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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kris G. Mattila; Dennis Johnson

loadsto the stream. Many of the rehabilitation sites were inaccessible to vehicles and required handlabor solutions. All of the Project Managers on the project were graduate students in Civil andEnvironmental Engineering Department. This paper describes the partnership and the project.It was found that the partnerships worked well in this type of work because the expertise, workforce and technical knowledge needed were all available through the different groups.Introduction A river rehabilitation project integrating several organizations was begun on the OtterRiver, Michigan, in 1999. Three major groups were involved in the project: the Michigan CivilianConservation Corps (MCCC), the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

Developing multi-discipline design skills in undergraduates Frank Bullen, Jane Sargison, John McCulloch School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, AustraliaAbstractThe importance of incorporating design skills in undergraduate engineering programs iswidely recognized. Demonstrating that students have been imbued with those skills ishowever, often poorly done with design not being well developed throughout a degreeprogram. The paper outlines the processes adopted at the University of Tasmania to developdesign skills and how the attainment of those skills is evaluated. A case study involving thedevelopment and refinement of a new multi-disciplinary design unit Experimental Designand

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Session 1430 T-shirts and Ponytails: Women Students in Engineering Talk about Self-presentation Alisha A. Waller Georgia State UniversityIntroduction Over the past thirty years, educators, activists, and politicians have made manycalls to increase the number of women in engineering education and practice. For example, in apublic hearing conducted by the Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science,Engineering, and Technology Development in July of 1999, William Wulf, President of the NationalAcademy of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-funded engineering education projects are highlighted in this paper toillustrate the variety of reform-oriented projects supported by NSF as well as evaluation issuesthat challenge the success of these efforts. The projects include: (1) an engineering designcurriculum development project that specified the design expectations for the first two years ofengineering education, (2) a new master’s program in opto-electronics, and (3) an IGERT projectin environmental engineering. Evaluation issues faced by these projects are both technical andnon-technical in nature and are central to useful evaluation work. These issues are not onlypresent in NSF-funded projects but also within engineering programs more generally and thus,the NSF-funded projects

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

.ABSTRACTIncreasingly stringent and pervasive government regulations are a fact of life in our society.There are regulations covering business, manufacturing, finance, safety, the environment,education, research, law, medicine, and government itself. The increasingly stringent applicationof OSHA standards in the construction industry is based on the concern for human life. Equality,life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, security, civic duty, justice, honor, rule of law, privacy, andprivate property; these are the widely held values in our society, these are the values we mustlive by to avoid regulation, and these are the values that should serve as a basis for ethicsinstruction. There is a lack of focus in the construction field regarding the integration of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusuf Mehta

Session: 1793 Innovative Techniques To Teach Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory Yusuf A. Mehta, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 201 Mullica Hill Road, 329 Rowan Hall, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028. E-,mail: Mehta@rowan.edu Phone: (856) 256-5327. Fax: (856) 256-5242.ABSTRACTAt Rowan University, civil engineering (CE) materials laboratory is taught in the junior year as arequired course for all CE students. This is a two-credit course with a seventy-five minute classand two-hour forty-minute laboratory every week. The typical enrollment is around 20 to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

material for sophomore year engineering courses. In the first year of this change,retention in engineering from the first to the second year increased from 17 to 73 percent. Forthe first group of students to have experienced this change, the available data suggest that thereare no negative impacts on student performance in sophomore year classes. Hope College offersa ABET accredited BS engineering degree. In the 2001-2 academic year a sudden markeddecrease in retention occurred affecting even students who started with a high interest inengineering and good scores on standardized college admission tests. To address this problem,changes were instituted including an increased effort to identify and advise first year engineeringstudents, insuring

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

O. Geoffrey Egekwu; Prince Anyalebechi

early 1990's in response to industry needfor university graduates with a broad knowledge of science and technology and excellentanalytical and problem-solving skills. The goal was to produce university graduates with theability to manage a broad range of technologies and solve science, technology andengineering related problems. A second important goal was to attract and retain students,including minorities, who ordinarily would not have selected an engineering program.Accomplishing both goals from a pedagogical viewpoint required a paradigm shift in theway science and engineering courses are traditionally taught in universities. It required thedesign of interdisciplinary courses with careful and deliberate integration of concepts from abroad

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Raed Abou Fakher; Deborah Sharer

Session 3549 Comparison of Supplemental Instruction Strategies and Results for On-Campus and Distance Education Students Raed M. AbouFakher, Deborah Sharer University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstractSupplementary Instruction (SI) is a proven tool to help undergraduate students succeed intraditionally difficult academic courses. SI involves scheduled group study sessions with directpeer-to-peer interaction between students and the SI leader. The SI strategy has proven itsefficacy throughout a wide range of U.S universities that have embraced such a program. SI

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

Session 2566 The Creation of an Experiential Engineering Library James T. McLeskey, Jr., John E. Speich, Judy S. Richardson, and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USAIn preparation for solving twenty-first century problems, today's engineering students needtwenty-first century examples. These students also express a need for hands-on activities to helpthem understand the theories they learn in class. Satisfying these criteria while ensuring masteryof the fundamentals is becoming an increasingly greater challenge given the time

