Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

, engineering ethics, program managementand written and oral communication. Furthermore, provides the students with the opportunity tobecome more proficient in a second language and develop professional competencies (e.g. travelsafety, use of public transportation, required international documentation, etc.). In accordance with ABET criteria, the ETHOS course was designed to have the followingoutcomes: 1. Enhance the ability of students to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering fundamentals: The internships require simple mathematical calculations and application of basic engineering principles. Basic math concepts are required to plan a travel budget for the internship. 2. Enhance the ability of

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

course and identify program and departmentlearning objectives and outcomes, and show how they are related to each other.Assessment measures also set the stage for future accreditation of a computergraphics program. This paper will discuss how to begin the assessment processfor the program as a whole, and how to facilitate and use course embeddedassessments within a computer graphics program and within supporting courses inother disciplines. By having a plan and a template of assessment measurement forfaculty, beginning course-embedded assessments becomes an easier task for thebusy faculty and will greatly improve the continuity of course offerings within theever changing computer graphics field.BackgroundPurdue University Calumet (PUC) is a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

the Boomer – Xer dichotomy although the author doesnot employ Generations Theory nomenclature. An example is the discussion of the divergentvalue systems of the Boomers that represent the school system senior planning and financial staffcompared to that of the Xers who represent the majority of classroom teachers and principals.This clash of generations represents an important practical challenge in order for knowledgetransfer to occur.References1 H. Petrowski, The Evolution of Useful Things, 1992, ISBN 0-679-74039-2. This book extends the exploration of engineering and offers insights into the creative processes of invention and design.2 R. Williams, Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change, 2002. The author, a History of

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

strategy and the general plan of work10,37,and they possibly need to undergo some form of organisational socialisation34. The best, andoften only, people able to provide this training and socialisation are the existing developers,who are in the process diverted from their primary tasks.The net result is that more time is lost in bringing the new developers up to speed and inadditional coordination efforts than is gained in productive time.Brooks’ law has an intuitive appeal and has been generally supported in theliterature7,15,17,41,45. Writing recently, Brooks acknowledged that his law was a grossgeneralisation and yet, in the absence of anything more conclusive, it remained the “bestzeroth-order approximation to the truth, a rule of thumb to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

operations such asplug-in/dynamic-linkage, debugging, memory handling, and object creation/destruction routines.Our plan is to make the system available under several platforms from the WEB to handhelds.For each of these platforms a common 2D/3D graphical user interface (GUI) will be developedwith few variations in the implementation depending on the system.Functionalities implementation: the Laplace equation solution algorithmThe purpose of this section is to illustrate the algorithm applied in the simulator to solve theLaplace equation for a given region of space using the FEM method. The development of theprogram basically involves four basic steps:1. STEP I: Generate the mesh 1.1. Sketch the desired domain and enter the electric and geometric

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

, rubber couplings. The plan was to use the gasoline engine-dynamometer system in other courses. Since the engine has been sitting unused too long it wasunsafe to start the engine without properly servicing it. Therefore, the author decided to servicethe engine as a laboratory exercise for the EDTE 341 course. Allowing students to work on a realengine was also a big step forward upgrading the level of the course for MET and TechnologyEducation students. The enrolment in the EDTE 341 course was five students, therefore the classwas divided into two groups. Initially one group worked on the single piston transparent alcoholengine and the other group worked on a 4-hp Briggs&Stratton gasoline engine. After the groupsfinished disassembly, checking

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

the author during the fall semester of 1997. The departmentof Technology has two engine-dynamometer systems in the Power and TransportationLaboratory. They were purchased in 1984 and came with the new, 50 000 square-ft Arts andTechnologies building. The gasoline engine-dynamometer system was used once in 1985 to testSUN2 Interrogator 1805-9 Engine Diagnostics unit. The diesel engine-dynamometer system, todate, was never used. The gasoline engine is a 1984 Pontiac 6000, 2.5 liter, throttle bodyinjected, 4-cylinder engine. The diesel engine is a 1984 Volkswagen 4-cylinder engine. Bothengines have the same model dynamometers. The engines are directly connected to thedynamometers by flexible-insert, rubber couplings. The plan was to use the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

