Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

Session 2420 SimPlus: An Experimental Simulation Tool Hassan Rajaei, Scott Harper, Tom Mancine, Ryan Scott Department of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 email: rajaei@cs.bgsu.eduAbstractSimPlus is a simulation toolkit in C++. It has evolved from a final class project for a computerscience course on Simulation Techniques to its current release as a UNIX static library. A keyobjective of the final class project was to provide students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

BEST/STEPS: Hands-On Education and Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups Julie A. Reyer, Richard W. Deller, Martin J. Morris, Arnold Ness, Richard T. Johnson College of Engineering and Technology, Bradley University By the time students enter college, lack of rigorous high school coursework can eliminateengineering as a potential career path[1]. Bradley University has developed new summer campprogram designed to attract students to engineering and to interest students in taking high schoolcourses needed to pursue engineering. The campers were members of underrepresented groupsselected with the input of representatives from local public schools and industry. The purpose ofthe camp, sponsored by the Society of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Visco

quantitative student evaluation atthe end of the semester for a course instructor and these values are normally a required part of atenure dossier. However, such evaluations can be affected by things unrelated to teaching suchas whether the instructor bought pizza for the class prior to administering the assessment or thephysical attractiveness of the instructor. In an effort to improve student evaluations (andfeedback) in a more meaningful way, the author will present several steps suggested at recentworkshops and implemented over the past year by the author to demonstrate concern forstudents. These steps include: adding a recitation portion of a class to answer class questionsand “talk” about student issues, forcing students to pick up their first

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

Integration of Electrical Engineering Core Labs with Major Design Experiences Glen E. Archer Leonard J. Bohmann Michigan Technological UniversityMotivation: Michigan Tech has taken bold steps to structure a design experience thatbegins the moment a student sets foot in the department. Michigan TechnologicalUniversity underwent a remarkable transformation as the conversion from quarters tosemesters unfolded over the 2000-2001 academic year. The Electrical and ComputerEngineering department took advantage of the opportunity to enhance the department’slaboratory experiences as well. The ECE department had followed a traditionalcurriculum model that

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

computer-programming course for engineers is usually taught using the C++programming language. This work describes our current effort to introduce a pilot project,which can be used in an evaluation process by those departments that would like to substituteMatlab for C++. Those who would like to continue the current practice, but are looking for morechallenging problems/projects involving Matlab can also use the project outcome. The project,at this time, is not calling for elimination of C++, but merely a reversal of our on-going practiceat Penn State; namely, twelve weeks of Matlab and two weeks of C++. A discussion of theadvantages and disadvantages of conducting a computer-programming course in this format areincluded.I. IntroductionComputer

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

EngineeringExperience Initiative: A Bridge To and From Problem/Project/Team-Based Learning. Thecollaboration stems from a unique view of the engineering pipeline and aims to improve thequality, quantity, and diversity of our graduates through a flexible, hands-on curriculum.This paper describes the program’s three main activities: the development of an integratedfreshmen curriculum, a future scholars program, and a summer bridging program. Assessmenthas been integrated into all activities and is being performed by experts from the College ofEducation.Currently, curriculum activity is focused on two freshmen courses. The first is a combinedmechanical, electrical and civil engineering course where students work on interdisciplinaryteams building digital scales

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

“Technology Based Distance Learning at the University of Florida, College of Engineering – Graduate Engineering Education on Demand” Bob Mason, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi Coordinator of Broadcasting, Outreach Engineering Education Program, University of Florida / Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaThe Outreach Engineering Education Program (OEEP) now in its fourth decade began with a onestudio/classroom that transmitted over the State of Florida microwave backbone. The studentshad to gather at the closest facility with a microwave link.The demographic coverage was south eastern Florida, the “Space Coast”, where most of thetechnology companies flourished. The

