Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

development of sound curricula and by representing the interests ofmultidisciplinary engineering on a national level with regard to accreditation, student placement,etc. The group's goal is to have membership representation from all non-traditionalmultidisciplinary programs. This relatively young Constituent committee is making great stridesunder the leadership of its officers: Chairperson, Dr. Joan Gosink of the Colorado School ofMines; Program Chair and Vice Chair, Dr. James B. Farison of Baylor University; andSecretary/Treasurer, Dr. Phillip W. Young of the University of Wisconsin at Platteville.The MECC’s contribution manifests itself in its focus on the general criteria. A programevaluator trained from the outset to examine multidisciplinary

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

. Of the participating institutions, approximately two-thirds of the institutions wereabout evenly grouped in one of four categories: programs conducted by a formally recognizeddepartment or division, by someone on the dean’s staff, by a responsible faculty member orgroup of faculty members in addition to their teaching or research duties, and programsconducted in individual engineering disciplines. The remainder of the programs had uniquefeatures that did not neatly correspond with one of the other categories. The paper also presentssurvey data on how faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and others are used inteaching, advising, and tutoring; advising services and how these are handled; and availabilityand administration of tutoring

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nicole LaRocque; Terri Lynch-Caris

fatigued. Sets consisted of no more than ten repetitions. Subjectsrecorded how many repetitions and sets they performed at each experimental trial.At the end of the three week study period, the subjects were again assessed in regard topersonal fitness and strength levels. The data collected before and after the experimentwas compiled and analyzed. The data is summarized in Appendix B for both theexperimental and control groups.As shown in Figure 1, the average number of movements performed by each subject inthe experimental group increased throughout the three week period. As expected, onaverage, males performed a higher number of movement repetitions than femalesthroughout the experiment. The linear slope increased significantly for both groups

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

Some Characteristics of Highly Ranked Programs in the U.S. News &World Report Ranking of Engineering Programs in Institutions without Doctoral Programs Jim Farison Department of Engineering, Baylor UniversityAbstractMany prospective engineering students and engineering educators and the schools they serve areaware of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. A distinct set of U. S. News & World Reportrankings is the ranking of the undergraduate engineering programs in institutions withoutdoctoral programs in engineering. While many observers point out the subjective and variablenature of these rankings, many also wait eagerly for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasemin Jones; Elaine Maldonado

in engineering andtechnology programs. References1. Upping the numbers: Using Research-Based Decision Making to Increase Diversity inQuantitative Disciplines. A Report Commissioned by the GE Fund, January 2002.2. Finkelstein, M., J. & Schuster, J. H. 2001, Assessing the Silent Revolution: HowDemographics are Reshaping the Academic Profession, AAHE Bulletin, October.3. Ernst, B., 2002, How Over Reliance on Contingent Appointments Diminishes FacultyInvolvement in Student Learning, Peer Review, February.4.National Center for Educational Statistics, 2002.Elaine MaldonadoElaine Maldonado is the Director of the College Learning Centers for New York CityCollege of Technology (City Tech), providing

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thaddeus Fowler; Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Anant Kukreti

Constituent Goal/ ObjectiveOngoing *Document time and activities all i, iii, J,N,PSeptember *demographic survey all A *attitudinal surveys Fellows, teachers, students B, D, K *skills/confidence levels Fellows iii, E *document curriculum projects teachers II,O secondary students’ plan survey (N/A) students

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

Reliability. Marcel Dekker, 1998.18. Forcier, M. M. and Forcier, R. A. Frontline Manufacturing: Rules, Tools and Techniquesfor Line Workers. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1992.19. Fowler, T. C. Value Analysis in Design. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.20. Burns, Marshall, Automated Fabrication: Improving Productivity in Manufacturing.Prentice Hall, 1993.21. Landis, Raymond B., Academic Gamesmanship: Becoming a "Master" EngineeringStudent. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, New York, 1988.22. Grimm, Todd, User!|s Guide to Rapid Prototyping. Society of Manufacturing Engineers,Rapid Prototyping Association of SME, Dearborn, MichiganAcknowledgementThe authors wish to acknowledge that this work was supported by an NSF ATE

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sucharit Koontanakulvong; Direk Lavansiri

Use of CUQA in Quality Assurance System ofFaculty of EngineeringChulalongkorn UniversityProf. Dr. Direk Lavansiri Keywords: Quality assurance,Faculty of Engineering education, assessment, opinion survey.Chulalongkorn University 1. INTRODUCTIONAssoc. Prof. Dr. SucharitKoontanakulvong The Faculty of Engineering,Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University wasChulalongkorn University established in 1913 to educate government service officers. Later, in 1933, it had expanded to offer a

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

Session 3532 Efficient Resource Allocation for FPGA Demo Board Based Digital Laboratories Chia-Jeng Tseng Department of Electrical Engineering Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837AbstractDue to its low cost and convenience, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) demo board isoften used in universities for teaching digital design. The major limitations of an FPGA boardinclude a small number of input and output options and limited high-level software capability

