Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thad Welch; Robert Kubichek

Session 3420 The Incredible Hulk and Other Techniques for Teaching Waveform Demodulation Thad B. Welch Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Robert F. Kubichek Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wyoming, WY Abstract The University of Wyoming has introduced a 2 contact hour undergraduate/graduate course entitled

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

. Since 1989 he has served on the faculty at the University of Alabama in Civil and Environmental Engineering.His research interests include structures and engineering education.TAN-YU LEE received a B. S. in Mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1968 and a Ph.D. inMathematics from UC Santa Barbara in 1979. Since 1980 he has served on the faculty at the University of Alabamain Mathematics. His research interests include optimization, queuing theory and mathematics education.JOHN DANTZLER, Ph.D. is the President of Censeo Research, Inc., a program evaluation consulting company, andhas worked with engineering education data analysis for five years. He holds a Ph.D in Educational Research andhas assisted with the evaluation and analysis of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhukar Vable

address student pedagogical needs into design of his book [24] on ‘Mechanics of Materials’. Details of the pedagogical features can be found on the web page http://www.me.mtu.edu/%7Emavable/book.html.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”crack could grow. (b) there is no pre-existing crack. 75 ksi Cra 120 ksi ck Ori ent ati 27o on Fig. 1. Crack on a submarine

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

on the Outstanding StudentSection Award 2002-2003, goals were developed that met each of the four strategic SWEobjectives: Education and Outreach, Inclusive Organization, Knowledge Source, ProfessionalLeadership, Value and Benefit. These goals were then approached with a four-step process asfollows: 1. PLAN a. Budget b. Project/Goals c. Calendar 2. DEVELOPMENT a. Responsibility b. Communication 3. ACTION a. Project Development 4. EVALUATION a. Follow-through/Assessments b. Recognition – awards banquet/memberSince ASU SWE was preparing to host the SWE regional conference, the Executive Board metwith SWE-Phoenix (SWE-PHX) during the summer and developed a fundraising for the

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

accreditation. The respondents must know somethingabout accreditation, or their institutions would not have been as successful has they have been.When specifically asked to cite their best practices, the two most commonly cited practices were: a) Ensuring that a continuous improvement process is in place and that changes have been made as a result of assessment efforts; and b) Establishing an ABET committee with representation from each department or program for the purpose of coordinating and sharing best practices.Neither of these practices is particularly surprising. The first reiterates the fact that assessmentrequires a feedback loop to guide changes and measure results. The second acknowledges thatsometimes the best sources of

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

is allowed.Type 3, Right Right Linear: Right and Left Linear:Linear, Left Linear, A → xB or A → x A and B are in N, x is in Σ*.Regular - or - Regular: Left Linear: A is in N, a is in Σ, S is the start symbol. If A → Bx or A → x S → ε is in the grammar, then S does not - or - appear on the right side of any other Regular: production. A → aB or A → a or S → εIn computing, the three higher grammar types are associated with automaton as seen inTable 2. Table 2. Structured Grammars and AutomatonGrammar

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

William B. Rouse (1999) “An Introduction to Systems Engineering and Systems Management,” Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management, Andrew P. Sage and William B. Rouse (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.9. Checkland, P. B. (1988), “Soft Systems Methodology: An Overview, Department of Systems,” Journal of Applied Systems Analysis Vol. 15, pp. 27 – 30.10. Checkland, P.B. (1981) “Rethinking a Systems Approach,” Journal of Applied Systems Analysis Vol. 8, pp. 3 – 14.11. Jackson, M. C. (1985) “A Cybernetic Approach to Management,” Managing Transport Systems: A Cybernetic Perspective, Paul Keys and Michael C. Jackson (Eds.), Gower Publishing Company Limited, pp. 24 – 52.12. Jackson, M. C. (1988) “Systems

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren

theory course. While they can demonstrate frequency-dependent behavior with analog circuits in the laboratory, they find it difficult to (a) conceptuallymap time-domain signal character to frequency-domain spectra and (b) describe the effect of a Page 10.976.1frequency-domain filter on the shape of a time-domain signal, even if they understand the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationfundamental concept of a Fourier series. Finally, linear systems students find it hard to correctlyinterpret the

