Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

typical wireless broadcasting scenario where thereare multi-path channels (i.e. the transmitted signals arrive at the receiver using variouspaths of different length due to signal reflection from barrier materials). It becomes veryhard to extract the original information because of multiple versions of signal interferewith each other. Wide applications of OFDM in the European market as the Digital AudioBroadcasting (DAB) standard, in ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) standard andWireless Local Area Networks and the outlines of using OFDM in the 5.8-GHz band asin IEEE 802.11a, has stimulated the search for the optical realization of such technique.The ISI has become an issue in today’s DWDM system. However, the amplitude onlymodulation

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Schinnel Small; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Pamela Leigh-Mack

students construct meaning. An important aspect ofacquiring and integrating declarative knowledge is constructing meaning. Students draw uponprior knowledge and then link it to new knowledge during the declarative knowledge integrationprocess. Most note taking research has been directed at understanding the roles of encoding andexternal storage. Encoding serves to increase the learner’s attention and external storage servesto improve memory retention4. We use the Tablet PC and specialized note taking software tofacilitate the three minute pause technique and summarizing5. This allows the student to shiftfrom listening to reflecting and talking. The pause exercise is done in an active learningenvironment and serves as a formative assessment for the

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” Session #1649in this program reflect the world of work that the Verizon employees encounter. Besides using aninnovative curriculum, this program places a heavy emphasis on employee soft skills. Integratedwithin the curriculum are numerous projects and assignments designed to increase the student’scommunication skills, leadership qualities, problem solving ability, and other soft skills.VIII. ConclusionWhat about today’s electronics engineering technology teaching fraternity? Will they be quick toembrace change? I think the answer to that question is, most likely not

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

peer-to-peer instruction. The PMT students will receive training in teaching strategies and methodsand the role of actively engaging peers. The process, training and methods used will bedocumented and will form the basis for dissemination to other courses, including but not limitedto the Mechanics I and Mechanics II courses mentioned above. The project is seen as a catalystfor change whereby “gate-keeper” courses become new “gate-ways” to success. It is planned toincorporate a variety of pedagogical approaches – strategies and approaches that have provensuccessful in many engineering education environments8. These include collaborative learningarrangements, team teaching and an emphasis on reflective observation, abstractconceptualization and

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

means of assessing performance of transportation Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsystems. While these metrics are familiar to planners, engineers, policy makers and evencitizens, many of them were developed more than 50 years ago, do not necessarily reflect localconditions and are not extensively validated. The use of these simple qualitative (A-F) measuresbegan in response to the lack of data available to create “actual” quantitative metrics.It has been said that “if you cannot tell how your system performed yesterday, you cannot hopeto manage your system today.”1 With this in mind

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Baughn

, McGraw HillBiographicalProfessor James W. Baughn is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.S.) and of Stanford University(M.S. and PhD) in Mechanical Engineering. He spent eight years in the Aerospace Industry and has served as afaculty member at the University of California, Davis since 1973. He is a Fellow of the American Society ofMechanical Engineering, a recipient of the UCDavis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and theauthor of numerous publications. He is currently on assignment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs as the2004-2005 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Aeronautics.DisclaimerThe views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Air Force

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

of 300 km. The payloadfor the spacecraft is designed with 8.5 m x 55 m reflector, 0.3 m x 50 m phased array and 8 mfocal length. The peak payload power is 5 kW and 200 minutes operations in orbit. As shown in Fig. 7, two reflector configurations were evaluated for reflector structures.In the large circular reflector, only part of the reflector area is used for a signal reflection. It wassimple to build and deploy, but its mass was too high and therefore was not selected. Figure 8shows the selected deployed configuration. It is a three-axis-stabilized spacecraft with controlmoment gyros (CMGs) as actuators. Because of the large inertia of the spacecraft, CMGs arenecessary to provide fast slew maneuvers. It is a 12 satellite

