. 8. Take out a small amount of your lip product mixture and allow it to cool. Check for consistency and color. Make any modifications necessary. If adding pigment, you must first disperse it in a small amount of oil (step 1), or your lipstick will be lumpy. 9. Have Rowan students help you pour your finished lip product into the tins provided. Marketing Decide on a theme for your marketing plan. How much will you have to charge for each container

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

seventeen (17) associated apparatuses are beingdeveloped under this plan. Upon completion of the design, fabrication and full testing of theseproposed experiments, a comprehensive information package may be generated for nationaldissemination. As a package, they may lay the foundation for a starting laboratory course orselectively, each of them may be added to the existing archives of experiments at many undergraduateengineering programs.Enthusiastic undergraduate students have been participating in the implementation processes ofresearch, design and development necessary for materializing all components of the ModelLaboratory. Their understanding of group dynamics and appreciation for cost-effective and superiordesigns has been enhanced.Partial

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Madison University. Shepreviously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at James Madison University, Dean of theCollege of Arts and Letters at Southwest Missouri State University, Special Assistant to the President forStrategic Planning at University of Delaware, and Department Chair of Modern Languages at ClevelandState University. Page 7.223.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 6

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Gomez

: http://www.filterfuge.com Filterfuge is a company that has developed a machine that is similar to acentrifuge, removing oil from used oil filters.2. URL: http://www.eq.state.ut.us The state of Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality’s division of solid andhazardous waste.3. URL: http://www.recycleoil.org The American Petroleum Institute’s website on “used motor oil collection andrecycling.4. URL: www.bts.gov/btsprod/nts US Department of Transportation and the Bureau of transportation statistics.5. Graphics source is through WTRG Economics. WTRG Economics provides data, analysis, planning and forecastservices primarily for the energy and petrochemical industries. James L. Williams, WTRG Economics P.O. Box 250London, Arkansas 72847 Phone

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Xue; Robin Qiu

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationservices. Beyond these administration services a well-developed e-learning or e-educationsystem should also have the following functions in order to meet the current needs ofprofessional training schools/centers. From staff perspectives: • Real-time profile (e.g., course expectations, work schedules, work experience, and backgrounds) for individual trainee should be able to be viewed; • Best offers (e.g., training plan, course availability, teaching schedules, and prices, and financial aids, etc.) based on what is known about a particular trainee should be able to be

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

facilities on the OSU Campus. In August of 2001, the Women inEngineering program hosted a half day workshop for 20 students (10 of them female) wherestudents designed cameras for children and redesigned a paper clip. Evaluations are given to allparticipants and students are given an opportunity to provide their mailing address for furtherinformation and for tracking purposes.Retention Page 7.187.3Typically, fewer than half of the students who enter college with plans to become engineerscomplete an engineering degree. The number of young women choosing engineering as a majoris small, and it is important to do all that is possible to encourage those who

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger; Renata Engel

available as instruments that blend with the lecturer's knowledge andexperience to excite and inspire the learner. The excitement of education is the bestincentive for the learner. The instructor is the only component of an educational tool kitthat can demonstrate and infuse that attribute into a student.Finally, the lecture is still the only vehicle that responds to unpredicted kinks in alearning situation with maximum efficiency. During a lecture, the instructor can changethe pace, mode and style of learning as the situation demands. The lecturer can Page 7.1318.4manipulate the situation from planned chaos to quiet contemplation. The lecture

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Bichara; Raj Chowdhury

experienceoperating in an environment using the world wide web as the sole delivery mode, makes itpossible to incorporate hardware type courses with a meaningful practical design focus.Not withstanding some minor adjustments to the course calendar and related scheduled activities,the delivery of the course with the planned laboratory setup has proven to be successful thus far.Considering a first time offering during the spring 2000 semester, it is safe to say that the coursedelivered in this mode is meeting its objectives. While there are no comparatives to illustratevariance in student achievements compared to an in-person class instruction, student success asmeasured by their semester grade and through the evaluation of their course project, support

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Hines; Belle Upadhyaya

Page 7.409.5course and the varied background of students who are enrolled. The laboratory provides an Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationopportunity for students to understand and appreciate the role played by condition-basedmaintenance technologies in increasing manufacturing productivity and quality. Plans areunderway to enhance the scope of the laboratory by incorporating additional Internet access tomachinery data acquisition and control.AcknowledgmentsThe development of the Maintenance Engineering Laboratory was supported by NSF-CRCDgrant number 9700654 with the Maintenance and Reliability

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Kuznetsov

lessons veryvaluable for understanding the subject and learning how to apply theory to problem solving. Bibliographic Information1. Kuznetsov, H. (1996, April) “ Innovative Multimedia Instruction and Sophisticated Problem SolvingExercise and Testing in Engineering Statics and Structural Planning”, Journal "Computer Applications inEngineering Education", Volume 4, number 1, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.2. Kuznetsov, H. (1996, March) “Development and Integration of Interactive Computer -Judged Problem -Solving Software in Statics and Mechanics of Materials Courses”, Proceedings of 1996 Spring conference ofthe Illinois-Indiana ASEE section at Bradley University, Peoria, IL.3. Kuznetsov, H. (1994, June) “Computer

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Grady

, showing interrelationships distinguish, examine, experiment, identify, inventory, justify, organize, present, question, resolve, select, separate, test Synthesis - bringing together Alter, argue, arrange, assemble, change, collect, combine, compose, parts of knowledge to form a construct, create, derive, design, develop, discuss, expand, extend, whole and solve a problem formulate, generalize, manage, modify, organize, plan, prepare, propose, rearrange, recombine, reconstruct, regroup, relate, restate, reorder, set up, summarize, synthesize, write Evaluation - making Agree, appraise, argue, assess, assume