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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Roth; Fredrick Nitterright, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

material • If the current has an effect beyond that of the temperature rise alone • If the current has caused a fundamental change in the material’s microstructure or grain size beyond that caused by temperature aloneAfter gaining an understanding of the effects of electricity on the hardness of a material, thestudents should provide a further discussion on where and when these results are important toimplement into the design process.Concluding RemarksAt this point the laboratory set-up has been designed and the experiments have been conductedwith the assistance of several students. These students were several volunteer undergraduateresearch scholars who were actively interested in the project. These students helped to establishthe

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Sherick

Indianengineering professionals can offer to projects within their own reservations. American Indiansare a young, rapidly growing population. They make-up over 10% of public school enrollmentin Montana and will be seeking secondary education and employment opportunities within rangeof their reservation communities within the next few years. The DOC program proposes uniqueand new strategies to dramatically increase the recruitment and graduation of American Indianengineering and computer science professionals.BackgroundThe 2000 U.S. Census reported the population of Montana at just under a million people atapproximately 902,195.2 Ninety one percent (91%) of Montana’s population is white; however,the largest minority group is American Indian. American

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Shull; John Wise

semester.The quality of the entries varied as expected. From a faculty development perspective, this wasan excellent way to judge the effectiveness of the pre-semester training in the development oflearning goals and objectives. It was obvious that not all of the faculty understood the shift beingmade from teacher-centered to learner-centered goals and objectives. Some of the entriesreflected teaching strategies rather than goals and objectives: Primary Goals for Week 5 Introduce students to Stress Analysis Project Proposal. Teach students to apply strain gauges to aluminum tensile specimens. Objectives for Week 5 Explain to the students the requirements and purpose of the Stress

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams; Erick Jones

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3642week period validated they showed out of control run patterns and had cognitive turnover. Also,respondents who were non-CT’s did not show out of control run patters. This research focusedon white-collar workers who were utilized as knowledge workers and project managers. Onelimitation is that jobs were loosely designed and did not use specific methods and procedures butrequired specific background or training in order to be considered engineers10. Anotherlimitation of the

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

Scientific Inquiry 3. Embedded Information Technology 4. Assessment and Learning Products 5. Learning Experiences with Instructional Technologies 6. Strategic Planning for Implementation The instructional material and techniques presented are to serve only as an informationalprecursor to later engineering hydrologic design coursework. It is not indented to replacecurrently accepted basic hydrologic design instructional methodology, rather is shouldsupplement current practices. Spatial information technologies are now a reality in industrial andresearch projects concerning hydrologic and other environmental parameters. This work isintended to serve as a suggested bridge from traditional to spatially distributed decision-makingand

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

. Wefeel that the learning styles of engineering technology (ET) students are different fromengineering students because ET students generally have a greater interest in how thingswork physically, and less interest in the theoretical background. Some generaldistinguishing characteristics that we hypothesize exist in most ET students with respectto engineering students are shown below. • More interested in hands-on applications. • More interested in projects. • More interested in the applications of mathematics. • Less interested in the mathematical theory. • More outgoing. • More team oriented.Translation of these differences into general learning styles and personality types for ETstudents and from this into recommended teaching

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amro Taibah; Mohammed Haque

including artificial neural network (ANN), Page 8.181.1genetic algorithm (GA), etc. This paper highlights various applications of AI. As an example of Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationa graduate project, this paper demonstrated an ANN model to determine the influence of sidingmaterials on residential home values. Estimating the value of a property concerns builders,developers, homebuyers, appraisers, economists, and policy makers among many others.Nonetheless, real estate valuation is a

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Mangum; Gary Daniels; Mary Crawford

improve the production rate. The result is aneffective technology-enhanced supplement to classroom instruction that can be efficientlyproduced.1 Introduction1.1 DisclaimerWe caution readers that this paper is intended to be an interactive on-screendemonstration; words on paper will not do it justice. Try it online atwww.engr.utexas.edu/rgd1.1.2 RationaleThe genesis of this project was influenced by a number of factors, including issuesspecific to our institution, changes in the higher education environment, andtechnological advancements. The University of Texas at Austin has a large and growingelectrical engineering enrollment, with typically poor retention rates in the first two years

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

expose participants to an enormous variety of careers in science, mathematics, andengineering through laboratory projects as well as field trips to technology centers and careerpanels, using women engineers and scientists as role models. They also offer the students anopportunity to interact with all types of engineers including Ph.D. level faculty/researchers, retiredengineers, and scientists with years of experience, recent graduates in their first year on the job,and undergraduate students. These programs cost $100 per week, which includes instructionalfees, supplies, equipment, field trips, meals, and final banquet. Since the career exploration is animportant part of the programs, field trips are scheduled to help students learn more

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

found fault with many elements of the process, but particularly with what he considered Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationto be the Delphi’s failure to meet APA’s “Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests andManuals.” Specifically, he concluded that “conventional Delphi neglects virtually every majorarea of professional standards for questionnaire design, administration, application, andvalidation.” Despite Sackman’s criticisms, we believe that the Delphi method is well-suited forour current project and we agree with Clayton’s conclusion that “if the objective is theidentification of