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

, 13, and 14 in Appendix B) asked participants to listcomprehension strategies that they could apply when faced with difficultiescomprehending their textbooks, lecture notes, and CD materials. Table 2 summarizes thefrequencies of participants’ responses. Overall, participants suggested somewhat morestrategies for textbook difficulties, perhaps reflecting greater familiarity and facility with Page 10.1169.8those materials. One noteworthy difference was in the Make Notes strategy, whichparticipants suggested frequently for textbook difficulties but not for CD materials, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

emphasized the need for clear communications among engineers, a themethat is reflected in recommendations from the engineers (next theme). One engineer Page 10.598.7summarized this theme of unanticipated problems quite well: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education For a project that size, it's my experience that you're always going to have things come up that you don't anticipate.8. Engineers rarely recommend more engineering in engineering curricula. Mostengineers felt well prepared for core

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

possible that Year 3 students spend more time reflecting on college and career choices thanthe younger students in Years 1 and 2.Since the origin of the TexPREP Program in 1979, over 20,000 students have completed at leastone summer component at one of the eleven sites around the State of Texas9. Of the 11,033former participants who are of college age, 5,380 responded to a survey in 2002. This surveyrevealed that: • 99.9% graduated from high school. • 88% are college students (2,661) or university graduates (2,059). • 76% of the college graduates are members of minority groups. • 51% of the college graduates earned degrees in science, mathematics or engineering. • 71% of the science, mathematics and engineering are members of

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

leadership inventory assesses five leadership practices with ratings by the individual aswell as several observers. Comparisons between Self rating and those of the Observers indicatedthat participants, as a group, rated themselves lower on Model the way, Inspire a shared vision,and Challenge the process. In contrast, participants rated themselves higher on average thanobservers on Encourage the heart, and Enable others to act. This last finding suggests that thesewomen faculty in STEM disciplines perceive their interpersonal leadership to be more positiveor effective than do others. Participants reported that reflections such as these were interestingand helpful.Overall, participants’ evaluation of the leadership institute was very positive

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

quantitative data, male engineering students were much more likelyto use the male pronouns to describe their fictional engineer, or take on the first person in theirnarrative. Females often used they or “he/she” as pronouns. Interestingly, one female reflectedthe male engineering stereotype in her response to Situation 1, “Read newspaper with wife attable, get ready for work, feel like it is just another day.” This particular students feelings aboutengineering work were reflected as well in Situation 2 “Cubicle, meetings, bored, lookingforward to the time to leave, sick of upper management” Those feelings of hating the job werecommon among the responses for the engineering students, but nonexistent for the educationmajors.DiscussionThere is a need for

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

in 2002 and thecombined organization’s official name has become ABET, Inc. A new Computing AccreditationCommission (CAC) encompassed the accreditation activities of CSAB. Concurrently, but for Page 10.222.21 The seven Founder Societies, by their present names, are: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical &Petroleum Engineers; AIChE; ASCE; ASME; IEEE; NCEES; and ASEE.Weese, Jones, and Kerns, ASEE & ABET Collaboration Page 3unrelated reasons, the RAC was renamed the Applied Science Accreditation Commission(ASAC) to more accurately reflect the nature of its programs.Assessment of ASEE Capabilities

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

engineers fromtraditional disciplines such as electrical or mechanical engineering. The public is often skepticalof the effect of high costs of development of new biomedical devices and products on the cost ofhealth care.The knowledge domain of biotechnology presents perhaps the greatest public and legislativeeducational and ethical challenges of all the domains of bioengineering. Ignorance andapprehension are widespread. In a recent public poll in Germany, for example, 43 percent ofrespondents believed that people normally do not possess genes—that genes are incompletelyunderstood, potentially harmful agents introduced during risky treatments. Similar beliefs can befound among the U.S. public, reflective of the general fear that the biomedical

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Beaudin; Kathleen Pineau

transform?The symbolic and algebraic computation capabilities of these calculators led us to question andchange the what and the how we teach mathematics. What do we want our students to learn?What is important? What should they be able to do manually? Once students have understood aconcept, and the subject at-hand can benefit from it, long and tedious manual calculations can beleft to the calculator. Students can spend more time developing problem-solving skills byspending less time doing manual calculations. Our teaching goals are shifting from theperformance of mathematical operations to the use of mathematical concepts.III. ASSESSMENTOur assessment tools are undergoing changes that reflect the fact that some manual calculationsare replaced by