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

build a Personal LiftingVehicle (PLV); a prototype was built but the team was unable to satisfactorily resolve somecontrol problems with the vehicle. For the second project a design was chosen that could morerealistically be achieved, and the effort was to culminate in a race between the two designblimps. The element of competition greatly improved the motivation of the students and bothteams successfully constructed and raced the 12 feet long radio controlled blimps. For the thirdproject one team of ME students and a combined team of AT and ME students competed. Theteams were tasked with the design and manufacture of a full-scale one-person hovercraft. Bothteams successfully built a hovercraft, but only the hovercraft of the combined AT/ME

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

Session 2653 Preeminence in First-Year Engineering Programs Linda P.B. Katehi, Katherine Banks, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Deborah K. Follman, John Gaunt, Kamyar Haghighi, P.K. Imbrie, Leah H. Jamieson, Robert E. Montgomery, William C. Oakes, and Phillip Wankat Purdue University West Lafayette, INAbstractThe Department of Freshman Engineering (FrE) at Purdue University is currently celebrating its50th Anniversary. For five decades the Department has slowly evolved, reacting to nationwidetrends and advances by incorporating new pedagogical approaches to engineering education

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

sophomore engineering and science majors with prerequisites ofmathematics through calculus, a first sequence in physics, and one course in chemistry.Important goals were to bring the excitement of nanotechnology to students early in theirscholastic careers and to make them aware of the many opportunities for research and furtherstudy. The pedagogical challenges were several. We needed to: 1) reflect existing facultyinterests in engineering, physics, and chemistry, 2) integrate those faculty into a cohesiveteaching unit, 3) be intelligible to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, 4) serve a multidisciplinarystudent body, and 5) have assessable outcomes. In addition, no single ideal text was available soseveral sources of ancillary readings were

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Deepti Suri

Session 1732 Softwar e Quality Assur ance for Softwar e Engineer s Dr . Deepti Sur i Assistant Pr ofessor Depar tment of Electr ical Engineer ing and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineer ing Milwaukee, WI 53202 sur i@msoe.eduAbstract: Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is an important aspect of Software Engineering(SE) but there exists a wide variety of ways in which this topic is covered in an undergraduatecurriculum at various

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Grant Norton; Charles Pezeshki

obsolete.Because of the cost differential between engineering services in the U.S. and othercheaper alternatives in countries such as India, U.S. graduates will need to have a value-added increment to justify their higher salary requirements. In this paper, the authorstake a case study approach toward understanding the educational needs of mechanicalengineers that academia supplies to various multi-national corporations, and suggest acurricular revision roadmap necessary to accommodate these changes. In particular, thevehicle to carry these curricular changes to fruition is the same set of tools that industry iscurrently using—PLM software. In the PLM environment, students can quickly access avariety of analysis and design tools that offer the ability to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and NSF's PFI

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

Document: 2004-2124 Division: Entrepreneurship Early Progress Indicators: an Innovation Incubator Ron Foster, Ken Vickers, Greg Salamo, and John Ahlen University of Arkansas/Arkansas Science and Technology AuthorityAbstract:The goals of a novel Innovation Incubator (I2) are to simultaneously enhance on-campuseducation and research as technology commercialization activities are deployed. The Incubator isbeginning a third year of operations, and it is appropriate to look for early indicators of progressrelated to the effort. It is generally accepted that real evaluation of early and seed-stageinvestments cannot be completed for several years. However, qualitative assessments can bemade on the

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Gandolfo; Ken Alford

Session 2230 Helping Teachers to Teach – Ideas from West Point Kenneth L. Alford, Anita Gandolfo United States Military AcademyIntroduction1Every summer the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York loses nearly one-fourth of its faculty. While this turnover is intentional (returning our junior military officers tothe Army), with such a high and constant turnover rate, we have had to figure out how toeffectively teach teachers to teach in order to maintain the high quality education we provide forour cadets. Many of West Point’s

