Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

eliminated two of the solid modelersoriginally selected to be in the short list for comparison. Because their educational materialswere not found to be adequate for implementation or integration to the course. • Step 4) Conduct Experimentation With The Customized Curriculum.For the remaining two solid modelers, a classroom experimentation was planned to comparetheir effectiveness on student learning and student design performance. The experimentationinvolved the same instructor teaching two sections of the same Introductory Engineering Designcourse -- teaching solid modeling with one software in one section, and using the other in thesecond section during the same semester. When students completed the pre-prepared manuals,for which they needed

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikunja Swain; Mrutyunjaya Swain

FOR FUTURE WORKWe are thankful to DOD/AirForce for providing us the funding to design and develop thislaboratory. This work was funded in part by a PAIR grant from NASA-MURED to SCSU underNCC 5-454. We are thankful to NASA for providing us with this grant. We are also thankful toDr. James E. Payne, Associate Dean of SETS and Professor of Physics, Dr. Donald Walter,Associate Professor of Physics and Principal Investigator for the NASA PAIR project for theirhelp and support to conduct this work.We plan to incorporate the following provisions to our VI in the future: 1. Data Socket and FTP provisions to save files in the client machine generated by the VI. 2. Real time image acquisition using Web camera and web

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda; Thomas O'Neal

Research at the University of Central Florida. In that role, he directs theoperation of the UCF Technology Incubator, perennially ranked among the top incubators in the country.He has served as business development manager for several entrepreneurial ventures and has UCF degressin electrical engineering, business administration and engineering management. He is currently a doctoralcandidate in Engineering Management at UCFDENNIS J. KULONDA is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. Hisresearch and teaching is focused in Engineering Management. He has extensive experience in thedevelopment and management of industrial engineering projects in operational and financial planning andis developing a third edition of

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Lin

optimize a knowledge management with information technologies is acontinuous effort. As a greater number of people adopt it, they will look for moreopportunities to share and collaborate in other ways. Page 9.836.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTypical enterprise applications, including ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM(Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and ERM(Employee Relationship Management), require various types of integration of businessprocess

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

institutions have de-emphasized these traditionallanguages and have instead used an approach that teaches programming skills within the contextof a mathematical toolkit environment. The review team decided not to recommend such anapproach for T.U. at this time but the toolkit approach will be reconsidered in the future.Our internal examination showed that our students were not making the best use possible ofavailable software, in particular Excel. We have therefore made plans to include an Excelinstructional computer in our introductory chemical engineering course. In a similar move, wehave instituted dedicated sessions in which the use of Aspen Plus is taught. It is hoped that ourstudents ability to use the computer tools available to them will

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Blake

challenge. Since it can be clearly related to automobiles andother machines of interest, this topic can be very attractive to students. The broad range ofapplications for this topic should ensure that this component is useful to students later, both inthe classroom and in their careers.Plans for Future DevelopmentsAs the primary instructor for this course, my plans are to reduce the lecture aspect and to domore with team-based instruction and student projects. This topic is adaptable to changes ininstructional format. Some formal explanation of the material will still be required, but one canredesign problems to be solved by groups of students. Also promising as group activities aresimple and inexpensive experiments.Demonstration and student

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Invention and Design 2, theTCC Engineering Ethics site 3, and the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden GraduateSchool of Business Administration 4. This paper will review the nature and use of case studies,discuss their value for developing higher level thinking skills, and describe some of the ethical,environmental and design issues we introduce through cases.The Case for Cases:Case based learning is again becoming popular in engineering education. A case can be used topresent open-ended engineering problems (design, analysis, selection, planning), ethical issues,and business decision situations. Teams of students must analyze the problem presented by thecase, develop a solution, present their results to the class, and be prepared to

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jonathan P. Mathews; David Morales

measures indicated that males are less active,dedicate less time to planning, and have a higher perceived self confidence withtechnology than their counterparts [8]. However, females earn higher overall coursegrades despite having to work later in the day, lower perceived confidence withtechnology, and experiencing more problems with using technology [8].Since Friday was the busiest weekday (580 out of 1,802 entries) for starting the weeklylesson, an analysis was conducted to determine how many students were waiting until thevery “last minute” to start the lessons. The submissions were separated into morning(before 11:59 AM), afternoon (noon – 5 PM), early evening (5:01 PM – 9 PM), and lateevening submissions (9:01 PM – 11:59 PM). The results are

