Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

as well as considering some specific issuessurrounding the CE program, the faculty decided to focus assessment on direct measures ofstudent work utilizing student design projects as much as possible. It was very apparent basedon attendance in the Olds/Miller workshops, as well as continual review of “CommunicationsLink: ABET Quarterly News Source”, that direct methods of assessment are the best way todetermine what students know and are capable of doing, rather than through grades or surveys 4.In addition, it has been shown that utilizing specific portions of classroom activities, such asstudent projects, are very effective at not only assessing the outcomes, but actually achieving theoutcomes5.It was determined that the plan should focus on

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Liou

modeling capabilities by integrating constraint-based feature modelingand explicit geometric modeling. Besides parts of standard geometry, it enables thedesign of complex free- form shapes like airfoils and manifolds. It also enables themerging of solid and surface modeling techniques into one powerful tool set.The CAD files from Unigraphics are converted to .stl format and are further processedwith software tool called Catalyst. This software cuts the model into a set of stacked2D layers in a process known as “slicing” and plans the tool paths necessary for themachine to create each layer. This software will also compute the support structurenecessary to support the model as it is being constructed. All this information isuploaded to the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

Session 1793 A Case Study: Development of a Practice Oriented Engineering Program with Implications for Regional Economic Development Paul Kauffmann Ralph Rogers Phil Lunsford East Carolina University, Greenville, NCIntroductionThis paper describes an engineering program planned for implementation at East CarolinaUniversity in fall 2004. The program presents a unique design synthesis of concentration areasrequired to enhance regional economic development and the best practices

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

years.The Alternative Fuels and Fuel Cell Enterprise (AFE) is run as a business with studentmanagement and faculty oversight. The students have arranged themselves into sub-teams that are active in the following projects: ‚" Development of a hybrid diesel / fuel cell military transport ‚" AIChE Chem-E-Car competition ‚" Recruting, public relations, and fundraising ‚" Business plan and accountingThe paper will further illustrate the structure of Michigan Tech’s enterprise program andhow AFE is helping students learn to solve real-world energy problems, work in teams,and communicate with other students, faculty, and industry.Motivation for Alternative EnergyThe search for alternative energy sources is an area that has received great

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

information, grapple with challenges, solve problems, defineproblems, talk, and learn from each other. Underlying the design of the seminar is a goal ofhelping the collection of PhD students develop into a community of practice4.The general design of the seminar has been simple: have the students collectively identify topicsthat they would like to discuss and then have them use simple group facilitation exercises inorder to discuss the topic. Because the PhD process is complex, the space of possible topics islarge. Such topics include issues such as succeeding with PhD program milestones, choosinggood elective courses and selecting advisors, defining effective research questions, authorship,and managing citations.In planning the sessions, the idea

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

. Students were provided sufficient addresses to plan, coordinate, and deploy redundant DHCPservices for their subnet. Additionally, students could implement DHCP relay agents and deploycentralized DHCP services for multiple subnets from a single server. Page 10.809.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2: Physical Layout for 32 Workstation LaboratoryThe primary set of RHDs was configured so that all workstations were on a single broadcastdomain and permitted student

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

entrepreneurial Reengineering Makes Industry Meaningful In College program not onlyexposes students to the world of industry within the confines of the classroom, it is areplicable, cost-effective model that can be adapted to a varying number of semesters andintegrated into a variety of technical programs and college settings.The origin of entrepreneurship in engineering and electronics at IVCCTen years ago, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplace,entrepreneurial experiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integratedtheir students into teams to develop, produce and sell a product. They named the projectMaking

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

resources per project: a design challenge from anindustry sponsor, with industrial liaison engineer available for a finite weekly time (e.g.,2-4 hours), and project funding of $15,000. Each project included a contract fordeliverables, namely, a first semester with “product specifications, concept generationand evaluation, a preliminary design report, a project plan, and an analytical andexperiment plan and report, and a final report and project documentation”. Thesubsequent semester allowed time for prototype realization, with an end-of-termdemonstration to the industrial sponsor, to include “a systems level design report,prototype results and report, a production sample, and an acceptance test. This course,initiated in the mid-nineties, has grown

