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Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center: Lessons Learned During the First Two Years of Operation By Thomas E. Christensen, Scott C. Dunning University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing CenterAbstractThe University of Maine’s College of Engineering has created an Advanced ManufacturingCenter with a student-oriented mission. This center provides a distinctive engineering approachto solving manufacturing problems and gives Engineering Technology students hands-onexperience working on engineering and manufacturing projects. With much of the center’s workcoming from off-campus businesses; the students gain

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

Circuit-X: Circuit Analysis meets the X Files Glen E. Archer, Leonard J. Bohmann Michigan Technological UniversityCircuits education is one of the cornerstones in educating an electrical engineer. AsDavis points out1 there is a need to relate analysis skills to the real world. Other authorshave done this by incorporating design into the circuits lab2, 3, 4 or by integratingcomputer tools into the lab5, 6. An additional strategy is to challenge the students with acircuit identification task, one where they have to design test procedures and from theresults synthesize the unknown circuit. Most lab experiences consist of opportunities tobuild circuits from homework problems

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

Programs for Engineering Education in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education ∗ Russell Pimmel Program Director Division of Undergraduate Education National Science FoundationAbstractThe programs of the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) serve as the focal pointfor the National Science Foundation’s efforts in undergraduate education. Theseprograms are directed at strengthening the vitality of undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all students. DUE has a number ofdifferent programs, each with a

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karan Watson; John Weese

An Examination of Technical Interests Motivating Women and Men Engineering Majors Karan L. Watson, Ph.D., P.E., Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost, Regents Professor, Electrical Engineering John A. Weese, Ph.D., P.E., Regents Professor, Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University, College StationIn a 1993 study of the persistence of sex segregation in education, Meece and Ecclesstated that in the US parity had been achieved in college enrollment for women, but “there was only a slight reduction in the amount of sex segregation found in courses of study selected by women. Women continue to dominate many traditional female fields, such as

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Que Nguyen; Jennifer Tafoya; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

and pedagogy. Careful attention has been given to coordinating theseprojects in a manner that maximizes their impact on the broadest population of teachers andstudents. A selection of summer workshops and classroom interventions has been developed andtested. Additionally, ten graduate teaching fellows, drawn from the Departments of Mathematicaland Computer Sciences, Engineering, Geophysics, and Environmental Science, have beentrained to provide direct support to middle school teachers and students during classroominstruction. These fellows have collaborated with participating teachers and faculty in preparingand implementing innovative, hands-on mathematics, science, and engineering curricula. Thispaper describes the coordination of the four

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

people who have the business acumen to nurture start-upssuccessfully, which they have done. The RDA, SJSU, the UBIs, and the incubator directors are all part of theentrepreneurial system that characterizes Silicon Valley.IntroductionIn this paper we will briefly review the significant literature on UBIs. The main benefit of the literature, primarilyderived from the articles written by Mian (1996a, 1996b, 1997), was to develop a framework, adapted based on ourexperience with incubators, and used to analyze the four UBIs affiliated with SJSU. Then we will describe thecontext of the current paper (i.e., Silicon Valley and San Jose State University), the four incubators and the RDA, apartner with SJSU in facilitating the development of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

reports that we submitted to Boeing.Around the time that our summer fellowships ended, the National Academy of Engineeringreleased their report on The Ingenious Engineer of 2020.1 The NAE also used scenarios on agrand scale. One related to the effects of continued automation and commercialized bio-nanotechnology on a corporate lifestyle. One visualized a natural disaster – a tsunami caused byan asteroid impact, devastating the Pacific Northwest – brought home all too vividly by thecatastrophe in Asia at the end of 2004. A third envisaged global conflict with weapons of massdestruction. Our project is much less ambitious in scope, and is focused on how aerospaceengineering undergraduates must be educated starting this year. We note that the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

