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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

. M.T. Nguyen, “Validation of FloWorks for Internal Flow”, M.S. Project, CSU Northridge, May 2003ROBERT G. RYANRobert Ryan received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles.He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University,Northridge. He is the coordinator for the department’s Measurements Laboratory and Thermo-fluids Laboratory.STEWART P. PRINCEStewart Prince received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from University of Texas, Arlington. He iscurrently an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University,Northridge. He is the coordinator of the department’s Haas CNC Laboratory

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

junior level for all civil engineering technology students. The course credit hourswere increased to 4 semester credit hours to allow for developing a laboratory component for thecourse.The use of lab assignments in the transportation course allowed students to get hands-onexperience and training in conducting transportation studies utilizing the latest standardsemployed in the industry. The lab also enabled the instructor to use open-ended problems suchthat members of each team can search for feasible solutions that meet specific guidelines.Different teams may end up with different analysis results or design solutions. Feedback fromstudents indicated their appreciation for integrating the lab assignments into the course.This paper describes the

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

application) to capture the sound of tapping or handclapping and observing the echo signatures of the recorded signal.4The method described here was used in an instrumentation laboratory class for third-yearelectromechanical engineering technology students at Penn State Berks – Lehigh Valley College.The experiments are based on time of flight measurements and are designed to demonstrate theroll of software in developing a sophisticated system with simple hardware. The signalprocessing techniques are similar to those used in radar and sonar echolocation systems.5 Thesoftware performs all of the measurements with no guesswork left to the user. Figure 1. Setup for Acoustic MeasurementsUsing the computer’s sound card under

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinformation being assessed in the different courses?”. If all 3 reports are assessing the samething, then 1 is enough. If a student can write effectively about a soil mechanics laboratoryproject, it is reasonable to expect that the same student can write effective about a fluidmechanics laboratory project. This decision also addressed the issue of developing anassessment process that would not be too burdensome for the small faculty.The last piece of the assessment puzzle to come into place was possibly the most difficult. Thispiece was how to pick a piece of student work and assess it. To do this, the faculty developed aset of performance indicators for each outcome to quantify what it is

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

year, 45% of the pre-collegeparticipants were from ethnic or racial groups underrepresented in engineering professions andover 60% were women.The primary goal of SYP is to encourage participating students to become academicallyprepared so that college can be a viable option for their future. The main objectives of theprograms are to: • allow participants to explore post secondary education academic pursuit options in MEST • offer career discovery in a hands-on/minds-on environment • provide access to technology, laboratory resources, expertise, and academic experiences not normally available to middle and high school students • help students feel comfortable in a university setting • encourage student interactions with peers

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

thesavings can be attributed to the elimination of “house calls.” SWAT Team members no longerwork in the dormitories, since students now bring their laptops to the SWAT Team office.Students also routinely bring their laptops to get assistance from faculty members and teachingassistants.In Fall 2004, primarily due to the addition of Computer Science freshmen to the introductorycourses, programming instruction was changed from Matlab to Alice based on an “objects first”approach [8, 9], and the role of laptop computers in the classroom became even more important.That work is reported in references 6 and 10.As previously mentioned, after the personal computer requirement started in 1984, the Collegeceased to have significant computer laboratories for

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

Session 1615 BUILDING AN ENGINEERING TEAM: PEER ASSESSMENT PROVES A USEFUL INSTRUMENT TO GAUGE PROGRESS Robert Knecht & Jennifer Gale Colorado School of Mines Abstract – Successful team operations rely on several functions that team members assumethroughout the life of a project. The National Training Laboratory in Group Developmentdeveloped a method describing team success based on task and team functions. At the 2004ASEE Conference, we presented findings indicating that undergraduate teams spent the entiresemester developing both a

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

research like other types of research requires a suitable environment andresources. The nature and size of these requirements depend on the scope of the undergraduate Page 10.1367.2research itself, and vary from discipline to discipline. In general, a suitable environment consists “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005. American Society of Engineering education”of offices and laboratories to carry out the research. The resources include equipment andmaterials. In all cases, funds are essential to carry out this research. In almost all cases

