Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

the accelerated pace and highworkload expected of each engineering course9, 10. Many also report poor teaching within theSME (science, mathematics, and engineering) curricula10. Other curriculum-related factors thatdiscourage engineering students from persevering include restrictive curricula that require strictprerequisite structures, provide limited course offerings, and require additional laboratory work5.These curricula restrictions are particularly problematic for non-traditional students. Financialconstraints5, 9, 11 are also cited by students as reasons for leaving engineering.A reported lack of interest in engineering curricula9, 10 may be indicative of a more specificproblem as identified by Edward. He describes a discontinuity based

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

the accelerated pace and highworkload expected of each engineering course9, 10. Many also report poor teaching within theSME (science, mathematics, and engineering) curricula10. Other curriculum-related factors thatdiscourage engineering students from persevering include restrictive curricula that require strictprerequisite structures, provide limited course offerings, and require additional laboratory work5.These curricula restrictions are particularly problematic for non-traditional students. Financialconstraints5, 9, 11 are also cited by students as reasons for leaving engineering.A reported lack of interest in engineering curricula9, 10 may be indicative of a more specificproblem as identified by Edward. He describes a discontinuity based

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

, ifadhered to, enable the accomplishment of the BOK. The institution must set priorities andsupportive policies, adequately fund the infrastructure and personnel, assess quality, attend tostandards, and recruit and retain students. Who, then, should the faculty and institutions of theBOK be? What will enable them, both individually and collectively, to be successful infacilitating the accomplishment of the BOK? The historical notion of institutional support is thatit has an obligation to provide the faculty and students with adequate physical resources such asclassrooms and laboratories. This notion is short sighted and will not guarantee that faculty willbe capable of implementing the BOK or emulating the characteristics of the ideal facultymember

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

enough mechanics skills to create the solutions.This, again, placed a larger burden of the work on those students. The problems should beselected such that the knowledge of the statics students plays a greater role in the development ofthe solutions.In future endeavors, we will have the groups present their work in the laboratory setting. Thepresentations will be part of each student’s final course grade. This requirement will furtherdevelop the teamwork aspect of the project by sharing responsibility for the group work andproviding evidence to both sets of students that they have participated in a joint activity. And, itwill also provide the students with an opportunity to practice their oral presentation skills. Weplan to incorporate these

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

, Switzerland.Kline, S. J. and F. A. McClintock, 1953, “Describing Uncertainties in Single-Sample Experiments”, Mechanical Engineering, vol. 75, pp. 3-8.Klein, S. A., 1992-2002, “EES, Engineering Equation Solver”, F-Chart Software, Madison, WI.Taylor, B. N. and C. E. Kuyatt, 1994, “Guideline for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty in NIST Measurement Results”, NIST TN 1297, NIST Physics Laboratory, Gaithersberg, MD, available online at .BIOGRAPHYSHELDON M. JETER is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the George W. WoodruffSchool of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has degrees from Clemson University, theUniversity of Florida, and Georgia Tech. He has been on the academic faculty at Georgia Tech since 1979

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

the differen- tiation between engineering and technology majors. Experiential knowledge accounts for an important part of the technology curriculum. Most hands-on experience are gained through laboratory experiments associated with most of the courses. Availability of contemporary lab equipment has made it possible for students to gain hands-on experience from lab settings. While some high-end test equipment is steadily available in our labs, these test instruments are considered as luxuries in Chinese engineering schools. 3) The curriculum shows the incorporation of modern technologies. For example, because networking technology has become predominant in information collection and transfer, students are

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Johnson

Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”G Effective communicationH Recognition of the need for, and the ability to, engage in lifelong learning.I Knowledge of the ethical and social responsibilities of professionals working in the mechanical engineering technology field.J Respect for diversity and knowledge of contemporary professional, societal and global issues.K Commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement.L Competence in the use of the computer as a problem solving and communications tool.M The ability to apply project management techniques to the completion of laboratory and project

