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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Tollner; David Gattie

ASEE Paper 2005-1408-234Extending Thermodynamic Concepts from the microscopic nonliving system to the macroscopic living system Ernest W. Tollner and David GattieAbstractThis paper summarizes some key questions arising in a seminar discussion ofthermodynamics and its application to living systems. The seminar began with adiscussion of fundamental questions related to: thermodynamic systems, energy,temperature, heat, exergy, entropy, work and state equations. The seminar consideredthermodynamic laws and thermodynamic equilibrium from classical and modernviewpoints. The context of the discussion was focused around living

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricio Torres; Matthew Stephens

IMPROVING PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE THROUGH LEAN MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES & EDUCATION IN LEAN CONCEPTS Patricio A. Torres, M.B.A. Matthew P. Stephens, Ph.D.Introduction Manufacturing productivity can be improved by reducing waste in production processes.Since the introduction of continuous flow and the concept of assembly line processing by HenryFord, the industrial world has experienced a tremendous number of changes and modificationsdue to ever-increasing customer demands and expectations. These changes and growth have notalways followed a systematic approach and have not always been without the accompanyinggrowing pains. As a result, several

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

developed with the students. They were learning to be engineers atthe same time that a former engineering manager was learning to become an effective teacher.Both learned a great deal from each other and together.Then the second academic year began bringing with it an entirely new set of challenges andopportunities. Instead of the activities becoming easier and perhaps somewhat routine, they wereeven more complicated and time consuming. New obligations required extra time and effortincluding committee involvement, starting a new series of courses, implementing new programs,planning for an additional new academic program, the pursuit of tenure, and of course teaching afull load of classes. How could all of this be accomplished?The second year

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Dolan

Introduction to Engineering Program at the University of Wyoming Charles W. Dolan, David L. Whitman, Thomas V. Edgar University of WyomingAbstract:The University of Wyoming, College of Engineering developed a one hour introduction toengineering course that integrates teamwork and problem solving into a design challenge. Thecourse is required of all incoming freshmen. This paper explores the pedagogical impetus for thedesign challenge and explains how the program qualified for the larger Universities Studygeneral education requirements for intellectual community and information literacy.The design challenge is now in its fifth year. It is

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

at reduced membership rates. As members they are entitled toall standard benefits of the society, plus for the past few years the ASEE Board of Directors hasvoted to offer free normal registration to students at the annual conference.ASEE is organized in two dimensions: geographically (zones/sections), and by professional interest(divisions and constituent committees) as listed in Table 2. Constituent committees are a sort oftrial run for a division; a group is given three years to gain a threshold membership and todemonstrate their ability to persist, at which time it is either formed into a division or disbanded. Professional Interest Councils (PIC) PIC I PIC II PIC III

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mukasa Ssemakula

Learning Effectiveness in Online vs. Traditional Courses Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.AbstractThe way instruction is being delivered to students is undergoing an unprecedentedtransformation as a result of various social, economic and technological factors. Inparticular, online and other forms of long distance education are becoming ubiquitous.An important question that arises for instructors is how well the students learn the coursematerial when using these non-traditional modes of instruction. This paper describes anattempt to gage the learning effectiveness of an online course when compared to atraditional course. The paper

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Valerie Young

Peer Review for Online Learning Objects via MERLOT Valerie L. Young Ohio UniversityAbstractWith the rapid advances in computer technology and software over the past 10 years, it hasbecome increasingly attractive from a pedagogical viewpoint to develop computer-basedsimulations and tutorials to allow our students to explore and learn chemical engineeringprinciples. However, development of such “learning objects” can be given short shrift whenprofessional contributions are evaluated, partly because they typically have little impact outsidethe class for which they are developed, and partly because professional review committeesseldom feel they

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted an NSF-sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the past fiveyears, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State project utilizes thetalents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers, mentors and role modelsfor the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developing skills of students in the areas ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics through the use of Advanced TransportationTechnologies. A new project component was devised and implemented--the interaction of K-12students with college freshman via a website project. The college freshmen were asked to createa website describing a component of "Clean Energy", which was to include an assessment tool toprovide

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Hart

Class-D Amplifiers in an Undergraduate Power Electronics Course Daniel W. Hart Valparaiso UniversityAbstractThe class-D amplifier is a recent development in audio electronic engineering. Class-Damplification utilizes power transistors as switches, producing a pulse-width modulatedsignal that is filtered and delivered to a speaker. Compared with other designs such asclass AB amplifiers, the class-D scheme is much more energy efficient and compact.Because the circuitry is similar to others in power electronics, the class-D amplifier was anatural addition to our undergraduate power-electronics course.This paper describes the

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Priesmeyer; Mary Fernandez; John Fernandez

