Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

future success. It responds to the tradition of action research, a deficit model thatviews organizations as having problems in need of solution, and proposes the development of anaction plan to correct the problems that are identified (22). Appreciative Inquiry rejects thepositivist view that social knowledge is derived from objective observation, in favor of the socialconstructionist paradigm that sees reality as constructed through our social interactions (23). Page 10.1139.7 The Appreciate Inquiry process reflects a set of principles drawn from current theory andresearch in the human and social sciences (24). 1. The

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

provide thecritiques. Ultimately, the participant who taught the class provides a self-assessment. Eachparticipant receives a videotape containing all of his or her classes and critiques recorded forfuture reference.Social Events: While much of the evening time is spent in class preparation, social events weredeliberately planned to promote interaction, collaboration and the sharing of ideas. Anintroductory banquet, a Hudson River cruise, morning/afternoon snack breaks and lunches aredesigned as important learning activities.While the laboratory exercises and the demonstration classes are consistently rated as the mostvaluable activities, there are two seminar topics that standout in both the immediate and longterm workshop critiques

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

ProgramsPrior to 2004, there were three opportunities for girls in 11th and 12th grade to come onto the RITcampus and learn about engineering at the institute. These three programs have been heldprimarily as recruitment/retention tools for RIT and are discussed belowSWE SleepoverThe SWE (Society of Women) Sleepover is an annual program, held each spring, for 11th gradewomen. The program has been in existence for a number of years, and is planned and run almostentirely by RIT’s Society of Women Engineers student section. Since it is mainly used as arecruitment tool to demonstrate RIT’s engineering programs to young women in high schoolsaround the Northeast, it is centered around providing an RIT experience. Attendees spend a fullday on campus, where

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

own desired outcomes and develop methods for continuouslymeasuring the extent to which these outcomes were being met. Each program had todevelop and implement a plan for measuring attainment of program objectives andmethods for assessing results to make program improvement. This paper is based on theexperience in this process of the University of North Texas (UNT) Nuclear EngineeringTechnology (NUET) program.The NUET program was started in 1990 for delivery to the Comanche Peak SteamElectric Station. In part, this program was responsible for converting a Department ofIndustrial Technology to a Department of Engineering Technology. A new departmentchair, who had some experience with an ABET accredited program, was hired in 1993 toseek

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

anddevelop teamwork, community involvement and citizenship skills. Service learning also offersstudents the opportunity to gain contextual knowledge and solve real-world problems that couldnot be formulated in a textbook. For instance, students engaged in the National EngineeringProjects in Community Service (EPICS) projects rate the impact of their ability to work in teamsas the highest outcome of their service-learning experience, followed by enhancement ofcommunication skills.3 Students also report honing other skills that are components of the ABETcriteria4, which are customarily hard to teach in conventional engineering courses. Those skillsinclude communication, project planning and leadership. Of the students who participated in theEPICS

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy

Page 10.1012.1of study and is representative of a course that I would probably be assigned to teach immediatelyafter obtaining a faculty position. There were approximately 100 undergraduate students Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Student Paperenrolled in the class. Prior to participating in this project, I took a class on pedagogy called“ENGIN 580 – Teaching Engineering” taught by Dr. Susan Montgomery1 at the University ofMichigan. It was decided that I would be responsible for planning and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Marcus

and financial information for college. Funding for this project came from alocal entrepreneur fund, and a Penn State University Equal Opportunity Planning Committee2(EOPC) fund. Page 10.86.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Educators Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducatorsPart I - Professional Development Workshop for TeachersSecondary school technology and science teachers were invited to participate in a workshop onteam problem solving. With the help of the Director of Continuing Education, the teachersreceived “Act 48”3 credit

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suketu Shah; Gaurav Agarwal; Mohammed Haque

element Design of a Single Family Interactive Web Site House 3D Conversion in Preparation of 2D Rendering of 3D Animation/VRML of Architectural Drawings model in 3D Max 3D Model Desktop Plans Interiors Interiors Interiors Site plan Exterior Exterior Exterior