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite– wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structuraland Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol 2 pp. 1459-1465.8. Carpenter, C.L. and Oloufa A. 1995. Postoccupancy Evaluation of Buildings and Development of FacilityPerformance Criteria. Journal of Architectural Engineering 1(2):77-81.9. Chapman C. and Ward S. 1997. Project Risk Management Processes, Techniques and Insights.Chichester, Wiley.10. Colaco, J.P. 2003. Uses of composite

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

hand toolsand found objects. Social factors in design for this project primarily relate to the decision of howsafe is safe enough, and disparities in drinking water standards among countries. Students design,season, and test their filters over the course of several weeks. Testing can be accomplishedthrough the use of standard laboratory methods if they are available and convenient, or throughthe use of fairly inexpensive synthetic agar substitute gels – where one places the water sampleand counts the number of colonies of coliform bacteria that develop. While the latter method isless precise, it should allow students to have some measure of the effectiveness of their filter, andto track its improvement over the seasoning period.A second, more

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

Page 9.637.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationits current, more formal form, Engineering 4: Introduction to Engineering Design16. Designed asan introduction to conceptual design, and adopting a Clinic-style approach of student teamsworking for real, not-for-profit clients (e.g., schools, hospitals), the course has been successfullytaught since 1992 as both a prerequisite for Clinic itself and a motivator that attracts students tothe Engineering major. It has also served as a pedagogical laboratory, out of which has evolved astudio style of teaching the course, very much in the traditions of

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

illustrating complex concepts, especiallycommon in engineering. Horton [2] suggests the use of case studies as an excellent way forlearners to practice judgment skills necessary in real life situations that are not as simple astextbook problems. As instructional strategies are concerned, engaging critical thinking skillsthrough case studies is among a recommended set of activities [3].Case studies can also be used to introduce students to the complex interactions amongtechnology, business, and ethics. The Laboratory for Innovative Technology in EngineeringEducation (LITEE) at Auburn University has produced a number of case studies. One of these

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

Professor of ComputerScience and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Dr. Ardis has also taught at the University of Illinois, WangInstitute, and Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Rose-Hulman he spent nine years performing researchon software engineering methods at Bell Laboratories. Page 9.246.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the author of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials and MecMovies, recipients of thePremier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware.RICHARD H. HALLDr. Richard H. Hall is a Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Hereceived his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and Ph.D. degree in ExperimentalPsychology from Texas Christian University. He is co-director of UMR's Laboratory for Information TechnologyEvaluation, and his research focuses on design, development, and evaluation of web-based learning technologies.NANCY HUBINGDr. Hubing is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Department at

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wicklein; David Gattie

/1.5% 24/8.8% 142/52.2% 102/37.5% associated text materials having the appropriate types of tools and 1/0.4% 20/7.2% 110/39.9% 145/52.5% test equipment to teach engineering design having the appropriate type of laboratory 2/0.7% 21/7.7% 111/41% 137/50.6% layout and space to teach engineering design developing additional analytical (mathematics) skills to be able to predict 3/1.1% 33/12.2% 151/55.7% 84/31% engineering results improving fundamental knowledge of engineering sciences (statics, fluid 5/1.8% 20/7.2% 149/54% 102/37% mechanics, dynamics) having access to practicing engineers to give 2/0.7

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Georgios Anagnostopoulos

programentitled Course, Curriculum and Laboratories Improvement (CCLI-EMD). Thetitle of the grant is “PROJECT EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Developmentthrough the Integration of Machine Learning Research into Senior DesignProjects”. The project partners are two major universities in Central Florida,Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne and the University of CentralFlorida (UCF) in Orlando. In addition to the two universities, there are two 2-yearCentral Florida colleges, Seminole Community College (SCC) in Oviedo andBrevard Community College (BCC) in Palm Bay.Project EMD-MLR is a “proof-of-concept” project focused on Machine Learning(ML), whose immediate objectives are i) the development of educational materialin the form of software