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Session 3247 Electrical Fundamentals - Make Them Come Alive for Students Walter Banzhaf, P.E. College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117IntroductionMany laboratory experiments we ask students to perform in electrical fundamentals laboratoryclasses are unnecessarily unexciting. Such tasks as determining the current through R7 of aladder network with eight resistors (does a first-semester student really care about R7, or itscurrent?), or verifying Kirchhoff's Voltage Law in a circuit with only resistors

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Resnick

Session 2548 Teaching the Programmer’s “Bag of Tricks” Brian J. Resnick, P.E. University of CincinnatiAbstractPrior to entering academia, the author provided supplemental programming education to the newhires for a manufacturer of an embedded system application. Over a twenty year period, heobserved the skill set of graduates from a variety of educational institutions, and discovered thatthey understood the syntax but were unable to conceive or express a solution to many of theproblems at hand. They had limited exposure to the problem-solving techniques

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Carlson

Session #____ Rapid Prototyping to Cement CAD Modeling Skills Lawrence E. Carlson Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at BoulderIntroductionAn important aspect of contemporary mechanical engineering education is mastery of a modernsolid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) software package. This important skill is vital tofuture engineers’ careers and gives students immediately marketable skills for summeremployment. Students also need to learn

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Falkowski

Bringing Members of Industry into the Teaching Profession Sean A. Falkowski University of DaytonWhen coming from industry a new faculty member of engineering technology has manychallenges. The learning environment is enhanced by the faculty member’s experience gained inthe engineering field. Examples from industry can be used in the classroom to bring about a feelfor the applications necessary in engineering and technology. Also brought by this new facultymember are techniques used in professional practice as well as skills needed to survive in theworkplace. But this change of careers can bring new

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Original Quarter One Projects Utilizing Rapid Prototyping Bruce A. Feodoroff New England Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the success New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) is experiencing ingrabbing hold of the first quarter students’ creative energy and motivating them to succeed inMechanical Engineering Technology. The introduction and use of a rapid prototype machine hassignificantly impacted not only the quality of the resulting original project models or prototypesbut has greatly enhanced the learning experience for quarter one (freshmen) students. This hashelped in sustaining the students’ interest in Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Lunsford; Evan Wright

Closed Port Authentication with Port Knocking Phil Lunsford, Evan C. Wright East Carolina University, Greenville, NCAbstractPort knocking is a promising new technology to further secure remote services. This technologycan be used to keep all TCP ports closed until a user has authenticated with a port knocksequence. During the port knock sequence all ports remain closed, thus rendering the serverinvisible to any malicious port scans. After a valid knock sequence has been verified by thesystem, a predetermined TCP or UDP port is opened allowing for a standard connection for apredefined service. This allows an extra layer of authentication at the transport layer

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Teaching Persuasive Writing Skills Using Proposals and Cover Letters Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi. Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.Engineers and Scientists are trained to present information as objectively as possible. While thisis critical in the preparation of lab reports and in the dissemination of experimental results,technical professionals are often called upon to write persuasively.How do we teach our students to remain objective and still convince their readers that their idea,product, or solution is the best one?In EG 1004 Introduction to Engineering and Design, the preparation of lab reports has beentaught for a number of years. Recently, other forms of

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

Strategic Planning for New Faculty: From What to How Justin S. Davis Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes methods of implementing advice given to new faculty members.Every new faculty member is (or should be) given advice through mentoring, new facultytraining, and development programs. Many times new faculty are told what they need todo to succeed, but not how to do it.1. Introduction Broad advice targets a broad audience, but specific advice is more difficult to givebecause every faculty member’s situation has different priorities. Therefore, theimplementation of the broad advice is left to the creativity of the faculty member

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

5-Minute Demonstrations to Enhance the Conceptual Understanding of Engineering Lectures Michele Perrin University of MissouriAbstractIntroductory engineering classes are often taught in large lecture halls, but due to a lack oflaboratory apparatus, professors use chalk or erasers to demonstrate physical principles.“Imagine this chalk is a Gaussian sphere” is a phrase underclassmen hear and are expected tolearn by. Clearly, easily accessible, illustrative instructional aids could facilitate learningcomplex engineering concepts. This paper describes a set of 5-minute demonstrations that aresimple to execute, require very

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Pavel Ikonomov; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

Session 1368 Online experimentation for study of stress and deformation in structural beamsAlamgir Choudhury, Jorge Rodriguez, Mitch Keil, Sam Ramrattan and Pavel Ikonomov Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Western Michigan UniversityAbstract Analysis of stress and deformation of beam elements are utilized in a wide rangeof curriculum. In most engineering and engineering technology programs, analyticalmethods are often augmented with computer applications and laboratory experiments. Inthe lecture only classes, theoretical learning can be complemented by

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

Putting Theory into Practice with Simulink John Turner, Joseph P. Hoffbeck University of PortlandAbstractMany students prefer to learn by induction (starting with specifics and working toward thegeneral theories). However, engineering classes are traditionally taught with a deductiveapproach (starting with general theories and working toward specifics). This paper discusseshow the software package Simulink can be used to bring an inductive element into a digitalsignal processing (DSP) course which allows the students to experiment with the theory and todirectly experience the results of the processing. This process gives the students