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

examples, requiring working students to write a technology plan and an environmental management plan for their company, or full-time students to draft such plans for a selected local company. Since the MBA program is run on seven-week terms, most students will see all three of these courses within their first six months as part of the program. They are first introduced to new ideas and new ways of thinking about these issues (MBA 601), then they are given the theoretical tools to understand these issues (MBA 602), and finally they are asked to apply those tools in order to create specific and useful plans for a real-world company Page 10.319.2 (MBA 603

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

canoe or steelbridge competitions. Key deliverables of the professional component are the projectmanagement and engineering science notebooks. The notebooks document design calculationsas well as the project management, construction management, asset management, teamorganization and function, safety, quality control, and cost accounting tasks.As before, an additional critical feature of proposed projects is the opportunity for a constructeddeliverable that can be tested. The proof of concept aspect is a critical element in the feedbacksystem for the projects that is often not available in typical civil engineering senior projects.Projects of this type often require students deliver plans for the development of a tract of landincluding utilities

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

for course assessment, itwas considered it is better to get into greater detail initially and meet the needs of continuousimprovement at both the program and course levels.The paper describes the methodology using a typical theory and lab-oriented course in theIndustrial Engineering Technology program. An example of a course assessment summary isshown that meets the needs of assessment and continuous improvement.Even though the assessment and continuous improvement plan developed is applicable to anyengineering technology program, this paper gives an example of the plan as applied to the A.S.degree program in Industrial Engineering Technology.Program Objectives and OutcomesThe Industrial Engineering Technology program objectives are based on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Boyer; Taryn Bayles

themathematical model.The value of teamwork was emphasized by having the teams go through a group problemsolving simulation7. Each of the students read through the details of a hypothetical subarcticsurvival situation, in which a plane has crashed in northern Canada and 15 items were salvagedprior to the plane drifting away and sinking. The students had to rank the items according totheir importance to their survival. After everyone had finished the individual ranking, the teamsmet and discussed the situation, and then ranked each of the items as a team. After comparingtheir answers with the Canadian Para Rescue Specialists, the students found that they performedbetter as a team, than individually.The teams were also given a planning exercise before they

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

as well as considering some specific issuessurrounding the CE program, the faculty decided to focus assessment on direct measures ofstudent work utilizing student design projects as much as possible. It was very apparent basedon attendance in the Olds/Miller workshops, as well as continual review of “CommunicationsLink: ABET Quarterly News Source”, that direct methods of assessment are the best way todetermine what students know and are capable of doing, rather than through grades or surveys 4.In addition, it has been shown that utilizing specific portions of classroom activities, such asstudent projects, are very effective at not only assessing the outcomes, but actually achieving theoutcomes5.It was determined that the plan should focus on

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Liou

modeling capabilities by integrating constraint-based feature modelingand explicit geometric modeling. Besides parts of standard geometry, it enables thedesign of complex free- form shapes like airfoils and manifolds. It also enables themerging of solid and surface modeling techniques into one powerful tool set.The CAD files from Unigraphics are converted to .stl format and are further processedwith software tool called Catalyst. This software cuts the model into a set of stacked2D layers in a process known as “slicing” and plans the tool paths necessary for themachine to create each layer. This software will also compute the support structurenecessary to support the model as it is being constructed. All this information isuploaded to the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

information, grapple with challenges, solve problems, defineproblems, talk, and learn from each other. Underlying the design of the seminar is a goal ofhelping the collection of PhD students develop into a community of practice4.The general design of the seminar has been simple: have the students collectively identify topicsthat they would like to discuss and then have them use simple group facilitation exercises inorder to discuss the topic. Because the PhD process is complex, the space of possible topics islarge. Such topics include issues such as succeeding with PhD program milestones, choosinggood elective courses and selecting advisors, defining effective research questions, authorship,and managing citations.In planning the sessions, the idea

