Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

plan for thestudent. The advisor can spot an academic problem relating to the student’s retention. This isthe time to offer the University’s tutoring services. Instructors use SIMS to study a student’s Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.158.1 Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationacademic history to determine if the student has the required prerequisites for a course. Theinstructor can spot an academic problem relating to the student’s retention. This is the time tosend the student to an advisor for tutoring services

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jonathan Wickert; Jack Beuth

wrench.• Analysis: Conducting a finite element stress analysis of the wrench including the steps of applying loads and boundary conditions.• Manufacturing: Selecting tools for rough and fine pass cuts, and path planning, to machine the wrench from aluminum on a computer-controlled mill. The students are also given the option of producing their design in a rapid prototyping system.In the end, each student walks away from the exercise with a wrench that he or she designed,analyzed, and fabricated without using paper, and through a process of seamlessly integratedcomputer software and hardware. In the analysis portion of the project, numerically-obtained

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mousa Gargari

bolting theappropriate elements.The plan view, as well as, the elevations of the single story mezzanine is shown in Figures 1, 2and 3. The details are shown in Figures 4, 5 and 6.The structural system includes HSS squarecolumns, and channel beams and girders made of A572-50 steel. Teams of 4 to 5 students areresponsible for design and documentation of the project according to AISC LRFDSpecifications1. For a design live load2 of 125 psf and dead load of 25 psf. The students wererequired to perform the following tasks:Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Page 9.1022.3Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ibrahim

-Bonillia, K. L. Watson and Malave, “Quality Planning in Engineering Education: Analysis of Alternative Implementations of a New First-Year Curriculum at Texas A&M University,” J.E.E., July 2000, pp. 315-322.6. C.O. Malave, K. Watson, “The Freshman Integrated Curriculum at Texas A&M University,” Proceeding of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1998, Paper No. 259. Page 9.184.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 7. K

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

must be at least 0.25 in thick. Create a technical drawing of thebracket. Lastly, on a separate sheet prepare a manufacturing plan, indicating the specificprocesses that are required to fabricate of your bracket. Idler pulley shaft A Student A B C 1 3.00 2.00 59575K33 2 3.25 2.00 59575K34 3 3.50 2.00 59575K35 C 4 3.75 2.00 59575K36B Bearings

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

, American Society for EngineeringPage 13 of 23Ain Shams Univer sityAin Shams’ Faculty of Engineering was established in1839, which was later developed as the School of Artsand Crafts in 1932, and then it was changed into theschool of Applied Engineering. In 1946, it was changedinto the Higher Institute of Engineering which wasfurther developed and annexed to Ain Shams Universityas the Faculty of Engineering in 1950.The faculty has 753 teaching staff and 9,468 students. It has the following departments. Automotive Eng. Architectural Engineering Computer and Systems Eng. Structural Eng. Urban Planning Design and Production Eng. Irrigation & Hydraulics Power and Electrical Machines

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Nelson

channel,” “the productwas design to …” “hazardous if not using properly,” “these new technologies allows,” “asophisticate plan,” etc.In terms of understanding documentation conventions for professional reporting, students needspecific training in this area. Classroom time needs to be briefly devoted to conventions ofcitation and referencing, numbering of figures and tables, appendixes, and conventions forcallouts and captions. It was common to see figures unnumbered or untitled as well asunreferenced in the text. Another common error was listing a bibliography that was unreferencedin the text. Indeed, it was clear that all students could have benefited from a review of citationconventions, although this too should have been covered in their lower

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

, financial reporting requirements,prior experience, costs, and management plan. The RFP discussed in this paper is primarilyconcerned with the SOW and the costs required to achieve the work proposed.Examples of very large programs bid using RFPs are the space shuttle, United States Air Force(USAF) aircraft procurements, and United States Navy ships. Examples of medium sizedprograms bid by RFP, and responded to by the author, are computers for the USAF, telephonyswitches, U.S. Postal sorting equipment, and air traffic control systems for the United States.RFP’s would be used for small bids such as wiring of a building, design of a high fidelity systemfor an office or any thousands of projects that require a technical solution to be designed

