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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Reaveley; Nick Safai

two-year program,have the opportunity to seamlessly transfer to the UoU Civil Engineering Department and most Page 10.1377.1students are able to complete their four year, ABET, accredited BSCE degree from the UoU inan additional four semesters. The SLCC Engineering Department offers an Associate Degreein civil engineering.The greatest success is that students are able to plan out their academic careers with assurancethat they are not going to waste any time and precious tuition dollars. By the time a studenttransfers to the UoU, they already know the Chair of the Civil & Environmental Engineeringdepartment and the other members of the

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

form a connected nodal structure.The author was introduced to the concept of Mind Mapping during a recent full day workshopthat was sponsored by the Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technology Center at MTSU.During this workshop participants learned how to:• Use whole-brain stimulation techniques to increase the ability to think multi-dimensionally. Page 10.1418.1• Use color, fun, planned breaks, images, and multi-sensory approaches.• Enhance personal learning, memory, and creativity. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Bailey; Andrew Ricke; David Spurlock; Susan Murray

,intrinsic motivation to accomplish, and intrinsic motivation to experience stimulation.In addition, we selected six other personality traits to measure that seemed highly relevant in thiscontext: need for cognition (Cacioppo & Petty9, 1982), organization (International PersonalityItem Pool10, 2001), activity level (International Personality Item Pool10, 2001), socialconnectedness (Lee & Robbins11, 1995), social assurance (Lee & Robbins11, 1995), andgeneralized self-efficacy (Schwarzer & Jerusalem12, 1995). Need for cognition refers to the needto think, learn, and analyze. Organization refers to one’s tendency to plan, control, and orderone’s available resources to accomplish one’s goals. Activity level refers to one’s tendency

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Koren Aragaki; Daniel M. Ferguson; Margaret Huyck

have been: continued development of communication andmultidisciplinary teamwork skills1; multidisciplinary exchange to create a marketableproduct/service1; encompassing interpersonal relationships, crisis management, and objectivitywhile developing written, oral, and presentation communication skills2; developing timemanagement awareness, commitment to a company, and develop job hunting skills3; solving areal-life engineering problem in a team environment4; and teaching students project proposing,planning, and control4. ®The Interprofessionala Projects (IPRO ) Program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) hasincorporated these common goals into a project-based learning experience

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

Institutionsthat are the test-bed for ideas in undergraduate research.” Page 10.1367.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005. American Society of Engineering education”Undergraduate research in engineeringEngineering research is different from many other disciplines in various ways. Engineeringresearch can generally be classified into either analytical or experimental research. Both types ofengineering research require extremely elaborate equipment and expensive materials in manycases. Typically, it takes a long time to plan, initiate, and conduct

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationconditions, design and decision making under uncertainty must be included in the coreengineering curriculum.3,4In the past, curricula have been changed by the addition of requirements for classes onprobability theory and project planning. However, these types of classes often do not actuallyapply these concepts in a practice-relevant fashion. So far, the focus of these classes has mostlybeen in probability theory, without emphasizing engineering applications or decision making ondesign options.1 Instead, we will focus on engineering design projects with inclusion of methodsthat deal with decision making, probability and uncertainty.Although working with

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

used in lower level courses, and thetime allowed for completion has been reduced to two weeks. This time frame allows for teamdeliberations and the formulation of well-structured team presentations. In addition, among anumber of “extra-credit” options, students are invited to solve the problem by alternate methodsand/or by using additional software packages.Instructor’s supportThe Sledder can be integrated as a mini-project in a basic Physics course or even as a simulation-lab in a Physics Laboratory session. In addition to problem-solving skills, computer proficiency,and teamwork, the students are challenged by the fact that they have to carefully plan for thevarious parts of the exercise and to allot a reasonable amount of time to different

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

ofcompetency-based performance management tools and services11.This process12 identified and validated fourteen “ISU Competencies” that encompass the elevenABET Outcomes: Engineering Knowledge General Knowledge Continuous Learning Quality Orientation Initiative Innovation Cultural Adaptability Analysis & Judgment Planning Communication Teamwork Integrity Professional Impact Customer FocusNote that these are “ISU Competencies” that resulted from dialogue with our key stakeholders(ISU employers, faculty, experiential education students, and parents

