Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Smith; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

CoP model to expand their own communities.IntroductionCalls for embracing more rigorous research in engineering education are emerging withincreasing frequency. For example, the Journal of Engineering Education is repositioning itselfas an archival journal for scholarly research in engineering education [1]. The journal nowprovides a forum for reporting on research that meets criteria such as those set forth by Diamondand Adam [2] and updated by Diamond [3]: 1. Requires a high level of discipline-related expertise 2. Is conducted in a scholarly manner with clear goals, adequate preparation, and appropriate methodology 3. Is appropriately and effectively documented and includes a reflective critique that addresses the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

, the students were surveyed to determine if the material was at theappropriate level, which activities were most valuable/useful, if certain activities appealed morefor women, and if certain activities appealed more to minorities. These survey results and moreare presented.1. IntroductionWhile it is well known that K-12 outreach programs are necessary to promote engineering1, it isdifficult to know if the program being offered is too advanced or too simple for the studentparticipants. Should high school students get more advanced projects and activities than middleschool students? Is it acceptable to use the same activities for both groups?It is also well known that more effective outreach needs to be focused on underrepresentedgroups for

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

Engineering EducationFigure 1: Graphs of the square function and a new piecewise defined performance function which is shallower thanthe parabola for values in the interval [-0.1, 0.1] and grows exponentially outside that interval.The neural networks are trained with backpropagation algorithms. In this process the derivativesof the network error with respect to network weights and biases can be computed. If theperformance function is the mean square error, the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is a fasttraining algorithm to minimize the network error. Replacing the performance function with adifferent performance function requires a different training algorithm such as a gradient descentwith an adaptive learning rate, implemented as traingdx in the

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Gerhart; Andrew Gerhart

Session 3133 Laboratory-Scale Steam Power Plant Study – Rankine CyclerTM Effectiveness as a Learning Tool and its Component Losses. Andrew L. Gerhart1, Philip M. Gerhart2 1 Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075 2 University of Evansville, Evansville, IN 47722AbstractThe Rankine Cycler™ steam turbine system, produced by Turbine Technologies, Ltd., is a table-top-sized working model of a fossil-fueled steam power plant. It is widely used by engineeringcolleges around the world.The objectives of this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

worked in a joint teamfor one semester to develop a tail-gate opening mechanism that could be used in a commerciallysold sports utility vehicle (SUV) manufactured in Alabama, USA; the project was selected by thestudent team. This team of four students from Auburn was part of a larger class of 19 cohorts inthe BET program. Page 10.1171.1 ************ Insert Table 1 about here************“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference.& Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”A comparison of overseas collaborative team programs (Table 1) There have been a

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bogue

traditional residential camp and how we attract girls fromall over the country to an engineering day camp in Central PA is a story of the use of a variety ofassessment tools to effectively evaluate and revamp a new outreach initiative.Objectives of the camp were:1) Introduce girls not identifying engineering as a potential major, to engineering. ⇒ Expected Outcome: High percentage of uncommitted girls who become interested2) Recruit girls to Penn State. ⇒ Expected Outcome: Girls apply to Penn State3) Provide leadership experience for upper-level women. ⇒ Expected Outcome: Women retained at higher level; increase commitment to engineeringThe initial target audience for participants was

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

New Paradigm for Foundational Engineering Education Jenny L. Lo, Richard M. Goff, Vinod K. Lohani, Thomas D.L. Walker, Tamara W. Knott, and O. Hayden Griffin, Jr. Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractIn fall 2004, implementation of a significant redesign of the first semester introductoryengineering course (EngE1024) required for all first-year engineering students at Virginia Tech,has occurred in support of a shift in paradigm: 1) the enhanced research mission of the newDepartment of Engineering Education and 2) administrative restructuring that led to inclusion ofComputer Science students in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Jenny Lo; Bevlee Watford

curricula has proven to be challenging. This paper presents the initial phase of anexperiment in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech to address this problem by means of aresearch option in the traditional technical communication course. In this research option,students have the opportunity to prepare for and to document a summer research experience. Tothat end, the research option of the course is divided into two segments: (1) a spring segment toprepare students for a summer research experience, and (2) a fall segment to teach students tohow document that research experience. This research option culminates in an undergraduateresearch symposium that is to show other undergraduates the benefits of and opportunities for aresearch experience