API should result in shorteneddevelopment times for experienced C++ programmers. The extensible architecture of theSimPlus object hierarchy additionally allows for highly customized behaviors to be used inspecialized simulations.We aim to further improve the tool and there are number of improvement candidates. The eventlist could be improved adding a Calendar Queue. The simulation engine can be modified tosupport distributed and parallel simulation. For the latter, we have recently implemented a Page 9.1098.14parallel version of SimPlus whose description will be published soon. Finally, we plan to use thetool by other students to assess its

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

in the mechanical engineeringdiscipline. The School uses a graduate attribute mapping process to link learning outcomes Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwith Engineering Australia graduate attributes and matrices for KNE353 is provided in Table2 and the matrix for KNE453 is provided in Table 3.In KNE353 all three research outcomes are subsumed into a case study (aluminiumproduction). This focuses on product flow and process planning of aluminium manufacturing,which reinforces graduate attributes “h” and “j”. The students do not use the direct researchoutcomes as specific case studies as

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

laboratory testingof prototypes.The project provided an excellent opportunity for students and faculty to gain engineering relatedexperiences in several aspects of the project. Project tasks included test site preparation,installation and calibration instrumentation for monitoring and data collection, generatingengineering models and drawings, machining and fabrication of heat exchangers, and analysis oftest data. Graduate students also were involved with project management and planning for asecond phase.Currently, development work has resulted in prototypes ready for further testing at ORNL.Products will undergo extensive testing in a controlled environmental chamber to evaluateperformance under stimulated loadings and changing conditions. Upon

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Jacobitz; Kathleen Kramer; Rick Olson

a high degree of student/faculty interaction. The Preceptorial Program provides the firstopportunity for these relationships to develop.In a separate initiative, the Office of Student Learning Initiative recently developed the Passportto Success program as a supplement the Preceptorial Program. The Passport program offers aseries of one-hour seminars addressing a topic in one of three themes: Academic Success: Seminars that offer some of the nuts-and-bolts skills needed to succeed academically such as time management and test-taking tips. Career Planning: Sessions to help students prepare for a career including choosing a major and writing resumes. Personal and Social Growth: Programs developed to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

(dressing, eating breakfast etc.), planning, communication or socialization, feelings ofbeing happy or excited, feelings of being stressed, tired or bored, family interactions, andrecreation.Both male and female education majors were much more likely to mention self care as a part oftheir narrative, though male engineering majors spoke of self care twice as much as their femalepeers. Communication or socialization was commonly discussed by both majors, though teachersspoke of “discussing students or problems with other teachers” while engineers spoke moreabout eating lunch with co-workers or meetings. Education majors were twice a likely tomention planning as a part of their day, while engineering majors were almost three time timesas likely to

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

XE475 is being developed and will be taught jointly by CME and EECS, leveraging theexisting talents and resources within both. The first task was to devise a course proposal forapproval at the Academy level. This course proposal had to include the course learningoutcomes, a learning model, an assessment plan, a course description, and a tentative syllabus.The authors were greatly assisted in this effort by input from Dr. Kevin Craig of RensselaerPolytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. In devising the learning outcomes for the new course, it was extremely important toemphasize a balance between theory/analysis and hardware implementation. Physical andtangible understanding of the principles under discussion is vitally important, without

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Groff; Paul Greger; Kim Groff; Joseph Orlins

requires dams in thishazard category to be inspected every 2 years, and they must have Emergency Action Plans andOperation and Maintenance manuals. The Dam Safety Section of the New Jersey Department ofEnvironmental Protection (NJDEP-DSS) regulates all dams in the state. When dams are not incompliance with the Dam Safety Act, then dam owners may be subject to litigation from thestate Attorney General’s Office. Page 7.22.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Wadsworth Dam

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason White; Hardy Pottinger; Daryl Beetner; Vicki Eller

possible need for Windows users to download andinstall any software.Implementation Implementation of a web seminar requires considerable planning and preparation, asdepicted in the suggested seminar timeline shown in Figure 1. Time must be set aside toadvertise the seminar, to register participants, to provide participants with instructions on how toattend the seminar, to prepare slides, to rehearse for the seminar, and finally to conduct theseminar itself. If possible, first time presenters should begin planning even earlier than shown inFigure 1 to allow time for software training. Page 7.401.5 “Proceedings of the 2002

