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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Maldonado; Christenson John; Eugene Rutz

, initiated in 2003, is a 5-year dual degree (BS Mechanical Engineering + MSNuclear Engineering) which targets students typically seeking to enter a mechanical engineeringundergraduate track. This program is known internally as the MNE-ACCEND program (Mechanicaland Nuclear Engineering - ACCelerated ENgineering Degree) [1-2]. A second initiative, now enteringits second 3-year term and partially sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), is a “summerbridge” program that targets undergraduates from Tuskegee University (TU) at the sophomore andjunior levels, and ultimately entices these underrepresented minority students into UC’s graduateprogram in nuclear and radiological engineering [3].The purpose of this article is to share some of the details

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Wolter

increases our warfighting capability and effectiveness? To meet these challenges theSecretary of Defense in 2003 issued planning guidance to the Department of Defense (DoD)intended to transform acquisition business practices to a more “future-oriented capabilities-basedresource allocation, accelerated acquisition cycles built on spiral development, out-put basedmanagement, and a reformed analytic support agenda.” 1 In response to this new guidance, theDoD community has revised the Defense Acquisition System to establish “a simplified andflexible management framework for translating mission needs and technology opportunities . . .into stable, affordable, and well-managed acquisition programs.” 2 The Defense community also

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

compared. The comparisonindicated that this type of delivery is an effective means of covering a specific topic inengineering ethics.IntroductionEngineering programs throughput the nation have been grappling with the dilemma of how tobest incorporate engineering ethics into their curricula ever since ABET required engineeringethics to become a part of an accredited program. There are many approaches that an engineeringprogram can take in order to implement this ethics requirement. Some engineering departmentselect to teach ethics as a one to three credit hour stand alone lecture/discussion course [1]. Othersincorporate ethics in short discussions scattered throughout the curricula. Finally, some schoolscover ethics within select courses such as an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationLabVIEW-based environment. The “Solar Splash” project, Geneva’s entry to a solar-energydriven boat competition, is monitored by LabVIEW. This wide use of the LabVIEWenvironment in the department justified the introduction of this program at the freshman level.Another change (to the course as well as to my teaching style) was the introduction of anincentive system in which students received 1/64 scale die-cast cars as rewards for variousachievements: for being the first to provide an answer, for ‘going the extra mile’ or for being thefirst to complete a lab activity. I had been introduced to the use of incentives in professionaldevelopment seminars2,3 in the form of treats, which never

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Snellenberger; Donald Keating

Session 1455 Economic Impact for Integrating Constructivism, Project-Based Learning and Practice into High Quality Professional Graduate Education for Engineers in Industry to Enhance Corporate Advantage and U.S. Competitiveness in the Global Economy J. M. Snellenberger, 1 D. H. Quick, 1 J. P. Tidwell, 2 J. O’Brien, 3 I. T. Davis, 4 A. L. McHenry, 5 J. W. Bardo, 6 D. D. Dunlap, 6 E. M. DeLoatch, 7 P. Y. Lee, 8 H. J. Palmer, 9 S. J. Tricamo, 10 D. R. Depew, 11 G. R. Bertoline, 11 M. J. Dyrenfurth, 11 D. A. Keating, 11 T.G. Stanford 11 Rolls-Royce Corporation 1/ Boeing Company 2 /Hewlett-Packard 3/ Raytheon Missile

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jing Pang

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationauthor designed two low-cost CPLD boards to offer students an opportunity to afford CPLDboards and use them in the labs or at home.CPLD BoardsThe author designed two CPLD boards during the summer of 2004. Figure 1 is a picture of a6” x 4.3” CPLD board. This board used the Altera EPM7128S chip. Another CPLD boardwith almost the same PCB layout used the Xilinx XC95108 chip.The Altera EPM7128S CPLD is the second-generation MAX architecture EEPROM-basedprogrammable logic device. It has built-in IEEE Std. 1149.1 Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)interface with 5V in-system programmability. It has 8 logic array blocks, 128 macrocells and2500 usable gates 6.The Xilinx

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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Graunke; Jeffrey Will; Peter Johnson