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

. Students were provided sufficient addresses to plan, coordinate, and deploy redundant DHCPservices for their subnet. Additionally, students could implement DHCP relay agents and deploycentralized DHCP services for multiple subnets from a single server. Page 10.809.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2: Physical Layout for 32 Workstation LaboratoryThe primary set of RHDs was configured so that all workstations were on a single broadcastdomain and permitted student

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

entrepreneurial Reengineering Makes Industry Meaningful In College program not onlyexposes students to the world of industry within the confines of the classroom, it is areplicable, cost-effective model that can be adapted to a varying number of semesters andintegrated into a variety of technical programs and college settings.The origin of entrepreneurship in engineering and electronics at IVCCTen years ago, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplace,entrepreneurial experiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integratedtheir students into teams to develop, produce and sell a product. They named the projectMaking

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

resources per project: a design challenge from anindustry sponsor, with industrial liaison engineer available for a finite weekly time (e.g.,2-4 hours), and project funding of $15,000. Each project included a contract fordeliverables, namely, a first semester with “product specifications, concept generationand evaluation, a preliminary design report, a project plan, and an analytical andexperiment plan and report, and a final report and project documentation”. Thesubsequent semester allowed time for prototype realization, with an end-of-termdemonstration to the industrial sponsor, to include “a systems level design report,prototype results and report, a production sample, and an acceptance test. This course,initiated in the mid-nineties, has grown

Conference Session

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

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Piacentine; Tonya Emerson

it mildly, as plans for their own outreach event began developing before the close of theconference. In developing their plan, the students determined two main goals. First, theywanted to excite kids about engineering, specifically Civil Engineering. Second, they wanted tocreate an event to showcase the Civil Engineering students and the department in an effort togenerate pride in the department and create campus and community awareness about civilengineering. After the first annual event, which had been developed in honor of the 150thAnniversary of ASCE and held on September 27th, 2002, the students expanded the event toincluded all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The 2nd Annual Mindsin Motion was held on

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

undergraduate and graduate levels. The objective is to graduate engineers who are familiarwith the construction industry and have a better understanding of the role of the civil engineer inthe construction process. Courses offered include project management, project planning,contracts, bidding, estimation, and other topics that are of importance to construction.As a means to provide an incentive to the student, a certificate in Construction EngineeringManagement is awarded upon the completion of a required number of credit hours. Thecertificate prepares the undergraduate civil engineering student for a career in the constructionindustry. For those students who are not interested in a career in construction, the certificateprovides them with sufficient

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina

-solving methods as thePolya’s work and its further development by Wales et al. and their GENI idea [12]. While theseheuristics methods help planning a mathematical reasoning from the goal (e.g., the unknown) tothe equations for solving, the FPD proposes a formal language and graphics approach when thealgorithms (i.e., equations or procedures) are known to exist.The method can be very helpful for identifying the relations between “variables” (e.g.,dimensions, parameters, factors, etc.) and “computations”, and it is general enough to show if apath to a solution can or cannot be produced from given data, even if the relationships Page 10.1386.4

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter

removingtoxins from the human body. At the end of this course, you should be able to generate a business plan for a start-upcompany that would support a request for venture capital.Well-written objectives clarify the expectations of the instructor in terms of measurable orobservable student performance. As such, objectives can play a key role in the educationalprocess. A set of published learning objectives can provide a focus for instruction, facilitatecourse activities, communicate expectations to students and to other faculty, and provide targetsfor assessment1, 2.Writing Learning ObjectivesConsider the following objective: At the end of the course, I should instill upon the student a comprehension of the designprocess.This objective has several

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Dunn

‘Install brick veneer on south wall.” Critical pathschedules are so-named because these time schedules highlight a subgroup of activities that lieon the critical path. The activities that lie on the critical path are important because a delay incompleting any of these activities will result in a delay in completion of the project.Schedulers and/or construction project managers should update their CPM schedules on a regularbasis in an effort to compare actual progress on the job with planned progress. Owners will wantto know if the project is on schedule, and the only way to provide a quantitative answer to thatquestion is to examine each activity in the schedule and record any progress that has occurred onthat activity since the last update. Once