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

scope and depth of the subject,but typical modules are designed for two to four hours of contact instruction and severalhours of study and/or research outside of class. All or only specified parts of eachmodule can be assigned by instructors as needed to accommodate course integration andscheduling.Many activities involve team strategies that are practiced with other students to simulatework styles and job activities assigned by companies that employ technicians. Additionalteaching and learning resources are also provided to support adoption of the modules.These include strategies for assisting teachers: integration plan for integrating moduleactivities within extant courses (by excluding or decreasing outdated topics) and pointson how to use

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

the IndustrialTechnology Program, School of Technology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois. He is the chair of ACIsub-committee on Polymer Concrete Structural Design and Analysis, and chair of the Construction Focus Group ofthe National Association of Industrial Technology (NAIT). Dr. Wahby offered special technologically focused Page 9.729.6study abroad courses in China and in Egypt. He is planning another course in Brazil. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim Saherwala; Mohammed Haque

-based 3-D animations and walkthrough model ofdesign and construction processes for formworks for concrete construction. All the techniquesthat were used in this research employed a generic programming architecture, which wasdiscipline independent and could be adapted to any other similar domain. These visualizationtechniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching in the classroom but also an effective self-directed tool for open learning via the web.Introduction and BackgroundIn the design of reinforced concrete structure, formwork design plays a crucial role. It is veryimportant for a designer to consider economy while planning the formwork for the reinforcedconcrete structure. Efficient and economical use of the material of which the forms

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

familiarize youwith the format, style, and emphasis expected in a review. You can even select the object youwant to review! Then, while you prepare your review, you can also plan how you could use thislearning object to enhance a course you teach.Even if you are not ready to review, join MERLOT, use what you find there, and add materialthat you find or develop. MERLOT’s engineering catalog is at a critical point. With a littlemore “grass roots” participation, it is likely to grow and increase in value to engineeringeducators rapidly.Biographical InformationValerie Young is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering at OhioUniversity, and a member of the MERLOT editorial board. She has a strong interest in

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

different measures are in use, most of which rely onself-reporting by the student. These include: a) Use of internet or library for self-directed learning; b) Additional degrees or certifications; c) Additional classes (e.g., continuing education) or in-house training; d) Subscriptions to newspapers, journals or magazines; e) Memberships in professional organizations; f) Participation in research/publication; g) Attending conferences; and h) Tutoring students.One institution requires that students develop a life-long learning plan as an assignment in theirundergraduate engineering seminar class. These plans are then evaluated by faculty.Ethics was specifically mentioned by a few respondents, two of whom mentioned that they

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Urbina; Hirak Patangia

economy when technological innovation is central to wealth creation and long-term economicgrowth. Post ‘nine eleven’ era demands that more American citizens are attracted to STEM education toinsure safety and security of the nation. For high school students to be motivated to enter engineering, theteaching and content of high school mathematics must be refocused. One approach to mitigate thissituation is to involve high school mathematics and science teachers in engineering education with thegoal that they will be able to use engineering applications in their mathematics curriculum to motivatestudents into the field of engineering and technology.The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) received a NSF planning grant under Bridges

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neha Goel; Johnathan King; Ellen Chen; Danny Le; Alene Harris; Ragu Vijaykumar; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

Northwestern University who has been engaged in the ArtificialLimb outreach project since its inception. She has received a Ford Grant to work on this project and manages theassessment portion of the module. She has also actively recruited new students. She plans to attend medical schoolafter she graduates. Page 10.582.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

