Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

. Thus, if team A, B, and C had already been called upon during the cycle, a random student was chosen from team D and team E before starting a new cycle. 5. An individual student would not be called upon a second time until all students had been called upon once. This was not told to the students. As there were 63 students in the course and about 41 class meetings, some students were never called upon. There were five cycles completed during the semester (25 questions).To improve student attendance, the points earned in the Transport Cup competition byindividual students were counted towards the students’ course participation (worth 2% of

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

, solution #3 is highly unethical. In Figure 1 the plagiarism policy for mydepartment is shown. This policy is distributed with the course syllabus on the first day of classfor all undergraduate courses offered by the department. It was developed due to continuingproblems associated with academic dishonesty, which sometimes emerged due to studentignorance. The administrator who would implement the third solution is clearly violating pointsA-1 and A-3 below. It is also interesting to note that if the faculty member anticipated a solution#3 then, according to this policy, the faculty member is also guilty of committing plagiarismthrough points B-1 and B-2 in the policy. Another aspect is the issue of intellectual property thatis significantly

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

was chosen as the development boardfor DSD. The textbook in the class was also made optional to further reduce the cost ofthe class. Page 10.420.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” (a) (b) (c) Figure 2. FPGA development boards: a) Altera UP2 b) XESS XSA-100 c) Digilent Pegasus After the hardware was chosen, the next step was to start

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

parties, such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs), thus, “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”there is no incentive for anyone along the email route to hinder spam. In fact, there is only onesubsection in this entire law dedicated to third parties. Section 6.b. is as follows3: b) Limited Enforcement Against Third Parties- (1) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person (hereinafter referred to as the `third party') that provides goods, products, property, or services to another person that violates subsection

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

visualization ability. d 2.3 Project Management Lab Assignment 1 89 Lab Assignment 2 96 Group Project 89 38 50 6 0 6 4.1 g 2.4 Self-Learning 3. To develop an understanding of 2D a 1.1 Technical Proficiency and 3D geometric entities and their b Week 4 Team Week 5 Team application in graphic communication. 87

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

men while over-representing women and under-represented groups compared to the population of graduate students in Science and Engineeringprograms. There were a total of 1224 participants selected for the survey. Of those, 574returned usable surveys, resulting in a response rate of 47%.B. VariablesThe two dependent variables utilized for the regression analyses in this paper are measures ofcareer commitment and degree progress. Degree progress is measured by five separate questionsthat indicate whether someone has completed specific stages in the doctoral degree progress.The stages are: classes and coursework, comprehensive or qualifying exams, master’s degreeearned, advancement to candidacy, and approval of dissertation. If a student said

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reed Stevens; Kevin O'Connor; Lari Garrison

than a place to gain important life abilities or experience. For that, she has lookedProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationto her experience in the internship. Engineering education, as she understands it, is not asource of personal fulfillment–nor should it be, as long as it helps her move along a pathtoward her desired goal of employment in the renowned laboratory.BrynBryn views college differently. For her, college should be a place that supports herdevelopment as a person and builds on the abilities that she believes she brings with herto college, like being a “people person.” In Segment B.1, Bryn describes her stance

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Homkes; Henry Kraebber; Donna Evanecky

Applying FMEA to Software Rick Homkes, Donna Evanecky, Henry Kraebber Purdue University College of TechnologyAbstractFailure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a well-known industry technique for improving thereliability, quality and safety of products and processes. It “can be described as a systematicgroup of activities intended to: (a) recognize and evaluate the potential failure of aproduct/process and the effects of that failure, (b) identify actions that could eliminate or reducethe chance of the potential failure occurring, and (c) document the entire process.”1The focus of FMEA is on the design of products and processes. FMEA provides designers witha

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Glover; Frank Claydon; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft; Julie Trenor

Statements Rating ≥ 4 b Rating a (N=85) 1 I think that both males and females can study engineering. 4.96 85 2 GRADE camp will be interesting, meaningful, and worthwhile. 4.18 65 3 I believe that I can be successful in engineering. 4.25 67 4 I have been successful in my high school math courses. 4.41 66 5 I have enjoyed my high school math

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

Student Engagement and Motivation: From Time-on-Task to Homework, Prtland Oregon, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, October 2000.BiographyAiman S. Kuzmar is an assistant professor of engineering at Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus. He holds aPh. D. degree from Duke University. He has a Master’s degree from Rice University. His B. S. is from theUniversity of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. All of His degrees are in civil engineering. His industrialexperience includes working as an Engineer for the NCDOT. He is a registered engineer in North Carolina.Appendix A: List of projects in the Steel Construction courseFall 2002 • Structures, Procedures – Design - Plans Presentation • Design and Construction of the New

