Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

the setup and use of thehardware and the software applications. There is a mandatory technology enhancement purchasescheduled prior to the beginning of a student’s junior year, primarily used to upgrade equipmentso that their personal computer and PDA will remain as current and functional as possible.Growth of Handheld ComputingThere is a growing body of research and experience regarding the undergraduate educational useof handheld computing devices. With increasing frequency universities and colleges are turningto handheld computing to solve problems and to provide students with additional resources. HereThe views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of theUnited States Military

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Trussell

economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use the information ethically and legally7Engineering faculty and librarians can plan to incrementally incorporate information literacy Page 9.131.3skill training into departmental curricula. The ACRL recommended skill set coordinates Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationextremely well with the skill set and requirements reflected in ABET Criteria 3 and 4

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael McGeen

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmethod of fabrication a part will have a slight internal grain that shows up when usingphoto stress analysis that must be taken into account. In other words the orientation ofthe part on the build platform makes no difference in the appearance of the part, but itcan make a difference in the test results when using photo stress analysis. Clearly moreneeds to be done in this area. To overcome this “grain” in the structure the part firstneeded to be covered with a reflective paint and then covered with a clear coat that willreact to the polarized light when stress is applied.. Knowles is demonstrating theapplication of this clear finish in figure 4. Figure 5 is an example from the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson

Conference, Boulder CO.12. Steif, P. Initial data from a statics concept inventory. In press for the Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the ASEE, Salt Lake, UT. New York: American Society of Engineering EducationBiographySCOTT DANIELSON is the Department Chair of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology atArizona State University. He and Sudhir Mehta are authors of the Statics—The next generation, an instructor’spackage published by Prentice-Hall Inc. accompanying the 10th edition of Engineering Mechanics: Statics by R.C.Hibbeler.Appendix AThe following is a reduced set of the raw data from the first round of the Delphi process.Concepts and skills were reduced to simple phrases. Their order is random and reflects noassumed

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

describe electro-pneumatics (Bruns5et al) in a unified and didactically expandable way as well as to have a link to several powerfulsimulation tools supporting bond graph modeling.DERIVE provides a new learning environment that supports schools for technicians to delivercourses in mechatronics. The support for the learning process will be reflected in a graduationfrom local real to local virtual to remote virtual to remote real, taking the student from basicknowledge to the full implementation in industry.The tele-cooperation functionality in the learning environment will allow enterprises to use thetraining facilities of vocational schools and/or other providers for updating their employees. Withnew equipment being more complex and requiring more

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

reflection and improvement program. Certainly, the first offeringof the courses will not be totally satisfactory and will require modification. To address thisobjective, we utilized two university sponsored resources: (1) a standard student courseevaluation survey and (2) the Teaching Resource Center (TRC), whose trained, objective, andimpartial researchers conducted a special review session with the ENGR 401 class to determinewhether the objectives of the course were met. Each of these surveys, the individual studentsurvey and the Teaching Resource Center review, is discussed below.The TRC assessment activity was designed to measure the outcomes of the EIC course sequenceagainst the EIC course objectives. As discussed earlier, the objectives of the

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

on the criteria listed in the previous section.SummaryCapstone experiences have been widely conducted for over a decade. They have beenevolving to better simulate the setting that students will experience after graduation. Afteryears of reflection and adjusting, Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton hasfinally instituted projects that are industry sponsored, interdisciplinary, and include both Page 8.282.7design and build tasks Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe course

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

table-top manufacturing system via the Internet. The system architecture is shown inFigure 4. Client computers communicate with the PLC processor over the Internet. With thehelp of Windows 2000 Terminal Services, the clients connect to the main server, develop theirladder logic programs, and conduct their experiments on the physical model. The physical modelconsists of sensors, lights, air cylinder controlled by an Allen Bradley SLC 500 microprocessor.Two network cameras provide live video.The PLC is programmed off-line using RSLogix 500 software environment via Windows 2000Terminal Services and then the program is compiled and downloaded to the PLC controllerthrough an RS-232 port. The conveyor belt reflects a miniature model of the typical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

on the oscilloscope. Some past experimentation has included a comparison between an expensive and average violin, music, deer whistles. This experiment teaches a valuable lesson on not violating the Nyquist sampling criterion.Lab 6 Students use this lab to brainstorm ideas for the freely chosen project. They are encouraged to think of many possibilities.Lab 7 The students learn to use the Fairchild QRD1313 reflective object sensor as either a digital or analog input. They will later use this sensor to have their robot follow a black line.Lab 8 The students learn how to use an H-bridge to control a servomotor. The lab requires some mechanical

