Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

., "Developing and Assessing Teamwork Skills in a Multi-Disciplinary Course", Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, Tempe Arizona, November 1998.[10] Seat, E. and Lord, S., "Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching Interaction Skills," Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 385-390 Vol. 88, No.4, October, 1999.[11] See Strategic Diversity Plans for the Colleges of Engineering at University of Pittsburgh, and PennsylvaniaState University. http://www.engr.pitt.edu/diversity/pdf/Annual_Report_2004.pdf http://www.equity.psu.edu/Framework/updates_04_09/pdf/ENGRrev_04_09.pdfBiographiesDr. David Bowen is an Assistant Professor at California State University, East Bay. He is an experienced

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

; • Form industry and academic advisory boards for wireless telecommunications; • Develop collaborations with regional high school, 2-year and 4-year colleges and business and industry; • Provide professional development opportunities for regional collaborating institutions, possibly for academic credit; • Develop business and industry training initiatives and develop a team of faculty to provide this training; • Plan, develop, and host academic/industry training seminars, in collaboration with NCTT; • Contribute to regional institutions’ program improvement; and • Assist regional institutions in applying for grants and other sources of outside support; This project

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz; Charlie Edmonson

can be effective in anon-line course. Some students are more effective in a traditional face-to-face classroomthan in a virtual classroom. Each student must decide if on-line or traditional classroomlearning is more appropriate for him or her. The success of this first course at theUniversity of Dayton is very encouraging. In the future, faculty in EngineeringTechnology plan to expand summer course offerings delivered in this format.Furthermore, investigation is underway to integrate this technology into existing semesterclasses and expand into new degree areas.References1. Christie, B., “Writing On-line Exam Questions that Discourage Dishonesty”, ASEE Proceedings, 2003,Session 32752. Gavrin, A., et al, “Just-in-Time Teaching (JITT): Using

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Lunsford; Evan Wright

the handshake is an ACK packet that the client sends to the server.This handshake provides a robust method to establish a socket but also allows anonymousinformation gathering. Programs such as NMAP2 send SYN packets and other packet types thatnormally initiate some sort of reply. These replies are analyzed to answer questions such as “Isthe IP address valid with a device that is powered on?”, “What services are offered on themachine?”, and even “What operation system is running?”. This information can be gatheredautomatically and can be used to plan a malicious attack or may automatically be used by Page 10.309.1malware to launch attempts

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; Jerald Varner

yet none of these were older or non-traditional. Page 10.629.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@ 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis may mean that something other than a student’s developmental stage is as influential as thelab, such as where they are in the “experiential learning cycle” as suggested by David Kolb in hisModel of the Learning Cycle6. Kolb believes that there is a four-stage process of experiencing,reflecting, conceptualizing, and planning that students enter at various times during the learningprocess

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyejeong Kim; Sheng-Jen Hsieh

engineering developmentprocess2, electromagnetic education3,4, digital logic5, concurrent engineering for product/processdevelopment6, supply chain management in automobile manufacturing7, electronic/circuit carddesign, assembly, fabrication, and distribution 8,9,10, and general manufacturing planning andquality management activities11,12. One particularly interesting simulation game is a virtual diskdrive design studio described by Richkus et al.13 Students must design and launch new diskdrives within a certain time frame, simulating the idea of time-to-market. Students can build onthree different kinds of learning styles: (1) literature search and abstract theory; (2) consultationswith experts; and (3) design studio.The first author recently

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Cunningham; Cathy P. Lachapelle; Anna Lindgren-Streicher

technology not only in our society, but also in societiesacross the world.The statistical results of these surveys have helped us to identify some conceptions andmisconceptions that students hold. We have modified the engineering survey (as mentionedabove) to further probe the range of students’ understandings and in future months we plan toconduct interviews with students to get more in-depth information about how and why they arethinking about engineering and technology. We are also using these two survey instruments intwo additional ways. First, because the surveys are nuanced, we can use them as a measure ofstudents’ growth in understanding. Thus, we will administer these instruments again at the end ofthe school year and annually to the same

