Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education forall students, including: majors in STEM disciplines; prospective K-12 teachers; studentspreparing for the technical workplace; and all students as citizens in a technologicalsociety.The Division’s grant programs sponsor projects in the two broad areas of curriculumdevelopment and workforce preparation. The scope and objectives of these programs areherein described. Some of these programs are congressionally mandated but administeredby the Division. Greater attention is given to the Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program that was developed by the Division to provide leadership andresources for the improvement of STEM education. Guidance is provided on how toprepare a successful

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Hutchinson; Larry Erickson; David Steward; Lakshmi Reddi; Alok Bhandari

, it became clear that the scientific and engineering issuesinvolved were diverse and required adoption of interdisciplinary approaches. The need forinterdisciplinarity in assessing and solving geoenvironmental problems requires that students,researchers, engineering personnel and research managers synthesize and apply principles from adiverse set of disciplines. The immense growth in research on waste containment and siteremediation coupled with the need for interdisciplinarity, brings about the necessity for thedevelopment of multidisciplinary and integrated research and curriculum development programsin geoenvironmental engineering.This paper presents a curriculum framework for geoenvironmental engineering developed withsupport from the

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

1505 Kettering University’s Bioengineering Summer Program for High School Women Janet Brelin-Fornari, Betsy Homsher, Laura Sullivan Kettering UniversityAbstractIt has been documented that young women are more likely to pursue a career that they perceiveas contributing to the common good of society. Also, the number of young women that obtaindegrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is steadily decreasing orremaining stagnant. To address these two issues, Kettering University has developed a summerprogram that introduces high

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

Session __1349_ The Effect of Programming Learning Center on Students in First Year Computer Programming Sequence Hazem Said Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering Technology students whether freshmen or otherwise tend to find their firstsequence of computer programming courses quite a challenge. To increase the successrate for these students, the author started a learning center for computer programmingcalled the Programming Learning Center (PLC). The PLC started its operation in the fallof 2001. The

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

half a century, the primary focus of student involvement in engineering andcomputer science research programs has been at the graduate level. The reasons for primarilytargeting graduate students for inclusion in research programs and activities include thefollowing: Programmatic emphasis on education and research at the graduate level as opposed to t the undergraduate level. A need for specific background, skills, and knowledge (e.g., successful completion of a certain set of courses or undergraduate degree). Perceptions or expectations regarding greater dedication, drive, and motivation among graduate students (when compared to those of undergraduates). Perceived levels of greater maturity and sense of

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

Session 1106 Student Competitions and Experience Enhance ABET Requirements Enno “Ed” Koehn, Rajesh D. Malani Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has adopted a revised set ofcriteria for accrediting engineering programs. Nevertheless, as in the past, civil engineeringdepartments will be required to demonstrate proficiency in specific subject areas which areincluded in the ABET program criteria.This paper investigates, according to civil engineering students, the level at which theirunderstanding of various subjects required by

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

past several years, the VaNTH (Vanderbilt Northwestern TexasHarvard-MIT) Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies hasemployed the VaNTH Observational System (VOS). VOS allows minute-by-minute capture ofboth student and instructor activities during a classroom session via handheld personal dataassistants (PDAs) and has been previously described. However, generating useful informationfor instructors based on this data is time-consuming, and instructors often wait days or weeks forthe appropriate reports to be generated on a case-by-case basis. Furthermore, multiple filesresulting from these methods have been difficult to organize and maintain.The VOS Data Manager has been developed to automate the process of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

April Kedrowicz

Negotiating Comfort in Difference: Making the Case for Interdisciplinary Collaboration April A. Kedrowicz University of Utah/College of EngineeringAbstractThe face of engineering education is changing. Engineering students’ education not onlyemphasizes technical skills learned through math, science, and computer technology, but inmany cases, also has a leadership focus, manifested through an emphasis on oral communication,writing, teamwork, and ethics. In response to the growing demand for engineers to occupypositions of leadership in organizations upon graduation, engineering educators have had torethink the approach taken to

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

Internal Combustion Engine Demonstrator for First Year Introduction to Engineering Laboratory Course J. Steven Brown1, Matthew A. Carr2 1 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20064, brownjs@cua.edu / 2 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The United States Naval Academy, 590 Holloway Road (Stop 11C), Annapolis, MD 21402, macarr@usna.eduAbstractWe describe a small, inexpensive four-stroke engine setup for an introductory engineeringlaboratory course. The setup includes

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

TEAMWORK AND GALLERY METHOD IN ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT Serdar Tumkor1, Ali 1mre Aydeniz1, Ismail Fidan21 Istanbul Technical University Gumussuyu, Istanbul, Turkey/2Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505AbstractIn MAK 422E Engineering Design course, the objective is to present a comprehensive,consistent, and clear approach to systematic engineering design. At the very beginning of thesemester students in the class divide in to groups. All groups consist of 5 – 7 persons with agroup leader. In the course, in order to give an opportunity to a senior students, are making apractice of theoretical knowledge, projects are given to them. All projects are related to

