Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; Eugene DeLoatch; Sherra Kerns; Carla Purdy; Lueny Morell

implications for U.S. industries, education and government agencies. Why? Becausethese groups have long been under-represented in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM). Additionally, the U.S. Bureau of Labor 2000 Census predicts thatengineering jobs will increase from the current level of 1.5 million to 1.75 million and ComputerScience and Engineering jobs will increase from 1.5 million to 3.0 million by 2008. These jobgrowth projections represent tremendous challenges for our K-12 and higher educationalsystems, as well as for industry and government. Supply and demand must match up.Currently, there is a lack of a comprehensive plan and focused national strategy to address thetrend of unfilled future STEM positions. Thus, the members

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi; Zbigniew Pasek

controller to perform the physical buildof the “product”. This paper also describes student projects designed to explore the feasibility ofthe technical concepts necessary for such a system. These include a robot gripper, a block sortingmechanism, and an assembly planning system integrated with the Lego CAD system and thephysical assembly cell.INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATIONComputer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is typically defined as the use of Computer andAutomation Systems to operate and control production. This definition breaks the productionactivities into two major categories: the information processing performed by Computer-AidedDesign and Planning systems and the physical activities performed by automation systems.Information processing tasks

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

Lean implementation projects. In addition a semester project onproduction simulation using ProModel software is also required.VII. Ship Repair Simulation Exercise This simulation exercise incorporates repair of two ships of different sizes. One ofthe ships is shown in Figure 1. During the simulation, students track performance metricslike lead-time, cycle time, rework and distance traveled by material handler whileimplementing various tools of Lean in three phases. This exercise takes into accountlogistical issues such as inspection reports, master repair schedules, emergent repairs, inaddition to planned repair activities. This simulation exercise simulates repair activitiessuch as painting, blasting, engine overhaul, shaft

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Larkin; Dan Budny

in the countries of destination.The course consists of three parts: • A pre-departure component (25% of the course grade) consisting of four mandatory three hour Sunday afternoon seminars in March and April. These sessions incorporate material on the historical, cultural, economic, and social environments of the country/region of the field study. In addition, students take part in both engineering and business lectures that prepare them for their research projects and provide them with the analysis tools for the student project; a crash course in language; and advice on traveling in each country. There are also assigned reading materials. Students are also advised in December, that it would be to

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

a significant factor in theoutcome of an engineering project, product, or undertaking. There are many sides to theissue of ethics globalization. As educators in this field continuous attempts are made tolook at these issues systematically and assess the required modifications for our ethicseducation to produce engineers that are globally successful.Endeavors by the authors to “internationalize” instruction in engineering ethics includethe solicitation of input from engineering and technology students at Lake Superior StateUniversity with regard to changes in the ethics component of the engineering curriculum.This past year third-year students were given a survey soliciting their views on whatethical values are “universal” and what values

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kline

building andsimulating the production system being studied in Promodel. The student version of Promodel isintroduced early in the class and is used as a complement to class and homework problems toverify the textbook solutions. Building the Promodel solution forces students to think about andidentify the process structure, connections, and parameters as they would in a real productionsetting. Students both build their own simulation solutions to problems as well as experimentwith models provided by the instructor.As the textbook does not integrate the simulation approach, several new homework assignments,case studies, and a student project covering generic production and logistics processes have beenintegrated into the course to illustrate course

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

sudhakar vadiraja; Hector Cervantes

smart materials. These also include, teaching learning skills and creativethinking during experimental projects/exercises.Teaching learning skillsThe acquisition of process skills, i.e. learning how to learn, is equally important, if not moreimportant, than the acquisition of knowledge itself. Process skills refer to the abilities to source,analyze, screen, prioritize and apply a mass of information to solve the problem at hand. Suchskills are especially important in the new era where the growth of knowledge is explosive andlifelong independent learning is essential.Teaching creative thinkingSmall group discussions are conducted to improve creative thinking skills. Creative thinking isespecially important in formulating problems and exploring

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Moody

learning styles • Engaging presentation o Clear written and verbal communication o High degree of contact with the students o Physical models and demonstrations • Enthusiasm • Positive rapport with students • Frequent assessment of student learning o Classroom assessment techniques o Out-of-class homework and projects • Appropriate use of technology Page 9.626.2Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

Page 9.1233.1 10. A knowledge of contemporary issues “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 11. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practiceThe four additional outcomes provide for depth in a specialized technical area, outcome 12, andadditional breadth, outcomes 13 through 15: 12. An ability to apply knowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering 13. An understanding of the elements of project management, construction, and asset management 14. An understanding of business and public policy and

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

Engineeringprogram at Penn State.1. The Learning Factory brings hands-on experiences to freshmen in the product dissection classes and to seniors in the capstone design courses. Students pursuing the Product Realization Minor are even more involved with the activities at the Learning Factory. The Society of Automotive Engineers also uses the facilities at the Learning Factory when building the Formula Car. The Learning Factory received the Boeing Educator Award in 1998 and has also participated in outreach to elementary and high school students including Take-Your- Daughter-to-Work Day.2. The senior capstone design projects are almost entirely sponsored by industry. Each student design team works on a unique project proposed by industry

