Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

bioengineering classrooms within the VaNTH (VanderbiltUniversity, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and theHarvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Science and Technology)Engineering Research Center, the VaNTH Observation System (VOS) is a four-part directobservation instrument that examines faculty and student interactions, students’ academicengagement levels, the lesson content and context of a class, and global ratings of effectiveteaching.1 In addition, the VOS reports information about faculty members’ use of the “HowPeople Learn” (HPL) framework, a framework, that when coupled with traditional teachingtechniques, are expected to optimize student learning. The first part of the VOS, the

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Judith Pearse

Teaching the 3 “Co’s” in the Engineering Classroom Judith R. Pearse University of MaineAbstract - The cornerstone of business success focuses around three fundamental “Co” words:Consideration; Cooperation; and Communication. Yet with so much emphasis on facts andfigures, Technology students have little or no time to learn them. Students are encouraged tobecome better-rounded by taking several humanities courses, but most technology students viewthem as a necessary evil to be endured. Through an innovative – and required – ProjectManagement class, students experience more of the “softer side” of engineering business. Role-playing, distance

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kurt Gramoll

Workshop on Designing, Developing and Implementing Online Collaboration Tools forEngineering Education, Kurt Gramoll, University of Oklahoma With the increased use of computers and electronic media in teaching basic engineering courses comes a need for better online collaboration tools. Many basic tasks, such as office hours, help sessions and even lecturing, can be done more efficiently and conveniently over the Internet with the right collaboration tools. However, there are few commercially available tools that work well for engineering. Engineers have special needs like vector-based graphics that can be edited, equations, illustrations, diagrams and other hard to create images. These tools also

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

its effects on societies and their economies, and how, in turn, socialchange influences technological advance. Thus, engineering students are exposed to graduatelevel theoretical foundations in the social sciences, and liberal art students are exposed to coursesin information technology software, transportation systems, technology forecasting, andsustainable energy studies. Because of the unique multidisciplinary curriculum that combinestechnology, social sciences, and international and comparative studies, students in this programare able to choose elective courses and theses or applied project topics from a wide variety offields, depending upon their academic backgrounds, strengths, and interests. The experience ofimplementing this

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lee Vallone

projects. Similarly, we teach our students the virtues of use-cases andspiral development models, frequently ignoring the true keystones of student success in theproject world: teamwork, collaboration and the processes that tie everything together.There are really two objectives for this paper. One is to describe a method for teaching process,quality and measurement in a way that is engaging and enables students to really internalize thematerial. The second objective is to describe an approach that helps students understand (andexperience) the role and importance of sociological issues and how to address them in a way thatsubstantially increases the probability of project and personal success. It is based on the premisethat software engineering is

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samuel Colwell; Richard Warren; Rich Warren

Session 2147 Increasing Student Interest Through Hardware Ownership Samuel Colwell and Rich Warren Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, VermontAbstractWith the significant drop in cost of embedded microcontrollers,1, 3 there now exists anopportunity to give every student a trainer that they can take home to work on and can keep at theend of the semester. At Vermont Technical College, one of the courses has been modified toinclude a Microchip PIC16F877 based trainer board. The trainer board comes in kit form (a PCBand components) and the students assemble the board and then use it in

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Newell

Session 3170 Bridging the Diversity Gap: Fours Years of Success Luis Santos-Rivas, Dana Newell, Mary Anderson-Rowland, Ronald Roedel Arizona State UniversityAbstractSince 2000, the Minority Engineering Program (MEP) in the Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering has held an incoming first year student Bridge program in July. Thisprogram has averaged a one-year retention rate of 80% or higher for the past four years.This paper will provide information on the Bridge program such as program componentsand activities.The MEP SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM (SBP) prepares underrepresented ethnicminority students for success in

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

teams.Given the historical lack of emphasis that engineering schools have placed on creating andimproving team skills in students, it is natural that industry practitioners have created their ownpractices aimed at creating and improving those skills. In this paper, we report some of thepractices identified in interviews with industry practitioners, and discuss the feasibility oftransferring and implications for utilizing such practices in academic settings.Interviews & IntervieweesPractitioners with extensive experience supervising engineers working in teams were identifiedthrough our Industrial Advisory Board members, through faculty members, through conferencecontacts, and through contacting targeted organizations and asking for a person with

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teresa Larkin; Dan Budny

Summer International Experience for First Year Students Dan Budny and Teresa Larkin University of Pittsburgh / American UniversityAbstract – The Plus 3 Program is an optional three-credit study abroad opportunity offeredjointly by the school of business and engineering as a follow-up to the freshman year. The courseconsists of a field study trips to a number of locations including: Brazil, Chile, China, CzechRepublic, France; or Germany. The course involves lectures at the local universities, companyvisits and sightseeing. It culminates in a group research paper and a presentation focused on oneof the visited companies, as well as in the national and global industry in

