Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Craig

while also responding to thetechnical content. This paper discusses some common problems of graduate studentwriters and suggests a model that can facilitate the thesis writing process with an efficientand effective use of thesis advisors' time.Introduction and background:Not all graduate students are well prepared to write the master's or the doctoral thesis nordo they approach the task effectively. Although most students at the Department ofAeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology experiencelittle difficulty, others struggle to articulate their ideas. When this happens, their advisorswho work with them on technical content also find themselves coaching their students inwriting skills. Generally this is not an

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ramakanth Mandalika; Enno Koehn

Session : Curriculum Outcome Assesment using Subject Matter on the FE Examination. Enno “Ed” Koehn, Ramakanth Mandalika Lamar UniversityAbstract:In engineering education, assessment has become a major topic as a result of the adoption of EC2000 by The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In particular, theutilization of a nationally-normed examination is one method recommended by the ABETcriteria1. In this regard, an effective and recognized tool for assessing engineering education is theFundamentals of Engineering (FE

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karyn Biasca

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE PSYCHROMETRIC CHART TUTORIAL Karyn L. Biasca Paper Science Department, University of Wisconsin – Stevens PointAbstractThe psychrometric chart may be a troublesome tool for undergraduate students to learn to use.The chart’s importance in the analysis of industrial systems involving air and water vapor isundeniable, and reading the chart is an important skill for students to master.The tutorial presented in this paper is an interactive, online supplement to textbook explanationsof the chart. Sophomore students in an “Introduction to Process Engineering Calculations”course used the tutorial as their first exposure to the material, and

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

The Case for Computer Pr ogr amming Instr uction for All Engineer ing Disciplines Br uce E. Dunne, Andr ew J . Blauch, Andr ew Ster ian School of Engineer ing, Gr and Valley State Univer sityIntr oductionThere is no debate that computers are ubiquitous tools for the engineer in training as well as thepracticing engineer. In addition to being able to use a computer as a tool, we propose thatengineers of all disciplines, and not just those studying electrical and/or computer engineering,should be able to program computers. A student body familiar with computer programmingenables a more thorough treatment of advanced courses as well as yielding graduates

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry

Use of Educational Technology to Transform the 50-Minute Lecture: Is Student Response Dependent on Learning Style? Chrysanthe Demetry Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractEducational technologies like web-deployed assessments and student response systems provideopportunities for formative assessment that would be expected to enhance student learning andhelp create a more active classroom environment. These technologies can be used in ways thatmight help or hinder particular types of learners, yet not much research has been done in thisarea. This paper describes student response to BlackboardTM-delivered “preparation assessments”and use of the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

Just-in-Time Teaching: Potential Uses in Mechanics Courses Brian P. Self, Evelyn Patterson, Gregor Novak, and Eric Hamilton United States Air Force Academy, ColoradoAbstractOver the last 8 years, the physics educational community has developed a new learning strategyknown as Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT). In this approach, students are required to answer shortquestions posted on the web at least two hours before class. Questions are typically more open-ended and conceptual rather than mathematical. The instructor then reads through the studentanswers before class and tailors the classroom experience based on student understanding. Fornew topics, many students will appreciate some aspects of

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Macnab

Successful Students Do Not Do What They Should: An Inspirational Seminar for the Classroom C.J.B. Macnab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of CalgaryAbstractMost engineering instructors are encouraged to achieve teaching excellence. But how caninstructors encourage students to achieve learning excellence? This seminar can easily be used byany instructor, in any course, to motivate students to undertake successful learning strategies. Thispaper outlines and gives the rational behind a presentation that can be found athttp://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/Macnab/howToExcel.ppt. Any interested professors can givethis 50-minute presentation to their

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Robert Poth, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

AC 2005-1404: ADAPTING THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS FORELEMENTARY EDUCATION APPLICATIONSMarilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community CollegeRichard Gilbert,Robert Poth, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary SchoolRobin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School Page 10.127.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session 1793 Adapting the Engineering Design Process for Elementary Education Robert Poth, Robin Little, Marilyn Barger, Richard A. Gilbert D. L. Jamerson Elementary School /D. L. Jamerson Elementary School/FL-ATE, Florida Center for