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

(MSGC). The research focusedon modeling and simulation of an Underactuated Surface Autonomous Vehicle (USAV).The small, low cost USAV development forms an integral part of the Ocean AtmosphereSensor Integration System (OASIS) project led by the NASA scientist who is also a co-author of this paper. The discussion is not exhaustive but provides a starting point for thedesign and real-time control efforts that will follow to develop a fully functional smalland low-cost USAV.Significant research efforts are being devoted to the design and control of UninhabitedAerial Vehicles (UAV)1 and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 2-4 largely driven Page

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Adams

Wheeler Conserving Transducers Dynamics Wheeler 6 Elasticity Adams Structures, Dissipation of Thermal 7 Energy Adams 8 Microfluidic Systems Morris 9 MEMS Packaging McInerney MEMS Applications: Capacitive accelerometer Hudson 10 Electrostatic projection display Ahmed DNA amplificationThe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lumsdaine Arnold; Jack Waserman; J. A. M. Boulet

SESSION NUMBER _________ The Transition from Textbook Problems to Realistic Problems J. A. M. Boulet, A. Lumsdaine, J. F. Wasserman University of TennesseeAbstract The vision of this project is to help students make the transition from textbook problems torealistic engineering problems in which modeling precedes analysis and analysis requires inte-gration of concepts from various courses. To fulfill this vision, a self-paced, internet-based suiteof learning tools is being developed. They are structured to provide “just-in-time” informationand to allow a user’s errors to shape the learning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Berry

Session 2793 WE@UT – A Residential Recruitment Program for Women in Engineering Tricia S. Berry The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering at The University of Texas (WE@UT) program, a two-day in-depthresidential program, is designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding ofengineering and technology through hands-on, technology-based team projects so well informedand solid educational and career decisions are made. The objectives of this program are (1) toencourage young women to explore engineering as a career

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ventura

topic can be mapped to an attribute of an ABET EC-2000learning outcome [4]. For example, an engineering course titled ECE Project must meet theobjective of EC-2000, item c – ability to design systems. The syllabus for this course is used toidentify the attributes that map to this key-learning outcome. Below is a statement of coursegoals listed in the syllabus of the ECE Project class: 1. Learn proper library search methods for information on selected subject. 2. Organize the problem statement and design specifications. 3. Present alternate solutions and list advantages and disadvantages of each. 4. Present final solution and reasons for choice involving realistic constraints such as economic factors, reliability

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

. More, however, projected a society sharing all materialresources in conformity with the modern communist model, though ruled from a democraticbase. A lack of private property is essential in his ideal society is (see table 1.).Table 1.: Characteristics of life in More’s Utopia • all citizens work for a period of the day agriculturally, helping produce the stores that feed them all • social organization is patriarchal, in family units, with slaves for menial tasks • all property is held in common • citizens are indifferent to money, gold, silver and precious stones • all the activities are carefully supervised, including travel, marriage, the care of the sick, and the elimination of the old and infirm • war is hated, but

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 2660 CAPACITY BUILDING – ENGINEERS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D. James Madison UniversityAbstractThe global persistence of warfare, aggression, oppression and political unrest testify to thegrowing vulnerability and impatience of those who live in conditions of extreme poverty.A larger injection of aid is needed to help stabilize the poorest countries: projects thatpromise only

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gralinski; Janis Terpenny

Regional High School (ARHS) with faculty atthe University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College in addressing issues impinging thesuccess of engineering and technology curricula. More specifically, this collaboration hasfocused on: reviewing and enhancing high school teacher’s core knowledge of engineeringdesign, the curricular changes made based on this study/research, and research of gender equityissues in engineering and technology curricula. Plans to recruit and retain female students in thetechnology/engineering area at both secondary and university levels are described; including,cross-institutional projects with an emphasis on assistive technologies and universal design, anda variety of outreach activities between institutions. A structure

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

differentknowledge and skills than do college entrance and placement requirements. Similarly, thecoursework between high school and college is not connected; students graduate from highschool under one set of standards and, three months later, are required to meet a whole new set ofstandards in college.”1 Since a foundations class is usually the first course encountered byfreshmen within a chosen major, there is a clear bridging responsibility taken on to introduce thestudent to the demands, style, and culture within the major.The foundations course can help meet two out of the three recommendations from the StanfordBridge Project:2 • Provide all students, their parents, and educators with accurate, high quality, information about, and access to

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

the activities and milestones are vary vague and no specific andimmediately usable performance measures are introduced. Nisanci and Nicoll 16 proposed aneleven step project planning network for investigation and implementation phases of leanmanufacturing. The precise activities and evaluation-implementation sequences of the networksteps need to be devised by users themselves. In all these methods, there is no exactperformance measure that would point initial improvement efforts towards the biggest wastes orcompare them to a standard (for example standard achievements in an industry). Obviously,such "industry standards" do not exist, or rather are kept unpublished since they are at the core ofa set of competitive advantages of a manufacturer