: National Academy Press, 1999. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education3. Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center (VaNTH) AnnualReport. Volume 1- Strategic Plan. Website URL [http://www.vanth.org], 2002.4. Jansen, ED, Brophy, SP, McKenna, A, Mahadevan-Jansen, A and Walsh, JT. Implementationand Assessment of Challenge-Based Instruction in a Biomedical Optics Course. Proceedings ofthe American Society for Engineering Education (CD-ROM DEStech Publications) Session1309: 8 pages, 2003.5. Roselli, RJ and Brophy, SP. Redesigning a Biomechanics Course Using Challenge

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

it was part of the advisor's larger research program. Thismeans that if one plans to focus only on the area of their thesis, they will be competing with theiradvisor, who already has established a research program for funding and recognition. Furthercollaboration with the advisor may be one way to do this, but the research community may notrecognize this as the individual effort of the recently graduated Ph.D.Palmer chose to pursue a different area of research and took a post-doctoral position in RPI'sCenter for Integrated Electronics and Electronics Manufacturing. His Ph.D. thesis focused ongrain growth of thin films and was not related to the focus of the post-doctoral position. As apost-doc, he was able to establish his own program

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

materials, structural engineering, transportation, environmental engineering, andwater resources engineering. The primary objective of the material is to expose high schoolstudents to the great opportunities the profession of civil engineering has to offer. The program has been a success, with one of the participants enrolling in the CivilEngineering Program at TAMUK following the institute in the fall of 2002, three of theparticipants from 2002 enrolling in the fall of 2003 and one from the summer of 2003 enrollingin the fall of 2004. This is particularly important because these students had plans to enter adifferent discipline and were not aware of any engineering careers! Furthermore, all but one ofthe remaining participants from 2002 have

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

Outline for Designing a Hybrid First Year Language Course with WebCT. Alabama: Auburn University, 2003.4. Salzmann, C., et al. Requirements for Real-Time Laboratory Experimentation over the Internet. Accessed 12/2004. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/10/f6/e9.pdf.5. Spires, Michele S., Janet Jaeger. A Survey of the Literature on Ways to Use Web-based and Internet Instruction Most Effectively: Curriculum and Program Planning. Virginia: Old Dominion University, 2002.BiographyHEATHER L. COOPER, P.E.Heather L. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University, where shehas taught for four years in thermal science and machinery diagnostics. Her areas

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Page 9.243.1ACT score of 22 (or a SAT score of 1030). Students usually sign up for one of the ET majors Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand start to take the technical courses in their sophomore year. Those who plan to major inengineering technology can take the freshman-level Introduction to Engineering Technology.The three-credit course provides an introduction to the engineering world with a technologist’sperspective to provide the skills and knowledge required to pursue an engineering technologycareer8. A 20-questions survey instrument was used to measure the attitude and

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

institutions, NJCATE, will continue to organize conferences around topics of particular interest to the engineering technology community, highlighting the work of ATE projects. Specific topics might include recruitment of students from underrepresented populations, planning and management of successful ATE projects, and integrating core disciplines into technical instruction. • Summer institutes – provide members of the engineering technology education community, as well as secondary school educators, with hands-on, in-depth experience in adapting curricula, materials and concepts developed by ATE engineering technology projects • Workshops and seminars – on emerging technologies and technical

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

astronauticsoption, minimizing the amount of new mathematics and notation helps to keep the student fromgetting lost in the mathematics and unable to see the physical interpretation of the spacecraftdynamics. Since a course in controls is not a pre-requisite to the course, I have chosen toconcentrate on single rigid body dynamics and covering this subject in some detail. With thestudy of rigid body dynamics, the students can learn about the spin-stabilized spacecraft behaviorunder a variety of conditions and can understand how to plan any maneuver required, such asnutation damping, reorientation maneuvers, apogee or perigee boost maneuvers and spin changemaneuvers. In addition, stability conditions for rigid body and gravity gradient stabilization

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

affairs staff and Page 9.1319.2 student mentors. Each cohort will take two gateway classes together per semester during their freshman year. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education • Planning academic and social activities for each community within and outside the classroom. • Integrating problem-based learning, leadership development, and service learning into the courses freshmen take together. • Interacting with student mentors, who will

