Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

laboratoryexperiments.The paper presents a "proof-of-concept" remote-controlled experiment developed by IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (former the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research) for the FluidsLab of the College of Engineering (CoE) at The University of Iowa (UI) through an InstructionalComputing Awards project sponsored by the UI’s Academic Technology Advisory Council. Theinteractive real-time fluid viscosity experiment allows individuals or groups of students toinitiate, conduct, and conclude measurements using physical hardware located in a remotelaboratory from practically any place, at any time, replicating step-by-step the experimentalprocedures used in the classroom. The experiment is housed at a dedicated website,http://vfl.iihr.uiowa.edu/atac

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

undergraduate engineering education5, 6, 8, 9. In fact, Dr. Kauler states, “Engineers areprimarily goal-oriented, and a language is a tool to achieve the goal. The tool should do so aseasily and quickly as possible. A project should not become bogged down in the distractions of alanguage’s intricacies, yet this is often what happens. The learning curve for a language is an Page 9.1403.2important factor as is the poor retention of learning due to infrequency use of a language. Thelatter phenomenon is a common problem for engineers, who tend not to spend all of their time Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

drafts at intervals. Deadlines are important to keep studentshonest and on track. Completion of smaller pieces of work makes a large project more feasible without cheating.Many instructors have warned that it is important to revise tests frequently and have several versions available. Webcourseware allows for test questions to be selected randomly, so that several test versions can be created easily.Instructors can monitor test beginning and submission times for collaborators using the authoring software. There isanother approach used 40 years ago at a mid-western university. The tests were so incredibly hard, that even sellinglast year’s final through the local bookstore didn’t benefit students much. It did recover the department’s

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

courses in the previous semester: EAS Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering Education107, Introduction to Engineering and EAS 109, Project Planning and Development, as well asone semester of General Chemistry, Calculus I (or precalculus) and English Composition.For most students, EAS112 replaces a combination of spreadsheet applications (1 credit) and Cprogramming (2 or 3 credits). Engineering students in several majors at UNH have haddifficulty with the C programming courses, and very few have chosen to use C when solvingproblems in subsequent engineering courses . Our experience in this regard is consistent

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Wright; Gretchen Hein; Mary Fran Desrochers; Mary Raber

-solving activities and a debriefingsession whereby students are prompted to reflect on their experience and how it relates to the issuesthey are/or might encounter in their team-related projects in the classroom. § Warm-ups - Intended to de-inhibitize the group and facilitate getting to know each other: § Circle the Circle - Have the group form a hand-in-hand circle. Place two large hoops together between two people (resting on their grasped hands). See how quickly the participants in the circle can cause the hoops to travel around the circle (over the people) in opposite directions, with the hoops moving through each other, and back to the originating point

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Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

paper will discuss the approach used to conducta successful program, using only mentored undergraduate students to design, develop andoperate small satellites of nano-satellite and micro-satellite size. All of these satelliteshave Air Force and DoD space experiments as their mission.II. BackgroundThe USAF Academy started experimenting with small satellites via cadet-builtprototypes that were “launched” on high altitude balloons. These projects gave thestudents immediate, hands-on experience and allowed the Astronautics Department togradually evolve the curriculum to accommodate increasingly more ambitious spaceprojects. This initial development culminated in the launch of FalconGold in October1997. FalconGold was a 15 Kg fixed, secondary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

from that point (also a common practice)will duplicate the fundamental shortcoming of the simple algorithm (searching the problem spacefor numbers whose paired factor is not an integer). The next most likely factors are 3 and its pair,and many integers between S/2 and S/3 will needlessly be tested if the process begins at S/2.Starting low is still the best approach, and those students who realize this have learned thematerial well.Summary and ConclusionsBoth the similarities and differences between the primality project and this “greatest factor”programming exam question make them a synergistic package. The academic value of thismodule may be measured quantitatively through exam scores; high scores will indicate solidmastery of the subject

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

met once at the end of the semester to present the final design projects. An optional brief meeting at the beginning of the semester was also held to go over the Blackboard tutorial and course syllabus similar to the ones in the traditional format, as well as for testing purposes. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing were offered through the Internet. The course used Blackboard as the course delivery platform. Test questions were drawn from the same test bank used for the traditional section. • Traditional section (Mixed Mode): A separate section of this course was offered using a mix of traditional and Online based delivery means

