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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Wei Cao; Peggy Vance

more than 15 schools and 300 hundred kids come to the event;they spent the whole day for completion, demonstration and tours of engineeringand technology labs in WVU. The sponsor pool of the competition has been growing up year-by-year, whichincludes the WVU, Toyota Inc, Parallax Inc, WV Education department, WVLogan County Distinct Education Department, Tech Prep Foundation, AppalachiaEducation Lab and etc. In this article, the short history, organization strategy, competition format,follow-up feedback and future plan will be discussed. The next competition, 4thLego Robots Competition for High, Middle and Elementary Schools in WV willbe held on May 2006.

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Seymour Blank; John Hudesman; Robert Armstrong; Ed Morton; Adam Moylan; Neisha White

needs of these under-prepared students have focused on teachingcontent courses together with a variety of academic/study skills strategies. These have met with limitedsuccess. Our department has recently (2005/2006 academic year) received a National Science Foundation(NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase I grant to apply “Self-RegulatedLearning” (SRL) to two engineering technology courses. SRL involves teaching students a new way ofunderstanding their learning process and how to monitor and manage it. The SRL process includes an on-going three-phase cycle: (1) planning, (2) practicing and (3) evaluation. During the planning phase,students assess prior performance, set goals and choose appropriate learning strategies

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Lance Breger; Kenneth Markowitz

findany that followed the general plan that we had in mind. Hence, we undertook this arduousproject.BASIC PLAN OF DIAGRAMS Here are some important additional details about these operational diagrams:• color code:The carrier wave is distinguished from the information signal by coloring the former redand the later blue. Wave forms which are a mixture of carrier wave and information arecolored purple, just as the color purple is a mixture of red and blue. Knowing the locationof the information is crucial to understanding the operation of a communication system.• operational characteristics of filters, amplifiers, etc.In addition to the signals per se, the operational characteristics of the various pieces ofhardware are also shown in green

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

oranother to some ethical basis, customs, rules or traditions. Examples used in a ‘new’ mandatoryfirst year “Practical Engineering” course (Engineering 5 first offered in 2003) are described [5].Examples with greater complexity and subtlety are used as assignments and for class discussionin an undergraduate junior/senior course (IE334, Organizational Planning and Control). Finally,in several graduate courses in the program that the author directs there is appreciable focus onissues that have unavoidably ethical content affecting the global commons, marketing, facilitiesdesign and location, design, sustainability, and human resource development and cultural issues.First yearThe course, Engineering 5, is scheduled every semester to afford the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harold R. Underwood

the World (STW) as part of their general education requirement.Beyond increasing their technical literacy, the STW course intends to help studentsrecognize how science and technology (S&T) relate to other parts of culture, preparingthem to reflect critically on the nature and scope of S&T, and develop a personalperspective of their own. The case study in this innovative teaching approach, isintended not only to facilitate stated course objectives, but to encourage students to studyother cultures on their own, where they may plan to travel, or have already visited, to seewhat role technology has played. In so doing, they may find nuanced instances of thedigital divide worldwide, and issues that may either realistically complicate or

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ernest Y. Wong

, which numerous commercial software applications are already capable of accomplishing, I leveraged spreadsheet modeling as a way to analyze in greater depth how changes in one’s financial circumstances can affect one’s federal tax liabilities. By doing so, the students gained the knowledge that they have the power to make changes in their own finances to help reduce their income taxes. Furthermore, this spreadsheet model empowers students with the ability to look beyond their current year’s tax filing requirements and encourages them to plan strategically for their future annual tax obligations. By introducing the practical into the classroom, I am helping students not only gain a greater

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ashraf M. Ghaly

CUTTING STUDENTS’ IMAGINATION LOOSE PAYS RICH DIVIDENDS Ashraf M. Ghaly ghalya@union.edu Union College 807 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12308 Abstract: The Technical Drawing course is a freshman level course taken by engineering students at Union College. The course covers the fundamentals of engineering graphics and heavily relies on the software package SolidWorks in drawing parts, assemblies, and engineering plans. Project GraphSpeak is an exciting design project that was introduced to give the students an opportunity to put into practice the knowledge gained in this course

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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K. Markowitz; H. Marandi

other areas of the curriculum. This includes such topics as critical thinking, problemsolving, and consideration of realistic constraints, safety, environmental concerns, esthetics,economics, etc. Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conference Another method for students to learn ethics is to integrate an engineering ethics course intoother courses in the curriculum. For example, select problems from an engineering economicscourse and embed engineering ethical constraints. A practical example of an embedded ethicalproblem using engineering economics is provided below. (3) A small dam is being planned for a river tributary that is subject to frequent flooding.From past experience, the probabilities that water

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established a Committee on Education (CoE) with one of its charges to assist engineering and technology programs in standards education. This effort built on the ABET requirement for engineering major design experience “incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realist constraints.” The purpose of this paper is to provide a report and update of the ANSI CoE’s activities and plans for standards education and outreach to universities and suggest ways that faculty members can become more involved in and benefit from this effort. Key words: accreditation, design, engineering standardsIntroductionThe ABET Criteria for