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel McAdams; Robert B. Stone; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

every aspect of the design, rather than just a component of a largersystem. The students will follow the project all the way from preliminary design concepts toinstallation of the final product into the truck.Mr. Fackrell noted that, “…working personally with the end-user has been very rewarding,especially when that user will gain so much from the project result. We have extra incentive tobuild a device that will serve beyond his expectations for years to come.”7 The incentive andsatisfaction that come to students who are involved in such “human need” projects provideadditional motivation for including such projects in the engineering curriculum.The administrators of the capstone course at BYU plan to continue providing projects thataddress

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

Academy of Engineering. Focus on the future: A national action plan for career-long education for engineers. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Engineering (ERIC Document ED 300251) (1988).20. Baker, M. Sharpening the focus of viewpoints between higher education and employers of the expertise required for contemporary and future technical managers. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 40 (3), 211-223 (1993).21. National Society of Professional Engineers. General characteristics, typical duties and responsibilities of engineers for Levels I – IX. Available WWW: http:www.nspe.org (1999 access date).22. Estrin, T. Educating the engineering manager: The UCLA experience. In, L.P. Grayson & J.M

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

, innovative, etc.) 6) the container(mostly esthetics) and 7) operations manual. The Design Evaluation is worth up to 20points.The next “work session” is free, and the Final Report (worth up to 25 points) is due in thefifteenth week.ObjectivesThe intent of the major project is: · to provide an opportunity to practice design · to provide an early focus on design in the curriculum · to demonstrate aspects of engineering, e.g., team building, planning, scheduling, communicating (orally, written, and pictorially), constructing, and selecting materials, that many in the class have not yet experienced. · to provide an opportunity for a directed, cooperative group activity · to allow students to experience the potential difficulties

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Carpenter; Harvey Smith; Murali Krishnamurthi

andmotivation, reduction of repetition in the curriculum, and the opportunity for a meaningfulframework for learning are some of the benefits that will follow from developing an integratedcurriculum in EMS [5, 10, 15, 29].3. Project MethodologyThe project follows a four-stage methodology: (1) needs analysis, (2) design and development,(3) implementation and evaluation, and (4) dissemination and continuation of effort. During theneeds analysis stage, the project advisory team was convened, scope and requirements of theproject plan were finalized, and the evaluation plan was initiated. In the design and developmentstage, pedagogical techniques for conveying EMS content were identified and the instructionalmodules were designed, with input from the

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hartono Sumali

for a few years, the course is planned to be a required course in the curriculumof Purdue University’s ABE Department. Two major issues related to requiring the course are asfollows. First, building up the laboratory equipment may require a few years’ fundingaccumulation with careful planning. For example, to ensure effective learning the course isconducted so that each student uses one PC with data acquisition hardware and software, a dataaccessory box, and a hands-on course kit for learning data acquisition and graphicalprogramming. Each team of 2 or 3 students use one instrumentation test stand as describedabove. The Department wants to keep its current practice of having faculty members instead ofteaching assistants to run undergraduate

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

teaching pedagogy can be rapidly implemented andProceedings of the 2002 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationimproved. The plan aims at fostering collegiality and providing positive feedback and interactionsbetween the members of the teams, in particular, and all of the faculty in general.The procedure for the evaluation is structured as follows: Self-evaluation. In order to provide the other three members of the group with a basis to provide constructive input, the faculty being evaluated provides a self-evaluation statement which describes his/her objectives for the course, means for assessing the success of the

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Brazel

Semester: Carrying out the Plan With one of the goals of this laboratory being to introduce long-term experiments,students were required to work in the laboratory for extended periods, which is distinctlydifferent from typical undergraduate laboratories, and this laboratory was not listed with specifictimes. Therefore, it was necessary to describe the expectations early in the semester, so that thestudents would ‘buy-in’ to the concept of the laboratory and be able to carry out the experiments.This was done at the beginning of the semester and again as the topics were discussed, so t hatstudent comments such as those described by Sharfstein and Relue 7 that the lab time wasunexpected or inadequate could be avoided.Selection of Teams

