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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Aldrich; Michael Webber; Scott Dunning

Session 3447 The Holden Elementary School Autonomous Vehicle (HESAV) By Scott C. Dunning, Ph.D., Charles Aldrich and Michael Webber University of MaineAbstract One challenge that must be met for a successful capstone design course is to select aproject that excites a student team while solving a real world problem. This paper will discussthe results of a senior design project that met both of those criteria. The project objective was todesign and build a fully autonomous vehicle for use by physically challenged children at theHolden Elementary

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

Session 3547 Transparent Anatomical Mannequin Upgrade Elaine M. Cooney, Kenneth Reid Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroductionThe Ruth Lily Health Education Center has had TAM1 (Transparent Anatomical Mannequin)since the mid-1980’s. She is a life size model of an adult female with clear plastic “skin” andorgans that light up. She is used to teach pre-school, elementary and middle school childrenabout health and fitness. For instance, each year hundreds of fifth graders come to the

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 2661 Four Reasons for Including an Ethics Component in Engineering Classes Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyABET Criterion 3 requires that engineering programs pay some attention to ethics andprofessionalism. For already jam-packed curricula, however, simply adding a required ethicscourse might not be feasible.This paper examines several reasons encouraging instructors to consider an ethics across thecurriculum approach in lieu of a stand-alone course. These include acquainting students withprofessional expectations, fostering an awareness of ethics in the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sivakum Venkatanarayanan; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

AC 2003-1050: HIGH-TECH EQUIPMENT SIMULATIONJohn Robertson, Arizona State UniversityLakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State UniversitySivakum Venkatanarayanan, Page 8.634.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2003 Session #1447 High-tech equipment simulation John Robertson, Sivakumar Venkatanarayanan College of Technology & Applied Sciences Arizona State University 7001 E Williams Field Rd, Mesa, AZ 85212AbstractTools used to fabricate integrated circuits have now reached a level of cost

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

3648AN AIR-FILTER SENSOR FOR HOME-USED AIR CONDITIONERS Cheng Y. Lin, Gary R. Crossman, Alok K. Verma Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, VirginiaAbstract This paper presents a successful senior project of instrumentation developed in aMechanical Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Students were encouraged toapproach the problem of designing an air-filter sensor and to propose an optimum

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patrick Dunfey; Julie Salisbury; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

Session 2355 Applying K-8 Engineering Education to Graduate Student Studies Patrick Dunfey, Brian Gravel, Erik Rushton, Julie Salisbury Tufts University Center for Engineering Educational OutreachIntroductionThe typical graduate student experience includes a research or teaching assistant position at somepoint throughout the course of study. Traditional positions such as these are focused on graduatelevel class work and research. Alternative experiences, such as elementary and middle schoollevel engineering

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

Session 3430Development of an Independent Learning Environment for Operating Systems in Information Technology Aron N. Barabas, Stephen R. Renshaw, C. Richard G. Helps Information Technology, Brigham Young UniversityAbstractThere is a great need for students to keep abreast with the constant evolution of technology inInformation Technology (IT). In order to succeed, students need to develop learning strategies tomaster new technology. In order to ensure that students are well-grounded for life-long technicalcareers, schools must teach technical foundation courses. Since time-to-graduate is

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barbara Christie

Session 1170 Working with Community Organizations to Improve the Pipeline of Minorities in Engineering Barbara A. Christie Manager of the Program for the Retention of Engineering and Science Students Loyola Marymount University, Los AngelesAbstractThe Program for the Retention of Engineering and Science Students (PRESS) is designed toimprove the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities and women in the Collegeof Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University

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Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1601Why Aren’t There More Women in Engineering: Can We Really Do Anything? Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractEngineering has always included women; however, engineering has never included very manywomen. Some basic reasons are explored on why women do or do not choose engineering, whythey leave engineering, and why the number of women in engineering is not increasing as rapidlyas the numbers of women in medicine and law. These topics include: the lack of engineeringcurriculum in K-12, the lack of a positive public image of

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane DiMassa

that involved manufacturing and prototype testing. Differentaspects of the design process are emphasized by the different styles of project, and all metwith success. Several projects were performed in collaboration with other Departments atUMD or with local institutions that work in the oceanographic field. Neither students norfaculty advisors were assigned specific projects, yet nearly one third of the capstonedesign projects completed in the last three years have had an ocean or marine emphasis.Introduction Mechanical Engineering students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth(UMD) are required to take a capstone design course in their senior year. Until fall 2002,this 4-credit course was offered during the spring semester only

