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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Olds

Session 2530 Developing a Standards-based K-12 Engineering Curricula through Partnerships with University Students and IndustrySuzanne A. Olds1, Chirag D. Patel1, Bugrahan Yalvac2, David E. Kanter1,2, Neha Goel1 1 Biomedical Engineering Department/ 2School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University, Evanston, ILBackgroundWe have developed a K12 engineering outreach project that aims to benefit the projectdevelopers as much as the target recipients of the instructional materials. The primary developersin this case are university biomedical engineering (BME) students, both

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

involves a robot arm. The term project provides an organizing purpose for thepresentation of more conventional digital electronics material earlier in the course.Introduction A notable trend in engineering education in recent years is the growth in interdisciplinarydegree programs which draw upon a variety of traditional “core” disciplines such as electricaland mechanical engineering. Programs such as biomedical engineering and manufacturingengineering currently account for a growing fraction of the total undergraduate engineeringenrollment at many schools. For this reason, there is an increasing need for educationalapproaches that convey the essence of a traditional discipline to students who are not majors inthat discipline. This paper

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Ardebili; Ali Sadegh

environment. The class teaches fundamentals ofengineering graphics. It provides students with an opportunity to learn solid modeling asa tool for design process and product realization in addition to skills/competencies thattraditional introductory graphics classes promote.The main thrust of the new curriculum is on the project-based learning. It is believed thatpresenting the topics of the course through a project would expose the students toreal engineering practice. In fact, this approach helps students, throughout theirengineering programs, to prepare themselves for the Capstone Projects in the seniordesign courses. Specifically, students are given the opportunity to disassemble a realproduct and construct drawings of its parts. At the end of the

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

of the service theyprovide to their community and, in a broader sense, the impact they can have on the world. Researchhas shown that students participating in service learning have a higher comprehension of the coursematerial and also develop an awareness of their local community and the issues it faces. In engineering,there are many examples of service-learning programs ranging from freshman introductory courses tosenior capstone courses. Despite their successes, an area that the engineering education community hasyet to fully develop is the reflection component of service learning. This paper addresses thedevelopment of reflection activities and materials in the Engineering Projects in Community Service(EPICS) program at Purdue University

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

design projects—and in assessing the educational impactof robotics projects and competitions. We show that one particular assignment, the developmentof autonomous mobile robots, ties together interdisciplinary design, experiential learning,teamwork assessment and other topical educational subjects in powerful and unique ways. Weidentify best practices taken from our experiences, focusing on (a) undergraduate experiences infire-fighting robotics and in the AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition; (b) integratingrobotics into the first year engineering design courses, advanced research project teams, andsenior design projects; (c) robot design as a medium to promote teamwork; (d) methods ofevaluation and assessment of robotics curricula and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massoud (Mike) Safavi; James Strueber

SESSION NO.: 1793 THE TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY SOLAR DECATHLON HOUSE ENTRY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT Mike Safavi, James Strueber Tuskegee UniversityIntroductionThis paper describes Tuskegee University’s entry in the First Solar Decathlon Contest, sponsoredby The Department of Energy. First, the project goals, design, construction, logistics of movingthe house to the Capital’s Mall, setup, and testing aredescribed; then an analysis of the project success andfailures is presented.In 2000, The Department of Energy (DOE), BritishPetroleum Solar (BP Solar), and The AmericanInstitute of Architects (AIA), challenged all theAmerican Schools of Architecture

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Session Number: 1430 Students to Engineering Practice K. K. Stevens, S. M. Schlossberg, M. M. Larrondo Petrie College of Engineering, Florida Atlantic UniversitySTUDENTS TO ENGINEERING PRACTICE (STEP) is a manifestation of a research project* that setsthe task of developing a sustainable and replicable industry-academia partnership model forhelping talented, but financially disadvantaged, students complete their baccalaureate degrees intimely fashion and move successfully into the workforce. The intent of the project is todemonstrate that significant improvements in retention, placement, and workforce throughputcan be achieved by