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anneliese Watt; Jeff Froyd; Julia Williams

adoptingfor their teaching of design strategies that writing teachers typically use to encouragestudents to craft documents that will meet the audience’s needs effectively. Thesestrategies include an initial analysis of the rhetorical situation (including audience),planning and drafting that takes into account the findings of this analysis, documenttesting, and final revision to ensure audience accommodation.One key to an efficient and effective writing process is learning how to analyze therhetorical situation productively before one even begins drafting a document. Thus, atechnical writing teacher will encourage students to determine their target audience, theirexact subject matter, their purpose, the genre (memo, report, evaluation, etc.) they

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

theyhave not been taught everything, but where they will have enough basic knowledge to learn thespecifics on their own as needed. During the second quarter, the lectures will be less structured,allowing for more time to develop the project and more time to explore topics that ariseunexpectedly during the project work. An outline of topics planned for coverage in IMD II isgiven in Table 2.The first project, design on paper only, is an exercise in following a logical process to learnabout an unfamiliar topic, define goals, develop working design options, and select the best one.This project would be one “sponsored” by an organization in the Rochester community. Sincethere would be no construction, no monetary support was required, but the sponsor

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

development of business plans for SpaceCommercialization around ideas for technology-based startup firms.VI. Usage experience with the Aerospace Digital LibraryThe Aerospace Digital Library (ADL) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)(www.adl.gatech.edu) 23-25 is a learner-centered resource for solving engineering problems acrosslevels and disciplines. ADL was originally inspired by the commissioned papers listed in Wilsonet al 18 as the authors sought ideas to enhance learning by iteratively presenting the same materialin different classes and problems rather than the traditional sequential curriculum. ADL has beenin existence for 3 years. Current usage rate averages several hundred users per day. In March2000, roughly 70% of the usage came from

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barker

subsequently in Red Hat 7.2). Each one is described separately in the followingsections. It is anticipated that webCHARLIE will be released as an open source product in thesummer of 2002 after being used by another teacher this spring.About 500 homework exercises have already been tested in webCHARLIE for two courses,Analytical Methods and Control Systems I, with another 200 exercises in two additional coursesto be transferred from CHARLIE during the Spring 2002 semester. In addition, development ofnew exercises for an electronics course, is also planned. The webCHARLIE homework Page 7.1309.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

’s exercise to the student’s other subjects by asking questions that encourage critical thinking: Example from airplane exercise: how does this exercise relate to math/science/engineering? 5. Students should be assessed formatively, serving to inform future learning experiences · This is more of a curricular planning issue, but it basically supports the idea of taking grades throughout the semester based on actual “hands-on” content knowledge in order to give students some idea of their own levels of learning before a major grading event (midterm, final exam, etc.) 6. Students should be encouraged to become self-regulatory, self-mediated, and self-aware

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

Session # 3425 Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process · information gathering/understand problem/customer needs · problem definition/goals or requirements defined · idea generation/brainstorming/creativity · evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling · decision making/selection/planning · implementation/produce/deliver design to customer · process review & improvement/iteration Knowledge of Effective Teamwork · purpose/goals/focus · team leader or shared leadership · assigned responsibilities/accountability · team attitude/support/commitment · time management/task orientation

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

by simple quantitative analysis is the way to go. · Lab experiments need to be planned carefully such that lectures can be geared towards lab exercises while integrating the basic theory seamlessly. · Hands-on group experience in building and testing application-oriented circuits is the major draw for a course like this. · Integrate as many basic senses (lights, sound, touch, etc.) as possible into the experiments. · Opportunity to use electronic instruments in the lab is a big attraction among students.DON’Ts · Don’t let the lab kits out of the class. Not all students will remember to bring their kits to every class. This also helps in not losing a few kits during the add/drop week. · Don’t plan on students

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Sibert; C. Conley; Allen Estes

experiences require money, time,equipment, materials and planning. They are more effective if they complement thematerial covered in the classroom. This paper describes the laboratory program associatedwith the undergraduate Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures course offered to cadetsat the United States Military Academy.The reinforced concrete course at West Point covers the topics one usually finds at theundergraduate level. These include properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, beamdesign, one-way slab design, bond stresses and development length, serviceabilityrequirements, column design, and footing design. The hands-on laboratory programreinforces many of these topics and allows cadets to decide for themselves the validity ofthe