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

, Technology”, not onlytaught the structure inherent in an intermediate language class by integrating vocabulary,issues, and projects that are of special interest to technical students, but also integratedcultural and technical issues of our global society. The object was to enlist students’technical enthusiasm for the process of learning a foreign language and studyinginternational cultural and technological issues. Our lab activity sequence of read, use, assemble, and discuss (in Spanish) is usedto promote the use of the Spanish language in a real-world technological context. The labmodules are adapted to teach technology students vocabulary and modes of thought intheir professions. We report how this modification allows students to enhance

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Misna; Erica Liszewski

Effectiveness of Karnaugh Mapplet Use in Student Learning of Digital Logic Skills Phillip A. Mlsna, Erica Liszewski Electrical Engineering / Computer Science PO Box 15600, Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ USA Phillip.Mlsna@nau.eduIntroductionOur core course in digital logic at Northern Arizona University (NAU) aims to develop a set ofkey skills needed throughout the electrical and computer engineering curriculum. Digital logiccovers the analysis and design of combinational and sequential digital logic circuits using thestandard

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

“emphasis” to thedepartment’s undergraduate mechanical engineering degree in the area of computational engi-neering. To complete the emphasis, students need to complete four upper division elective coursesrelated to computational engineering. Three courses concentrate on applied modeling and simula-tion; the fourth (which was developed under the CCLI award) concentrates on implementingalgorithms on parallel computing architectures.To support the emphasis, the authors have designed and assembled a PC Beowulf teaching cluster.The cluster consists of a server node where students can log in and develop their programs, aswell 10 dual Opteron compute nodes for running and testing parallel codes. AMD Opteron CPUswere selected for the cluster since they

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

Session # 2560 Engineering and the Millennium Development Goals Dato’ Ir Lee Yee-Cheong, President World Federation of Engineering Organizations Russel C. Jones, Chairman WFEO Committee on Capacity BuildingAbstractThis paper outlines elements of a global action program to apply science, technology andinnovation (STI) to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For purposesof the report, STI is used to mean the generation, use and diffusion of all forms of usefulknowledge as well as the evolution of associated institutional arrangements. The MDGsinclude

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

of Engineering created a Product and ProcessEngineering Laboratory, within which engineering students could deepen theirunderstanding, and satisfy their curiosity, by taking apart and re-assembling devices fromtheir everyday lives. Early examples were light-driven devices including bar codescanners, CD players, FAX machines, and video cameras. Subsequent disciplinaryexpansions included electric and acoustic guitars, internal combustion engines, and cellphones. All participants in this elective engineering lab, from undergraduate enrollees,junior-senior lab assistants, and graduate student authors of individual device chaptersindicated election of the lab because it offered opportunity for understanding via deviceuse, dissection and assembly

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

Challenges and Opportunities in Ethics Education in Biomedical Engineering Paul J. Benkeser1, Roberta M. Berry2 and Jonathan D. Olinger3 Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University1 / Schools of Public Policy2 and Aerospace Engineering3, Georgia Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionThe challenges of interdisciplinarity—integrating bioscience, biomedical, and bioengineeringknowledge and skills—are well known to biomedical engineering (BME) educators.Undergraduate BME engineering educators face the additional challenge of preparing theirstudents for diverse professional career paths in a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodney Handy; Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

Session 2005 Engaging Students in Multidisciplinary Engineering Problem Solving: An Investigation of an Airflow Imbalance and Humidification Problem at an Absorbent Hygiene Production Facility Robert Choate, Kevin Schmaltz, Rod Handy, Jason Arterburn, Joey Willcox Western Kentucky University/Purdue UniversityAbstractAn investigation of an airflow imbalance and humidification problem was recently conducted atan absorbent hygiene manufacturing location in the southern US. The project’s multidisciplinaryapproach involved a student engagement team of one senior mechanical engineering student andone

