Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Plesha; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo

systems: 1. the real world contains ugly, nasty elements that sometimes can and sometimes cannot be included in a model and choices need to be made as to how complicated a model needs to be; 2. the model they create and solve is just that: a model ; that is, it is not the real system and assessments need to be made as to the accuracy and adequacy of their model.As part of this, we should also mention that even the choice of component system (e.g.,polar, path, Cartesian, etc.) is an essential part of the modeling process for any givenproblem.We now present two example of our approach—one from statics and one from dynamics,Examples of Our Structured ApproachIn this section we report some examples to demonstrate the practical

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Li; Kai Li; Jing Zhao; Xin Tang

H E H Lab OUTPUT2 W INPUT2 0 3 A L L Gateway Figure 6. The firewall structure of the laboratory7. Assessment of the Education Impact of the LabAs the Linux Operating System rapidly evolves to surpass all others as the competing OS to Windows,the strong demand for professionals with significant Linux exposure and experience is expected to createa

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

materials in the METControls course. But a rigorous research was not done to assess the percent of successwith the introduction of above select MATLAB commands virtual laboratory exercises.ConclusionsThe paper has been confined to the use of select MATLAB commands. The MATLABhelp facility can provide additional information on the use of these individual commands.The paper has concentrated on the application of these select commands as is taught inthe controls analysis and design course. The elimination of the distraction ofintermediate calculations in the controls analysis/design helps all ET students concentrateand understand the important subject matter during the course. An additional advantage

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Nutter

opportunities for fatigue and repetitive motion Rapid Upper Limb Assessment reduction. (RULA) analysis of the left limb, See Figure 2 setting the exhaust pipe mounting rubbers to underbody hooks. Figure 2: Ergonomic Analysis of Exhaust System InstallationAt a Ford engine plant two operations were video taped and simulated for ergonomic evaluation.Numerous postures and activities were rated and presented to the plant’s safety committee. Someopportunities were identified and implemented immediately

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

teacher expertise, teaching ability, de-fined curriculum, and learning environment. Further, effective assessment techniques and facultyprofessional development strengthen the bonds between learning and knowledging. Particularlyin current times, an additional important aspect becomes generational preferences.Knowledging the Curriculum & Capstone CoursesUndergraduate engineering education is currently composed of information. Certainly, the firstthree years are primarily involved with information teaching and learning. Yet, these classes inengineering are potentially available to transfer some knowledge — perform knowledging — ifthe professors recognize that knowledge transfer is important. To date this has not been a com-mon occurrence. In

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

warn managers against blindlymaking the instinctive fix to a late project”12.However, not all would agree with this assessment. For example, the effects of Brooks’ lawcan be actively mitigated by strategies such as adding developers early in the developmentcycle3,26, adding more developers than are expected to be needed24, and ensuring thatdocumentation, technical reviews, and a less territorial ownership of software artefacts byindividual developers are used to spread the knowledge about the project28,42. Raymond30even suggests that Brooks’ law breaks down completely under large-scale, distributeddevelopment such as Linux.So, what are students and practitioners to make of these different views? In many respectsBrooks’ law has stood the test

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

High Attrition Rates Among Science andEngineering Undergraduate Majors". Ethonography and Assessment Bureau of Sociological Research, Universityof Colorado, Boulder, (83-95).[5] Tinto, V., 1993, “Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition”, Second Edition,University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.[6] Touton, S., McDonald, C., Monte, A., Hein, G., June, 2004 “Engineers Need Mentors Too!” Proceedings of the2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society ofEngineering Education, Salt Lake City, Utah.AMY E. MONTE – Amy E. Monte is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at MichiganTechnological University. She received her BS and MS in

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

API should result in shorteneddevelopment times for experienced C++ programmers. The extensible architecture of theSimPlus object hierarchy additionally allows for highly customized behaviors to be used inspecialized simulations.We aim to further improve the tool and there are number of improvement candidates. The eventlist could be improved adding a Calendar Queue. The simulation engine can be modified tosupport distributed and parallel simulation. For the latter, we have recently implemented a Page 9.1098.14parallel version of SimPlus whose description will be published soon. Finally, we plan to use thetool by other students to assess its

