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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

students enrolled in the COE (NCSU Institutional Planning andAnalysis, 2004). And yet, NC State College of Engineering is among the top ten universities inenrollment of these underrepresented groups. From a preparation standpoint, studentsthemselves (men and women) report having difficulty adjusting to the academic rigor of thecoursework, citing particular struggles with the expectations for computer literacy and ability.5At the same time, the Wake County Public School System has taken unprecedented steps towardhigh achievement for all by setting an ambitious system wide goal of 95% of students in grades3-12 performing at or above grade level in reading, math and science by the year 2008. Anachievement gap between white students and African

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

students the integration of business and engineering theory and practice. This paperillustrates a case study they developed in partnership with Powertel (now called as T-Mobile), awireless service provider. In March of 2001, Powertel began a new rate plan to attract customers. The response tothe new rate plan resulted in 40% growth in network traffic in a month. A particular area ofinterest to Powertel was the intersection of Interstate 459 and Highway 280 in Birmingham, AL.This intersection, one of the most congested areas in Birmingham, had constant traffic jams.This intersection experienced more dropped calls and busy signals than was acceptable toPowertel’s customers, and something had to be done. The potential cost of building a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

to promote higher-level thinking skills and improve retention. For the project, incoming freshman will be given a plot of undeveloped land that, by the time they graduate, will be turned into a blueprint for certain segments of the city (time constraints prevent the design of an entire city). Design tasks include all facets of the traditional civil engineering program, such as site planning and layout, sewer and water infrastructure, water supply, wastewater treatment, buildings, transportation systems, channel design, floodplain analysis, and geotechnical work. A common, four-year design project unifies the curriculum and allows material learned in early courses to carry forward, unlike

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

unique to Metallurgy (proposed) The course work in these programs is designed for most part to mirror thefirst two years of course work at 4 year institutions – primarily the University ofUtah. Tables 3 through 10 show the course work and the number of credits foreach semester for the various APE Degrees for each of the engineering programsat SLCC. Page 9.274.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 3Chemical Engineering Plan of Study

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”outcomes assessment. In addition, consultants, including Ron Miller and Barbara Olds, wereutilized at strategic points in the training process to focus the activities of the faculty. Theobjective of the training program was to develop a common understanding of the ABETprocesses and a common “language” for the faculty. The planned outcome of the process wasthe formal expression of the program educational objectives prior to the conclusion of the 2001-2002 academic year. In addition to the faculty, the CE IAB also received an abbreviated trainingsession in the ABET language and processes during the Spring 2002 meeting in preparation forparticipation in expressing the program educational

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

course focuses primarily on the planning, execution, management, documentation,and presentation of an engineering design/build project.The ENG H193 design project is a focal point for the FEH program. In many respects, thisfreshman design project course is comparable to a junior level or senior "capstone" design coursein which a student might participate as part of the requirements for his chosen engineeringdiscipline. A major difference is that the first-year ENG H193 course teaches the variousplanning, management, 4 documentation, 5 and presentation aspects of a design project, whereasmany senior level design projects focus on the specific design problem alone, assuming someprior instruction in or knowledge of what is needed for a complete and

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

generously supported by a series of grants by the NCIIA and private donors. To date,over $100,000 has been raised.Funding of up to $2500 per semester is competitively awarded to student teams based onstudent-generated proposals to the UVCF. To be funded, a student proposal must describe anenterprise that meets the following criteria: ‚ The team must be multidisciplinary, including engineering students from at least two disciplines and, if possible, a student from outside engineering. ‚ The team must be organized into a company and must submit a preliminary business plan. ‚ The team must appoint a project director from the College of Engineering, an advisor from the College of Business, and an advisor from industry. ‚ The enterprise

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

Session 3115 From Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge To Civil Engineering Curricula Stuart G. Walesh Consultant and AuthorAbstractASCE’s Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (CAP^3) is chargedwith developing, organizing, and executing a detailed plan for the full implementation of ASCEPolicy 465 (Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice). This paper presentsthe recommendations of CAP^3’s Body of Knowledge (BOK) Committee and introduces thesubsequent curricula design effort

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carsten Ahrens

company or office.During the two theoretical semesters all ECEM-partner universities follow the educationalframe which has been fixed during a number of common planning and organizing meetingsThe topics or contents of all these modules are similarly oriented to the education ofmanagerial skills in the very civil engineering context. They are not necessarily the same butthey are similar or at least equivalent. The contents of the modules are clearly described ateach partner university and have been agreed to by all involved partners during the regularmeetings and by the respective academic boards. The written descriptions are part of therespective examination rules.The common educational consensus is to speak of equivalence. By this consensus

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaston N'Guerekata; Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

in severalcountries including Japan, Germany, South America and Canada. It is popular because it canhave an impact on virtually every aspect of education and can be used as a resource forinstructional strategies, a framework for planning staff development, a structure for planningcurriculum, and performance assessment such as reflection logs, portfolio, performance tasks,and rubrics, features that may not be included in traditional teaching approaches2. Attitudes and perceptions affect students’ abilities to learn. DOL 1 indicates that a keyelement of effective instruction is helping students to establish positive attitudes and perceptionsabout the classroom and about learning. Helping students acquire and integrate new knowledgeis