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Mills; William Cleghorn

problems, an application was made to the Manufacturing ResearchCorporation of Ontario (MRCO), subsequently renamed Materials and Manufacturing Ontario (MMO) toprovide funding for projects with industry, which would simultaneously serve as Fourth Year UndergraduateThesis Projects. The MMO is primarily a research funding organization, with a mandate to support thetraining of highly qualified personnel, hence the MMO initiative is consistent with the overall MMO mandate. Page 9.870.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 82004

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

pre-college students in such programs need to involve tribal college, university, and school faculty inthe development and implementation of those activities. This paper describes the experience ofthe authors in a multi-year, multi-site project funded by the Office of Naval Research providingenhancement activities for reservation middle and high school students and activities to facilitatesmooth transfer of tribal college students to four-year colleges or universities. The studentactivities in the project were planned, designed and implemented jointly by tribal college,university, and high school teachers. The program has been a success not only in terms of theincreased student enrollment in the activities but also by systemically impacting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

Session 1793 Integrating Engineering throughout K-12 Classrooms: A Working Model for Involvement of Teachers Bonniejean Boettcher, Bree Carlson, Martha Cyr Worcester Polytechnic Institute/University of Massachusetts AmherstAbstractFour Massachusetts universities are working together to provide engineering design content andsupport for teachers from across the state. The focus of this NSF funded project is to provideprofessional development opportunities to strengthen the background of teachers, and to guidethem with implementation ideas and support as they bring engineering into to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Batta; Ron Zuckerman

Engenius Solutions: Creating an Entrepreneurial Revolution at RHITAndrew Batta, Aaron Capizzi, Jonathon Fruchte, Ron Zuckerman, and Dan Moore1 Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyUndergraduate engineering is changing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology throughEngenius Solutions. Funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, Engenius Solutionsallocates financial and intellectual resources in an effort to help undergraduate engineersthink like entrepreneurs as well as engineers in their careers. Project ideas are solicitedfrom students, faculty, staff and the general public for evaluation by Engenius Solutions.Those ideas that meet the specific criteria establish by Engenius Solutions are

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland

Session 1325 Clemson-FujiFilm Partnership for Introducing Design to Freshmen Matthew W. Ohland General Engineering, Clemson UniversityAbstractDetails of a partnership between Clemson University’s General Engineering program andFujiFilm’s Greenwood facility provide an excellent example of an industry-sponsored designproject. Two years of experience with students engaged in design projects based on makingmodifications to Fuji QuickSnap cameras have yielded creative results, and descriptions andphotos of the more interesting designs are available. The grading criteria for both the

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

Engineer. Many young graduates are confronted with the difficult tasksof learning the design process of their new employer, while trying to adapt to a new set ofbusiness priorities and metrics not associated with their educational experience. This course isdesigned to place them in a position of design responsibility on a multi-talented team, while theydirect a project from the point of establishing a comprehensive requirement to demonstration of aproduct. In a single semester, they are exposed to targeted research, project budgeting andscheduling, formal oral reviews, design audits, documentation processes and team organization.Industry sponsorship provides a meaningful use for the student product, budgets to allow creativesolutions to be

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

a new senior project curriculum. Senior civil engineering students must now complete a three-term, full academic year,senior project sequence that integrates engineering design with communication skilldevelopment. The class functions as a civil engineering consulting firm with civilengineering faculty leading design teams in geotechnical engineering, transportation andtraffic engineering, environmental engineering, structural engineering and planning. Twocommunications faculty are also part of the firm and provide in-house expertise intechnical communications. The firm is required to respond to a formal request for proposal (RFP), develop aconceptual plan within the proposal, and prepare and present a professional proposal tosecure

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

communities) of many civilengineering projects and provide continuity for design projects that extend over multiple courses.Undergraduates go to the Garden City website to access projects and related data and designinformation. They are also able to store reports at the website, creating an electronic portfolio.Finally, the Garden City website provides a central location for course webpages, tutorials,modules etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide detail on the Garden City project,particularly as it affects teaching design principles throughout the curriculum.INTRODUCTIONThe following text is the Project Summary of “Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum”,NSF grant # 9872505.1 It is included here to provide a brief summary of the Sooner