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

relate to a local industry partner, who they are familiarwith, makes both the problem and the solution relevant to their learning experience. A bonusis that linking of assessment methods with learning outcomes throughout the program, toidentify graduate skills allows teaching institutions to market the strengths of their graduates.For example the use of case studies during undergraduate learning could mean that theinstitution could claim something like “our graduates have an understanding of the real needsof industry”.The School of Engineering at the University of Tasmania has links with a number ofindustries and some are indicated in Table 1. This paper provides some details of the teachingand research benefits obtained from the link between

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

engineering - includingthe Associate Dean, and two Professors - are auditing the class, and their feedback is included.Finally, a discussion of future improvements and expansion of the class is presented.IntroductionOver the last several years, the University of Utah, College of Engineering, has been preparingfor its Fall 2003, ABET EC 2000 visit. EC 2000 requires several new and different challengesfor students in the College, specifically under Criterion 3, Programs Outcomes and Assessments: Page 9.550.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

speaker connected to afunction generator, they were able to define the approximate desired center frequencies for theirthree filters. They were then assigned the task of selecting appropriate resistor values (R1 – R9 inthe schematic) to create the required frequency response. To assist in their design effort, aspreadsheet was developed (shown in Figure 9) with the design equations for the Butterworthfilters pre-programmed. This spreadsheet enabled students to rapidly assess the gain andfrequency range of the filters as they changed resistor values.After an introduction to soldering and a little time practicing on old circuit boards, the studentsthen collected their resistors (using the resistor color chart to confirm value) and soldered

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Christopher Monsere

of datacollection. As part of a graduate research project, ITS-GPS was used in an assessment of trafficnoise along interstates I-5, I-84 and I-205 on Portland metropolitan area. The research used theFederal Highway Administration Traffic Noise Model (TNM) for traffic noise prediction. One ofthe factors affecting the propagation of noise from the source to receiver is the existence ofsound barriers. The main variables that affect noise level are the barrier type, shape, height, andelevation. There are currently no data inventories available for noise barrier locations for thestudy area. The research used the advantages of the ITS-GPS technology to collect data for boththe spatial and the noise barrier types within the study area

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

individuals who wrote the section of the reportrelating to the area. In this way, individual performance was assessed and individualunderstanding was evaluated by the team mentor. It was also emphasized that the reportwould be sent to ATK Thiokol in Utah to accompany the fired case which was sent backto ATK for post-fire analysis. This gave the cadets motivation (beyond their grade) towrite a good report. Their report was representing their school to professional engineerssupporting the program, many of whom they met during their field trip to ATK. Thesame report was sent to Vulcan Systems who poured the propellant grain for the program.The FalconLAUNCH program received high marks when it was reviewed by the

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

C. Yoganathan, A P. (2001). Problem-based learning in biomedical engineering curricula. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference. 2, F3E/16-F3E/21 (IEEE cat n 01CH37193).3 Cline, Matthew J. Powers, Gary J. (1997). Problem based learning in a chemical engineering undergraduate laboratory. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 350-354,4 Armarego, J. (2002). Advanced software design: A case in problem-based learning. IEEE Computer Society: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training.5 Mitchell GG, Delaney JD. (2004). An assessment strategy to determine learning outcomes in a software engineering Problem-based learning course. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (3): 494- 5026

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

2.5 2.9 programs, parts suppliers) function. …received mentoring from faculty that I would not otherwise have 3.1 2.5 received had I not participated. The third research question involved assessing any and all impacts the RoboticsAcademy had on its participants. When asked about the advantages and challenges ofworking with an interdisciplinary team, students responded that exposure to a variety ofperspectives and learning styles, having other team members to introduce them todifferent fields, becoming aware of resources and developing communication skills wereadvantageous aspects of working with people from different majors