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Melissa Pickering; Chris Rogers

hard to learn newconcepts at the same time as they are implementing projects and teachings to address theframeworks in their settings. STOMP students, engineering undergraduate and graduatestudents, serve as a support mechanism for these educators by helping students with hands-onprojects, resolving technical issues with equipment, answering engineering questions, doingresearch on topics, and helping to brainstorm activities. The program has been very successful infacilitating engineering education in 10 local classrooms in grades K-9. STOMP student –teacher partnerships have resulted in some fabulous new curriculum units including a 4th gradeunit entitled “Egyptians as Engineers” and a middle school unit entitled “Make your own CD –Learning

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

Session 3447 Capstone Projects that are Industry Sponsored, Interdisciplinary, and Include both Design and Build Tasks David Myszka University of DaytonAbstractOver the past decade, a great deal of attention has been placed on capstone designprojects in engineering technology. This has come as a result of criticisms of educationinstitutions for not meeting the needs of industry. To that end, nearly all institutions haveadopted a capstone experience. Many have instituted projects that include both design andfabrication. Some have utilized industry-sponsored projects

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

entrepreneurship,information technology management, intellectual property protection, organizationaldevelopment, negotiation and conflict management, internet law, and internet marketing.Experiential learning opportunities include internships for credit, a business plan competition, astudent-managed investment portfolio, a student business society, a Wall Street trip (includingresume critiques and mock interviews), and an intersession course with alumni entrepreneurspeakers. Currently in its sixth year, the program has had many successes and encounteredsubstantial obstacles and setbacks. This article describes the difficulties of starting anentrepreneurship program in a mathematics department at a university which does not have abusiness school, and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Hess

Session 2233 Expected Future Technology Direction for Small Electric Generator Sets Herbert L. Hess University of Idaho Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Moscow, IdahoAbstractA summary of a recent study into the future of small, portable electric generation technologies.The changing character of the load is identified and a set of basic principles for design andanalysis are developed. A number of candidate technologies are considered and evaluated

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Yau

Session ______ Presenting Basic Web Technology to Undergraduate Students through the Creation of Student Web Sites Tom Wulf College of Applied Science, University of CincinnatiAbstract:A one-quarter, undergraduate course in Web technology is described in which InformationTechnology students learn XHMTL, CSS, HTTP basics, Web site design, and implementation.Students re-enforce their knowledge of this material through a series of assignments in which theyincrementally create personal Web sites. The Web sites created by the students persist after thecourse and this

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

Session 1380 An Accredited Engineering Degree Program with Flexibility Designed for Student-Centered Learning Sheryl A. Sorby College of Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MichiganAbstractThe Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) program at Michigan Tech has been around sincethe early 70s. We have recently restructured our BSE program to allow students flexibility in pur-suing their interests outside of engineering. We also think that this new

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Megan Rothney; Robert Roselli

of someassistance, the ability to practice in a positive environment that provides immediate feedbackcould be significantly more instructive. Online tutorials provide an out-of-class mechanism forstudents to learn key concepts. If tutorials are well crafted they will help students to learn fromthe mistakes that they make. The vector remediation module is designed to assist students in theprocess of adding two vectors in the context of a biomechanics problem. The CoursewareAuthoring and Packaging Environment1 software (CAPE) supplies a diagnostic correctionmechanism that identifies common student errors and provides specific feedback based on thetype of mistake encountered. Each student is given three chances to answer the question

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

Session 3592 DECONSTRUCTING ENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAMS (DEEP) Ilene Busch-Vishniac, Jeffrey P. Jarosz Johns Hopkins UniversityThe shortage of women in the engineering workforce has been a persistent problem in spite ofsignificant efforts over decades to improve the situation. While the number of women increasedas a result of the various focused efforts, the profession is no longer seeing improvements. Thereis even evidence that the percentage of women in engineering student bodies is backsliding ratherthan improving. This has led many to question

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell

at Austin Austin, TX 78712 christym@mail.utexas.edu1 IntroductionIncreasingly, engineering educators recognize the pedagogical value of student projects.Although exams, class exercises, and homework can effectively measure a student’s mastery offacts and formulas, these sorts of assessment tools do not encourage students to develop theiranalytical capabilities, nor do they measure a student’s ability to understand and apply what heor she has learned. Projects, in contrast, allow educators to emphasize, “the important role thatexperience plays in the learning process” (Kolb1). In an endeavor to foster projects in ourclasses, the Mechanical Engineering Department at UT

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Session 3549 Digital Oscilloscopes: Powerful Tools for EET Laboratories Walter Banzhaf, P.E. Ward College of Technology, University of HartfordIntroductionThe digital oscilloscope has gained in popularity as the laboratory measurement tool of choice inEET laboratories, and much has been written about integrating its use into existing courses.1,2This paper will present some innovative ways to use a digital oscilloscope that have proven to beeasily accomplished and highly useful in baccalaureate undergraduate EET courses, from firstyear through fourth year.Digital oscilloscopes are

