Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viviana Cesani-Vazquez; Maria Irizarry; Freya Toledo-Feria; Sonia Bartolomei-Suarez

important issue: Is acareer in academia perceived as less empowering and prestigious than the traditionalengineering career? Is the perceived difference in salaries a major factor? Even whenperceiving themselves as highly capable, self-sufficient, and willing to accept challenges,such as graduate school, why academia is not a favorite choice among the COE best andbrightest female students?All these questions and others encountered in this and previous works need to be answered. Adetailed study, which is currently in its planning phase, has the specific goal of promoting thepursuit of doctoral degrees among female students. Page 10.753.9

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

10.989.1mixed-waste and discharged to open waters. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe increasing population and higher levels of human activities, including effluent disposals tosurface water and groundwater, have made sustainable management of water resources a verycomplex, challenging task for Bangladesh. In addition, per capita demand for fresh water issteadily increasing as more and more people achieve higher standards of living and as lifestylessteadily change. Thus, sustainable planning and management of water resources has become apriority consideration for the future welfare of Bangladesh

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

Derivative Control & Embedded Case StatementsThe system is fabricated from the Fischertechniks Industrial Robotics kits used in the firstportion of the class for the manufacturing floor simulation. A small solar panel and a light sourceare added along with two DPDT relays to alternate motor selection and polarity using the DCpower supply from the NI ELVIS system. The student developed control programs to solve thisparticular control problem were a bit more complex than expected, two examples are shown infigures 13 & 14 in low detail.ConclusionsThe original objectives of this portion of the EAS109 project planning class were to providestudents with an exploratory introduction to feedback control within the context of a highlystructured

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Zoghi

, thisinnovative pedagogy helps to achieve the desirable student outcomes described in EngineeringCriteria 2000 Publication (ABET 1998).Martin and Coles (2000) discuss the challenge of introducing a service-learning endeavor in thecivil and environmental engineering program. They outline a four-step plan for implementingservice-learning across the departmental curriculum including criteria for identifying a service-learning course, a mechanism to reward the faculty in relation to tenure and promotion, amentoring program for the new faculty, and guidance on student assessment.Jamieson et al (2000) elaborate on key features of the EPICS (Engineering Projects inCommunity Service), a service-learning program, that was initiated at Purdue University in theFall

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

megateam for the remainder ofthe semester, to assist the instructors in assigning individual grades.By working in smaller teams at the start of the semester, individuals would gain immediateownership of the technical knowledge required to tackle the larger, complex final project. Thesmaller teams also begin to work in larger groups by being paired with other teams for projects 6 and7; this procedure allows for a ‘growing’ of teamwork and planning in intermediate-sized groups offour students, before being finally organized into a single, large megateam for the final project.The class would still use Legos as the basis for mechanical design, though in this course no customfabricated parts were allowed. As presented earlier, RCX programming module

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

taking PSU WEBCT courses. Feedbackfrom instructors and students has been encouraging that this delivery method may workwell for future PSU distance education offerings at IIIST. The ECE department plans touse WebCT for instruction in their junior year laboratories. Page 10.1072.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Organization of ProgramResponsibility for contract compliance and financial issues rests with the PSU BusinessAffairs Office. The PSU Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kline

presentations are omitted, another chapter ofmaterial could be covered, ideally Chapter 13 on ‘A Pull Planning Framework’.The ProModel simulation software is first applied to model and illustrate the behavior of the‘Penny Fab’ production line. The Penny Fab production line is a simple four station productionline with pennies moving through the line. The authors use this model to develop the concepts ofa production system operating under best-case, practical worst case (PWC), or worst caseconditions. Each case gives rise to different production system behavior and different equationsthat govern the cycle time, work in process, and throughput of the system. As an in-classexercise, students setup the Penny Fab production line at their desks with paper and

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

circuit and its action in real world situation? 4. Do you like to see more of this kind class (lecture + lab combination) without heavy equipment? 5. If I plan to bring this kind of mobile studio class (in a much reduced version) to Network Analysis I or Network Analysis II, which subject(s) would be the best candidate to be performed by this? Select the subjects from the following list: KVL & KCL, Node voltage & Mesh Current, OP Amp circuit, Inductors and Capacitors, First order circuits Page 10.1351.8 (RC and LC), second order circuits (RLC), Passive Filters, Active Filters, Steady State Sinusoidal

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

and money remained to rebuildthe engine in the allotted time, and the project was terminated at that point. Page 9.316.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Although the end result was not as planned, many things were learned as a result of these efforts,some of which are detailed below.Student motivation: This is a quality that is difficult to evaluate, particularly without baselinemeasurements for comparison. Student surveys conducted indicated that nearly all studentsthought that it

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vance Poteat; Abdullatif Bagegni

processorstudents, both from ECE and Computer Science, are planned to have remote access to the lab andwill be encouraged to help with the development via laboratory assignments.An Introduction to Power Quality and the Power Quality Problems in the Mendel ScienceBuildingIt is the objective of the electric utility to supply its customers with a sinusoidal voltage ofrelatively constant magnitude. The generators that produce the electric power generate a veryclose approximation to a sinusoidal signal. However, there are loads and devices on the systemthat have linear and nonlinear characteristics and result in voltage sag, voltage spikes, voltage Page

