Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas, Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, U of Texas at Brownsville; Katherine De La Vega, University of Texas at Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

and science). Thevision of the department is to allow women full participation and access to a network ofprofessional who could act as mentors and role models.The mentoring program has been implemented for less than a year now. The generation ofmentees who will take the Senior Project will come over the next two years. Although we aregetting positive feedback from the students, we have not conducted an official study about theeffectiveness of MentorNet as an integrated electronic mentoring program; we plan to collect andpresent the data in a future ASEE meeting.Faculty FeedbackThe two projects presented here had one CIS faculty member as advisor to both of them and twoadvisors from the Public Health department. Below is a summary of the

Conference Session

Technological Literacy - Courses, Educational and Accreditation Standards

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University; Guangwei Zhu, Purdue; Cheng-Kok Koh, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

. [3] Jaikumar Vijayan. Will security concerns darken Google’s government cloud? http://www.computerworld.com/, September 17 2009. [4] IDG News Service. Fcc’s national broadband plan: What’s next? http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=64A5457F-1A64-67EA-E4A95D435AFC2864, March 16 2010. [5] Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record id=11463, 2007. [6] Elliot Soloway. How the Nintendo Generation Learns. Communications of the ACM, 34(9):23–ff., 1991. [7] Kate Sanders and Lynda Thomas. Checklists for Grading Object

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Punch, Michigan State University; Richard Enbody, Michigan State University; Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

significance make itdifficult to provide reasons for the results (or lack thereof). However, we can speculate. 1. The students who attended more often were in worse straits than those who did not. The “did not attend” students had more confidence in being able to dig themselves out of their hole. We could confirm this with access to more data (GPA, ACT results). We plan on doing this in the near future. 2. The “direness” of the email and the offer of help was not enough to encourage students to come for more help. It is a tricky thing to motivate dedicating even more time to a course that has such high workload. 3. The kind of help provided, going over existing class material, was not seen as valuable. In

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

targeted at graduate students from the engineering, medical,law and business school programs. Medical Innovation is based on experiential learningand team-based processes. Student teams consist of about 8-9 members and twoinstructors. Teams go through the phases of ideation, prototyping, legal protection,market sizing and business plan development. In contrast to EDC and IDP where a client Page 15.309.3has pre-defined project, the MI students have to find their own project throughobservation and shadowing. Typical enrollment is about 65 students.The student surveys were sent to 147 EDC students, 65 MI students, and 25 IDP students,totaling 237 students in

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Flores, UTEP; James Becvar, UTEP; Ann Darnell, UTEP; Helmut Knaust, UTEP; Jorge Lopez, UTEP; Josefina Tinajero, UTEP

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the beginning, thePLTL strategy has been recognized to reduce student anxiety and to build confidence12.Peer leaders are successful students who assist professors and serve as role models for freshmanand sophomore students. Peer leaders help with course planning, modeling course objectives,and implementation of course goals. A good peer leader serves as mentor, a bridge betweenstudent and professor, and a friend. In our program, every peer leader receives training thatincludes a pre-semester introduction session, weekly preview sessions, and an end of semesterdebriefing session. The introduction generally lasts three days and involves faculty engagingpeer leaders in cooperative-style learning and knowledge constructivism activities that

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

based on the 3-Story Steel Moment Resisting FrameStructure developed for the SAC research project. The students are given floor plan andelevations for the structure, as well as loading information. The students are expected to work inteam to evaluate the response of the structure using different models and analysis approaches, aswell as to recommend a strategy for improving the structure’s performance.An advantage to using this structure is that it was designed by independent structural consultingfirms based on existing seismic design criteria and that it is well known in the earthquakeengineering research community. As a result, this serves to motivate those students going intopractice as this is a “real” problem tied to the course content

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Shakib, DeVry University; Mohammad MUQRI