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

University.Students who plan carefully will be able to satisfy the requirements for B.S. degrees in both CivilEngineering and Environmental Engineering with 120 credit hours. This is important, at leastinitially, as students wishing an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)accredited engineering degree and an environmental engineering degree will need to completeboth the Civil and Environmental Engineering degree requirements. This will remain the caseuntil the first B.S. Environmental Engineering student graduates and accreditation is applied forand granted for the Environmental Engineering degree.Development of the ProgramThe successful initiation of the program was begun in 2003. A proposal was put forth by theenvironmental engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

improvements in the software.Description of SimulationThis section explains the mechanics of the game and provides details about some of theinvestment opportunities that made up the simulation. A more complete description has beenpublished previously.7,8Each student started the game with $10,000. The semester was divided into twenty turns. Thestated goal of the game was to finish turn 20 with as much cash as possible. Thus, allinvestments had a fixed, known planning horizon (and no salvage value unless otherwise stated).Students were given the option of placing money in a savings account- with no minimum ormaximum balance and no restrictions on frequency or size of withdrawals- at 5% interest perturn. In addition, students had the option of borrowing

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Hendricks; L. Glenn Kraige; Don Morris

the deformable-bodies software. Prime features of the software include professionallyprepared figures from textbooks, font sizes chosen for use in the largest (up to 300) classrooms,fast navigation, fine user control of progress within a page, a concise review of the theory,numerous sample problems, and good use of animation to help the student to comprehend theaction being considered. Plans for distribution of the software are currently being studied.AcknowledgementsThe Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech has provided much ofthe graduate-student support necessary for the software development described in this paper.The following students have contributed to the software: Chris Abada, Saurabh Bisht, YunkaiLu

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Vanderbilt University focuses on teaching medical imaging at the high school level as a means of both covering physics and mathematics content and engaging students in real- world applications of engineering and biomedical imaging. This curriculum was tested in the summer of 2004 on seven high school students. The testing revealed that the curriculum had a very positive impact on student interest in biomedical imaging and resulted in several improvements and additions to the curriculum. The curriculum, testing, and future plans are described in this

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karan Watson; John Weese

-track faculty hired for the fall 2004, 11 (23.4%)are women.COURSE Preparation of two written papers and two oral presentations on mechanicalDESCRIPTION: engineering topics; generation of a professional résumé; development of a life- long learning plan; presentations by different faculty and industry representatives on: effective communications, preparation for engineering practice, becoming a professional engineer, contemporary issues, engineering ethics, career-long technical competence, the impact of technology on society, and being well-read and well-informed. One Credit (1-1). Prerequisite: Upper level ME

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

publish the associated paper. The moreserious issues have to do with lack of other perspectives. During the planning and conducting ofresearch the absence of someone else’s independent ideas presents significant challenges. Toovercome these challenges, the solo researcher must be especially careful when performingliterature reviews so that no important prior work is overlooked. However, the greater threatcomes from the possibility of suffering from getting lost in the details, which could be calledtunnel vision. This is a pitfall that all scientists and engineers need to carefully avoid. Allscientific and engineering endeavors occur in two interrelated frameworks. The first is astrategic or overall framework that represents the big picture. At

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paolo Tamayo; David Florida; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”microcontroller that are covered in the lab. ECE 595 students are also assigned a midterm project(the development of a LCD interface). All students are required to purchase their ownMicrocontroller EVB, a student license of the ICC12 IDE software, and a Parts Kit for the labsand projects. In the first section of the paper, we will summarize the work done in the class. Thesecond section will focus on the laboratory experiments and the projects in detail. The thirdsection will outline a few planned future developments of the course.1. Introduction Microcontrollers are a result of the evolution in microprocessor architectures andmanufacturing technologies which produce smaller

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Que Nguyen; Jennifer Tafoya; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

