Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

between different group members’ values’ • ‘Have one person press the parts on the same machine. Different people pressing and using different machines can give too much variation to the part’. • ‘Time is a factor; get started early on the project as sintering takes a great deal of time’. • ‘Plan enough time to complete the project ahead of time (pressing parts, sintering parts, and completing a report take a lot of time)’. • ‘Use the same press for all trials’.Whereas the student concern about the variability of compaction between different teams isvalid, it was felt necessary to have each group go through all the steps in order to benefit from ahands-on approach. Unlike an upper level course in which the

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

American, 4% asHispanic, 17% as Asian or Asian American, 66% as White or European American, and 6%reported other (e.g., multiracial) racial/ethnic identifications. Mean self-reported mathematicsSAT scores were 708.80 (SD = 59.70). The large majority of participants were planning to Page 9.1052.3“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”continue on in engineering, with most expressing preferences for mechanical (27%), electrical(16%), aerospace (15%), or computer (13%) specialties.Procedure and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

programs tobe offered. An email list solely for the executive board exists to discuss administrative mattersand a separate email list exists for graduate student members who simply attend ASEE-sponsored events and may be interested in helping to plan events or to volunteer to be part of apanel discussion. Officer turnover and transition is especially critical for maintaining the student Page 9.217.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright „ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationchapter’s activity from year to year. New members are

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

chart previously developed. A Gantt chart encompassesthree critical items: (1) Milestones – what are the major tasks for the team? (2) Deadlines – whenwill these milestones be achieved? (3) Responsibility – who is the person responsible for eachmilestone and sub-tasks? We believe it is important to have individual responsibility even onmulti-person tasks. Figure 2 shows a significantly scaled down version of a typical Gantt chart.Documentation: If the team is going to pass forward their knowledge and experience to futureteams, a documentation plan is needed. We are still in development of this item. Documentationand the quality of the documentation is time consuming as well as difficult to convey. We havethree levels of documentation: (1

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Kaitlyn Conroy; Melissa Pickering; Emily Ryan; Brian Gravel

classroom or setting do you or have you worked in?4. What do you find interesting or engaging about your field of engineering?5. Was there any person or experience that impacted your decision to become an engineer?6. How did you get started doing outreach? a. (if chose outreach) Why did you choose to be involved with outreach?7. What interested you about outreach?8. Do you participate or do you plan to participate in research? a. (If they do research and outreach) – How do you balance research and outreach? b. (If they plan to do research) – Do you think you will you continue to do outreach when you do research or will you need to stop doing outreach?9. What do you find interesting or rewarding about outreach?10. What do you

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

mathematics, science, and engineering principles and engineering design in a real world practice setting. • Develop understanding and gain experience in interpersonal, team, and presentation abilities. • Develop understanding and gain experience in the economic, legal, organizational and business realities that operate in a commercial company or government agency. • Acquire an appreciation of the social, environmental and ethical implications of industry or government decision-making and practice. • Gain experience in setting and carrying out career plans through resume writing, interviewing and networking training. • Further develop as an individual, gaining self-awareness and appreciation of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

Session xxxx Time-Based Versus Quantity-Based Breakeven Analysis Robert C. Creese Ph.D., PE, CCE Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department College of Engineering and Mineral Resources West Virginia UniversityIntroduction Breakeven analysis has traditionally focused upon quantity-based breakeven analysis,which determines the production quantity at the specific breakeven point. This has worked formarketing, sales, and top-management for planning yearly goals, but it provides little assistanceat the plant management level where the production quantity is not a variable

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre Sayles

, Encourage Creativity At All Levels. 5. Assessment At Individual and Organizational Levels. Plan For Improvement. Table 2. Example LDPM ImplementationBenefits of the LDPM will be revealed in many ways. A common understanding of howdiversity works opens the door to conversations that otherwise would never take place. Thiscommon understanding also promotes creativity and innovation from individuals who werepreviously uncomfortable discussing diversity. Finally, organizational members begin to valuedifferences and voluntarily support organizational diversity efforts.AssessmentSince the LDPM is a new concept, a formal assessment process is yet to be developed. On thesurface, it appears that both

