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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

focuson community building activities and programs aimed at students during the pre-freshmen, firstand second years.Women in Engineering at RITAt RIT, the number of women engineering students graduating each year from the Kate GleasonCollege of Engineering is approximately 11%, significantly below the 2003 national average of20.4% [1]. However, unlike the national trends in engineering student attrition, the overallretention rate for this relatively small group of RIT engineering women is actually higher thanthe retention rates associated with their majority male peers, although both groups fall belowRIT’s long-term student retention goals.Perhaps more RIT women engineers (on average) graduate with engineering degrees ascompared with other

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jones; Cynda Fickert; Alice Smith

help themconnect this information with everyday electronics such as cell phones and video games… This was the one of themost dynamic summer experiences I have had, and my students will reap the benefits.” Figure 1. Teachers Mark Jones (left) and Cynda Fickert (right) work in the CAVE labs. Mathematics StudentsThe math-oriented unit involves the use of different cross-section sizes and different types of wood to test them forstrength. This was inspired by the use of shear-strength testing of the solder joints from the project. The students’objective is to test different woods for strength by placing samples of wood on a loading block and hanging a bucketin the middle of the wood by a force

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

& Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationlifelong education and distance education continue to flourish. Furthermore,programming tools used to create computer-based content ha ve become cheaper, and,more importantly, easier to use. It is thus prudent to evaluate how these media arechanging students’ academic experience.In prior research [1, 2], we evaluated an instructional CD that is currently included withthe book Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach [3]. In addition to presenting thestudents with text content, tables, and graphs, the CD also includes active learningtechniques such as interactive exercises, graphical modeling, physical world simulations,and exploration [2]. The aspect

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

. workers on the nation’s economy. This development coincided withincreasingly competitive economic challenges from Japan, Germany, and other Europeancountries. The indicators were that high schools and colleges were failing to prepare the nation’sworkforce. What was discovered was that schools were not doing their job because they 1)provided no incentive for students to work hard; 2) did little to help students find good jobs; 3)did not teach the attitudes and maturity needed on the job; 4) isolated young people from adults Page 10.569.1who could act as models and mentors; 5) did a poor job of teaching the so-called advanced “Proceedings of

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John L. Falconer; Janet deGrazia; Al Weimer

choice quizzes, teaching steps in problemsolving, predicting outcomes in demos, and involving the students in the curriculum. This briefarticle describes the relatively-inexpensive technology available for clickers and examples used inour classrooms. Examples used for sophomore, junior and senior level Chemical Engineeringcourses will be presented, and feedback discussed. Finally, a summary of advantages anddisadvantages of the system are presented.Explanation of Clicker Use Learning with transmitters (clickers) works as follows:1. The instructor poses a question and presents possible answers (multiple choice).2. Each student picks an answer by select A,B,C,D,E on the clicker3. The instructor displays at a histogram of answers for the class to

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasuhisa Komura; Tien-I Liu; Stefan Setiadharma; Akihiko Kumagai

costs for hardwareand software, stipends for students, and a contribution for the trust fund of the school. The trustfund of the school is managed by a carryover account. Compared to other school accounts, thereare not many restrictions on how the account should be used and therefore it is a very convenientvehicle to support lab development and maintenance.Each industry-sponsored project is usually pursued based on the following product developmentstages: 1. Requirement definition (at the Proposal stage) 2. Conceptual design: Alternative designs and trade-off analysis (at the Proposal stage) 3. Detailed design and analysis 4. Prototype building 5. Testing

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

engineering problems as being the most important 1. In aneffort to meet ABET accreditation standards and to better prepare engineering graduates,engineering education programs have been implementing a variety of forms of problem-based learning (PBL). In fact, several engineering programs around the world (e.g., AalborgUniversity on Denmark, McMasters University in Canada, Monash University in Australia,Manchester University in England, Glasgow University in Scotland, Eindhoven University inthe Netherlands, and Republic Polytechnic in Singapore) deliver the majority of theircurricula via PBL. Additionally, PBL modules or courses have been implemented innumerous engineering programs, including biomedical engineering 2, chemical engineering 3,software