Session 1160 Virtual Reality for 3D Visualization in a Statics Course Peter E. Johnson1, Jeffrey D. Will2, and Christopher R. Graunke2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Valparaiso University 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Valparaiso UniversityIntroduction Learning subjects in the sciences or engineering require the ability of students to think inthree dimensions. However, this is one of the greatest challenges to students [1]. Even in thebest students, these skills are typically underdeveloped [2]. There is a great need for students tobe

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Elements” course intheir third year of study. For the last several years, students at the University of Texas at Austintake a redesigned course that combines hands-on projects within a traditional classroom formatof homeworks, tests, and lectures. Integrating projects into the curriculum is part of a larger,multi-faceted departmental effort called PROCEED (PROject CEntered EDucation)1, whichactively promotes projects across the mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum.PROCEED encourages instruction that integrates course projects in order to advance active,socially constructed learning that draws upon a student’s knowledge of theory and principles.That is, students in PROCEED-based courses are going beyond note taking, homework andtesting

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Janice Singleton

tooling details. The next logical step in evolution of automated part positioning is to incorporate a feedbackdevice that can sense the location of the panel and bulkhead and adjust the panel so that therelative orientation is correct to the specified engineering database. This has the added advantageof incorporating the separate metrology operations into the assembly process and to capture an“as built” database. The metrology operation to assure conformance was previously done afterthe skins were fastened in place, which require significant cost and rework if errors occurredduring the positioning process. Figure 1, below illustrates a test fixture incorporating a CNCcontroller with seven servomotors and a laser scanner as a position feedback

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds

. Physical Evaluation Environment Fig. 1. Three areas that benefit learning for the C+ studentPhysicalThe physical changes will take only a small amount of time for the professor but will helpstudents who have organization problems. These changes mostly involve visual solutions sincemany of these students are better visual learners than they are auditory learners. The lists includetraditional best practices for the learning disabled as applied to the engineering classroom.1. Use different colored paper for different types of information.. For example, to help students organize due-dates for projects, tests, and homework, handout a calendar

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

new construction thathouses Keyspan Energy, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bear Sterns, SIAC, Empire Blue Cross / BlueShield, and other corporate heavyweights. The city has recognized Metrotech’s success andintends to expand on it.Since 9/11, Manhattan-based companies have had to add back office space outside of thatBorough in order to prevent the catastrophic effects another terrorist attack could have on theirbusinesses. The City, driven by the desire to keep these companies in New York, is planning amassive Downtown rezoning and redevelopment plan for Brooklyn. The plan would allow forthe construction of 6.7 million square feet of office space, 1 million square feet of retaildevelopment, 1,000 housing units and 2,500 parking spaces.Retail giants

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

STEM. This focus on gender equity is based on studieswhich reveal that treating women and girls differently through “special” gender-specificprograms may not solve the problem of gender inequity in STEM, nor does it prepare girls forthe reality of the male-dominated STEM workplace. [1]A gender equity approach is feasible since many of the strategies advocated by nationalmathematics and science standards, such as hands-on activities and cooperative learning, havebeen found to stimulate interest in STEM for ALL students, especially girls. [2] According to theNational Council for Research on Women, “strategies that increase girls’ success in the sciencesare also effective with boys, especially those from underrepresented groups.” [3] One

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Afshin Ghajar; Ronald Delahoussaye

velocity before exiting the nozzle. Thenozzle exit static pressure (p5) is the same as the inlet static pressure (p0). Gas Generator Ambient Air Combustion Diffuser Compressor Chamber Turbine Nozzle 0 1 2 3 4 5 Figure 1. Schematic diagram for non-afterburning turbojet engine.1 A turbojet is one of the several types of gas turbines used to propel an aircraft. The othersused are turbofan and turboprop. The turbofan engine contains all the elements of the turbojetmentioned, but in addition there is a large fan

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

establish the relevance of thecourse subjects to current industrial practice. An example is the Cusin3 article that is used inconjunction with the study of economic lot sizing in production.The product used in the fall semester course provides the focus for a series of manufacturingmanagement case studies that are developed based on the product. Plausible (but hypothetical)product extensions to the base product are proposed such that three products result (typically, aneconomy model, a standard model, and a deluxe model). These three then form the basis for thefollowing six case studies: 1. Creation and explosion of a bill of material and associated files a. Master schedule b. BOM file c. Inventory status d. Item