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

, as well as technical competency 1.The ME program employs an overall Professional Component Plan with the following structuredsub-plans with defined measures to quantify and assess professional experiences: 1. Engineering Design Plan (teaching and practicing of design skills) 2. Professional Communications Plan (conveying designs and interacting with peers) 3. Professional Skills Plan (teaching and implementing of design tools) 4. Professional Ethics Plan (evaluating and practicing appropriate professional behavior)The professional plans aid in the coordination efforts of multiple faculty members and multiplecourses across all four years of the curriculum. The plans also facilitate the assessment of resultsand progress of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

need to undertake effectiveassessment within the context of Women in Engineering and related outreach programs. AWEactivities are based on a systemic model of program development in which program goals,objectives and activities are inherently tied to program assessment and evaluation.The AWE Project (aweonline.org) identified and continues to address the critical need ofdeveloping high quality assessment instruments for Women in Engineering and related programor activity directors that will enable them to: 1) refine activities to better meet their recruitmentand retention objectives; 2) have access to and know how to use high quality data for makingsound evaluation and programming decisions; and 3) to leverage results in fundingrequests/grants

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley

presents lessons learned from this pilot symposium and discusseshow we intend to incorporate these lessons into next year’s symposium.Introduction The Boyer Commission Report has urged universities to “make research-basedlearning the standard” for the education of undergraduates [1]. Also calling for more Page 10.73.1* This work was supported by the National Science Foundation: NSF Project 0341171. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationresearch by undergraduates in science, technology

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris; Judy Birchman; Mary Sadowski

we use them withdifferent intensity. The channels defined by Gregorc (2000) couple these qualities to determine Page 10.153.2the person’s “qualitative orientation to life.” “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The Gregorc Style Delineator uses a word matrix as a basis for determining a person’s style. Tensets of words, in groups of four, are presented to the individual. The individual is asked to rank(1 low - 4 high) each set of words according to how they apply to themselves. For example

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Barbara Bogue

) Page 10.907.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education and Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright , American Society for Engineering EducationMethodology for Assessing AWE Project CollaborationRecognizing the need to be aware of our collaboration processes and to constantly tune them, webuilt in several methods to track the progress of the collaboration and its impact on grantoutcomes and the participants from the beginning of the AWE project: 1. Annual electronic survey of participant experience in the project 2. Electronic feedback webforms for all products under development 3. Assessment results from annual meetings and regularly scheduled telephone conference

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

programs to demonstrate that“graduates have the ability to design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems thatinclude people, materials, information, equipment, and energy” and to include “in-depthinstruction to accomplish the integration of systems using appropriate analytical, computational,and experimental practices.”1 Many industrial engineering programs use senior capstone designprojects to achieve program outcomes that relate to integrated systems. In such an environment,courses preceding the capstone project focus on developing “tools” that will be applied to anintegrated system in the capstone project. The tools are acquired through stand-alone topics withapplications limited to textbook problems or projects that are limited in

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University; Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

, surface runoff systems, and/or structural framing plans. However, even if theplans are reviewed by practicing engineers, architects, clients, or a jury panel, opportunities forproof of concept by constructing these facilities are rare.Rubric for Program Comparison to ASCE’s BOKThe rubric shown in Table 1 is adopted from ASCE’s Body of Knowledge7 (BOK). The rubric isa three-level, hierarchical model. The authors have added their interpretation of the BOK rubricin terms of Bloom’s hierarchical taxonomy of cognitive skills.8 Descriptions of behavior criteriaare also included to provide a basis for measuring student performance. Ability at a higher levelassumes ability at lower levels. Table 1: Description of BOK Competency

