Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

Microrobotics byworking on multidisciplinary projects of mutual interest at various levels. This paper discussesour experience in teaching microrobotics by designing multidisciplinary projects forundergraduates and their integration with research and graduate students. It also discusses thebroader impact of these activities on various levels of students. The activities can be categorizedin three levels: undergraduate teaching, graduate research, and clubs and organizations.This paper explores our experience in developing these projects and related research, includingour lessons learned so far, and our plans for the future. Some statistical data are also provided toshow the broader impact of these multidisciplinary microrobotics teaching and research

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

236 1.33 185 34 9 6 2 Advertising Service on 231 1.32 182 30 15 2 2 Advisory Boards Misuse of PE Seal 225 1.25 196 15 5 4 5 (plan stamping)Seven (7) additional suggested topics were written in by respondents. The following is a list ofthose topics, and the indicated ranking: Boss asks you to deviate from accepted practices causing problems for others (Often, 3) Compensation (Often, 3) Conflict between business decisions and technical/engineering decisions (Often, 3) Conflict with legal requirements (Often, 3) Delivery on word (Extremely Often, 5

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

its evolution online. Business faculty share theirprocesses and research findings to these questions.Industrial Projects CourseThis course is the capstone experience, which requires both teamwork and individual skills inidentifying and solving an industrial problem. It requires the application of design;manufacturing processing, project management plan, and public presentation of results.It is a proven fact that students have the ability to learn, demonstrated by the fact that they havesuccessfully completed the prerequisites of this class. However, very rarely do students have theopportunity to put into practice the skills and knowledge they have acquired during the course oftheir education in solving real-life industrial problems before

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

communicate effectively in 2003-2004 English; exemplary ethical and professional behavior; and involvement with students in extracurricular activities. Faculty members must maintain current knowledge of their field and understanding of the tasks industry expects technicians and technologists to perform. Faculty members normally remain current by active participation in professional societies; reading the literature; continuing education; applied research; consulting and periodic return to industry. The institution should have a well-planned, adequately funded, and effective program for the professional development of its

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

Three requirements included exterior perspectives, detailed plansof a typical apartment unit, a plan oblique view of the refined structural proposal, and a physicalmodel of the proposed building.Discussion and Assessment of outcomes The conceptualization Phase was conducted as a “traditional” studio. Although media-independence was stressed, six of the ten students in the course chose to use CAD rather thanmanual graphic mediums (pencil or pencil and ink) to create the required 2D and 3D drawings inthe conceptualization phase. While the projects presented at the completion of theconceptualization phase varied with the design skills of the students, all students met therequirements. Initial activities emphasized conceptual issues

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili; Jr., Richard Crain; Jeffrey McCauley; Forrest Parkay; Denny Davis; Michael Trevisan

projector.8. Implementation Plan. Takes about twenty minutes to complete. Students develop an implementation plan. This activity uses all the steps within the engineering design process. No reporting done.9. Oral Report on Design. Takes about ten minutes to prepare and about one minute per team to report that describes the project’s merits, use and manufacturability. This is an example of implementation.10. Identify Design Process Steps Used. Takes about fifteen minutes to complete. Each team fills in the following matrix to identify which categories of the engineering design process were completed for each activity of the project. Identify the design categories for each of the activities of the PET project

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Moffett; Thomas Hall

Session 2150 Delivering Electronics Engineering Technology Courses on the Web Thomas M. Hall, Jr. and Glenn W. Moffett Northwestern State University of LouisianaAbstractIs it feasible to offer an associate’s degree in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) on theWeb? The faculty in the Industrial and Engineering Technology (IET) Department atNorthwestern State University (NSU) have begun planning to do just that. While the universityhas been proactive in distance education using a variety of media, going on-line with a programthat demands extensive “hands-on” laboratory work has been greeted

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Rudisill

other factor that has to be considered when planning on how to utilize the laptops in coursepresentation is the infrastructure available to support the laptop use. NMU has made greatstrides in making network access available in study areas, classrooms, dorm rooms and dial-upconnections for off campus students. However, there is still work to be done, and even when allthe planned upgrades are finished, all classrooms will not have network connections availablefor all students. So the assumption was made in planning for the semester that the studentwould have 24 hour access to anything on the web - but would not have access during lecturepresentations. The lab utilized for both courses does have a network connection available foreach bench (every

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

, & Librarians”. Working paper for Instructional Activities within the Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology. September 1998.17. Digital Libraries Initiative, http://www.nsf.gov18. Digital Libraries Phase 2 Initiative, http://www.nsf.gov19. Agogino, A., “Using the National Engineering Education Delivery System as the Foundation for Building a Test-Bed Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education”. http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/showaward?award=9817406 Page 5.425.1020. Maly, K., et al., “Planning Grant for the Use of Digital Libraries in

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

. Page 5.568.2These presentations require intensive preparation, library research, and written interim reports.The interaction among faculty has been a pleasant outcome of this program as it has grown andmatured. To be successful, the program necessitates that the faculty collaborate and planintegrated topics from their disciplines. This requires not only group meetings prior to theprogram, but also weekly progress and planning meetings during the course of the four weeks.There were many lively discussions about how best to accomplish program goals, to assesssuccess and problems, and to coordinate program activities. These meetings, which also includethe student facilitators and the residence coordinator, give us all a much better perspective of

