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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

Introducing Systems Modeling at the Freshman Level Cecelia M. Wigal, Ph.D., P.E. The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractThe Engineering program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) emphasizes theelements of the design process throughout the curriculum, beginning with the freshmen year. Atthe sophomore level all engineering students use design concepts to design, build, and test smallstructural and mechanical projects. At the junior and senior level the students use the designprocess to solve real-life and open-ended interdisciplinary industry-based problems provided byindustrial sponsors. In addition, students apply design concepts in a three

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; George Bodner; William Oakes

areexamples of service-learning that have been effectively integrated and used in engineeringcontexts 18. Examples include first-year introductory courses 17, 19, capstone senior designcourses 20, multidisciplinary approaches 21,22 and integration of co-curricular activities 23. There have been, however, few studies that have looked at the experiences and impacts ofservice-learning on engineering students. In order to provide a voice and to create a model ofexperiences and impacts of service-learning on the first-year engineering student; this studyreports the findings of a qualitative investigation of the students involved in the first-yearservice-learning engineering program..First-Year Engineering Service-Learning Program Service

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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course Helen L. Chen1, David Cannon2, Jonathan Gabrio, Larry Leifer2, George Toye2, and Tori Bailey2 Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning1/Center for Design Research2 Stanford University, USAAbstract An observation and a pedagogical challenge often found in project-based design coursesis that students see what they have produced but they do not see what they have learned. Thispaper presents preliminary findings from an NSF-sponsored research project which experimentswith the use of weblogs and wiki environments, two

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wasatonic; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

computer vision. They also have opportunity todemonstrate their knowledge through hands-on course projects and laboratory experiences, in theabove fields. In this paper, an example of an image processing application project is developed,in the context of an image-processing course. This paper presents an algorithm that uses stereoimages, obtained from two cameras mounted on the Mars Exploration Rovers, to determine therange of distant objects in the images by using correlation and triangulation. The initial valueobtained by the algorithm was not accurate because it did not take into account the fact that therange of an object beyond the camera’s focal point is non-linear in appearance, and to the non-linearity of the camera lens, thus the range

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

in progress during the spring semester 2005. Upon its successfulcompletion, student performance will be examined, the approach evaluated and revised ifnecessary, and implementation into the capstone design sequence in the mechanical engineeringdepartment will be planned.IntroductionMost engineering undergraduates only gain a cursory knowledge of how engineering designworks in the real world, outside of the idealistic, fully-defined circumstances typically assumedin educational design exercises. In order to better prepare students for working under real world Page 10.805.1Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationProgramming languages in the course are now Excel/VBA, Simnet, and Arena. Tools similar tothe Simnet language are being developed using VBA classes.Since the changes have occurred during the current academic year, assessment data are not yetavailable to determine the impact on learning. Over the next two years, annual end-of-yearsurveys, senior exit interviews, and capstone design project juries will be used to determine theeffects of the change. Anecdotally, preliminary results of these changes are positive; however,the role of each of these languages in the simulation course as well as the industrial engineeringcurriculum continues to evolve.References1. D. Elizandro, “Another View of

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

: • Role of the Chief Engineer 2 • Systems Engineering 2 • Decision-oriented Risk Management 2 Requirements Analysis 2 Make the Business Case 1½ Root Cause Analysis 1 Design for Reliability 1 Capstone: In-company case study analysis 2 Figure 2: Certificate course structureThe biggest departure from the conventional JACMET training format lies in thecapstone

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

2000, will be designed in consultationwith Core Engineering so that student ability to apply the fundamental bodies of knowledge toreal-world problems, as specified by Core Engineering, will be subject to a real test in thecontext of final student projects. Implementation of this assessment program will be conductedin cooperation with the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory (MDL), whichcurrently provides capstone experiences for four of the eight departments within the School ofEngineering.Pilot Programs: What Has Been Done and What Is Planned?This past fall we launched Engineering Discovery, a four-credit freshman-engineering pilotcourse, that explores the fundamental concepts and principles of engineering through a series

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider

parties. The web site address is http://blue.utb.edu/bceil.It is also important to notice that another methodology in integrating BCEIL into theCS/CIS curriculum has been through senior projects. Senior projects have beenintroduced into the degree plan three years ago and have been a great factor in integrating Page 10.800.4knowledge from many different courses into a capstone project. BCEIL has givenstudents a great deal of freedom in choosing realistic projects that accentuate their “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

samesemester. A second digital course was also added to the curriculum to address what we felt wasa deficiency in the curriculum.A two semester required senior project design course sequence was added to the final twosemesters. This was a significant departure from the previous curriculum where we had a onesemester, optional senior project course. Our reasoning for this addition was that it wouldprovide a capstone experience for all students, and we could incorporate topics on projectmanagement and teamwork. We also felt that two semesters would provide students greater timeto plan and execute a design project. Most of the debate centered around the number of creditsand laboratory time for the course. By structuring the course with both theory and