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

Session 2566 Integrated Professional Component Plan from Freshmen Experience to Senior Project Chris Byrne, Robert Choate, Joel Lenoir and Kevin Schmaltz Western Kentucky UniversityAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering (ME) faculty at Western Kentucky University (WKU) havedeveloped and implemented a Professional Plan to assure that graduates of the program will haveexperienced key areas of the engineering profession and demonstrated their abilities to performin a professional manner. This Professional Component has been divided into EngineeringDesign

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

advertised specifications.Procedure - Samples of fishing line are provided to the students, along with product descriptionsfrom the manufacturers, and background and application information. The advertising claims,imaginative product names (IronSilk™, SpiderWire™, Sufix® TriTanium™ Plus) and range ofproduct prices readily lead to questions about material properties the students can explore. Thedescriptive information is organized into a table and used to create sample groups for tabulationof results. Table 1 shows descriptions for three sample groups, all of which have the sameadvertised rating of six pounds “test”. The first two sample groups are nylon, and the third groupis a fluoropolymer alloy, described by the manufacturer as a fluorocarbon

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carryn Bellomo; Korinne Caruso; Rafic Bachnak

Session 1148 FUSE: Furthering the Underrepresented in Science and Engineering Rafic Bachnak, Carryn Bellomo, and Korinne Caruso Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractA new program that improves the recruitment of underrepresented students has beenrecently implemented at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The program is designed to attractjuniors in high schools to participate in two-week summer workshops and a follow-upscience and technology exhibit. The workshops introduce students to college life, involvethem in hands-on activities, and

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

management and C135 aircraft maintenance. Withthis training available on the web, thousands of base personnel are able to take the requiredcourses simultaneously anywhere and at anytime. The developed system includes both websitemanagement tools and over 50 lessons that cover 50 hours of training. Various unique featuresare incorporated into this web-based training program, such as a flexible database managementsystem (DBMS), user tracking and 3D simulation.This paper also presents the server system that was developed to manage the lessons and themultimedia technologies used to construct the training content. The server uses SQL ServerDatabase and Active Server Pages to manage all courses, lessons and user information. 3D and2D simulations, video

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

medial instrumentation (Becton Dickinson) are critical to the U.S. economy. To be successful these industries have embraced a global supply chain and a rate oftechnology change that presents enormous challenges to the regional workforce. Between 1990and 2000, although aerospace manufacturing employment in Connecticut dropped by 45%,productivity increased and wages for the average aerospace manufacturing worker went up 63%to $68,737. As the manufacturing workforce ages there will be a need to replace these highlyskilled & highly paid workers as well as for continuous upgrading in worker capabilities. The National Association of Manufacturers notes, in their recent report “KeepingAmerica Competitive: How a Talent Shortage Threatens

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

heattransfer principles and the concept of thermo-siphon heat recovery system. This paper presents anexperimental setup that will help the undergraduate mechanical engineering students inunderstanding the basic heat transfer processes by utilizing real life applications such as usingwaste heat from a window type air conditioner to heat water for residential and commercial use.Heat recovery from an air conditioner by thermo-siphon is attractive because it eliminates theneed for a circulating pump. This project was completed with the assistance of an UndergraduateSenior Project Grant from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air ConditioningEngineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a basic and very important topic that

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

Bachelor of EngineeringTechnology is designed to prepare professionals to asses and reduce the loss potential inindustrial settings with respect to fire, floods, tornadoes, explosion, and hazardous materialaccidents. The program provides the graduate skills and knowledge of current trends inindustrial safety, fire science, equipment operation in practice, and computer simulations.The curriculum provides a solid foundation in basic and technical sciences and includesapplied courses in facilities and catastrophe management. Courses offered by naturalSciences, Mathematics, Management, and Criminal Justice departments are also included inthe curriculum. Courses in other areas support the program, such as Human Factors inPsychology. Other technology

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

Session 2233 The Artificial Sky Laboratory at Oklahoma State University Khaled Mansy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractUtilization of daylight is one of the most cost-effective energy-efficient strategies to design andengineer low-energy buildings. Integration between daylighting and electric lighting systems incommercial buildings results in a significant reduction in annual energy use and operating cost.As in other engineered systems, quantification of the performance of daylighting systems shoulddictate their design. In the US however, the majority

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples; Andrew Rose

Session 3615 LEADERSHIP 101 DEVELOPING THE LEADER IN ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS Robert Martinazzi, Andrew T. Rose, Jerry Samples University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown“The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is leadership.” General Dwight EisenhowerAbstractConventional wisdom defines leadership as a skill and as such it can be learned. The questionbecomes one of where to begin when teaching leadership skills? Researching the voluminousamount of leadership material

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

signal processing, etc. The current paradigm in the course instructionbuilds on a lecture prerequisite structure but ignores the need for a laboratory prerequisitestructure and integration. The laboratory for each individual course is designed to reinforcebasic concepts but typically has no larger purpose in the curriculum such as logically connectingto laboratory works completed in earlier or future courses. Since laboratory time is short andnew concepts must be emphasized, instructors are forced to use oversimplified set-ups forexperiments. As a result, students complete laboratory exercises in these courses withoutrealizing that they are all contributing to the development of truly integrated systems used in themodern industrial environment