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Lefebvre; Stephanie Farrell

Illustrating bioseparations with colorful proteins Brian G. Lefebvre and Stephanie Farrell Rowan UniversityAbstractAdvances in biology are prompting new discoveries in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical,medical technology, and chemical industries. Developing commercial-scale processes based onthese advances requires that new chemical engineers clearly understand the biochemicalprinciples behind the technology, in addition to developing a firm grasp of chemical engineeringprinciples.1 This paper outlines the development of educational materials in biochromatography,one of the major techniques used to separate and purify biological molecules.This project aims

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Franke; David Devine

possibilities. An image of the web page that allowsthis search is shown as Figure 1. Many other states also publish a roster listing of licensedindividuals. Figure 1 Image of Indiana Online Licensing web pageThese records can be used to generate lists of licensed individuals and these lists can thenbe viewed to identify graduates or cross referenced with a database of graduates to findcommon names. An image of a database search is shown in Figure 2. Page 10.1044.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

engineering at the professional level.”The ASCE created the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites for ProfessionalPractice (TCAP3) to “develop, organize and execute a detailed plan for full realization ofPS465.”TCAP3 developed an implementation master plan for which the Body of Knowledge(BOK) was the foundation. TCAP3 subsequently formed a Body of KnowledgeCommittee and charged it with defining the BOK, addressing the role of experience, anddescribing the roles of faculty, practitioners, and students.The BOK Committee conducted its deliberations and presented its recommendations in areport entitled, “Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century.”10 The report was arranged bythree themes: 1) what should be taught to and learned by future civil

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

might differ from engineering deans. We also added thefollowing questions to the survey: 1. How much work do you and your own faculty and staff do to help raise funds for your school? 2. How much work do you or your staff do to help with co-op, internship, and career placements?”We sent the survey to a random sample of 200 deans for each field. Twenty-sevenBusiness deans responded. Fifty-three Education deans responded. Page 10.391.2 21.0 - Survey Results of Business Deans in the U.S. Small Medium Large TotalHow much work do

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin the chemical engineering community. For example, several recent articles in ChemicalEngineering Progress have focused on applied statistics.1-5 Many chemical engineeringprograms have incorporated statistics into their curriculum.6 Several ChE specific courses inapplied statistics have been recently reported.7-10 The example presented here provides a hands-on example of how to quantify the variation associated with a measurement gauge. This materialcan either be integrated directly into an introductory statistics class or, alternatively, taught as a“module” in a core ChE class, as is done at Oregon State University.Experimental or process data are obtained through a measurement system

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wasatonic; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

NASAresults. This paper is organized as follows, in +section II, the basics of stereo image is reviewed.The algorithm and results are presented and discussed in sections III and IV, respectively.Conclusions are given in section V.II. Review of Stereo ImagingStereo (binocular) vision uses two cameras (color or gray scale) to obtain left and right images4-9.In these two images, the coordinates of associated pixels with a target object are compared andtriangulated to determine the range and depth of the specified object in the images, just as humanvision does. The basic geometry5,9 used for obtaining range or depth information of the targetobject, from a stereo imaging system, is depicted in Figure 1, where L and R corresponds to theleft and right

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

tools from industry. The projects were developed on the OMAP 5912 starter kitmodule supplied by Texas Instruments (TI). The open multimedia architecture platform (OMAP)technology from TI consists mainly of dual-core processor chips 1. The OMAP 5912 chip has anARM processor and a C55 digital signal processor (DSP) in the same package, a functional blockdiagram 2 of which is shown in Figure 1. The Linux kernel runs on the ARM processor and theDSP-BIOS kernel runs on the TI C55 DSP in tandem. The real time software development toolsfor this system are the Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE) andthe MontaVista Linux environment. The platform is thus ideally suited to expose students to realtime systems. The projects

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Integrating Micro and Nanoscale Materials Processing into the Core ChE Curriculum - Examples in Radiation Heat Transfer Milo D. Koretsky Department of Chemical Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-2702IntroductionThe chemical engineering department at Oregon State University (OSU) is committed todeveloping strength in microelectronics processing within a context of the fundamental skills ofthe discipline. In this vein, we are integrating examples from this industry into the classroom andthe laboratory.1 These topics are not only useful towards the

