Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

for Engineering Educationbidding, contracting, identifying various responsibilities of different construction projectparticipants, quantity estimating, planning, budgeting, scheduling, procurement, riskmanagement, and safety. Below are samples of these assignments:Assignment # 1: Identify a new construction project in your community and describe it asfor its purpose, size, location, and the trades that are presently working there as well asthe specific work currently underway for each trade. Decide which sector the project fallswithin, and defend your reasoning. What differences would you expect to see amongprojects from different sectors? Is the job union or nonunion? Is it funded privately orpublicly? Include at least one photo of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wm Evans

lab may be added or changed but no major changes occur annually. Onthe other hand, with the equipment changes occurring in the PLC market, changes in thesecond course may be wide ranging.A move to incorporate more course work to include more experiences pertinent to thenewer ControLogix platform may be necessary. More work with networking PLC’s,computers, and use of process networking across the Web may be needed. Use of aprogramming class to include either Visual C or Visual Basic to teach principles ofaddressing the PLC and providing an automated HMI screens is also a subject to beexplored.Conclusion:Whether planning a new curriculum or additions to a present course, programming of thePLC should be considered a fundamental part of course

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University; Giti Javidi, VSU

student demographic and background sheet.Results and ConclusionThe results of the pilot test on a fairly small group of students (20 in all) did not 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

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

Technology-Enabled Content in Engineering Science Curriculum Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Joyce Pittman, Max Rabiee, and Richard Miller University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratorysessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during thelecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation throughtheir Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content inengineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles andto support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

. The authors plan to fully analyze the resultsfrom the Spring 2005 pilot and add these results to the Fall 2004 pilot to provide a betterfoundation for the statistics.An interesting note is that the undergraduate teaching assistants were the most vocal in Page 10.326.8their objection to the course format. They felt the new format made the course too easy. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Some justification to their concern may be noted. The course average grade point averagerose from 3.1 to 3.3

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

theirclassrooms that the principal asked them to present the curriculum to the entire schoolfaculty. The following spring the ‘I Care’ program was successfully adopted school-wideand continues to be used today. During the 2000 seminar, these two students told thestory of what had happened and presented an overview of the ‘I Care’ curriculum withactual lesson plans and activities. The education majors not only left this seminar feelingrefreshed and energized but now they also felt empowered. They could make realdifferences in classrooms with students.The department has presently completed its fifth Ethics and Character Education seminar. Page 10.622.5Some of the

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

Introduction to Engineering. Okemos: Great Lakes Press, Inc.4. (2003, December 13). Area’s homeless need our help. Iowa City: Iowa City Press-Citizen.5. Miller, Vanessa (2004, January 27). Churches plan to open for shelter. Iowa City: Iowa City Press-Citizen.6. (2004, March 17). City must move swiftly on shelter. Iowa City: Iowa City Press-Citizen.7. (2004, May 26). City finally finds spot for Shelter House. Iowa City: Iowa City Press-Citizen. Page 10.555.88. Engineering Accreditation Commission (2003). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Baltimore: ABET. Inc. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

students plan to work (but do not actually work) on their Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsemester projects due soon after the holiday. It is the week of the AIChE AnnualMeeting, when most of their chemical engineering classes will be canceled, no homeworkwill be due, and no exams will be given. Additionally, many of those students will beparticipating in the National Student Conference the weekend before, earning another dayor two reprieve from class responsibilities.Faculty, naturally, see this break as not only unnecessary but as potentially harmful, andoften attempt to rectify the situation by

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Tanuj Oruganti; Peter Schuyler

bi-modal distribution with one cluster of students from 1pm to 5pm and anotherfrom 8pm-12pm. Very few students performed distance labs between 5am and 1pm. This wasvaluable information in ALTE capacity planning. Page 10.1000.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 9. Usage by Time of Day 30 25 20 No. of Lab Sessions

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Sekmen

with the TSU students were designed to help foster acollaborative project environment. The results of the TSU student teams efforts were right-on,and enabled the Saturn and EDS team to evaluate several potential solutions to our businessproblem. The CSS experience brought a fresh set of creative ideas to help us solve our businessproblem. We have benefited from our experience with our TSU education partner.”5. ConclusionThis paper describes an elegant way of partnering academic institutions with industries todevelop problem-based projects that improve students’ technical and soft skills for immediateemployment. The DoCS at TSU has successfully completed three (3) such projects and it plansto expand this initiative in future. We plan to expose

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

as one homework assignment.The instructor graded this assignment out of 10 points with 2 points for finding an article, 1 pointfor distributing it, 2 points for their questions, 2 points for the summary and 3 points for leadingthe discussion. Given that there were more weeks in the semester than students in the class, theinstructor initially planned on leading the discussions herself during the remaining weeks. Afterthe students signed up during the first week of class, the extra weeks occurred late in thesemester. As the semester progressed, several students expressed a desire to lead an additional“Fabulous Friday” as a way to earn extra credit for the course or to improve their performanceover their first “Fabulous Friday”. Students were