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Blair Rowley

their project. The audience was asked toevaluate if they met the requirements and the professor kept notes. The whole process took 3.5hours. While it was planned to hold the process down to 5 minutes per team, the positiveinteractions occurring with the audience caused slippage.The Professor’s Perspective This event served well as a learning tool. All of the seniors had a real life experience thatserved to emphasize the course objectives. Their reports showed a good grasp of design tools andwere very informative about the teaming process they experienced. The students appreciatedhaving project requirements laid out in detail. All met the requirements and the reports were funto read. In particular, the details about their meeting showed that

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell

Page 10.272.2students become familiar with the campus. Evening activities are also planned that allow “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2192participants to begin building a support system and network with “seasoned” engineeringstudents and professional women engineers that they will continue to utilize throughout theirfreshman year and beyond.Academic Review SessionsMath Reviews: Students entering Calculus I are required to attend three math review sessions inAlgebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabe Garcia; Ian Leslie

random selection ofstudents from each course received laptops with MATHCAD and MATLAB installed. Theinitial distribution of laptops occurred in the Spring 2004 semester, and a second distributiontook place during the Fall 2004 semester. A further distribution is planned for the Spring 2005semester.Existing Computer ResourcesComputing resources at New Mexico State University are made available to students through11 campus computing labs. The campus currently has 11 general purpose computing labs.Through these labs, a total of 220 windows based personal computers and 29 Mac basedmachines are available for student use. The majority of the campus computing labs are open6 days a week from 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. The only exception is the main

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

, the attendant infrastructure as it existed, and a few items that wereless than well handled. It will then discuss specific changes that have been made to thatinfrastructure to deal with those issues and better support our proposed pedagogy. Followingwill be a discussion of specific educational materials developed to lower the knowledgethreshold for participation. The paper will conclude with a brief discussion of future plans andopen issues.2. Previous Work – Access IssuesIn our original class, students developed robot controllers to solve a series of increasinglydifficult problems on a mobile robot simulator that we designed and implemented using Java.When finished, they upload their controllers to a real robot in our lab and observed the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

11 instead of collaborating electronically. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 9 If I had to collaborate only Response Count electronically to complete a team project, the project deliverables would be equal in quality to deliverables created with face-to- face collaboration. 10 The SharePoint Server collaboration site made it easy to share documents with my team. 11 Collaborating electronically is fun.Plans for Future Curriculum Development and ResearchThe investigators plan to continue to develop the introductory

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Michele Summers; Donna Evanecky

willhinder your performance at work. Many times professionals will rely on things like smoking,drinking, or other harmful products to enhance their performance, but maintaining a healthylifestyle could be the most important part of one’s success. Being able to control stress withoutthe use of chemical vices is key. Instead, one might try a simple maintenance plan for oneself.So many times, we let our health and well-being take second fiddle to everything else in ourlives. Things like annual check-ups with your physician, eye care professional and dentist seemto be low on the priority list. Take time to take care of yourself. In the workplace, we often seepeople that are so sick that they can barely function, but they just have to get that project

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bennion; Jay Kunze; Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar; Michael Lineberry

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education engineering universities in the nation.• Establish a routine system of operation so that faculty and students from other universities can participate in R&D programs at the INL, and have available to them use of university facilities at the Idaho Falls campus (University Place).• The Idaho universities should work cooperatively with Battelle Energy Alliance in developing a role, mission, and organization for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) which is to be established as a university directed program of the INL.• Work on plans to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Rossler; Martin High

professionals of thehistory behind environmental regulation, the legal development of those regulations, theapplication of current laws and regulations, and the outlook on the policy directions thatenvironmental laws are taking. Technical professionals must be aware of their duties under thecurrent environmental regulatory environment. Successful technology is premised on soundenvironmental planning and implementation, and many technical decisions are based onenvironmental rules, rather than on economic or technical constraints. Graduating engineers andscientists without a passing knowledge of environmental laws and regulations is like sending arunner to a marathon without shoes (Zola Bud aside). The environmental law course helpsprovide the necessary