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Spinelli

methods to model and simulate systems and to specify arbitrary input functions.This paper describes a toolbox of MATLAB functions, called the “Signals and SystemsToolbox” that can automatically apply a specified input to a physical system using anarbitrary waveform generator and then use a programmable oscilloscope to measure theresulting output. A comparison of the simulated versus actual response of the system canthen be performed. Other more specialized functions allow comparison between thefrequency response of a model and that of an actual system by stepping through a desiredrange of frequencies and measuring the response. Basic functions allow easy generationand manipulation of complex signals. The toolbox is well suited to

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

laboratory work thatincludes motor modeling and feedback control. There is also a major design project in the courseto reinforce theoretical and experimental design. The topics covered in the course are listed below. 1. Translation 2. Differential equation review 3. First/second order systems 4. Numerical methods 5. Rotation 6. The differential operator and input-output equations 7. Circuits (resistors/capacitors/inductors and op-amps) 8. Feedback control 9. Phasors 10. Transfer functions and Fourier analysis 11. Bode plots 12. Root locus plots 13. Analog IO, sensors and actuators 14. Motion control (single and multiple axes)Prerequisites for the course include basic

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Murphy

Session 1355 Practical Advice for the “New Kid on the Block” Dave Murphy Fire Safety Engineering Technology The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is. – Joan Gilbertson As a new faculty member at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, I haverecently experienced many changes associated with starting a new career. I can readily attest tothe unique challenges and expectations of assuming the position of assistant professor afterserving twenty years in the fire

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Frank Peters; John Jackman; Sarah Ryan; Sigurdur Olafsson

An Active Learning Environment in an Integrated Industrial Engineering Curriculum Frank Peters, John Jackman, Sarah Ryan, Sigurdur Olafsson Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering fpeters@iastate.edu, jkj@iastate.edu, smryan@iastate.edu, olafsson@iastate.edu Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011AbstractWe are developing a new learning environment that supports a suite of interrelated modulesbased on real-world scenarios. The primary goals of the project are to integrate industrialengineering courses, improve students’ information technology skills, and enhance students’problem

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chad Washington; Alene Harris

of the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Vanderbilt University have worked to develop an observation instrument to capture specific elements in lesson delivery, including (1) various types of teacher-student interactions, student engagement levels related to type of instruction, levels of indicators reflecting HPL learning theory (knowledge-centeredness, student-centeredness, assessment-centeredness, and community-centeredness) (Bransford et al. 1999), and specific indicators of effective teaching. After three years of testing and revision, we have developed valid, quantitative measurements of the teaching of a lesson. We then set about to organize this data into categories that would

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

Session 3275 Tips for Teaching Obscenely Large Lectures Heidi Diefes-Dux, Deborah Follman, Robert Montgomery, William Oakes Purdue UniversityAbstractTeaching any class for the first time may be intimidating; but when that class is a lecture of 450freshman engineering students, it is downright scary. Good teaching practices including the use ofactive and cooperative learning still apply; however, many scale with lecture size. For example,reviewing 450 “minute papers” takes considerable time, even if the students’ comments are brief.This paper will present techniques that will help you

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

AC 2003-95: INSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY:THE TWO PILLARS OF OURSUCCESSKathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at AustinMary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin Page 8.715.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2003 Instruction and Technology: The Two Pillars of Our Success Mary Crawford, Kathy J. Schmidt The University of Texas at AustinAbstractImproving the quality of instruction is a key strategic goal of the College of Engineeringat The University of Texas at Austin. The Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) plays a crucialrole in realizing that goal. Many colleges of engineering provide teaching

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

Session 1732 Software: Craft, Science, and Engineering Ruth E. Davis, John R. Allen Santa Clara UniversityAbstractWhat is Software Engineering — art, trade, craft, science, or profession? Some believe that, atleast in its current state, software engineering is an oxymoron. If we believe that there issomething worthy of being called software engineering, how do decide what constitutes a propereducation for a software engineer? We argue that it is informative to study the history oftraditional engineering, when and how it became science-based, and when and

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

Session 1315 Engineering the World: Hands-on Experimentation for Civil Engineering K-12 Outreach James L. Hanson, Donald D. Carpenter, and Tarek Rizk Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper details the development and application of a community outreach program designedto teach children about math, science, and the world in which they live. The program was titled“Engineering the World” and emphasized civil engineering applications. The program wasoffered in an inner-city middle school in Detroit, Michigan. The program was developed by

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones; Jose Colom

Session 1332 AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY INDUSTRY Manuel Toledo-Quiñones, José G. Colom-Ustáriz University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Puerto RicoAbstractPractical problem solving, together with a firm theoretical background and a broad education,play a very important role in engineering education. The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) isan interesting model of active learning that addresses today’s pressing needs of blending theorywith practice, education with work, academic scientific rigor with