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

management program (EMP) needs assessment project report. Edmonton: Universityof Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Institute for Professional Development. (1999).17. Babcock, D.L., & Sachet, D.R. Continuing education for Engineering Management. In, L.P. Grayson & J.MBiedenbach, (eds.), 1986 World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education (pp. 228 - 232). May 7-9, 1986,Lake Buena Vista, Florida. New York: IEEE Education Society (1986).18. Ferguson, C. The continuous professional development of engineers and flexible learning strategies.International Journal of Lifelong Education, 17 (3), 173-183 (1998).19. National Academy of Engineering. Focus on the future: A national action plan for career-long education forengineers. Washington, D.C

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

or a device are interrelated. Troubleshoot a piece of equipment through logical deduction. Analyze an engineering system to see how it works. Key Words: analyze, separate, subdivide, interconnect, distinguish, examine, inspect, question, contrastSynthesis Combine elements in a new way to create a new product. Combine ideas to create a new idea or concept. Devise a new experiment to obtain information. Relate knowledge from different areas. Key Words: synthesize, create, build, design, invent, devise, plan, organize, revise, manage, compose, formulateEvaluation

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

, and confidence that will facilitatetheir completing a Bachelor’s degree in engineering. We present here a description of theprogram and the results of the first run of the program during Summer 2003. Our plans for thesecond iteration in Summer 2004 are also outlined.The problem of recruitment and retention of students in engineering programs is widelyacknowledged and many solutions have been proposed. One solution that has been particularlysuccessful is the San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP), which was founded in1979 as an attempt to motivate middle school students to begin studying for careers in science,engineering, and technology. The PREP program has been so successful over the last 24 yearsthat it has been replicated at

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

localmaterial constraints and manufacturing capabilities. For business students, problems will focuson market analysis, financing models, and the development of business plans based on theproduct and the local community.DtM project mentors create and maintain our design challenge portfolios, and develop ourcollaborative network. The project mentor keeps the design challenge portfolio up to date byincorporating new resources and the progress made by student teams. The project mentorcoordinates the communication between student design teams and the collaborative designnetwork, connecting groups, relaying questions and broadcasting changes in the designspecifications or problem parameters. Finally, the project mentor connects promising studentprototypes

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

Chemical Sciences. National Research Council Report, National Academy Press, 73-81. 5. National Science Foundation. (2000). NSF GPRA Strategic Plan, FY 2001-2006. NSF Publication 0104. 6. Sabatini, D. A. (1997). “Teaching and research synergism: the undergraduate research experience,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 123(3) July 1997, 98-102. 7. National Science Foundation, “Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)”, NSF 00- 144 Program Announcement.Biogr aphical Infor mationSUBHI M. BAZLAMIT Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio NorthernUniversity. He is currently the director of the Pavement Management Center for Counties

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

Society for Engineering Education4. Future ImprovementsFrom the above, we can see that many problems were caused by the inaccessibility of thedatabase implementation course to undergraduate students. In the near future, we plan to proposeto push the contents of current CS643 to the undergraduate level and, consequently, reshape ourdatabase courses in the following way: CS343 or CS443: Introduction and database applications CS543: Database implementation CS643: Advanced topics in DBMSPlus seminar courses in database applications such as data warehousing and data mining.References: 1. Final Report of the Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Task Force on Computing Curricula 2001 for Computer Science, http

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Kowalski; Paul Santi

Exploration class at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and we have used the computerprogram for two years (2002-2003) in a Site Investigation class at the Colorado School of Mines,impacting over 140 students. Students have overwhelmingly supported the use of simulatedinvestigations, and they recognize the value of integrating their knowledge and applying it tosolve complex, open-ended problems. [1] As one of several methods to evaluate the program’s effectiveness, we created an open-ended assessment test to gauge an individual’s abilities to plan and carry out a site investigation.Because the test also requests information on educational background and work experience, it is