Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

address this needdirectly by requiring that engineering graduates demonstrate an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams 4. And, efforts to enhance required senior design experiences oftenaddress the challenges of team communication and multi-disciplinary projects 5. A majorchallenge of educating engineers is to balance development in meeting technical aspects of aproject and in handling the process of teamwork. Planning, scheduling, organizing, etc. allbecome more difficult if multi-disciplinary work is required. Specialists frequently tend to limittheir perception of technical problems and options to their own discipline. Awareness of theconstraints, terminology, and needs of the other disciplines can be key in many situations.Research

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

course at WKU, and serves as avaluable tool for continuous course improvement.Lessons LearnedThis course is being offered for the third time in spring 2004. Based on the course outcomesassessment, specific student comments, and observations by course instructors, several majorimprovements have been made to the course. The most substantial change to the course occurredbetween the first and second offerings. The original plan was to pair ME and EE studentstogether on a single set of hardware. Course assessment proved this to be relativelyunsuccessful. Students were unable to divide the work of programming, with the ME’s lettingthe EE’s do the programming while they wired the systems and built any necessary hardware.Funds became available to fully

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ella Fridman

include astudy of flow through diffusers. Jonathan's original plan was to make a set of diffusersthat are interchangeable with the discharged duct of the Centrifugal Compressor, but afterworking on the project, he has come up with a better idea. He has constructed a diffuserfrom an unevenly rolled heater duct held by hose clamps in a way that the cross-sectionalarea gradually increases from the inlet to outlet. By changing diameters of the hoseclamps, the cross-sectional area of the duct can be changed at the inlet, outlet, andanywhere in between, creating a set of diffusers in one duct. Using this duct and sensorsincorporated in the Centrifugal Compressor unit, the pressure and temperature of the flowthrough the diffusers can be measured. The

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

technologyprogram and start a brand new engineering program. In year 2000, a new engineering jointprogram with University of Louisville was established and first batch of engineering studentswere enrolled. In year 2004, we will have the first batch of graduates, and we plan to apply foran ABET accreditation visit in 2004/2005. Page 9.465.1 Proceedings of the 2004American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFrom day 1, our goal has been to develop an entirely new engineering program that is moresuitable to the relevant local industries and the students

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

. Our students had to createactive learning experiences for the fourth graders so that they could understand the material.Additionally, we also held workshops for in-service teachers where our students madepresentations to them and involved the teachers with actual active learning activities 3,4.When we had the opportunity to become involved in this summer camps project, we were able tobuild upon our past experiences. This outreach program was part of a larger Explorer summercamp program that encompassed much more than just an introduction to engineering.The mission of the Louisiana Tech Explorer Camps was to motivate students of GEARUPschools to begin planning and preparing for entrance into an undergraduate program upongraduation from high

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 2470Initially it was planned to move all the cameras, transmitters, circuitry, power supply and other relevantcomponents from the old to the new gondola. During the development stage it was decided it was best tokeep the old gondola as it is and develop the new gondola from scratch. The original gondola had both acolor and black and white camera. It was decided to go with just one color micro-video camera andtransmitter with a transmission distance of 1000 ft in the new one. This was considered adequate todemonstrate the objective.As in the Phase-I efforts to sustain a blimp launch for

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pavelich; Stephen Krause

PH Electrochemistry Oxidation/Reduction Voltaic Cells Electrolytic CellsThe topics are keyed to the two semesters of a normal general chemistry course for ease of testing.Thus two CCIs have been created and are being tested, one for Chem I the other for Chem II. The goalis to have each, as final products, a 20-question multiple-choice exam that can be administered in 15-20 minutes and give reliable information on misconceptions in these fundamental subtopics.The plan being followed for the development and testing of the two CCIs is outlined below.Table 2. Steps of Development of reliable CCIs1. Pick topic topics and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Matis; Linda Ann Riley

knowledge intothe difficulties and requirement for producing instructional modules using digital video media.We plan on continuing these efforts towards the production of a suite of 10-12 modules that spanmultiple disciplines by applying for the next round of NSF funding. We are consideringexpanding this work to include problems centered on interesting research based problems fromacademia, i.e. spread of AIDS, etc., and developing basic modules for the inclusion in anAdvanced Placement Statistics course in K-12 high school education. Page 9.1202.5Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massoud (Mike) Safavi; James Strueber