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

transportationproject (policy, planning, design, construction, operations, maintenance and rehabilitation) in thecontext of several modes (highway, transit, air, rail, water, etc.). Course objectives includelinking concepts learned in this course to those from other courses and vice-versa, i.e.,integration across the curriculum. In this process, students “learn” the interactions and tradeoffsbetween policy (technology considerations, financing issues, social and environmental Page 7.121.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

first year – before their academicrecord and confidence have been seriously damaged. The first set of conditions is strictlyacademic: students are required to take appropriate remedial courses and to achieve at aparticular level in these courses. They are also required to use selected support resources.Even so, a high attrition rate is expected among this group, and so a second set ofconditions constitutes a “safe-exit” process. Participation is required in: · A two phase career planning activity developed specifically for this group. Students first meet in small groups with university career planning and advisement professionals to explore their own personal motivational connection to engineering. In accord with the needs

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

who draw up the politicians’ shopping lists by furnishing specific solutionsto particular problems.” The writer goes on to describe how engineers utilized politicalexpediency to promote their plan to put a man on the moon, which required the President’ssupport and legislative funding. 4 This high-profile example of the engineer’s political influence,when properly exerted, is but one of many, less publicized examples. By acting as advocates forsolutions to existing problems, through agenda-setting activities such as legislative testimony ormore behind-the-scenes efforts, engineers have helped move issues forward that may otherwisehave fallen subject to other legislative and agency priorities.One of the most important aspects of public policy

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

required to havea leachate collection system that allows for the collection and removal of leachate which hasprecipitated through the waste mass. While these regulatory constraints have been successful atminimizing the impact of landfills on groundwater they may not be the best long-term landfill Page 7.363.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”management plan. Microorganisms cannot operate in a dry environment and therefore the wastemass will not degrade. Moreover, the containment

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Donna Carlon

the semester males continued to control the Figure 7: Distribution of Task and Team Functions team with information giving and during Team Exercise 2 harmonizing, while the females continuedto gather information, clarify and encourage.Analysis of Task and Team Functions: Planning and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Harriet Cornachione; Tim Brower

provides Oregon Techwith a unique perspective to study differences between women in engineering and women in ETdegree programs. Further, it is important in recruitment and retention efforts to identify anydifferences that may exist.Oregon Tech identified increasing minority students as one of the primary institutional goals inits 1994-1999 Strategic Plan1. Among other specific objectives in this plan, increasing thenumbers of women students enrolled in the ET programs was an established priority. Twoformal pre-college Women-In-Engineering (WIE) programs are offered at Oregon Tech in directsupport of this objective. More recently, a “student-led” WIE initiative was implemented in thespring of 2000 to encourage high school women to consider

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Project Management Graphical Contemporary Issues Design Lifelong Learning Oral Communication Ethical Interpretation Experimental Teaming Written Communication Global-Societal Impact Modeling Time Management Problem SolvingInstructional Content: Using only three 50-minute sessions for each module forced a less thancomprehensive presentation and required that we carefully select the module material. Forexample in the project management module, the first session contained slides on learningobjectives, justification of the material, an introduction to project planning and management withtwo short team exercises, and managing time and resources

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

3Elective 3SIXTH SEMESTERCS 305 Ethics and Law for Computing Professionals 3MSOM 303 Marketing in a Digital World 3IT Networking Core Course 3IT Concentration Related Requirement 3Elective 3SEVENTH SEMESTERIT 443 Resources Planning Requirement (New Course) 3IT 4 91 IT Seminar (New Course

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Hromin; Sven Esche

demonstrations of laboratory experiments into their lectures,• the strain on laboratory class schedules is alleviated significantly, and• budgetary constraints are overcome.As it was rightfully pointed out by the reviewers of the original NSF proposal leading to partialfunding of this activity by the NSF-ILI program as well as by other individuals involved in theplanning and implementation of this project, this laboratory approach does not only offer importantbenefits but also exhibits some drawbacks. The significant investment in the up-front developmenteffort and time required is one of the main disadvantages compared with traditional laboratorysetups. In contrast to the original plans for developing a laboratory to be accessed exclusively in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Linda Head

laboratory experiences. Finally, the National Science Foundation’s meritreview criteria plan is designed to fund more projects emphasizing two areas believed toencourage academic reform: the integration of research and education, and interdisciplinaryresearch (ASEE Prism 1997). The field experiences initiative will improve the ability ofundergraduate students to work in multidisciplinary teams and solve open-ended problems.Rowan University and its Innovative Engineering ClinicsFounded in 1923, Rowan University has evolved into a comprehensive regional state universitywith six colleges, including a new College of Engineering initiated as a result of a majordonation in 1992 from the Rowan Foundation (Rowan and Smith 1995). The EngineeringCollege is

