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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Feng Jao; Khalid Al-Olimat

On Line Microsoft Project Tutorial for Engineering and Technology Students Feng Jao and Khalid Al-Olimat Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractThis paper explores a designed online instructional tool to tutor engineering and technologystudents on how to utilize the Microsoft Project software to create a project plan which is one ofthe important elements in project management. Students in the engineering programs and in thetechnology program at Ohio Northern University are required to utilize Microsoft Project toconstruct a plan for their senior design projects. There are no any dedicated lectures to teachstudents or to show them how to use this software. Students need to learn it

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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

Session 3549 Structuring a Project Management Course to Develop Team Skills Charlie P. Edmonson Donna C.S. Summers University of DaytonAbstractThere’s no escaping it. Working in industry requires working in teams. The industrieshiring our graduates recognize this. TAC of ABET Criterion 2e requires it, statinggraduates need “an ability to function effectively on teams.” How do we, as teachers, goabout ensuring that our students learn how to work effectively on teams? How do we goabout teaching them team work and team management skills?The traditional

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

An Engineering Team Approach to Mentoring Graduate Students through Projects Perry L. Heedley and Thomas W. Matthews Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering California State University, SacramentoAbstractThis paper describes a new approach to the mentoring of graduate students through their master’sprojects recently developed at California State University, Sacramento in the area of integratedcircuit (IC) design. Student engineering teams were formed to design, layout and test twoseparate pipelined analog-to-digital converter chips and a specialized biomedical chip. The goalof each team was to build a complex mixed-signal

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Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stanley Dick; Russell Aubrey

Session 3550 An Introduction to an EET and Projects Course with Unique Learning Experiences Russell A. Aubrey, Stanley A. Dick Purdue University School of Technology at AndersonAbstractEET 196 introduces entering students to EET and to projects by presenting numerouselectrical/electronic laboratory opportunities. A number of these exercises are unique to theAnderson location. The course combines focused short lectures with a great deal of structuredhands-on laboratory experience. The exercises involve several weekly project assignments aswell as a major

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

Session # 2549 Project-Based Freshmen Engineering Courses in Civil Engineering Technology Vernon W. Lewis, Jr., Carol L. Considine Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529AbstractOld Dominion University (ODU) has developed two fundamental courses for freshmenengineering students. The first course introduces the fundamentals of the practice of engineeringincluding innovation, creativity, design and manufacturing, commercialization, teaming

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

of Texas at AustinAbstr actIn 2002, the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin launched a three-yearproject funded by the GE Foundation to focus on the mathematics preparation starting at themiddle school level. The project, Achievement in Mathematics for Engineering (AIM forEngineering), is designed to address a number of issues facing colleges of engineering: ‚ Engineering enrollments nationwide are flat or declining. ‚ Women and minorities are under-represented in engineering fields. ‚ Many students entering engineering programs are mathematically unprepared. ‚ Retention rates at many colleges of engineering indicate students are leaving due to the challenges of the first two years.Major thrusts of

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

Session number 2004-1340 Differentiated Team Training in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects Course Dr. Ray Luechtefeld, Dr. Steve E. Watkins, Vijay Rajappa University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe ability to function effectively in teams is an important contributor to career success inengineering. Unfortunately, specific training designed to improve team effectiveness is not oftenincorporated into engineering education. Even when such training is provided, the absence ofclear comparisons makes it difficult to evaluate effectiveness. Providing two kinds of teamtraining to

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Merino

Session 2642 Can Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) be Applied to Projects that are Temporary and Unique? Donald N. Merino, Ph.D., P.E. Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractProjects are defined as temporary and unique by the Project Management Institute Body ofKnowledge (PMI BoK). Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) assumes incrementalimprovements over time. If a project is temporary and unique, how can we incrementallyapply CPI over time? How do we develop lessons learned from a temporary project andhow and when do we apply them

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Session 1153 Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students Helen K. Qammar1, H. Michael Cheung1, Edward A. Evans1, Sandra Prettyman Spickard2, Francis S. Broadway3, Rex D. Ramsier4 Department of Chemical Engineering1/ Educational Foundations and Leadership2/ Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies3/ Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering4 The University of Akron Akron, Ohio