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelvin Kirby

theconceptualization of a product or system, which will satisfy the need or correct thedeficiency. The most common life cycle application concerns products, projects or systems,which have definite, start and end stages. The generic model of the product or system lifecycle consists of the following phases; (1) Conceptual (Research), (2) Definition, (3) Design,(4) Development, (5) Production, (6) Operation and (7) Phase-out.7 Each phase has aselected series of tasks or objectives which are relative to the product or system. The MDRCis considered a complex system, which follows the generic model from the conceptual phaseto the operation phase. The objective is to avoid the phase-out phase and have the MDRCserve as a permanent entity within the university

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

coefficient alpha between 0.67and 0.96, and test-retest reliability of 0.79 and 0.82. The validity of the SDLRS has been studiedextensively. Some of the evidence cited in the review of the instrument include: − Content validity: strong congruence between Guglielmino’s original Dephi results and an review of the literature on self-directed learning.15 − Construct validity: Significant convergent and divergent validity found in five different studies.16-20 − Criterion validity: Significant positive correlations reported with learning projects undertaken,21, 22 with hours spent on self-directed learning,23 and with observable student behaviors related to self-directed learning.24The review also

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

-disciplinary assignments. Forexample, instructors in chemistry, calculus, and engineering tried to incorporate writingassignments into their courses while English instructors included technology in the classroom,assigned paper topics about subjects covered in the students’ other core classes, and adopteduniversal evaluative techniques. In some cases, the students were encouraged to write not onlyEnglish essays about engineering, calculus, or chemistry subject matters, but also papers thatbetter fit an “engineering genre”: design projects, proposals, memos, etc. Students wereencouraged to develop the cross-disciplinary skills of organization, grammar, “critical thinking,written and oral communication, collaborative work, and innovative, flexible

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

and is expected to be 21.2 million by 2010with a strong growth among minority groups. 6 While the white college age population willexperience growth until 2010, it is projected to decline afterwards. The minority population, Page 8.1123.2however, will continue to rise. This trend presents quite a challenge to the U.S. educational Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsystem if it is to educate these students who are traditionally underrepresented in Science andEngineering (S&E

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Tanner

Session ____ UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIMENTS WITH MOBILE ROBOTS R. Tanner, W. Mitchell, M.Z. Atashbar, and D.A. Miller Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 This paper details an independent undergraduate research project centered around using aRug Warrior ™ mobile robot for several types of experiments. The Rug Warrior™ is a mobilerobot platform developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Joseph Jones, AnitaFlynn, and Bruce Seiger and marketed by AK Peters Publishers. This paper includes adescription of the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kau Teng Lim; David Beams

; • the simulator would support basic elements of electric circuits but would not contain macromodels of electronic devices.Matlab (The Math Works, Natick, MA) was chosen as the development platform because itprovides structured programming constructs, extensive matrix functions (including inversion ofmatrices containing complex elements), graphing capabilities, and graphical user interfaceobjects. The project became known as “MADCAT,” standing for “MAtlab Derived Circuit-Analysis Tool.” Development of the MADCAT was undertaken as a senior project by Kau TengLim in spring, 2000.Capabilities of MADCATMADCAT supports bias-point dc analysis, swept dc analysis, and swept-frequency ac analysis

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Collins; Rajesh Bhaskaran

. Page 8.755.1An informal survey of eight peer universities indicated that their situation was similar. In-dividual students might use CFD software for projects but it is not part of the curriculum.The use of CFD tends to be restricted to courses that focus on teaching numerical meth-ods. Usually, the basics of the finite-difference method are taught in detail and studentsdevelop computer codes to solve a few simple problems. The emphasis is on understandingand programming numerical methods. This is the approach used in the introductory CFDtextbooks by Anderson [1] and Tannehill et al [2], for example. There are several reasons why general-purpose CFD software has not penetrated under-graduate fluid dynamics courses to any significant extent