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Page 9.284.3member’s contribution to the outcome. This exercise requires team planning, which entails an “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” ATOMIC POPCORN understanding of the individual strengths. The The objective of the Atomic Popcorn exercise is to team not only plans but also implements theirremove the pot of toxic popcorn from the confined area specific skills to achieve the goal of thewithout spilling a

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pete Hanlon; John Hill; Bryan Goda; Lisa Shay

, but this necessitates coordination at theinstitutional level and cooperation between programs, including the non-engineering programsthat are not seeking ABET accreditation. Recently, the seven programs at USMA receivedhighly favorable reviews by the EAC and CAC and our program planning and assessment systemwas cited as a model of best practices. We present USMA’s planning and assessment system,both at the institutional level and at the program level, using the Electrical Engineering programas an example.2. Institutional Level The institutional-level practices used to prepare for the visit were a refinement of USMA’sexisting assessment program. The Academy as a whole already had an assessment model

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

insight into all phases of graduate study, and can be agreat resource for students seeking employment after attaining their terminal degree. They canhave incredible demands on their time between teaching, research, and service activities. Evenso, most find time to answer the myriad of questions posed to them by students related to widelyvarying subjects. Try to respect the precious nature of a professor’s time, and be succinct whenyou are seeking information.Faculty sabbaticals/retirement/deathSabbaticals are usually planned well in advance (at least a year), so adequate notice should bepossible – check with elder graduate students to find out who has recently gone on sabbatical,and who may be due for one. You may have to plan your research

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George DeSain; Farid Tranjan; Ken Burbank

software licenses and additional full-timetechnical support personnel.Memo of Under standing:In order to create joint programs, the UNC Board of Governors outlined several processes thatneed to be defined between the partner Universities. The following processes must have beencertified for the joint degree program:a. Admission processb. Registration and enrollment process for students Page 9.80.4Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationc. Plan for charging and distributing tuition and feesd. Management

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joao Almeida; Guillermo Salazar

the potential for errors and omissions.Due to the object oriented technology and its parametric engine of the 3DPBM, the integrity ofthe three-dimensional digital model of the design can be maintained at all times. Therefore, anychanges made to any aspect of the design in the digital model at any time are systematicallypropagated to the entire model and consistently accounted for on any of the modelrepresentations, that is, plan views, elevations, cross sections, 3D views, etc. (See Figure 1) Page 9.1359.3 Figur e 1 Tiled windows showing differ ent visual r epr esentations of the 3D digital model Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

of version control systems. Students are shown various strategies of unittesting and are also exposed to CPPUnit (a tool used for unit testing C++ classes). They werealso exposed to the areas of requirements analysis and testing with special emphasis on how to Page 9.1106.31 The course numbers correspond to version 2.0 of the software engineering curriculum at MSOE. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education.develop a testing outline (not as formal as a test plan yet) and then

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

and development. Page 9.159.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3130In September 2003, a group of ENGE faculty, aided by a number of engineering and educationfaculty, received a planning grant (project title: Bridges for Engineering Education-Virginia Tech(BEEVT)) under the Bridges for Engineering Education program of the NSF to create acontemporary framework for undergraduate

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Jackson

jobs specific to those industries can beevaluated using the functions available in this new modular laboratory configuration. Four suchmodules are planned for integration and operation during the Spring 2004 semester. These fourmodules are: 1) 3D Visual Analysis and Evaluation Module 2) Ergonomic versus Traditional Hand Tool Comparison and Evaluation Module 3) Ergonomic Workstation Design and Evaluation Module 4) Motion-Tracking and Motion-Capture Analysis and Evaluation ModuleWithin each module, common and unique equipment and furnishings are being tailored andintegrated to meet the needs specified for use in each module. Since the laboratory is beingcreated in the same area as a previous electronics

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

introduced: (1) tooling plates and blocks; (2)mounting tools; (3) locators; and (4) clamps. Figure 4 shows an example screen of thecomponent unit – a locator. For novices to tooling nomenclature and technology, the componentunits are especially valuable as the subtle differences between styles and correct application arecritical to well-designed production fixturing. Over time, new components will be added asgraphic files are developed. Figure 4. Component unit – locator.Implementation unitThere are three main steps in the Computer-Aided Fixture Design (CAFD) process: setupplanning, fixture planning, and fixture configuration design.5 The objective of setup planning isto determine the number of different setups

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

Scientific Inquiry 3. Embedded Information Technology 4. Assessment and Learning Products 5. Learning Experiences with Instructional Technologies 6. Strategic Planning for Implementation The instructional material and techniques presented are to serve only as an informationalprecursor to later engineering hydrologic design coursework. It is not indented to replacecurrently accepted basic hydrologic design instructional methodology, rather is shouldsupplement current practices. Spatial information technologies are now a reality in industrial andresearch projects concerning hydrologic and other environmental parameters. This work isintended to serve as a suggested bridge from traditional to spatially distributed decision-makingand