Session 1420 LEGO Plus Jerry M. Hatfield, Electrical Engineering John T. Tester, Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Northern Arizona UniversityIntroductionThe LEGO Mindstorms construction systems have found their way into a wide range ofapplications in engineering education such as robotic devices, electro-mechanical controlsystems, process control, and data acquisition. The LEGO system provides a low costopportunity for easy and rapid construction and programming

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft; Monica Pfarr; Jack Waintraub

Science Foundation has funded three national resource centers: theManufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC); the National Engineering TechnologyEducation Clearinghouse (NETEC); and the South Carolina Advanced Technological EducationCenter (SC ATE)1. These centers provide an extensive body of engineering technologyeducation-related materials through a variety of services. This paper will introduce these threeresource centers.Overview of the Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC)The Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC) was initiated by the National Center forManufacturing Education (NCME) in July 2003 with funding from the Advanced TechnologicalEducation program of the National Science Foundation, building on eight years of

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

Industrial Engineering: Why students come and what makes them stay? Randa L. Shehab1, Teri Reed Rhoads1, 2, and Teri J. Murphy3 School of Industrial Engineering1, College of Engineering2, Department of Mathematics3, the University of OklahomaAbstractThe relative anonymity of industrial engineering may be a significant reason for the slow growthof the discipline and the relatively low enrollment in industrial engineering academic programs.In order to inform industrial engineering (IE) degree programs of factors that help increase bothenrollment and graduation rates, this paper summarizes the outcomes of IE student interviewsregarding what drew

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

Industrial Engineering: Why students come and what makes them stay? Randa L. Shehab1, Teri Reed Rhoads1, 2, and Teri J. Murphy3 School of Industrial Engineering1, College of Engineering2, Department of Mathematics3, the University of OklahomaAbstractThe relative anonymity of industrial engineering may be a significant reason for the slow growthof the discipline and the relatively low enrollment in industrial engineering academic programs.In order to inform industrial engineering (IE) degree programs of factors that help increase bothenrollment and graduation rates, this paper summarizes the outcomes of IE student interviewsregarding what drew

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

Using LEGOs to Reinforce Basic Parametric Modeling Practices N. E. Study Department of Engineering, ENTC, INTC Virginia State UniversityAbstract Incorporating design intent and the use of appropriate naming strategies are fundamentalconcepts of efficient parametric modeling. A class of primarily junior level engineering andtechnology students, most of whom were having their first experience with parametric modeling,was struggling with these basic concepts. Although the students had received instruction on theimportance of naming their files, features, and sketches and incorporating design intent into theirmodels, they

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

The contribution of office-hours-type interactions to female student satisfaction with the educational experience in engineering. Stephen M. Lancaster, Susan E. Walden, Deborah A. Trytten, Teri J. Murphy University of OklahomaAbstractRecent literature includes discussion about many female students’ need for a personal type of aprofessional, professor-student relationship to feel connected to the course and to a major.1,2 Ourresearch builds on these findings to emphasize the importance of positive experiences duringoffice hours to female students. We interviewed 41 students from the School of

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Yasuhara

Choosing Computer Science: Women at the Start of the Undergraduate Pipeline Ken Yasuhara yasuhara@cs.washington.edu Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA1 IntroductionThe “shrinking pipeline” is a common metaphor for the underrepresentation of women in computerscience (CS), an increasingly well-known (if not well-understood) phenomenon. The further oneprogresses in CS academia—from undergraduate study to graduate study to faculty rank—thefewer women there are. (For a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wanasanan Thongsongkrit; Trasapong Thaiupathump; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

can adjust these parameters and readily observe theresults of the changes. Obviously, the interactive learning approach will provide learners with abetter understanding of fundamental Fourier concepts.This paper explores the interactive approach to teaching basic Fourier concepts and operations,which include basic properties of sinusoidal signals, Fourier series, sampling, aliasing,convolution, and modulation. Macromedia Flash MX4, which currently is a standard for theinteractive animation for the Web, is used to implement the interactive teaching approach. Thedeveloped tutoring system will utilize animation contents and maximize the interaction withstudents for distance education as well.MethodsThis paper selects some of the Fourier basic