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Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

(elemental and content analysis, materialsmodification, radiation gauging, solid/liquid Interface, and heart imaging) were also chosen Page 10.74.2because of their potential interest to students. Within each of these problem domains, we Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationidentified three different problems (see Table 1). We identified subject matter experts foreach of those problems and conducted extensive interviews with each of them to elucidatethe problem, the alternative solutions, and the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Walker; Sean Brophy

Session XXXX Case study of the pedagogical impact of tablet PCs as a presentation medium in large-scale engineering classrooms Sean P. Brophy1 and D. Greg D. Walker2 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2Department of Mechanical Engineering Vanderbilt University, Nashville TNAbstractNew information technologies promise to enhance engineering instruction by facilitatingthe learning process. A preliminary study examines the use of a tablet PC as apresentation platform for problem-solving methodologies used in a fourth yearMechanical Engineering class of 50 students. Typical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

may be used to teach both shared and distributed memoryprogramming techniques, and for their strong price/performance ratio. Using gigabit networkingtechnology, the cluster was built at a cost of approximately $15k.In addition to traditional coursework, a cluster computing workshop was developed and offeredfor the first time during the summer of 2004. Key issues covered were designing a Beowulf clus-ter, implementing and programming a cluster, and tuning/profiling of programs.1. IntroductionIn 1998, the Boyer Commission released a report on educating undergraduates in research univer-sities titled “Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Univer-sities” 1 . The report points out that while only 3% of all higher

Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Finlayson

covered during the January, 2004, offering are listed in Table I. Table I. Topics covered in 2004 1. pVT using Excel 2. recycle systems with chemical reaction equilibrium using Excel 3. chemical reaction equilibrium using MATLAB 4. plug flow reactors using MATLAB 5. detailed models of single units using AspenPlus 6. process models using Aspen Plus 7. flow of a polymer between flat plates using MATLAB 8. flow of a polymer between flat plates using Excel 9. partial differential equations using MATLAB

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

OutcomesABET has published a list of eleven outcomes that they offer for general use by engineeringprograms. This list of ABET outcomes, commonly referred to simply as (a) through (k), arelisted in Table 1. The original intent was for this ABET list to serve as an example, from whicheach engineering program would fashion their own set of outcomes. In some cases, this didhappen; but in other cases, programs just stayed with (a) through (k).The Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-ME) opted toestablish their own set of program outcomes, as listed in Table 2. In this case, if a programestablishes their own outcomes, then they must map to the ABET (a) through (k) outcomes.Such a mapping for the UT-ME outcomes to ABET

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

Measuring Voltage Balance Using a Switching Scheme Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1, Brian Waltrip2, Andrew Koffman2 and George Piper1 1 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA avramov@usna.edu 2 National Institute of Standards and Technology†, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USAIntroductionMost precise electrical impedance measurement procedures involve a voltage balance. A voltage balance isdefined as the condition in which the difference between two voltages is driven to zero by independentinjections. The uncertainty of the measured value directly depends on how close to zero the balance wasdriven in magnitude and

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

, all who share WEPAN’s commitment to enhancing the diversity of theengineering workforce.In 2002, WEPAN unveiled a new strategic plan centered on three keystone statements. (1) Toincrease the visibility and inclusiveness of Engineering to engage all talent; (2) to catalyzechange to create a critical mass; and (3) to make strategic choices that impact systemic change.The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of WEPAN and its operations. This isfollowed by a discussion of how WEPAN can affect women faculty in engineering and areas inwhich both WEPAN and women faculty could benefit from increased interactions.IntroductionEngineering education has long recognized the lack of diversity in their students. The numbersof students of color

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Josef Rojter

, at Australian universities, overa number of years [1],[2]]. In comparison to the European Union whereapproximately 16 percent of tertiary students are enrolled inengineering/architecture [3], the corresponding figures for Australia showapproximately 7.7 percent [1]. Furthermore the quality of students enteringengineering courses in Australia has also been an issue over many years. Yateshas pointed to a long tail of students with relatively poor academicachievement in the final year at school entering engineering education [4].This reflects adversely on engineering profession when compared with the Page 10.707.1type of academic talent attracted to professional