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Piacentine; Tonya Emerson

it mildly, as plans for their own outreach event began developing before the close of theconference. In developing their plan, the students determined two main goals. First, theywanted to excite kids about engineering, specifically Civil Engineering. Second, they wanted tocreate an event to showcase the Civil Engineering students and the department in an effort togenerate pride in the department and create campus and community awareness about civilengineering. After the first annual event, which had been developed in honor of the 150thAnniversary of ASCE and held on September 27th, 2002, the students expanded the event toincluded all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The 2nd Annual Mindsin Motion was held on

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

undergraduate and graduate levels. The objective is to graduate engineers who are familiarwith the construction industry and have a better understanding of the role of the civil engineer inthe construction process. Courses offered include project management, project planning,contracts, bidding, estimation, and other topics that are of importance to construction.As a means to provide an incentive to the student, a certificate in Construction EngineeringManagement is awarded upon the completion of a required number of credit hours. Thecertificate prepares the undergraduate civil engineering student for a career in the constructionindustry. For those students who are not interested in a career in construction, the certificateprovides them with sufficient

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

O. Geoffrey Egekwu; Prince Anyalebechi

course level) in the junior and senioryears.3. Team Teaching within ISATThere is support in the interdisciplinary literature to the belief that learning can becomeinterdisciplinary when instruction is aided by team teaching. [7, 9] But what is teamteaching? The general definition of team teaching would include all arrangements in whichtwo or more faculty are involved at some level in the planning and teaching of a course.Levels of collaboration in planning and delivery among team members differentiatemultidisciplinary courses from interdisciplinary courses. Therefore the "greater the level ofintegration desired, the higher the level of collaboration required". [9]We have experimented with the various forms of team teaching, most of which

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Lyall; Rachel Shinn

drawings,requirements and test plans; 2) teach the students to integrate multiple subsystems into a systemdesign; 3) give the students the experience of building their design as a prototype and 4)complete the design process by having the students test their prototype against the designrequirements.This paper outlines the way in which these objectives are being met and the pedagogical toolsthat have been developed in the process.I. IntroductionDesign, build, fly has been done in both the spacecraft and the aircraft arena. Typically, this isdone over multiple semesters. We complete this cycle in a single semester. Some schools thathave design, build, fly programs are MIT1, Purdue2, and USAFA3. At Embry-RiddleAeronautical University, we have a two

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

course.IntroductionMasters of Education candidates within the Technology Education program are required todevelop vehicle-based technology projects to use in their own high school and middle schoolclasses. The purpose of the vehicle project is to motivate students to learn about teamwork,engineering design, math, physics and technology. The candidates create a curriculum plan thatincorporates the project. The curriculum plan includes the educational objectives that thecandidates intend to meet and the assessment tools that the candidates will use. The candidatesbuild examples of the vehicles and test them in a friendly competition at the end of the course.During the summer of 2002, candidates were introduced to the Ekranoplan vehicle. This vehicleprovides educators

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

Frontiers in Chemical EngineeringEducation” workshops (hereafter referred to as “Frontiers”) that have been conducted inOrlando, Cape Cod, Austin, and San Francisco (3). This paper describes a parallel andcomplementary effort in constituency-based curriculum redesign that is being conducted in ourprogram. We describe the planning, implementation, and data analysis involved as well as boththe obvious and subtle benefits that have come as a result of this ongoing effort.The PlanEarly in 1999, immediately following our Fall, 1998 ABET accreditation visit, the chairperson of Page