, engineering, and mathematics courses, both in high school and beyond. Overhalf of all students and up to almost two-thirds of minority students plan to drop science andmathematics at the first opportunity12. Only 55% of non-minority students and 33% of minoritystudents have the appropriate skills in mathematics, science, and engineering to ensure theirfuture job options will not be limited12. Of even greater concern is the finding that only 6% ofgraduating minority high school students in the U.S. have completed the appropriate course workto enter college as mathematics, science or engineering majors. In summary, in order to increasethe number of students that continue their education into higher mathematics, science, andengineering, students

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

research literature in the field,gone to conferences to hear about the latest experiments and innovations, partnered witheducational researchers and classroom teachers to plan and pursue programs. They insist oncareful experimentation and evaluation of impact.”16In How People Learn,17 a publication sponsored by the Commission on Behavioral and SocialSciences and Education and the National Research Council, the authors emphasize theemergence of a new science of learning that is based in the growing body of research on humanlearning. The authors point out that "Overall, the new science of learning is beginning to provideknowledge to improve significantly people's abilities to become active learners who seek tounderstand complex subject matter and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rassa Rassai; Mensah Patrick; Jean-Pierre Bayard; Valerie Young; Joseph Tront; Edward Perry

useful tools for new (and old) engineering educators. First,MERLOT provides links to free, public domain, online learning objects for engineeringcoursework in a variety of disciplines. These learning objects include course notes, diagrams,tutorial programs, demonstration and interactive applets, and even online mini-courses. Alongwith the link to the learning object, MERLOT provides a description of the content and, often,sample assignments demonstrating methods for incorporating it into courses. Second, MERLOTprovides links to free, public domain, online pedagogical tools such as learning preferencessurveys and guidance on constructing rubrics, writing course outcomes, and planning learningactivities at all levels from Knowledge and Application

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Olson

first day of class each student was asked whether they normally read the book before, orafter a lecture. The plan was to use this information along with a limited understanding of someof the students’ abilities to assign people to each group. As it turned out, eight people said thatthey normally read before lecture and eight said they wait until after. Consequently, everyonewas assigned to their “natural” group. Table 1 summarizes the composition of the groups.Again, all students were assigned pre-lecture reading.After 10 of the lectures corresponding to the reading assignments were completed, students wereasked to complete the brief anonymous survey shown in Figure 2. Each student used their ownperceptions of words such as “most” or “fully

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Limbrunner; Charline Han; Chris Swan

of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education because the King and his team of people were not only dressed in the traditional royal clothing, but they also practiced their traditional royal customs when greeting new people and communicating through linguists. After our meetings, we spent the rest of the day working indoors because of the rain, but with frequent power outages, were stuck with headlamps and very slow progress on the objectives we had wished to accomplish. Our planned schedule from that point forth became increasingly complicated since so many things depended

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Nathan VanderHorn; Rashmi Bahuguna; Arun K. Somani; Mani Mina

aspects, methodologies, and knowledge bases inNetworking, Communication, RF, Microwave, VLSI, Electromagnetic, Optics, and OpticalCommunication/Networking into a series of classes to be added to a regular/traditional EEprogram. We will introduce our plans and current implementations of HSSE at the department ofelectrical and computer engineering at Iowa state University. Our recent work is presented thatshows very promising trends in utilizing High Speed Systems Engineering as integratingpedagogical and research platforms to train modern engineers and future researchers. The newlydeveloped classes and changes in the curriculum will be introduced and discussed. We will showhow the new HSSE laboratory (with an electronically controlled optical

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Glenn Steele; Judith Schneider

. This process provides a logical methodology to interpret test results through the application of uncertaintyanalysis in the planning, design, construction, debugging, execution, data analysis, and reporting phases ofexperiments [1]. Accuracy of the experiments is investigated along with the appropriateness of a theory or modeland its simplifying assumptions. This concept is an extension of the verification and validation research that iscurrently being done for CFD and other computational design codes [2, 3]. The approach is communicated at theundergraduate level through a three-laboratory sequence consisting of Experimental Orientation (EO), ExperimentalTechniques I (ET I), and Experimental Techniques II (ET II).In the undergraduate