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book

major strengthsare twofold: 1) rapid grading and 2) individualized assessments. The major drawbacks for thestudents are the loss of partial credit and the insecurity associated with working in a virtualenvironment. Faculty find that the time required to construct effective computer-basedassessments is much greater than that for paper-based assessments. Unfortunately, the increasein construction time can be greater than the reduction in grading time. With the currenttechnology, it is extremely difficult to develop large, multi-step problems requiring problemanalysis and solution synthesis skills without leading the student to the answer. This, of course,defeats the purpose of the assessment for this type of problem.IntroductionThe technology for

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

Inquiry-Based Activities and Technology to Improve Student Performance on the Science Reasoning Portion of the ACT (American College Test) J. E. Roldan, S. S. Stewart, J. N. DuBois, L. L. Ramsey, and D. K. Mills GK-12 Teaching Fellows Program Louisiana Tech University P.O. Box 3179 Ruston, LA 71272ABSTRACTA six-week module to prepare Louisiana high school students from a small rural community forthe science portion of the American College Test (ACT) was developed and taught by twograduate engineering students from Louisiana Tech University. The graduate students, in

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Parten

Session 2068 Instrumentation and Control of an Ecological Life Support System in a Laboratory Project Micheal Parten Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech University1. Project Laboratories The laboratory structure in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atTexas Tech University is somewhat different than most university laboratories.1-10 There are 5, threehour credit required laboratory classes. Although all of the laboratories have pre-requisites, they arenot

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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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

Colorado at BoulderAbstractIn 1995, the National Science Foundation published recommendations for Systemic EngineeringEducation Reform.1 Almost a decade later, the engineering education community still strives tomeet the long-term challenges that were set forth by the NSF Engineering Directorate. The goalstill remains to educate graduating engineers to: Understand the functional core of the engineering process, Analyze and synthesize engineering problems, Become proficient working in teams, Think across disciplines, and Communicate ideas effectively to diverse groups.One of the key actions for sustaining such cultural changes is to train future engineering facultyto realize this new engineering education paradigm.Supported by

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

GLUE: Sticking with Engineering through Undergraduate Research Ms. Tricia S. Berry, Dr. Kerry A. Kinney The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) isin the third year of developing, managing and expanding a hands-on, seminar-basedundergraduate research program, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering(GLUE). GLUE undergraduate student participants are matched by major and interest area witha graduate student for the spring semester. The undergraduate participant works with thegraduate student on a research project three to five hours per

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Loendorf

Session 1793 Developing an Electrical Engineering Program William Loendorf, Mick Brzoska, Min-Sung Koh, and Esteban Rodriguez-Marek Eastern Washington University School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Department of Engineering and DesignAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Design (E&D) within the School of Computing andEngineering Sciences at Eastern Washington University (EWU) is developing a new ElectricalEngineering (EE) degree program that will prepare professional engineers to adapt quickly tonew technologies and knowledge. Coursework

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

students’ intentions to pursue an engineering degree over thecourse of their undergraduate career, and upon graduation, to practice engineering as aprofession. The design of the survey entails development of conceptual variables and surveyquestions generated from a review of engineering education literature and national surveys onundergraduate education, piloting of the survey, and internal consistency analyses. Currently inits second year, the instrument is being administered with 160 students selected from fouracademic campuses.In this paper, we present the variables that are guiding the design of the PIE survey, and discusseach variable in depth by providing its rationale. In addition, we discuss how the data collectedduring the first year–and

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dennis Silage

The Marconi Challenge: Who Needs the IEEE MicroMouse? Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversityAbstractPresented here from experience is a challenging new competition to supplement the IEEEMicroMouse contest. The IEEE MicroMouse contest has a storied history but is staid,technically complicated and expensive to mount. The Marconi Challenge is a new contest thataddresses the design objectives of wireless data communication and is suitable for students fromjunior high school to college. The Marconi Challenge was originally conceived to celebrate the100th anniversary of Guglielmo

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa Frehill

The NSF-ADVANCE Program and the Recruitment and Retention of Women Engineering Faculty at New Mexico State University Lisa M. Frehill, Ph. D. New Mexico State UniversityRecruitment and retention of women engineering faculty has become an increasingly importantissue as baby boomers hired in the 1970s and early 1980s have begun to retire. In general,higher education has difficulty competing with the lucrative salaries, benefits, and workingconditions offered by industry, which is especially the case with engineering. Concern for theprofessorate has led to a number of programmatic efforts at the National Science Foundation(NSF) to improve access to the

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Designing and Implementing an Embedded Microcontroller System: Tetris Game Tyler W. Gilbert, Barry E. Mullins, and Daniel J. Pack Department of Electrical Engineering US Air Force AcademyAbstractIn this paper we present the software and hardware design experience of a junior cadetmajoring in electrical engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy as he completed anembedded system project in a second microcontroller course. The paper also includesthe corresponding observations made by his instructors. Some of the topics of thissemester-long course are programming microcontrollers using C, software and hardwaredesign techniques

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

Session 3170 GUIDE: Helping Underrepresented Students Succeed in Engineering Amy E. Monte, Gretchen L. Hein Department of Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractThe Graduate, Undergraduate Initiative for Development and Enhancement (GUIDE) programcreates a supportive environment for first year engineering students from underrepresentedgroups. GUIDE provides first year students with undergraduate and graduate student mentors,financial