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"management. The College of Engineering at NC State is experimenting with the integration ofservice-learning especially at the freshman and senior year. The remainder of this paper willpresent our experience with a two-year service-learning project in a senior design ChemicalEngineering course.Description of Service-learning Projects in CHE Capstone Design CourseSpring 2002 In planning for the Spring 2002 offering of senior design, both instructors (Bullard andPeretti) had recently completed an on-campus Service-learning Faculty Associate trainingprogram and were

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

courses in the previous semester: EAS Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering Education107, Introduction to Engineering and EAS 109, Project Planning and Development, as well asone semester of General Chemistry, Calculus I (or precalculus) and English Composition.For most students, EAS112 replaces a combination of spreadsheet applications (1 credit) and Cprogramming (2 or 3 credits). Engineering students in several majors at UNH have haddifficulty with the C programming courses, and very few have chosen to use C when solvingproblems in subsequent engineering courses . Our experience in this regard is consistent

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

achieved through amajor enhancement of the contribution of the manufacturing sector to the GNP.5. Mercosul and EducationThe Education plans for Mercosul consider the promotion of an education system very similar,which goal is to form a professional capable to insert and to maintain her/him in the work marketof the four Countries of the Bloc [02].It is an ambitious goal but not impossible despite they have different educational systems besidesthe political and social challenges peculiar to each one. The language is not properly a bigproblem once they are similar what facilitates communication.In other words the objective is to get the young population educated in Schools of one Countryhaving the diplomas valid in other Countries so that they can

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

skills that would be used in the courses. Theseskills included the use of different coordinate systems, and the review of some calculus conceptssuch as the choices of the limits of definite integrals. However, as our planning moved forward,the emphasis of the Redshirt Camps shifted more towards the preparation for the workshops thatwould be taken during the semester, as well. Page 8.1044.4 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Abdullah Abonamah; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

academic model includes Learning Outcomes at all stages in the student’sacademic life. Students with the assistance of their advisors develop an individual learning plan.The Learning Outcomes emphasize planning, decision-making and application skills, and studentsare assessed for their ability to demonstrate applied synthesis and integration of knowledge andskills. There are six key Zayed University Learning Outcomes that form the basis of the ZU APMmodel. All students must demonstrate accomplishments in the six ZULOs before they graduate.They are defined as follows: • Information Literacy and Communication: ZU graduates will be able to recognize

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Ansari

. The roof,which is isolated from the ceiling, is dome shaped and supports a solar collector-cum-solar shieldassembly. The solar collector is composed of six separate triangular panels in the form of a lowpyramid. The panels are equipped with concentrators and tapered water pipes enclosed intransparent hollow pipes. A verandah, with a roof that is angled upward at nearly 30 degrees,surrounds the walls. Sun screens (which close and open according to solar position) are situatedon the east and west sides. On the south-east, south and south-west sides along the verandahenclosures with glass walls are provided for use as a sit-out and greenhouse. Fig.1 Isometric View Showing Visible External FeaturesFig. 2. shows a floor plan

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

completing the six-week on-campus session, students receive academic creditand are able to advance to the second portion of the program, which occurs during the summerfollowing the junior year.The second portion of the program is an off-campus, minimum ten week, paid internship. Theinternship program was created in response to companies’ desires to hire graduates with actualexposure to industry practices. The experience gives students exposure to everyday planning andproblem-solving activities in the organization and puts them in contact with managerial staff inthe organization. Internships come in three forms, project-oriented, shadow-to-an-executive, orexecutive assistance, with the last two being the preferred types. An effective