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Boehm; Brackley Frayer; Joe Aldridge

the project. One emphasis is that the specific problem requirements are not outlined in greatdetail, as this is normally the way commercial projects are initiated. The teams must be involvedin defining what will make an entertaining experience for the clients’ customers, and in this waythey attempt to demonstrate some aspects of creativity.This course is offered yearly. We have had practitioners from as far away as New York Citydonate their services to the class. B) Theatrical TechnologiesSeveral aspects in traditional theatre developed over the years demonstrate a significant technicalbent. Lighting equipment, show control systems, modern lifts, and general electrical designfound in the theatre all require a reasonable level of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Niewoehner

requiring major repair and loss of schedule. III- Moderate- Injuries not involving lost work days. Non-minor repair (multiple shifts) IV- Minor- No personnel injury. Easily reparable damage (<1 shift). Cessation of that day's testing. Likelihood is coded similarly according to a four or five point scale: A- Nearly certain- If the test is repeated multiple times over a lengthy testing campaign, the specified event should be expected to occur at least once. B- Probable C- Possible D- Improbable E- Remote The likelihood is subjectively assigned, unlike the more rigorous values found in systemssafety in which manufacturers quantitatively

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

1000 cycles. High-cycle fatigue is generally greater than103 cycles. Finite life is assumed to be below 107 cycles [5]. A typical S-N diagram is shown infigure 1. Page 10.904.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1 A Typical S-N Diagram. Curve A – Typical behavior of steel alloys in fatigue loading, Curve B – Typical behavior of Aluminum alloys in fatigue loading.Ferrous materials usually show a definite breaking point on the S-N diagram around 106

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suining Ding

scale was used for all survey items except open-end questions.VI. Results and DiscussionThe survey questions and responses were summarized and grouped together to measure each offour learning outcomes. The following bar graphs show the percentage of questions for eachlearning outcome that was measured. Then the mean (average percentage) was calculated foreach group questions. 100 90 No.1-B 80 No.1-A 70 60 No.2-B 50

Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Finlayson

the bridge to fall down, or the reactor to explode.) Creditwas given to those students who (a) attended class and (b) turned in correct assignments of 8 ofthe 10 assignments. In the 2004 and latest, 2005, version of the course, a CoursePak wasprovided with worked examples and discussion2. One philosophy that permeates the course is: learn to check your work! Manyproblems being solved today in industry are intractable with analytical methods. That is due tothe widespread availability of desktop and laptop computers, but even more so due to the Page 10.833.1sophisticated software available today. Thus, engineers will probably be

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rogers; J. Ricky Cox

written down. Thisgroup of students prefers to avoid being distracted by writing notes as they know they candownload the archived notes at a later date. a.) b.) Figure 3: Example of notes given in a Dynamics course. The outline of the notes (a.) can be downloaded by the students before class while the annotated notes (b.) are archived and are made available after each lecture. Note that having the problem statement written before class saves considerable amounts of time Page 10.736.3 especially in classes where many example problems are

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Stuart

will use the data set from the second offering of theFluids Mechanics course, administered in the Fall of 2004 as it is the most complete data set todate. The class consisted of 39 students, two of whom stopped attending after the first midterm.The students were equally divided between the departments of civil and mechanical engineering,with two women and 35 men completing the course. In addition to the two failures, threestudents failed to achieve a grade of “C or better” and the class average grade was a 2.51 on a4.00 scale (B-/C+). A total of 24 quizzes were administered over a 10 week quarter, 11 of whichwere reading quizzes, 12 of which were homework quizzes, and one was a survey of students’response to the daily quiz format. Homework

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations betweenSpring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi StudentResearch Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004. Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent posterpresentation.[4] N. Cook, P.E. Tissot and J. Mott, ”ANN Forecasting of Indicator Bacteria Counts in Corpus Christi Bay”,presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004.Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent poster presentation.[5] M.H. Willingham, C. Smith, B. A. Dolan and P.E. Tissot, “Evaluation of the Surface Transport of NORM fromFormer Uranium Mines Through Sediment Core

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

solutions described in this paper and inthe Appendix.The evaluation data was collected in two stages during each course. During the first day of class,the students were split evenly into two groups, A and B. Group A was given the “Where AreYou?” problem and Group B was given “The Jumping Problem.” Towards the end of class, afterbeing taught several of the problem-solving methods and being involved in various activities,these questions were given again. However, Group A was given “The Jumping Problem” andGroup B was given the “Where Are You?” problem.During both evaluation periods, the students worked individually, and were told to generate asmany ideas as they could. They were not told to use any specific method for generating theirides. It was

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

MATLAB commands are: a) Blocks Reduction Commands; b) Time-History Commands; c) Frequency Domain Plots-Creation Commands; d) Second Order Control Design Command; e) Other Control Related Commands.In this paper, to save paper space, the MATLAB output figures are not shown. These canbe obtained easily by the reader or the student on a computer.Blocks Reduction CommandsThese commands are: 1) Series Command: 2) Feedback Command 3) Parallel CommandThe ‘series’ command allows two or four blocks in series to be combined into a singleblock. The ‘feedback’ command reduces a closed loop of an open block with a feedbackblock into a single open block. The ‘parallel’ command allows two or four blocks inparallel to be combined into a single