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

, however, access through LabVIEW will beavailable from anywhere there is an Internet connection.Process control workshopThis system offers real-time control via MATLAB and Simulink. This allows using thesystem for advanced control concepts and research-oriented projects. The process is1 This project is funded in part by the Air Force Research Office, award # F49620-01-1- Page 8.352.20557“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”represented by a heating element controlled by a thyristor circuit that feeds heat

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

of the C++language and how to utilize software tools to solve typical technical problems. Each of the threecourses includes a set of activities (readings, lectures, problem solving exercises, laboratoryassignments and testing) which promote student learning. All three courses contain elementswhich follow ABET guidelines and, more importantly, meet the current and future needs of ETstudents. Besides the grammar and syntax elements of the C++ language, the courses emphasizetechnical problem solving, software engineering practices, project management, aspects ofworking in technical teams and good written and verbal communications (8).After development and delivery of each course in the classroom environment, a distance learningversion was

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

(ESL), and English for special purposes (ESP).Exit criteria for the Foundation Program include a TOEFL score of 500 or greater, and acumulative GPA of 2.00 or greater. Additional information on the programs and curriculum forthe PI can be found at www.pi.ac.ae.The long-term agenda for CSM in this project is to: 1) Lead efforts in curriculum, course, and facilities development that will establish the Petroleum Institute as a world-class educational institution in fields relevant to the oil and gas industries in the Arabian Gulf region; 2) Assist in the process of achieving international recognition and accreditation for the PI degree programs by a well-recognized accrediting agency (e.g. ABET); 3

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Domenico Grasso

-makers, who define boundaries tosuit their needs without regard to external factors. Indeed, it is only fairly recently thatthe concepts and implications of industrial ecology and full life cycle analysis have beenconsidered in engineering decisions.This section of the course begins with simple non-reactive mass balance examples, suchas calculating the concentration at the confluence of different streams, which then leadinto more complicated reactor modeling examples. The primary objective of this portionof the course is developing in the students a quantitative understanding of the concepts ofmass and energy balance. After many homework assignments, these concepts are thenapplied to an elementary semester-long project on calculating the

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William White; Marie Lee; Diane Schuch Miller

Session 1363 The Development of Manufacturing Case Studies William L. White, Diane M. Schuch-Miller, Marie D. Lee Lawrence Technological University/Wayne State University/Wayne State University In manufacturing engineering education, there is a need for problem-solving projects that reflect realissues to supplement or replace drill and practice problems. Authentic activities offer an opportunity to apply newknowledge and skills to manufacturing engineering problems, test theorie s, and draw conclusions in a safeenvironment with the help of their peers and mentors. Case studies add relevance and

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

graduatescience or engineering student, who realizes the value of advanced mathematics courses,eventually will include this great mathematics book on their shelf as one of their mostused reference books. The trick is to make the course interesting and “enjoyable” enoughthat students look forward to class, without sacrificing the proper challenges for thestudent to achieve a proper level of mathematical expertise as preparation for graduateschool courses. This paper discusses how to use a combination of: 1.) Textbooks, 2.) Special projects, 3.) Personal interest in the students, and 4.) Relating the material in the course to real world situations, to reach that goal. These techniques have resulted in positive student critiques

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Ali; Marcia Rossi; M. Javed Khan

opportunities to develop collaborative, technical and communication skills.The added advantage is that students actually are able to see a practicalapplication of the skills they are acquiring and have a sense of accomplishment.The ‘Calpoly Interdisciplinary Monarch Butterfly Nuptial Flight Research’ [3] is aninteresting example of interdisciplinary research in which students of behavioralecology, molecular and cellular biology, statistics and aeronautical engineeringare attempting to determine characteristics for a successful mating. The MindProject [4] of Illinois State University is designing ‘simulated persons’ usingartificial intelligence and robotic devices. Although the project is aimed atcognitive research, it has involved students from a

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

fundamentals and did well inindustry.Situation 3: An electrical engineering technology faculty member has been working for years asa consultant to a company where new electronic devices are developed, most being proprietary innature. Consulting occurs one day per week during the academic term and for four monthsduring the summer. This consulting is current and results in new knowledge being brought intothe classroom for students in electronics courses and senior projects. As the most sought aftersenior project advisor, this faculty member’s students are much sought after as they are ready forindustry on graduation day.Situation 4: A mechanical engineering technology faculty member has been conducting researchin metallurgy on a consulting basis, with

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William J., Jr. Park; Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Session 1359 Applications of Real-Time Sensors in the Freshman Engineering Classroom Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth A. Stephan, Benjamin L. Sill, and William J. Park General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractClemson’s NSF-sponsored EXPerimental Engineering in Real-Time (EXPERT) project isdesigned to assess the efficacy of using real-time sensors in freshman engineering classes. Wewish to determine if use of these devices enhances student understanding of both physicalconcepts and graphical representations of those phenomena.Where parallel activities can be designed (one set with and one set without real-time