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Rossler; Martin High

Legal Studies Curriculum for Technical Professionals Martin S. High, Paul E. Rossler Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74063AbstractA novel curriculum has been designed involving the legal aspects of engineering as they apply totechnology practice. The purpose of the curriculum is two-fold: 1) to make technicalprofessionals aware of how engineering practice relates to an organization’s legal duties and 2)to encourage those professionals to engage in policy debates that shape business regulation andthe common law. From an educational perspective, the curriculum is a logical extension oftraditional science and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malur Srinivasan

TEACHING MATERIALS AND PROCESS SELECTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS Malur N. Srinivasan Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77710IntroductionMechanical engineers are often faced with the problem of selecting the best possible material andthe best manufacturing process for making a designed product using the material. One goodapproach to achieve this purpose would be to examine alternative materials available for makingthe product and choosing the best material based on the product service requirements. Once thisis done, the alternate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

Session 1526 Impacting the Future by Leveraging the Past Don Lewis Millard, Ph.D. RensselaerAbstractThe paper presents an overview of a pilot project that utilizes the rich historical archives ofGeneral Electric’s (GE) science & technology to augment the production of new educationalmaterials; including a wonderful series of 23 scientific comic books that GE produced between1946 and 1959. The paper discusses how images of physical artifacts and historical documentshave been integrated with the comics and other archival pieces to produce interactive

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

2005-274 WEPAN The Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network Bevlee A. Watford President, WEPAN Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity 215 Hancock Hall (0275), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 540-231-3244 FAX 540-231-1831, ceed@vt.edu Linda Scherr President-Elect, WEPANAbstractWEPAN, Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network, is a non-profit organizationfocused on strengthening the engineering workforce by

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Karen S. Hays

oflaboratory health and safety, and it describes the necessity of such training as it pertains to notonly OSHA Compliance but also to the ethical obligation to provide a safe and healthy learningand working environment for the faculty and students. This paper defines the process ofevaluating necessary training topics using OSHA guidelines.IntroductionAccording to Prudent Practices in the Laboratory, a new culture of safety consciousness,accountability, organization and education has developed in the laboratories of the chemicalindustry, government and academia. So drastic is this new climate toward “safety first” in thelaboratory that it could scarcely have been imagined 25 years ago. This new culture of safetyconsciousness nurtures basic attitudes

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wes Hines; Mary Kocak; Kurt Gramoll

Delivery and Assessment of Teaching Statics over the Internet to Community College Students Kurt Gramoll, Wes Hines, and Mary Kocak Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma College of Engineering, University of Tennessee Mechanical Eng. Technology, Pellissippi State Technical Community CollegeAbstractThis paper presents the methods and results of delivering a basic Statics course to PellissippiState Technical Community College (PSTCC) students located in Knoxville, Tennessee over theInternet. All aspects of the course, including textbook, lectures, class meetings, studentdiscussions, homework and tests were

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Devon

Session 1442 Informal Graphics for Conceptual Design Richard Devon, Sven Bilén, Andras Gordon, and Hien Nguyen Engineering Design Program School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs Penn State UniversityAbstractEngineers who work in innovative design spaces have very different CAD and graphics needsthan those who work in more conventional design spaces. We propose to develop ideas aboutthe graphical communication needs for conceptual design. This paper will illustrate what wemean by describing a few new methods such as

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Nutter

Virtual Simulation Curriculum Integration Paul Nutter Ohio Northern University Department of Technological StudiesAbstractManufacturing simulation is being used extensively to model, analyze, and optimize complexmanufacturing operations by many major corporations, including Boeing, Lockheed-Martin,Daimler-Chrysler and Toyota. Companies are utilizing these advanced 3D digital manufacturingtools as a component of their product life-cycle management. In many cases a simulation ismandatory prior to any significant new operation, project or process implementation.Manufacturing technologists and engineers will

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jameson Wetmore

Monitoring Air Bag Performance: Exploring the Social Facets of Engineering with STS Jameson M. Wetmore Department of Science, Technology & Society University of VirginiaIntroductionOver the past several decades a new social science discipline has been emerging that seeks tobetter understand the relationship between technology and society. This discipline is sometimescalled “Science & Technology Studies” or “Science, Technology, and Society,” but is oftensimply given the umbrella title of “STS.”1 The discipline has attracted scholars from the fieldsof sociology, history

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wicklein; David Gattie

technologies insociety. Current efforts at the University of Georgia propose adjusting the focus of TechnologyEducation from the end product alone to a defined emphasis on the engineering design processby which technology is developed. The hypothesis is twofold: An engineering design focus forTechnology Education in K-12 will, 1) increase interest and improve competence in mathematicsand science among K-12 students by providing an arena for synthesizing mathematics andscience principles; and 2) improve technological literacy based on the methodology by whichtechnology is created. This will inherently involve a fundamental paradigm shift, thereby raisingmathematics and science requirements for technology teachers and technology teacher