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

areimplemented by fundamental IT.The course has been supported by a teaching assistant (TA). The TA had office hours in additionto those of the instructor to support students with their homework. However, the most importantvalue was in being able to schedule open laboratory time so the TA could assist students in usingnew software tools.Graded homework problems are assigned every two weeks. Group work is encouraged for someproblems and forbidden for others. Two hour exams and a final exam are given. Some examproblems are quantitative, where students are required to apply algorithms and produce ananswer. For example, students are expected to be able to convert between binary and decimalnumber representation and smooth an intensity image by neighborhood

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

E-mail: fnaja@ce.ufl.edu And Alex E. S. Green Graduate Research Professor Emeritus ICAAS, CLEAN COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (CCTL) College of Engineering, University of Florida Weill Hall Rm 577 PO Box 116550, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6580 Phone: (352)392-2001 E-mail: aesgreen@ufl.edu Natural gas prices have increased significantly in the past four years. Natural gasaccounts for almost a quarter of the United States’ energy consumption. The increase in naturalgas prices may create an economic problem in the U.S. economy and the university’s budgetdeficits. The

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

of basic research.That means, if a university leans against enterprise projects alone, the basic research together withthe students training in fundamental scientific methods will come to starve.As mentioned above, we are dealing with two different worlds, the life in an industrial enterpriseand in academia with different goals, criteria and success and reward systems. But, there is potentialsynergy in using industry as laboratories for lecturing, projects and research.A traditional contribution is a set of proposed decisions that represent an appropriate solution to awell-defined problem. However, an equally significant contribution may be structuring a complexissue and the pointing out of appropriate options available, leaving it to the

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marijke Kehrhahn; Kelli Vallieres; Alexandra Bell; Nicholas Massa

were to the contentsection, although learners also tended to share their classroom experiences in this section.Among a sampling of 150 postings, we found the majority of statements were characteristic oflearners sharing their classroom experiences; for example, “I use the Slinky demonstration in myclassroom when demonstrating waves.” Moreover, participants were more eager to responddirectly to the instructor’s technical questions, but did periodically offer suggestions to otherparticipants for additional resources such as websites, applets, and laboratory experiments. Whileseveral attempts were made by the instructor throughout the semester to get participants toengage in more learner-to-learner discussions in an effort to facilitate

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

typically involves experimentation, simulation or an industry-based investigation. Itis undertaken individually and is usually worth a quarter of the credit for the year. In addition,senior students typically undertake a team based capstone design project, also worth one quarterof the credit for the year. Unlike their peers in the humanities and the social sciences,engineering students do not normally have a course on “research methods”. Rather, preparationfor undertaking a research thesis is assumed to accumulate from their exposure to researchmethods in laboratory classes (experimental and computer based) throughout their degreeprogram. This can be considered a shortcoming as we become more intentional about developingthe research capabilities of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjan Zadnik

Organisation. He was awarded the Shedden PacificMedal for Excellence for contributions to Chemical Engineering in 1993, The Institution of Engineers AustraliaExcellence Award in 1998 for the design of laboratory facilities at Rockingham and the Centenary Medal forservices to Australian society in 2003. Peter was educated in Melbourne and has degrees from RMIT (BE) andMonash University (PhD). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of theInstitution of Chemical Engineers, London.SHELLEY YEODr Shelley Yeo is a Lecturer in Professional Development in the Learning Support Network at Curtin Universityof Technology. She has a background in science education and previously worked in the Division ofEngineering, Science and

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

Transformers,” IEEE transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 709-717, May, 1992 3 O. W. Anderson, “Optimized Design of Electric Power Equipment,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 11-15, January 1991. 4 W. T. Jewel, “Transformer Design in the Undergraduate Power Engineering Laboratory,” IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 499-505, May 1990. 5 Ahmed Rubaai, EECE-318 Energy Conversion-User Manual, Howard University, Washington, DC, 2001 6 Page 9.374.10 D. Macllister