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

I or STAT/ENGR 5601 Introductory Statistics and Probability for Science and Engineering Equivalent courses can be substituted for these prerequisites. Required Courses (32 Units) ENGR 5180 Product-Process Design ENGR 5200 Systems Simulation ENGR 5280 Design and Management of Human Work Systems ENGR 6200 Project Management ENGR 6300 Applied Quality Assurance ENGR 6400 Research Methods in Engineering Management FIN 6033 Graduate Introduction to Financial Decisions Page 10.457.5 MGMT 6130 Enterprise Planning and Control Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

: • Traditional departmental divisions • Time required to plan a new course structure • Unknown variables that affect evaluation of student performance • Faculty’s lack of industrial experienceMost engineering faculty desire that their students quickly mature to the point where, given anengineering design problem, they know to do the following: • Define the problem in engineering terms • Assemble an appropriate multidisciplinary team • Independently search for relevant information • Research prior solutions • Filter out irrelevant information • Construct a mathematical/engineering/economic model of the design problem • Develop conceptual designs to solve the problem • Conduct proof-of-concept exercises as needed • Use CAD/CAE/CAM tools to

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

technology into their teaching scheme much like they didwhen desktop computers first became affordable to all students. In order for the technology tomake a difference, faculty must re-think the way in which they teach and the way in whichstudents best learn. Tablet PCs provide a great mechanism for allowing instructors toincorporate active learning methods into their presentations.Future WorkA significant number of students have been involved in the tablet PC trial study to this point.However, in order to better show the viability of this new tool, we are planning to use the tabletsin several more courses in the upcoming semester. Additionally, we will broaden our experimentto include other engineering courses outside of the current study in the

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

plan tofacilitate learning of the new material, based upon the successful teaching and learningexperiences in the pilot. The second challenge is regularly confronted and many curricular pilotprojects have produced and shared instructional materials for the new material that the projectteams have introduced into their curricula. However, fewer resources have been generated forthe first challenge. This paper describes a curriculum innovation project that intended toincorporate so-called smart materials and intelligent systems into undergraduate engineeringcurricula at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In addition to describing the curricularinnovations, the goal of the paper is to present two concept inventory assessment instrumentsthat have been

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

potential combination of the “Gallery Method”with modern communication tools, and analyze if the on-line Gallery Method is suitable fordesign projects, which their team members are located in different places. There are plans toestablish a course about collaborative product design in both countries Turkey and USA.Solution Findings Methodologies and the Gallery MethodSolution methodologies can be divided as classical methods, intuitive methods, and discursive5.The Gallery Method is one of the intuitive methods. The other intuitive methods can be listed asbrainstorming, 635 methods, Delphi Method, and Synectics. The Gallery Method was developedby Hellfritz6, it combines individual work with group work, and it is particularly designed forembodiment

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

personal philosophies for success Engineering in teaching. Technology in the classroom and learning styles (how to use technology in consideration of learning styles to best Electrical and Computer enhance learning) Engineering Engaging and motivating students to participate and utilize educational tools available to them Engineering Planning a core course for non engineering majors Fundamentals Engineering Science and Delivery of Statics and Dynamics Courses in the ESM Mechanics

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

equipment beyond a token handful of CNC machines. Therefore, implementing RP was planned to fill the gap between CAD/CAM andprovide TTU students with the opportunity to practice high tech prototyping practices.Finally, TTU received a NSF DUE CCLI A&I Grant, 0311586 to establish the state’sfirst educational RP Laboratory funded by NSF in Summer 20034.A Generic Overview of RP RP consists of various manufacturing processes by which a solid physical modelof a part is made directly from 3D model data, without any special tooling. CAD datamay be generated by 3D CAD modelers or model data created by 3D digitizing systems5.Charles Hull is given credit with bringing the first commercial RP machine to market in1987 with SLA-16,7. His

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

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

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

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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

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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