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

courses throughprovision of projects and direct monetary support. Additionally, it has been our experience atCSM that industry advisory committee members from the three subject disciplines support andencourage the development of the capstone experience. Advisory committee members from thethree participating CSM departments, who are also potential employers, provide consistentencouragement for the continued development and improvement of the capstone coursediscussed in this paper. Interviews of recruiters from a variety of employers echo the support forthe capstone courses importance and significance. This interest likely arises from studies thathave shown direct monetary benefits realized through teamwork across the PE, GE, and GPdisciplines

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

themain concept of teaching. Many years ago the EPS course team realized that to break downtraditions and to move away from formally taught courses is difficult; but it must be done inorder to be able to cope with the fast growing field of new technology.IntroductionThe paper reports our experience gained from the learning and teaching methods used on thisinternational teamwork semester known as EPS. This 17 weeks semester programme isabout group project work performed by interdisciplinary and internationally mixed teams of4-6 students. EPS emphasizes the development of technical as well as personal competencesto meet identified needs of society, industry, university and students. On this courseparticipants are given the opportunity to use their

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

students’ overall learning in laboratory so as to better prepare themfor industry and/or graduate research, we have (1) created a new lecture course on engineeringexperimentation to accompany the laboratory, (2) increased the emphasis on experimentalplanning and data analysis for each lab project, (3) implemented a peer-review and reportrevision procedure, (4) require students to follow industry standards for recording data inlaboratory notebooks, and (5) completely revised the department’s Lab Manual to reflect thesechanges in emphasis. This paper describes the organization and effectiveness of our revisedlaboratory sequence in comparison with our previous approach.IntroductionThe unit operations laboratory is generally regarded as an ideal

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

trips and hands-on projects. One of the highlights of this class is the manufacturingbowl at the end of the semester. Students are divided into four groups to compete in theknowledge of manufacturing. The winning group is selected by means of the double-eliminationprocess. A gaming device that consists of a console and two push-button control boxes iscreated for the competition. Seven sets of multiple-choice questions are created in PowerPointpresentations. Prior to the end of the semester, a final project is assigned to have each group ofstudents design their own trophy for the competition. This project illustrates students’ creativity,their ability to work as a team and their manufacturing skills.The competition serves as a review of

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

andsafety for the sponsoring institution. Issues such as these inevitably draw the attention ofadministration requiring explanation and justification.Many capstone courses utilize design and build projects sponsored by industry5,6. Whileproviding valuable interaction for students, the involvement of sponsors brings more issues todeal with along with a new group of interested parties.We will refer to each of the interested parties and individuals as stakeholders. When consideringthe design and organization of a capstone program, the institution should carefully consider thevalues of their stakeholders along with the educational objectives that they wish to accomplish.The design of the program influences both the scope of stakeholders and which of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Is It Senior Design or a High Tech Start-Up? Ken Ports Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Senior Design course taken near the end of an engineer’s undergraduate tenure isincreasingly recognized as a “capstone” activity, enabling these future professionals to applytheir collegiate education and experience in a team environment to solving real world problemsor to creating new capabilities. Ideally, Senior Design teams are also cross-functional, tobroaden the projects and better replicate the professional world. In addition, there is a growinginterest in linking Senior Design with entrepreneurial activities, even to the point ofcommercializing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

DISTRIBUTED DESIGN IN THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – PLATTEVILLE Mesut Muslu Electrical Engineering Department University of Wisconsin – PlattevilleAbstractA variety of processes and methods exist to teach engineering design in universities today.Although some programs introduce simple design projects in freshman year, many programsprovide design experience through a few concentrated courses in junior or senior year. Manystudents report that design methods are typically taught in high-level courses and in acompartmentalized fashion. In such cases

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Brandt; David Hansen; Steven Kuennen; Pamela Neal; Cary Fisher

project management, and close interaction with faculty serving as coaches and mentors.This course’s organizing project gives plenty of opportunity for creativity and enough breadth to touch onall appropriate disciplines. Students are organized in small problem-solving design teams. Traditionallectures and evaluations are replaced with web-based instruction and hands-on projects. Computer toolsare employed where appropriate, and students are evaluated on both individual comprehension and groupexecution of the project. Throughout the semester, design teams deliver two oral presentations and a finalwritten report.The course gives students early experience wrestling with challenging educational outcomes; studentsapply the systems engineering approach