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

development. Competitive advantages of U.S. graduates over offshore engineers should be their abilities to communicate effectively and to leverage diverse teamwork for increased productivity. Efforts by the Career Planning and Placement Center have especially focused on professional development. Students registered with the CPPC complete a Professional Development Transcript (PDT). The PDT is designed to assist students in identifying and articulating skills gained from their university experience. In addition to technical skills, seven other skills are identified as important keys to success. These skills are: critical thinking/problem solving, communication, leadership, teaming, relationships, comfort

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Larkin; Dan Budny

project. Whenassessing participation, students are expected to attend and actively participate in all componentsof the course, including the pre-departure workshops and seminars, the in country companyvisits, cultural visits, lectures, and planned social activities and the post-trip meetings andpresentation.The difficult part for the faculty in this process, is assessing the in-country participation. We Page 10.1180.2understand that each student is an adult and as so has the right to spend their free time in thecountry as they wish. However, all students are told they must also understand that while they “Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

bounds of a problem. This new social awareness forces engineers toevaluate the much wider social and cultural setting for their design decisions and optimize thetransition from theory to practice. A simple case study in Belize reveals the significance ofsocial consciousness in engineering designs.Driven by the need for improved water access and purification in a Belize village, a group ofengineers devised a plan for centrally located water source to replace the existing cumbersomesystem of getting water. This new system would eliminate the need for village women to makelengthy daily trips to the river for laundry and water collection for domestic use. Although thesolution was appropriately evaluated in terms of efficiency, a lack of cultural

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

inspection of materials. In this lab several engineering componentswere given to the students to inspect. The objective was to learn how to completely andaccurately document a component. Simple failures were present but were not readily apparent,forcing students to look beyond the obvious.The students were required to locate a failed component and encouraged to find somethingwhose failure was not obvious. Then they were required to develop a project plan and defend itas being adequate but practical. Each week the students presented their progress and reportedany challenges or problems encountered. The idea was to have peer discussion and to allowstudents to help and learn from one another. Students were given wide discretion and free timewhich they

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

over the past 25 years. However, there is always room forimprovement. Opportunities to enhance the existing program include: (1) increasing the numberof MITE applications from African American, Hispanic and Native American students; (2.)marketing the MITE program to the target audience referred to above. Current plans designed toaddress this challenge include distributing additional MITE information packets (paper andelectronic copies) to: (1) high school math and science department chairs; (2) “high flyer”students listed in UT Austin recruitment database; (3) and administrators of pre-engineering andmagnet programs.References1. The University of Texas at Austin, Office of Institutional Studies, Website URL[http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oir

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

algorithms can be very useful inautonomous navigation: • Find the distance to the target (to adjust the robot speed) • Remember the locations, directions, and speed data (for future navigation planning such as more complicated paths). • Navigation autonomously in the area from point to point or backward and also repeats the same path with faster speed. • Build a mapOnce a database system to support robot navigation has been developed other interestingpossibilities exist, such as “Can the robot learn?” With the database recording past successes andfailures, the robot can avoid the paths leading to failures and when confronted with multiplepossible paths can compute the most economic path.References:[1] Sethuraman, S. Jodan, A

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kukulka

electrical engineering technology department: anevaluation" , Proceedings - 1987 Frontiers in Education Conference., IEEE, New York, NY., pp.127-133.[9] P. Rude, 1996, "Senior design experience", Proceedings of the 1996 Wescon Conference, Wescon, LosAngeles, CA, pp. 245-252.[10] A.H. Bekkala, R.A. Higgins and S. Lekhakul, 1995, “Senior design projects in electrical andmanufacturing engineering”, Proceedings of the 1995 Annual ASEE Conference. Part 1, ASEE, Washington,DC, pp 378-384.[11] O.E. Wheeler and J.L. Anderson, 1995, “Decade of capstone design”, Proceedings of the 22nd AnnualConference on Integrated Water Resources planning for the 21st Century, ASCE, Cambridge, MA, pp.1117-1120.[12] D. McDonald, J. Devaprasad, P. Duesing, A. Mahajn, M. Qatu