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Suchora

Engineering EducationCurrent Course Structure of Freshman Engineering.ENGR 1550 Basic Engineering Concepts (3 SH)The first course in the current sequence at Youngstown State University is ENGR 1550 BasicEngineering Concepts, offered only in the Fall Semester. The three semester hour course iscomprised of two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. Prerequisite/concurrentrequirement for this course is a math course of pre-calculus or higher level.There are several distinct sub-goals of this first course; however they are all intertwined whenfocusing on the main goal of successfully transitioning the first year student to becoming part ofthe YSU engineering community. While presenting and teaching several engineering/technicalskills, the

Conference Session

Professional Development & Women Faculty

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

F. Carroll Dougherty; Cheryl Schrader

or government "Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education"laboratory as a research associate/scientist or post-doctorate. Once inside academia, aprofessional chooses among tenure track or non-tenure track pathways. While traditionallywomen were relegated to the non-tenure track roles 2,3, more women are taking charge of theircareers and making informed decisions with respect to tenure versus non-tenure track positions.The percentage of women tenured/tenure-track faculty members has slowly been increasing(9.9% of all engineering faculty in 2003 versus 8.9% in 20011). Women held 17.4

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

Page 10.482.2clear advantage to moving the course was that these tools could be used in subsequent courses. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe tradeoff is that the selection of laboratory assignments for the course becomes morerestrictive because of the student’s limited domain knowledge of industrial engineering topics.As reflected in this paper, the role and scope of Excel/VBA tools in the industrial engineeringcurriculum at Tennessee Tech continues to evolve.In previous years, the programming experience of students in the simulation course was a three-credit freshman course in FORTRAN

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Chanley; Michael Pelletier

for degrees inElectronic Technology; Fundamentals of Digital Logic is required in several other programs; allthree courses are available as electives in Engineering Science and are highly recommended forstudents in Computer Engineering.Prior to the fall, 2004 semester, Fundamentals of Digital Logic included an introduction to digitallogic design using Karnaugh maps, yet the accompanying Digital Logic Lab did not includelogic design. Also prior to fall, 2004 in the laboratory portion of Digital Electronics, there weresome labs where Karnaugh maps were used to design simplified circuits (limited to 4 inputvariables) which were then built with TTL logic chips.Fundamentals of Digital LogicFundamentals of Digital Logic covers Boolean algebra

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsiao-Shen Tsao; Belle Wei

as the fellows were expected to share theirstudy-tour experience with their classmates so that the impact of the study tour was notlimited to the 25 GTI fellows.We chose visit sites such that the GTI fellows can have a big picture of an ecosystem fortechnology industry. The sites include different nodes of industry’s value chain andcompanies of different “nationalities.” Also included are institutions providing theinfrastructures for technology industry: universities, research laboratories, and industrialparks. To deepen students’ understanding of what they would witness during the trip,pre-trip lectures were given on topics ranging from regional competitive advantages toChinese culture. The lectures were jointly developed and delivered by

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

becoordinated between the faculty members, students, and perhaps industry involved inorder to provide a meaningful experience for students. 2The need for laboratory development is an important component of engineering Page 10.670.2education and is viewed as an ongoing innovation in teaching and learning “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”methodologies. Variety and balance in teaching methods and appropriate technologiesshould be utilized in the delivery of the subject matter being taught.Transforming Engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Recayi Pecen; Ronald O'Meara

settings. Inaddition to the advanced level technical classes with computer simulations, the program incorporatesextensive practical laboratory exercises and a variety of industrial-based project experiences.The design team for this project was multi-disciplinary consisting of students from the EIET,Manufacturing, and Construction Management programs. Two students were selected to function asproject coordinators for the EIET and Manufacturing components of the project. Individual groupmeetings were held by the program coordinators in addition to scheduling weekly meetingscombining both groups and the authors. Interaction within the combined meetings was interesting toobserve. Initially, the students were talkative within their respective groups

