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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Craig

of the writer.ConclusionMost academic and technical writing can be accomplished successfully and efficiently byusing a practice-based model that includes drafts and revisions that are written over thelife of the project. This model can be scaled down to support undergraduate capstone ordesign projects as well as larger, complex thesis preparation. Although many advisorswill still comment knowledgeably on the actual writing of the thesis, it is hoped that theuse of this suggested model would allow them to devote their attention to the substanceof the research project. Page 10.1480.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

backgrounds up to speed, 2. An implementation course that allows students to work with state-of-the-art design tools, embedded development environments, and target platforms to interconnect a variety of sensors and actuators in complete real-time embedded systems, 3. A theory course, which is the focus of this paper, covering both real-time scheduling theory and contemporary design methodologies, and 4. A project-based capstone design course to complete a comprehensive design for a complex embedded system.This section discusses the layout of our curriculum to provide training to embedded systemsdesigners and programmers. The embedded systems curriculum consists of four semester-longcourses at the upper

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

course is on spacecraft design tools. The students becomefamiliar with the spacecraft design tools that are used in the final design course. The toolsinclude STK, IDEAS, NASTRAN, and MATLAB/Simulink. They also become familiar withsystem software such as Aerospace Corporation Corporation Conceptual Design Center tools andspacecraft cost estimation. The second course is on spacecraft system engineering where theyreview the design aspects of all subsystems, systems engineering, and do an individual designproject. In the final capstone course, they do a team spacecraft design project. The spacecraftperformance requirements are given by a sponsor. The students have mentors in each subsystemfrom industry, Aerospace Corporation and government

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Hasenberg

ethical issues and social responsibility, and anappreciation of diversity. University Studies is a four-year general education program offeringFreshman and Sophomore Inquiry sequences, junior level Cluster Courses that help studentsfocus on a particular theme of inquiry, as well as the Senior Capstone project. The FreshmanInquiry sequence (FRINQ) is the introduction to University Studies in a 5-credit-per-term, 3-term sequence.A FRINQ course features moderate-sized main session with a maximum of 36 students plussmaller mentor sections of about 12 students headed by an undergraduate student mentorspecially chosen for their intellectual and social skills. Design & Society is one of 9 themes

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

how to do assessment and how much. As can be seen, somedepartments have opted to assess selected courses, some are assessing select courses plus asenior capstone course, some are assessing all courses, some are using comprehensive examsor portfolios, and some are using combinations of above in addition to the usual surveys, exitinterviews, and such.As a result, the question, are we doing enough or are we doing too much, still lingers.Establishment of an economic justification and benchmark for the economics of doingassessment may help in providing guidance for the proper direction to take. Page 10.489.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and 2

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education.When fully implemented, the ECP plan will provide such instruction in either a three-course orfour-course sequence, depending upon the core competencies and course sequences deemedappropriate. In most departments, the capstone design projects will also serve as basis forassessing the cumulative skills in technical communication. Table 1 indicates the development ofthe plan as of December, 2004. The ECP has completed its third semester and has begun workwith six engineering departments. The ECP has already provided this integrated writinginstruction to 448 engineering undergraduates. When fully implemented, the project will workwith 20 engineering courses and providing instruction to

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

F. Edwards; T. Daniel; W. Hale; A. Hanson; E. Richardson

employeetoward ‘becoming an empowered lifelong learner’. 12 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference" 4Self-Directed LearningDewey stated, ' most important attitude that can be formed is that of the desire to go on Thelearning' Montessori compared the freedom or independence of self directed learning to .breaking the bonds of servitude.13It has been proposed that SDL is based on seven pillars: a project-oriented pedagogy, acontractual arrangement, a mechanism for induction and pre-training, new roles for trainers, anopen

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

rating and the average of ratings from all three peer reviewers.III. CPR and the Assessment of Learning through WritingCPR -- as an advanced form of educational technology -- partners both with the student and withthe instructor to foster learning. In this project, through the vehicle of CPR, we were able toimplement assignments that fully utilize the “writing across the curriculum” (WAC) pedagogy [3- 6], without overly increasing the workload for instructors. Furthermore, CPR’s ability both toelicit and to report qualitative and quantitative peer review helps to make formative assessmentan integral part of instruction. And, the data collected by CPR during the student’s process ofengaging the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

Development of Engineering Case Studies for Integrating Finite Element Analysis into a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Dr. Robert G. Ryan, Dr. Stewart P. Prince California State University, NorthridgeAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University, Northridge usesSolidWorks and related analysis applications such as CosmosWorks and FloWorks as thecomputational tools of choice for solid modeling (CAD) and finite element analysis (FEA).Originally the use of these tools was concentrated in the senior design capstone course, but oneof the Department’s goals is to integrate the use of this

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

the potential impact on fish in the river)were also discussed with senior management.The primary focus of the Product-Architecture members of the group was the design ofthe enclosure and an integrated internal interactive exhibit. The Civil Engineeringstudents primarily focused on the construction, regulatory issues, costs and coordinationwith the planning for the pier reconstruction being conducted by a consulting company.The students were scheduled to spend one full day per week (Product-Architecture designstudio and Civil Engineers capstone design) on the project but undertook additional workat other times. The Product-Architecture students also used the project as part of othercourse work, especially in the ME 635 Modeling and Simulation