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

allows students topursue various areas of interest and undertake multidisciplinary projects, must be balancedagainst a rigorous foundation. Emphasis on project work, applications and professional practicemust be balanced against developing strong theoretical and analytical skills.This paper describes the new curriculum, the principles underlying it and the plan for itsdeployment. Although in many respects the Cooper Union is a unique institution, it is hoped thatour approach can provide a roadmap for curricular innovations in other engineering schools.An Overview of Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union.The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a small school located in lowerManhattan, with total enrollment in the range

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Om Agrawal; Fred Fontaine

, while ensuring that mathematics coursesaccommodate the needs of other engineering majors simultaneously.With the technological explosion characteristic of the Information Age, electrical engineeringis becoming increasingly dependent on advanced mathematical concepts. Mathematicsfaculties play a vital role in the education of undergraduate electrical engineering students. Therole can extend beyond course work by exploiting opportunities to collaborate with electricalengineering faculty on practical projects and applied research.This coordination impacts the sequencing of undergraduate mathematics courses taken byelectrical engineering students, the selection of examples and applications in these courses, thecoverage of particular topics, and the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Frances Stewart; Malgorzata Zywno

Learning Styles of Engineering Students, Online Learning Objects and Achievement Malgorzata S. Zywno and M. F. (Frankie) Stewart Ryerson UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the results of a research project investigating the effectiveness of an onlinelearning object and identifying behavior patterns of engineering students with different learningstyles that may affect their learning. Traditional instruction methods support only a narrow rangeof student learning styles. Instructional technology has a potential to expand the range of teachingstrategies. The authors have been using multimedia in their teaching to enhance active

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; P.K. Imbrie

Assessing Team Effectiveness P.K. Imbr ie, Susan J . Maller , and J ason C. Immekus Pur due Univer sity, West Lafayette, IndianaAbstr act The continuation of the technology explosion of the second half of the 20th centuryrequires the availability of a diverse and highly capable technical workforce. Current teachingpedagogies rely heavily on students collaborating, either informally or formally, in a team-likeenvironment. Unfortunately, even with the increased emphasis on the use of student teams inacademia there has been little-to-no effort to develop quantitative instruments to measure howsuccessful the teaming experience is for participating students

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

The Quest for Relevance: Roles for Colleges of Engineering and Industry in the Arab Gulf States Waddah Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (Retired) Principal, Geotechnical Engineering, Ames, IA, 50014Abstract:The paper examines the current stance of industry-academia relationships in the Arab Gulf Statesand argues that meaningful, long-lasting relations have not been properly cultivated. The papercalls for increased “relevancy” of engineering education, with greater industry-academiacollaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round table discussion, where engineeringgraduates of the Region’s colleges have

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

Session Number XXXX Using an Intelligent Transportation System Data Archive to Improve Student Learning at Portland State University Steven Hansen, Dr. Robert L. Bertini Portland State UniversityAbstractThe Portland, Oregon regional intelligent transportation systems (ITS) data archive (known asPORTAL) was inaugurated in July 2004 via a direct fiber optic connection between the OregonDepartment of Transportation (ODOT) and Portland State University (PSU). The data archivereceives 20-second data from the 436 inductive loop detectors comprising the Portland area’sAdvanced Traffic

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kai Li; Xin Tang

Developing an Efficient Remote Lab Environment for Online IDS Courses1 Xin Tang, Kai Li Department of Technology Systems, East Carolina UniversityAbstract - In this project, a remote lab network environment was developed to support ouronline IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) courses. We created the lab network with the criteriaof availability, flexibility, reliability, and economy in mind. The designed lab network is shownto be a reliable working environment, and has proven to be flexible for conducting variousindividual as well as collaborative IDS experiments. By minimizing the hardware/softwarerequirement on the

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

Acoustic Measurements Using Common Computer Accessories: Do Try This at Home Dale H. Litwhiler, Terrance D. Lovell Penn State Berks-LehighValley CollegeAbstractThis paper presents some simple techniques for acoustic measurements using common, readilyavailable computer accessories together with intuitive LabVIEW™ software. The methods usedare designed to capture the interest of a wide range of engineering and science students. Thespeed of sound in air can be determined with good precision using only the sound card,microphone and speakers found with many personal computers (IBM or Mac). Using thecomputer’s sound card under LabVIEW control, a

