Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

Tech II 4 ------- Liberal Arts: Core 4 0618-303 Microcomputers 4 0609-203 Electronics I 4 1017-211 College Physics I 3 1017-271 College Physics I Laboratory 1 ------- Liberal Arts: Core 4 0618-339 Microcontrollers 4 0609-361

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

testing in the laboratory to verify the validity of the predictions as well as requirementscompliance.The second phase takes the Phase 1 manual design as an input and improves the solution viadesign optimization. In effect, the earlier manual solution is used as an initial condition for thedesign optimization step. This is what ties Phases 1 and 2 together. The students conduct designoptimization using either commercial or faculty-provided software. The optimum solutionobtained is modeled as a CAD model, and again computer numerically controlled (CNC)equipment is used to fabricate the improved component. The optimized component is comparedwith the hand-designed one, and conclusions are drawn.The course concludes with student presentations

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

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Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

wireless networking. Also required are hands-on laboratories that can beused by students for programming, development, and configuration of networks usingdifferent operating systems and hardware configurations. Similar programs, in Indianaand nationwide, are compared and contrasted. Also discussed are national, regional, andstate demand and employment factors that provided justification for the new degree.BackgroundIndiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne1 (IPFW) offers over 175 degree programs, islocated in the 2nd largest city, and is the 5th largest university in Indiana. The newBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology (CPET) degree, which wasapproved by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education in October 2003, has aninitial

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

were 37 students enrolled in the on-campussection of the course and 5 students enrolled in the online section.The course delivery method for the on-campus section consists of four 50-minute lectures eachweek for ten weeks and includes weekly homework assignments carried out in groups of fourstudents. Each student is required to complete every assignment individually before meeting withtheir group to decide on the best solution that will be submitted. To enable students acquire somehands-on learning experience, a group structural analysis laboratory project using the ANEXsmall-scale laboratory is also assigned. The main text used in the course is a 230-page set ofconcise and practice-oriented course notes developed by the author. This is

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

traditional classroom settingwith classes held everyday at sea, it is the various ports of call that provide the “laboratories”(field component) from which approximately 20% of the credit earned for a course is fulfilled.The integration of classroom and international fieldwork enables Semester at Sea to provide alearning environment unattainable on a traditional land campus. The challenge to engineeringeducation is to find a way to make this laboratory experience valuable and relevant to thecoursework.The authors responded to this challenge by organizing a program directed at engineering andbusiness students interested in manufacturing and operations management issues. From anengineering perspective, the idea would be to adapt “land-based” ABET

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

tabulation of simple multiple-choice data, to that which includes equations, graphs, and short answers. Furthermore, wecombine this technology with technological innovations in the content enhancement category,perhaps best illustrated by the development of applets. The number of available applets continuesto increase while the conceptual level is diverse, typically covering high school to advancedundergraduate courses in science and engineering. These content-rich applets are appropriate inboth the laboratory and classroom settings.This combination of student-directed content enhancement and real-time feedback allows moremeaningful active learning and a novel, sophisticated level of classroom communication.Instructors receive real-time feedback to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. Some fundamental topics in introductory circuit analysis: a critique;Davis, A.M.; Education, IEEE Transactions on , Volume: 43 , Issue: 3 , Aug. 2000Pages:330 3352. A new design-oriented laboratory for the introductory circuits core course at Penn StateUniversity; Mayer, T.S.; Medunick, J.R.; Chunyu Zhang; Jackson, T.N.; Frontiers in EducationConference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. 'Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change'.Proceedings. , Volume: 1 , 5-8 Nov. 1997 Pages:506 - 510 vol.13. Laboratories for introductory circuits and electronics; Takach, M.D.; Heeren, R.G.; Frontiersin Education Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 , Volume: 2 , 1-4 Nov. 1995 Pages

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

. Facilities include classrooms, computer laboratories, faculty and staff offices,and dormitory facilities for students. ECE laboratory facilities are provided by FudanUniversity. IIIST currently enrolls about 200 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors inComputer Science (CS) and about 70 ECE freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Theundergraduate students at IIIST are primarily full-time students, who are recruited directlyfrom high school.PSUPortland State University has its roots in the G.I. Bill, and has since developed into avibrant urban university, with a mission of service to the city. In recent years PSU hasbecome the largest university in Oregon. The University has been nationally recognizedfor its innovative undergraduate curriculum

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

different backgrounds, different technical skills and different capabilities will havesome input to its formulation, from management to engineering to manufacturing. Thus, it onlymakes sense that this interdisciplinary viewpoint percolate down to the activities of academia.To understand our perspective, one must have some idea of the environment in which ouractivities are embedded. As a small, regional site of Purdue University, resources, whether theybe financial, personnel or laboratory-related, are limited. Since access to resources constrains thetypes of projects that can be undertaken, the resource limitations of the site constrain the types ofprojects that can be addressed. Probably the most important constraint that limits our activities