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Kliewer

Session 2647 The Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Examination as an Outcomes Assessment Tool for Engineering Technology Programs Raymond M. Kliewer Virginia State University Petersburg, VirginiaAbstractIncreased assessment in engineering technology and engineering programs is now invogue. The Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (TAC of ABET) has developed new TAC of ABETEngineering Technology Criteria 2000 (ET2K). Accredited engineering technologyprograms will be required to have plans for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

/social science and free electives.4. Program DetailsBeginning in Fall 2001, undergraduate students in the College of Engineering have the optionof doing a Global Concentration in Engineering. Note that electing the Global Concentration isoptional; not a degree requirement. A Global Concentration in Engineering will be engagedsimultaneously with a student’s engineering degree.The following 10 criteria were proposed as Global Concentration requirements for admittedstudents (currently subject to approval). 1. Each undergraduate student wishing to complete a Global Concentration must declare the selected region (China, Mexico, UK etc.) and develop a plan for the Concentration in consultation with the designated Global

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

Total Core Curriculum 3 Semester Total 18 Semester Total 15 Seventh Semester Eighth SemesterME 4523 Dynamics of Systems and Control 3 ME Engr. Design Elective 3ME 4313 Heat Transfer & Rate Processes 3 ME 4702 Mech. Systems/Control Lab 2ME 4811 ME Design Project Planning Lab 1 ME 4813 ME Design Project 3ME Engr. Design Elective 3 ME 4802 Thermal/Fluid Lab 2ME Engr. Sci. Elective

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Resources, Institutional Research and Planning, Admissions,Career Services, Counseling Center, and the Office of the Dean of Students. Page 6.597.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Part of the requirement of the NSF grant was that each of the five participating universitiesconduct an extensive institutional self-evaluation of the status of female students and faculty oncampus. The Report on the Status of Women at Georgia Tech, completed in the fall of 1998,documented the results of a five-year examination of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhash Sarin; Louis Guido; James Heflin; Robert Hendricks

developed tolevel the background of entering students from various disciplines. In addition, several tracks ofadvanced study are proposed in the areas of processing, devices, nanofabrication, and Page 6.175.1manufacturing/operations planning. All the students get hands-on experience in the newly Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationdeveloped undergraduate and graduate cleanrooms; and, in addition, will work on senior researchproject in a chosen area of interest in microelectronics

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

, 10, 11, 12, 13 . Research shows thatsuch approach can accommodate multiple learning styles and personalities 14 . Some engineeringprograms have been almost totally revised to allow room for learning through doing, that is bycreating educational environment that closer reflects real-world engineering practice 15 .Two Engineering Technology programs at CCSU, Manufacturing and Mechanical, require coursein manufacturing process planning. The course has traditionally covered technical aspects ofvarious manufacturing processes and technical aspects of planning a part making process (a clearlydefined technical goal). Based on the author’s current experience with industrial projects, severalvery important aspects of engineering work had to be

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

vahid salehi pour mehr, Florida International University; Ali Mazloomzadeh, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University; Juan Francisco Fernandez, Florida International University; Javier Parra

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

self-managing and reliable smart grid isseen as the future of protection and control systems [3]. This philosophy requires finding a wayto implement in the laboratory.The Smart Grid design aims are to provide overall power system monitoring, create controlstrategies to maintain system performance and security and to reduce cost of operation,maintenance, and system availability planning. The Smart Grid Control gives us capabilities suchas: predicting system behavior, anticipatory operation and adaptation to new environment, Page 22.813.2handling distributed resource, stochastic demand and optimal response to the smart appliances.The smart grid

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kevin Caves, Duke University; Julie A. Reynolds, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

appreciated the opportunity to work ontheir technical writing, although some felt that the peer review feedback was not helpful and thatthe writing process distracted from their work on the projects. In the future, we plan tostreamline the peer review process and to refine the evaluation rubric so that students providemore effective feedback to their peers. Our goal is to further improve the quality of writing,without compromising the students’ focus on the design and development of their projects.IntroductionIt is essential for engineering students to develop a solid foundation in technical skills as well as Page 22.843.2“soft skills”, such as

Conference Session

International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Braun Riggins, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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International

assigned decimals such as 9.6 togrades. The professors put course materials and grades on course websites for some classes. Testgrades were posted on bulletin boards.Social and Cultural Interactions: Outside of school, it was easy to spend time with Brazilianstudents since they spoke English and the foreign students knew conversational Portuguese. A Page 22.949.9group of Brazilian students was dedicated to orienting exchange students, and several Brazilianstudents planned social events throughout the semester such as a BBQ and a hike. Since therewas very little on-campus housing and most of the students‟ families lived in Rio de Janeiro,student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Dean Palmer, Northern Arizona University; Joseph Flieger, Northern Arizona University; Eddie Hillenbrand

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

are the new faces of academic computing. Bonnie A. Nardi University of California, IrvineIt’s seems clear that at least since the dot-com bust, Computer Science has had difficultyattracting new students. The percentage of college freshmen planning to major in computerscience dropped from 3.4% in 1998 to 1.4% in 2004. Further, data from the National Center forEducation Statistics shows that computer and information sciences conferred fewer degrees thaneither the visual and performing arts or the social sciences and history. Downward trends forwomen entering the field date back to the 90s. After a brief