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

program officer to discuss your idea; this often helps you to refine your idea and may prevent you from applying to the wrong program • Subscribe to Custom News Services at NSF –http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/To be competitive, the proposal must: • Be based on original and/or sound ideas • Have a clearly defined scope of work and set of measurable outcome objectives • Have a focused project plan in sufficient detail • Require a realistic amount of work within budget constraints • Be cost effective with evidence of potential high impact • Demonstrate the likelihood that the project will be sustained • Include a solid assessment and evaluation plan linked to project objectivesIn writing a proposal

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

upon a protocol developed through theCenter’s professional development activities15. The protocol links the state sciencecontent standards and the specific knowledge and skills students are expected to acquirewith the learning expectations of the students by the teachers. The program instructorsplan standards-based lessons that include the learning expectations of the standards, andassessment of student work in relation to the expectations of the standards. Theprocedure allows the instructors to write and implement standards-based lesson plans thatinclude the assessment and documentation of students’ achievement of the standards inthese lessons. Program instructors develop rubric assessment instruments to evaluate theextent to which their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Herz

transitions and much was gained with the enhanced capabilities of the new tools.Some of the recent additions to the scripting language are commands that implementcommunication over the Internet. The Reactor Lab recently evolved from a standalone programinto an "Internet application" which provides lab modules on demand and updates whenavailable, and enables communication between students and instructors.The following sections describe the current version of the Lab, plans for the future, andrecommendations to educators interested in developing their own simulations.Student interaction with the LabStudents download the Lab from ReactorLab.net, expand a compressed archive file, and thenopen the Lab. Installation in local school labs can also be

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

Science Foundation is underway to integrateworkplace communication instruction into the Technical Communication course.Bibliography1 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.2 Rogers, Dick, Jr.; M.J. Stratton; and R.E. King. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical CompetencyGaps—Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates,” Society ofManufacturing Engineers, 19993 Pinelli, T.E.; R.O. Barclay; and J. M. Kennedy. “Workplace Communication Skills and Value of Communicationsand Information UseSkills Instruction—Engineering Students’ Perspectives.” Proceedings of the IEEE Int’lCommunication Conference, 1995: 161-165

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

Carol J. Romanowski. “A Message from Recent Engineering Graduates in the Workplace:Results of a Survey on Technical Communication Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, v90 n4 (October2001): 685-693.2 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.3 Rogers, Dick, Jr.; M.J. Stratton; and R.E. King. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical CompetencyGaps—Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates,” Society ofManufacturing Engineers, 1999.4 Walker, Mirabelle. “Enhancing Students’ Learning While Developing Their Communication Skills.” EngineeringScience and Education Journal, v8 n5 (1999): 201-205.5 Pinelli, T.E.; R.O. Barclay

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Tolan; James Hurny

evaluating curriculum andwriting outcomes struggled with being able to articulate the types of data needed so early in theprocess. The technical team continually made the statement ‘When you tell me what you need,we will supply it’. Administrators needed to plan the next year’s budget requests. All werelooking for definitive and concrete answers.The reality is that the OA development process and the supporting systems developmentactivities are strongly inter-related, re-iterative, and complex. Data needs must be addressedfrom the first moment you begin to talk about OA. All players need to be prepared for a messy,dynamic, continuous improvement process. As faculty refine their ideas about OA, data needschange, disappear, and are revised. Data system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

offerusers the capability to transmit and receive video and audio images and files, share screens oreven software, conduct public and private conversations, and access a common electronicwhiteboard.The costs to implement an effective web conferencing system appear in Table I. Many costs in a Page 9.1347.1video web conferencing system are predictable in nature. Not all the costs involved are static, soa budget must be carefully planned. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable I. Costs for a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

technology will serve • analyze and evaluate the impact of new technologies on economy, environment, physical and mental health of manufacturers, uses of power, equality, democracy, access to information and participation, civil liberties, privacy, crime and justice. • identify unintended consequences of technology development • create safeguards to minimize problems • apply lessons from earlier technologies and experiences of other countriesRecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning • identify learning needs • set specific learning objectives • make a plan to address these objectives • evaluate inquiry • assess the reliability of sources

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

engineering degree from UWP. 95% 97% 0.96 I am sure I want to be an engineer. 82% 85% 0.83 I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 91% 97% 0.93Next we asked questions to assess whether the students’ reasons for entering engineering in thefirst place were based on the “right” reasons. We based these questions on the work of Seymourand Hewitt5, and provided the questions to students on the entrance survey. “Right” reasonsmight include a history of being interested in how things work while “wrong” reasons might bechoosing engineering based on feeling “pressure” to do so. Other reasons