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

Writing Card Games: An Early Excursion into Software Engineering Principles John K. Estell Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department Ohio Northern University1. IntroductionCard game programs are both visual and event-driven; playing cards serve as a well-recognizedgraphical element and the play of the game progresses through the handling of discrete user-generated events. As assignments, games are often challenging to write, but provide both adefinite goal to strive for and a greater sense of accomplishment as the completed programactually does something. Along with the motivational value of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

(Figure 1). After the students acquired 3-D spatial concepts, they were asked to sketchprojection views of the models. (a) (b) Figure 1. First test class. Page 10.1436.3 Figure 2. Second test class. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Immediately following the test class, the instructors from the Curriculum and

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Trabert; Lawrence Carlson

secondcourse offering because the virtual GD&T labs took place after the mid-course survey.On the standard university-wide faculty course questionnaire (FCQ) administered at the end ofeach semester, two custom questions addressed dimensioning and tolerancing:• Rate your level of understanding of general dimensioning and tolerancing• Rate your level of understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancingWhile overall course and instructor FCQ ratings both semesters were the same (B+/B+),students’ self-reported level of understanding of general dimensioning and tolerancing increasedfrom C+ to B+, and their understanding of GD&T remained steady at C (Figure 8). This was thelowest score of a variety of topics surveyed, which ranged from C to B

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

K-16 STEM Teaching and Learning,” International Network for Engineering Education and Research(iNEER) (Special Volume, March 2005, in press).2. C. Crumbaugh, P. Vellom, A.A. Kline, and E. Tsang, “Integrating First-Year Engineering Design and Pre-Service Science Education: A Model for Engineering and Education Collaboration to Enhance K-16 STEMEducation,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Engineering Conference, Savannah, GA, October, 2004, pp. S2E-14– S2E-18.3. E.Tsang and A.A. Kline, “Design of an Inexpensive Optics Demonstration/Experimentation Kit for MiddleSchool,” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT,June 2004.4. A. Kline, E. Tsang, C. Crumbaugh, and B. Cobern, “Establishing an

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

water system for the Kyle Canyon GatewayDevelopment. The City of Las Vegas would like this development to demonstrate sustainabledesign concepts for resources (energy, water, transportation). The specific technical need that fitwith the core objectives of the course included the design of a recycled water system. The classhad 37 students that were divided into groups of 4-5. Thus, there was a total of 9 groups. It isnoteworthy, that the instructor assigned the groups based on ranking of the students in the courseand to avoid women being a minority in a group. Since there were nine groups, the technicalneeds were divided into three tasks (A, B, C) and three groups (1, 2, 3) worked simultaneouslyon each task. In addition, each group had to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

111 pounds to 132 pounds before breaking. Fifty pounds was the minimum weight to earna “C”, Seventy pounds a “B”, ninety pound and “A”. Grades were prorated based upon the actualweight achieved. Each team was photographed and their pictures placed on the programs website. The winning team was treated to dinner with the instructor. The construction and flying ofthe airplane went well. The students looked forward to the event and participated withenthusiasm. The final project helped tie together four instrumentation lectures and labs. It alsogive the students practice presenting. Some of the projects were quite inventive in meetingrequirements. Once, a singing fish “Billy Bass” was used with Christmas tree lights. As thesesimple solutions

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

. Page 10.235.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 35686 Rules for Constructing Shear Force and Bending Moment DiagramsThe first movie, titled 6 Rules for Constructing Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams(Figure 2), is structured as a collection of exercises that focus on each rule. For each rule (Figure3), four different example problems are available. These are accessed by clicking on one of thefour buttons (A, B, C, or D), and each time one of these buttons is clicked, a new exampleproblem

