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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

Session 2004-1557 The Aalborg Experiment University - Industry Interaction: A Means for Stimulating Engineering Excellence in Technology and Learning Systems Sven Hvid Nielsen, Associate Professor Department of Production Aalborg University, Denmark e-mail: i9shn@iprod.auc.dkAbstract: This article presents what an engineering school at a university may do tostimulate the engineering excellence. The Aalborg University experiment will be used as acase example with its unique use of problem-based education methods in connection withproject and group-organised studies – to stimulate

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Moody

Session 2004-1214 From the Battlefield to the Classroom: Bringing Leadership as a Civil Engineer in Iraq into the Classroom Captain Paul Moody United States Military AcademyIntroduction In May 2003, I had just relinquished the guidon, the symbol of command authority andresponsibility for a 130 soldier combat heavy construction company, in Iraq. I was preparing tomake a huge transition in my life and career. I was leaving the dust, heat and eternal threat ofviolence in post-war Iraq to teach civil engineering at the Nation’s First Department ofEngineering at

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Viva Austin; Keith Koenig; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Session Number 3159 Revision and Translation of Existing Programs as a Tool for Teaching Computer Data Acquisition and Control Systems Design and Implementation Thomas Hannigan, Keith Koenig, Bryan Gassaway, Viva Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractKeeping data acquisition and control systems (DACS) used in a graduate and under-graduate laboratory current in a rapidly evolving technological environment is anexpensive and time-consuming task. Computer architecture and software have evolvedmore rapidly than the curriculum repeats, and the interfaces commonly used for

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

Session 3592 Middle School Students Participate in Three-Week GEAR-UP Summer Engineering Program at Texas A&M University-Commerce Andrew E. Jackson, Ph.D., Bob J. Wilkins, M.S., Sherion H. Jackson, Ed.D. Texas A&M University-CommerceAbstract During June 2003, the Industrial Engineering Department at Texas A&M University-Commerce (TAMUC) hosted 28 middle school students for a three-week GEAR-UP engineeringexperience. The students were entering grades 7, 8, and 9 for the 2003-2004 academic year, intheir respective schools. Students attending

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

Session 1109 Collaborative Efforts between the Local Industry and Engineering Technology and Biology Students in Building a DNA Microarrayer Saleh M. Sbenaty, Ph.D. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe current paper describes the collaborative efforts between engineering technology students,biology students, and a local industry in building an advanced microarrayer system for DNAtesting. BioVentures, a biotech company located in Murfreesboro, TN and one of the worldlargest suppliers of DNA markers

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Harris; David Gatchell; Robert Linsenmeier

Biomedical Engineering Key Content Survey – The 1st Step in a Delphi Study to determine the core undergraduate BME curriculum David W. Gatchell1,4, Robert A. Linsenmeier1,2,4, Thomas R. Harris3,4 Departments of 1Biomedical Engineering and 2Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University/3Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, and Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University/4VaNTH Engineering Research CenterThe field of Biomedical Engineering has seen marked growth over the past ten years. In fact,since 1990, we have witnessed a two-fold increase in the number of undergraduate programsgranting degrees in

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

1620 Undergraduate Research: Novel Integration of PDAs, GPS and Bar Code Scanner via an Embedded Visual Basic Program for a Utility Asset Management System Peter Mark Jansson, Jeffrey Tisa, Gregory Garwood Rowan UniversityAbstract Undergraduates in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of RowanUniversity have undertaken innovative software research and system integration for the electric utilityclients of its Engineering Clinic Program. In this innovative classroom / laboratory course, theproblem students set out to solve was the development of an integrated

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Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Jackson

Session 3157 Motion-Tracking Technology & Three-Dimensional Displays Provide Leading-Edge Research & Educational Tools to Industrial Engineering Students at Texas A&M University-Commerce Andrew E. Jackson, Ph.D. Texas A&M University-CommerceAbstract In the fall of 2002, a new Industrial Engineering program was established at Texas A&MUniversity-Commerce (TAMUC). A central component of this new undergraduate program is areconfigurable, modularized Human Factors & Ergonomics Laboratory (HFEL) that will providestudents

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach

Session 1392 Go With the Flow - A Student Leadership Opportunity Integrating K-12 Outreach, the Society of Women Engineers, Service Learning and Peer Mentoring Elizabeth Eschenbach, Eileen Cashman Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a multi-year project that involved the Humboldt State University StudentSection of the Society of Women Engineers in a Service Learning project that now serves as acontinuous outreach project to young children in the community. The SWE club oversaw

