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Jim Farison

Session 015 ASEE Initiative in Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Programs Jim Farison Department of Engineering Baylor University AbstractDr. Joan Gosink, Colorado School of Mines, with help from some other engineering educators,organized a forum at the ASEE 2001 annual conference in Albuquerque, NM, for facultymembers interested and/or involved in multidisciplinary engineering programs. With continuedleadership by Dr. Gosink and others, that initiative has increased its program at each of

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Mario G. Beruvides; Terry R. Collins; Elliot J. Montes

provide a seamless education no matter which platform the educational product isbeing received from. Curriculum and Research IssuesLike many MBA programs, EM programs can have extensive executive EM component(seminary or more extensive training programs) along with PDH (Professional DevelopmentHour –for licensure) demands.7 In addition, many EM programs may have outreach initiatives ifnot simply professional development demands placed upon them. Again, here the demand is ofpractical nature.Due to the myriad of forces shaping EM programs, curriculum design and development is noeasy task in this field. Another reality facing EM programs is that there are few programs thatgrant PhDs in the area. 1 Thus much of the

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Lenore L. Dai

053 Incorporating Six Sigma in Engineering Education Lenore L. Dai Chemical Engineering Department Texas Tech University Abstract Six Sigma is a buzz term in today’s technology and business world. The Six Sigmaapproach combines elements from several quality movements with advanced statisticalmethodology. It is a comprehensive tool combining business concepts with technical skills andleadership skills. Six Sigma has been successfully applied to manufacturing, to research anddevelopment, and to business and financial services. Recently, there has been great interest

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Shunmugham R. Pandian

the first two years of theengineering science program.The Engineering Science Program at UMF is rather small in size, graduating about 10 to12 students a year. Program enrollments start at about 50-60 in the freshman year, buttaper off rapidly in the freshman and sophomore years. The program specializationresembles a mix of mechanical and electrical disciplines. The faculty size too is limited,comprising four to five full-time and adjunct faculty members. The teaching load is quitehigh, comprising three 3-credit courses per semester. Moreover, faculty are also expectedto exhibit significant research productivity and to contribute to service.The situation at UMF is fairly representative of conditions at smaller universities

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Ahmed Musa; Virgilio Gonzalez

through thislaboratory assignment to enhance understanding of networks design. Fig. 3: Network Installed in company offices Results from First CourseThe course was offered for the first time in the fall semester of 2002. The enrollmentconsisted of 8 undergraduate students and 6 graduate students who elected to take theclass. This required coordination with the teaching assistant to provide the tutorialsessions for each computer application employed. During the semester we encounteredseveral resource problems with the operation of the computer laboratory; in particular thesoftware licensing created conflicts that delayed the initial experiments. We gave extratime for assignment completion to

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Donald J. Bagert; Stephen V. Chenoweth

model. The first major component of the CSSE project hasbeen the development of Software Engineering Education Knowledge (SEEK), a set of topicsconsidered important in the education of software engineering students4. The SEEK body is athree-level hierarchy, initially divided into knowledge areas, one of those being SoftwareRequirements, which is a collection of 25 essential topics to covered over a recommended 43contact hours. Since the contact hours are approximately the same as for a three-hour creditsemester-long or four-hour credit quarter-long course, it provides a strong indication thatsoftware requirements course is a natural fit in an SE undergraduate curriculum.With this in mind, CSSE 371 (Software Requirements and Specification) was

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Luciana R. Barroso; Jim Morgan

story structure. One of the possibledesign alternatives available to the students was a highly-simplified linear base-isolation mechanism. Initially, students are overwhelmed by the project. However, as they start to break it down into therequired pieces they begin to realize that they can solve it. This past semester, students wereallowed to create and solve their own computational project based on a civil engineering applicationfor extra credit. Student teams tackled topics ranging from the dynamics of offshore platforms to theresponse of buildings with tuned-mass-dampers. While the analysis of these systems was notperfect, they demonstrated the understanding of the basic dynamics concepts involved.Additionally, the fact that the students

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Mohammed Shahbazuddin; Dr. Terrence. L Chambers

fixed-length binary strings and concatenated together into onelong binary string called a “genotype,” which is representative of chromosomal material in aliving creature.The Genetic Algorithm is modeled on the basis of Darwin's theory of natural selection. It uses asemi-random, or heuristic, search method to explore the design space. The initial runs of theGenetic Algorithm are used for exploring the design space and the later runs are used forexploitation or convergence. The ability to maintain a balance between exploration andexploitation makes the Genetic Algorithm less susceptible to the problems of local convergencethan many other stochastic algorithms.The Genetic Algorithm involves: 1. Creation of an initial population of

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Mario G. Beruvides

enlightening for both the students and the instructor. Insights and lessonslearned from the exercise are presented along with future research endeavors planned to explorethis educational approach. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education IntroductionEducators are not only faced with the task of conveying the theories, concepts, principles andpractices of their profession, they are also slated with the challenge of motivating their students.Much effort has been spent by instructors trying to dream up a better and more