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Macnab

university. It gives students permission to take charge of their owneducation. It encourages students to try different study techniques than they have used in the pastto try and find out what will actually work for them. Also, some concrete study techniques areoutlined that have worked for many students. Finally, a brief assessment of how university skillswill be valuable as practicing engineers is presented as further motivation.Legal rights teenagers do not haveHigh school students, or teenagers, do not enjoy a full range of legal rights. The age at whichthere is a transition in legal status from child to adult varies in different jurisdictions. Moststudents, however, will begin high school as a legal child and finish university as a legal

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Schurmann; C. Stewart Slater

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology [20] and do life cycle assessment on the productproduced [21]. This will show the flows of energy and materials from “cradle to grave” and theimpacts on the environment. Through this analysis, the student team can see the challenges andneeds for separation processes. Once the student team identifies an area to use pervaporation, then they can propose andconduct bench-scale experiments to get preliminary data to do scale-up and design calculations.For the case mentioned in this paper, the students have chosen to investigate a pharmaceuticalproduction where organic solvents such as acetone, ethanol, ethyl acetate, methyl ethyl ketone,isopropanol, toluene are commonly used. The challenge in a process

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel McAdams; Robert B. Stone; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

. Page 7.703.9* The steps are: understand the technologies, gather site resource data, assess the amount of power needed, estimatecosts of viable options, select a technology, specify and install the system, and monitor and document performance.. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe choice to develop a methodology for selecting among available technologies, as opposed torefining a single technology, was important for at least two reasons. First, it allowed the studentto gain familiarity with multiple options to address a prevalent need. This type of e xpertise isoften more in demand for

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosanne Simeone

researcher and of his peers? The changing attitude toward vivisection itselfshould raise concerns about research methods and our limited ability to assess how humane andethical our own current research methods may be. Indeed, Moreau’s exile from society wasprompted by changing public, if not scientific, opinions about the innate cruelty of vivisection: It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary laboratory assistant [who infiltrated Moreau’s laboratory], appealed to the conscience of the nation. It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research. The doctor was simply howled out of the country. It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

. Sargent, J. (1997) Miss Ever’s Boys. [Movie] Time Warner Entertainment.2. Belmont Report.(1979) Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of HumanSubjects of Research http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm3. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (2000) How people learn:Brain, mind, experience, and school, Expanded Edition. Washington, DC: NationalAcademy Press. http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ .4. Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. 1997 The Jasper Project: Lessons inCurriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Professional Development. Mahwah, NJ:Erlbaum..5. Wachowski, A. (1999). The Matrix.[Movie] Warner Brothers.6. Spottiswoode (1993). The Band Played On. [Movie] Home Box Office

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

persons cannot reap the full benefits of distance education.In addition, coming to the central campus in Colombo means students need to rentaccommodation which is usually not possible for a short period unless one goes to an expensivehotel. Besides, the insurgency in Sri Lanka means that Tamils students will not be easily offeredaccommodation by land-lords frightened of getting dragged into possible anti-terrorism casesand being detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act as an accessory.Similarly, the need to come often to the central campus to sit examinations, quizzes andcontinuous assessment tests also makes a mockery of the term “distance”. So also with thenecessary student-teacher conferences. Indeed, many working persons drop out

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maximo Ortega

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Bradley, C; Cross, T; and Philip, R. “Roger and me: a teacher’s dilemma”. Roeper Review 23 (4) (2001): 211- 215.2. Schwalbach, E. M. and Dosemagen, D. M. “Developing student understanding: contextualizing Calculus concepts”. School Science and Mathematics 100 (2) (2000): 90-98.3. Vonder Embse, C. B. “Dynamic visualizations of Calculus ideas”. Mathematics Teacher 94 (7) (2001): 602- 607.4. Anderson, M.; Bloom, L.; Mueller, U.; and Pedler, P. “The impact of the graphics calculator on the assessment of Calculus and modelling”. International Journal of Mathematical Education in

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manssour Moeinzadeh; Jason Czapka; James Leake

the paper’s authors. There is also a weekly, two-hour computer-modeling lab run by a teaching assistant with the help of two undergraduate lab assistants(during which two sections are present). Finally, there is a weekly, one-hour sketching lab runby a teaching assistant (during which one section is present). The primary study described in thisreport was conducted in the sketching lab. Assessment in GE103 includes online and sketchingquizzes, modeling and sketching homework, modeling and written/sketching exams, and a groupdesign project.Most engineering graphics educators believe that physical models are beneficial to their studentswhen used properly, typically after the student attempts and falters on an assignment. Yet veryfew engineering