, construction and management. Primary focushas been in the area of housing, residential design, project, and const. management. Work has included internationalinstitutional strengthening, management consulting, national housing policies and implementation plans. Page 9.1298.13Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

is currently under development at Cal Poly is based on: • Usability: Students respond to a survey at the conclusion of their experience. Additionally, focus groups are planned that would provide formative data on the usability of the SBL modules during the development stage. • Engagement: The degree of engagement will be assessed through instructor observations and journals. Students will also complete affective survey information at the conclusion of the program. • Learning Outcomes: In order to assess learning outcomes, students will first be divided into experimental and control groups. They will then be asked to complete a conceptual map representing their understanding of specific

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

part of the course preparation process, radiological engineering.embedded evaluation instruments for each 2. Apply atomic and nuclear physics and thecourse block objective are selected that will transport and interaction of radiation with matter to nuclear and radiological systems and processes.both: 3. Demonstrate ability to measure nuclear and radiation processes. 1) evaluate the cadets’ retention of 4. Demonstrate the skills to plan, design, execute, and critically interpret results from

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

. Nocito-Gobel, et al, “Project-Based Introduction to Engineering – A University Core Course”, Submitted to the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 3. Aliane, B., et al,”Project Planning and Development for Engineering Freshman”, Submitted to the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 4. Hoit, M, Ohland, M., “ The Impact of a Discipline-Based Introduction to Engineering Course on Improving Retention”, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1998, pp.79-85 5. Severance, F.L., Suchowski, M., Miller, D. “Benefits of a Hands-On Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engieering”, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe house is a forty square meter (425sf) variation of thenow standard 30 to 40 meter low cost house. The majordifferences are the changes to make it a passive solarhouse and a more functional arrangement of the inside.See Figures 15 - 18. The house has all the elements of anefficient, attractive, and acceptable home—it’s lightfilled and feels spacious, while still giving privacy to theoccupants, which is not normal in this housing. One ofthe authors built houses with a similar floor plan in aSouth Pacific country, which were very popular with theoccupants.The proposed house will be slightly more expensive thana

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

students on-demandaccess to precisely defined learning objects covering specific milling machine operations. Theseshort segments may be reviewed quickly immediately before beginning an operation or during amulti-step production process. This liberates the instructor from reciting basic information tomultiple students in a lab, and allows longer higher-level interactions between student andinstructor. Because the video segments give clear illustrations and explanations of basicoperations, the instructor has more time to guide students in problem-solving other higher-levelskills.Concluding RemarksWe are pleased with the initial results and the interest attracted by the new product described inthis paper. We also plan to develop more lesson modules

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

process used in the sophomore Design4Practice course was converted froma rather inefficient paper-based system to an on-line automated system in the fall of 2002,resulting in both an easier system to use and generation of a data base for analysis and evaluationof the peer review process itself. This paper addresses some challenges in the peer evaluationprocess that became visible through the data provided by the new automated system, discussesfuture plans for addressing these challenges, and provides an overview of the structure and use ofthe computer-based system in the attached appendix. Page 9.223.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

Page 9.1340.6understand tool from the user perspective. In our testing the Figure 3: Barcode/Manual Input Screenshot Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclients were pleased not only with the speed of the system operation, its completeness but also theability to store all the collected asset data in a simple to use database that could easily be downloaded toa PC for further processing and analysis at the home office.Future Plans The demonstration of the prototype to our utility and utility manufacturer clients has