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carlos Bertha

priests to learn to exercise their own prudence and discretion, but these newsurroundings gave priests a fresh batch of cases that were not necessarily covered in the Summas.Better ways to adjudicate blame (and assess penance) became necessary than the process oflooking a sin up alphabetically on a list.In 1581, Father General Claudius Aquaviva started to codify the educational plan for the Jesuits,and in the next two decades so-called “cases of conscience” were given considerable attentionwithin this plan. By the time the plan, called Ratio Studiorum, was implemented (around 1599),some had expressed enough of a concern about separating the practical aspects of cases fromspeculative moral theology that the document had struck a balance between

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Betsy Calhoun

, undue reliance on trade with other area of the world,and a general lack of planning for the future. Aside from global warming, which isdirectly related to the world-wide use of fossil fuels and thereby an outcome of theIndustrial Revolution, these concerns are in many cases the same as the factors which 1contributed to the collapse of earlier civilizations. The Mayans in the Yucatan peninsuladepleted their water supply and grew too large for their agricultural capacity. EasterIsland people poured their resources into giant statues, until they finally could not evenbuild boats to fish or trade. Deforestation with the resulting erosion and loss of wood forfuel and construction was a factor in the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sidi Berri; Andy S.J. Zhang

CADD programs beyond the associate level.In the meantime, Industrial Design as a discipline has been recognized as an important player inthe area of product design and development. In many cases, whether it is the design of a new car,design of a new medical device, or design of a new commercial electronic gadget, we have seenthat industrial designers are now playing key roles and are involved in the entire productdevelopment process from initial product planning to post implementation.[1-4]In light of these developments and after an extensive research, one year ago, the Departmentdecided to create a new program called Industrial Design Technology (IND) to replace theexisting CADD program. This change not only reflected the changes we made over

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mark Miles; Eugene Ressler; Paul Maxwell; Kurt Webber

that a “hands-on,design-build-test” treatment of nearly any complex engineering topic produces more proficientstudents than a lecture-only approach in a given time. Pedagogical efficiency can also be improved by eliminating unnecessary costs ofscaffolding, which is the necessary supporting technical and conceptual framework for newtopics, based on simpler ones the student has already seen. Such costs normally arise fromredundancy. Certainly the removal of all redundancy is unlikely to result in maximum learning.Repetition is necessary in education, and planned repetition is important for any program. Onthe other hand, scaffolding that amounts to “make work”--any required effort with little learningvalue--is a prime candidate for

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Erdogan M. Sener

to be able to develop a curriculum for undergroundinfrastructure construction, it is important to note what kind of developments influenced suchconstruction work in the near past. The main factors that have governed change in constructionundertakings in the past several decades have been: • New materials (high strength concrete, composite materials, carbon fibers, etc.) • New construction methods and delivery systems (partnering, open building, fast tracking, etc.) • New methodologies for planning and tracking on-site productivity (management information systems applied to construction industry, etc.) • New regulations for construction work (safety, health, environment impact, etc.) • New communication

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tatiana Malyuta

continue to be the important part of the course. We plan to emphasize the design of databases for business processes. Above this primary data layer, the IS can contain data that defines the processing itself, or, we say, data serves as or defines the subject of processing. We call such data metadata. Today, metadata is usually presented by the semi-structured data model and implemented with the help of XML. Design and implementation of metadata have to be discussed separately. Above the tier of metadata, the IS may contain data that explains metadata: its structure, purpose and relationships. This tier helps to integrate data and functionality of the IS with other applications. Such

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Justin Highley

courses was based on presenting the same amountof material from the original Thermodynamics (ME301) and Fluid Mechanics (ME362) courses.Additionally, the new courses would be designed such that the Civil, Environmental, andEngineering Management majors would take only ME311 in order to create room for anotherelective in their academic plan. Based on this requirement and the desire to ensure their successon the FE exam, the ME311 curriculum focused on the topics that not only lent themselves tointegration, but also other topics on the FE exam (hydrostatics, internal flow). With these topicsidentified, the remaining subjects from Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics were placed intoME312. The breakdown of subjects into the two courses can be seen in

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ronald E. Barr

“Engineering: Go For It” magazine(Figure 5). The magazine has been widely accepted and over 600,000 copies have beendistributed to date. An all-day K-12 workshop was developed and presented at the ASEE 2004Salt Lake City and 2005 Portland annual conferences, and the near-term plan is to have this as aregular event at the annual conference. A new manager and department for outreach was createdwithin the ASEE staff structure in 2005.The Scholarship of Engineering EducationRecent events have accelerated the interest in engineering educational research. These includenew ABET criteria and evaluation processes, new teaching and learning technologies in theclassroom, NSF support of engineering education projects, and re-thinking of basic engineeringlearning

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mark Miles; C.M. Chewar

keypoints.2. Background:One of the authors recently assumed course development responsibilities for an introductorycourse in Computer Engineering, a required course for both Electrical Engineering andComputer Science majors. The course was well designed and roughly followed the course textin how it presented material related to the subject. The plans for class instruction werereinforced through homework assignments and then tested on exams. Two multi-part projects(labs) involved applying various concepts learned in the class in a design fashion. It was atypical introductory course, in that the book presented problems which sometimes requireddesigning and implementing a solution, but which all had a definitive right answer that thestudents could