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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker; David Hall

Teaching Innovative Product Development Skills to Freshmen Engineering Students J. Mark Barker and David Hall Mechanical Engineering Program College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech UniversityIntroductionA new course of instruction has been developed and delivered on a pilot basis at Louisiana TechUniversity. The goal of this course sequence is to provide freshman engineering studentsselected tools essential to innovative product development and to provide them the opportunityto use these skills in a product development project.The development of this course of

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

. It is propelled by a N-size solidrocket engine and is expected to climb to about 22,000 ft with a maximum speed of Mach 1.5.The instrumentation includes an accelerometer, temperature and pressure sensors to measure thelocation and behavior of the shock wave during the supersonic flight phase, and strain gauges forthe determination of the structural behavior of the rocket. This rocket was finally launched inNovember of 2003.At various times during the planning, assembly, and instrumentation phases of the project,participants included local high school students, college students from sophomores to graduates,and an OU alumnus with high-power rocketry experience. Students participated in various ways:on a voluntary basis, by signing up for a

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

Session 1330 Piaget and Engineering Education Lawrence J. Genalo, Denise A. Schmidt, Melanie Schiltz Iowa State UniversityAbstractThomas Edison was a noted engineer while Jean Piaget made his fame in children’s educationalpsychology. Piaget’s “cognitive constructivism” has been adopted in many early childhoodprograms, but it also applies to engineering education and its “hands-on” approach, especially inlaboratories and project-based courses. The direction of education dramatically shifted whenJean Piaget developed a child-centered developmental learning theory. According to his

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

Planning Approach for the Society of Women Engineers Mentoring Girl Scouts Sue Ellen Haupt, Jessica D. Gregory Utah State University/ Pennsylvania State University Abstract Utah State University College of Engineering is actively working on recruiting and retaining women in engineering. This project is one that combines the two toward affecting both goals at once. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section at USU has organized a mentoring system with the local Girl Scout council. The primary idea is a top-down mentoring approach where activities are designed and run by women and girls that are a step ahead of the participants. In

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

line of thought. Starting with Kranzberg’sassertion that “technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral” I explore the culturalappropriateness of technology as a sign of inherent bias. This leads to a brief examination ofmental models of technology as an approach to understanding how the unintended consequencesof a technology may not be as haphazard as first appears. With these concepts as background, Ianalyze the means by which bias is built into each stage of the design process. Carl Mitcham hassuggested that a fruitful area of further investigation would be to examine how this bias can beidentified in the structures of the technological products themselves. I conclude with some initialideas on approaches to such an analysis, e.g

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Russell Frame

Session 2125 Integrating PLM Methods into the Undergraduate Curriculum Russell T. Frame, Charles Pezeshki, M. Grant Norton School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164Abstract The methodology used to design new products is changing as computertechnology advances. Companies worldwide are adopting Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) solutions to stay competitive. This technology allows control of all aspects of thedesign process from initial concept to obsolescence and disposal. A database manages allinformation, controls access to data, and lets

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff

2004-486 Engineering Faculty Sabbatical – It could be the time of your life! Richard M. Goff, Ph.D., Associate Professor College of Engineering, Virginia TechAn emerging trend - follow your dream to bring joy and passion to your students.AbstractIn the fall of 2002, after serving seven years on the faculty of the Division of EngineeringFundamentals at Virginia Tech teaching primarily first year engineering students and sitting onnumerous committees, I decided to make a move to be more involved in industry to see what“real engineers” actually do these days. I didn’t choose just any

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eric Granlund

SESSION 2586ENGINEERING DESIGN, INVENTION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORBACCALAUREATE AND ASSOCIATE DEGREE ENGINEERING STUDENTSAT PENN STATE ALTOONA COLLEGE Eric Granlund, Sohail Anwar The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractThis paper describes some of the methods used in teaching engineering design and theinventing process to freshman baccalaureate engineering students in their introductoryengineering design course ED&G 100. In this course students were asked to invent a newproduct, material, or process that would be marketable. The students could also choose todevelop a modification of an

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ethan Brue

Session No: 3261 An Integral Approach to Teaching History across the Engineering Curriculum Ethan Brue Dordt CollegeThe debate is as old as the profession and the sought after answer remains almost as elusive andambiguous today as it did a century ago. What is the role of humanities courses in engineeringeducation? How many liberal arts courses requirements should an engineering student take?What do these courses accomplish? Even in the brief history of the engineering profession andthe subsequent accreditation movement in engineering education, a consensus has never

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Murphy

Session 1648 Building Safety Education into Engineering Curriculum David L. Murphy The University of North Carolina at Charlotte “The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book” – John Wilkes Workplace injury and the associated costs significantly erode employer profit margins. Anestimated seven percent of profits are spent, directly or indirectly, as a result of a workplaceinjury. An effective illustration is that of an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg (the smallest yetmost visible part) represents the actual cost of the injury, such as medical