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

”, American Library Association, Chicago; Vol. 40, No. 1, pg. 53-60. 7) Keown, Cherly (1999, August). “A Learning Curve”, American School and University; Overland Park, Vol. 71, No. 12, pg. 116 – 119. 8) McLester, Susan (2001, April 26). “Technology and Learning; Taking A New Approach to Education”, The Los Angeles Times, pg. T7. Authors Profile: Dr. Donald N. Merino is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Professor of Engineering Economics at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches Engineering Economics, Project Management, Total Quality Management, Decision Sciences, Strategic Business Planning and Concurrent Engineering. He won the Morton Distinguished Teaching Award for full professors at Stevens. He was PI

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

any self study is that it may identifyproblems that can be fixed. And once fixed then all should be well, but may not be.Barriers to success can be hidden and subtle. The climate in the college must beconducive to the success of the faculty. This will be the emphasis in a study which iscurrently being planned. In all that we do, we work to be a positive force in effectingchange that makes the College and University a better place for ourselves and others.ConclusionsThe mentoring program for women faculty in the college of engineering at Texas A&MUniversity is truly a ‘grass roots’ effort, initiated by an influential woman administratorwho opened the doors to the College’s internal workings for other women to experiencewhat otherwise might

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lumsdaine Arnold; Jack Waserman; J. A. M. Boulet

effective review, the time availablefor review is usually much less than an academic term. If students had effective, self-paced,computer-based learning tools, they could review and deepen their facility with the basic ideasand skills of applied mechanics relatively quickly.2-6 The goal of our work is to create suchtools, and so help prepare students for solving realistic engineering problems. In what follows, we describe the tools we are developing, as well as our plan for their as-sessment, summarize the status of that development, and discuss our experience with some of thelearning objects we have developed as a foundation for the learning tools.Structure of learning tools In a class in engineering mechanics, we usually find that students

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

sensors Figure 5. Firmware subgroupThe FPGA board has two built-in hardware interfaces to an eBOX-II: a serial and aparallel port. The data rate requirement for communication between the eBOX-II and therover is quiet low, therefore a standard serial communication rate of 9600 BAUD hasbeen selected. Furthermore, our students are already familiar with the design of aUniversal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) for the FPGA Board and theserial communication software for the eBOX-II. Commands are transmitted serially tothe FPGA and sensory information collected by the FPGA is returned to the eBOX-II viathis same serial interface. We plan to add a USB interface in the future to the FPGABoard to handle the

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Dunbar

Equalization basin construction plans. It is constructedof plywood lined with acrylic sheeting sealed with water proof epoxy, 2x4’s, 4x4’s, and steelbolts. The tank’s volume is a cubic yard or about 200 gallons. After a few layers of epoxy andcaulk, the tank sealed up and did not leak. Figure 5 shows the flocculation/sediment tank whichwas made of similar construction materials. Due to the need of sloping floors, it was moredifficult to construct and despite multiple layers of epoxy and caulk—the tank would notcompletely seal up and some leakage occurred. Figure 6 shows the entry to the filterconstruction. A layer of plexy glass was added to the top of the filter and holes were drilled toallow an even distribution of water across the filter. The

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Waldron; Rose Robinson; Michael Gregg; Jenny Lo

adjacent)classrooms for testing purposes. Tests cannot be (easily) started at the same time, and the faculty Page 9.337.7member must continually move from room to room to maintain a presence. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe authors did not enter the semester with a plan to offer common-room testing in this class. Thecommon use of Blackboard, however, was an early decision. Prior to the first of two tests in this class,one of the authors discovered that a classroom capable of handling

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University

show asignificant improvement in learning within the experimental group over the control group orvice versa. That is an optimistic result. Nevertheless, if the results in a similar study with alarger sample size turn out the same, this research is an indication that the interactivemultimedia is a reasonable substitute for traditional style of teaching in a technicalenvironment. The challenge; however, still remains in careful consideration of designing anddeveloping the right interactive multimedia tools. The authors plan to continue this studywith a larger sample to see the true effect of design aspects in learning and teachingenvironments. To explore the effects of time on the change in test scores, ANOVA withrepeated measures will be