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

engineering degree from UWP. 95% 97% 0.96 I am sure I want to be an engineer. 82% 85% 0.83 I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 91% 97% 0.93Next we asked questions to assess whether the students’ reasons for entering engineering in thefirst place were based on the “right” reasons. We based these questions on the work of Seymourand Hewitt5, and provided the questions to students on the entrance survey. “Right” reasonsmight include a history of being interested in how things work while “wrong” reasons might bechoosing engineering based on feeling “pressure” to do so. Other reasons

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Session 2530 TTU College of Engineering Pre-College Engineering Academy© Teacher Training Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D. and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractThis paper reports on progress to-date in the planning, design, and initial implementations of aK-12 engineering program being developed collaboratively by Texas Tech University, LubbockIndependent School District, and a growing number of other entities. The paper discusses variousissues endemic in K-12 and post-secondary education that have driven the evolution of

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

regarding the community projects. Thisarticle also describes the plan the College of Engineering has for developing a collegewide engineering communications program.OverviewService-learning is a pedagogy that links community service and civic engagement withacademic courses in order to meet the needs of the community. Through reflectionstudents access their role in the community and their obligations to the community.Service learning does not require extra work from students, but must be integrated intothe course curriculum so that it is a part of the learning process for all the students. In the Page 9.768.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

necessary to become licensed asa professional engineer. It is expected that existing undergraduate and graduate programs Page 9.737.1will be revised to reflect this body of knowledge and that new programs will be created. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The ASCE board established the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice in the fall of 2001 and charged it with developing a plan forimplementing Policy Statement 465. That committee has been pursuing three parallellong-term (20

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leirad Carrasco; Charles Turner

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe UTEP Sustainable Engineering Initiative sponsored the GEBDC during the fall semester of2001 and the spring semester of 2002 in order to promote the integration of sustainable designelements into the construction plan of the new Engineering Building Annex. The newengineering building must be seen as a sustainable engineering icon and thus, its design shouldincorporate state-of-the-art technology and at the same time, it must contemplate the sustainableuse of resources to the maximum extent possible.Goals • Create an opportunity for students and faculty to contribute to the design of the new building that will

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

homes that qualify for this subsidy, avery sound business plan that, when operating efficiently, produces the lowest cost house. Thisbusiness plan, however, means that any economic benefit from the development, other than theactual housing, goes elsewhere. The idea behind this project is to develop a way for some of theeconomic benefit to stay in the local community.A basic economic principle is that income from sources outside the community has a multiplyingeffect when the income is spent in the local community for goods and services needed by thepeople with the income. The typical rule of thumb for export income1 is for every actual dollarspent in the community, the community receives four dollars of economic benefit. This eco-nomic gain is

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

skills they expected to be utilized, the focus was on project/team scheduling rather than on project proposals, plans, or control. The comments will form part of the discussion that follows this summary of responses.-In what course are they taught these skills? Once again, there was a mixed response between a separate course (12) and the information being taught on an as needed basis in the same course as the project (18) and not being taught at all (7).Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.216.3 Copyright  2004, American

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

found in [[4]]. The goal of the inspection is to identify asmany design defects as possible. Design fixes are made by the author later.In the proposed inspection process, there are four well-defined design review roles: coordinator,author, reader, and recorder. Ideally, each role is played by a different team member. The role ofthe coordinator is to facilitate communication, schedule meetings, and ensure the process issuccessful. The author is the person who authored the design and, ultimately, corrects theidentified defects. The reader and recorder act as impartial reviewers, in addition to thecoordinator.After a design module has been authored, the inspection procedure has five steps:• Planning (coordinator and author) After the designer

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

Educationdesigned to foster collaboration in topics including: sustainability, assessment, recruitment andretention, modules and courseletts, and faculty development. The public colleges and universitieswho are part of the Hewlett ESWI hope to build upon success and create models to improveengineering education throughout the United States.DOC Goals and Program ActivitiesThe following briefly outlines the DOC program components designed to meet these goals andassessment plans to obtain baseline data in order to measure success of the program.Goal I: Increase the motivation and pre-entry academic preparation of American Indianstudents. The DOC Program contacts students, teachers, counselors, tribal college faculty andtransfer counselors to establish an

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

students discover how imagination,creativity, technology, and engineering tools combine to turn their ideas into reality. Activelearning in a collaborative, discovery-oriented design environment that involves students in acompetitive, real-world type of project provides the opportunity for the students to acquire and/orapply multiple talents and skills. The students are constantly challenged during the two weeks asthey conceptualize and plan a product, develop models, build prototypes, evaluate and redesigntheir product, and present a finished product prototype and marketing strategy to the “contractingcompany” (i.e., industry people, Institute participants and parents).Participants. Students completing the 10th or 11th grade received Summer

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

information that the student would need to getstarted on the project. The general purpose of the project, raw material specifications, basicoperating parameters and systems, reaction kinetics, and product specifications are included inthis section. Support information includes a list of starting references, tutorials on relevant processes(created by previous years’ project teams), facility layouts, equipment lists, and suggesteddeliverables for the project teams. The exemplary solution provides a complete project report,including an executive summary, introduction, technical background, process description, wastemanagement plan, regulatory review, facility design, validation/commissioning plan, detailedmanufacturing costs, detailed spreadsheet