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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

MATLAB commands are: a) Blocks Reduction Commands; b) Time-History Commands; c) Frequency Domain Plots-Creation Commands; d) Second Order Control Design Command; e) Other Control Related Commands.In this paper, to save paper space, the MATLAB output figures are not shown. These canbe obtained easily by the reader or the student on a computer.Blocks Reduction CommandsThese commands are: 1) Series Command: 2) Feedback Command 3) Parallel CommandThe ‘series’ command allows two or four blocks in series to be combined into a singleblock. The ‘feedback’ command reduces a closed loop of an open block with a feedbackblock into a single open block. The ‘parallel’ command allows two or four blocks inparallel to be combined into a single

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations betweenSpring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi StudentResearch Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004. Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent posterpresentation.[4] N. Cook, P.E. Tissot and J. Mott, ”ANN Forecasting of Indicator Bacteria Counts in Corpus Christi Bay”,presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004.Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent poster presentation.[5] M.H. Willingham, C. Smith, B. A. Dolan and P.E. Tissot, “Evaluation of the Surface Transport of NORM fromFormer Uranium Mines Through Sediment Core

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

solutions described in this paper and inthe Appendix.The evaluation data was collected in two stages during each course. During the first day of class,the students were split evenly into two groups, A and B. Group A was given the “Where AreYou?” problem and Group B was given “The Jumping Problem.” Towards the end of class, afterbeing taught several of the problem-solving methods and being involved in various activities,these questions were given again. However, Group A was given “The Jumping Problem” andGroup B was given the “Where Are You?” problem.During both evaluation periods, the students worked individually, and were told to generate asmany ideas as they could. They were not told to use any specific method for generating theirides. It was

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang; Linda Head

10.239.2student body in gender inclusion is much more drastic. (a) (b)Fig. 1 (a) Percentage of B.S. degrees awarded to women by discipline in 2001-2002 and (b) Percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women by discipline in 2001-2002 100% 90% Electrical and Computer 80% Chemical 70% Civil and Environmental 60% Mechanical 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Fall 2001 Fall 2002

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

June 2005 ASEE Conference Entrepreneurship Division #54 Integr ation of Lehigh’s Entr epr eneur ship Minor into the Under gr aduate Engineer ing Cur r iculaJohn B. Ochs, Professor and Director of the IPD Program, Lehigh UniversityTodd A. Watkins, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Lehigh UniversityGraham R. Mitchell, Professor of Practice, College of Business and EconomicsAbstr actEntrepreneurship education at Lehigh University has been recently enhanced bysubstantial institutional investments in new academic programs, the development of acampus center for student entrepreneurs, and through several grants from federal, stateand private organizations. One

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

More than Science Fair Fun: Poster Session as an Experiential Learning Activity in the Classroom Mary B. Vollaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Western New England College, Springfield, MA 01119Poster sessions are a common activity at technical conferences, offering authors an opportunityto present their work in this medium and easily establish a dialogue with their colleagues.Students entering college often have a perception that ‘posters’ were an activity they left behindat the junior- high or high school science fair. This experiential learning activity re-introducesposters and the poster session as an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”education. The survey was conducted near the end of the Fall semester, 2004, and consisted of atotal 24 questions, in which the majority of the questions are directly related to various aspects ofDBT concept. Table 1 lists the survey questions. Students from four classes in the area ofThermal/Fluid areas were asked to response to the questions by selecting various answers.Questions 1 to 7 calls for specific answers. For Question 7, the following choices were given: (a) (b

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael R. Sexton; Mehmet Sozen

products y lb-mole/s O2 Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the combustion chamber.Development of Mathematical ModelThe chemistry mechanism used in both approaches consists of the following set of reversiblereactions 2H 2 + O2 l 2 H 2 O H 2 l 2H O2 l 2O 2 H 2 O l H 2 + 2OHFor the stoichiometric case, the changes in each species in the form of fractions a , b , c , and dwere expressed by Sözen and Majumdar [1] as 2 H 2 + O2 l 2H 2O − 2a −a + 2a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Martini

