Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wien Lohachit; Gary Jeffress; Alex Sadovski; cody ross; Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

. This paper describes a project undertaken by aninterdisciplinary team of CAMS computer science, engineering technology, geographicinformation sciences, and mathematics professors and students with environmental investigatorsat DNR to design and develop a remotely controlled boat that continuously and efficientlycollects water quality in shallow water areas (6 in-3 ft), rather than using fixed position sensorsto make the water quality collections.Our boat is small in size (7ft in length and 3 ft in width), has a shallow draft, and can be easilysteered to collect data in real-time. The prototype is designed to collect salinity and otherenvironmental data and is equipped with onboard computers, water quality instruments(Hydrolab), GPS, digital

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

troubleshooting course were not robust enough to properly serve Page 9.491.1their purposes in the curriculum. Additionally, it was felt necessary to add into the project “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”courses the concepts of design for manufacturability (DFM), design for testability (DFT) anddesign including surface mount technology (SMT).With these thoughts in mind, the projects team proposed, and the curriculum committee andfaculty agreed, that the two 2 credit hour sophomore courses, ECET 276

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

hybrid diesel / electric / fuel cell technology. The dieselpower will be used for moving large distances in short time periods, and the fuel cellpower will be used for silent propulsion for about 30 to 40 minutes. The application thatTACOM has in mind is for the silent operation capability of the MULE is to carrycombat gear for several soldiers while they are moving at walking speeds, possibly to“sneak up on the enemy.”A secondary project for AFE revolves around the American Institute of ChemicalEngineers (AIChE) Chem-E-Car competition. The purpose of this competition is to givestudents experience in powering and stopping a shoebox-sized vehicle using principles ofchemical reaction engineering and alternative energy sources.AFE members are also

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

Effective Practices in Robotics Education David J. Ahlgren, Igor M. Verner, Daniel Pack, Steve Richards Department of Engineering, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106 USA/ Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 32000/Department of Electrical Engineering, United States Air Force Academy/Acroname, Inc., Boulder, COAbstractLinked to the authors’ 2004 ASEE Annual Conference CoEd workshop on Educational Robotics,this paper evaluates educational strategies and activities from the perspective of four engineeringeducators who have extensive first-hand experience in integrating robotics in the curriculum—from first year courses through senior

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

newer graduate students will be closer to yours, but oldergraduate students may be able to establish more long-term trends and give historical perspectives Page 9.879.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationon the workings of the school. Also be mindful that you will likely mentor others as you advancein your studies; remember to pass along what you have learned.Faculty members often have a very different perspective on the academic system than fellowgraduate students. Faculty can provide

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

3155 Implementing Innovation Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. Engineering and Technology Management University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MinnesotaABSTRACTIn 2002, a paper was presented at the ASEE Annual Conference titled “Selling Innovation.”(Bennett) The content related to a course taught to working adult graduate students in the Masterdegree programs in Engineering and Technology Management at the University of St. Thomas.These students are employed in a wide range of innovative

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Nix

Session Number : 3420 Using Intr oductor y Computer Science as a Tool for Teaching Gener al Pr oblem Solving By Major Timothy G. Nix Affiliation: United States Militar y Academy, West Point, NY Abstr actThe primary purpose of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is to produce leadersfor the U.S. Army. Thus, the curriculum is tailored with this goal in mind. One of theselling points of the computer science program is its emphasis on problem solving. Thepremise is that the problem solving skills that are instilled through computer science canbe extrapolated to problem solving in general and

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Mary McEniry; Cid Freitag

Reflective Practitioner. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1987.2. Argyris, Chris. Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming BarriersOrganizational Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1993.3. Wenger, E., R. McDermott, and W. Snyder. Cultivating Communities of Practice.Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.4. Senge, Peter M. Schools That Learn. New York: Currency Doubleday, 2000.5. Bransford, J.D., A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.6. Hildreth, Paul, C. Kimble. Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice. IdeaGroup Publishing, 2004.Biographical InformationSANDRA SHAW COURTER is director of the Engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

engineering design student: “The marketing students want a prototype by Monday. We don’t even have a design yet.” • An electronics student: “We can’t get the money out of the accountants to buy parts for a prototype.” • An accounting student: “The engineering and electronics students won’t give me any numbers.” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Page 9.878.5 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering • A business student: “The electronics and CAD students had their minds

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

challenges. One of these challenges is the lack ofeducational resources to accommodate the ever-growing student population needs [1]. As moreand more students seek out education at all levels – primary, secondary, and tertiary –educational institutions are hard pressed to expand enough for accommodating their enrollment.However, with this in mind, and the advent of the communication revolution, distance educationhas begun its’ push to the forefront in helping rectify this problem [1]. One emergingtechnological resource in this push for distance education is the ability of virtual reality to beused over the Internet on desktop computers. The use of virtual reality over the Internet allows agroup of geographically separated users to interact in real