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

a decision matrix to select the best of the remaining designs.Design Evaluation: Using the performance measure formula as a starting point, eachteam was to come up with a set of objectives and constraints that their potential designsshould try to meet. A weighting factor was to be associated with each objective. Usingthese objectives and constraints, a decision matrix was developed which would later beused to evaluate and compare the team's different developed designs.Task Planning: Teams were given the due dates for the project, including dates whenprogress reports were due, the competition date, and the presentation dates. They wereassigned to develop a list of tasks that needed to be completed prior to each due date andthen develop an

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

important aspectof this second phase has been the handoff of the project from one team of students to thenext. Information transfer has been smooth, and continuity has been maintained. Theexperiences of the students in working through this phase of the project are described.IntroductionThe Microturbine Demonstration Project is a collaboration among the Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering, the City of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy.The City of Milwaukee was planning the renovation of a city-owned building into a smalloffice complex. City engineers hoped to incorporate cutting-edge energy technology intothe building redesign. Their choice was installation of a 60-kW microturbinemanufactured by Capstone Turbine Corporation, along

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

launched, there must be a ground station for the operationof the satellite while in flight. While planning the launch of FS-1, the Department ofDefense Space Test Program needed a ground station in the United States for a micro-satellite named PICOSAT. PICOSAT was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd(SSTL) in Guildford, UK and was partially funded through the DoD ForeignComparative Testing Program. This ground station was located in the USAFA SpaceSystems Research Center (SSRC). The ground station for FS-1 was collocated with thePICOSAT Ground Station and has developed into the present system. A floor plan of thepresent FalconSAT Ground Station is illustrated in Figure 6. The PICOSAT section ofthe Ground Station is an automated system and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

course include orbital fundamentals, rocket fundamentals, andan introduction to space mission planning/operations. In addition to outside lecturers from thespace operations community, teaching aids used in the course include the following: 1. Large and hand-held orbital elements models, (“whiz wheels”) to illustrate orbital fundamentals; 2. Computer-based demonstrations such as STK to illustrate orbital characteristics; 3. Full-size examples and models of past and present satellites and rockets and their subsystems; 4. A demonstrational micro-satellite that has fully functional compartmentalized subsystems.The micro-satellite is particularly helpful in illustrating the physical concepts, components

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Page 9.931.1number of learning objectives including developing team and computer skills, creative problem Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsolving, and effective project planning that are addressed through a team-based conceptualdesign experience. The content and delivery method of ENGR 1201 are quite similar to otherschools where the initial course in engineering is common to all majors2,3,4. The class is amixture of lectures that give “engineering survival skills” (computer, library, professional)combined with a semester-long team project that requires planning, conceptual design, and

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

severalyears. In early 2001, the College of Engineering & Computer Science (CECS) formed acommittee to come up with a plan to address the math-related retention issues at WSU. Thecommittee proposed the idea of developing an engineering course which would teach thestudents only the math they really needed to know in order to progress into their sophomore andjunior years. The committee surveyed the various departments to determine exactly whatmathematics material was critical for their core engineering courses, and developed a pilotprogram to test the feasibility of the concept. The proposed content of EGR 101 consists of the mathematical prerequisites for thefollowing core engineering courses: PHY 240-244 (General Physics I, II and III), ME

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

Education Session 3260has Spring vacations from February 20 to April 5. Our plan was to let the UGA classes tocontinue as normal and to record these lectures during these "time gaps" for later use by the KUstudents when they get back in class, then in May we would teach directly to the KU studentsonly, as the UGA students had finished their term.All assignments and tests from the Athens students will be handled in the traditional manner.The same assignments will be distributed to KU students using e-mail and collected from themthe same way. However these e-assignments will be corrected using a Tablet PC system whereasthe instructor can manually mark up