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

Toolkits for Retention and Recruitment: Utilization and Outcomes Sheila Edwards Lange and Joyce W. Yen University of Washington Center for Workforce Development/University of Washington ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change Abstract: The University of Washington has developed a faculty recruitment toolkit and faculty retention toolkit which have been widely disseminated on the UW campus and off campus at many other colleges and universities. The recruitment toolkit provides guidelines, ideas and strategies for conducting a proactive search for diverse candidates. The retention toolkit is a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Wipplinger

Providing Safe Housing through Independent Study Dr. Lisa A. Wipplinger United States Military AcademyAbstractThe Civil and Mechanical Engineering department at the United States Military Academy hasteamed up with The Center for Earthquake Resistant Housing to work toward affordable, easilyconstructed earthquake resistant housing in developing countries. A series of independent studyprojects involving design, analysis and research are being developed as courses for small teamsof cadets. Each course will focus on a specific piece of the large project, helping to move italong more quickly. These projects will provide opportunities for life-long learning

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

institutions’ transfer of credits. Ifthis was to pass, a student passing a specific course would be able to apply those course credits toany other United States institution offering that same course. In other words, a student could takeEngineering 101 at a for-profit institution, such as Strayer University, and the credits must beaccepted at any U.S. institution, including traditional non-profit universities, offeringEngineering 101. This is just one aspect of this controversial bill, and there are many others.There is much at stake in this bill for traditional and for-profit universities alike, all centeredupon funding and resources. If passed, the for-profit universities will be given more access toboth of these desired commodities, which means less

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

Session 2547 Engineering Technology and the Lessons Learned from Engineering Kimble-Thom, M.A., Thom, J.M., Depew, D.R. Purdue UniversityIntroductionTechnology and engineering technology programs currently find themselves at the same cross-roads as engineering education did in the early 20th century. The choices that engineeringeducators made have resulted in industry practitioners expressing a perceived lack of skills ingraduating engineers deemed important to successful design activities. Technology programdevelopers are asking many of the same questions about technology’s

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barbara; Shripad Revankar

Large Scale Hydrogen Production Using Nuclear Power David Barbara, Andrew Carmean, Dustin Kraemer and Shripad T. Revankar School of Nuclear Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907AbstractHydrogen production using the Sulfur-Iodine (SI) process coupled to a high temperature gascooled nuclear reactor was simulated with physical models for the processes. The modelsincluded energy balance for the SI process, thermal models for the heat exchanger design, andBrayton cogeneration unit. Process parameters such as mass flow rates of reactor coolant,reactant gases, heat exchanger pipe size, and number

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Hendricks; L. Glenn Kraige; Don Morris

ago, the philosophy for teachingthese courses was to keep the number of students in a section to between 30 and 50 and to haveonly full-time faculty teach these sections. With enough faculty, which the department wasfortunate enough to have at the time, it was possible to teach the service courses in this format,teach departmental courses for the undergraduate mechanics majors, and provide a robustoffering of graduate courses, all while maintaining a very reputable funded research program in anumber of fields.Unfortunately, as has been the case in many other parts of the United States over the past tenyears or so, funding levels for education in the Commonwealth of Virginia have been reducedconsiderably. This trend has accelerated over the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

the way in which nanotechnology isemployed in industry by educating engineers and technologists and providing leadershipin research and technology transfer. Academic programs in nanotechnology will beinterdisciplinary in nature and will require far larger resources than required in the past oftraditional technology programs. This paper will provide a brief account ofnanotechnology, present the worldwide activities in the development and application ofnanotechnology and the need to prepare engineers and technologists for nanotechnologyimplementation in industry. It will then outline the curricular elements leadingundergraduate and graduate level education in nanotechnology. It will also discuss thekey issues relating to the development and