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

for the product. In some instances, afairly comprehensive list containing a mixture of both customer needs and target specifications isprovided to the students as the starting point for their product design effort. Furthermore, in someoccasions, the information that is given the students at the beginning of the design project evenprescribes specific components that they must use by force in their product. Examples of thistype of situation can be found in “competition type” product development projects such as theSociety of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mini Baja competition or the American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME) Human Powered Vehicle competition. It is extremely important to keep in mind at all times that the final word

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Genevieve Sapijaszko; Carlo Sapijaszko

or zoom out in orderto fill in the viewable area on your camera with the image of the object you want to photograph.This situation is similar, in that you want to choose your range setting so that an expected signalwill fill in (use up) most of the range of the DMM.Also, keep in mind that you have an auto range function available on this DMM.Auto range function selected:--Please try again.With a properly authored experiment, students can utilize the self-guiding messages tosuccessfully and meaningfully complete a given experiment. Page 9.179.17 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

that all course schedules can be synchronized, but any overlap will be welcomed by students. • Attend Presentations. If separate, discipline-specific presentations are given during the semester, require one student representative from each project discipline at every presentation. For example, require a computer science team member to attend the mechanical engineering student briefing and vice versa. This helps students keep the entire project in mind and also encourages students to work together. • Require Weekly Reports. Each student project team submits a one-page project summary report to their instructor and project advisor by noon every Friday. One section of the report

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

that rigid, unmoving, inanimate objects do not exert forces. With thisin mind, we have rebuilt our instructional approach to Statics by addressing all importantconcepts sequentially, but, notably, in the context of situations where all relevant forces can be Page 9.1050.15perceived through the senses of touch and sight. Thereafter, we gradually transition students toaddress the situations of traditional interest in Statics, where forces are exerted by inanimate Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

this in mind, the topics of measurements and instrumentation were pushed to the beginningof the curriculum, before or concurrent with physics and chemistry. Traditionally, the topics ofmeasurements and instrumentation occur later in the curriculum. This means that the material Page 9.648.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcovered in these activities must use more basic concepts and not be immersed in complicatedmathematics.The modules were developed for beginning engineering students

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

positive impression – one that motivates people to answer it?As a result of this exercise, we modified several questions that were not quite applicable to theintended measurement.To ensure content validity, 6 four MSU faculty members evaluated the questionnaire with thesame questions in mind. Since all four serve as a faculty advisors on student design projects and Page 9.1327.3two have been past project sponsors / clients, they were well-positioned to evaluate the content ofthe individual survey items. The questionnaire was again revised based on the reviewers’ Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Yi Min Huang; Larry McKenzie; Michael Trevisan

Session 2225 Capstone Design Courses and Assessment: A National Study Larry J. McKenzie, Michael S. Trevisan, Denny C. Davis, Steven W. Beyerlein Duke Energy/Washington State University/University of IdahoAbstractABET EC 2000 Criteria 3 and 4 specifically focus on student learning objectives and associatedassessment and evaluation practices that are often integral to capstone design courses. This paperreports findings from a two-phase study conducted to better understand the nature and scope ofassessment practices within capstone design courses across engineering disciplines, and in particular,the extent to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

”, (1996).27. https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=012780628. B. M. Olds and R.L. Miller, “An Assessment Matrix for Evaluating Engineering Programs”, Engineering Ed., 87, No. 2, 173-178, (1998).29. B. M. Olds and R. L. Miller, “A Measure of Success: Here’s How to Design and Evaluation Plan for Your Next Educational Research Project”, ASEE Prism, December 1997, pp. 24-29.30. Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, editors, “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (2000)”, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.31. http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=008584932. http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

Session # 1331 A Model for Teaching Materials Evaluation: Development and Testing of Interactive Computer Simulations Modules for Undergraduate Education Anne E. Donnelly1, Emilia Hodge1, Melis Budak1, Heath Wintz2, Randy Switt2, Chang-Yu Wu2, Prakash Kumar3, Pratim Biswas3 Priscilla Chapman4, Anne L. Allen4 1 University of Florida, Engineering Research Center for Particle Science & Technology, Gainesville, FL 32611/2University of Florida, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, FL 32611/3Washington University

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

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

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Hsiao

hired employees, asked to review their knowledge of mechanical properties inmaterials and report their recommendations in a memorandum to their project manager. Thisactive laboratory exercise is part of a sophomore-level materials science course that is designedinto the mechanical engineering curriculum at Union College. The course also partially fulfills awriting requirement that all Union students must fulfill before graduation. The emphasis onmechanical properties makes relevant the understanding of materials science to the processingand design issues in mechanical engineering.BackgroundThe materials science course at Union College is taken by all mechanical engineering majorsduring their sophomore year. A chemistry prerequisite is required