, labeled A and B respectively. The situation is described tothe class: one of the force systems is in equilibrium and the other is not, first determine which isnot in equilibrium, and then describe how that one will move. Students are asked to group intopairs and develop and answer, according to well-known active learning techniques5. The answercan be found simply by counting grid squares of force components vertically and horizontally foreach system. After students have discussed and explained their answers, the simulation is run,showing that particle A accelerates to the left, as predicted by the square-counting calculation.The discussion then turns to the question of how the force system acting on particle A can bemodified to put it in

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

breaking each instruction into a series of sub-steps. Each sub-step would be executed in a single clock cycle. An instruction would now require multiple clockcycles to complete, but each clock cycle involves less work, so the clock cycle can be shorter. Inthis way, simple instructions can complete in only a few (relatively short) clock cycles, whilecomplex instructions can take many clock cycles to complete.The following is a 5-cycle implementation based on the MIPS architecture as presented byPatterson and Hennessy2. a. Instruction Fetch b. Instruction Decode and Register Fetch c. Arithmetic Computation d. Memory Read or Write e. Register Write

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

a Freshman Level Computing Course (a) Consistent general look/interface for the presented documents on WebCT regardless of the software used in creating the original files. (b) Convenient and easy to use navigational buttons that enable the students to browse through the presented material with more ease in a variety of forms. (c) Convenient and easy to use zooming tool for the viewers enabling them to clearly see the finer details in the presented documents. Page 10.209.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga

insulation materials.It allows you to measure R-values of unknown insulation materials. One wall of the trainer has aremovable fame (Figure 1(b)) that can be used to measure heat transfer properties of an unknownmaterial. This area is also useful to evaluate new insulation materials that come to the market.Layers of insulation can be packed in to the frame to add insulation properties. See throughwindow on the top is covered with a fiberglass material. Heat transfer properties of windowcovering material can be studied by placing them on this window. To obtain accurate heat flowmeasurement through an insulation material, there should be at least 20oF temperature differencebetween the two surfaces of the material. A 200W light bulb is placed inside

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

positionto measure and assess the merit of what their students are learning. But inflated grades are tooblunt an instrument for this purpose because of their poor resolution (they’re limited to mostlyjust two grades: A and B, neither of which used to mean “average”).But even more important are fundamental social questions related to grade inflation’s impact oncredibility, accountability, responsibility and, last but not least, ethics.42 For example, does gradeinflation set a good example of candid evaluation of academic and professional performance forour students to follow and is engineering practice, and for that matter society itself, best servedby it?Be that as it may, there should still be interest in learning more about grade inflation, even

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

increasing number of states which have acontinuing education requirement for professional engineering (P.E.) license renewal, rapidadvances in technology, and the need to maintain professional competence.University Non-Degree and Certificate ProgramsIn addition to degree programs, many universities offer non-degree and certificate programs thatinclude a large number of courses that would be relevant to attainment of the BOK through theMOE (also called the bachelors plus 30 hours, or the B+30 path). Some of these programs areoffered by departments in which ABET accredited programs exist. Others are offered bydepartments which do not have an association with ABET or with engineering. For example, theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison3 offers more than

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2-3(a) Figure 2-3(b)Figure 2-3. pSPICE construct and performance analysis results for 1/CJ2 outputThe pSPICE goal function (under the Performance Analysis menu) is of the form YatX( IMG(I(D1)/V(VD1))/(2*pi*frequency),1kHz )and this construct, as indicated by the trace specification of figure 2-3b is used to emulate equation(2-3). The value of slope of 1/CJ2 at any point along the trace can be extracted. One such point isindicated by the cursor window and gives value 22.79 x 1021(1/VxF2), for which, using equation(2-4) identifies a doping concentration of: N(doping) = 2/[(1.602x10-19)*(1.05x10-12)*(22.79x1021)*10-8] = 5.22

