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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

Session 1420 LEGO Plus Jerry M. Hatfield, Electrical Engineering John T. Tester, Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Northern Arizona UniversityIntroductionThe LEGO Mindstorms construction systems have found their way into a wide range ofapplications in engineering education such as robotic devices, electro-mechanical controlsystems, process control, and data acquisition. The LEGO system provides a low costopportunity for easy and rapid construction and programming

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elaine Craft; Monica Pfarr; Jack Waintraub

Science Foundation has funded three national resource centers: theManufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC); the National Engineering TechnologyEducation Clearinghouse (NETEC); and the South Carolina Advanced Technological EducationCenter (SC ATE)1. These centers provide an extensive body of engineering technologyeducation-related materials through a variety of services. This paper will introduce these threeresource centers.Overview of the Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC)The Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC) was initiated by the National Center forManufacturing Education (NCME) in July 2003 with funding from the Advanced TechnologicalEducation program of the National Science Foundation, building on eight years of

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

Industrial Engineering: Why students come and what makes them stay? Randa L. Shehab1, Teri Reed Rhoads1, 2, and Teri J. Murphy3 School of Industrial Engineering1, College of Engineering2, Department of Mathematics3, the University of OklahomaAbstractThe relative anonymity of industrial engineering may be a significant reason for the slow growthof the discipline and the relatively low enrollment in industrial engineering academic programs.In order to inform industrial engineering (IE) degree programs of factors that help increase bothenrollment and graduation rates, this paper summarizes the outcomes of IE student interviewsregarding what drew

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

Industrial Engineering: Why students come and what makes them stay? Randa L. Shehab1, Teri Reed Rhoads1, 2, and Teri J. Murphy3 School of Industrial Engineering1, College of Engineering2, Department of Mathematics3, the University of OklahomaAbstractThe relative anonymity of industrial engineering may be a significant reason for the slow growthof the discipline and the relatively low enrollment in industrial engineering academic programs.In order to inform industrial engineering (IE) degree programs of factors that help increase bothenrollment and graduation rates, this paper summarizes the outcomes of IE student interviewsregarding what drew

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

Using LEGOs to Reinforce Basic Parametric Modeling Practices N. E. Study Department of Engineering, ENTC, INTC Virginia State UniversityAbstract Incorporating design intent and the use of appropriate naming strategies are fundamentalconcepts of efficient parametric modeling. A class of primarily junior level engineering andtechnology students, most of whom were having their first experience with parametric modeling,was struggling with these basic concepts. Although the students had received instruction on theimportance of naming their files, features, and sketches and incorporating design intent into theirmodels, they

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

The contribution of office-hours-type interactions to female student satisfaction with the educational experience in engineering. Stephen M. Lancaster, Susan E. Walden, Deborah A. Trytten, Teri J. Murphy University of OklahomaAbstractRecent literature includes discussion about many female students’ need for a personal type of aprofessional, professor-student relationship to feel connected to the course and to a major.1,2 Ourresearch builds on these findings to emphasize the importance of positive experiences duringoffice hours to female students. We interviewed 41 students from the School of

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Yasuhara

Choosing Computer Science: Women at the Start of the Undergraduate Pipeline Ken Yasuhara yasuhara@cs.washington.edu Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA1 IntroductionThe “shrinking pipeline” is a common metaphor for the underrepresentation of women in computerscience (CS), an increasingly well-known (if not well-understood) phenomenon. The further oneprogresses in CS academia—from undergraduate study to graduate study to faculty rank—thefewer women there are. (For a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wanasanan Thongsongkrit; Trasapong Thaiupathump; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

can adjust these parameters and readily observe theresults of the changes. Obviously, the interactive learning approach will provide learners with abetter understanding of fundamental Fourier concepts.This paper explores the interactive approach to teaching basic Fourier concepts and operations,which include basic properties of sinusoidal signals, Fourier series, sampling, aliasing,convolution, and modulation. Macromedia Flash MX4, which currently is a standard for theinteractive animation for the Web, is used to implement the interactive teaching approach. Thedeveloped tutoring system will utilize animation contents and maximize the interaction withstudents for distance education as well.MethodsThis paper selects some of the Fourier basic

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

Toolkits for Retention and Recruitment: Utilization and Outcomes Sheila Edwards Lange and Joyce W. Yen University of Washington Center for Workforce Development/University of Washington ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change Abstract: The University of Washington has developed a faculty recruitment toolkit and faculty retention toolkit which have been widely disseminated on the UW campus and off campus at many other colleges and universities. The recruitment toolkit provides guidelines, ideas and strategies for conducting a proactive search for diverse candidates. The retention toolkit is a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Wipplinger

Providing Safe Housing through Independent Study Dr. Lisa A. Wipplinger United States Military AcademyAbstractThe Civil and Mechanical Engineering department at the United States Military Academy hasteamed up with The Center for Earthquake Resistant Housing to work toward affordable, easilyconstructed earthquake resistant housing in developing countries. A series of independent studyprojects involving design, analysis and research are being developed as courses for small teamsof cadets. Each course will focus on a specific piece of the large project, helping to move italong more quickly. These projects will provide opportunities for life-long learning