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

and a tribal collegehave been formed to address issues that challenge their respective communities. The objectiveof this exchange is two fold: 1) educate engineering students on concepts of sustainability andthe practices and tradition of native cultures and 2) to partner with individuals in the communityon the deployment of energy efficient and sustainable technologies. These objectives bothpromote lifecycle thinking with respect to the investment in better efficient facilities. This paperpresents early lessons learned in the partnership through team work, leadership, problem solving,project planning and delivery combined with global awareness, cultural sensitivity, andversatility through this cross-disciplined, cross- cultural exchange of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

specific skills to teach. Any instructor teaching a junior-level course in a crowded curriculum is bound to ask, “Is it worthwhile for me to sacrifice classtime from teaching biomedical engineering in order to help students improve their writing? Isthis trade-off a good one?” Careful planning is necessary therefore to ensure that the writingassignment will indeed support key course goals and not just be a superfluous assignment thatstudents will perceive as busy work. In BMD ENG 301, both team-based writing assignmentsfocus on topics that students need to explore: • How information is coded in the nervous system • The recovery of neural function through biological or artificial meansThe first assignment especially, because of its

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

much as by plan. We will also have to becareful not to emphasize the use of the Internet to the exclusion of other sources. Table 2. Use of Information Technology in Instruction Course Electronic E-Mail Internet Submission Collaboration Searches CHEE 201 Material & Energy Balances I X CHEE 202 Material & Energy Balances II X CHEE 230 Modeling & Analysis X X CHEE 310 Process Fluid Mechanics X CHEE 311 Heat Transfer Operations X CHEE 312 Mass Transfer Equipment Design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmediated learning environment. Our presentation includes examples of how to constructassignments that fully exploit these CPR™ capabilities. Figure 2: Conceptual View of the “Writing/Revision Process” Instantiated by CPR™How Does CPR™ Measure Learning Outcomes?Good instructional design depends on having both objectives (desired outcomes) and a plan (ameans of accomplishment). As illustrated in the seven levels of Figure 2, the instructor sets thegoals in the writing prompt and thus initiates a guided inductive-path for attaining them bysetting expectations (performance standards) that are reverberated

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

, during which the ant presented its victory dance featuring the moonwalk.Solution DiscussionWe are proud to say that our ant ran the race the way it was planned to do so. It went around theracetrack twice and presented its victory dance without fail. However, it was not the fastestamongst its competitors, which is the one point that must be worked on.Planned Design ChangesThe ant was designed with a pulley system that moved its legs. The pulley system was ultimatelyattached to the driving wheels, which can have a fatal result if the wheels were damaged from theforces acting on it by the pulleys. For this reason, the design should be changed by attaching thepulley system to another rotating device that will not hinder the driving wheels

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

encouraged to “use common terminology,” a process that was notalways easy for instructors from English, math, chemistry, and engineering to do. Facultymembers from the four disciplines met to brainstorm strategies of cross-disciplinary assignmentsfor their cohorts. What these meetings did not consist of were plans to teach heavy-ladengrammar exercises or formatting of letters and reports.Although many faculty members from the English department initially feared that thiscollaboration would consist of only one-sided change (i.e., only the English classes wouldincorporate cross-disciplinary strategies), it became clear in the early meetings that this indeedwas a collaborative effort to give this group of engineering students an effectively

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shallcross

bund is known as the spillcollection compound, the containment area or the bunded area.Figure 1 shows plan and elevation views of a typical spill collection compound that contains twoequally-sized tanks. The two tanks are completed surrounded by the bund which is essentially awall between 1.0 m and 1.5 m in height. Also shown in the diagram are the paved road and pipetrack networks. A network of paved roads is needed in a bulk liquid chemical storage facility topermit free and unobstructed movement around the site. The pipe tracks contain the network ofpipes used to move the liquids stored in the facility between the tanks and the loading andunloading points. In Figure 1 the pipe network is shown as being in a trench, passing beneath

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Denise Hayman

. Page 7.4.10 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” This issue in the Roadmap brings into question how a student might respond to thetechnical course load. It is true that students typically have the freedom to select the number andtypes of courses they wish, but when not carefully planned the behavioral responses to a heavytechnical course load can result in an unwelcome challenge. There are several behavioral resultsthat may surface. A student may 1) become stressed out; (2) experience time managementproblems; (3) feel overwhelmed; (4) experience burn out; (5) lack a social life; (6