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

of their impression of the Center ofTown and the elements that they felt were needed to increase the activity and vitality of thecenter. The second phase consisted of analyzing the data and performing several design studies.These studies were performed by architecture, art, and engineering students enrolled inArchitectural Design II, Site Planning, Design Systems, Water Quality Engineering, and CivilEngineering Senior Design Project. The final phase consisted of developing recommendationsbased on analysis of the data gathered in phase 1 and the design studies conducted in phase 2. Page 10.276.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks; Laura Ford

engineering classes. Wehope to catch students in their junior years, before they have decided what college to attend. Thejunior- and senior-level participants will be examined for application to the University of Tulsa,as engineering majors and particularly as chemical engineering majors. The students will also besurveyed for future plans, specifically their chosen universities and majors. The effectiveness ofthe competition as a recruiting tool will be evaluated.IntroductionWe have taken a national collegiate competition offered by a professional society and modified itfor use at the University of Tulsa (TU) as a recruiting tool for chemical engineering. Thenational competition is the Chem-E-Car Competition sponsored by the American Institute

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Wolter

Development of an Acquisition Management Course Jason Wolter, M.S., Roger Burk, Ph.D., Bob Foote, Ph.D., Niki Goerger, Ph.D., Willie McFadden, Ph.D., Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D. United States Military AcademyAbstract In response to external feedback and a continual desire to increase the diversity andapplicability of the curriculum for our students, the Engineering Management Program at USMAwill offer an acquisition systems management course for the first time in Spring 2005. Thiscourse will provide graduates with relevant skills related to the acquisition goals of strategicallymanaging, planning, and implementing acquisition programs and reforms. Topics will

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

provided an opportunity to learn and use skillslearned in the classroom in a well-designed work experience. Since traditional schooling alonehinders the full development of each student’s cognitive abilities, incorporating education intoreal-world situations in which what is being learned will be used, work-based education hasbecome the bridge to the intellectual or cognitive gap between school and work. 1Work-based education and a variety of additional models and approaches have been attempted toaddress the perceived deficiencies of traditional schooling. Lessons from these experiences wereincorporated into the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. According to the act, acomprehensive reform plan must include three broad components: 1) school

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

, all who share WEPAN’s commitment to enhancing the diversity of theengineering workforce.In 2002, WEPAN unveiled a new strategic plan centered on three keystone statements. (1) Toincrease the visibility and inclusiveness of Engineering to engage all talent; (2) to catalyzechange to create a critical mass; and (3) to make strategic choices that impact systemic change.The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of WEPAN and its operations. This isfollowed by a discussion of how WEPAN can affect women faculty in engineering and areas inwhich both WEPAN and women faculty could benefit from increased interactions.IntroductionEngineering education has long recognized the lack of diversity in their students. The numbersof students of color

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

’ conceptualization andexposure to System Dynamics and Controls fundamentals by providing less restricted exposureto a variety of systems that encompass the more important Dynamic Systems concepts. The plan involves the development of a System Dynamics Concepts Inventory and theimplementation and assessment of three Web-enabled laboratory formats: (1) inter-campuscollaborative experimentation, (2) remotely-accessible experiments, and (3) virtual systemexperiments. Each format has its inherent advantages and disadvantages. Remotely-accessibleexperiments, for example, can be made more readily available to students outside of regularlaboratory hours, but the lack of hands-on exposure limits the potential scope of the experiments.Each format has been

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lorin P. Maletsky; Charles E. Gabel

cutoversized to save time during preparation. All teams then ensured that part of the tool path wentaround the entire piece to obtain the correct outer dimensions. At least one week was given forthe students to create a solid model of their part and a properly dimensioned drawing.Computer aided manufacturing and fabricationPart design using computers and manual machines are common elements in many engineeringcurricula, but experiences with computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) are not as typical. Once apart is designed a manufacturing plan must be created for the selected machine. On a CNCmachine this includes tool selection, tool path, and feed and speed of the tool. Tool path is theactual path the rotating cutting tool will travel to machine the