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

planned either to satisfy the ever growing and diverse social needs or theindustrial demands. The likelihood of the present engineering and technology curriculumstructure in the Indian subcontinent countries is illustrated in figure 1 given below: Humanities Basic & Social Thesis Sciences Sciences 3% 25% 22% Applied & Engg. Design Technical

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

the working world of scientists and engineers, as well as,an opportunity for them to develop the youth of the nation and potential employees.Industry sponsors and mentors felt that students learned important work-related skills orinformation such as teamwork skills, problem-solving and planning skills, and thinking,analytical and communication skills.Sponsors felt that the FSEA collaboration with schools allowed them to contribute back to thecommunity; motivate and/or inspire students to pursue science careers; help teachers in theirteaching of practical skills; and help others understand the importance of what they do as acompany. Furthermore, it was felt that such collaboration would ultimately provide a betterfuture workforce; build better

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Tatum; Mannur Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

Department of Mechanical Engineering and is participating in the NASA Co-operative Educationprogram at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. He plans to pursue graduate school upon graduationin 2006. He is active in the student section of ASME, and is currently the Vice Chair of the Section.Mannur J. Sundaresan is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University andDirector of the Intelligent Structures and Mechanisms Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He is activein the areas of structuring health monitoring and smart sensors research, with two patents and several technicalpublications. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics as well as vibrations andinstrumentation. He

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

graduate states “immediate opening for a Mechanical Design Engineer: broadknowledge in mechanical design and two or more of the following disciplines is required:electro-mechanical devices (preferably piezoelectric), opto-mechanics, precision componentsand mechanisms; must have demonstrated capabilities in the use of computer-aided engineeringsystems.” A deluge of computers, sensors, microcontrollers, actuators has permeated present-daysociety. Microcontroller-based devices and appliances are found in all aspects of our everydaylife. Even the auto industry, a traditional mechanical engineering fiefdom, is putting tens ofmicrocontrollers in a modern automobile, and plans to increase this number multifold as newtechnologies are being introduced. As

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Bai; Saroj Biswas

implemented atCollege of Engineering, Temple University, and Section 3 is devoted to a new data analysismethodology to remove biasness with students grades. Concluding remarks and a plan forfuture work are given in Section 4. Page 9.959.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society of Engineering Education” 2. Online Course Evaluation SystemOnline survey systems are usually developed using Common Gate Interface (CGI) programs,written in C or Perl. Our on-line course evaluation has been developed using the php EasySurvey Package

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

inslightly more than four years.The Evaluation and Design Pr ocessHaving concluded that our BOK curriculum plan should feature learning outcomes 1-11 and 13-15 in our BS degree, we explored whether we already meet those learning outcomes or whetherchange was needed. A thorough review of the required courses and course content in ourcurriculum revealed we did not likely meet BOK learning outcomes to a satisfactory level inlearning outcomes 13-15: management, policy and leadership. Further examination of ourrequired curriculum also revealed we might also choose to modify our program to better addressoutcomes 9 and 10, lifelong learning and contemporary issues. We also studied elective coursestaken by our students over the past three years and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn FY 1998 and FY 1999 a precursor to the NSDL program was conducted through the SpecialEmphasis: Planning Testbeds and Applications for Undergraduate Education under the auspicesof the multi-agency DLI-2 program (http://www.dli2.nsf.gov). Information about these prototypeprojects may be found at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/nsdl/projects.asp. Whilemany of these projects focused on what is most easily recognized as collection development,others began to explore organizational and managerial functions of a distributed digital library.Program elementsIn FY 2000 the NSDL program began its first formal funding cycle and has had four to

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

student were broadened toinclude the beauty of everyday fluid flows. These comments suggest that the class has had animpact on these students “motivation for life-long-learning,” since perception is a necessary firststep to understanding. More direct assessment of this motivation is planned for future courseofferings.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank the students who contributed so creatively. Note that the imagesreproduced here are published online at http://www.colorado.edu/MCEN/flowvis. We also wantto thank Erik Fisher for his leadership in bringing our disparate cultures together, and the CUBoulder administration for supporting this project.References1 “The CDIO syllabus: a comparative study of expected student proficiency”. Bankel