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Joordens; John Long; John Florance

home campus. For students posted overseas, on-campusattendance at lab classes is virtually impossible.Deakin University teaches numerous off-campus students who live locally, interstate, andoverseas.4 In developing its undergraduate engineering courses, including electronics, theUniversity needed a means to deliver practical education to off-campus students. TheUniversity has applied numerous strategies in delivering laboratory activities for distanceeducation, including week-end practical classes, Internet-controlled experiments,5-10simulations,11-13 at-home activities or projects, where the student obtains his own materials,14and experimental kits issued to students.15,16 To satisfy this need in the case of first-yearelectronics, we have

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

includes – at an elemental level – all of the fundamental aspects of designas defined in the ABET accreditation criteria. The projects are based on real-worldscenarios; they are open-ended, permitting many possible solutions; and they requireformulation of problem-solving methodologies as well consideration of alternatives andeconomic concerns relating to the finished project. The final structure designed andoptimized by the students must be a simply supported truss of a specified span length, amaximum height restriction, and minimum clearance over the high water level of thecreek. Within these bounds the user has complete freedom to define the shape and

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hughes; Alok Verma

optimization Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education1and Lean implementation models for job shop and designed to build environments. Alok Verma has co-edited the proceedings of the International Conference on CAD/CAM & Robotics for which he was thegeneral chairman. He is serving as the associate editor for the International Journal of Agile Manufacturing.Alok has developed the training program in Lean Enterprise for Northrop Grumman Newport NewsApprentice School and continues his participation through a joint National Shipbuilding Research Program(NSRP) project to develop and design new simulation

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

assessment based on National and State Educational Standards.A) Educational Approaches. We believe that guiding students in active and extended science inquirymay be fruitfully achieved through a process of group investigation to solve real-world problems.To this end our approach was centered on the use of the group instructional model in conjunctionwith an inquiry-based learning technique to solve selected hands-on projects. Participants worked ingroups of three through the entire workshop period in learning and developing content materials foruse in their classroom teaching. In addition, they were also educated and coached by the educationfaculty and the master teacher to learn the use of the group instructional model that had been provedto be a

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Holger Dahms; Stefan Bartels; John Gassert; Jens Thiedke; Owe Petersen

and senior year courses. The FHL students take a setof prescribed courses at MSOE that complete their FHL academic requirements. The FHLstudents also complete their FHL Diplom Arbeit requirement (Diploma Design Project) while atMSOE. This is a major design experience and is normally performed in an industrial setting.All participating students are awarded the BSEE degree from MSOE and the Diplom Ingenieur(FH) from the FHL upon the successful completion of all academic requirements.The InstitutionsMSOE is a private university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a primary focus on engineering,business, and medically related programs. The Fachhochschule Lübeck is a governmentsupported University of Applied Sciences in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

Session 1363 Creating Sharable Learning Activities Examples from a Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Donald R. Falkenburg, Allie Knowlton, Mary Jo Cartwright, Wayne State University Wayne State University CNC Connection Corp.AbstractMany engineering faculty have been involved in projects to improve teaching and learning usingweb-based resources. Information-based learning materials have proven to be adaptable anddynamic; they have enhanced the educational process

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack McGourty

engineering programs while it offers students detailed information that can be used todevelop technically and professionally.II. System History and DevelopmentOver the past three years, SEAS has worked with student groups and faculty to develop acomprehensive web-enhanced course evaluation system to improve academic programs andcourses as well as to measure learning outcomes. The genesis of the system began three yearsago with a student project, funded by NSF Gateway Coalition, that allowed faculty evaluationdata to be uploaded to a website for student review. The website, known as Oracle (Figure 1),allowed students to review evaluation data by course or professor to guide them in courseselection. The introduction of public ratings had a profound

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Edwards

award of a Fellowship 2 from theHigher Education Funding Council for England’s National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, theauthor obtained three years’ further funding in 2000 for the project and its applets to becomea worldwide Internet resource (MathinSite3).MathinSiteMathinSite is an on-going project whose mathematics applets are its mainstay. MathinSite’sprimary aim is to deepen student understanding of mathematics through the use ofinteractive, stimulating, visually dynamic software. An example is shown in the followingfigure - a screenshot from the ‘Mass / Spring / Damper’ applet. The scrollbars on the right here

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Anita Todd; Robert Pangborn

Conference Session

Collection Issues Forum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bernier

, soexpensive that many small colleges cannot afford them or justify their cost since these schoolsoften tend to have smaller electronic collections. With all the new linking features that mostcommercial database services have today, smaller colleges need not be left out of today’s linkingtrends. Two of these features include the ability to add a local collection to a commercialdatabase, the static approach, or linking the database directly to the Online Public AccessCatalog (OPAC), the dynamic approach. The library at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, asmall engineering and science college in Indiana has utilized these features to connect itselectronic resources to create a more dynamic and simpler searching process. The project wascarried out

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

analysis of particle dynamics using work-energy and impulse-momentum methods, analysis of impact events; (4) analysis of a system of particle using work-energy, impulse, linear and angular momentum; (5) kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies analyzed in various reference systems; (6) additional analysis of rigid body dynamics using work-energy and impulse- momentum; (7) inertia quantities. Computational techniques will be incorporated into several design projects throughout the semester to illustrate alternative solution methods.Textbook(s): Engineering