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

institutions’ transfer of credits. Ifthis was to pass, a student passing a specific course would be able to apply those course credits toany other United States institution offering that same course. In other words, a student could takeEngineering 101 at a for-profit institution, such as Strayer University, and the credits must beaccepted at any U.S. institution, including traditional non-profit universities, offeringEngineering 101. This is just one aspect of this controversial bill, and there are many others.There is much at stake in this bill for traditional and for-profit universities alike, all centeredupon funding and resources. If passed, the for-profit universities will be given more access toboth of these desired commodities, which means less

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

Session 2547 Engineering Technology and the Lessons Learned from Engineering Kimble-Thom, M.A., Thom, J.M., Depew, D.R. Purdue UniversityIntroductionTechnology and engineering technology programs currently find themselves at the same cross-roads as engineering education did in the early 20th century. The choices that engineeringeducators made have resulted in industry practitioners expressing a perceived lack of skills ingraduating engineers deemed important to successful design activities. Technology programdevelopers are asking many of the same questions about technology’s

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barbara; Shripad Revankar

Large Scale Hydrogen Production Using Nuclear Power David Barbara, Andrew Carmean, Dustin Kraemer and Shripad T. Revankar School of Nuclear Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907AbstractHydrogen production using the Sulfur-Iodine (SI) process coupled to a high temperature gascooled nuclear reactor was simulated with physical models for the processes. The modelsincluded energy balance for the SI process, thermal models for the heat exchanger design, andBrayton cogeneration unit. Process parameters such as mass flow rates of reactor coolant,reactant gases, heat exchanger pipe size, and number

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Hendricks; L. Glenn Kraige; Don Morris

ago, the philosophy for teachingthese courses was to keep the number of students in a section to between 30 and 50 and to haveonly full-time faculty teach these sections. With enough faculty, which the department wasfortunate enough to have at the time, it was possible to teach the service courses in this format,teach departmental courses for the undergraduate mechanics majors, and provide a robustoffering of graduate courses, all while maintaining a very reputable funded research program in anumber of fields.Unfortunately, as has been the case in many other parts of the United States over the past tenyears or so, funding levels for education in the Commonwealth of Virginia have been reducedconsiderably. This trend has accelerated over the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

the way in which nanotechnology isemployed in industry by educating engineers and technologists and providing leadershipin research and technology transfer. Academic programs in nanotechnology will beinterdisciplinary in nature and will require far larger resources than required in the past oftraditional technology programs. This paper will provide a brief account ofnanotechnology, present the worldwide activities in the development and application ofnanotechnology and the need to prepare engineers and technologists for nanotechnologyimplementation in industry. It will then outline the curricular elements leadingundergraduate and graduate level education in nanotechnology. It will also discuss thekey issues relating to the development and

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

Session 1426Rejuvenate An Old Tinius Olsen Machine with Computer Data Acquisition Using Its Existing Hardware and LabVIEW Jiaxin Zhao Indiana University–Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. To meet this trend, it is necessary to bring computer data acquisition to old laboratoryequipment, such as a Tinius Olsen machine. One solution is to go to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition, thatusually costs

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

attitudes towards service activities using the“Community Service Attitudes Scale” which was developed and validated by Shiarella,McCarthy, and Tucker1. During the fall of 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty responded to thisassessment instrument. Student data were collected in the first semester of the MultidisciplinaryEngineering Laboratory course sequence, a required course taken at the start of students’sophomore year before they have the opportunity to participate in the newly revised servicelearning courses. Faculty completed the attitudes survey during the first faculty meeting of theacademic year. This paper describes and compares student and faculty attitudes with respect toservice activities prior to the proposed intervention. Attention is

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

Session 2353 Teaching Failure Analysis as an Independent Design Experience David V. Niebuhr California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractFailure analysis of an engineering component is similar to building a puzzle with only some ofthe pieces. The engineer is left to interpret the data and make an educated conclusion.Undergraduate engineers, while enjoying the investigative experience, are somewhat intimidatedby the many unknowns. In this course students select a failed engineering component andinvestigate the source of its demise. The evolution of the failure analysis course over 5 years isdescribed, as

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; Jorge Tito-Izquierdo; George Pincus

Session 2249 Teaching Modern Concrete Technology at the University of Houston-Downtown Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, Alberto Gomez-Rivas, and George Pincus Visiting Associate Professor/Professor and Chair/Professor and Dean Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TXAbstractThis paper describes a course developed by the Structural Analysis and Design EngineeringTechnology program at the University of Houston-Downtown to train the students in moderndesign of concrete mixes. The approach allows students to understand the dynamic nature of theconcrete

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Adamson; Cluny Way; David Cowan

ABANDONING THE LECTURE: USING JOB MEETINGS TO TEACH WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL, PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT David Jan Cowan Indiana University/Purdue University/Indianapolis (IUPUI)Abstract This paper looks at the notion that lecturing is not necessarily the most appropriatedelivery method for Architectural Engineering Technology courses that rely heavily uponrecreating the work environment within the classroom. The architectural project method is onethat is time-tested in architectural design schools, yet has been less embraced within engineeringand technology courses that tend to have a history of teacher-centered, lecture-based teachingmethods