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

,agreed to work together by teaming the School of Business and Economics’ senior coursein Operations Management (BUS4644) with the Electrical Engineering Department’sjunior Engineering Design Course (EE3730). Don Bowie had been encouraged by thedepartment chair, Dr. Anthony Donaldson, to innovate on the course content with respectto cross disciplinary interaction, in keeping with the ABET related goals. Don and Jimdecided to implement their plan via three key activities of (1) exchanging professors asguest lecturers, (2) participating in joint workshops, and (3) having student teams becomeintimately involved with each other’s class projects. It was hoped that these activitiesshared by engineering and business students would expose them to the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Armando Pellerano

to execute. It is now a simplematter to incorporate human models in simulations to study ergonomic factors in designspecifications.This paper will discuss issues related to creating inverse kinematics rigs for 3D modelsand the recent advances made in automating the process. It will also examine thepractical application of pre-production planning principles to streamline the workprocess.To understand the importance of ergonomics in engineering, ask any engineer whodesigns for the human end user. You’ll quickly come to understand the importance ofevaluating the design parameters to include human form factors in creating engineeringsolutions that solve real world problems without creating new ones. This has becomeincreasingly important in

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

with abstract textures or colors. During the second half of the day campers developedrelationship and teamwork skills through the University’s Maine Bound “Challenge by Choice”Recreation Program. The recreation activities included low and high ropes courses, a climbingwall, and canoeing. At the end of each week campers and their parents were excited by thechallenging technical, physical, and social experiences the camp had offered.A goal of the camp was to reach out to girls who might not otherwise consider technical trainingopportunities, so the camp was planned to appeal equally to girls and boys. Prior to the campsthe directors reached out to prospective campers through schools and clubs, obtained funds toprovide camp scholarships

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gralinski; Janis Terpenny

Regional High School (ARHS) with faculty atthe University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College in addressing issues impinging thesuccess of engineering and technology curricula. More specifically, this collaboration hasfocused on: reviewing and enhancing high school teacher’s core knowledge of engineeringdesign, the curricular changes made based on this study/research, and research of gender equityissues in engineering and technology curricula. Plans to recruit and retain female students in thetechnology/engineering area at both secondary and university levels are described; including,cross-institutional projects with an emphasis on assistive technologies and universal design, anda variety of outreach activities between institutions. A structure

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

addition, the first 3 labs have general areas of specialization. The objectives ofthe ECE laboratories, which closely follow some of the ABET suggested “outcomes”10, include theability to: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve practical electrical engineering problems. This includes the planning, specification, design, implementation, and operation of systems, components, and/or processes that meet performance, cost, time, safety, and quality requirements. 2. Communicate effectively through oral presentations and group discussions. 3. Communicate effectively through written reports and other documents. 4. Design and conduct scientific and engineering experiments, and to analyze and interpret the resulting data. 5

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Yves Hascoet; Benoit Furet; Marek Balazinski

from the ÉcoleCentrale Nantes/ECN (France) acting as the project manager.Development in this project began with the product specifications and continued through testingof different prototypes. The students from the two schools were required to plan, organize,exchange, communicate, search and validate using the Concurrent Engineering organization andnew tools of communications. The subject product was a new “all-terrain in-line roller” for aFrench sport equipment manufacturer.During this project, several “new” tools of communication; E -mails, ftp, web, chat, white board,exchange files and Visio-communications were tested. The development team analyzed thereliability, relevancy and performance of these tools for teaching product design.This

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sprinsky

Digital Terrain Models (DTM), from which mapping is derived and manipulationof an existing GIS for project planning and construction management using the Intergraph MGEsystem.Our portfolio includes associate’s degrees in both Civil Engineering Technology (CT) andSurveying Technology (SUT) and a bachelor’s program in Civil Engineering Technology withemphasis in Surveying (BCT), all ABET (TAC) accredited. The use of GIS is taught to studentsin all degrees. A more advanced course in Land Use/Information is part of the BCT program.The advanced course is the subject of this presentation. In this course, students construct andquery a GIS. They learn, from a Civil Engineering standpoint, how to manipulate coordinate andattribute data, and set up and

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. K. Anand; John Weese

& Exposition, Event 2255, June 24 th, Nashville, TN 5. Objective Review team reviews departmental self-study document and makes evaluations using independent judgements. A well-constructed doctoral program review leads to a careful evaluation by persons with no vested interest in the outcomes. 6. Independent Process remains independent from any other Texas A&M University review process, draws independent conclusions, and directs recommendations to people who have an interest in improving Texas A&M University graduate programs -- the faculty and administrators of Texas A&M University. 7. Results in action Department develops a plan acting on reviewers’ comments and recommendations to implement