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

for themselves (personal constructivism) or that scientific understandings are constructedwhen individuals engage socially in shared tasks (social constructivism). Some researchers havediscovered that both are necessary2. There is a lot of agreement across very different educationaltheories but not very much implementation into practice. There are not many practicalsuggestions or related training courses for scientific applications of such theories. Neither is therea suggestion that the engineering being discussed can have more than one understanding, or that Page 9.556.1the engineers need to reflect on their own process of learning the

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

education. Inherent in this is the need to support the K-16 educational pipeline that willproduce the next generation of their professional colleagues. It is important to lead throughexample, so the microEP faculty and administration have pursued resources to activelyparticipate in all of these activities. The microEP program has received NSF IGERT, REU,RET, GK-12, and MRSEC awards; and a Department of Education FIPSE award to implementthe microEP educational concepts in the traditional Physics Graduate Program.The history of the microEP program formation, along with the details of its approach to graduateeducation, have been fully described in a paper presented by the authors at the 2002 ASEE

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 1692 Partners in Time—Strategies for Establishing an Effective Partnership between the University and the K12 Community Elizabeth A. Parry, Laura J. Bottomley, Jan Kidwell North Carolina State University/Wake County Public School SystemAbstractToday’s funding environment makes it imperative for institutions of higher education to activelysolicit and maintain a positive ongoing relationship with the K12 community. Government andprivate dollars are often offered with the caveat that the universities engage local school districtsin some part of the efforts. The K12 community, while under

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Austin Cheney; Heather Brown

Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience for Advanced Education and Research Careers Brown, H.J. and Cheney, A. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN hjbrown@mtsu.eduAbstractUndergraduate research has been determined at many academic institutions and fundingagencies as a focal point for quality education (NSF 1996). Integrating research hasbecome an essential element in developing students for technical service careers andadvanced degrees. The industry professionals hiring students from the Concrete IndustryManagement

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

ASEE 2004 Standard Capacitor Calibration Procedure Implemented Using Control SoftwareSvetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1, Brian Waltrip2, Andrew Koffman2 and George Piper1 1 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA avramov@usna.edu 2 National Institute of Standards and Technology*, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA IntroductionA capacitance scaling method is used to calibrate standard capacitors. This is a verypowerful technique that was introduced by Aoki and Yokoi in 1997 [1]. Reference [1]describes the general method and provides a detailed uncertainty analysis. Aoki andYokoi developed a calibration procedure based on [1

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

Session 1660 “INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AND THE NED UNIVERSITY, PAKISTAN” Hammad Chaudhry1/ Muhammad Ali Abbas2/Dr. Fazil T. Najafi3 1,2 Graduate student, Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Florida/ 3 Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaAbstractThe science of Industrial Engineering (IE) is concerned with design, analysis, and controlof production, service operations and systems. Traditionally, IE had focused onoptimizing the operating efficiencies of plants and workers in a

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman

Session 2438 Biometrics, Image Capture and Enhancement Primus J. Tillman Assistant Professor, College of Business and Technology East Tennessee State UniversityEvery time the terror alert level is raised, image capture and enhancement also becomes an issue.Homeland security is a very real dilemma that requires the most modern technology and toolsavailable to help prevent a recurrence of the events of September 11, 2001. But the besttechnology and tools are useless without enough trained, skilled, and experienced persons whocan use them

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

Session 1532 Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversityAbstractPresented here from experience are the salient steps for the reintroduction of Amateur Radio intothe capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering and diverse examples ofsuch projects. These steps include the involvement of the faculty supervisor, the establishmentof an Amateur Radio station as a communications laboratory sponsored by the department, asurvey

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Farris

Session 1725 Marketing Enhances Engineering Product Innovation John Farris, Paul Lane Padnos School of Engineering / Seidman School of Business Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractProduct innovation is increasingly a multi-disciplinary undertaking. In an effort to prepareleaders for this interdisciplinary effort, the authors are developing a methodology and a guidingmodel to teach the product innovation process to graduate engineering and marketing students.In this innovative program, two parallel courses are offered in one semester. The