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

planning for future growth.Java Message ServicesOne of the most prevalent message-based middleware is MQ Series from IBM. Message orientedmiddleware is an effective technology for connecting applications where real-time processing isnot always available or not desired. Transaction-oriented systems typically fall into this category.Banking transactions, hotel and airline reservations systems typically utilize a message orientedmiddleware as part of their architecture. For example, the airline reservation systems mustrespond in real-time whether a ticket is available or not. It does not necessarily have to print theticket or perform the billing in real-time. So as the reservations are confirmed, they are queuedup for the printing and billing

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Bouamor, University of Oklahoma; Chen Ling, University of Oklahoma; Binil Starly, University of Oklahoma; Randa Shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

toenhance their learning experience and their grasp of the subject matter.A limitation of this study was the small sample size and the random student volunteers fromdifferent educational backgrounds, which increased the variability in the experiment results.Another limitation of the study is that we used identical exam questions to test the student’sunderstanding. Although same questions are commonly used in pre- and post- test method, thefact that the students in Group 2 has seen the exam questions before during Post-lab exam mayhad lead to improvement due to the familiarity with the exam questions, rather than due to theexperiences of the multimodal lab. One plan to address this problem is to use essay questionsrather than calculation questions

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Christal Wade, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

increasedtechnical knowledge and level of instrumentation new operators face.TransitionsCWRS is in the process of creating transition opportunities for students from 2-year degreeprograms to 4-year degree programs if desired, through the creation of formal articulationagreements between various departments and colleges at WKU. This would allow for a seamlessprocess for students to continue on to receive a 4-year degree if interested. CWRS plans todevelop articulation agreements with the Technology Management and/or ConstructionManagement programs through the Architectural and Manufacturing Sciences (AMS)Department, housed in the College of Science and Engineering at WKU, and with the PublicAdministration program through the Political Science Department

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Fisher

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe traditional way. The demonstrations, lab exercises and projects, and field trips that thestudents planned and carried out were outstanding. One student had been an automobilemechanic. He showed the class various sensors and actuators typically found on cars anddemonstrated how they worked. One of the labs was about building electric motors out ofcommon materials found around the house. One project culminated with a tournament of battlerobots. (No, the instructor did not win.) Team-built electric cars were raced up and down thehallway. They built a miniature fire truck that actually pumped water from an external tank andsquirted it out a “water cannon

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marc Hoit

Page 9.1142.10business programs during the Spring 04 semester. It will be rolled out to the entire university infall of 2004. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2158The system has been used for exit surveys and several special purpose surveys to this point. Itwas designed to be used for a much broader set of questionnaires including class assessments,alumni and employer surveys and more.The system is robust, scalable and flexible. Additional enhancements are planned including: ‚ As the

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Wangrow; Doug Tougaw

expertise is diverse enough to cover every area of emerging technology. Due to the geographic location of the university, it can also be difficult to hire adjunct and visiting faculty to teach part-time while continuing to pursue their engineering careers full-time. Thus, we have occasionally found ourselves in the position of knowing what needs to be taught but not having anyone who can teach it with the level of authority necessary to prepare students for a professional career in that field. 2. The Genesis of a New Course In Spring 2003, as part of the preparation of a departmental strategic plan, the department faculty and its Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) identified “wireless communications” as a key field in which our graduates are likely

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

: Fire Fighting Robot: This project involves in design, build and testing a robot that can move through a model floor plan structure of a house, find a fire (lit by a candle) and then extinguish it in the shortest time. Measurement of Longitudinal Wave Speed through Solids: This project involves in design, build and testing a system to measure the speed of sound and energy dissipation through solid materials. Development of an Active Tether: This project involves in design, construction and testing of an active tether capable of assisting a search and rescue robot. Model Aircraft: This project involves in design

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Han-Way Huang

languages without overwhelming burden of understanding the wholelanguage construct. We are currently preparing for an ET introductory microcontrollercourse using Flowcode. If successful, we will extend the Flowcode use to our EETprogram.Flowcode currently supports most of the PIC16 family devices. Although MatrixMultimedia has no immediate plan to extend it to cover PIC18 family, programming inflowchart and C code is largely device independent.The Debug Monitor ProgramAlthough the MPLAB SIM simulator is convenient for debugging the software,eventually the program has to be tested on the target circuit. Microchip offers in-circuitemulator (ICE) and in-circuit debugger (ICD). The in-circuit emulator is expensive andrequires a dedicated pod for each