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

Page 10.1006.7 a. Select “Static IP” and enter the necessary values (in this case, 144.4.4.4 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education b. Hit Apply at the bottom of the page ii. System • Tunneling Protocols a. IPSec i. Enter remote server address: (in this case it is 155.5.5.5) ii. Enter Group and User usernames and passwords (pre-shared keys) 1. Group username

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

learningstyles12. This model categorizes people into four learning styles that relate to how they deal withideas and daily situations. While industry tends to desire a more balanced learning preferencecurve that is typically found in engineering freshmen (Figure 1.a.), the traditional engineeringcurriculum often tends to support students with a stronger preference for active experimentation(Figure 1.b.). As a result, students with a stronger preference for reflective observation tend tobe discouraged from continuing in an engineering curriculum. (a) For Engineering Freshmen (b) For Graduating Seniors Figure 1. Average Learning Preference Curves for Engineering Freshmen and

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Schurmann; C. Stewart Slater

). Pervaporation Process The effectiveness of pervaporation is Either Permeate of Retentate is desired product depending on applicationmeasured by two parameters, flux and Membrane Moduleselectivity. Consider a binary mixture of Feed (L) Retentate (L)components A and B. The flux is the rate of • • • • • •• ••permeation per membrane area and can be

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Reese

Embedded System Emphasis in an Introductory Microprocessor Course Robert B. Reese Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Mississippi State University reese@ece.msstate.eduAbstractIn Fall 2003 within the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at MississippiState University, the introductory microprocessors course was shifted from a traditionalapproach using X86 assembly language and a software-only lab to a microcontrolleremphasis using the PIC18F242 with a mixed software/hardware-based lab experience.This was done to better prepare our computer engineering

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographyAngelo, Thomas, A. and K. Patricia Cross. (1993) Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for CollegeTeachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Bloom, B. S. (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives, Longman, New York.Estes, A.C., Welch, R.W., and Ressler, S.J., (2004) “Questioning: Bringing Your Students Along on the Journey”Teaching Lessons Learned. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE 130 (4),October, pp. 237-242.ETW (2004a) ExcEEd Teaching Workshop, Seminar V, Organizing a Class II -- Planning a Class, United StatesMilitary Academy, 25-30 July, American Society

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Kidd; P. Paxton Marshall

. The eleven skills specified by ABET in criterion three, together with the designrequirement of criterion four, emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of 21st centuryengineering. Engineering graduates must be able to demonstrate competence intraditional engineering-related tasks such as: a) apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering, b) design and conduct experiments as well as analyze and interpret data, c) design a system, component or process to meet desired needs, d) identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, and Page 10.2.2 k) use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

Shopping Cart A 3 The 3 phases are each addressed in Positive: This is done well here the appropriate order (will always be +3 pts total: clearly states that plan is "logical" or that each task correct on sample, and should be flows from one to next mentioned). +1.5 pts total: vaguely states that plan is "well organized" B Depends The 8 steps are each addressed in N/A on how the appropriate order (will not be many correct on some questions, this problems should only be mentioned for incorrect

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kemi Ladeji-Osias

: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation [Bloom, 1956]. This taxonomy can be used to determine that students are tested at different levels and are encouraged to develop higher lever skills such as synthesis and evaluation. For example, a student may be expected to a. define Ohm’s law b. explain Ohm’s law c. apply Ohm’s law to different resistors in a circuit d. analyze a circuit using Ohm’s law e. design a circuit for a specific purpose using Ohm’s law f. assess the accuracy of a previously analyzed circuit Each of these tasks requires the students to function at different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. McBeath Action verbs are a list of related

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Beckett; Thomas Marrero

B S.E. Wald Df Sig. Exp(B) Step 1(a) FIG(1) -.673 .346 3.780 1 .052 .510 ACTCOMP .168 .038 19.042 1 .000 1.182 HSrank .013 .005 6.777 1 .009 1.013 Constant -3.260 1.109 8.638 1 .003 .038a Variable(s) entered on step 1: FIG, ACTCOMP, HSrank.Academic success of first-year studentsUsing the same sample, a one-way ANOVA was used to compare first semester mean gradepoint averages (GPA) between