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

specialty based on a study by theNational University Continuing Education Association.2 According to a 1991 National ResearchCouncil study, university curricula, in general, did not reflect the modern design practices used inmost competitive companies.3 The reason behind this is that faculty teaching these courses arerarely aware of the most recent design techniques. Therefore, it becomes a mandate for thepracticing engineer as well as for the engineering technology educator to treat their careers asdynamic entities that require constant updating. So how can this be accomplished? There areseveral options faculty can pursue such as attending conferences and workshops, taking time toconduct research, taking a sabbatical, reading trade magazines, and

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Shoemaker

- ended design projects. 10. Additional in-depth knowledge in a technical area relevant to optical engineering, such as opto-mechanics, optical materials, opto-electronics, or some other specialized area of optics. 11. Appreciation of engineering as a profession, including the need for life-long learning and an appreciation of ethical, legal, societal, environmental, political, and economic issues.These objectives are fully consistent with the mission of the Land Grant University of Arizona,which reflects the need to educate students for an increasingly diverse and technological world.It also is in keeping with the dynamic growth of technologically-based industry in the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Rosa Gomez-Martinez; Joseph Ramos; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

employmentopportunities [2].As a concept, ACES is a reflection of systemic change in the preparation of engineeringand science students well into the 21 st Century. It signifies a change in academic culturethat values integration as well as specialization, teamwork, individual achievement,educational innovation as well as research. ACES fosters the building and refinement ofintellectual skills needed by practicing engineers and scientists [3].The motto of ACES is “a center run by students for students,” which indicates thatstudent employees are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Center as well asfor providing workshops, running a website, manning a tutoring center and publishing amonthly newsletter. For student employees, ACES has provided a

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Zambon; Rachael Shevin; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

active hands-on experiences in the classroom and need to see therelationship between theory and reality10. Hispanic students have been shown to learnscience better when the students are expected to actively participate and when theassessments reflect the fact that instruction has different results for different learners11.Because Hispanic cultures value mutual assistance, collaborative work in the classroom iseffective11. Interactivity with concrete manipulative materials assists students inmastering concepts and problem-solving skills 12.The use of actual biomedical imaging equipment for education, while desirable for real-life hands-on learning, is typically not feasible due to safety concerns, high cost, and lackof availability. It is

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

. The quality category reflects the writing and graph quality of thereport.Student FeedbackThe students were surveyed regarding their experience with this project and the TeachPistonsoftware. The survey form is provided in Fig. 8. In the two sections of the course a combined66 students were surveyed. When reviewing the student feedback, it should be noted that thiswas the first time that the MATLAB GUI was used in the classroom to create the input file forthe TeachPiston software. In general, the response was positive to the program with emphasis onthe graphical user input preferred to other types of user interfaces, such as a DOS menu driveninterface as was used in an earlier project in the class. The students emphasized that the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Graham; Ronald Bieniek

effective teaching methods, let alone educational theory. In these trying financialtimes, most new faculty members perceive that hiring and tenure decisions are based on thepotential to develop an externally funded research program or a proven research record. Theinstitutional emphasis on research is reflected in a reward structure that values researchaccomplishments over teaching improvement. For new tenure-track faculty, the lack of externalmotivation for change in teaching methodology combined with the lack of formal training, leadsto a “trial by fire” indoctrination into teaching. As a result, most engineering educators tend toteach others as they were taught. Faculty simply emulate the professors that they remember fromtheir own schooling.To