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent’s preparation for future engineering practice. The course format is a three-hour lecturewith one-hour laboratory/recitation. The laboratory/recitation hour is limited to a smallenrollment (25) that allows student/instructor interaction in problem-solving techniques. Thetotal enrollment ranges between 250 and 275 students in Fall semester and 120-150 students inSpring semester. The enrollment during the summer session is around 50 students.The first part of the course is used to advise students in proper course selection and preparestudents for college life. Students are introduced to basic tools of survival in engineeringprograms. Topics include study skills, time management

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

Society for Engineering Education”in the form of live discussions, chat, or through whiteboard applications has been introduced insome cases, which however require that the instructor or fellow students remain online. Webbased interactive laboratory experiments have also been developed for electrical circuits,electronics, fluid mechanics, and control systems courses.The primary focus of this paper is the development of an interactive tutoring system that hassome level of intelligence as a human tutor. A human tutor will try to determine whatdeficiencies a student might have, will keep track of when the student stumbles in solving aproblem, and will suggest additional support material for review. In addition, the tutor is alsolikely to coordinate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

April 14, 2004. For further information prospective proposers are encouraged to visithttp://www.ehr.nsf.gov/due/programs/nsdl/.Implications for engineering educationNSDL will differ from the physical library in at least three ways. First, the variety of contentitself (most of it “born digital”) will be far greater in NSDL than in the physical world, e.g.virtual laboratory modules, simulations or animations, and multimedia in general. Second, theinteractions the user can have with material are far richer. For example, the ability to executerapid searches across multiple collections; or the ability to pull disparate smaller grainedresources from different collections and assemble them to create something new, which can thenbe contributed back to

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis

New Intake Nozzle Transition Nozzle Figure 12 Mass Airflow Measurement System Installed on the Jet EngineWe use two different mass airflow transducers. The most accurate transducer is aresearch grade device manufactured by Sierra Technologies. This system is used as theairflow measurement standard in our laboratories due to its extremely stable calibration.Unfortunately, this unit is also quite heavy, which hurts our ability to measure the jetengine thrust since the unit must be hung with the jet engine. Further, this system is alsoquite expensive; thus making it difficult for general use. To minimize cost and to protectour calibration standard, we are currently using automotive mass airflow

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

of the designengineering team leader on each team, 3) testing the individual prototype designs – a function ofthe test engineering team members, 4) tracking costs of development and production usingMicrosoft Excel – a function of the cost engineering team members, and 5) setting the projectplan using Microsoft Project – a responsibility of the project manager. Once the aircraft had beenflown in competition on Tuesday of week three, the teams returned to the classroom and to thecomputer laboratories in order to compile a final report and presentation to be delivered duringthe final awards ceremony on the final day of the program, Thursday of the third week. Sincethe GEAR-UP program also emphasized parental involvement, assuring a better

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

side engineers in their research laboratories to get a clear idea of whatengineers do. The teachers, in addition to strengthening their math and science backgrounds, thenwould serve as spokespersons for engineering in their respective classrooms. During the fiveyears that this program was in operation a total of 67 teachers from throughout the United Statesparticipated. Of the approximately 100 engineering faculty at WSU 19 served as mentors (somemultiple times) during the teacher’s stay. After gaining some experience with this activity we settled upon the following procedurefor conducting the program. Advertisements for the program were disseminated in variouspublications from state and national science teacher’s organizations. The

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

Session 2666 Scenario-Based Learning Approach in Teaching Statics Jawaharlal Mariappan, Angela Shih, Peter G Schrader California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper describes the initiatives currently underway at Cal Poly, Pomona to develop andimplement a scenario-based learning approach to teach major concepts in statics. Statics isgenerally the first engineering course taken by most engineering students. The course is typicallytaught in lecture format, although several schools have been adopting a laboratory component.Statics is a prerequisite for many courses and

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Session 2620 Computing and Programming with LabVIEW Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach in teaching various computing and programming principles toengineering students utilizing the LabVIEW software is discussed. LabVIEW, acronym for“Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench”, is a powerful and robust graphicalprogramming language developed by National Instruments, Inc. for use in various engineering andscientific related fields. At the present time, this software tool is mainly utilized in

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

: Boston, 2002. K. Barker, “Mentor to All?,” At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002. C.I. Davidson and S.A. Ambrose, “Chapter 7: Supervising Graduate Research,” The New Page 8.643.4 Professor’s Handbook, Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA, 1994. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThird, new assistant professors should encourage their students to find more than one mentor(Tip #7). No one person can fill all the