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

Guest Speaker: Engineering economics and mechanical design ethics 6 Guest Speaker: Electromechanical 14 EE and ME senior project presentations and Systems demonstrations 7 Test procedures and proposal 15 Freshman project presentations preparation In addition, the freshman are taught the importance of technical communications, dataanalysis and perform related exercises using computer-based tools. Presentations and Page 10.1474.3demonstrations of Capstone design projects by ECE and ME seniors provide

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

elements of ethics and requires each studentwrite an essay on a global issue, but these are again done at the conclusion of the course and littleintegration of extrinsic requirements during the design experience.The capstone design course is EGR 4380, Engineering Design II. This course is taken in the lastsemester of the senior year. It is an interdisciplinary course with electrical and mechanicalmajors organized into team of typically 15-18 students. The project is usually generated fromlocal industry requests. This past semester the project was to design a computer controlledexercise system. The project intentionally stepped outside the normal course boundary byincluding an artist on the design team. The artist was tasked with influencing the

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha

.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Reese

and electrical engineeringmajors for our senior project course, which usually includes a microcontroller as acomponent. Assembly language labs are specified as C programs, with the students actingas human compilers for PIC18 implementation. This removes the mystery of the C toassembly language link, and prepares the students for the hardware labs that areimplemented entirely in C. The hardware labs cover the onboard peripherals of thePIC18F242 such as the timer subsystem, I2C interface, and analog-to-digital converter, aswell as off-chip interfacing to devices such as a serial EEPROM, an I2C digital-to-analogconverter, and an infrared receiver. The challenges in this course design have includedfinding the correct mix of assembly language

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

with the AA program 7. Integrated Learning Experiences Experimental and design projects in the research and capstone courses are typical of those encountered in the aerospace industry. Design problems are chosen to encourage 3 original solutions and applications. Consequently, finding new projects each year is a challenge. 8. Active Learning In lecture-based courses, instructors are using reading quizzes, muddiest-point-in-the- lecture cards, concept tests, personal response systems, turn-to-your-partner discussions, and demonstrations. In laboratory, research, and design courses, instructors use demonstrations, inquiry, projects, problem solving, and experimentation. Course 3 evaluations provide evidence of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

Role playing/ journal writing Capstone/ design undergraduate research Field trips/ simulations Group problem solving/ project reports Motivational examples/ stories Think tanks/ student lectures Interactive discussion/ lecture Problems prepared by students Class/group discussion Homework problems/ guided laboratories Formal lecture, visual aids, notes Computer simulation/ demonstrations

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia L. Morse

(especially in spreadsheet form)for easy compilation of performance on specific outcomes. Quadrato and Welch3 furtherapplied grade sheet concepts to the evaluation of a civil engineering capstone design project andnoted the same three results: (1) improved student performance (largely attributed to improvedcommunication of expectations), (2) more equitable evaluation of student work, and (3)improved ability to assess student performance of program outcomes.More recent attention has emphasized the application and creation of rubrics to assess studentwork, typically breaking down expectations into component categories for hard-to-assessprojects and problems and clarifying different levels of accomplishment for each category.Rubrics, in the context of

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

the simulation correctly predicts the qualitative effects: for example, howmass distribution affects over-steer or under-steer of the vehicle. Both the physicalsystem and the simulation should show the same behavior.3.4 MEE 481/482: Senior Design (5 credits total)The final step in the advanced computing curriculum track is the integration of thevehicle simulation project into the capstone senior design project. At NIU, this is a twosemester sequence of courses. The first, MEE 481, is a design seminar in which studentsform teams, and formulate a design project. Typically students participating in thecurriculum track will take MEE 481 and MEE 484 concurrently, so they learn about thedesign issues as they are learning about the car and

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

Design. McGraw-Hill. 2000. 3. Chang, M. “Teaching top-down design using VHDL and CPLD.” Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference. 1996. 4. Chu, P.P. “A Small, Effective VHDL Subset for the Digital Systems Course.” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2004. 5. Electronics Workbench. www.electronicsworkbench.com. 6. Floyd, T.L. Digital Fundamentals with VHDL. Pearson Education. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 2003. 7. Fucik, O., Wilamowski, B. M. and McKenna, M. “Laboratory for the Introductory Digital Course,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2000. 8. Greco, J. “Designing a Computer to Play Nim: A Mini-Capstone Project in Digital

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

Society for Engineering EducationUndergraduate CurriculumThe ERC has made great strides in strengthening its undergraduate curricular component.Undergraduate Manufacturing Systems Concentration (MSC). The ManufacturingSystems Concentration is a cross-disciplinary specialty option open to undergraduatespursuing degrees in the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and OperationsEngineering departments. The concentration focuses on (i) a systems-approach tomanufacturing and (ii) design for future requirements. It consists of at least 13 credithours, including eight credit hours of required core courses: • ME450 Capstone Cross-Disciplinary Project course (4 credit hours) • ME483 Manufacturing Systems Design course (2 credit hours) • IOE425