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hancock; John Norton

semester of instruction. The GSM program complements the orientation andtraining that the GSI receives by providing mentoring and support throughout each semester thatthe GSI teaches. This paper will elaborate on the details of the GSM program at the Universityof Michigan College of Engineering from a mentor’s point of view and will provide someexamples of typical GSM/GSI interactions. In addition survey data from GSIs will be presentedto characterize the overall effectiveness of the GSM program.1 IntroductionThe Chronicle of Higher Education has reported that many colleges are making efforts to betterprepare their graduate students to teach in the classroom1. These efforts are generally focused oninstructional programs which provide Ph.D

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

Session 1455 Enabling the U.S. Engineering Workforce to Perform: Building Organizational Sustainability for Innovation in Professional Graduate Engineering Education S. J. Tricamo,1 D. R. Depew,2 A. L. McHenry,3 D. D. Dunlap,4 D. A. Keating,5 T. G. Stanford 5New Jersey Institute of Technology 1 / Purdue University 2/ Arizona State University East 3 Western Carolina University 4 / University of South Carolina 5 AbstractThis is the second paper in the panel session of the National

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

Session 2439 Undergraduate Integrated Engineering & Business Practice Curriculum in the College of Engineering Robert M. Dunn, Ph.D. , John M. Brauer College of Engineering University of Notre DameAbstractThe College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame has completed the third year ofteaching its undergraduate Integrated Engineering & Business Practice Curriculum. Thecurriculum was developed as a response to corporate and parental requests for a morecomprehensive engineering education. The curriculum is

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

Preliminary Study on the Characteristics of Virtual Environments for Reaching New Heights in Education Tulio Sulbaran, Ph.D., Chad Marcum University of Southern MississippiAbstractIn researching virtual environments for educational purposes, it has been found that there are noset characteristic guidelines to develop educational material using virtual environments.Recognizing this fact, this paper is an attempt at listing and defining key characteristics forvirtual environments for education. The approach that was used to identify these characteristicswas a combination of literature reviews and experimental exploration of virtual reality over theInternet

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Muhlbaier; Peter Jansson

Undergraduate Entrepreneurs: Novel LED Taillight Assembly Design, Prototyping and Market Tests Peter Mark JanssonA, Michael MuhlbaierA, Sebastian BlicharzB, Greg DigneoA A Rowan University/BDrexel UniversityABSTRACTRowan University's Engineering Clinic courses have made it possible for motivatedundergraduate entrepreneurs to take their creative ideas and turn them into prototypes. SpaghettiEngineering is a start up company whose short-term goal is to design and fabricate a highperformance line of automotive taillights. It consists of a multidisciplinary team of five electricaland computer engineering and mechanical engineering students from two

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

Session 3575 The Tr ansition fr om Pr ivate Life to Academia: Advice for the New Instr uctor Br ian L. Houston Univer sity of Pittsbur gh at J ohnstownAbstr actThe most common route to becoming a faculty member develops from the successful completionof an advanced degree which affords a natural transition to faculty status. This path providesample opportunity to develop the necessary skills and organizational tools to begin life in theacademic world with a minimum amount of anxiety.A less frequent path taken is a transition from

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

schools may offerone or two more courses to further enhance the student's understanding ofentrepreneurship. Still other colleges and universities offer a complete four-year degreeprogram and/or master's degree or doctorate. Still, the vast majority of schools offerlittle or nothing to teach students about self-employment, creative thinking, and theprocess of generating new and creative ideas for opportunity development. There are at least two general underlying assumptions about entrepreneurshipeducation. Some schools, especially some schools of business, assume thatentrepreneurship cannot be taught. To them, it is an inborn skill that is derived fromyour gene base. In these types of schools, students appear to be already either starting