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

reaches 10,000 secondary teachers, guidance counselors, and outreachprogram leaders, and created a survey to understand what secondary teachers think ofengineering as an academic and career pathway for their students. Finally, ASEEbrought together leaders from industry and higher education along with K-12 teachers fora Leadership Workshop on K-12 Engineering Outreach, held just before the ASEE 2004Annual Conference and Exposition in Salt Lake City, Utah. A recent paper detailing theresults of that conference and delineating guidelines for how K-12 engineering educationworks best and defines key challenges confronting the field was recently published. (1)Clearly, there is a movement by the engineering and engineering technology communitiesto gain

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

additional criteria in accepting students, such as: • Providing equal opportunities to applicants from 4-year colleges and major research universities. • Proactive efforts to include women and underrepresented minority students in the program. • Genuine interest on the part of applicants to participate in research and investigative tasks as evaluated from applications, statement of career goals, and faculty recommendations.In spite of the very pro-active initiatives to recruit women and minority students in the programthe efforts were not as successful as envisioned by the committee. Table 1 shows participants’statistics over the last two years of the program. Table

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

presumably an assessment of technicalskills would indicate that all students have very little experience with the subject prior totaking a course. For student design team formation, a brief poll of faculty (Davol, et al.4)in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University,San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) indicates that there are three types of team forming strategiescurrently employed: 1) self-selection by the students, 2) random assignment of thestudents to teams by the faculty, and 3) assignment using skills-based assessment of thosestudents who are unable to self-select. Some faculty use a combination of the above 3methods to form teams. Other possibilities recommended in the literature for studentteam formation include

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rassa Rassai; Mensah Patrick; Jean-Pierre Bayard; Valerie Young; Joseph Tront; Edward Perry

to Synthesis and Evaluation. MERLOThas two advantages over most search engines and online teaching databases. (1) MERLOT isfocused on post-secondary education. (2) MERLOT learning objects and pedagogical tools arepeer-reviewed.This paper is intended to demonstrate how to browse and search the educational resourcescurrently available in the MERLOT database and explain how the peer review system screenseducational resources for ease-of-use and technical content. It includes examples of how onlinelearning objects can be incorporated into engineering courses, and of strategies to helpengineering educators develop learning activities for their own courses that take advantage ofMERLOT resources. For those who invest the time to develop online

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lane; John Farris

of his taxonomy are described in Table 1. The system can be used to evaluate the contentsof a course or class activity. A typical engineering curriculum gives the student much practice inthe lower levels of knowledge, comprehension and application. Students receive less practice inthe higher levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The lower levels require less in the wayof thinking skills. As one moves down the hierarchy, the activities require higher level thinkingskills. The higher level thinking skills will enable the students to succeed in the competitive,international, engineering environment. Moreover unless students can be brought to the higherlevels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, it is unlikely that most students will

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherif Michael; Ron Pieper

of dopant or dopants will be significantlyless than 100%. This reversal of the high percentage of ionization of the dopant is commonlyreferred to as freeze-out. Most semiconductor devices and ICs are designed to be operated inexhaustion regime also known as “extrinsic regime” see Figure 1, borrowed from B.Streetman’s classic undergraduate text book1 , for which the majority carrier concentration isapproximately equal to the dopant concentration e.g. ND=1015/cm3. Again, in reference to Fig.1, if the temperature is too high, the thermal generation effect causes the majority carrierconcentration to become excessively higher than the dopant in what is called the intrinsictemperature regime. In the intrinsic regime, the majority carrier

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Olson

) it is impractical to conduct alarge-scale study to see whether forcing students to read improved learning. During the Spring2004 semester, however, the author has the opportunity to teach the sophomore-level courseEngr 50 – Engineering Economics to 16 students. Although this is still not a large number ofstudents, it was enough to conduct a small study that used WebCT quizzes to assess the degree towhich reading before a lecture helps student learning.This paper reports the results of this study. The next section describes some the most importantaspects of the course structure and how the quizzes were designed and administered. Twoimportant questions that were pursued were: 1) Do students who read the text before classunderstand the lectures