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Jenna Terry; Paul Ruchhoeft

) has recently initiated a campus-wide approach to theteaching of writing with a special program specifically designed for teaching “writing inthe discipline” in order to provide students with the needed skills. The rationale behindthis initiative is that general composition courses cannot adequately prepare students fordiscipline-specific writing.Technical communications training has not been offered as a formal course at theUniversity of Houston for some time. In our Cullen College of Engineering it has beenmore or less up to the individual faculty members in their own courses to providetechnical communication instruction on a “need to know” basis. Laboratory coursesusually require written and sometimes oral reports. Typically the “design

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; M. M. Holt; R. H. Cox

. • Comprehensive testing modules. • Other features include, glossary of terms, frequently asked questions, contact information, links, and instructor feedback.The rationale for and the design of these modules is based on previous research by Holt and Demuynck24 of TWU in the context of statistics education (NSF DUE #9972494). Because the modules will beweb-based, advantages and disadvantages of using this medium have been considered. References19, 23,24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and others, discuss a number of ways in which reaching students through the Internet mayenhance the educational process. Initially, two web-based modules will be developed for each courselisted above. In addition, TWU participates in a 15 member consortium

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; W. J. Zimmermann

women16.An abundance of research publications have suggested a variety of reasons for thisphenomenon, including lack of female role models, male domination of classrooms, and a needfor social relevance. Many researchers have suggested possible interventions to remedy thesituation. However, despite the implementation of interventions designed to encourage talentedfemales and minorities to pursue careers in engineering and other sciences, the latest figuresshow that the participation rate is not drastically changing. For further discussion of these andrelated issues, see [8]. Clearly there is room to explore different avenues in addition to existingefforts.To address the concerns stated above, Texas Womans’ University (TWU) established

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Alison Reed; Kenneth Van Treuren

Session XXXX Application of a Modified Transient Liquid Crystal Technique for Analysis of Thin Plates of Different Materials Alison Reed Mechanical Engineering Student Baylor University Kenneth Van Treuren Mechanical Engineering Department Baylor University AbstractThe purpose of this research is to apply a modified transient liquid crystal technique to athin flat plate to determine local temperature distributions and

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Randall D. Manteufel; Jason B. Pleming

University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Bernoulli’s equation with loss coefficients is used to predict the tank drain time.As a first exercise, the students derive the equation for draining a tank of diameter Dt,through a hold of diameter Dh from an initial hi, to final hf, height. This often invites adiscussion of Torricelli’s Law because some students are familiar with it from previoustextbooks.4 Torricelli’s law states that water issues from a hole in the bottom of a tankwith a velocity of v(t ) = C 2 ⋅ g ⋅ h(t ) [1]where h(t) is the water height above the hole at time t, g is the gravitational acceleration,and C is the Borda

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David G. Johnson; Jessica D. Sanders

the launch surfacestopped the ball would continue to travel with the same velocity, and then would travelover a path determined by projectile motion equations. An object dropped from a certainheight (with a certain initial potential energy) to impact the launch lever would providethe energy necessary to launch the golf ball. This type of machine was ruled to beimpractical since it would be difficult to ensure repeatability. (2) Another alternative was to have the golf ball set on a tee at a certain distanceaway from the target. An object (such as a golf club) would be constrained on a pivotabove the tee, so that when released, the object would swing down and hit the ball at apredetermined angle with a predetermined velocity. Energy

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Paul Ruchhoeft

oral and written team reports) that are on display for three days inthe Commons area for the Cullen College of Engineering for all engineering students andfaculty to view.The research laboratories that have had significant involvement with the capstone courseover the last two years are listed below: 1. The Micro-Nano Engineering Laboratory6 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Director: Jack Wolfe Associate Director: Paul Ruchhoeft The Micro-Nano Engineering Laboratory’s (MNEL) mission is technology development for commercial applications of micro-and nanometer scale structures. The laboratory provides equipment and know-how to support a variety of projects spanning the range from

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Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Barbara Austin

generate ideas; 3. providingstudents with multiple perspectives; 4. making students research and revise; 5. testing studentsmettle; and 6. having them go public. Concepts learned during each cycle are used as ‘legacies’for subsequent cycles. A total of 32 students were enrolled in the class for the Fall 2003. A request to usestudents as human research subjects for the course was approved by the University of TexasInstitutional Review Board (IRB). Students were asked to sign a human subject consent formand all students graciously obliged. For the testing of the VaNTH learning modules, studentswere randomly assigned to either a trial group or the control group by drawing the assignmentslip from a hat. The trial group used the VaNTH website

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Guanlin Tang; Larissa Gorbatikh

that they do not initiate gross sliding, then only part of theinterface experiences slip leaving the rest of the interface in a locked mode. Similar to (3)partial slip can also be graphically represented by a conical surface (to be later referred toas a slip cone). Namely, at each increment i of the loading process we can build thefollowing cone: (Tx − Txi )2 + (T y − Tyi )2 − µ 2 (N − N i )2 = 0 (4)where (Txi , T yi , N i ) is an apex of the cone for this loading step. In general, there is aninfinite number of nested slip cones, all parallel to each other with the same angles N A B