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duggan

a better idea of the composition of biosolids generated by aPOTW.For a number of reasons, including the shortage of landfill capacity, the desire to recycle, governmentregulations, and pure economics, there has been an increasing desire to recycle biosolids via land -applications. This practice isn’t new. In fact, farmers have been fertilizing their fields with cow (or otheranimal) manure for as long as there have been farms. However the practice of land -application (even onfarms) is becoming increasingly regulated due to concerns of contamination to not only food products, butalso air, soil and water resources. As you will learn during your research, the Clean Water Amendmentsvery much reflect changes in how we manage biosolids due to

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

the measurements. This evaluation is similar to a reflective memo, which has been suggested as the second step of the assessment process18.This assessment was completed at VCU following the Fall 2000 term. The evaluations show thatthe course goals were met satisfactorily. Student comments show that this course is betterreceived than the traditional chemistry course, and that the students feel the self-directedlaboratory experiments enabled them to understand the course material better than students whohad not performed them.Incorporation of Active LearningThe course discussed in this paper requires that the students perform at a higher level than thetraditional introductory science course. Active learning which leads to increased

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationwith the “spirit” of the design and will be reflected in the esthetics of the physical deviceproduced and in their reports, e.g., logos (both written and oral). Groups are allowed tochange names as their designs and understanding evolves.The “work session” in the fourth week is free time for the groups to begin work on theirprojects. Each group is also introduced to its mentor (an undergraduate who hascompleted the course) and to the small shop available for the construction of prototypes.The shop provides a variety of hand tools, a place to work, but only a few power tools.The mentors

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Krishnan; Janet Twomey; Vis Madhavan; Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman

following: reflects broad research 5 elements make a contribution. team member. The final product and application of critical thinking There are few technical problems, was shaped by all members and skills; shows notable insight or and none of a serious nature. represents something that would understanding of the topic; not have been possible to compels the audience’s attention. accomplish working alone. The VR model is complete, but Students worked together as a team The project has a clear goal related does not have any innovative use on all

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

. The manual unifies the curriculum and makes the course easier to teach andadminister, especially for new instructors. It was recently modified to reflect changes in thecourse as we moved to an open-source assembler.Laboratory programming assignments are given electronically, typically once per week, over thecourse of ten weeks. Students spend four hours in scheduled sessions per week, but are given theoption of working in the laboratory during other times as well. Assignments vary in difficultyand complexity, from basic exercises in efficiency in MIPS to programming intricate routines tohandle external and internal interrupts with the Microkits. Each assignment also presentsstudents with opportunities to excel by electively choosing to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Corinne Darvennes; Sally Pardue

operation. Theprocess was to edit the PPT lecture to reflect whatever changes needed, convert it to HTMLusing PPT commands, remove the text version of the slides, zip the files, upload to WebCT,make a folder to house the unzipped file, unzip the slides into the new folder, go to the ContentModule, add a HTML link, select the first slide, add an HTML link, select the second slide, etc.,check titles of the slides showing in the Content Module (title comes from the upper title of theslide in the PPT), indent slides appropriately, and finally update the WebCT Content Module.With the HTML version of the lecture slides posted, the ensuing semesters adjustments are fun.Links from each Content page can be easily added. For example, adding learning

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Gaughran

Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIt may be said that design is at the core of all facets of engineering. There are manydefinitions of design but Blumrich's, in Deiter 19911 description would appear to fitwell the design activities of most engineers; 'Design establishes and defines solutions toand pertinent structures for problems not solved before, or new solutions to problemswhich have previously been solved in a different way'. This definition shows thatdesign reflects the creative and sometimes the innovative activities of the engineer. Italso gives quite a broad brief to the engineer. Regardless of how one definesengineering design it is a creative activity and the essence of creativity