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anderson; Kim Gilbride

each module addressesproblem-solving, teamwork, communication skills, project development, budgeting, design,construction and project testing.By bringing Discover Engineering directly to high school classrooms we have been able to reachmany more students than previously with the summer camp alone.Well over 1000 students benefit from Discover Engineering each year, with over 1000participating in high school workshops, 120 students attending the summer camp and 100attending the career conference annually. Since launching the Discover Engineering High SchoolWorkshop program in 1999, over 4000 high school students have participated in this programalone.Survey of Students’ Knowledge and Interest in EngineeringThrough the use of pre-workshop

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Toniann Rotante; Sarah Brem; Norma Hubele; George Runger; Kathryn Kennedy

statistics. Such a system will:• Assist students in extracting the underlying common structure from engineering statistics problems that illustrate the full range of engineering disciplines.• Allow the students to generate, customize, and change a virtually infinite collection of exercises that can be solved with the assistance of the ITS. The students can explore the effect of changes to solutions.• Help students formulate and solve "practical" and "open-ended" problems, a skill stressed by the ABET Engineering Criteria.IntroductionSeveral trends have converged to make this an important project at this time:• Psychological and computational advances in CBR that allow us to use processes that model human thought, rather than those

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

understanding yet to be acquired. The moral questions of right and wrong,good and harm, justice and duty are highly speculative. Most researchers aspire for theresults of their work to improve the quality of human life. But projections about how thedevelopment of nanotechnology may evolve are varied, and various individuals carrydiffering notions and ideals about how nanotechnology might and should be used.Whenever a new technology is perceived to have a potentially significant impact onsociety, whether for benefit or for harm, public debate emerges over the meaning andsignificance of that new technology. For example, new science and technologydevelopments such as in-vitro fertilization, recombinant DNA/genetic engineering,mapping of the human genome

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

) determine the totalrate of energy expenditure (3) determine the composition of food oxidized for energy usingreaction stoichiometry (4) use a process simulator to perform mass and energy balances on thebreathing process and (5) to analyze the role of breathing in thermal regulation.Introduction Rowan’s two-semester Freshman Clinic sequence introduces all freshmen engineeringstudents to engineering in a hands-on, active learning environment. Engineering measurementsand reverse engineering methods are common threads that tie together the different engineeringdisciplines. Previous reverse engineering projects have involved common household productssuch as automatic coffee makers [1,2,3], hair dryers and electric toothbrushes [4]. Recently

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Peter Shull; Heather Nachtmann; Joseph Hartman; Robert Martinazzi; Kim Needy

Session 1639 A Decision Tool for Developing a Course in Engineering Economy Joseph C. Hartman, Jerome Lavelle, Robert Martinazzi, Heather Nachtmann, Kim LaScola Needy, Peter Shull Lehigh University / North Carolina State University / University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown / University of Arkansas / University of Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania State University at AltoonaAbstractAs part of an ongoing research project, we present an initial decision framework built around aninteger knapsack model to provide guidance for new (and existing) educators in the field ofEngineering Economy

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

Taxonomy.Hands-on activities often provide good learning experiences. Small design projects that requirestudents to develop a design solution in a given time using a limited number of commonmaterials and tools offers many opportunities to promote higher order learning and divergentthinking. Such projects can be implemented into a class period. Students my be encouraged towork in design teams to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences, interaction, andcommunication. These projects have been used successfully with students as young aselementary school15. Successful implementation requires the educator to be alert to opportunitiesfor follow-up questions and discussions that provoke thought and reflection. These are oftensituation-specific. Probing

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winston Conway Link; Carlos G. Spaht II

studies, preferably in mathematics, science, or engineering. Becausethe measure of under representation of minorities in a particular field is in direct proportion to theamount of mathematics contained in the field (see paragraph 2 of II), LaPREP emphasizes thedevelopment of abstract reasoning, problem solving, and technical writing skills, primarily throughmathematics enrichment courses and seminars. Class assignments, laboratory projects, andscheduled examinations are included in the program.Other aspects include field trips to local industries, lecturers speaking on science and engineeringopportunities, drug and violence prevention activities, well-known minority speakers, and ACTpreparation.Program faculty includes college, high school and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth D. West; Craig W. Smith

looking for funding of faculty time for course development. Our five persongroup was too large and diverse and so was the scope of our project. Moreover, our lack ofexperience was poorly disguised and NSF rejected our bid.Fortunately, several months went by before the rejection arrived. This was enough time to pressthe President for the money to purchase the workstation. In our proposal, we had bragged aboutthe generosity of our administration funding an experimental workstation to prepare us forcourse reform even before NSF funding arrived. When the President tried to back away from hisoffer, we asked “What would the folks at NSF think?” We got our workstation