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

forthese items are shown in Figure 1, where the bars represent mean values and the lines representone standard deviation in responses. In all cases, the mean response increased over time. Thisincrease was statistically significant for all items except item 7, as measured by the application ofStudent’s t-test with a 99% confidence level. The results suggest that the fellows’ abilities toteach using laboratories, activities, investigations and computer technology was improved thoughthe GK-12 program.Fall Fellow Focus Group ResultsAt the three-month focus group, Fellows were asked how EDTE 710 and how being in theelementary classroom helped them develop their teaching and communication skills. All of theFellows agreed that transferring information

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

can be replicated on other campuses that have staff with a desire to promote genderequity in technical training to teach the CAD modeling, available room and board on campus, asuitable computer laboratory, an established summer recreation program, and an organization tohandle administrative tasks.CAD CampThe CAD Camp was available to campers entering grades nine through twelve, and the span ofthe age group was represented at each camp. The first group of campers arrived on the afternoonof Sunday, July 22, 2002 and left on the afternoon of Friday, July 26. The second camp was heldthe following week, from July 28 to August 2. Upon arrival, resident campers met the staff andtheir counselors, were issued meal cards with daily spending limits to

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

Engineering Education”speakers, field trips, hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits1[9]. Specifically, the program will involve attracting 11th grade students to attend one oftwo two-week Science and Technology workshops. The workshops are designed tointroduce students to job opportunities in the food industry and agriculture, expose themto college life, involve them in hands-on activities, and encourage them to major inscience and engineering technology. Students will be recruited to participate in a follow-up Science and Technology Exhibit to be conducted during National Engineer’s Week inFebruary of each year. This program is unique in that it involves high school students inthe 11 th grade. These students are ready to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

results in English; • Make accurate scientific observations and measurements in cooperative laboratory projects and record observations and results in English; • Apply scientific concepts and principles to make predictions and solve simple problems concerning real-life physical, chemical, and geologic systems; • Complete an independent investigation involving literature and web-based research, data acquisition, and interpretation Math curriculum • Compare and contrast solutions to both linear and non linear equations numerically, graphically and symbolically; • Communicate mathematical ideas verbally, symbolically and graphically; • Demonstrate autonomous learning skills

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

-section test rods with diameters of 3.18, 6.35, 9.53, and 12.7 mm were used to developsuch a correlation equation. This correlation will be supplied to the students to be used in thedesign of a fin attachment using the Design-Build-Test approach.I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a very important subject and has long been an essential part of mechanicalengineering curricula all over the world. Heat transfer is encountered in a wide variety ofengineering applications where heating and cooling is required. Heat transfer plays an importantrole in the design of many devices, such as spacecrafts, radiators, heating and air conditioningsystems, refrigerators, power plants, and others.Traditional undergraduate heat transfer laboratories in mechanical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watson; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

the schoolof Engineering and Mines (SEM) at the University of North Dakota established a distanceeducation program to deliver Bachelor of Science engineering degrees to employees ofparticipating companies. This program was known as the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram and has recently expanded into open enrollments and renamed the Distance EngineeringDegree Program (DEDP). Currently the DEDP offers the only ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs at a distance.The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static Internet Web pages ofhandouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance student receives the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

to statisticsinstructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin a collaborationamong statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; and provideengineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply their statisticalskills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering students. Having seen theconcepts and experiments already, the modules will actively engage students in applying

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

. Page 8.325.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Ohio State’s College of Engineering sought to team with an urban high school where substantialnumbers of students would have the mathematics background necessary to be successful inIntroduction to Engineering and an industry partner that could help to mentor the students andprovide the materials to equip an engineering laboratory. Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati,Ohio, and General Electric, which operates an Aircraft Engines plant in the Cincinnati area, joinedwith Ohio State to prepare and pilot the high school Introduction to Engineering course.In 2001

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lynn

to the changing, technologically enhanced world ofeducational institutions are pursued to extend the education toady. Some of engineering and technology courses and laboratory work will need Page 8.442.4to be developed in partnership with several Today’s students are demanding a change toinstitutions and/or with industry partners to provide traditional educational delivery methods, and wethe hands-on training and processing necessary. must respond. The time for action is now, and evenThese are not concepts of the future, but are actual with the

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology program at Arizona State University. The first project started with a valve bodyproduced by Allied Signal Aerospace (now Honeywell). Blueprints and mentors from AlliedSignal provided the industry-based aspects of the course. The MECO students producedindustrial quality drawings, removing the Allied Signal name and modifying materials and parttolerances to meet the ASU laboratory capabilities. Then the MECO students created molds andcast 20 parts for machining. Other classes wrote the process plans (routing), designed and builtfixtures, and machined the final parts on a CNC-machining center. Furthermore, inspection andcontrol charts were developed on a Mitutoyo Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and qualityassurance