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

important role. In those days, a sizeable portionof the engineering technology faculty members had vocational education as their highereducation background. Over the years, the composition of the engineering technology faculty haschanged to almost 100% of the faculty members having higher degrees in engineering. Industry’sdemand for engineering skills and competencies, the extent of engineering fundamentals thatbecame part of the technology programs and the accreditation criteria for faculty have helped theengineering technology programs to shed the vocational element entirely. [2]. Strongengineering fundamentals, extensive laboratory experience and integrated co-operative educationbecame the hallmarks of well received engineering technology

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

traveled in three minutes. More details about the introduction of smart materials into the first-year curriculum can be found in [19]. ‚" The project prepared modules on SMA and piezoelectric materials into a sophomore introduction to materials course, ENGR 213 Principals of Materials Engineering. ‚" A project on synthetic jet actuators (SJA) was introduced into a junior aerospace engineering laboratory course, AERO 302 Aerospace Engineering Laboratory I. ‚" The project introduced material on analyzing SMA components into a structural analysis course, AERO 306 - Structural Analysis II. Specifically, students studied how finite element analysis can be performed on structures that contain SMA

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lewinski; William Hudson

the manyprescribed laboratories and their cumulative design experiences in both the single semesterJunior design and the year long Senior design sequence. Both students also had completed therequired Microprocessor design course in which they completed a multitude of assemblylanguage programming exercises. The students had project design experience at the device levelbut had little experience in system integration and designing using commercially availablesubassemblies. Also previous to this activity, the students did not have significant researchexperience. Page 9.862.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

and the other half observe teamwork based on an observations technique developed byEberhardt. During the forming phase of the project, teams emphasize task (75%) functions butlearned the value of team (25%) functions. By the end of the semester, team performance relieson a balance of task (52%) and team (48%) skills. Essentially all observations collected foreach function are statistically similar over six semesters of data collection. Following the Second World War, the National Training Laboratory for Behavioral Studiesdeveloped a method for describing team performance based on a balance of task and teamfunctions. Task functions, critical to producing a quality product, focused on activities aimed atthe project goal. Team functions

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

minimum of four (4) recognized major civil engineeringareas; the ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data inmore than one of the recognized major civil engineering areas; the ability to perform civilengineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professionalcomponent of the curriculum; an understanding of professional practice issues such as:procurement of work; bidding versus quality based selection processes; how the designprofessionals and the construction professions interact to construct a project; the importance ofprofessional licensure and continuing education; and/or other professional practice issues [1].Regarding this criteria, the curriculum is design to meet

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajan B Gujjarlapudi; Kaushik Hatti; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

Engineering EducationLiterature reviewMost of the literature required for the project, books and journals were suggested by the expert,in this case Mr. Kaushik Hatti working as a Teaching Assistant for the Organic lab at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. The most useful book in this project was The ExperimentalOrganic Chemistry by Gilbert and Martin 5. Other books which were helpful in this case wereExperimental Organic Chemistry by Daniel R. Palleros. Many important points were noted downfrom the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual by Dr. Mark C. Morvant.10Most of critical information required for this project was obtained from Gilbert and Martin 5which addresses a critical need faced by researchers in all fields of the human sciences - how

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

21st century. One ofthe hallmarks of the program is the truly multidisciplinary curriculum in which laboratory/designcourses are offered simultaneously to engineering students in all four disciplines. Indeed, thehallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University is the multidisciplinary, project-oriented, Engineering Clinic sequence. Every engineering student at Rowan University takes theEngineering Clinics each semester. In the Engineering Clinic, which is based on the medicalschool model, students and faculty from all four engineering departments work side-by-side onlaboratory experiments, real world design projects and research. The solutions of these problemsrequire not only proficiency in the technical principles, but, as importantly

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

withtraditionally low grade point averages. The second case study addressed changes made tothe laboratory component of a required junior level laboratory course. In an attempt toimprove conceptual learning, prescribed procedures for each experiment were eliminated,and students were encouraged to develop their own measurement goals and plans. Studentreporting of their work was modified to include an electronic log book – essentially arunning diary of the experiment - as well as a formal technical report. Required studentevaluations, submitted electronically after each lab, provided a means to qualitativelyassess these changes which, on the whole, seemed to instill a sense of excitement andinterest in the students that had not previously been present