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

problem states: Design an “Identichron” with the minimal numberof digital logic components. This is an access code lock with a 4-bit input code, a 7-segmentdisplay, and two LEDs (Enter and Alarm). The input code bits are labeled W:X:Y:Z respectively.The 7-segment display segments are labeled a = top, b = upper-right, c = lower-right, d = lower-left, e = bottom, f = upper-left, and g = middle. The truth table (Table 2) is the following: Person Status Code 7-segment display Enter LED Alarm LED Craig President 0101 ‘C’ = a,d,e,f On Off Frank Fired 1101 ‘F’ = a,d,f,g Off On Don Vice President 0111 ‘D’ = a,b,c

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan De Vries; Gillian Saunders-Smits

displacements transducers Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEach box consists of 5 bays, each separated with an aluminum rib, with a cutout in the secondbay from the tip. The box is clamped at the end of bay 5. The box is 1500 mm long, 400 mmwide and 150 mm high. The ribs are spaced 300 mm apart. An L-profile stiffener with a heightand width of 20 mm and a thickness of 1.5 mm reinforces each of the longitudinal corners. Thebox was put together using pop-rivets. The aluminum used was 2024-T6. Appendix B shows theengineering drawing.Loading is introduced at the tip of bay 1 by hoisting the tip of

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine

upper level classmates who missed the sweeping changes brought about by the vacuumcleaner presentations.Bibliography1. Williams, B., Blowers, P., & Goldberg, J. (2004). Integrating Information Literacy Skills into Engineering Courses to Produce Lifelong Learners, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.2. Nerz, H.F., Weiner, S.T. (2001). Information Competencies: A Strategic Approach, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.3. Arnold, J., Kackley, R., & Fortune, S. (2003). “Hands-on Learning for Freshman Engineering Students”, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 37. [Online] Available: http

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

+ (10 + ) S 2 + (5 A2 + ) S + 20 + 2 A1 A2 R R RIII. Response Specifications The system response will be required to meet certain design criteria. The tank height is 0.55 m so the maximum overshoot will be 10%. Otherwise the fluid level will exceed the tank limitations when the setpoint Nc is set to 0.5. The settling time will be set at 4 seconds. For a third order system, the following is the characteristic equation. ( S + A)( S 2 + BS + C ) = S 3 + ( A + B) S 2 + ( AB + C ) S + AC = 0 (11) where: A is a pole on the real axis, B = 2ζω n1 andC = ω n 2 ζ is the damping ration and ω n is the undamped natural frequency of the system. The percent overshoot is calculated

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

-99.10 C. Chandler, “Mentoring and Women in Academia: Reevaluating the Traditional Model,” NWSA Journal, 8(3),1996, 79-100.11 B. E. Marino & S. A. Yost, “Optimizing Mentor/Mentee Relationships in Academia,” Proc. of the 1998 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition.12 B. W. Packard, L. Walsh, & S. Seidenberg, “Will that be one mentor or two? A cross-sectional study of women’smentoring during college,” Mentoring and Tutoring, 12(1), 2004, 71-85.13 T. S. Harding, “Training Graduate Student Instructors Effectively: The University of Michigan Model,” Proc. ofthe 1999 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.14 J. Sprague & J. D. Nyquist, “TA Supervision,” Teaching Assistant Training in the 1990s, Nyquist et al., eds, SanFrancisco

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton

Shared KnowledgeArea,” or ALASKA. ALASKA represents more than a system that aggregates features of agent,applet, and collaboration technologies. Our conjecture is that each of these three will exert acatalytic effect on the other two and help to produce a new kind of distributed andheterogeneous network infrastructure for learning settings: one that possesses not onlytechnological power and sophistication but elegant and appealing symmetries consistent withresearch in learning and teaching.This new project has three goals. They are to a) build the integrated ALASKA platform; b)refine, test and use a replicable process for embedding domain expertise in it; and c) test thenetwork under classroom conditions in order to investigate research