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

shell fish like mussels • DC WASA plans to replace all the city’s 23,000 lead pipes by 2010 at a cost of $300 million. Homeowners wishing to replace the line into the residence can pay WASA contractors $100 per linear foot and $500 to run pipe through the wall into the home. The net cost is expected to increase by 5% in water bills averaging $22 more annually. Page 10.1390.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education The chemical engineering analysis of the solvent extraction

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

students know, rather than where or how they learned it. Its School ofBusiness and Technology offers a variety of degree programs, including professionallyaccredited Baccalaureate programs in Electronics Engineering Technology and NuclearEngineering Technology. [3]Excelsior College students may advance with a customized degree completion plan andchoose from among many credit-earning options: • Distance courses from Excelsior College and other regionally accredited institutions Page 10.220.2 • Traditional courses at a campus local to the student • For-credit examinations including Excelsior College Examinations • Credit through

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

writing) with a full-scale evaluation/assessment planned for fall 2005. Subsequently, the pilot materials will beofficially launched and made openly accessible via the Internet.A key objective of the project is to develop a successfully piloted educational prototype forstudents in fourth grade (electricity) and lower level undergraduate courses (engineering) - thatinspires them to pursue and complete a science or engineering degree program. Anotherobjective is to provide innovative educational materials to help students in grades, 4, 8, and 12meet the rigorous New York State (NYS) science standards – in compliance with the No ChildLeft Behind (NCLB) efforts.Sample Pilot Module: “Exploring Connectivity”Electricity is first introduced in the New

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

to stay ontop of the material, as well as making it relevant and interesting for students. Masteringits fundamental concepts from textbooks alone is difficult for students, and a primarygoal is active or participative learning. This will underscore important concepts and aidsin fortifying concept applicability in various settings leading to more active and moreparticipative learning experiences [10-13]. Completed surveys indicate that many educators use network simulators in theirnetworking curricula to help students master concepts. Simulators such as OPNET orPredictor can be invaluable tools in achieving this purpose as they are frameworksnovice students can use in designing a proposed network, planning for future growth,testing the

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

methods. The only researchable issue that has beenreported compares the effects of PBL on declarative vs. procedural knowledge. Manyeducators believe that in PBL coursework, the focus on problem-solving know-how reducesthe acquisition of domain knowledge. Matthew and Hughes24 refute that claim, arguing that itis difficult to quantify whether PBL works. However anecdotes from employers suggest PBLstudents are more capable of independent work their first year out. We are planning toimplement and research the efficacy of the learning environments that we develop.PBL Environment for Utilization of Nuclear Technologies in SocietyIn order to facilitate a problems-based approach to teaching Utilization of NuclearEngineering in Society (UNES), a web

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

motivating example forthe lecture on data analysis. Students are also queried later in the semester for suggestions onadditional lab activities, presentation topics they would like to see and their plans for futurestudies. Some key findings from the surveys are presented in Table 3. Table 3. Key Results from Course SurveysStudents having a good idea after taking the course of what 36%engineering entails and what practicing engineers do (an additional 52% already had a good idea)Students more or much more enthused about their choice of 56%studying engineering after

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

discussed in this text. The approach requires lecture planning to allow for quizsolution and discussion time, but it does not require the use or development of new course toolsand/or equipment. The author has used this simple approach successfully in three distinct basicengineering courses and has obtained positive feedback from participating students, leading tothe conclusion that this can be an effective way of improving learning.References[1] N. J. Vye, S. R. Goldman, C. Hmelo, J. F. Voss, S. Williams, and C. a. T. G. a. Vanderbilt, "Complex mathematical problem solving by individuals and dyads," Cognition and Instruction, vol. 15, 1998.[2] P. Black and D. William, "Assessment and classroom learning," Assessment in education

Conference Session

Real World Applications

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Fuehne; David Lenart

suggestions and ideas. B My team plans our project actions. My team completes tasks within the C project schedule. My teammates actively participate in D team meetings. My team used electronic media to E aid communication with each other. My team recognizes when additional F technical help is needed. My team members take G responsibility for accomplishing their assigned project tasks. My team works to ensure the team H understands all aspects of the team project My team resolves disagreements in a I