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

synthesis, test bench techniques,modelsim simulator, and the Xilinx tool flow for targeting complex programmable logic devices(CPLD’s) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA’s). The prerequisites are Digital System Designand a formal, structured programming course.To successfully meet the learning objectives of the course, an eight lab sequence which creates a digitaldisplay system in eleven weeks was developed. The students are now excited to come to lab and areworking hard because they enjoy the project. In addition to the design knowledge the student also learnsthe basics of configuration management, team dynamics, communication, and ethics.The plans for the future include the integration of a VGA Camera, the integration of a low cost

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

of the interested parties should get together to try and reachconsensus as to who should receive the offer.Because the interview is so important in the selection process, it deserves more preparation thanis normally put into it. Goodale in his book, The Fine Art of Interviewing, states that, "Mostselection interviews are simply not carefully planned." 3 He goes on to say that the selectioninterview has low reliability and low validity even after all of the years that people have beendoing such interviews.The major problem with most selection interviews is that we start with the candidate's previousbehavior and from that infer a number of character traits. We then try to infer from these traitswhat their job performance will be. Instead

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Crossman

and questions. Of course,students may not be able to absorb the material at the higher rate, but one of the outstandingadvantages of this delivery mode is that a student may stop at any time, review as necessary, andrepeat the lecture at will. As in a conventional class, textbooks and/or coursepacks are providedalong with the CD-ROMs. Students are able to email or call instructors as necessary to obtainadditional help. At the time this paper is being prepared, approximately half of the courses havebeen prepared and others are currently in production.VII. Challenges EncounteredSince Old Dominion University initially planned to offer only 36 credits of the total program,which would ideally be offered near the end of the sequence of studies, it

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

nicely with those plans. Before the interface could be created the form of the data storage needed to be specified.Several interfacing options were explored including TCP/IP, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE),and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). It was determined that a common database formatthat could interact with a structured query language (SQL) would be the best choice. Forsimplicity a Microsoft Access database was then selected. In order to test the interface certain functions were selected to be displayed. For outputdisplay several core variables were chosen, including temperature and flux. For input control theposition of the control rods were simulated (Fig. 1). Options were specified so that the core data

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

EngineeringTechnology at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. He graduated from the United States MilitaryAcademy in 1978 and retired in 2000 after over 22 years of military service with the US Army Corps ofEngineers. Studies at Texas A&M University resulted in a MS Degree in Civil Engineering in 1987 and aPhD in 1995. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has taught courses in statics, dynamics,mechanics of materials, graphic communications, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, andmanagement. Page 7.1251.8 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

to develop. Design competencies help one define educational outcomes,develop plans for achieving integrated design experience, and document educationalprogram success. 3 Categories of design competencies include: information gathering,problem definition, idea generation, evaluation and decision making, implementation,communication, teamwork, and process improvement. 4Engineering faculty tend to use at least one of four approaches to teach engineeringdesign: lecture, faculty as guide or coach, case study, and industry involvement. 5 Thefaculty at the Altoona College of the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State Altoona)uses lecture method as the primary vehicle to teach engineering design process to theengineering freshmen.Engineering

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Sven Bilen; Richard Devon

important source of the best jobs. Usinginformation technology, it is very easy to form (but perhaps not necessarily operate) cross-national student teams and to use faculty in other countries to give lectures and lead discussions.We have actually done this in one course for the last five years and are planning expansion tomulti-point teams. In this course, half of the industry design projects come from industries inFrance, and on one occasion we were able to have an A-V conference between the French andAmerican students and a representative of the French industry. In doing this we can enhance theknowledge of the participating students of the global economy and of engineering practice inother national economies. We can also improve the ability of

Conference Session

Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa

Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe interface also provides cursor and zoom capability so that students can make quantitativemeasurements. A current drawback of the system is the speed of the PCI DIO 96 card. A newversion of MaxTester with updated hardware is planned that will allow students to measure propagationdelay and glitches. Figure 3 – MaxTester’s simulation interface. Figure 4 – MaxTester’s graphical user interface. The red lines indicate simulated signals while black lines indicated measured signals. Page 7.816.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Lau; Sven Bilen; Elizabeth Kisenwether

) Page 7.416.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society from Engineering Education Table 3 Listing of topics covered in Lab 3 Lab Section Title Section Objectives and CommentsSection Lab 3 Sensing Temperature with a Thermistor 3.2 Task: Control Temperature Presents the problem of designing a system to control temperature in a “product MJ12,” which is a film container 3.3 Problem Analysis 3.3.1 Individual/class discussion Students are to work out a plan of attack: what is the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Young

2 Analysis analyze, separate, order, explain, connect, classify, arrange, divide, compare, select, explain, infer Synthesis combine, integrate, modify, rearrange, substitute, plan, create, design, invent, what it?, compose, formulate, prepare, generalize, 3 Evaluation assess, decide, rank, grade, test, measure, recommend, convince, select, judge, explain, discriminate, support, conclude, compare