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Nguyen; Charles McIntyre

(CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineeringand construction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. Inorder to provide students with the “real world” experience of posting information electronically,the logical decision would be to require students to mimic the industry practices. The contentsof this paper, 1.) documents the traditional and revised course delivery system for CME 430 -Land Development, 2.) provides an overview of the mechanisms for evaluation and assessment,3.) explains some of the tools and techniques that have been developed at NDSU to assiststudents with web page development, 4.) provides student outcome data for a 3-year period, 5.)offers an analysis of the data, and 6.) formulates

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

addressed in basically six categories as detailedbelow, with the characteristics foreseen for each category described briefly for clarificationpurposes. 1. Increasing difficulty in finding qualified construction trades labor: no matter how much the profile and characteristics of construction work have improved, the perception of construction as a rough and tough industry remains the same and continues to negatively affect the recruitment into the industry. This will necessitate that the construction trades labor and possibly some management shortage be replenished by a workforce from abroad or opting for construction technologies that use less labor and more technology and equipment/machinery. The former

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph W. Hurst

Abstract: ASEE 2004 North Midwest Regional Conference, Milwaukee, Oct 7,2004 CORE SKILLS FOR MANUFACTURING WORKERS MSSC STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATIONPresenter – Joseph W. Hurst, Ph.D., Director, WisPASS program, MilwaukeeArea Technical College (MATC)Premise:Technology, globalization, and de-regulation are powerful forces drivingeconomic change. Together, they are bringing about a “new economy” inAmerica. This is characterized by new core industries, different sources ofwealth, extremely dynamic markets, new forms of competition, new roles forgovernment, and new investment needs. These forces, which are altering theeconomic landscape, in turn have significant implications for education, training,work, and the

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Ken Morrison

) 762-9924Keywords:Industrial Engineering, Global Manufacturing System, Supply Chain System, ERP, Micro-IE, Macro-IE, Lean System, NON-Value-added Activity, Process Modeling, ProcessImprovement, Web Applications.ABSTRACTThe current engineering education focuses on fundamental engineering concepts that havebeen taught for many decades. Many programs in industrial engineering offered in variousuniversities are often structured in a way that exhausts topics such as process diagnosis,control, and improvement. These programs consider quality, work design and ergonomics,and material flow as the central theme of their curricula. However, they do not focus on thesystems view of organizations as much as they should, specifically during the time

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

Session 3666 Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Excite Undergraduate Students about Fluid Mechanics David Pines College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of HartfordAbstractComputational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been included in the junior-level Thermal-FluidsEngineering course at the University of Hartford. The laboratory modules consist of analyzingentrance length region of a pipe, a sudden contraction, and an orifice using Fluent 6.1. Two-dimensional mesh files are given to the students

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

ExplorationProgram in the 90’s, the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) decided toupdate and modernize its AE course sequence, adding new thrust areas in EE and CS to its awardwinning and ABET accredited conventional AE program.Over the last two years, AME has developed a challenging and exciting modern AE curriculumthat incorporates the growing field of intelligent systems as a major aspect into the mix ofcourses and increases the space-engineering component while preserving a strong aeronauticsprogram. Specifically, the digital aspects of AE technology were added: an embedded real timesystems experience and an expanded controls sequence. The standard modern physics coursewas replaced by our own course in astrodynamics and space science

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

are computer science, software engineering,networking, and computer engineering. In this curriculum, the students matriculate into the CNSdepartment after successfully completing the requirements of 30 hours of core courses commonto all computer science students. The students continue taking core courses until the firstsemester of their junior year, when they begin choosing their electives from differentspecialization areas.Since our school does not offer a stand alone engineering program, the computer sciencedepartment curriculum contains an area of specialization in computer engineering.In this paper, we elaborate the detail content of the curriculum for our computer engineering areaof specialization. In order to make our computer

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ivan Maldonado; Henry Spitz; John Christenson; Eugene Rutz

“MNE-ACCEND” – An Integrated Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering Educational Program for the New Millennium John Christenson, G. Ivan Maldonado, Eugene Rutz, Henry Spitz Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Program, University of Cincinnati1. Introduction“MNE-ACCEND” is an acronym for the newly initiated University of Cincinnati Mechanicaland Nuclear Engineering ACCelerated ENgineering Degrees Program. MNE-ACCEND is anintegrated 5-year academic program leading to a BS degree in mechanical engineering and anMS degree in nuclear engineering. The combination of two degrees in a compact time frame,coupled with the experience gained through cooperative education has been a strong selling pointfor the MNE

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann

Session # 3448 Design, Development, and Delivery of Certificate Programs for Funding Opportunities and Industry Collaboration Carol Considine, Paul Kauffmann Old Dominion University, East Carolina UniversityAbstractMany engineering technology departments have four general areas that are used for evaluation oftenure and promotion. These areas include teaching, research and scholarly activities, service,and other professional activities. Although teaching is the primary mission in most engineeringtechnology programs, external funding as part of the research area is playing a larger