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Gaughran

Lateralization and Spatial Ability. Behaviour Genetics, T, No. 2, 171-188William Gaughran is a Course Director in Technology Education and Lecturer in Engineering Design atthe University of Limerick. He is Research Project Manager for inclusive design for facilities andtooling. He is a consultant and researcher to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment(Ireland) and is the Author of several textbooks in technology education. His research interests include, Page 7.297.13inclusive/universal design, design for sustainability and human factors and cognitive strategies in design.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

scheme was then used to codeapproximately one-third of the journal data collected to date.This paper will first describe the coding scheme and its development. It will then report somepreliminary findings from the journal coding. Specifically, we will show that journal data can beused to produce time profiles of design activity over the course of the projects, estimates of theproportion of time spent in activity associated with the different codes, and comparisons ofstudent processes to “good” design processes as documented in the literature. These findingsshould be of interest to design educators interested in assessing design processes. Finally, thepaper will posit a number of hypotheses that arise from the data, for future consideration.1

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

those who are great at teaching be reinforcedfor their contribution to the department.”Faculty Member #3. The third faculty member is 33 years old and graduated with B.A. inChemical Engineering and Biochemistry in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1995.She joined Shell Development Company in 1995 and worked at the Research and DevelopmentCenter in the Environmental Division. She worked on a number of technical projects, includingland treatment, wastewater treatment, ecological risk assessment, and biodegradation andreturned to her alma mater, Rice University, in March of 1999 to join the newly developedBioengineering Department. She has developed the course materials for and has taught theintroductory sophomore course entitled

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helene Kershner; Debra Burhans; Deborah Walters; Carl Alphonce; Barbara Sherman

,expectations with regard to the course included the following: · A course management system (CMS) would decrease time spent on course administration. · Grading time would be reduced by shifting to on-line and web-based training and assessment tools. The CMS would facilitate on-line grade maintenance. · Lecture time would decrease due to the use of interactive, on-line tutorials for topics that have proven difficult to cover in lecture. These interactive materials would be integrated into the CMS. · As a result of the above-mentioned technologies, there would be a cost savings in faculty time and lab assistant expenses that could be recouped by the department (dollars) and by the faculty members

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Morton; John Nydahl; Nancy Peck

b) Oscillating Disk Figure 1. Disk SchematicsPrior to performing these experiments, students are asked to estimate the maximum probableerrors,sID, for each of these methods 14. These assessments are based upon the measuringaccuracies of the available instrumentation and the following simple statistical relationships: 2 2 é ¶I ù é ¶I ù (s ) ID 2 »ê D ê ¶x1 × s x1 ú

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Prasanta Kalita; Peter Lyne; Loren Bode; Alan Hansen

and difficult at the same time”.As could be expected, students derived different levels of benefit from the project and this wasreflected in the range of comments that were received.The results of the competition were also an important assessment of the success of the project.The winning car in 2000 achieved approximately 850m with an average of 225m for nine teams,excluding cars that did not run because of mechanical failures. This maximum distance wasclose to the expected design distance achievable according to Bindon1. In 2001, the maximumdistance was 585m with an average of 135m for nine cars that achieved more than 3m minimumdistance. Five cars did not run due to malfunctions at the start line. These malfunctions variedfrom boilers

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

designs they create in IMD to determine whether they function as predicted.Ultimately, the two courses will create a first year experience that gives students a hands-onintroduction to a wide range of Mechanical Engineering activities.AcknowledgementsThis course was developed under the support of an RIT Provost’s Learning Initiative Grant.References[1] Eggert, R., Bunnell, D., and Tennyson, S., “Dsigning Across the Curriculum: Linking Sophomores to Mechanical Engineering”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 1998.[2] Bryden, Kenneth M., Flugrad, Donald R., “Implementing a Program of Continuous Assessment and Improvement for a New Sophomore Design Course