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fiona Doe; Charles Finn

Paper Number: 2004-709Use of External IT Certification for Engineering Technology at the BermudaCollege Charles Finn and Fiona DoeCharles Finn: Former Dean, 1998-2001, of Applied Science and Technology at theBermuda College, introduced the ICDL program to Bermuda in January 2000.Fiona Doe: Former Instructor in Horticulture and Technical Education Training Officer,Bermuda College, Division of Applied Science & Technology 1999 – 2003.Abstract:The Bermuda College1, founded in 1975, is a two year community college located on theisland of Bermuda, over 600 miles east of North Carolina. It offers associate degree andcertificates programs in Liberal Arts, Hospitality, Business, and Applied Science

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thrassos Thrasyvoulou; Constantinos Panayiotou; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

MATLAB INTERFACE WITH JAVA SOFTWARE Andreas Spanias, Constantinos Panayiotou, Thrassos Thrasyvoulou, and Venkatraman Atti MIDL, Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 AbstractThe J-DSP editor is an object oriented environment that enables distance learning students toperform on-line laboratories. The editor has a rich collection of signal processing functions andis currently being used in a senior-level DSP course at ASU. In this paper, we present newenhancements to the infrastructure of J-DSP that provide embedded MATLAB™ scriptingcapabilities. The synergy of the J-DSP object-oriented

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

Session 1625 The Use of Calculation Software In Undergraduate Machine Elements Instruction Robert L. Mott University of Dayton Dayton, OhioAbstractEducation in the principles and practices of the design of machine elements inherently involvesnumerous topics such as gears, shafts, bearings, keys, clutches, brakes, springs, and many more.Furthermore, each topic requires students to perform extensive calculations to specify designparameters and to analyze the performance of a proposed

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman; Dugan Um

systems androbotics are taught in separate courses, which may result in students not being able to appreciatethe interrelationship that exits between these areas. In this paper a strategy is detailed wherein theauthors have used a “hands-on” approach, using robots as a tool for communicating key conceptsin control systems. The use of robots as a tool also enables students to “discover” the relationshipbetween the two areas.IntroductionThis paper deals with pedagogical problems that were encountered in teaching automation,robotics, and controls systems to engineering technology and manufacturing engineeringstudents at Texas State University-San Marcos. Controls theory as presented in classical bookssuch as those by Kuo1 and Ogata2 has the

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

Session 1535 Broadening Engineering Education through International Programs Keshav S. Varde College of Engineering & Computer Science University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MichiganAbstractIn recent years there has been a rapid move to globalize engineering profession throughoutsourcing product development, manufacturing and service. Nowhere has this been moreobvious than in automotive and computer/software industry. Realizing the need to provide someaspects of global education to engineering and computer science

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

Session Number 1793 A Value-Added Per spective on the College Ratings Br uce R. Thompson Rader School of Business, Milwaukee School of Engineer ingAbstract In recent years, various models have been developed to measure the quality of educational institutions. One group of models, particularly popularized by the U.S. News and World Report’s ratings of colleges and universities, along with specialized programs such as engineering schools, makes use of data such as that on incoming students and resources to rank the institutions. A quite different approach has become

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

Session 2148 Distance Learning Opportunities for Electronic Engineering Technology Graduates of Community Colleges Wm. Hugh Blanton East Tennessee State UniversityABSTRACT A growing pool of graduates from the two-year community college technology programs hasbecome aware of the need for expanded knowledge and the B.S. degree to enhance theirprofessional opportunities. Unfortunately, many of these graduates are working and are isolatedby distance from the limited number of universities that provide the B.S. degree in

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Session 1630 Learning from the NRC report “Scientific Research in Education” Alisha A. Waller Georgia State UniversityAbstract In 2002, the National Research Council released a report of the Committee on ScientificPrinciples for Education Research entitled “Scientific Research in Education.” One goal of thecommittee was to examine and clarify the nature of scientific inquiry in education. Theyconcluded that the following six principles underlie scientific inquiry: 1) pose significantquestions that can be investigated empirically; 2) link research to relevant theory; 3

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

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

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

laboratories. These graduate students read thedraft reports, make appropriate comments and return the reports for final production. The graduatestudents critique, comment, and grade in both the technical and communication areas while alsoteaching the above laboratories. The reports are then read again and a grade is assigned. The issuesregarding faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students, and orientation for theundergraduates who will be impacted by the plan will be addressed. The ultimate goal involvesleading engineering students to the realization that communication is important because it is beingevaluated by fellow engineers and that those evaluators will also improve their own skills becauseof their need to focus on how

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

process at an ACSA Technology Conference in 1992;1 sincethen the assignment has been further developed, expanded, enhanced, and refined.Professionals must be able to write daily reports to document progress on the job or project activities, toevaluate, and to summarize the work of others. They must be able to compose clear, succinct technicalreports on a regular basis; they also need to be able to speak in front of groups of people, ranging fromdirecting workers in the office, to the instructing at the jobsite, to making formal public presentations.This means being able to write and speak clearly and concisely and to present the material so it can beclearly understood by the intended audience. Professionals also need to review a seemingly endless