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Welker

a critical component of learning, the students receive training on teamfunctioning at least once a year during their sophomore, junior, and senior years. The classes inwhich the teamwork modules are included are shown in Table 1. The most intensive module,which lasts two class periods, occurs during the sophomore year. The tools the students receiveduring this first module will be used in their other CEE classes that require them to work inteams.Table 1. Placement of modules on teamwork within the CEE curriculum CLASS YEAR MODULE CEE 2602, CE Measurements Sophomore Team Work: Awareness and Tools CEE 3901, Soil Mechanics Laboratory Junior Conflicts CEE 4601, CEE Professional

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vennes; Phillip Smith

with what we havecalled field theory software in a separate paper.II. A Brief History of Computer Aided Design at NMSUComputer aided design in the Mechanical Engineering Department at NMSU has its roots in themid-1970's when the department received a gift of an Applicon computer drafting system fromSandia Laboratories. The Applicon was integrated into the freshman level drafting courses, butby the early 1980's it was replaced by more economic PC's using such software as AUTOCADand CADKEY. Students were urged, but not required, to use these systems in ongoing designcourses. In the 1990's it became evident that there needed to be more integration between thecomputational drafting and computational design calculations and the department began

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Molu Olumolade

program deletionThis paper discusses how the implementation of industrial exercises as a component of a regularclass laboratory experiments has benefited the industries involved as well as maximized studentslearning even in the absence of industrial internship. It also shows how industries can beencouraged or motivated to participate in academic endeavors in a non-financial way.Introduction:College students everywhere experience various forms of problems. These problems have beenexpressed in such areas as course work, teaching methodology, interaction patterns in theclassrooms, and inadequacy of facilities and equipment. In addition to these problems are themost recent observed problems in the areas of communication skills, comprehension

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reed Stevens; Kevin O'Connor; Lari Garrison

same reason, thetranscripts segments we include are also short. Our broader analysis of these data Page 10.558.4supports the points that follow.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn Segments T.1 and T.2, Tarja describes her view of school in contrast to what sherepeatedly calls “the real world.” Her view of the real world was formed in large part byan internship at a well-known West Coast laboratory, referred to in these segments. Segment T.1. And I really liked- I like actually working in like science, because going

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

emergingworkforce, community college programs presently in place, and opportunities for future programgrowth in these areas.Central to the development of this program is an open source distribution and developmentmethod for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) curriculum, lecture andlaboratory content. Established by The National Center for Telecommunications Technologies(NCTT) Consortium, the open source distribution and development process of faculty review,redistribution, and content modification will be contrasted to traditional development anddistribution methods. The open source resource serves as a means of dynamically and rapidlydistributing classroom and laboratory materials with a focus on interoperability, innovation,rapid evolution

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell

to expose students to programming, manipulating cells, andspreadsheet design required for the intro. to engineering course.MAPLE Lab Session: A MAPLE laboratory session is offered to expose students to simpleprogramming techniques needed to complete their calculus courses. The instructor for thissession is typically an upper division engineering student who also helps to co-facilitate the MathReview Sessions. This session gives information on program language required to have MAPLEperform simple mathematical functions and graphing.SeminarsBridge Participants are required to attend the following sessions to give them a head-start onexpectations during their first year. WISE staff members and/or student staff instruct eachsession. These

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

variety of disciplinary contexts. A solid background is developed by touching keyconcepts at several points along the spiral in different courses, adding depth and sophistication ateach pass. Each foundation course also stresses the development of several essential skills, suchas problem-solving, oral and written communication, the design process, teamwork, projectmanagement, computer analysis methods, laboratory investigation, data analysis and modeldevelopment. In addition to providing a broad engineering background, this sequence ofmultidisciplinary courses develops the foundation for building substantial depth in key areas ofimportance for engineering students.The first semester freshman course that includes feedback control is EAS 109