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sara Farida; Nick Safai

of higher educationacross the globe should consider including a course in wireless communication.This would be so the graduates are able to cope with these changing industrialneeds. It has been estimated that over 300,000 additional workers with wirelessknowledge will be needed by 2005. Technology experts are addressing“ infocom”in place of IT and telecommunications. Infocom is the convergence of Media(Internet, TV radio, printing, publishing etc.), Telecommunications (wireless,data, paging etc.), and Computers (hardware, software, networking, etc.).This rapid growth in wire less technology has created an acute shortage of RFengineers during the past decade. To develop manpower to cater to the needs ofindustry a number of colleges and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma; Cheng Lin

1793 Session Enhancing MET Curriculum with Applied Research Experience for Faculty - Parametric Study of Water Jet Cutting (WJC) Processes – A Case Study Alok K. Verma, Cheng Y. Lin Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Carl J. Voglewede, Mike E. Tall Technology Development and Integration Branch NASA Langley Research CenterAbstract In today’s global competitive environment, the engineering technology curriculum must adoptand

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Samuel J. Stokes; Nagi El Naga; Halima El Naga

Session # 1532 The Use of Real Time Operating Systems and Development Tools as a Mean to Revitalize Computer Engineering Programming Courses Halima M. El Naga Samuel J. Stokes Nagi M. El Naga, California State Polytechnic University, Academic Developer Evangelist California State University, Pomona MicroSoft NorthridgeAbstractIn programming courses for electrical and computer engineering, it is difficult for thestudents to cognitively connect that abstract languages will eventually lead to the abilityto build real

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Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elaine Craft

Session 3249 Do It Differently to Get a Different Outcome: Integrating Content Across Disciplines to Solve an Age-old Problem Elaine L. Craft Florence-Darlington Technical CollegeAbstractRequired courses in engineering technology (ET) programs other than ET courses prompt thestudent question, "why am I learning this?" Students often fail to make the necessaryconnections between disciplines that enable them to apply the knowledge appropriately in "realworld" situations. How many students have taken a speech course

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

AC 2004-555: CREATING MORE TIME IN A DAY: EFFECTIVE USE OFE-COMMUNICATION TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING AND OPTIMIZEINSTRUCTOR TIMEDawn Conniff,James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military AcademyMatthew Morris, Brigham Young University Page 9.352.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session # 1793 Creating More Time in a Day: Effective Use of e-Communication to Enhance Student Learning and Optimize Instructor Time J. Ledlie Klosky, Matthew R. Morris, Dawn E. Conniff United States Military AcademyAbstractThe

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Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ferry; Andrew Otieno

Session Number: 2547 Development of a Low Cost Laboratory System for Teaching Automation System Integration in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum William Ferry and Andrew Otieno, Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 60115 otieno@ceet.niu.eduAbstract - In many automated manufacturing assembly systems today, several components thatare manufactured by different companies have to be integrated together

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

Session # 1793 The IEEE Pathfinder on Power and Energy: A Living Document for Selecting and Filtering Web-based Resources Peter Wiesner, Mary Jane Miller IEEE Corporate Strategies and Communications/IEEE Operations- Library Noel N. Schulz Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University Karen Miu Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

Session Number 3125 Carnegie Mellon’s Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Projects Course Serves a Variety of Students and Project Sponsors John W. Wesner, James H. Garrett, Jr., Eswaran Subrahmanian, Arthur W. Westerberg, Cristina H. Amon Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAbstractThe Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) at Carnegie Mellon University, acontinuation of the former NSF-funded Engineering Design Research Center (EDRC), sponsorsseveral project-based engineering design courses that are open not only to Carnegie MellonCollege of Engineering students, but also to the entire

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Laura Grossenbacher

How do we really prepare engineers to face ethical problems – and are we doing enough? A proposal to study engineering pedagogies and practices in the community. Laura Grossenbacher, Director Technical Communication Program College of Engineering UW-Madison 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706 I am interested in conducting some research this summer on the teaching and practiceof engineering ethics. My proposed research would be somewhat limited in scope, because Iwould interview

Conference Session

TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

11 a) Much more valuable than the material in other 10 10 courses 9 b) A little more valuable than the material in other 9 a) Much more material than in other courses courses b) A little more material than in other 8

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

Page 9.173.2objectives and fifteen related general student outcomes [Appendix B]. Formal assessment “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”tools such as tests and quizzes as well as assignment and project reports demonstrate thelevel at which the criteria and educational objectives are being met.2. School of Engineering GoalsOne of the strengths of the American educational system is the diversity of educationalprograms. Such a large selection of educational offerings makes quality a vital issue.Accreditation is the quality assurance that education is meeting