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

“Bridging the Information Gap in the Comprehensive Design Studio” John J Phillips, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract:The culmination of a students design education at Oklahoma State University’s School ofArchitecture is experienced in the nine credit hour comprehensive design studio. The approachused in teaching this studio is a team concept, with four different faculty members specializing inarchitectural design, mechanical systems design, and structural systems design. Additionally,separate courses in project management and environmental controls design (as elective courses)are closely linked in the same semester. The scope of the comprehensive design

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

CommunicationsDepartment faculty to better prepare the engineering graduate for effective technicalcommunication. This collaboration began in the spring of 2003 with the laboratory for theMaterials Science course and now exists in the senior capstone design courses.For the Materials Science with Laboratory course, a supplemental COM course was offered inparallel to the lab in order to help students write and edit their lab reports. This served as aneffective means to help the students turn in better reports and also helped the faculty learn how tocollaborate between departments. An Engineering Style Manual was one of the early products ofcollaboration between the Aerospace Engineering and Humanities and Communicationsdepartments.Due to the writing and

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

-level courses and the capstone senior project course had greatlyincreased their usage of both C programming and programming in more specialized languagessuch as MATLAB and LabWindows. Whereas in the past any student work requiringprogramming in anything but assembly language would have required significant just-in-timeinstruction, the solid foundation in C provided by EGR226 enabled upper level courses to expectprogramming proficiency. Page 10.1265.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

ultimate outputgoal of the academic experience. To that end research and academic activities have revolvedaround how to provide a better design experience as the purpose of education as opposed toproviding education in what were the desired skills of industry supporting design. Industrypractitioners suggested that possession of the presented, more fundamental skills would result inthe ability to design, but that the ability to design was not the ultimate goal.Student Observations. The senior capstone design course observed by the first author was taughtby four different instructors, had a variety of projects and task emphases, had different classsizes, and used a variety of different instructional methodologies. Generally, the expressed goalsof

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bassem Ramadan; Karim Nasr

application of just-in-time-learning and design-integrated instruction in a second course on Applied Thermodynamics[17], theauthors found this approach to reinforce concepts and that their objectives were successfully met,despite a handful of students’ comments citing an overwhelming workload. In a capstone designcourse in environmental engineering focusing on simulation and a PBL design project, the authorsreported that students developed a much deeper understanding of course material, suggesting thatthe simulation activities outperformed their expectations.[18] At MIT, PBL has been implemented through a curriculum change based on the real-worldengineering context of a product's complete life cycle. Students reported on the program beingmore

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

Ü Source Coding Ü Channel Coding Ü Modulation, Demodulation Ü Matched Filtering Ü Monte Carlo Techniques Ü GSM Fig. 2. Digital communications algorithms associated with the proposed CRCD modules. A planned CRCD research experiences includes capstone UG projects that will use a comprehensive MATLAB implementation of this system. The CRCD model in Fig. 1 presents an approach where SP-COM research is

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

-generator concepts to improve rangeor increase load. All of these interests are exhibited in course instruction in heat transfer, thermodynamics,fluid dynamics via the case study methodology.Prof. Di Bella is also involved in all aspects of creative product concept genesis, design and productdevelopment. Product development extends the gamut from systems to prevent Road Rage to emergencyrepair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. University application of this interest includes instruction in thefollowing courses: Machine Design, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design aswell as student Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Bajavehicle competition. He and his colleagues have

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

process. Because of this, it isnot just likely that university education will change during the coming years; it is a certitude.The school facility of the future, therefore, must go far beyond grudgingly accommodatingchange. They must be built for the changes that will definitely occur. Moreover, flexibility isnot just something that will be needed in the future. A high degree of flexibility is required rightnow, to accommodate all the non-standardized aspects of university education that are already inplace, including:• Exploratory, project-based learning where students “learn to learn” by engaging in a wide range of activities• Outcome assessment, capstone programs and portfolios• Teaming and group decision-making, with teachers acting as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

. Because of this, it isnot just likely that university education will change during the coming years; it is a certitude.The school facility of the future, therefore, must go far beyond grudgingly accommodatingchange. They must be built for the changes that will definitely occur. Moreover, flexibility isnot just something that will be needed in the future. A high degree of flexibility is required rightnow, to accommodate all the non-standardized aspects of university education that are already inplace, including:• Exploratory, project-based learning where students “learn to learn” by engaging in a wide range of activities• Outcome assessment, capstone programs and portfolios• Teaming and group decision-making, with teachers acting as

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry A. Barowski; James H. Cross II; David Umphress

thequality of our students’ software. We took a three-prong approach to adapting the certificationconcepts into the software engineering courses required of our Wireless Engineering majors:standards, tools, and certification. We chose to call our certification process AU OK, where AUstands for Auburn University and OK is a tribute to Nokia’s Nokia OK program, which inspiredthe project.4.1 StandardsWe adapted application standards for classroom use as examples of what is expected of industry-quality software. In particular, we drew heavily on the Java Verified test criteria12 andpredecessor documents from Nokia’s NOKIA OK process. References to procedures that were