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

conducted theinterviews, and as such a mutual understanding of the issues discussed were possible. Thediscussion lasted between 30 – 60 min and questions were posed aiming at exploring theirunderstanding of the interface and current issues and phenomena of relevance to the field. Theinterviews took place in the laboratories of the interviewees or interviewer, or duringinternational conferences, where the two could meet mid-way between labs. They were semi-structured sessions, with probe questions planned, such as ‘What do you understand by the‘interface’ in composite materials?’. If the interviewee responded ‘ its bonding between fibre andmatrix’, then they were further probed with a question, ‘what , for you, is this ‘bonding’? Often asimple

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

, David E. and Larson, Debra, “Design4Practice, 2000 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award Honorable Mention, www.asme.or/educate/cia. 3. Todd, Robert H., Sorenson, Carl D., and Magleby, Spencer P., “Designing a Senior Capstone Course to Satisfy Industrial Customers, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, 2003, No. 2, pp. 92-100. 4. Clausing, D. P., “Improved Total Development Process: Changing the Ten Cash Drains into Cash Flows,” unpublished manuscript, MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Cambridge, Ma. 1986. 5. Paulik, Mark J., “A Competition-Motivated Capstone Design Course: The Results of a Fifteen Year Evolution,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol.44, No.1, February 2001. 6. Dym

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

(Criterion 3). This retreat workshop enabledeach program to develop or re-define their mission statement, to develop outcomes based coursesyllabi, and to map the outcomes to program educational objectives. This retreat led to an ABETEC 2000 mock visit sponsored by Raytheon Missile Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard andBoeing in January 2002 with team members representing both academia and industry. Theobjectives of the mock visit were to visit the laboratory facilities, conduct interviews with facultyand students, evaluate the first drafts of the individual self-study reports, and to offer candidcomments and recommendations to incorporate assessment and continuous qualityimprovements within the programs.Early Lessons LearnedThe results from the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2530 Images of Laboratory Work Test Tubes, Beakers 5 Similar to the written responses, students’ drawings of engineers showedconsiderable evidence of building and fixing. These images were present not only inartifacts of building and fixing (such as tools, hard hats and safety glasses) but were alsoexpressed through the products of engineering (cars, buildings, and bridges). Theseimages suggest that many students think of engineers as the people who are fixing cars(car mechanics) and building houses and bridges (construction workers). Quite a

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff

advanced laboratory situation, I find that they have found away to bypass the problem of designing a circuit through proper insight into how it shouldfunction. This new technique, which should not really be called “design”, will be termed“Statistical Design”.An example of Statistical Design would be as follows: Suppose we are to design a resistivecircuit to match a given source to another given load. One could choose some random circuit toplace between the source and load, and then randomly vary all the resistors in the matchingcircuit until a match was found. This would require no insights as to how the match wasachieved, such as “when a resistor is added in parallel, the overall resistance is reduced”. I firstencountered this type of analysis in

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

South Carolinaand is a 2-year participant in the NSF GK-12 Fellowship Program.JED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and theDirector of the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratory, design,and materials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. Jed is the GK-12 PI. All correspondence should be addressed to Jed S. Lyons, University ofSouth Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208. lyons@sc.edu.CHRISTINE EBERT a Professor of Education and the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Co-PI on theGK-12 grant Dr. Ebert is instrumental in teaching engineering students how to

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

implementation issues of different DSP techniques.I. IntroductionPenn State Harrisburg offers BS EE, BS EET, and ME degrees. The Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Electrical Engineering provides an opportunity for students to pursue interestsin electrical and electronic circuits, including digital circuits and VLSI and its fabrication,microprocessors and their applications, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BSEET programprovides similar experience however, its strengths include: an applied, hands-on approachand extensive laboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, bothcurricula emphasize written as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approachamong students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston Massachusetts, November 2002.KEN VAN TREURENKen Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received hisB. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy, his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University,and his DPhil. at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering.STEVEN EISENBARTHSteven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. Hereceived his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Albertson College of Idaho and a Masters and Ph.D. in Physicsfrom Baylor University