Experimenting with an Emotions Measurement Instrument in Usability Testing John D. Fernandez, Ph.D., Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi Mary Alice Fernandez, LPC, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi H. Richard Priesmeyer, Ph.D., St. Mary’s University - San AntonioIntroductionHuman computer interaction (HCI) is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation,and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the studyof related major phenomena5. The preponderance of research in HCI has been focusedon the components of design and implementation of interactive computing systems.Somewhat less attention has been given to the evaluation of such systems

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Janet L. Yowell College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractMany students who graduate high school are not prepared with the educational tools tosuccessfully pursue an engineering degree. Graduation from engineering colleges has declinedsignificantly from its peak in 1988, reflecting a national malaise in interest in the engineeringprofession by today’s youth. By fostering in high school students the skills and knowledge tomore fully understand the opportunities a career in engineering affords them, we hope to increasethe number of interested and prepared students who enter engineering colleges.Working with ninth-grade students at the new Denver

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

Update on ACCEND: Two Years of Experience on the Accelerated Engineering Degrees (ACCEND) Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati Tim C. Keener, Anant R. Kukreti, and Eugene Rutz Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/ College of Engineering University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0071 U.S.A.Abstract The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnatiinitiated a combined five-year BS and MS degree program in Environmental Engineering (theAccelerated Engineering Degree

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

Curriculum Development in Industrial Technology: Materials Science and Processes Dr. John M. Mativo Ohio Northern University Department of Technological StudiesAbstractThe goal of Industrial Technology curriculum is to develop graduates that will enter theworkforce with the best knowledge and skills or pursue further education having a strongbackground. In general, the curriculum requires students to take a materials course.Current practices in both metallic and nonmetallic materials fields have been eithertheoretical with very minimal practical application such as in Engineering programs orheavy on the practice oriented

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Carter; Mary Gomez

Role Models: Advisors & Leaders Impact on Student Organizations Thomas Carter, III, Assistant Dean Diversity, Retention and Scholarships Mary Gomez PhD Candidate Chemical Engineering University of Arkansas AbstractFor every student member, involvement within an organization increases the chance ofremaining in school and being a very successful professional. Student organizationsprovide outstanding benefits to its members and one of the most important is

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

Incorporating Multidisciplinary Components of Ocean and Marine Engineering in Traditional Civil Engineering Capstone Courses Timothy W. Mays and Kevin C. Bower Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The CitadelAbstractCriterion 3 of ABET 2004-2005 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs1 requires that allengineering programs seeking accreditation manifest that their graduates have an ability to“function on multidisciplinary teams.” Students should be able to serve as both a team leaderand a contributing member of a design team. Although major facets of this requirement arestudent

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

Session # 2560 Technical Capacity Building in Developing Countries to Promote Economic Development Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. President, Committee on Capacity Building World Federation of Engineering OrganizationsAbstractIn the pursuit of a more secure, stable and sustainable world, developing countries seek toenhance their human, institutional and infrastructure capacity. To do so they need a solidbase of technologically prepared people in order to effectively improve their economiesand quality of life. Such a base of qualified engineers and technologists will

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

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Schwartz

Managing and Assessing Software Engineering Group Projects Donald R. Schwartz Millsaps CollegeWhile the benefits of assigning group projects are numerous, managing and evaluating them cansometimes become daunting tasks. Among the biggest challenges include determiningindividual grades for group members and attempting to reflect the “real world” by mixing up themakeup of each group and the tasks to be completed. After trying various approaches and stylesfor more than a decade, I think that I have developed a useful pedagogy for managing groupprojects, one that attempts to allow each student to work on different parts of different projects,with a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Benjamin Brannaka

Session 3247 Using Signal Express to Automate Analog Electronics Experiments B.D. Brannaka, J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Introduction It is well known that many undergraduate students, especially in engineering technologyprograms, learn best through hands-on experience. Thus, when teaching analog electronics, it iscritical to provide the students with a meaningful laboratory experience. While this soundsstraightforward, it is often difficult to

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schneider

historically focused on learning thesyntax for a single programming language instead of the skills of logical and algorithmicthinking and the processes for software development. This paper presents a stepped process forintroducing software programming to engineering technology students.1 IntroductionWorking as a contract engineer for numerous companies has allowed me to interact with bothyoung and veteran engineers developing software systems for a myriad of industries. Thisexperience made evident the shortcomings of my software programming education as well asthat of many of my peers. While I was competent with the syntax and structure of programming,I was ill prepared to tackle large problems or complex systems. My deficiency was inunderstanding the

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Singer

Collaborative Design across the United States Thomas M. Singer Sinclair Community CollegeHow 2 design programs have linked up in developing curriculum and student projects inusing collaborative design methods in the classroom.Project / presentation overviewwww.designcollaborative.orgThe design of manufactured parts at times requires a team effort. This team effort may alsorequire having to work with other design teams that are separated by a great distance. Gettingdesign and drafting programs to simulate this type of commercial interaction has beentraditionally difficult. Our Design program at Sinclair Community College and the Designprograms at

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Carolyne Garcia; John Crone; Jim Gattis; Otto Loewer

Re-Design in West Memphis: Engaging Engineering Students in Multi-Disciplinary TeamsCarolyne Garcia, John Crone, Jim Gattis, and Otto LoewerUniversity of ArkansasAbstractA multi-disciplinary team comprising landscape architecture, civil engineering andart students developed 20 design alternatives for visually enhancing the entranceto the City of West Memphis. The project was directed by landscape architectureprofessor John Crone, in partnership with the West Memphis Chamber ofCommerce and the U of A Economic Development Institute. Its success hasresulted in funded research that will involve more engineering, architecture, andcommunication students in a multi-disciplinary project.