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Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

Developing Effective K-5 Mathematics Educational Software Theodor D Richardson, Jed S Lyons University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 richa268@cse.sc.eduAbstractThis paper presents a software engineering pilot study on the construction and use of educationalsoftware for the K-5 classroom environment. The goal of this study is to use the softwareengineering life cycle to guide the development of mathematics skills practice software with theintent to produce (1) a reusable template for producing meaningful and effective educationalsoftware as well as (2) a retrospective analysis tool to help

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

2004. The key objectives of this course were to: 1. Provide students with a better understanding of the electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines. This objective is key for UVM has historically had ~40% of its entering engineering freshman classified as “Undecided Engineering”. 2. Provide students with an appreciation for the interdisciplinary nature of engineering, while stressing the importance of structured problem solving. 3. Provide students with an opportunity to develop practical skills through self-motivating, hands-on, team-based design activities. These skills are the same as those required by

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson

classes presented by the SWE members and their impact on WKU Girlsin Science Day. Also, the format of the GIS day will be discussed and assessment of the pasttwo years will be presented in this paper.Girls in Science Day Girls in Science (GIS) Day was developed as an outreach activity by the faculty in theOgden College of Science and Engineering at WKU as a way to increase awareness of youngwomen of scientific careers.1 The event has been held for the past three years on the WKUcampus. Many young girls are not aware of potential careers in science and engineering. Theprogram gives the girls opportunities to do fun hands-on projects with WKU science andengineering faculty in hopes of creating interest in the science field. The first year

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

required to determine the weight and location of thecounterweight for the crane. Again, they were required to solve this problem experimentallyfirst. This provided them a good opportunity to get a taste of what are critical states and smalldisturbances according to Ohio science standards. Then, they were required to solve the sameproblem mathematically by a symbolic approach. Details of this module and some relatedthoughts will be presented in the following paragraphs.DescriptionAs mentioned above, activities in the “crane” module are both creative and challenging. Thelesson plan for this module is presented below. Mechanical CranesObjectives: 1. Students will experience authentic engineering research

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

. That work continuedthrough the fall semester of 2002 and culminated with a review of external consultants in thespring semester of 2003. The outcomes were presented to the program advisory committee inboth the spring and fall meetings of the 2002-2003 academic year. Implementation of theassessment processes began in the fall semester of 2001 and continues.EE Program Objectives and Outcomes The objectives for the WKU EE program were developed with the industrial advisoryboard to support the mission of the program and department. The objectives are as follows: Objective 1: Our graduates demonstrate a foundational knowledge and understanding of topics in electrical engineering. Objective 2: Our graduates are application

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

10.151.1example, weekly homework) just before a scheduled exam. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSince this is a common issue confronted by instructors that teach these courses, one can findseveral references in the literature that provide information and distinct approaches to deal withthe problem. This problem can be mitigated by improving student learning during lecture time.Several approaches aiming to improve student learning in the classroom have been discussed inthe literature recently. Some of these approaches focus on student collaboration with their peers[1] , which suggests that by

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

,received a very general lecture containing examples of humanitarian engineers in a requiredfreshman class called Nature and Human Values. In other words, this is an ideal time to collectbaseline data concerning students’ attitudes prior to the curricular intervention.B. SubjectsFor the purpose of this investigation, baseline data was collected from both engineering studentsand faculty. All appropriate human subjects procedures were followed. Each participatingpopulation is described in the sections that follow.1. StudentsDuring the second and third week of classes in the Fall 2004, the 101 students enrolled in varioussections of MEL I were asked to sign a project participation consent form. Students who agreedto participate in the investigation

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.In 2001, collaboration between TexPREP and PACES began with the objective of usingactivities with space-oriented themes as a means to stimulate student interest in science,engineering and mathematics. Over the past two summers, a variety of activities have beenconducted. These include (1) Remote sensing and image interpretation, (2) CricketSat electronictelemetry device activity, (3) Protein Crystal Growth experiment, (4) Rover design competition(5) “Mission to Mars” play, and (6) Field trips to NASA facilities. This paper presents adescription of these space-oriented program components and some results from the evaluation ofthe program.1. IntroductionUnderrepresented minorities now compromise over