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

Session 1426Rejuvenate An Old Tinius Olsen Machine with Computer Data Acquisition Using Its Existing Hardware and LabVIEW Jiaxin Zhao Indiana University–Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. To meet this trend, it is necessary to bring computer data acquisition to old laboratoryequipment, such as a Tinius Olsen machine. One solution is to go to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition, thatusually costs

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

attitudes towards service activities using the“Community Service Attitudes Scale” which was developed and validated by Shiarella,McCarthy, and Tucker1. During the fall of 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty responded to thisassessment instrument. Student data were collected in the first semester of the MultidisciplinaryEngineering Laboratory course sequence, a required course taken at the start of students’sophomore year before they have the opportunity to participate in the newly revised servicelearning courses. Faculty completed the attitudes survey during the first faculty meeting of theacademic year. This paper describes and compares student and faculty attitudes with respect toservice activities prior to the proposed intervention. Attention is

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

Session 2353 Teaching Failure Analysis as an Independent Design Experience David V. Niebuhr California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractFailure analysis of an engineering component is similar to building a puzzle with only some ofthe pieces. The engineer is left to interpret the data and make an educated conclusion.Undergraduate engineers, while enjoying the investigative experience, are somewhat intimidatedby the many unknowns. In this course students select a failed engineering component andinvestigate the source of its demise. The evolution of the failure analysis course over 5 years isdescribed, as

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; Jorge Tito-Izquierdo; George Pincus

Session 2249 Teaching Modern Concrete Technology at the University of Houston-Downtown Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, Alberto Gomez-Rivas, and George Pincus Visiting Associate Professor/Professor and Chair/Professor and Dean Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TXAbstractThis paper describes a course developed by the Structural Analysis and Design EngineeringTechnology program at the University of Houston-Downtown to train the students in moderndesign of concrete mixes. The approach allows students to understand the dynamic nature of theconcrete

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Adamson; Cluny Way; David Cowan

ABANDONING THE LECTURE: USING JOB MEETINGS TO TEACH WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL, PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT David Jan Cowan Indiana University/Purdue University/Indianapolis (IUPUI)Abstract This paper looks at the notion that lecturing is not necessarily the most appropriatedelivery method for Architectural Engineering Technology courses that rely heavily uponrecreating the work environment within the classroom. The architectural project method is onethat is time-tested in architectural design schools, yet has been less embraced within engineeringand technology courses that tend to have a history of teacher-centered, lecture-based teachingmethods

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff

Session XXXX Professional Development for Community College Teachers: An Online Graduate Certificate Program in Community College Teaching Theodore J. Branoff, Colleen A. Wiessner, and Duane Akroyd North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe departments of Adult and Community College Education (ACCE) and Mathematics, Scienceand Technology Education (MSTE) within the College of Education at North Carolina StateUniversity developed a prototype graduate certificate program in Community College Teaching.The program focuses on developing the knowledge and skills

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

students face a challenging problem.They know it is important for their students to learn the material in these courses. (See [3], forexample.) However, they speak “mathematics” and not “engineering,” making it difficult forthem to communicate the relevance of the material to their students.The students face a similar problem. They know there is a reason they are required to takemathematics courses, but the reason usually does not become apparent until long after thecourses have ended. Consequently, students’ motivation to learn the mathematics is not as greatas it could be. Furthermore, by the time they need the mathematics in their upper levelengineering courses, they have forgotten much of it because they have not used it in such a longtime

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Regina Halpin; R. Mark Nelms

to developtheir own problem-solving skills, this promotes retention of the material as opposed to thestudents relying only on the instructor’s coverage of the material which promotes rotememorization 6,8. During the past decade, the use of technology in a constructivist environment has focused onthe development of computational software or visual representations that students can use tosolve problems 11-15. Regardless of how technology is being used in the classroom as aninstructional tool, it is still imperative to the student to receive numerous examples with step-by-step explanations from the instructor that can be used while completing homework outside of