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Kim; Jeffrey Tisa; Peter Jansson

2308 Undergraduate Research and Innovation: Inexpensive Remote Campus Power Monitoring via Student Designed and Manufactured System Peter Mark Jansson, Jeffrey Tisa, William Kim Rowan UniversityAbstract Rowan University consists of nearly forty buildings spread out over a large suburban campus.While some of the perimeter buildings are served directly from the local power company, manyof the core buildings receive their electrical power from the University's 4kV grid. This grid isfed by both the local utility and an on-site cogeneration system. A recent energy study of

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okamoto

exemplaryeducational materials or practices or laboratory experiences that were originally developed atother institutions, whether academic or commercial. “Educational Materials Development”projects either develop “proof of concepts” for new textbooks, software, or laboratory materialsor else fund the complete development and national dissemination of such products or practices.“National Dissemination” projects involve the development of workshops, short courses, orsimilar activities to allow faculty to learn new content or educational practices to incorporate intotheir classes or laboratories. And “Assessment of Student Achievement” projects look at thedevelopment of new assessment tools and procedures.The author of this paper has written a successful

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Julie Phillips; Joseph Fuehne

Session 1148 Introducing Technology Using LEGOs to At-Risk and Minority Elementary Students Joe Fuehne, Julie Phillips Purdue University School of Technology at Columbus-Southeast IndianaAbstractMany at-risk and minority elementary students are not introduced to the “fun” of technology. Inaddition, they often lack good role models that utilize technology in their careers. To thestudents, there is no connection between technology and the devices and machines that they seeor use everyday.Certainly, technology is not always considered “fun” and is often not considered as a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3102 Spacemanship at the United States Air Force Academy: Developing a Satellite Ground Station Crew Training Program for Non-Technical Students David Swanson, Kenneth E. Siegenthaler, David J. Barnhart, Jerry J. Sellers, David J. Richie, and Elsa Bruno Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractTo make our educational program realistic and relevant to a cadet’s future profession, the UnitedStates Air Force Academy (USAFA) has created a center in which we manufacture very

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

Session Number ??? The ethics of systems thinking Nathan Harter, Mark Dean, Donna Evanecky Purdue UniversityThe search for a science of management has moved from a Newtonian perspective to a quantumperspective. Margaret Wheatley emphasized this shift in perspective with her prize-winningbook Leadership and the New Science.21 Whereas the Newtonian perspective was reductionist,treating organizations as machines and breaking them conceptually into component parts, thequantum perspective treats organizations holistically. In fact, it treats organizations not only asintegrated systems, but also as participants

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

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Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

Session 3120 Software and Hardware for Web-based Education Carl Steidley and Rafic Bachnak Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractInstitutions of higher education are actively seeking new methods to complement theirscience and engineering distance education programs with online experimentation. Thispaper describes the design and development of a virtual laboratory environment thatallows students to perform laboratory experiments from remote locations through a webbrowser. A front panel in LabVIEW displays the results and allows

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Adams

Session 3566 An Undergraduate MEMS Course for Everyone Thomas M. Adams Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractMiniaturization is becoming a dominant theme in a large variety of technologies. With thisincreased miniaturization comes the need to familiarize undergraduate students from a variety ofscience and engineering students with such technology. Unfortunately, most courses currentlyoffered in micro electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) target graduate-level students or senior-level students with highly specialized backgrounds. Recently, eight faculty members

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Vaz

Session 2260 Student Design for the Developing World Richard Vaz, Stephen J. Bitar Worcester Polytechnic Institute Timothy Prestero, Neil Cantor Design that MattersI. IntroductionThe Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) has instituted a sophomore-level course entitled “ECE Design” to focus on teachingdesign as a process, with the specific intents of better preparing students for their senior capstonedesign projects, and at the same time

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Miller; Charles Winton

Botball Kit for Teaching Engineering Computing David P. Miller Charles Winton School of AME Department of CIS University of Oklahoma University of N. Florida Norman, OK 73019 Jacksonville, FL 32224 Abstract Many engineering classes can benefit from hands on use of robots. The KISS Institute Botball kit has found use in many classes at a number of universities. This paper outlines how the kit is used in a few of these different classes at a couple of different universities. This paper also introduces the Collegiate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

Session 1793 Sophomore Introduction to Civil Engineering Systems Thomas Edgar, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071Abstract A sophomore level course is described which provides an introduction to the fieldCivil Engineering and Civil Engineering practice. It uses the area of Land Developmentas a model which naturally encompasses Surveying, Environmental, Transportation,Geotechnical and Water Resources Engineering and some aspects of