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

; ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAbstractRecently, there have been many advances in technology and infrastructure to meet thechanging needs of the application domains. These changes have resulted in thedevelopment and adoption of a rich set of novel concepts in distributed systems. Forexample, lookup, discovery, custom event and event handling, runtime reflection, callbackand service leasing are just a few of these new ideas. Traditional approaches to teachingDistributed Systems courses do not cover these newer concepts for reasons ranging fromlack of support from the existing framework to the fear sacrificing coverage of somefundamental concepts. Moreover, many of the textbooks used do not cover theseconcepts. In this

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

specific costs for fatality and injury. These costs were developed byestablishing a value that consumers are “willing to pay” (WTP) to reduce the probability of fatalityor injury. Since this WTP cost reflects only the value that a group of individuals places onavoiding injury, the FAA method adds other direct costs to the WTP value such as legal andemergency medical expenditures to develop a total cost. For a fatality, the FAA identifies $2.7Mas the cost benchmark.The WTP values for injuries are based on evaluating the loss of quality or quantity of life incurredby the injury as a fraction of the fatality cost. For example, the WTP cost of a minor injury isevaluated as 0.2% of the loss of life cost and medical and legal costs are then added to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

class in the Fall of 2001, theSoE now enrolls over 1000 students. The first two of the new school's planned facilities openedin the Fall of 1998 — the main classroom building and the Virginia Microelectronics ResearchCenter. Together, they total 147,000 sq. ft. at a cost of $42 million. Average SAT scores ofincoming freshman are about 1250, which is in the national top 5 to 7 percentile.From the beginning, the development of the School was a collaboration between the universityand the industrial community, which is reflected in its curriculum, in the industrial experiencestudents have available, in the inclusion of business courses in the engineering curriculum, andthe recruitment of faculty with industrial experience. Over 50 companies have

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emily Mowry

the course are centered around the Legacy learning cycle2 usedby the VaNTH Engineering Research Center, in accord with learning principles addressed in HowPeople Learn3. Students’ awareness of professional and ethical issues are increased through theinvestigation of ten to twelve case studies with in-class discussion, in-class movies with pre andpost discussion, and guest speakers. Investigation of cases include documentation of students’initial thoughts on issues, then systematic reflection on these thoughts through introduction ofmultiple perspectives provided by guest lectures, thought papers and in-class discussions. Casestudies cover a wide variety of application areas, including genetic engineering,xenotransplantation, using animals in

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

OpportunityThis program will provide a paid internship experience for 60 students following the completionof thirty credit hours in a mathematics, science, or technology-related field. Internships will beprovided in companies not currently hiring interns from UMBC to increase internship supportand encourage the involvement of more businesses with UMBC and CCBD. UMBC’s ShriverCenter will provide leadership for this portion of the project. The Shriver Center, places over1000 students annually in co-ops and internships at over 300 businesses and organizationsthroughout the Baltimore/Washington area, allowing students to connect theory with practice.This level of involvement reflects the importance of gaining work-based, experiential learning

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

Page 8.146.12 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 5 (a). ALS Wireless Communication module deals with physical aspects ofwireless communications. It touches upon such problems as fundamentals of radio wavepropagation, reflection, interference and antenna systems.Figure 5 (b). ALS Telephony module assist learners in understanding science andtechnical issues related to the operation and maintenance of conventional and cellularphone systems. Page 8.146.13 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

. If the results of a survey or a questionnaire are found to beambiguous or not useful for their intended purpose, they can be changed. Curriculum changes,updates, and modifications are important to maintain the relevance of ECE education. Acontinual process of modernization and accommodation of new technology and techniques must Page 8.165.10 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationbe done. This process must be reflected in the textbooks, course content, and laboratoryexposure

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfrid Nixon; M. Asghar Bhatti

expressed here goes far beyond the (recently re-accredited) civilengineering undergraduate program at Iowa and (we suspect) at most colleges in the US.Clearly, this needs to be evaluated further and may represent a phenomenon of “surveyinflation” whereby survey respondents are reluctant to give negative responses for fear ofdisappointing the survey takers.Beyond this somewhat worrying aspect, in general the responses are positive. Clearly, thedifferent groups assigned differing degrees of import to different areas (professionals valuedesign and ancillary knowledge more than students, for example) and that is appropriate.The professionals feel that the import of analysis diminishes as an engineer moves intopractice and that too probably reflects