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven P. Thomas

engineering and computer-related fields and keeping them in the IT employment pipeline(Farmer, 199712). A limited number of studies and observations have been done to determine thecause of why women are deterred from continuing in the computer science pipeline (Farmer,199712; Margolis & Fisher, 200231; Roberts, Kassianidou, & Irani, 200243). The AmericanAssociation of University Women (1992)1, reported that even girls with high aptitude for mathand science are less likely to pursue studies in science, engineering, and technology than theirmale counterparts. Most women drop out of the engineering/computing pipeline when choosingan undergraduate major. Consequently, there are disproportionately low numbers of women inacademic computer science

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

MathCAD functions are discussed, and specific examples of their application toproblems in thermodynamics and combustion are presented.IntroductionTeaching with a combination of a textbook and a software package is a contemporaryengineering-thermodynamics pedagogy. Many software tools are available for evaluatingthermodynamic properties of engineering fluids. Many of these software tools are proprietarypackages sold by textbook publishers, such as “Interactive Thermodynamics: IT” [1]. In fact,finding a thermodynamics text that does not come with a software package is difficult. Sometextbooks are now built around using a software or web-based internet package [2]. While manyeducational software packages are available for evaluating thermodynamic

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

signal processing implementation, but is not so overwhelming in scope that it cannot be completed in a reasonable amount of time.1 IntroductionFor several years now, we have been providing proven DSP teaching methodologies, hardware andsoftware solutions, and DSP tools that have helped motivate students and faculty to implementDSP-based systems in real-time.1–7 These efforts have emphasized the fact that DSP is much morethan just a collection of theories and problem solving techniques. Students can easily be motivatedto explore and implement DSP-based systems in an environment where they are limited only bytheir imagination. This process can be facilitated through real-time demonstration programs suchas winDSK and winDSK6.8All of our DSP

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

“what could happen (if wanted and nounknowable events intervene)” rather than attempt to predict the future.One successful example of this approach was its use in the construction circa 1993-94 of theBoeing list4,5 of “Desired Attributes of an Engineer” (Fig. 1). The original purpose in creatingthis list was to establish a basis for an on-going dialogue with academe at a time when muchlegitimate criticism was leveled at various potential employers for a seeming propensity for“changing their minds all the time” and sending often contradictory messages to schools Page 10.265.2regarding “what industry needs”. Rather than provide schools with

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

NATT YesThree-phase converters Yes NATT YesSingle-phase inverters Yes NATT YesThree-phase inverters Yes NATT YesContinuous Improvement Model and Systems ApproachThe authors utilized systems engineering principles [1] to the proposed model. These principles are: • Decomposition and functional analysis • Requirements or criteria • Synthesis • Testing • CommunicationsIterative top-down decomposition is utilized to the subject matter itself and results in topical outlines presented in

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Johnson

engineering to the life sciences are important enoughthat all engineers should know something about biology. Those engineers who wish tospecialize in biological engineering must go beyond just knowing something about biology, andthey must take other courses to bolster their biological knowledge. Advanced biology coursesshould be taken from biological scientists.Introductory biological science courses meant for engineers, however, need to meet severalobjectives in addition to the presentation of life science. These courses should: 1. present life science information in as simplified a form as possible, preferably in universal principle form. 2. emphasize logical connections over

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

learning that smaller programs, like Eastern’s, can.Current research suggests that a program like Eastern’s is a logical approach to teachingengineering, both in fostering qualities professionals need and in recruiting and retainingstudents into the field. Professionals need to learn new engineering knowledge quickly, work inteams, solve problems creatively, communicate, and respect diversity [1]. Keys to recruiting andretaining engineering students include: engaging them early through courses that articulate andintegrate the relevance of engineering to early requirements such as math, physics, design,communication, humanities, and other requirements [2] using active learning so they can applytheory and practice [3, 4], and help foster a sense of