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Beth Lakin; Gary Crossman

programshas their own version of the course. The Civil Engineering Technology program requiresstudents working alone or in groups up to three, to complete one of the following project paths:structural design, site planning and design, or construction. Each group must identify a mentor,either an experienced engineer in industry or a faculty member. The Electrical EngineeringTechnology program requires individual projects of each student. In most cases electricalprojects will culminate in a hard-wired device or prototype. Complex projects may result indemonstrated simulation. The Mechanical Engineering Technology program requires studentsworking alone or in groups of two or three to complete a mechanical design. MechanicalEngineering students may

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Joseph Goodman

somewhat and the EFDivision was notified that ME’s equipment and system administration resources (including Dr.Bohn) would not be available after fall 2001. Simultaneously the decision was made at thecollege level that the distance-learning model was not working for the majority of students and astructured, in-class, lecture format needed to be re-instituted. With the primary author as the solecourse director and developer, plans were immediately made to shift to EF resources completely.For several reasons, including limited financial resources, the decision to shift the system awayfrom proprietary software and hardware, using “public domain” system and application softwarewherever possible. Linux was chosen as the operating system, PHP4 as the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

available to the university fleetmanager. This activity could be easily extended to include data analysis and the development ofa management plan for minimizing CO emitted by the fleet vehicles, however time does notpermit this analysis in this particular course.Air Emissions Trading SimulationStudents participate in an Air Emissions Trading simulation modeled after EPA’s SO2 Emissionscap and trade system created in 1990 under the Acid Rain Program.22 This simulation is amodification of a simulation developed by the Air & Waste Management Association.23 Studentsare put in groups of 3-4, where each group represents a public utility or “company” and hasspecific pollution emissions characteristics. Each company emits a different amount ofpollution

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and NSF's PFI

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

successful in providing thenecessary stimulation, while there has been little connection to UAMS. Success has beenattributed to the co-location of both the Director and partner VIC with the UAF campus. At thispoint, the distance barrier to UAMS appears to be difficult to surmount. Discussions are ongoingin an attempt to develop a management plan that will allow for increased collaboration betweenthe two campuses and rapid progress in commercialization of innovations in the medical school.Measurement and EvaluationAssessment of outcomes for the Incubator is expected to require several years. However,program success must necessarily be judged on an annual basis. Therefore, some creativity isrequired in defining meaningful goals. At the time of this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

VOS Data Manager. Another factor facilitatingdistribution is the lack of need for an install procedure if Excel is already present on the machine.Finally, development and expansion of functionality can be accomplished rapidly, due to theavailability of built-in functions, modular design of the code, and an easy-to-use developmentenvironment. An experienced Visual Basic programmer planned and developed all currentfunctionality, including the existing report types, in less than 100 hours.There are also several limitations to the current system. Since data is stored in Excel worksheets,there is an upper limit of about 65,500 records that can be imported, or about 300 sessions’ worthof data. Other disadvantages of storing data in Excel include

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

course usinginteractive television (ITV). Starting 2003, we added an online section in addition to thetraditional and ITV sections. This paper focuses on our experiences with the online version of thecourse and how it compares with the traditional course offering. In future, we plan tosimultaneously use all three modes of teaching the course and at that time, we will be able tomake comparisons across the three modes.3. Design of Instructional MaterialsMost students and instructors are used to the lecture format, which introduces importantprinciples along with examples of applications, with the textbook serving to provide the detailsand reference material. An instructor can answer questions on the spot and change course if hesenses the students

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob White; Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt

twocourse structures based on a 5 point Likert Scale, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = StronglyAgree (Lecture-based average score = 3.70 and Lab-based average score = 4.22).As long-term evaluation of future offerings of this new course structure occur, a more thoroughassessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of the changes from the lecture environment tothe lab-based environment will be made. While student-based assessment of the course has andwill continue to occur, plans are also in place to interview and survey the engineering facultymembers that teach the courses to which IME 261 is a prerequisite to help determine if the newcourse structure has any effect on the statistical maturity of the student and their ability toappropriately