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charla Triplett; Eugene Eckstein

Alliance for Industrial Internships: Growth and Sustainability C.K. Triplett1 and E.C. Eckstein2 1Biomedical Career Center, Chandler, AZ 85226 2 U. Memphis & U. Tennessee Joint Graduate Program in BME, Memphis, TN 38152-3210 Abstract - The Biomedical Engineering Alliance for Industrial Internships (BMEAII) is a network of member universities throughout the United States that cooperate forthe benefit of biomedical engineering students. Coordinators at the universities work intandem with the National Director and in regional networks to further facilitate placementof individual students, promote awareness of program

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

When Less is Mor e: Integr ating Technical Wr iting Instr uction in a Lar ge, Fir st-Year Engineer ing Cour se William P. Manion and David Adams Univer sity of Maine Abstr act Providing technical writing instruction within a large, first-year engineering course involves both logistical and imaginative challenges but can also yield substantive results. In the fall of 2003, the University of Maine initiated a new plan, called the Engineering Communication Project (ECP), to integrate technical writing instruction throughout the College of Engineering

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Baurin; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

Session 2270 Academic Advisement Tool for Retaining Underrepresented Engineering Students Ardie D. Walser, Annita Alting, Edward Baurin The School of Engineering of The City College and Graduate Center of The City University of New York140th St. & Convent Ave. New York, New York 10031AbstractThis report is an update on an advisement tool used in the School of Engineering at theCity College of New York, an urban institution of higher learning, to retain students fromtraditionally under-represented groups. The manual requisite check process was initiallyintroduced in 2001 as a way to insure that

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Bailey; David Beams

Electrical engineering on stage: when digital design meets dance David M. Beams, Jennifer Bailey Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Tyler/ Tyler Junior College Academy of DanceMaking the general public aware of the contributions of engineers to their lives is a continuingtask. The engineering program of the University of Texas at Tyler has found a unique way toenhance its visibility with a segment of the public that ordinarily takes little notice ofengineering. The College of Engineering and Computer Science has developed stage props forthe annual production of The Nutcracker by the Department of Dance of Tyler Junior College.Two props

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

the faculty.When that female representation within the faculty of the COE is compared to the successachieved in recruiting and retaining female students at the undergraduate level, a seriousconcern arise. At the COE there is a bigger pool of potential female candidates for graduateschool and academia than in other higher learning systems but this is not reflected in itscurrent faculty composition.In this paper the reasons for the high enrollment and retention rates of female undergraduatestudents are investigated and possible courses of action are recommended to the COE in orderto increase the percentage of female faculty.IntroductionPuerto Rico has a combined public and private system of higher education with an enrollmentof over 170,000

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

Engineering Problem Solving Design Project: Emergency/Homeless Shelter Design Julie L. P. Jessop, Tonya L. Peeples The University of IowaAbstractThe Emergency/Homeless Shelter Design Project was developed for “Engineering ProblemSolving I”, a freshman engineering course, based on an exercise presented in Engineering YourFuture: A Project-Based Introduction to Engineering. The purpose of the project is to encouragestudents to apply their design skills to serve society. Students are challenged to design acardboard structure to keep people warm in cold weather, which will be warmed with sunlightand body heat. Classroom activities

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

objectives: to aid the students' professional development by addressingissues such as the ability to critically evaluate technical papers, conduct effective literatureresearch, and express information orally and in writing and to identify at least two current topicsin optoelectronics research.Several innovative pedagogical techniques were integrated into the course to address lifelonglearning and contemporary issues. Students explored an area more deeply by conductingliterature research including a paper and a presentation on a topic of their choice. Topics rangedfrom organic LEDs to photonic crystals. In Spring 2003, the last fifteen minutes of each Fridayclass was devoted to “Fabulous Friday” where one student led a discussion of a recent

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

facilities at Virginia Tech duringtheir stay, there has long been a desire among the coaches and mentors to have the studentsparticipate in an activity more directly related to engineering. This December the Virginia Techstudent section of the Society of Women Engineers (VT-SWE) provided the opportunity for thestudents to participate in a hands-on engineering program, Exploring Engineering Day.Attendance at the Exploring Engineering Day was expected to be more than 320, with 15 SWEmembers and an additional 10 non-SWE members as volunteers. Over the course of theafternoon event participants visited four engineering activity stations, highlighting AerospaceEngineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Ocean Engineering, emphasizingthe