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

Thermodynamics for Tots to Teens Michele Perrin University of MissouriAbstractThis paper describes ten different ways to use a temperature sensor to investigatethermodynamics with younger students. Physical concepts such as temperature scales, heattransfer, phase changes in water, Newton’s Law of Cooling, and calorimetry can be exploredthrough typical playtime activities – touching (observation), pouring (manipulation), and sorting(classification). Activities such as mixing cups of hot and cold water allow children to continueexperimenting with their first temperature “sensors” (their fingers), while formalizing the processof

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Dunn

Transitioning to Academia Philip A. Dunn, Jr. PE Assistant Professor of Construction Management Technology, School of Engineering Technology, University of Maine at OronoAbstractAfter 23 years working as an engineer in a private consultant firm, a municipality, and a statedepartment of transportation, I had the opportunity to teach at my alma mater. I took theopportunity and because of the immediate need to fill the position, I left my employer and beganteaching duties in a short two week time frame. I was assigned two full time courses andadditionally took on duties assisting with two other courses. I soon devised organizationaltechniques to

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

the development of nationally competitive grant proposals. Withmany components required for a successful grant proposal, it is important for a potential granteeto develop a set of best practices when undertaking grant proposal writing efforts.The author of this paper has written a successful NSF Adaptation and Implementation grantproposal [1] entitled “An Integrated Internet-Accessible Embedded Systems Laboratory” and asuccessful NSF Department Level Reform grant proposal [2] entitled “Developing a ModernComputer Engineering Curriculum Focusing on Embedded Systems.” The goal of this paper is tosuggest best practices for proposals for people considering writing similar grant proposals.Considerations include properly addressing program

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Loker

Session 2147 Remote Data Acquisition using Bluetooth David R. Loker, P.E. Collin G. Frampton, Titan J. McElhaney, Jonathan R. Mook, Anthony M. Sansone Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote data acquisition project using Bluetooth technology is presented for asenior technical elective telecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering TechnologyBaccalaureate Program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several noteworthycharacteristics of this project

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

Document 2005-744 Programmable Logic Controllers in the High Schools Improves College Enrollments John Allen Marshall, Ph.D. School of Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology University of Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 04038IntroductionToo few high school students understand that a technical career path can genuinely beexciting and neat. Some have the short-term view that good paying jobs are plentiful, sowhy take the really difficult courses. Many sell their own abilities short and convincethemselves that it is too difficult a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Willis

Visioneering – Designing the Future Betsy F. Willis, Ph.D. School of Engineering, Southern Methodist UniversityAbstractScience Fair meets rock concert meets a day at the mall meets sporting event….welcome toVisioneering. Visioneering is an annual engineering outreach event and TV show produced inconjunction with National Engineers Week. The goal of Visioneering is to excite K-12 studentsabout science, math, engineering and technology in a high-energy, high-impact atmosphere.Visioneering brings together students, educators, higher education, and industry. Now in its 5thyear, Visioneering has grown from a live event for 250 middle school students to a by

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Peter

MINDSTORMS LOBOTOMY: ROBOTIC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, COORDINATION, AND CONTROL SYSTEM WITH PARALLEL ACOUSTICAL TRACKING CAPABILITY Luke Yoder, Mychal Hall, Kyle Madson, Anthony Donaldson, Don Peter Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WashingtonAbstract A system for wireless, multi-robotic communication, coordination, and control, based onLego MindStormsTM robots and a PC-based Command Center, has been demonstrated at ®Seattle Pacific University as an example of fruitful undergraduate research and as a powerfulextension of MindStormsTM capabilities for use by future students with minimal programmingand hardware changes. A custom program

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Session 1125 Using Industry-Like Product Development Projects in Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Courses Karim H. Muci-Küchler1 and Jonathan M. Weaver2 1 Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 2 Mechanical Engineering Department University of Detroit Mercy Abstract A good engineering education involves more than preparing students that have soundtechnical knowledge in a

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wronecki; Donivan Potter

Document 2005-2223 Designing for Special Needs “A universal design for a computational input device.” James A. Wronecki, Donivan Potter East Tennessee State University, Johnson CityThe industrial design of traditional computational input devices such as keyboards and mice onthe consumer market today often do not lend themselves to the needs of individuals withphysical limitations. To help such individuals the coauthors, a graduate art student and anindustrial design professor set out to design a new input device.To appropriately constrain the design a

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

Novel Distance Laboratory LabVIEW Control Panel Tanuj Oruganti, Tom Eppes and Peter Schuyler University of HartfordAbstractThe paper discusses the use of National Instrument’s LabVIEW for distance laboratoryexperiments. LabVIEW is being used in conjunction with a proprietary distance laboratorysystem called ALTE (Automated Laboratory Test Environment). ALTE is used by students inthe Electronic & Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) Department at the University ofHartford to perform experiments over the Internet on a 24/7 basis. The system architectureconsists of a management server that provides access control and archived experimentalprocedures. The