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

Session 3555 Teaching an Engineering Class for the First Time Kawintorn Pothanun and William R. Peterson Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThere are many graduate students in engineering departments who are assigned to teach acourse at the undergraduate level as their first college teaching assignment. Manygraduate teaching assistants will have a difficult time in preparing for the course (i.e.,deciding what the structure of the course and examinations should be, what gradingpolicy should be used, what presentation tools and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Moran

Session 2661 Troubleshooting Procedures – Technical Writing Lessons That Challenge Tom Moran College of Applied Science and Technology Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper proposes introducing instruction and assignments on the preparation oftroubleshooting documentation into technical writing and communication courses. Exercisesthat ask students to create procedures to aid readers in problem solving and the troubleshootingof technological systems and equipment can provide students with challenging and relevantpractice in creating audience centered and helpful documents. A hypothetical technical writingmachine and other

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holden

Low-Cost Autonomous Vehicles Using Just GPS Michael E. Holden San Francisco State UniversityIntroductionThe Navigator is an autonomous ground vehicle. Using a commercial handheld GPS as its onlysensor, it is able to follow a preprogrammed path and speed with remarkable accuracy.Assembled from a model car chassis, inexpensive 8-bit microcontroller and GPS, it is about assimple as autonomous ground vehicles can be. This simplicity makes it easy for studentsunfamiliar with autonomous vehicles to understand the system, keeps the system cost low, andallows for a truly miniature guidance and navigation electronics package. The simplicity alsoprovides

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael McGeen

engineering with our Rapid Prototyping Center. This workstarted as research under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in SolidFreeform Fabrication program at MSOE. This is a program sponsored by the NationalScience Foundation. In the past projects have ranged from replication of historicaldecorative plaster details, writing code to translate drawing files into a form that can beread by the rapid prototyping machines, to modeling a building designed for MilwaukeeSchool of Engineering by Santiago Calatrava. More recent projects have explored theuse of Visual Basic to translate drawings into a form that can be utilized by rapidprototyping (RP), a method of using RP and photo stress analysis in the design of pointsupported glass, and two

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Genevieve Sapijaszko; Carlo Sapijaszko

Session 2432 An Innovative Electronics Laboratory System for On Campus and Distance Learning Applications Carlo Sapijaszko, Genevieve I. Sapijaszko Thomson Delmar Learning, DeVry UniversityAbstractThe eTCB, a custom-built trainer board that works in concert with National Instruments’ NIELVIS1 (Electronics Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite) and a personal computer, is asolution for students who need to perform laboratory experiments, whether at a distance or oncampus. This solution offers students the convenience of purchasing a laboratory manual and acustom-built eTCB

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Session # Integrated Technical Writing Instruction in Freshman Engineering Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi. Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.Convincing freshman engineering students that acquiring technical writing expertise is critical totheir success is central to the mission of the writing program in General Engineering. Bydeploying writing consultants to each section of our benchmark introductory course, EG 1004,we teach the fundamentals of good writing within the context of regular engineering coursework.EG 1004 is a survey course designed to introduce various engineering disciplines to ourincoming freshmen. Teamwork

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

session 1761 What is Design and How Do We Let Non-Engineers in on the Secret That it’s Fun? Charles Nippert, Antonia D’Onofrio, Stephen Madigosky, Akshay Vilivalam Widener UniversityAbstractEngineering design is often one of the more interesting and exciting aspects ofengineering. Yet few outside the profession ever experience its challenges. At WidenerUniversity, an education course is offered to in service high school teachers that providesthem with an opportunity to develop a Virtual Laboratory designed around standardscience experiments. Programming was performed by one of the authors, while

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott DeLoach; Eric Matson

Session #1601 Using Robots to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Underserved Schools Eric Matson, Scott DeLoach Multi-agent and Cooperative Robotics Lab Department of Computing and Information Sciences Kansas State University 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506 USA {matson, sdeloach}@cis.ksu.eduAbstractIn Kansas, there are many schools, due to a rural or underserved nature, that fall short inproviding access to technical resources to further interest in science education. We

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Nelson

then recommended, and finally specificrecommendations are offered regarding the writing assignments for each discipline. Page 9.581.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Emerging Trends Session 1793Overall Findings and RecommendationsIn terms of organization and completeness, in general the reports were neither well organized norcomplete. At times a misunderstanding of the assignment seemed to be the cause; also

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

Session 3548 An Automatic Control System Design with Practical Implications Ahmad M. Farhoud Engineering Technology Department University of ToledoAbstractThe automatic control system design course requires students to design and build a closed loopcontrol system. In the design presented here, students are to design, build and troubleshoot ahumidity control system which is used to manage soil moisture levels in a green house.Maintenance of proper soil moisture levels for different plants is