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Rothberg; Phil Barker; Aruna Palipana; Fiona Lamb

are asked more or less similar questions and the data from these questions yield acomparison of the resources used. Such an approach is most frequently applied to evaluatingsoftware aspects which vary least with context (such as navigability and other human-computer interaction issues as in the case of WAMMI) or using similar software in similarcontexts (such as virtual learning environments in distance learning).Input from engineering academics in the project team strongly suggested that the informationon how a particular piece of software was used in a real context would be extremely valuable.This reflects current thinking in evaluation that the context of use of learning resources iscritically important to its efficacy. The range of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alain Desrochers

in a module, users are guided towards the proper group of functions according to the typeof task they are undertaking. In that respect, task classification reflects, in part, the evolution ofthe model (creation, refinement, transformation, ..). Task classification was performed using areverse engineering approach and is therefore not necessarily unique, entailing that variousinterpretation would be equally valid at this level. For instance, the chamfer function has beenassociated to shape refinement rather than creation and the split function to shape transformationrather than creation.The task level can also be seen as an intermediate level between modules and functions whichare both entities precisely defined in Catia and each having their

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

York, Inc., 1996, pp. 21-34.7. Mehalik, Matthew M., Larry G. Richards, and Michael E. Gorman, “Turning Students into Inventors and Entrepreneurs: The Continuing Evolution of a Course on Invention and Design,” Proceedings of the 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.8. Burrows, V. A., B. McNeill, N. F. Hubble, and L. Bellamy, “Statistical Evidence for Enhanced Learning of Content through Reflective Journal Writing,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, Oct. 2001, pp. 661-668.9. Korgel, B. A., “Nurturing Faculty-Student Dialogue, Deep Learning and Creativity through Journal Writing Exercises, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 91, no. 1, Jan. 2002, pp. 139-146.10. Sobek, II, Durward

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education commitment must be made on the part of both the College and individual departmental programs to not only keep the flow of student data going but also to use that information for the continuous improvement of educational practices. The ME example provided suggests that administrative structures (two key committees) be set up to monitor selected key educational activities: the achievement of expected learning outcomes (at the course and program levels), and the quality of “input” as reflected by syllabi content and instructor pedagogical skills. These committees systematically The Director of the Undergraduate Program has

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

, individualassessment scores may indicate a particular topic that reflects poor performance. In addition, thesurvey may show especially low ratings on the built in question "Examples are clear andeffective" indicating the examples in that topic need revision. All this information from eachmeasurement will be available to the instructor, but triangulation readily reveals a problem andeven this first implementation of the analysis tool can provide specific feedback forimprovement.The next version, which is currently under development, will include many more evaluationfunctions. The assessment tool will be integrated with the assignments and grading section ofthe website, allowing graded assignments to be included in the evaluation. This will be done tothe level

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson

motivation,summarized by Huitt (2001), help create an understanding of the roles each participant must playin a successful distance education model. The following definitions of motivation were gleaned from a variety of psychology textbooks and reflect the general consensus that motivation is an internal state or condition (sometimes described as a need, desire, or want) that serves to activate or energize behavior and give it direction (see Kleinginna and Kleinginna, 1981a). · internal state or condition that activates behavior and gives it direction; · desire or want that energizes and directs goal-oriented behavior; · influence of needs and desires on the intensity and direction of

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Ali Satter; John Pumwa

emphasize thermal, fluid and materials sciences,mechanics, control and design. The overall yearly failure rate in the post-FYE program variedfrom 20% to 30%. The failure rate was again the highest in analytical subjects.Students who successfully completed a four-year engineering program graduated with abachelor degree in the ‘pass’ grade; there is no degree classification such as first class, secondclass, etc. But, a department might recommend an award of a ‘degree with merit’ to a studentwho does consistently well over the four-year engineering program. Actual performance of astudent is reflected in the transcript where a letter grades A, B, C, etc. is shown for eachsubject.ObservationsEngineering departments have expressed concern over the

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

effective pedagogy. Eachlearning module allows the student to learn through experience in a “real world” environment.Learning modules are developed around explicit instructional objectives to encourage higher levellearning. Students learn collaboratively. Each learning module is designed to better reach active,reflective, global, visual, and inductive learning styles. The proposed project is different fromtraditional engineering education and from disjoint attempts to address needed changes throughclass content changes and integrating design classes. ALIVE should meet its goal of systemsengineering, information technology, and soft skill development. In addition, the ALIVE systemhelps students better understand the interrelationships between