Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

the systems of roadways, water supply, waste disposal, energydistribution (gas and electricity), communication networks (wired and wireless) and myriadsubsystems that are necessary to provide a quality environment. The engineer is an essentialmember of the team of professionals that are responsible for the planning, design, constructionand operation of efficient, effective, safe and secure facilities. The Civil Engineering discipline isthe appropriate professional arena to meet these needs and civil engineering education is theappropriate educational foundation to prepare students to serve as engineers for the UrbanInfrastructure. This paper presents some of the current problems associated with the urbaninfrastructure and suggests the role

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanchana Jayasuriya; Doreen Thomas

Establishing Women - only Positions in Engineering to Increase Gender Diversity – the Process and Results Dr Kanchana Jayasuriyaa and Associate Prof Doreen Thomas Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, AustraliaAbstract: The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne has put in place a seriesof initiatives to increase the representation of women academics in Engineering. This paperdescribes one of these strategies, that is, the establishment of Research Fellow positions,eligible only for women, to be taken up in any one of six Departments of the Faculty ofEngineering. The justification for this

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ismail Fidan

The Development of an Online Knowledge Based System to assist the Designers of Forging Process Ismail Fidan1, Serdar Tumkor2 1 Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA 2 Istanbul Technical University, Gumussuyu, Istanbul, TURKIYEAbstractThe objective of this project is to develop an interactive system to help the forgingprocess designers, mechanical/manufacturing/industrial engineering and technologyfaculty, and students by giving them the necessary production information about theforging manufacturing process, and also to lead them with a methodological approach inthe earlier stages of the forging related

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

for allof their engineering students. Faculty from all disciplines have taken personal initiatives tointegrate environmental education in core engineering classes1-4. The College of Engineeringalong with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently received funding to host a NSFfunded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in Pollution Prevention andSustainability. The sustainability theme strengthens our REU site many ways. It has encouraged collaborative Page 10.1368.1efforts between our College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It also Proceedings of the 2005 Annual American Society for

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Quevedo-Camacho; Juan Manuel Ramírez-Cortés; Mario Gomez-Mejia

working on theconcept of the “Ibero-American Engineer.” In this paper, the authors discuss the characteristics thata professional would need to demonstrate in order to be considered in that classification, as well asthe ideal knowledge, abilities, and attitudes required in the modern world, toward a global degreerecognition. Iberian-American countries have concluded that the concept of an American engineer,and that of an Ibero-American engineer, are similar. It is agreed that cultural, economic, social, andpolitical situations must be taken into consideration, in addition to the academic and technicaldevelopment of each individual country.IntroductionThe globalization of the economy is resulting in ever-increasing border openness

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Omnia El-Hakim

Louis Stokes Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation (LS CO-AMP) Dr. Omnia El-Hakim Colorado State University Page 10.320.1 1AbstractIn the summer of 1994, representatives from eleven colleges and universities in Colorado andnearby states and from four tribal nations met several times to discuss the creation of a uniquealliance. The purpose of this alliance would be to better serve undergraduate students fromunderrepresented minority populations in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM). After undergoing a rigorous selection process, the Colorado Alliance forMinority

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson; Harold Broberg

. Introductory courses may teach assemblylanguage for the particular processor or a high level language, such as “C”, which isgenerally available, with libraries, for most uP/uC’s. The many types of hardwareavailable for interfacing with embedded processors, such as sensors, displays, keypads,and interface busses also make selection of laboratory exercises for an introductorycourse challenging.With this in mind, information was sought concerning introductory courses inmicroprocessors, microcontrollers, or embedded computing. Internet sites containingsufficient information were found for fifteen introductory engineering courses and eleven Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jing Pang

education exist on market, they usually have multiple functionalitiesand they are expensive for many engineering students. In order to offer students moreopportunities to use new technologies in the digital labs or at home, the author designed twolow cost CPLD boards during the summer of 2004. The author taught computer engineeringand electrical engineering students the art of the logic design using the FPLD technology atthe California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). This paper describes the issues relatedto the integration of the CPLD boards with the Introduction to Digital Logic Design course.IntroductionIntroduction to Logic Design is a common engineering course that is offered at manyuniversities. In the past, students studied digital