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Maxwell; Michael Parten

Session 2003 Development of a Hydrogen Powered HEV as an Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project Micheal Parten, Timothy Maxwell Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech UniversityI IntroductionOver the past several years, Texas Tech University’s Advanced Vehicle Engineering Laboratory(AVEL) has converted six conventional vehicles to hybrid electric (HEVs) and alternative fueledvehicles for the various Vehicle Challenges sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),the three major U.S. automobile

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donna Summers

Session 2249 Are We Asking Our Students to Do Too Many Projects? It Depends Donna C.S. Summers Charlie P. Edmonson University of DaytonAbstractWe have all heard our students groan as we assign them a project. Most of us accept thissound as the natural order of things, but have we really listened to what the students aretelling us? Have they been the first to recognize that we are asking our students to do toomany projects?The impetus for utilizing projects in a wide variety of courses comes from many

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Akbar Eslami

2004-2128 session# 3250 A capstone design project- Machine Vision System in Inspection Process Kenneth Joyner, Joshua Shipman, Benjamin Mott, Dana Harper, Edward Morris, Akbar Eslami ITT Technical Institute, Norfolk Campus/ Elizabeth City State UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this project is to design an automated inspection system that will identify, accept,or reject parts on a production line. The project simulates a major goal of industry—to monitordeviations in parts geometry. The project begins by integrating five components that worktogether as a system: a

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

Session 2433 Using Projects to Improve Understanding of Introductory Thermal Science Concepts Heather L. Cooper Purdue UniversityAbstractEngineering and technology students often struggle with comprehension of thermal sciencetopics, due to the seemingly abstract nature of the topics when compared with materials ormachine design concepts. For example, it is difficult for some students to “see” the conservationof thermal energy explained by the First Law of Thermodynamics, yet they can easily visualizetransformations between potential

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

Session 2147 Project LIVE: A Classroom for Students on the Go J. R. Porter, J. A. Morgan, and J.A. Ochoa Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract The classical lecture environment represents one of the most important opportunities todirectly interact with students, allowing professors to leverage an array of communication andteaching techniques and to be immediately responsive to students’ questions. However, during alecture students must absorb considerable amounts of new information

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

Session 3460 Using a Product Line Approach to Develop Course Projects£ Gerald C. GannodÝÞ and John J. Doherty Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University Box 875406, Tempe, AZ 85287-5406 E-mail: gannod,doherty.j @asu.edu AbstractProduct Line and Product Family approaches are development techniques that take advantage of common-alities that exist among a set of current or planned products. The use of a product line approach allowsfor speedier integration of new

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sean Daly; Roman Stemprok

Session 2648 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PC SKILLS APPLIED TO A SOUND CANCELLATION PROJECT Sean Daly and Roman Stemprok University of North TexasAbstractDeveloped societies experience an increased level of noise pollution. A Sound Cancellationproject was incorporated into a 2 hour-credit Electronics Specials Problems course. The activecontrol of sound is a solution by making an anti-noise for every known noise volume. The anti-noise signal will cancel itself along with the noise. A computer runs an adaptive noise controlalgorithm in assembly code. The program takes input

Conference Session

Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

Session No # 2151 THE “NATURAL HOUSE” PROJECT: AN EXPERIMENT IN LEARNING BY DOING Ali Uddin Ansari, Ishrat Meera Mirzana Mechanical Engineering Department Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstractThe “Natural House”, a design and construction project of Centre for EnvironmentalStudies & Socioresponsive Engineering (CESSE) at Muffakham Jah College ofEngineering & Technology (MJCET), is directed at involving engineering students in a“real life” project with direct social benefits. The Centre’s primary objective is to

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tracy Camp; Laurie Smith King; Keith Miller; Barbara Moskal

Session 1761 Preparing to Teach Computer Ethics: Results from the DOLCE Project Barbara M. Moskala, Laurie Smith King, Keith Miller, Tracy Campa a Colorado School of Mines/College of the Holy Cross/University of Illinois at SpringfieldAbstractThe Developing On/Off-line Computer Ethics (DOLCE) is an NSF sponsored project which heldthree summer workshops for university faculty members. DOLCE has created web-basedmaterials for teaching computer ethics to undergraduate computer science majors. The materialsare closely

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Pines

Session 3651 Including Service Learning In The Environmental Engineering Research Project David Pines College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of HartfordAbstractService learning provides a meaningful service to the community as well as a relevant learningexperience for the student. The service done by the student is linked to course outcomes andenhances the learning experience that occurs in the classroom. Service learning wasincorporated into the civil engineering curriculum at the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