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2004. 11. Monsma, Stephen V., Clifford Christians, Eugene R. Dykema, Arie Leegwater, Egbert Schuurman, and Page 10.164.9 Lambert Van Poolen, 1986, Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective, William b. Erdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education12. Gojman, Marcos, 2004, The Axiological Structure of a Concept: Industrial Design as an Example, Http

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vallino; Michael Lutz

SWITCHFSP’s with labels a and b. The labels are prepended to all actions in the FSP. These twoswitches are composed with a lamp to form a three-way lighting system, Figure 3. Concurrentlyexecuting FSP’s are synchronized by matching action names. If an action is shared by multipleFSP’s, all FSP’s sharing that action must execute it at the same time. The action name matchingis done considering all labels applied to the actions. In the THREEWAYLIGHT composite theLAMP FSP shares its actions with switch a and b. ||THREEWAYLIGHT = (a:SWITCH || b:SWITCH || {a,b}::LAMP). Figure 3 – Composite Finite State ProcessFigure 4 shows the individual FSP’s that make up the THREEWAYLIGHT composite. Thecomposite FSP can also be

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

., Koenig, K., Hannigan, T., “Keeping Students Engaged: An Overview of Three IntroductoryCourses in Aerospace Engineering”, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville,TN, June 2003.5. Hannigan, T., Koenig, K., Austin, V., Okoro, E., “Shelving the Hardware: Developing Virtual LaboratoryExperiments”, Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, June 2005.6. WebCT – web based classroom technology, http://www.webct.com7. Hannigan, T., Koenig, K., Gassaway, B., Austin, V., “Revision and Translation of Existing Programs as a Toolfor Teaching Computer Data Acquisition and Control Systems Design and Implementation”, Proceedings of the2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

; Loving, C. C. (2000). Defining “science” in a multicultural world: Implications for scienceeducation, 49 – 67. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”De Courten-Myers, G. (1999). The human cerebral cortex: Gender differences in structure and function. Journalof Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 58 (3), pp. 217-226.Fox, M. (1996). Women, academia, and careers in science and engineering. In C. Davis, A. Ginorio, C.Hollenshead, B. Lazarus & P. Rayman (Eds.), The equity equation: Fostering the advancement of women in thesciences, mathematics, and engineering (pp. 265-289). San Francisco

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Stanley; Daryl Beetner; Donald Wunsch; Rohit Dua

, February 1991.[3] A. Zemya, A. Trost, and B. Zajc, “A rapid prototyping environment for teaching digital logic design,” IEEETransactions on Education, 41 (4), pp. 8, November 1998.[4] Adnan Shaout, N. Narasimhamurthi and P. Watta, “Enhancing the digital systems courses with modern designtools and practices,” Proceedings of the ASEE conference, Albuquerque-new Mexico, paper no. 348, June 24-27,2001[5] D. Davenport, “Experience using a project-based approach in an introductory programming cours.e,” IEEETransactions on Education, 43 (4), pp. 443-448, November 2000.[6] http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/E001%2005-06%20EAC%20Criteria%2011-17-04.pdf,pp. 9-10.BiographiesRohit Dua is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

assistant professor may be more likely to find support througha mentor relationship with a tenured female faculty. That relationship will likely occur betweendifferent departments due to the low number of females in any one department. Finally, thevalue to society of an engineer who has the ability to collaborate with other disciplines cannot bemeasured but is invaluable to future success. The benefit of the collaboration on this study hasprovided the untenured faculty member within our team with networks within and outside ourinstitution. The tenured faculty members in our collaboration have gained new teaching andresearch ideas based upon the technological interfaces between departments.Bibliographic InformationBelenky, M. F., Clinchy, B. M

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

rep, IHS rep 8/4 Industry Site Remediation 1, CO Consultant A, Consultant B 7/5 Site Remediation 2, WY Consultant A, Consultant B 9/3 Site Remediation 3, Canada Consultant C 4/4 Power plant, CO Facilitator, Operator 4/3 Municipality Water utility, California Consultant D 3/3 Wastewater utility, CO Facilitator, Operator 4/4 University of Colorado (Biodiesel) Student leader