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

authenticate and download specific IP blocks and supporting materials.E. Deliverables for all IP formatsA specific set of baseline deliverables is required for each IP format and is described thoroughlyat the UMIPS web portal12 and by McCorquodale, et al.10F. Qualification MetricsIP components are incorporated into UMIPS as either “pre-silicon” or “post-silicon” verified. Pre-silicon components must include detailed simulation performance data in the specification. Post-silicon verified components must include the same data from test. The specification must alsoinclude a test plan and set-up.IP components are also qualified as either “instantiated” or “uninstantiated” components. Thisdesignation indicates whether the component has been

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Mary McEniry; Cid Freitag

weekly on-line conversations.All submitted a one-page summary including a project description, assessment plan,results, and next steps; some added resources. The topics are listed below as examplesfor participants in future programs. • Introduction to computer and software engineering course incorporating LEGO Mindstorm Labs • Using computers in laboratory: computers interfaced to physics laboratory measurement equipment and computers simulating the use of measurement equipment • Using computer simulation software to help students understand specific concepts • Using Group Instructional Feedback Technique to assess how students were reacting to the “active” classrooms both professors strive to create

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

Design Implementation Planning for Action Execution Asse ssment & Control Assessment & Feedback Figure 1: The engineering design template utilized in CE300 The course begins with forces in two dimensions, introduces the concept of static

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

2002 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.David K. Click is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University ofVirginia. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia inMay 2001, and has been involved with the solar house project since September 2000. After graduating with a Masterof Science degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2004, he plans to work in the field of solar and wind energy.Shana C. Craft is a graduate student in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University ofVirginia. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics/Pre-Engineering with a minor in Mathematicsfrom Longwood College in May 2002

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

sites as extremely functional because a wide range of course materials and teaching/learning activities could be organized within a single web site. • They compared their newly acquired skill to a means to achieve greater accountability because their ability to develop web sites afforded them more autonomy in the design of instruction.Anecdotal evidence revealed that the science scholars were disinclined to use the Internetas part of their regular classroom instruction because of the impermanence of the content.Fear that web site content would change was cited as a reason for not developingdetailed, specialized lesson plans around such content. To mitigate this concern, oursolution was to provide the scholars with a

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Mowry

maturation process that often accompanies the process of developing a command ofany field of study. However, another important source of this deficiency is the lack ofunderstanding, attention to, or appreciation by the students of the general underlying conceptsthat unify all scientific fields of study. This deficiency is starting to be addressed by severalinstitutions1, 2. However, a significant amount of planning and intradepartmental coordination isrequired to affectively achieve a complete integration of the appropriate knowledge.Furthermore, the ability of these integrated approaches to adapt-to-change remains to be seen.Discrete modules that can be integrated into existing courses or new curriculum that focuses onthe desired level of concept

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carsten Ahrens

ofCivil Engineers (ECCE) [3].4.1. Proposed semester plan of module Ethics in the Built Environment1. week General introduction into the subject, definitions2. week Ethics and philosophical development3. week The importance of value systems, in general life and in technology4. week Values in technical action: functionality5. week Values in technical action: economy6. week Values in technical action: prosperity7. week Values in technical action: safety8. week Values in technical action: health9. week Values in technical action: environmental quality10. week Values in technical action: personality development and social quality11. week Correlation between values, types and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Goda; Pete Hanlon; Lisa Shay

(Figure 2) between two cadet teams and two faculty entries. The popularity of theproject is due primarily to its destructive nature and a fair amount of freedom of mechanical Page 9.593.5design. Many cadets enjoy the brain storming phase of the project and trying to gather Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationintelligence on the designs and plans of the other teams. The cadets frequently complain that thefaculty have the advantage in the competition since we have complete access to the