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Henrickson; Heather Gunter; Joseph Bonventre

Novel Module Improves Learning of Capillary Filtration Heather E. Gunter1, Sarah E. Henrickson1, Joseph V. Bonventre1 1 Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences & TechnologyAbstractThe concepts underlying capillary filtration are fundamental topics in physiology courses taughtto undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students. Students have reportedanecdotally that this material is difficult to master. Furthermore, overall student examperformance does not correlate with performance on specific questions regarding capillaryfiltration. Based on this backgound, a module that presents capillary filtration in the context ofglomerular filtration has been developed

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

Database Management System Track for Computer Science Students Reza Sanati-Mehrizy Afsaneh Minaie sanatire@uvsc.edu minaieaf@uvsc.edu Computing and Networking Engineering Department Sciences Department Utah Valley State College Orem, Utah 84058Abstract:Utah Valley State College is a four year college with only undergraduate programs located in anarea with many technology oriented business. In our Computer Science program, we offer onlyone database course titled “Database

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Wayne Sanders

Session 3661 Harmonious Combination of Tradition and Innovation – Making a Connection between Liberal Arts and Technical Courses, and East and West– Yuko Hoshino, L. Wayne Sanders Kanazawa Institute of Technology/Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper is the result of collaboration between a foreign language and cultural studiesprofessor in Japan and an engineering professor in the United States. It discusses a casestudy of the similarities between foreign language study and engineering courses at a privateengineering college in Japan. Project study in a Chinese language

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Curry; Eugene Eckstein

understand what skills and knowledge they must master andintegrate to complete the challenge.We have developed a challenge-based instructional module on gait motions and elementarybiomechanics for our first-year engineering course co-listed in biomedical and mechanicalengineering to target skills in manipulating, graphing, and interpreting empirical, time-varyingdata. Our motivation for this module is that freshmen often arrive without adequate experiencein simple graphing techniques and unfamiliarity with basic data representations. In addition, thestudents have a wide variety of educational backgrounds in mathematics, where some studentsare enrolled in third semester Calculus and some in College Algebra.Gait ModuleThe learning objectives for this

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

Disconcerting Statistics: The Future of the Hispanic Engineer Kathleen M. Kaplan, D.Sc., Lt Col John J. Kaplan (Ph.D., J.D.) USAF Howard University/USAFAbstractThe fact that the percentage of minority students in engineering are increasing masks the truth:the number of Hispanic engineering students is distressingly low. In order to begin to increasethe number of Hispanic engineering students, the current state of affairs must be understood andanalyzed. A thorough analysis shows a lack of representation of Hispanic engineering studentswith respect to all engineering students and with respect to the U.S. population percentages ofHispanic

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John King; Dae-Wook Kim; Tom Stoebe

Manufacturing Technology Curriculum Research and Development for High Schools and Colleges in Washington State D. Kim1, J.T. King2, T. G. Stoebe3, I. Cossette4 1 School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA /2College of Education, Seattle University, Seattle, WA/ 3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA/4Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, WA ABSTRACTThe Puget Sound Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence (PSCME), a three yearproject funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a regional education-industry partnership aimed at enhancing the

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering • the state in which the program was located, • the date the program was first accredited, • whether the university or college is public or private, and • whether the university or college is church affiliated.I was able to find almost all the above information for all 101 programs. For 5 programs Iwas not able to determine the number of professors.I used the following rules: • Number of faculty: I counted the number of regular faculty members, omitting emeritus, visiting, research, and adjunct faculty, as well as lecturers. I occasionally omitted a faculty member who I knew had moved to

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering • the state in which the program was located, • the date the program was first accredited, • whether the university or college is public or private, and • whether the university or college is church affiliated.I was able to find almost all the above information for all 101 programs. For 5 programs Iwas not able to determine the number of professors.I used the following rules: • Number of faculty: I counted the number of regular faculty members, omitting emeritus, visiting, research, and adjunct faculty, as well as lecturers. I occasionally omitted a faculty member who I knew had moved to