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Jackson; Ashraf Saad; Thomas Barnwell; Monson Hayes

Page 7.575.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationscalable delivery system which allows course lectures, individual office hours, and tutorial sessionsto be broadcast to multiple facilities from any one of five distributed classrooms and seven groupstudy facilities distributed across four campuses.The GTREP program is an ideal testbed for novel distributed education methods. In this paper,we present some results for the combined approach we have developed, and outline plans forfuture scaling as the GTREP program expands.1. IntroductionGeorgia Tech is involved in a number of distance learning

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Miller; Carlos Morales

/Supervision. Charles has beende/features/ppc/pie.asp developing content management systems for clients such as the Metropolitan Planning Council, the Management Association of Illinois,[6] Microsoft Window Media Specifications. and the Campaign for Sensible Growth. His(2001) [On-Line] Available: research interest includes artificial intelligence,http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme dynamic data visualization, and mobile webdia/en/default.asp advancement

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Fragomeni

incorporate new advances inmicrostructural analysis and materials design. All of this is to be implemented into the collegeclass plan through specific homework assignments and projects. Homework assignmentsinvolving microstructural analysis involving the measurements of various microstructuralfeatures such as the average grain size, ASTM grain size number, particle size measurements,inclusion size measurements, etc could be performed by the student. The students would firstview the microstructures on the internet web environment and then choose the appropriatemagnification to make the desired measurements. The students could then use quantitativeanalysis to perform the measurements of the microstructural variables. The student could thencorrelate the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

a short article on the benefits of involving undergraduate students inresearch projects. These benefits include, but are not limited, to an opportunity for students tolearn about project planning and management, and to improve their writing skill in terms ofproducing a technical paper worthy of publication. Such experience is a definite plus that can beproudly added to their resumes. Page 7.199.11 Corresponding author “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Educatio n Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The general topic of interest in this research

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Guillaume; Crist Khachikian

predictedgrade. They were also asked to give reasons why their assessment may not match their actualearned grade. Surveys varied slightly to match the time of administration; a sample survey (fromthe 10th week of CE 384) is shown in Figure 1.This paper analyzes the numerical data obtained from these surveys that pertain to gradeprediction. Specifically, the expected grades are converted to grade points and compared to theactual grades. For this study, grades of “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” are worth 4, 3, 2, and 1 gradepoints, respectively. Some students listed mixed grades in which case the equivalent gradepoints were averaged. For example, a student listing an expected grade of “A/B+” received 3.65grade points (i.e., (4+3.3)/2). A second paper is planned in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Segall

thephysics was not used as a basis for their score. This is an important point since the purpose ofthe course is to help teach basic engineering concepts and not to evaluate existing knowledge.Class participation accounted for another 10% of the grade with the remaining 40% of the gradeawarded for a term paper collected during the final class. For this paper, students were expectedto choose a science fiction story (movie or book) not covered in class and analyze the story for[ The course was originally conceived and planned by the author while at Penn State University to be Page 7.993.4delivered as a freshman-engineering seminar. Proceedings of

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

of 10% per day. We believe that thesemeasures, although sound severe, actually exert positive influence on students and help in thetiming of the course. First, it allows to keep course within planned timeframes, Second, studentslearn quickly that the full scale report requires substantial efforts to finish, and cannot be done thelast night before the deadline. Third, students are getting a little bit of discipline andorganizational skills.ConclusionEBME 313/314 “Biomedical Engineering Laboratory I/II” course has a complex structure, andrequires a lot of attention from the coordinator, TA, students, and lab instructors. In return,students are getting a diverse body of knowledge and skills. EBME 313/314 is not just a set ofeducational labs

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

policies all composed inappropriate industry legalese . Trainees are expected to attend classes five days a week,beginning at 8:00 a.m. Trainees are allowed a fixed number of absences for the duration of thetraining session, which must be officially called in; if a trainee exceeds that limit without a validreason, s/he is asked to leave the company (i.e., dropped from the program). Trainee teams areasked to design and/or analyze realistic industry projects in their electronics and computer labsessions, and are expected to present several oral and written proposals or presentations tooutside audiences, as Company representatives. Department managers periodically attend eachothers training sessions, in an atmosphere of department meeting planning

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

laboratory provides teaching and research capabilities in severalscience and engineering areas, including sensor technology, data acquisition, controlsystem design, system modeling, signal processing, image processing, and datavisualization. Future plans include the implementation of Internet-based measurementand experimentation to facilitate offering technical courses online.Bibliography1. Sensors for Measurement and Control, Peter Elgar, Henry Ling Ltd, Prentice Hall, 1998.2. Introduction to Control System Technology, 7th Edition, R. Bateson, Prentice Hall, NY, 2002.3. MATLAB Student Version Release 12, including the Control Systems Toolbox, The MathWorks