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

all engineering majors taken mostly by juniors and seniors. Thepurpose was to establish helpful networking opportunities for students while teaching themreport writing skills. Students surveyed alumni and other professionals about technicalcommunication tasks at work. The following components comprised this project: an alumnusguest speaker, introducing the project; the writing assignment given to the students; studentgroups' planning and gathering information from alumni, the group-written reports, students’post-assessment of the project, and a final alumni-sponsored luncheon meeting with alumni,students, the professor, and administrators. Survey results showed technical communication tobe valuable and somewhat time-intensive in the workplace

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

laboratories. These graduate students read thedraft reports, make appropriate comments and return the reports for final production. The graduatestudents critique, comment, and grade in both the technical and communication areas while alsoteaching the above laboratories. The reports are then read again and a grade is assigned. The issuesregarding faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students, and orientation for theundergraduates who will be impacted by the plan will be addressed. The ultimate goal involvesleading engineering students to the realization that communication is important because it is beingevaluated by fellow engineers and that those evaluators will also improve their own skills becauseof their need to focus on how

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

. It is propelled by a N-size solidrocket engine and is expected to climb to about 22,000 ft with a maximum speed of Mach 1.5.The instrumentation includes an accelerometer, temperature and pressure sensors to measure thelocation and behavior of the shock wave during the supersonic flight phase, and strain gauges forthe determination of the structural behavior of the rocket. This rocket was finally launched inNovember of 2003.At various times during the planning, assembly, and instrumentation phases of the project,participants included local high school students, college students from sophomores to graduates,and an OU alumnus with high-power rocketry experience. Students participated in various ways:on a voluntary basis, by signing up for a

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Les Kinsler; Thomas Mertz; Troy Harding

instructor had to take onthe client's role so that the students were not dangerously delayed in their work. The result wasthat the final product was not entirely what the client wanted but it was finished at the end of thesemester.The instructors tried very hard to anticipate and plan for problems in-group dynamics. Thegroups were chosen by the instructors, who tried to match good students with bad ones byselecting for each group a good leader, a good programmer and a student with good verbal andorganization skills. After selecting groups in this manner, students known to be poor weredistributed among them. Grading criteria included a certain percentage devoted to individualwork and peer evaluations so that unproductive students did not

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Ken Morrison

) (Rodriguez, 2003). As a result, under GM’s Global 3Manufacturing System structure, the traditional role of the Team Leaders (TL) in GM is alsosignificantly changed, assuming more responsibilities from traditional IE functions. Amongthese new IE flavored duties for Team Leaders are (Holiday, 2004): • Safety – recognition and assurance of a safe work environment for everyone entering the team • Quality – identification, control, and elimination of causes of defects, not allowing them pass to the next process • Production – responding to work environment to meet production scheduleThe increasing use of virtual factory environments allows these GMS principles to beproperly planned. As

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

• Cuyamaca Community College, El Cajun, CA • Gateway Community College, North Haven, CT • Midlands Technical College, Columbia, SC Page 9.1263.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”There are plans to add additional regional partners in 2004 with preliminary discussion alreadyoccurring between NCTT and several potential partner community colleges in “uncovered”regions of the United States.III. NCTT Redefines Its Vision and Mission StatementsWith

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Page 9.622.3Major Design ProjectThe projects were announced two weeks after the start of the course. The student teamswere asked to pick projects from a list provided by the instructor. Once the projects werepicked the teams were required to turn in a proposal, which would define the problem,the possible solutions and their planned activity in terms of a Gantt chart. In additionthe student teams were required to maintain a journal and to turn in weekly progressreports. Table 1 lists the projects picked by the student teams. It was interesting that outof the 11 student teams, there were 4 teams

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul McCright; Joanne Larsen

in practical applications of engineering only through lectures. Engineering facultymembers are being exposed to newer techniques that include active learning and cooperativeproblem solving. Despite some reluctance, they are beginning to apply these newer techniques.1In an effort to make engineering colleges more responsible for assessment of their programs, theNational Science Foundation also has funded educational research and development withconsiderable assessment planning being included in grant proposals. 1 Page 9.343.1“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

academic work such as the type of students we have, the type of institution, campus,program, etc., and also need to be developed in support of the institutional mission.The teaching statement should address how we plan sharing with our colleagues the results of theapproaches and techniques that we have implemented for new and existing courses. Probably, moreimportant than sharing the successful results, it can be to share the experiences that didn’t work asplanned in the classroom as they tend to incite more interest and discussion with our colleagues.Similarly, the teaching statement should include future plans and ideas to develop in the future approachon teaching our courses. In any case, we should address not only the activities undertaken in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leotis Parrish; Devdas Pai

physical resources such as classrooms and computing facilities. More importantly,there has been an imperceptible but very definite creeping up of class sizes in the lower-levelcritical core classes – the ones where one-to-one interaction is crucial for students to grasp themore complex and abstract concepts. This latter consideration has a direct and potentiallynegative impact on the retention of students especially in the science, mathematics, engineeringand technology (SMET) areas. The CoE has anticipated these problems in planning for its growth. A SupplementalInstruction (SI) Program has been instituted to enhance retention, particularly of minoritystudents, by providing them with two or three opportunities every week to interact one-to