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R. L. Kolar; K. M. Dresback; E. M. Tromble

includesthe following: holistic, interdisciplinary approach to civil and environmental infrastructure prob-lems; collaborative research within and outside CEES that teaches valuable partnering skills; par-ticipation in CEES’s novel educational efforts, including integrated curriculum projects,multidisciplinary design experiences, team learning, team teaching, and K-12 alliances; a full yearin the classroom team teaching with a faculty member; and participation in new faculty seminarsand at least two educational methods courses. Table 1 below lists 10 measurable objectives takenfrom our GAANN contract, that we are using to track progress of the fellowship program. Ourbroad-based program exposes GAANN Fellows to all of the rigors associated with a

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McMasters

(recruiting, research, etc.) Curriculum Faculty Enhancement directed Programs • Reward system (Design projects, etc.) • Pipeline issues • Educational standards • NSF Student directed • NAE • [ IUGREEE ] Summer Intern/Coop Programs • ABET • ASEE

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

one of the follow-up spring courses. In the BSE track, students havethe opportunity to work on more complex design-build projects and a capstone senior designproject.Electronic portfolioElectronic portfolios were added to the curriculum as a tool to enhance student learning throughreflection. The Virginia Tech Electronic Portfolio system (VTeP), available to all students at theuniversity, is based on software from the Open Source Portfolio Initiative. As part of theirsemester grade EngE1024 students were required to enter specific information and assignmentsinto their ePortfolio and to create a presentation within their portfolio to share with theirinstructor. The instructor evaluated the presentation twice during the semester, for both

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

addressed here (although this study does not even support this practice).However, for other less homogeneous academic situations, it appears that teams can be helpedmost by providing them with more assistance in scheduling and meeting arrangements.References1. Richard Bannerot, “Characteristics of Good Team Players,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition of the ASEE, June 20-23, 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.2. Alan J. Dutson, Robert H. Todd, Spencer Magleby, and Carl Sorensen, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997, pp. 17-25.3. James L. Brickell, David B. Porter, Michael R. Reynolds and Richard D

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

E497B-Franklin Scholars Capstone CourseSTS 302H is an honors version of a Science Technology and Society (STS) survey course, takenin the first semester of study, in which students are exposed to such topics as diverse views ontechnology, technology forecasting and assessment, democratic control of technology,technology and global issues, dilemmas posed by rapid advancements in technology, andalternative visions of technology. STS 304H, taken in the fall of the second or third year, is acourse that was especially developed for the Franklin Program that challenges students to thinkcritically about ethical issues raised by the concept of progress, as well as the relationshipbetween technological progress and social/ethical progress. Both STS 302H

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

reportsatisfaction with the experience, because of both the visible results at course end and theperceived relevance of the process that they used.The course described in [1] and [2] has made a visible impact on the computer engineeringprogram at Mississippi State University (MSU). Computer engineering student projects in thecapstone design course have greater complexity and are of higher quality compared to previousyears. One obvious disadvantage to the course is that prerequisite requirements necessitate thatthe course is taken very late in the program, usually the penultimate or final semester. While theimpact on the capstone design course is clear, the faculty was confident that capstone studentprojects would be improved further if the embedded systems

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

upon and ties together the concepts presented across thecurriculum. This elective would serve as a focused course, a capstone of sorts, which wouldcreate an opportunity for students with strong interest in Computer Security to explore the inter-relationships between several key topics and perhaps even attempt to apply the knowledge they Page 10.215.10acquired previously to some kind of project. With the support of the thread, an existing course in “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Computer

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

following example of application represents only the firstphase of the evolutionary design paradigm, the one of information recovery. The choice of themachine used is flexible – preferably one with a good balance of mechanical, electrical, andchemical components. For these reasons, the authors chose a two-cycle gas weed trimmer. Thismakes it easier to introduce the freshmen to the interdisciplinary nature of engineering design.Currently, the authors are implementing this paradigm at IUPUI.6.2. Course arrangement The reverse engineering project was introduced as a hands-on project in freshman course“Introduction to Engineering”. The course has three parts, which include Matlab, Pro/Engineer,and electrical circuits. The project is arranged in

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

Industry stakeholders Co-op employer Course-Level Employer survey Course Learning Outcomes Graduate survey Graduate exit IET204 IET224 IET267 IET310 survey a1 a3 a2 a3 Capstone b b b b project c f d c evaluation e h f d Course f k g e assessment g i f summaries k

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

design activity to that of designing good projects that representbreadth in engineering for the foundation years. While the faculty will determine what projectsare implemented in the foundation, student will have input in project selection. Projects willprogressively become more open ended in the primary concentration and in the capstone. Weexpect that the modules will also serve as a reference and resource for these latter projects.Development of ConcentrationsA next task was the determination of what concentrations to initially design. A primaryconcentration consists of about 20 hours of engineering content. A secondary concentrationconsists of about 15 hours of study. Table 3. Mapping of Engineering Competencies to the Curricular