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Gonzales

of English speaking populations only. The position of thispresentation will involve the ethnography of HCI as applied to a worldwide population withsubsequent planning and preparation directed toward cultures in addition to English speakingHCI systems. Theories of diversity, learning paradigms, cultural mores, and attention to casestudies will be discussed. A focus of recommendations to assist cultural diversity considerationsas applied to web system design and management will be offered for a fully enhanced globalapplication of HCI. The utilization aspect of Unicode compliant standards will further assistwith the UI practices.IntroductionFor the most part, people and therefore cultures, have begun to consider issues of communicationas we

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies. (1999). Engineering and Technology Enrollments - Fall, 1998. Washington, DC: Author.20 21 Pattatucci, A. M., (1998) Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.22 Wilson, S. S. (2000). Developing a Plan for Recruiting and Retaining Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology at Western Kentucky University. Conference Proceedings. Washington DC: American Society for Engineering Education.23 WEPAN Role Models. 24 Clark, M. & McMurchie, D. (2001). Integrating Humanities and Engineering Technology Education in the Classroom: A Case Study. Conference Proceedings. Washington DC: American Society

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcurrent (or at least fresh) process experience on the part of the mentor. Such process skillsinclude: • consulting practice skills: the role of the consultant; stakeholders; interviewing skills; client/consultant relationships and "buy-in"; implementation issues and reward systems; • the context of business management; • proposal preparation and proposal "selling"; costing; project planning; • problem structuring methods, methodological issues, ethical issues; • how groups of people work; and • the use of decision support systems

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Linder; Murat Tanyel

already started with a senior designproject and we have even larger goals for the next phase of the senior design project. Oneobjective is that the work on the Advanced Toolkit Manual for intermediate to expert LabVIEWusers will be completed. We plan to do this by developing help documents that explain theprocess in simple terms so that anyone looking at a program file will understand its operations.We also feel the need to develop a template of standard input and outputs for variables. In otherwords we will be determining a standardized way that instruments will be passing signals fromone subVI (subprogram) to another. Another goal is to fully understand how complete the toolkitbased on the Communication Systems (ELE 409) class syllabus. We will

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Dilorenzo; Kurt Gramoll

can be quickly and dynamically generated with the use of the Flash application. Twoprinting features are contained on the menu. A user can either print just the tree structure whichis visible on the screen, or they can print the entire technology tree.ImplementationTechnology trees for several ammunition families have been completed and used. In the comingyear, it is planned that database-based technology trees for all current ammunition families willbe created will be implemented at DAC. Also, addition methods of modifying existing databaseswill be evaluated to avoid unnecessary information logging. Once the application is brought on-line, authorized individuals will be able to access the system and learn from the information itdelivers

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

conversion principles from this project to their classmates during class.References1. Wrate, G, “Focus on Energy – Wisconsin’s Initiative to Reduce Industrial Energy Consumption,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Page 9.533.122. Wisconsin Division of Energy, Department of Energy, “Public Benefits in Wisconsin: The Focus on Energy Plan” Request for Proposals, October 2000.3. Neun, J.A., “Improving the Efficiency of Plastic Injection Molding Machines: A Case History,” Kadant-AES white paper, September, 2002, Queensbury NY.4. Schaufelberger, W., “Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

or conditions.V. AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of this work from the National ScienceFoundation through Grant EEC-0230681, “Planning Grant for a Courseless Curriculum”. Theauthors are indebted to Dr. Kolar, R. L., Dr. Knox, R., Ms. Patricia, R. Q. (School of Civil Page 9.128.9Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma), and Dr. Rhoads, T. R. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

effort to meet these educational objectives, the students were required to develop atest plan, design molds, manufacture and fire the bricks, inventory and track the resultant testmaterials, interpret and apply the appropriate American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)test standards, locate the needed test equipment, conduct the tests, analyze the data, compare thedata with data generated from previous semesters and make conclusions from this data.Additionally, the students had to coordinate their activities among the three sections and managetheir time as they only had one semester in which to complete the project. In all sections of thelaboratory, students were required to maintain a laboratory notebook. However, in one of thesesections, the