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh M. Sbenaty; Claudia House

teams from five colleges across Tennessee. Each teamincludes multi-disciplinary faculties, industry partners, university partners, and high school tech-prep teachers. The unique partnership with the industry along with the rigorous training ofSEATEC participating faculty have produced work-based case-study models that areinterdisciplinary, multi-media enhanced, open-ended, and use active and collaborative learning.The current paper provides a brief account of the various curriculum development activitiesthroughout the SEATEC project. A sample multi-media enhanced case is also provided.I. IntroductionThe fast introduction of new technology in the workplace has greatly affected the daily operationof most industrial institutions. Automation

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Scott; J. Elaine Seat; J. Roger Parsons

practical sensing types and theoretical intuitive types. Shepoints out that the domination of thinking types in the profession could lead to the neglect of thehuman side of projects, an undervaluing of the opinions of the “feelers” on the work team, and alack of emphasis on explaining and selling projects to the public, because “the logic speaks foritself.” She points out that intuitive students have an advantage over sensing students onstandardized aptitude tests commonly used for college admissions, and this extends to all timedtests that are conceptual or symbolic in nature. Intuitives experience learning as rapid leaps ofinsight, while sensors emphasize thoroughness of understanding, and work in a slower, morelinear fashion. An important

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

parts to understand its organizational structureSynthesis Putting parts together to create a new wholeEvaluation Judging the value of material based on definite criteria Source: Designing and Managing MCQs: Appendix C: MCQs and Bloom’s Taxonomy.www.uct.ac.za/projects/cbe/mcqman/mcqappc.html. 12/05/2000 Two points to remember here. One: we can’t expect our students to master all ofthese steps at once. As Wankat and Oreovicz point out in Teaching Engineering, movingfrom novice to master in any set of skills requires

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hedrick

presented in the freshman engineering course was that ofproblem solving. Students prefer to study problem-solving concepts in the context of a practicalapplication. For this reason, in part of the course (the design studio) students learned aboutengineering principles by applying them to solving the problem of implementing a series ofdesigns, culminating in a large team-oriented design project. Each year we change the finaldesign task to prevent students from usurping a solution from the previous year. In the fall of2000, students designed a machine to dump/shoot ping-pong balls through a small hoop. To addinterest to the project student teams competed by pitting their machine against each other to seewho could place the most balls through the hoop

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

per TC2K guidelines are incorporated in the curriculum design.A capstone design experience is not built into the curriculum; however, 14-months of full-timeco-op experience and upper level design-oriented courses will most likely suffice the intent ofthis requirement. The project management techniques, statistics/probability, transform methods,and applied differential equations are part of the curriculum satisfying the TC2K requirements.A pre-accreditation visit is in the plan for Spring-2006. Faculty members dedicated to the EEETprogram will receive training on ABET accreditation process through participation in ABET andASEE sponsored seminars. A couple of schools with accredited programs under TC2K criteria

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhash Sarin; Louis Guido; James Heflin; Robert Hendricks

of the word). We describe a unique and innovative curriculum that solves anumber of difficult problems. It: • develops a process to expose large numbers of students to the excitement of microelectronics as a career very early in their undergraduate education; • provides a clear educational pathway for students who start their education in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS); • provides and opportunity for those so inclined to obtain a superior education in the field through a university option in microelectronics; • improves on the standard course-based undergraduate education by providing team-based research projects; and • encourages the best of our students to continue

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Eckerman; Robert Hendricks

waferprocesses, tests performed on wafers, cleanroom supplies and materials, and cleanroomperformance. Additionally it was desired to create a system that was easily scalable to anycleanroom environment and easy to use and configure for future projects. What follows is adescription of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that was created. Thegoals of the LIMS were achieved by using such technologies as network-aware testing andmonitoring equipment, barcode scanners, and distributed relational databases, all coupledthrough a TCP/IP intranet, and web reporting technologies to provide access to data fromlocations outside the lab using a standard World Wide Web (WWW) browser. Because theUniversity has adopted Microsoft Office 2000 as its