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James P. Penrod

Math Requirements for Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton James P. Penrod, P.E. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology University of DaytonAbstractDeficiencies in the mathematical preparation of engineering technology students have beennoted in some mid- and upper-level courses at the University of Dayton. As a result, an ad hoccommittee was formed to review the topics covered in the existing mathematics sequence andrecommend changes. This paper will review the findings of that committee. Specifically, it willaddress the areas where students were found deficient, the committee’s curriculumrecommendations, the creation of a capstone course

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

-derivative, and PID controllers as operational amplifier circuits and also asstand-alone C programs that ran on Motorola's M68HC912B32 microcontrollers. Both types ofcontrollers (analog and digital) were applied to a single shaft mechanical plant driven by a dcmotor. Through these controllers, the students attained precise position and speed control of themotor. They also observed the difference in the performances of the analog and digital controllersand identified the advantages and disadvantages of each type. This paper describes the labsdeveloped for the students, the lab results, and the students’ learning experience. Studentevaluations for this lab course were very favorable. Through this lab course and two control theorycourses, the students

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

: AXL17@psu.eduAbstractIn recent years, Universities have placed a stronger emphasis on research and scholarship as acritical element not only for faculty members to be tenured and promoted but also being used intheir performance evaluations. Engineering Technology (ET) faculty members are not anexception. However, ET faculty is a more heterogeneous group than their colleges inEngineering programs, having very diverse experiences and backgrounds. A common factor forall ET departments is the emphasis on undergraduate education and the limited human andinfrastructure requirements to conduct the traditionally considered research activities. All thisintroduces newer elements that need to be considered when defining the activities that can

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

can be used.The primary objective of this project is to gain an understanding of electric motorprinciple, and the materials needed to convert electricity and magnetism into motion.Key words related to this project include: conductors; insulators; enamel; magnetism;electromagnet; and motor principles. Only a very basic knowledge of electricity andmagnetism are need as a prerequisite.When being utilized as a “materials” experiment, students can experiment withconductors other than copper (such as aluminum and steel) and detect slower (lessefficient) motor operation. We actually utilize a strobe light to determine exact motorrevolutions per minute to contrast different cradle conductors.Induction Motor FabricationHeavy gauge copper wire is used

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

specific “short courses”, inconjunction with required technical courses.9 In this specific case,9 students signed up for a one-or two-credit special topics course on using a specific software package while enrolled in atechnical course in which the software was used. Although students received credit for thesoftware course, it was not counted toward meeting their degree requirements. It was a formalcourse, however, so it appeared on their transcripts and was seen as an advantage when lookingfor employment. Students liked the self-paced format, bi-weekly meetings with the instructorand assignments and exercises using the software.9Although other options are available,8,9,10 most civil engineering educators will need toincorporate computer usage

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

Integrated Engineering and Management Masters Program in Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship Patrick E. Crago and A. Dale Flowers The Institute for the Integration of Management and Engineering Case School of Engineering/ Weatherhead School of Management Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106The Case School of Engineering, in partnership with the Weatherhead School of Management,launched a new Master of Engineering and Management (MEM) degree program in 2001. Thisunique program combines the engineering and management disciplines. The program wasdeveloped in consultation with 28

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ellen Ford; Keith Levien; Ellen Momsen; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

of K-12 Outreach in that it acknowledges that early and continuedexposure to science and engineering are keys to getting and keeping students interested in scienceand engineering career s. In the Spring of 2003 the Oregon State University College ofEngineering was awarded a grant from the Flora and William Hewlett Foundation for the specificpurpose of recruitment and retention of students into engineering, and in particular women andminorities. Approximately one-quarter of the funds allocated in that grant were targeted for K-12outreach activities, acknowledging the importance of early exposure to both recruitment andretention of women and minorities in engineering.The influx of funding from the Hewlett grant had a significant impact on both

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

Expanding Engineering Education Horizons through Hosting International Conferences Sanju Patro, Ph.D.; Charles W. White, Ph.D.; Michael Sanders, Ph.D. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering & Business Department Kettering University 1700 W. Third Avenue Flint, MI 48504 (810) 762-7950; (810) 762-7956; (810) 762-7947 spatro@kettering.edu; cwhite@kettering.edu; sanders@kettering.eduABSTRACTGlobalization in some form or the other is becoming more of a reality for mostorganizations. Universities, as the educator of the next generation of workforce attemptto keep pace with the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgil Cox; Stephen Kuyath

Session: 1793 Diversity in Engineering Technology: The Community College Perspective Stephen J. Kuyath, Virgil Cox UNC Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology, Charlotte, NC / Dean, Engineering Technology, Gaston College, Dallas, NCAbstractWomen and minorities are less likely to choose careers in science, technology, engineering, andmath (STEM) as noted in a report from the National Science Foundation (NSF). An NSFsponsored consortium including Gaston College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte(UNC Charlotte) and