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

is based on the widely publicized book “How PeopleLearn” (HPL). The HPL teaching framework presents the learning material as a series ofchallenges that are posed through a “Legacy Cycle.” Three VANTH modules, covering sevenchallenges, were tested in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering course in Fall 2003. Theclass (N=32) was divided into two groups, control and trial, based on a random assignment.The control group performed the challenge in a traditional way (pencil and paper) while thetrial group solved the challenge using the VaNTH material located at a website. For eachgroup, a pre-test, post-test, and affect ranking were administered. The students were alsosurveyed on the learning effectiveness of the various components of each

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

Session 2147 Project LIVE: A Classroom for Students on the Go J. R. Porter, J. A. Morgan, and J.A. Ochoa Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract The classical lecture environment represents one of the most important opportunities todirectly interact with students, allowing professors to leverage an array of communication andteaching techniques and to be immediately responsive to students’ questions. However, during alecture students must absorb considerable amounts of new information

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Hietpas

Session 1526 A State-of-the-Art Energy and Electric Drives Laboratory Designed and Implemented by Undergraduate and Graduate Students Steven M. Hietpas Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science South Dakota State University, SD 57007AbstractEnergy Conversion courses for the past 100 years have primarily focused on the fundamentalconcepts of machine theory and the conversion between mechanical and electrical energy. Based onthese concepts an undergraduate energy conversion course would typically cover

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

environment, s/he can go back to the last successfully completed applicationand use that as a springboard to understand the material and move forward.The MLM approach has also impacted the outreach programs sponsored by PRIME. Outreachprograms to middle and high school students, school systems, and parents constitute a majoroperating area for the coalition. Funding from the Alcoa Foundation, the Heinz Endowments,and the US Department of Labor have enabled the coalition to implement a multi-step feedersystem called “Molding Minds in Manufacturing”. Manufacturing education and careerawareness are emphasized through presentations at events such as the National Engineers Weekcelebrations, the Pittsburgh Sci-Tech Festival, and meetings of professional

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mathew Hyre; James Squire

includes any student A/V support personnel and ushers/guides.Keep in mind that the following items will have to be available as the students show up duringthe dry run window:Poster Presentations ‚ Poster boards ‚ Tables with skirting Page 9.1078.8 ‚ Extension cords “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” ‚ Lots of tacks or push pins ‚ Duct tapeOral Presentations ‚ Podiums ‚ A/V equipment (internet connections if required) ‚ Projection screens ‚ Laser pointersIf the posters are

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

transistor anddeactivates the relay turning the pump off. A 1N4002 diode can be added across therelay to protect the operational amplifier and transistor against transients developed bythe relay’s collapsing magnetic field. Page 9.169.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents must design the input resistance of the transistor based on the relay currentrequirements.A visual reading of the moisture level is needed for accuracy and peace of mind. Peopleneed to see how moisture is changing to best fit the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

Maximizing Your Productivity as a Junior Faculty Member: Balancing Research, Teaching, and Service Lori Mann Bruce, J.W. Bruce Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThe majority of new engineering educators are confronted with two daunting challenges: (1)wisely select the tasks on which they spend time and energy and (2) effectively manage theirtime and energy in order to maximize their productivity. In this paper, the authors suggest seven“tricks of the trade” designed to help a new faculty member achieve their tenure and/orpromotion requirements while balancing their research, teaching, and service workloads. Theseseven strategies are aimed at

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Czuchry; W. Andrew Clark

2004-1428 Technology-Based Business Incubators: Living Laboratories for Entrepreneurial Students W. Andrew Clark and Andrew J. Czuchry East Tennessee State University, Johnson CityAbstractThose teaching entrepreneurship to engineering and technology students are faced with thechallenge of converting theory into learning opportunities that provide real-world-practicalexperience. Although the literature stresses the need for experiential learning through group andfield projects and case studies, the potential of capitalizing on technology-based businessincubators as

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

between the programmingexperience of the students and their acceptance of the module. The students of the numericalmethods course come from various backgrounds and not all of them feel comfortable withprogramming. We feel that this has impacted negatively on the students’ perception of themodule. Nevertheless their overall interest in the subject was positive, even though most of themfound it challenging. One has to keep in mind that the purpose of the module is to make studentsaware of Machine Learning and its potential of solving engineering problems, with the ultimateintent of convincing some of these students to register for the Current Topics in MachineLearning I (where the learn a lot more about Machine Learning) and eventually to register