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Jennifer Spurrier; Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

area of teaching field preference. ObjectiveAs stated earlier, previous research has been conducted involving engineering students and theuse of E-COACH. Fortunately, the tool is not limited for use to only engineering students. It isa Web-based electronic tool with free access. This paper presents information found in a studyregarding post baccalaureate students seeking teacher certification with relation to careerassessment, learning style assessment, and interest assessment. As the data were evaluated,questions arose, which will be discussed in a later section. This paper has four objectives: 1. Report the mean values for the career map coordinate for education majors and options within the

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Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

tool designed for assisting in careerguidance. The career-mapping tool aids students by offering career and learning styleassessments. The advising tool was designed by the College of Engineering at TexasTech University to provide assistance in career decision-making for students in theCollege. However, this guidance inventory can be effectively used by students in othercolleges and by high school and junior high school students. ObjectiveThis paper does not reflect research as is common in most journals but gives an accountof and evaluates the usefulness of E-COACH for high school students and high schoolcounselors. This paper has three objectives: 1. To report the results of the use of E-COACH

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Puneet Bhatia; Dr. Terrence. L Chambers

Technology for Design ApplicationVariant CAPP was the initial stage of the Computer-Aided Approach (Stage III). This stage isbased on Group Technology (GT) coding and classification approach to identify a largenumber of part attributes or parameters. These attributes allow the system to select a baselineprocess plan for the part family and accomplish ninety percent of the planning work. Theplanner will add the remaining ten percent of the effort by modifying or fine-tuning theprocess plan. The base-line process plans are manually entered using a super planner concept,which is developing standardized plans based on the accumulated experience andknowledge of multiple planners and manufacturing engineers. There are three types ofcoding, hierarchical

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

was taken using two palm pilots with “cardswipes” of student’s ID cards. For a large lecture hall of 200 students, the initial concernregarding our ability to monitor attendance was allayed with this system. Beginning ten minutesbefore the hour in which class was to begin up to a few minutes into the class period, two peoplewere able to capture the card images for all students attending class. At a certain time into theclass period, the decision was made that all students entering after that point would be deemed“tardy”. Thereafter, one person alone continued to swipe cards of students entering the lecturehall. Following the class, a program was run to enter the results of the card swiping into anAccess database. This system seemed to be well

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H. R. Myler

Session XXXX Early Electrical Engineering Concepts Engagement in a Freshman Level Introductory Course H. R. Myler Department of Electrical Engineering Lamar University AbstractThis paper describes a new program recently introduced to the undergraduate electricalengineering curriculum at Lamar University that allows for early engagement of fundamentals inthe freshman introductory course. The department initially instituted the Infinity Projectcurriculum developed by

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Seshagiri Rao Hoskote; Enno “Ed” Koehn

indicates the lack or inefficiency of the publictransport system. The analysis of auto rickshaws shows that initially there was a growth rateof 11% up to the 1980s, which then stabilized around 9% between 1980 and 1987. From1991 onwards the increase in growth rate was significant at 15%. The taxi has played a lessimportant role in the transport system of Pune city. The public transport in Pune experienceda growth of 4.3% in 1972 and from then onwards, there was a small and unsteady growth.This growth varied between 1.3% and 18.7% from 1972 to 1996. The goods vehicles haveshown a steady growth of around 5% from 1985 onwards.Estimated Energy DemandAt present, auto rickshaws are the top consumers of fuel amounting to 63.2 million litres/yearfollowed

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Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor; Paul Ruchhoeft

grading the oralreports (60 to about 120). The formal posters, the initial proposal for team formation,and formal proposal were also graded by all the instructors. So far we believe that thestudents are receiving quality evaluation and feedback. However, we are about to handover part of this evaluation process to others. This change will be discussed in the nexttwo sections.Assistance in Writing and Oral CommunicationWe have enlisted the assistance of the University of Houston Writing Center. TheWriting Center is administered by the Provost’s Office and supported by student fees. Itspurpose is to support writing across the campus. At present it employs six professionalstaff and approximate thirty student assistants recruited primarily from the

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Chau Kim Tran; Amir Karimi

bring fluid from a homogeneous nucleation temperature to thetemperature at the spinodal line along the isobars. Karimi has shown that minimum workis given by the change of thermodynamic availability between the two points and hassuggested nucleation thus occurs very close to the liquid spinodal, but we cannot expect itto occur anywhere near the vapor spinodal.The purpose of this research is to compare the limit of the homogeneous nucleation invapor phase with the predictions from such cubic equation of states as the van der Waalsequation by determining the isothermal changes in Helmholtz free energy from saturationstate to the spinodal point. Research conducted in recent years has provided us with someexperimental and theoretical data for