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Graf; Ann Christy

poetry writing contests byincluding in their EC 2000 criterion 3 the following:1 (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context Page 10.398.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering at the Ohio State Universityoffered its first engineering poetry contest in the spring of 2004.2 This was then expanded

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Christopher Monsere

students in active learning can significantly improve studentoutcomes.1 The use of existing data to illustrate and emphasize theory, however, precludesstudent exposure to the data collection process. We feel students benefit from collecting andanalyzing their own data. Most students learn as they struggle with comparing real-worldobservations with expected results or textbook examples. Further, they learn important lessonsabout data quality, accuracy, time, and expense necessary for data collection. While desirable,the collection of effective data for educational purposes tends to be time-consuming, requiringmany people, many hours of their time, and is highly manual. Equipment to automate datacollection is typically costly and not available for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Bender; Amy Hoover; OraLynn Manweller

Aviationprofessionals 12:00 – 12:50 lunch 12:00 – 12:50 lunch6:00 - Dinner and evening 1:00 – 4:50 Construction, 1:00 – 2:00event (Communication) Engineering, or Aviation Closing reception 6:00 - Dinner and Evening event (Water Rockets)NeedWomen are under represented in the professions of aviation, construction and engineering.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics1, women make up 49% of the professional workforce. However, only 6% of aviation professionals are women2, 10% of constructionprofessionals are women3 and 10% of engineering professionals are women1.Several programs currently

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

engineering to thermal-fluid systemsdesign, that the students can have a platform to practice teamwork, professional and ethicalresponsibility, and that the reformed curriculum contributes to an increase in student’s interestsin thermal/fluid subjects, better retention rate, and more attraction to prospective students.Finally, the developed process ensures a favorable cooperative learning environment with astrong sense of accomplishment for the underrepresented student population. This presentationfocuses on the progress of the project in the following areas: (1) Planned activities, (2) studentdesign team’s efforts, and (3) pre-project evaluation serving as a benchmark for projectimplementation evaluation

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy

manner on my sections. The standard deviations on all questionswere 1 or less indicating that there was widespread agreement among the students on the ratings.Impact AnalysisConsidering that the purpose of this project was to give me real world teaching experience aswell as help me determine if teaching is the right career for me, it seems relevant to discuss theimpact of this project on me in these areas. There is no question that this project providedvaluable experience for me. Even though I only managed 25% of the class, it gave me asufficient feel for what it would be like to run my own class. As mentioned above many lessonswere learned in the comfort and safety of a mentored environment. Many more lessons werelearned outside the classroom

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Schinnel Small; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Pamela Leigh-Mack

class section being taught. Theseactivities are done during the delivery of performance tasks presented to a lower level pre-calculus course section. A subset of students in the classroom takes notes and shares notes ingroups of two. The students are evaluated on their note taking skills by examining their notes,both individual and shared using a rubric and by questionnaires. Technology in the form of electronic note taking has both advantages and disadvantagesas compared to conventional note taking and are listed in Table 1 below: Advantages Disadvantagesduplication setupsharing trainingdistribution

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A Century of College Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

technicalspecialization, project management, construction, asset management, business and publicpolicy and administration, and leadership. Commentaries are provided and competencylevels are specified for all outcomes.Relative to today’s basic programs, the outcomes collectively prescribe the knowledge,skills, and attitudes of an individual aspiring to the practice of civil engineering at theprofessional level (licensure) in the 21st Century. Accordingly, The 21st Century civilengineer must demonstrate each of the following 15 outcomes: 1. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering. 2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Limbrunner; Charline Han; Chris Swan

environmental engineering analysis and design. For a number of yearsTufts University has participated in various community-based projects, both extra-curricular andco-curricular. For example, a course on environmental site remediation evaluated small, urbanbrownfield sites in metropolitan Boston, MA that were undergoing, or needed to undergoremediation2. Tufts is also a major partner in the Mystic Watershed Collaborative (MWC), along-term partnership between the Tufts University Water Sustainability, Health, and EcologicalDiversity (WaterSHED) Center, the Tufts Institute of the Environment, the Tufts UniversityCollege of Citizenship and Public Service and the Mystic River Watershed Association(MyRWA)1. Expansion of CSL-based engineering