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff

Session XXXX Professional Development for Community College Teachers: An Online Graduate Certificate Program in Community College Teaching Theodore J. Branoff, Colleen A. Wiessner, and Duane Akroyd North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe departments of Adult and Community College Education (ACCE) and Mathematics, Scienceand Technology Education (MSTE) within the College of Education at North Carolina StateUniversity developed a prototype graduate certificate program in Community College Teaching.The program focuses on developing the knowledge and skills

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

students face a challenging problem.They know it is important for their students to learn the material in these courses. (See [3], forexample.) However, they speak “mathematics” and not “engineering,” making it difficult forthem to communicate the relevance of the material to their students.The students face a similar problem. They know there is a reason they are required to takemathematics courses, but the reason usually does not become apparent until long after thecourses have ended. Consequently, students’ motivation to learn the mathematics is not as greatas it could be. Furthermore, by the time they need the mathematics in their upper levelengineering courses, they have forgotten much of it because they have not used it in such a longtime

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Regina Halpin; R. Mark Nelms

to developtheir own problem-solving skills, this promotes retention of the material as opposed to thestudents relying only on the instructor’s coverage of the material which promotes rotememorization 6,8. During the past decade, the use of technology in a constructivist environment has focused onthe development of computational software or visual representations that students can use tosolve problems 11-15. Regardless of how technology is being used in the classroom as aninstructional tool, it is still imperative to the student to receive numerous examples with step-by-step explanations from the instructor that can be used while completing homework outside of

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

Concepts Learning Using Technology for Rapid Feedback and Student Engagement John C. Chen,* Jennifer A. Kadlowec,* and Dexter C. Whittinghill Departments of *Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics Rowan University, Glassboro, NJAbstractIn this project our goal is to improve student learning in the foundation mechanics course Statics.In this case improved learning is defined as knowledge retention (durability) and knowledgeapplication in a different environment (transferability). We aim to do this by providing rapidfeedback to students of their understanding of key concepts and skills being presented. Thefeedback system acts as the focal point and

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawson Plummer; Sheldon Jeter

Multiple Fuel and Current Collector Testing in Direct Water Methanol Fuel Cells MAJ Dawson A. Plummer Sheldon M. Jeter, P. E., Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil & Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy Georgia Institute of Technology West Point, NY 10996 Atlanta, GA 30332 dawson.plummer@usma.eduAbstract Testing of fuel cells, in particular Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) is an excellentlaboratory exercise that involves chemical

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Wolter

Development of an Acquisition Management Course Jason Wolter, M.S., Roger Burk, Ph.D., Bob Foote, Ph.D., Niki Goerger, Ph.D., Willie McFadden, Ph.D., Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D. United States Military AcademyAbstract In response to external feedback and a continual desire to increase the diversity andapplicability of the curriculum for our students, the Engineering Management Program at USMAwill offer an acquisition systems management course for the first time in Spring 2005. Thiscourse will provide graduates with relevant skills related to the acquisition goals of strategicallymanaging, planning, and implementing acquisition programs and reforms. Topics will

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

the curriculum of the extended study program so that the students can comply with the exitlevel outcomes for engineering graduates set by the Engineering Council of South Africa. Faculty is faced with thechallenge to redress and enhance the under-prepared students' understanding of the fundamentals underpinning astudy in calculus, to develop their personal, academic and communication skills and to introduce them to basic skillsin information technology.To meet this challenge and address these aspects, a developmental course, Professional Orientation, is presentedduring the first year of study. The main pedagogical approach in the Professional Orientation course is to develop theacademic potential of the under prepared students. Therefore, the

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jayakumar Narasimhan; Erick Jones

Methodology for evaluating Simulation Software for Engineering Management Courses Erick C. Jones and Jayakumar Narasimhan Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.Simulation has proven to be an efficient tool to reproduce industrial environments without theactual cost of construction. Simulation is a process of enacting the actual or conceptual situationin a computer based environment and enables assessment, understanding and decision making ofthe situation under study. Simulation software uses previously collected data and

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

the Maui Economic Development Board, a private, non-profit organization. While most federal funding for such programs comes from either the National Science Foundation or the U.S. Department of Education, WIT is the first program of this kind to be funded by the U.S. Department of Labor as a workforce development project.During its initial assessment phase, a review of the existing literature on the under representationof girls and women in STEM and an analysis of best practices and model programs wasconducted. This review convinced the WIT team to focus on systemic change by addressingequity issues directly through equity training for educators and employers and through gender-equitable programs to encourage girls in

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

strategies and processes, as well as typical courses on industrial controland machining design, analyze known situations and consider given design goals.By contrast, RMS methodologies are based on design for a future change and a future re-use of components. With the RMS, the essence of decision making involves aconsideration of the future. The future is inherently unknown, and the forces conspiringto produce the future often lie well outside the conventional designer and managerpurview. The essential question was how does one make engineering decisions in thiscontext? The new decisions would depend on the following facts: • The forces shaping the future of a particular industry are not understood. • The rate at which these facts