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

. Process planning 11. Fabrication and AssemblyIn this course, interdisciplinary teams with students from various engineering andtechnology disciplines worked together to design, manufacture, and assemble real-lifeproducts. UMR senior students in manufacturing options, students with minors inmanufacturing, and FV students in the associate degree program participated in thiscourse. Students in the UMR MS program actively participated in the project as part oftheir practice-oriented credit requirement. The project courses take advantage of themanufacturing options being offered in both the Mechanical Engineering andEngineering Management departments. It is intended to simulate the modern industrialproduct development and manufacturing process in

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

the experience of more traditional classes. In each class,student teams develop a new product concept, prototype it, create a business andmarketing plan, and produce a patent application and a funding proposal.Last semester, I taught C&NPD in distance learning mode with 12 on-grounds students,and 12 off-grounds. The off-grounds students were all engineers working full-time inindustry. The on-grounds students included both undergraduates and grad students. Weassembled teams so that most teams had at least one member at a remote site. One classeach week was delivered in the asynchronous mode (as streaming video on the internet),while the other was conducted in real time (as a live television broadcast with two wayvideo capability

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

Session 1675 Consulting and Industrial Experiences as Related to Promotion and Tenure of Engineering Technology Faculty Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractTo successfully achieve the goal of tenure, a well thought out professional development plan isessential. For engineering technology (ET) faculty, the requirements of the ET tenure process maybe well suited for utilizing consulting and industrial experiences as a portion of the professionaldevelopment plan. Engineering technology programs are different from engineering programs

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

Education” Page 6.359.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”based on a self-evaluation of course content by UTEP faculty teaching the courses thatmake up the degree plans for each of the three departments. Clearly, the faculty believedthey were not giving social responsibility criteria nearly as much emphasis as the moretraditional design and analysis criteria. Including sustainable/green engineering elementsinto the curricula clearly address these three ABET criteria and can significantly strengthenengineering degree

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

instructorsreviewed teamwork roles and guidelines for effective teamwork. During the course, the studentteams were required to develop a schedule for project management, to maintain a project log,and to make weekly progress reports. The instructors reviewed the project logs and metregularly with the teams. The course grade was based partially on team effectiveness. However,the instructors’ assessment of student performance in the course pointed to weaknesses in thestudents’ teamwork skills. In particular, the following skills were frequently weak: 1. Communication with external agents/industry and instructors (seeking information and reporting status) and within the group (active listening). 2. Planning with limited initial information, ambiguity

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kandace K. Martin; Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

provides for a higher probability that changed practice will actually take place.Project LEA/RN™, therefore, is not about easy answers to education's problems. We are not about thebusiness of offering "tips and techniques" or twelve point plans guaranteed to deliver success. We believe Page 5.423.3that faculty need to know why certain strategies work. They need to understand what about the strategiesmakes them work (or not work). They need to be aware of the dispositions students must have thatcontribute to making these strategies work and how to develop these dispositions. We believe that theseunderstandings only occur if faculty work

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

Education: - Combined-Research Curriculum Development (CRCD)/NSF - Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR)/OSU - Honors House/OSU Figure 1 CISM research and education thrust areas. The curriculum is designed around the multidisciplinary approach of CISM and focuseson an interactive approach emphasizing problem solving, team work, communication, andindustrial experience. Workers in the 21st century will need skills beyond the technical, such as Page 5.52.2management, leadership and ethics. Plans include expanding the students’ technical education toinclude business, management

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas M. Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

address nonpoint source pollution management,identify critical areas of concern on which to focus, and develop and assess methods for bettercontrol and management of these areas. In many cases, these plans will result in economic benefits through the associated costs ofreduced tillage and the better utilization of fertilizers and pesticides that create a win-winsituation for the producer and for water quality. Page 5.64.2DEFINING NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION Nonpoint source pollution can basically be categorized into three major producers:Agricultural activities, residential/ urban runoff, and construction/ mining operations. Nonpointsource