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang; Linda Head

10.239.2student body in gender inclusion is much more drastic. (a) (b)Fig. 1 (a) Percentage of B.S. degrees awarded to women by discipline in 2001-2002 and (b) Percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women by discipline in 2001-2002 100% 90% Electrical and Computer 80% Chemical 70% Civil and Environmental 60% Mechanical 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Fall 2001 Fall 2002

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

More than Science Fair Fun: Poster Session as an Experiential Learning Activity in the Classroom Mary B. Vollaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Western New England College, Springfield, MA 01119Poster sessions are a common activity at technical conferences, offering authors an opportunityto present their work in this medium and easily establish a dialogue with their colleagues.Students entering college often have a perception that ‘posters’ were an activity they left behindat the junior- high or high school science fair. This experiential learning activity re-introducesposters and the poster session as an

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

June 2005 ASEE Conference Entrepreneurship Division #54 Integr ation of Lehigh’s Entr epr eneur ship Minor into the Under gr aduate Engineer ing Cur r iculaJohn B. Ochs, Professor and Director of the IPD Program, Lehigh UniversityTodd A. Watkins, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Lehigh UniversityGraham R. Mitchell, Professor of Practice, College of Business and EconomicsAbstr actEntrepreneurship education at Lehigh University has been recently enhanced bysubstantial institutional investments in new academic programs, the development of acampus center for student entrepreneurs, and through several grants from federal, stateand private organizations. One

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”education. The survey was conducted near the end of the Fall semester, 2004, and consisted of atotal 24 questions, in which the majority of the questions are directly related to various aspects ofDBT concept. Table 1 lists the survey questions. Students from four classes in the area ofThermal/Fluid areas were asked to response to the questions by selecting various answers.Questions 1 to 7 calls for specific answers. For Question 7, the following choices were given: (a) (b

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael R. Sexton; Mehmet Sozen

products y lb-mole/s O2 Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the combustion chamber.Development of Mathematical ModelThe chemistry mechanism used in both approaches consists of the following set of reversiblereactions 2H 2 + O2 l 2 H 2 O H 2 l 2H O2 l 2O 2 H 2 O l H 2 + 2OHFor the stoichiometric case, the changes in each species in the form of fractions a , b , c , and dwere expressed by Sözen and Majumdar [1] as 2 H 2 + O2 l 2H 2O − 2a −a + 2a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Martini

, labeled A and B respectively. The situation is described tothe class: one of the force systems is in equilibrium and the other is not, first determine which isnot in equilibrium, and then describe how that one will move. Students are asked to group intopairs and develop and answer, according to well-known active learning techniques5. The answercan be found simply by counting grid squares of force components vertically and horizontally foreach system. After students have discussed and explained their answers, the simulation is run,showing that particle A accelerates to the left, as predicted by the square-counting calculation.The discussion then turns to the question of how the force system acting on particle A can bemodified to put it in

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

breaking each instruction into a series of sub-steps. Each sub-step would be executed in a single clock cycle. An instruction would now require multiple clockcycles to complete, but each clock cycle involves less work, so the clock cycle can be shorter. Inthis way, simple instructions can complete in only a few (relatively short) clock cycles, whilecomplex instructions can take many clock cycles to complete.The following is a 5-cycle implementation based on the MIPS architecture as presented byPatterson and Hennessy2. a. Instruction Fetch b. Instruction Decode and Register Fetch c. Arithmetic Computation d. Memory Read or Write e. Register Write

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

a Freshman Level Computing Course (a) Consistent general look/interface for the presented documents on WebCT regardless of the software used in creating the original files. (b) Convenient and easy to use navigational buttons that enable the students to browse through the presented material with more ease in a variety of forms. (c) Convenient and easy to use zooming tool for the viewers enabling them to clearly see the finer details in the presented documents. Page 10.209.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga

insulation materials.It allows you to measure R-values of unknown insulation materials. One wall of the trainer has aremovable fame (Figure 1(b)) that can be used to measure heat transfer properties of an unknownmaterial. This area is also useful to evaluate new insulation materials that come to the market.Layers of insulation can be packed in to the frame to add insulation properties. See throughwindow on the top is covered with a fiberglass material. Heat transfer properties of windowcovering material can be studied by placing them on this window. To obtain accurate heat flowmeasurement through an insulation material, there should be at least 20oF temperature differencebetween the two surfaces of the material. A 200W light bulb is placed inside

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

positionto measure and assess the merit of what their students are learning. But inflated grades are tooblunt an instrument for this purpose because of their poor resolution (they’re limited to mostlyjust two grades: A and B, neither of which used to mean “average”).But even more important are fundamental social questions related to grade inflation’s impact oncredibility, accountability, responsibility and, last but not least, ethics.42 For example, does gradeinflation set a good example of candid evaluation of academic and professional performance forour students to follow and is engineering practice, and for that matter society itself, best servedby it?Be that as it may, there should still be interest in learning more about grade inflation, even