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson; Harold Broberg

10.1102.1introductory engineering technology courses. This survey, while not comprehensive, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationappears to be representative and is based on university instructors who chose to maketheir syllabi and other information publicly available on the Internet.Universities and Courses:Table 1 shows the institutions surveyed, course designations and titles, credit hours, andthe most informative website used in compiling the material for each course. Theappendix shows the approximate geographic locations of the 26 universities/collegessurveyed. The only universities surveyed which had ECE and ECET

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

usually costs thousands of dollars. For budget constrained institutions, abetter solution is to look at the equipment itself and try to rejuvenate it with the computer dataacquisition. Among the commercially available computer data acquisition systems, the hardwareand LabVIEW software by National Instruments are widely used. Some educators presentedefforts to modernize their equipment with computer data acquisition and LabVIEW for someindividual experiments [1, 2, 3] , while others implemented it for the whole laboratorycourse [4, 5, 6] .At the Department of Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, the Page

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

submission of, and participation in, senior design projects.Deliverables from the students were 1. Attendance (fulfilled by a sign-in sheet) and 2. Aterm paper on one of the lecture topics presented (with the exception of the careers andgraduate school seminars.) The final grade for each student was based upon the termpaper (graded by one of the instructors) discounted 5% for each class missed. The classmet weekly from 4:10 to 5:00. Seminar speakers generally kept to the 50 minute timelimit. The period immediately after the seminar was reserved for group meetingsbetween interested students and persons needing interdisciplinary teams for their projectsfor the first half of the term. Seminar speakers generally presented using PowerPointslide shows

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sherman

concerned withhow their children might do in any higher education environment. Table 1. Parents Primary Concerns with their Child’s Adjustment to Engineering at CU-BoulderArea of Concern Total Parent Male Parent Female Parent Responses (N=157) Responses (N=66) Responses (N=91)Academic Achievement 85 (54.1%) 35 (53.0%) 50 (54.9%)Personal Adjustment 75 (47.8%) 30 (45.5%) 45 (49.5%)Focus on Academics 61 (38.9%) 25 (37.9%) 36 (39.6%)Balance of Work/Study 52 (33.1%) 22 (33.3%) 30 (33.0%)Meeting New Friends 49 (31.2

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

teaching a conventionalcourse might adopt this approach.I. Review of dynamics textbooksThere are a large number of textbooks designed for use in introductory dynamics courses and theordering of topics can be categorized in primarily two ways as shown in Table 1. The booksusing Ordering #1 as shown in Table 1 include those by Hibbeler1, Boresi and Schmidt2, Jongand Rogers3, Beer and Johnston4, Meriam and Kraige5, Sandor6, Shames7, Bedford and Fowler8,and Soutas-Little and Inman9. Although there are some variations among these books, forexample, some include a chapter on systems of particles, their ordering of the topics isessentially identical. This ordering is: particle kinematics followed by particle kinetics followedby rigid body kinematics

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

areinteractive and include homework assignments to help maintain focus on the leadership trainingbetween sessions. Women leaders in academe and industry are guest speakers and serve asimportant role models for participants.Before and during the sessions, participants completed inventories measuring perceptions ofleadership skills, communication styles, and conflict resolution mode. Guest speaker/role modelsare a particularly important feature of the Institute. Guest speakers were drawn from a range offields and positions. Following is a listing of year 1 guest speakers.• Former university president• Current university chancellor• Two university curators (university governing board)• Former Ms. Black America• Current

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karyn Biasca

textbook) as Idrew colored lines on the charts. Our web programmer translated these demonstrations into Flashanimations with audio descriptions of the procedure. An example screen shot is shown in Figure1. When using the tutorial, students interact with these animated charts, pointing and clicking onappropriate hot spots and buttons to continue through the lesson. Figure 1. Interactive demonstration graphic.The most interesting interactive element in the tutorial, however, is a chart which generates Page 10.468.2random combinations of dry bulb temperature and relative humidity, and directs students to findand click on