Session 1566 The Need of Capstone Senior Design Projects for Outside Support Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USAAbstractThe students in the mechanical engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue UniversityFort Wayne are required to complete a capstone senior design project. Whenever it is possible,the students are exposed to real life design problem experience. However, most of the time, thisis not achievable because of the cost of

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

SESSION 3625 INTEGRATION OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING INTO A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE Sohail Anwar, Todd Batzel, Ed Sell The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractEngineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is a project-based introduction toengineering design course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the AltoonaCollege of the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, an engineeringapproach to problem solving is taught with an emphasis on team work, communication(graphical, oral, and written), creativity, ingenuity

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

Session 3425 Assessing Student Learning about Engineering Design in Project-Based Courses Reid Bailey, Zsuzsanna Szabo, Darrell Sabers Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering/Educational Psychology/Educational Psychology University of ArizonaABSTRACTTeaching first year engineering students in a meaningful way is an issue struggled with atschools around the world. At the University of Arizona, our Introduction to Engineering coursefocuses on engineering design, communication, and teamwork primarily through three designprojects over the course of one semester. While the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Nguyen; Charles McIntyre

Session 2221 ELECTRONIC PROJ ECT DELIVERY VIA STUDENT GENERATED WEB SITES " LESSONS LEARNED" Char les McIntyr e and Hung Nguyen Civil Engineer ing and Constr uction Nor th Dakota State Univer sityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

Session 1332 CRCD Experiences at the University of Central Florida: An NSF Project Michael Georgiopoulos*, Jose Castro*, Erol Gelenbe**, Ronald Demara*, Avelino Gonzalez*, Marcella Kysilka*, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi*, Annie Wu*, Ingrid Russell*** (*) University of Central Florida (**) University of Central Florida and Imperial College (***) University of HartfordAbstract Machine Learning has traditionally been a topic of research and instruction in computer scienceand computer engineering programs. Yet, due to its wide applicability in a variety of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

Session 2793 An Undergraduate Design Experience in a Wireless Computing Projects Course Lynne A. Slivovsky, Jan P. Allebach, Charles A. Bouman, George T. C. Chiu, Edward J. Delp, Maribel Figuera, Mustafa Kamasak, James V. Krogmeier, Catherine P. Rosenberg, and Luis Torres Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907AbstractTraditional lecture courses are heavily focused on learning fundamental, and often relativelytheoretical, concepts usually through passive assimilation of information from

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

Session 1566 Development of a Project-Based and Design-Driven Thermodynamics Course Subrata Roy, Karim J. Nasr, and K. J. Berry Department of Mechanical Engineering Kettering University Flint, MI 48504AbstractThis paper describes a project-based learning environment for a first course in Thermodynamics.Students are challenged through a strong emphasis on design projects which expand theboundary of their thermodynamics knowledge through the integration of fluid mechanics andheat

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

Session 2251 THE TOSHKA PROJECT OF EGYPT: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION CASE STUDY Dr. Wafeek S. Wahby Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisAbstractWork is currently underway in southern Egypt to connect Nasser's Lake to a naturaldepression, located westward in Toshka, with a 300 km (185 miles) channel, then directthe lake's surplus water up North towards the Mediterranean Sea. Nasser's Lake is theworld's third largest lake, and the largest man-made freshwater lake in the world, locatedupstream of Aswan High Dam in Egypt. The Toshka

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard K Sase; Julie Wei

Session 2793 The Challenges to an Undergraduate Student Team Undertaking A Complex Project Julie H. Wei and Richard K. Sase California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin WatermasterAbstractCal Poly Pomona’s Civil Engineering Department offers a capstone course that allows studentsthe opportunity to work in a group on a comprehensive project that will ready them for a careerin Civil Engineering. The project discussed in this paper was to evaluate the sediment removalplan in San Gabriel Canyon Reservoirs by

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shallcross

Session 3660 An Investigative Project in Chemical Engineering for Secondary School Mathematics Students David C. Shallcross Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010 AustraliaAbstractEngineering faculties around the world must always work to ensure that they attract highstandard students to their courses. Unfortunately prospective students have a poor appreciationof the engineering profession. They are often unaware of the diversity of challenges andopportunities that await them in an engineering