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

the preservice teachers to broadly applicable engineering content such as problem solving and design while they actively learn about performance assessment.The freshman engineering class at the University of Arizona is a critical component of thefoundation necessary for engineering students to learn and flourish in their later coursework, yetlittle is known about what students actually learn during their 15 weeks in the course. In theclass, teaching is approached with a variety of techniques, including large lectures on broadtopics, small classes involving technical material, team-based design projects, and classroomactivities; the class therefore serves as an excellent case for K-12 preservice teachers to see andassess in practice the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aisha Lawrey

workshops and activities for students,educators, and parents in the local area. One activity that was done in conjunction with theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers was two fun-filled days at the Liberty Science Center.Liberty Science Center is a science museum that is located in Jersey City, NJ. At the Centerbooths were set up where engineers worked with students on projects that explore simpleengineering concepts.Another Engineers’ week activity was to a trip for high school girls to the L’Oreal Company.This event was part of “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.” The students toured the facilities,explored how certain L’Oreal products are made and talked to female engineers who work at theplant

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson

. For instance, theFoundation Coalition is supporting assessment tool development efforts in a number ofengineering subjects. These efforts have focused on developing “concept” inventories. Theseconcept inventories focus on determining student understanding of the subject’s fundamentalconcepts.Separately, a NSF-supported effort to develop an assessment tool for statics was begun in the lastyear by the authors. As a first step, the project team analyzed prior work aimed at delineatingimportant knowledge areas in statics. They quickly recognized that these important knowledgeareas contained both conceptual and “skill” components. Both knowledge areas are describedand examples of each are provided. Also, a cognitive psychology-based taxonomy of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

process at an ACSA Technology Conference in 1992;1 sincethen the assignment has been further developed, expanded, enhanced, and refined.Professionals must be able to write daily reports to document progress on the job or project activities, toevaluate, and to summarize the work of others. They must be able to compose clear, succinct technicalreports on a regular basis; they also need to be able to speak in front of groups of people, ranging fromdirecting workers in the office, to the instructing at the jobsite, to making formal public presentations.This means being able to write and speak clearly and concisely and to present the material so it can beclearly understood by the intended audience. Professionals also need to review a seemingly endless

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

projects. Teams generally meet weekly to discuss the progress of students andto plan the sequence of instruction for the coming week. Instructors are routinely in theclassroom at the same time only when students are making team presentations that are jointlygraded by the teaching team. Students enroll in all four ATE classes simultaneously unlessexempt from a course within the ET Core because of previously earned credit. It is not essentialthat courses in the ET Core be scheduled in an uninterrupted block of time, but this type ofscheduling helps keep students focused.Senior projects and capstone courses often "pull it all together" for four-year college engineeringor engineering technology students who persist to become seniors. For two-year

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

paper presents the design and development of a generic control architecture that enablesover-the-Internet access to automated manufacturing equipment. The architecture has beendeveloped through a series of projects that have been conducted at the Integrated SystemsFacility (ISF) in the Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri – Rolla.The projects include Web-based applications for materials management, product design andmachining, robot programming, and programmable logic control programming. For eachapplication, a prototype has been developed and implemented in the course Emgt 334 ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing Systems as an E-Lab Suite for various laboratory applications.The concept presented in this paper offers a

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

been very positive as demonstrated by a 50% improvement in attendance. The objectives of improved communication, problem solving, and team skills in addition to a background in BME applications have been successfully demonstrated with projects, papers, and presentations. This approach has provided additional benefits for the supervision of graduate students and for research planning. Although initially challenging, the benefits to cost ratio is so high that it is planned for incorporation in all courses in the curriculum. I. Introduction This paper presents the results of having students use the instructor’s grading rubrics to assess both oral and written presentation. For the

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

two institutions requires at least a forty-five minute commute,all of The University of Dayton Engineering Technology courses completed by Edisonstudents will be offered through distance learning. Nearly all of the Edison Community College students participating in the 2 + 2program work full-time. This fact, combined with the distance separating the twoinstitutions make providing a cohesive educational experience similar to that of residentstudents at The University of Dayton challenging. Distance learning capabilities at bothinstitutions make such an endeavor possible. During the Fall semester of 2002, the Industrial Engineering Technology programat The University of Dayton offered the IET 323 Project Management course as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

Session 2793 Pedagogy and Technology in Statics Sean W. St.Clair, Nelson C. Baker Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper will discuss ten different Statics instructional technology programs that wereconsidered for classroom use and the positive aspects of each as well as some of theirshortcomings.While in the process of a larger research project investigating the effects of technology use in theclassroom, a number of different readily available instructional programs designed for use inStatics courses were studied. The programs were being

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

reflect such issues as technological advances and thegrowth of the engineering team in the workplace. Over the past decade the CEAB increased therequirements for complementary studies (soft skills) and moved from a proportional measure ofcurriculum to an absolute measure. Changes under consideration at the present time include: · refining the curriculum content requirements for Basic Science and Mathematics, · including morale and commitment of faculty, support staff and students as a component of the qualitative evaluation, and · including the requirement for students to be exposed to the concepts of project management.The engineering profession expects of its members competence in engineering as well as anunderstanding of the impact of