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Blair Rowley

resource for locating materials,proper construction methods, and provide guidance in solving problems. It was their task to keepthe project on schedule, assure that team meetings were attended, and see that the work load wasevenly divided among the team members.This team effort was 20% of a senior’s grade and was based upon 150 possible points using thefollowing metrics: 1. Meet with their team at least three times (30 pts) 2. Maintain an engineering notebook on the project (10 pts) 3. Be present at the project presentation to introduce the team (10 pts) 4. Produce a project report at least 12 pages long consisting of the following: (100 pts) A. Heading (5pts) B. Problem definition with objectives, requirements, constraints

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

purchased from US Digital3Both channels, A and B, generate 1000 pulses per revolution but they have a phase angle of one-fourth of one period. Index output, I, goes high once per revolution of the encoder. Channel Awas used for the data acquisition. Some technical specifications of the optical encoder are given Page 10.963.5in Table 2. Crankshaft pulley diameters are different on different engines. Since belt speed Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdepends on the engine rotational speed and the

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

sections were administered by the authors N. Klingbeil and K. Rattan,while the laboratory and recitation sections were staffed by a total of 5 graduate teachingassistants. Student performance was assessed through graded homework and labs, block midtermexams in weeks 5 and 8, and a block final exam following week 10. Final grades wereadministered according to a standard University scale (A: 90-100, B: 80-89, C: 70-79, D: 60-69, F: <60), with minor adjustments for borderline cases. The final grade distribution for the first run of EGR 101 is shown in Figure 1. In short,student performance was extremely encouraging. Of the 76 students enrolled, over 80

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

products and human use, ability towork in teams, and techniques for preparing effective documentation. It required that studentsintegrate their knowledge of and utilize skills in space science, physics, math, chemistry,environmental science, biology, computer science, engineering, writing, speaking, art, andcommon sense. Students were graded on a mid-term exam, reading assignments, companyproposal, and company presentation.The criteria for the winning proposal were defined to the students as: 1) The Basics: win the same way any company wins a proposal simulation a. Create a design that meets the customer’s requirements b. Show in your presentation that your design meets the requirements 2) Customer requirements are

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

Session 2521 Student Design, Development, and Operation of Sounding Rockets at the United States Air Force Academy Thomas B. Joslyn Kenneth E. Siegenthaler Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe FalconLAUNCH program is a unique, dynamic rocket launch vehicle researchprogram that serves as a capstone course for Astronautical Engineering majors at theUnited States Air Force Academy. The goal of the program is to give students theopportunity to “Learn Space by Doing Space.” The program results in a rocket

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

project and become proficient in riveting (see Figure 1). Figure 1 Students Demo Flush Riveting with a Bucking Bar in Project #1PROJECT 2: The student is expected to demonstrate skills in the second project. It consistsof the construction of a stiffened wing section from plans and associated documentation thatare provided in a training kit by Van’s aircraft. The instructions for this project are asfollows: PROJECT #2 METAL WING SECTION FABRICATION AND CONSTRUCTON A. Protection (Eyes and Ears), Partners (No Working Alone), Phone (available) B. Read and Initial that you have read the material to the left of the instructions C. Preview the photos available on the class web

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Marie Flynn

. Calculating the heat transfer rate from a pipe (regardless of where the pipe islocated) or the insulation required around a pipe is a typical exercise given to an engineeringstudent. Most of the properties that are needed can be found in the appendix of Incropera &DeWitt. However, the answers to parts b.) and c.) certainly cannot be found in any standardtextbook and requires the student to think (at a minimum) and search the library or internet forpossible answers. Indeed, the students’ answers to parts b.) and c.) for this particular problemwere much more exhaustive than the solution provided and included much personal reflectiongiven the high potential for loss of human life and destruction to natural resources.Problem StatementFaced by what is

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

. (a) (b) (c) Page 10.1119.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Fig. 9 a) The transmitted and recovered data streams b) The data stream after shaping by transmission filter c) The transmitted and received BPSK data streamIII. Testing Comprehension Students are required to explain in their final lab report the function of each