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

The MS in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering An Update Bruce R. Thompson Rader School of Business, Milwaukee School of Engineering Abstract: At the 1990 ASEE annual conference a paper titled “Evolution and Projections for the MS in Engineering Management” described the experience of the Master of Science in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering, one of the oldest graduate engineering management programs in the United States. Since then, the program has faced a number of challenges, including the introduction of the MSEM at Milwaukee’s two largest

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

know why I didn’t thinkto do that!” Another goal of the first-year design courses and the LEGO instructions activity isto encourage students to consider other subjects such as statics, dynamics, mathematics or theirown experiences as information that is not meant simply to be used in those courses but is alsomeant to be incorporated into their set of analysis tools to be used to attack their engineeringproblems. We dare to hope that by the time they participate in a capstone design project, theywill be able to negotiate the minefields of team work and communication skillfully.Bibliography 1. Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) (2003) Accreditation Criteria and Procedures, , accessed January 1, 2005. 2

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

“ Project Management Yes Yes“ Math beyond Calculus Yes YesInstitutional N/A N/ANote: Those categories which have not been checked in these tables are ones which UPJ has not specificallycalled out in their internal CIP process. They will be preparing for a TC2K visit in the near future.Conclusions from PEO’s and PO’s:It is obvious that each EET program has to meet ABET standards, and from the first two tables they have met theseminimum standards for the programs.There were not particular institutional PEO or PO statements which would alter individual programs or courses atthe respective universities

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

(fatigue of a spring) or complex (fracture of a lower control arm of aBMW). The students are given constraints (time, cost, availability of analytical techniques, etc.)and are then “turned loose.” The structure of the course is described followed by a discussion ofhow the design component was integrated and the result of its inclusion.II. Course DescriptionThe basic model of thoroughly investigating a single component has been very successful infocusing the students on an engineering challenge that may not have an apparent solution.Additionally, it promoted project management to ensure timely completion. The outline of thecourse in winter 2000 is presented as a baseline followed by the most current offering in winter2004. (There is no final

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Scoles; Harriet Millan

1.22 present your experimental work in a written laboratory report format. After taking this course 4.00 0.60ECE 491 Senior Design Project IECE 491 is the first course in the three-quarter capstone sequence. Students spend the bulk of thefall quarter finding a design project, other students to work with, and a project advisor. Writingassignments for fall are a one-page pre-proposal, and a 10-page proposal (exclusive ofappendices). More course details can be seen on the course web page11.Three WITs participated in Senior Design, with majors of Technical Communications,Biomedical Engineering and Physics. The Technical Communication major was extremelyinterested in the topic, and saw sitting in all the lectures as

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi; Zbigniew Pasek

line. Important CIM and production concepts in areas such asComputer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP), production planning, customization, reliability andreconfigurability can be demonstrated with this system.FEASIBILITY STUDY PROJECTSThe Lego factory development effort was initially set up as a senior level capstone design(ME450) project that consisted of two teams. One team worked on a design for sorting anddelivery of the Legos and the other team worked with the robotic end effector and cell design forassembly of a finished product. Each team was able to generate several design concepts andeventually a final detailed design that was fabricated and integrated with a commercialeducational 5 axis robot for a competent working design (Figure 4

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

, capstone course (EG491 Engineering Design Project I) of which the teaching ofethics and, more generally, engineering professionalism is a major component.The first major issue that the students were surveyed on is one of “Consensus,” asembedded in the questions: “What ethical standards are “universal” (i.e. across all nationsand cultures) in engineering? What standards should be relative to a national and/orcultural setting?”The advent of a global marketplace makes inevitable the sale and use of productsinvolving engineering design in one nation that were produced in a completely differentnational and cultural setting. To buy a product from a faraway location involves trust thatsomehow the prevailing ethos at that location precludes the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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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

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

. Strategic selection of information sources based on audience needs and quality of information. An annotated bibliography demonstrating the relevance of each selected source to the rhetorical situation (audience and purpose).Overall, the assignment sequence and related skill-development require 10 weeks of a16-week semester. After students receive this major assignment, the librarian providestwo full-hour visits to technical writing sections to give specific instruction in skills fordeveloping key words (the controlled vocabulary of a discipline), and for navigatingsubscription databases. After each visit, students are required to apply the demonstratedskills to their own major project and turn that work in as an exercise for evaluation

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

other measures: capstone/senior design courses/projects, andportfolios. Portfolios are addressed in more detail in response to Question 10. Severalrespondents mentioned a trend toward using rubrics in evaluation – a clear definition of what isbeing measured along with well-defined criteria that define various levels of accomplishment. Page 10.114.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSeveral respondents mentioned that they were also using senior surveys, other surveys withstudents (e.g., junior