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chen Lin; Cheng Lin

hydraulic components with PLC programs.To let students have hands-on applications in this course, a two-hour/week lab is alsooffered to train the students to integrate mechanical, pneumatic, and electricalcomponents with ladder diagrams or PLC programs. The lab basically includes threemain sessions: (1) four weeks of pneumatic applications, (2) four weeks of pneumaticcomponents, electrical sensors, and ladder diagrams, and (3) five weeks of PLCprogramming using IDEC3 and TRiLOGI4 PLCs. In addition, the simulation software ofAutomation Studio5 is used in each project so that students can check their designs beforeimplementing their projects. Depending on the number of students enrolled in each lab,several small groups are formed so that they

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Gore

engineeringtechnology versus engineering, and the confusion that seems to be present in both industry andacademia. A new model was needed in order to define an ET education that attracts studentswhile meeting the needs of those businesses and industries that hire ET graduates. After ourstudents, graduates, and the Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) Industry AdvisoryCommittee were surveyed, a new model was developed. Without going into details of thismodel (a topic for another paper), its key elements provide the following intents for ourgraduates: 1. Fast track to technical project management. 2. High-value specialty knowledge positions (not design engineering positions).Each relevant ET course is being evaluated to see what is needed to

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

by hand.In the following sections, each numerical method topic is summarized along with thecorresponding project assignments. Screen shots of output from selected projects are included inthe appendix. The project handouts are freely available in PDF format on the course website atwww.coe.uncc.edu/~gkwatkin/ETGR3272/. They are also available in Word™ format by emailrequest to gkwatkin@uncc.edu. i. Modeling, Computers, and Error Analysis The course begins with an introduction to common methods used in posing engineering problems for computer solution. Computer basics, such as bits, bytes, binary representation of numbers, and error analysis are introduced. Programming concepts, such as code structure

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

Session 2225 Achieving EC2000 Outcomes in the Capstone Design Via Structured Industry Advisory Board Involvement Kathleen A. Kramer University of San DiegoAbstractThe capstone design sequence was selected as a focus for the structure of the activities of anindustry advisory board. The focus on the capstone sequence provided both a framework forongoing industry involvement and an improvement in student project results. Activities includedsupplying input on changes in the approach to the design process within the capstone sequence,such as team

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Reising

Session 2425 Capstone Design in Electrical and Computer Engineering Delivery and Assessment of ABET Criterion 3 James A. Reising University of EvansvilleIntroductionSeveral changes have been made to the Senior Design Project Course Sequence at the Universityof Evansville as previously described in “Senior Design Project Course Sequence, Electrical andComputer Engineering”1 to provide students with additional exposure to the non-technicalaspects of engineering and to enable assessment of the outcomes of ABET Criterion 32, listedbelow for

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

ABET and listed in the Program Criteria for Civiland Similarly Named Engineering Programs and the General Criteria (Professional Component)has been enhanced by being involved with the steel bridge and concrete canoe projects. Theresults are also compared with students who have practical civil engineering experience. Inparticular, the findings suggest that students who are directly involved with project work believethat four areas have been greatly enhanced. They include: structural engineering, projectmanagement/scheduling and estimating, constructability and team work. Understanding ofengineering codes and standards, health and safety issues, materials engineering, and ethicalconsiderations are also perceived to be enhanced. Furthermore, the

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Peerman; Michael Payne; Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

Session 2651 Community-Based Approach to Environmental Education Vivian Chang, Eliot S. Metzger, Michael Payne, Sonya M. Havens, Wade R. Peerman, and John M. Lendvay University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CAAbstractThe Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco, California, is a diverse communitythat experiences an inordinate amount of pollution. Within this five square mile area, heavyindustry, the city’s sewage treatment plant, and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard(HPNSY) all act as concentrated and diffuse pollution sources. This research project focuses