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3565 Advanced Mathematics Preparation for Graduate School of Undergraduate Science and Engineering Students Kenneth E. Siegenthaler Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe difficulty of inspiring spring-semester senior science and engineering students totake another elective advanced mathematics course is well known. Mathematical Physicstaught from a text such as Mathematical Methods for Physicists by George B. Arfken andHans J. Weber has a particularly bad reputation among undergraduates. But any

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Majumdar; Mehmet Sozen

ModelStoichiometric Case: The chemistry mechanism used for this case consists of the following setof reversible reactions [6] 2H 2 - O2 n 2 H 2 O H 2 n 2H O2 n 2O 2 H 2 O n H 2 - 2OHThe changes in each species in the form of fractions a , b , c , and d can be expressed as 2 H 2 - O2 n 2H 2O / 2a /a - 2a H2 n 2H /b - 2b O2 n 2O

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

Society for Engineering Educationapply science/math and engineering and the ability to set-up and solve engineering problems.Surprisingly for MECH 312 the outcome focusing on the design of a system or a component(outcome c) does not stand out strongly in many of the homework assignments. It does appearwithin the 30-50% range. In the next section, this issue is studied further as students reflect onthe project and the whole course (including the experience of having a design project).Moreover, outcomes “b”, “g”, and “k” are encountered somewhat but not to a great degree (30 -50%); since some assignments make use of modern engineering tools and address outcome “k”.An overall average of these nine charts is shown in Chart #12. In essence, on average

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

must be at least 0.25 in thick. Create a technical drawing of thebracket. Lastly, on a separate sheet prepare a manufacturing plan, indicating the specificprocesses that are required to fabricate of your bracket. Idler pulley shaft A Student A B C 1 3.00 2.00 59575K33 2 3.25 2.00 59575K34 3 3.50 2.00 59575K35 C 4 3.75 2.00 59575K36B Bearings

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Javad Hashemi

this experiment. The virtual experimentwas designed using the Macromedia Flash (Macromedia Inc, CA, USA) software. Videoclips, images, and text materials were used in an effective manner to explain each step inthe experiment. The module starts by introducing the basic definition of hardness Figure1a, its relevance to materials selection and design Figure 1b, and its usage and applicationFigure 1c. The students step into the module by clicking on the forward arrow buttonafter they have digested the information on the screen. The rewind button can be used tostep back in the software and refresh one’s memory of the contents of previous steps. (a) (b

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

believe that not only is such a system inspiring to the student who developed theDSP-based algorithm, but that it also signi cantly affects anyone who observes the completedsystem in operation.During the design of the DTMF decoder and power switch box the system requirements changedseveral times as we gained a better idea of how we would use the device. The nal systemrequirements follow: 1. Capable of being controlled by any DSP or microprocessor that is capable of controlled generation of DTMF signals 2. Sturdy yet compact enclosure with only 3 cabled connections. These connections are: (a) DC power for the decoder board (b) DTMF control signal from the DTMF signal generator (DSP/microprossor-based DTMF

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

P A C B L a RA RB (a) L+ a - x x P M1 M2 C RA V1 V2 (b

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Das

the program, it would be feasible to include other types ofloads (e.g., ramp load). Page 9.1354.3Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Example 1: Determine the slopes at ends A and D and the deflections at points B and C of the beam shown in Figure 1. Use E = 1,800 ksi and I = 46,000 in4. (Reference11, Example 6.7) 60 kips 40 kips A D

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

engi-neering curricula. Major established methods for determining deflections of beams, as taught insuch a course, may include the following: 1-6 (a) Method of double integration (with or without the use of singularity functions), (b) Method of superposition, (c) Method using moment-area theorems, (d) Method using Castigliano’s theorem, and (e) Conjugate beam method.The conjugate beam method was first derived, defined, and propounded for determining de-flections of beams in 1921 by Westergaard.1 It may well be called a “Westergaard method.”Readers interested in the development of this method are advised to refer to the original paper byWestergaard.1 Additionally, note that this method is one of the established

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Angie Crist; Russ Newcomer; Michael Propst; Pedro Leite

. IntroductionAccording to Constructivist views1,2, (a) students have a predisposition toward learning; (b)instruction should be structured in a way that students can easily grasp it; (c) instruction shouldbe designed to fill in the gaps; and (d) instruction should be designed to take advantage ofstudents’ experiences and previous knowledge.In another paradigm proposed by Papert3, called Constructionism, stated that "students will dobest by finding and/or constructing knowledge by themselves." Also, students should be giventhe resources and the power to draw on past experiences and knowledge in order to "build newknowledge." From Papert’s point of view, Constructionism is a shift from instruction toconstruction, from "in the head" to "in the world