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

individual takes meticulous recordings on everyaspect of the assessment test environment while another individual only records specific pointsexcluding potentially revealing data? These are real concerns but should not deter the use oftracking documents. It must be reminded the task of improving educational outcomes is not asmall task and there must be ways to reflect on past efforts in order to move forward in the properdirection and this cannot be done without rigorous documentation. Therefore these documentswill be revamped regularly, which will undoubtedly lead to a certain level of change. This allowsthese documents to serve a second purpose of documenting the changes in the classroom from theinstructor’s point of view. It is important that

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

StudyThe retrospective study includes responses from 48 of the 114 total participants in the fourworkshops. Table 1 shows the number of participants at each of the four workshops and the Page 8.541.3number and percentage who responded to the retrospective survey. These percentages rangedProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfrom 15% to 57%, reflecting a substantial workshop-to-workshop variation in the response rate.This large amount of variability occurred with nearly all the measures

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University

evaluated first.Ø The system daemons build upon the state daemons. Mass, energy, entropy and exergy balance equations can be solved for closed processes or steady devices. The cycle daemons build upon the system daemons in a similar manner. The particular form of the balance equation used by a daemon is displayed right inside the equation panel of the applet (see Fig. 9).Ø The system schematic that is displayed inside the Analysis Panel is dynamic in that, when states are loaded as inlet, exit, begin or finish states, the diagram is automatically updated to reflect the choices made.Ø Once a solution is obtained, Super-Calculate produces a detailed output and a few lines of codes called the TEST-Code describing the solution algorithm. The

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

their experience and finalize plans for technical publications and presentations. During the first, fifth and last weeks, an outside evaluator (College of Education, Faculty) meets with the REU participants to evaluate their experience. The evaluator determines the impact of the REU experience on the participants through written surveys and exit interviews. The evaluator also conducts surveys beyond the duration of the REU to trac k the students’ progress at their respective colleges. The surveys and exit interviews will provide valuable information vital for the improvement of the REU program in subsequent years. RESULTS OF REU 2001 Nearly 50 applications were received in the summer of 2001. The nine finalists, 2 males and 7 females reflected

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

technology information, · Finalizing the processes, equipment to be used, and project costs, · Writing complete, professional level, RFPs and Proposals. · The RFPs and proposals are thoroughly discussed and negotiated by the various participating teams via the Internet, and the contracts awarded to the best overall proposals,· Students and faculty have the opportunity to participate via the Internet in the project feedback process, to discuss the positive and negative aspects of each team’s participation. GLOBETECH Experiences In 1995 and 1996, GLOBETECH- I and II discussed automobile and vans manufacturing joint ventures in China and Thailand. In 1997, reflecting the world’s

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Noack; Harry Tyrer; Eric Epperson

score of 200 reflecting its rate compared to the other twohourly exams with a maximum score of 100. However, the number of student grades in the lowend of the range was extremely small. TABLE 1 Asynchronous Traditional Exam 1 55-100 40-100 Exam2 40-100 47-100 Final Exam 125-200 100-200 TABLE 1 Compares exams taken by the asynchronously taught class to the historical record of the exams for the same course taught in the traditional manner.We compare the asynchronous course to

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

exam scores and between exam scores and lecture days. It would appearthat part of the difficulty lies with the closeness of the data, as it all falls within a small range,64% to 88%.Another approach in analyzing this data involves ranking the CLO's for each data set. That is,for the survey data, the CLO with the lowest score (closest to one, but reflecting the higheststudent confidence level) is ranked number one, the CLO with the next lowest score is rankednumber two, and so forth until the CLO with the highest score is ranked eighteenth. Similarly,rankings are achieved for the other three sets of data, the homework grading, exam grading, anddays of lecture, except that the ranking is done in descending order for these data sets