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center: Lessons Learned During the First Two Years of Operation By Thomas E. Christensen, Scott C. Dunning University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing CenterAbstractThe University of Maine’s College of Engineering has created an Advanced ManufacturingCenter with a student-oriented mission. This center provides a distinctive engineering approachto solving manufacturing problems and gives Engineering Technology students hands-onexperience working on engineering and manufacturing projects. With much of the center’s workcoming from off-campus businesses; the students gain

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

Circuit-X: Circuit Analysis meets the X Files Glen E. Archer, Leonard J. Bohmann Michigan Technological UniversityCircuits education is one of the cornerstones in educating an electrical engineer. AsDavis points out1 there is a need to relate analysis skills to the real world. Other authorshave done this by incorporating design into the circuits lab2, 3, 4 or by integratingcomputer tools into the lab5, 6. An additional strategy is to challenge the students with acircuit identification task, one where they have to design test procedures and from theresults synthesize the unknown circuit. Most lab experiences consist of opportunities tobuild circuits from homework problems

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

Programs for Engineering Education in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education ∗ Russell Pimmel Program Director Division of Undergraduate Education National Science FoundationAbstractThe programs of the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) serve as the focal pointfor the National Science Foundation’s efforts in undergraduate education. Theseprograms are directed at strengthening the vitality of undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all students. DUE has a number ofdifferent programs, each with a

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karan Watson; John Weese

An Examination of Technical Interests Motivating Women and Men Engineering Majors Karan L. Watson, Ph.D., P.E., Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost, Regents Professor, Electrical Engineering John A. Weese, Ph.D., P.E., Regents Professor, Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University, College StationIn a 1993 study of the persistence of sex segregation in education, Meece and Ecclesstated that in the US parity had been achieved in college enrollment for women, but “there was only a slight reduction in the amount of sex segregation found in courses of study selected by women. Women continue to dominate many traditional female fields, such as

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Que Nguyen; Jennifer Tafoya; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

and pedagogy. Careful attention has been given to coordinating theseprojects in a manner that maximizes their impact on the broadest population of teachers andstudents. A selection of summer workshops and classroom interventions has been developed andtested. Additionally, ten graduate teaching fellows, drawn from the Departments of Mathematicaland Computer Sciences, Engineering, Geophysics, and Environmental Science, have beentrained to provide direct support to middle school teachers and students during classroominstruction. These fellows have collaborated with participating teachers and faculty in preparingand implementing innovative, hands-on mathematics, science, and engineering curricula. Thispaper describes the coordination of the four

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

people who have the business acumen to nurture start-upssuccessfully, which they have done. The RDA, SJSU, the UBIs, and the incubator directors are all part of theentrepreneurial system that characterizes Silicon Valley.IntroductionIn this paper we will briefly review the significant literature on UBIs. The main benefit of the literature, primarilyderived from the articles written by Mian (1996a, 1996b, 1997), was to develop a framework, adapted based on ourexperience with incubators, and used to analyze the four UBIs affiliated with SJSU. Then we will describe thecontext of the current paper (i.e., Silicon Valley and San Jose State University), the four incubators and the RDA, apartner with SJSU in facilitating the development of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

reports that we submitted to Boeing.Around the time that our summer fellowships ended, the National Academy of Engineeringreleased their report on The Ingenious Engineer of 2020.1 The NAE also used scenarios on agrand scale. One related to the effects of continued automation and commercialized bio-nanotechnology on a corporate lifestyle. One visualized a natural disaster – a tsunami caused byan asteroid impact, devastating the Pacific Northwest – brought home all too vividly by thecatastrophe in Asia at the end of 2004. A third envisaged global conflict with weapons of massdestruction. Our project is much less ambitious in scope, and is focused on how aerospaceengineering undergraduates must be educated starting this year. We note that the