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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cordelia Brown

classroom demonstrations, assisting with tutoringstudents, and directing student research projects. A total of 49 fellows and 56 teachers in Page 10.742.118 schools have been included in the Vanderbilt-Meharry-TSU program to date. Inaddition to the GTF component, an undergraduate (UGTF) program is also included with “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education"twelve exemplary undergraduate science majors assisting in the assembly and design ofkits for classroom activities. This program has had a major impact on

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Janice Duy; Scott Dunning

the projected users?The final product would have to be:• simple enough to navigate even for users who might not necessarily be “computer literate”;• platform- and browser-independent, as well as compact, to take into account the variety of systems used;• integrable with a database application, so that users may save and review their information at will;• easy to create and maintain, so that future versions of the Workbook will be easy to port from their original (written) format2.3.1 Original ImplementationTo achieve these goals, Java applets were originally chosen (in 2003) to develop the webversion of the Workbook [5]. The database then used was Microsoft Access, whichalready existed on the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

Session 2005-229A STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS: THE EDGE PROGRAM IN THE SECOND YEARDan G. Dimitriu, Jerry O’ConnorPhysics, Engineering, and Architecture DepartmentSan Antonio CollegeThis paper presents the results and the lessons learned from the second iteration of the EDGESummer Program that was initiated in 2003[1]. This project was funded by the AlamoCommunity College District Foundation and the National Science Foundation, with additionalsupport from the ENLACE Foundation. Plans for the next program in Summer 2005 are alsooutlined.Recruiting and retaining students is a persistent challenge for engineering educators in almostevery engineering program. Many universities and colleges have been using a broad range ofoutreach programs to introduce

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Narciso Macia

simulation.ConclusionThis laboratory activity has been successful in reinforcing the concepts presented in the lecture.The students recognize the usefulness of modeling, parameter estimation, simulation,instrumentation and data acquisition. They also experience first-hand, the behavior of an almost-unstable control application. It has also been used as a spring board to other projects and appliedresearch efforts, such as the incorporation of a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to closethe control loop [6]. Here the PLC only has to send the command signal to the FPGA, and is thusrelieved from the task of actually closing the loop.AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to express their gratitude to Esaki Makesh Soundarajan for his suggestions andhelp with some of the

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Placid Ferreira; Martha Atwater; Kenneth Roberts; Jagannathan Sankar; Deborah Bartz; Dhananjay Kumar; Devdas Pai; Cindy Waters

technical input of the CAMMS and Nano-CEMMS Centers and D. Kumar’s NIRT project are gratefullyacknowledged, as are the program evaluations serviced provided by the College of Education at the University of Illinoisand the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at UNC-G.BiographiesDEVDAS M. PAI is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University and Associate Director(Operations) of the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures. He teaches manufacturing processes andtribology related courses. A registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina, he serves on the Mechanical PEExam Committee of the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors and is active in severaldivisions of ASEE and in ASME.JAG

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

within the online course management system.The “Remote Access Webpage System”, shown in the upper part of Figure 2, is housed on astandard web server in Purdue’s College of Technology. This serves as the publicly accessiblepart of the overall environment; no password is required for general access. This system includes Page 10.103.2general information about the remotely accessible energy laboratory project, a computer Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationrequirements page, and contact

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi; Bob Lahidji

College.He has also taught at community and technical colleges, and practiced engineering and project management formore than ten years in private industry and consulting. Dr. Eydgahi has published and presented at a number ofnational conferences including American Society for Engineering Education, The Chair Academy, The League forInnovation and others.BOB LAHIDJI is the Department Head in the Industrial Technology Program at Eastern Michigan University. Hisprimary interest and expertise are in the area of manufacturing process and CNC/CAM. Dr. Lahidji has beeninvolved with manufacturing firms as a consultant in the area of improving manufacturing processes. He has writtennumerous articles and is the co-author of the textbook “Maximize SURFCAM

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

Session 2004-124 ASEE ANNUAL MEETING Salt Lake City, Utah June, 2004 The Trebuchet Project: Launching a “Hands-On” Engineering Technology Approach To Conducting Hands-On Statics and Dynamics Laboratory Courses Francis A. Di Bella, PE Assistant Professor Northeastern University, Boston, MA Mechanical Engineering TechnologyABSTRACT“…Hands-On, real word engineering experience” is the refrain that is

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

perhaps anengineering student will identify that the redundant sixty-four to twenty mapping of codons toamino acids becomes data for a switching circuit with “don’t care” inputs. By looking atbiological processes as switching circuits, the engineering student gains knowledge of biologyand the full relevance of engineering principles to other disciplines.This paper will explore some of the applications of biology to switching circuits. Theinformation will include possible engineering student projects and assignments, and lessonslearned from teaching biology to engineering students. Page 9.1293.1“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

Session 1793 A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING REUSABLE, INTERACTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS IN AN ENGINEERING DIGITAL LIBRARY: THE GROW-NCERL PROJECT Muniram Budhu Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721 USA. E-mail: budhu@u.arizona.eduINTRODUCTIONLibraries have always played a key role in education. They provide a place for the storage andretrieval of a large body of human knowledge. Digital technologies are now transforming andexpanding the traditional roles of library. Digital libraries provide an assortment of tools for auser to search, retrieve, create, customize and share content

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elton Graves

The Impact of Calculus Reform as Seen by Engineering Seniors Elton Graves Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractDuring the academic years of 2001-2003 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology participated in aNSF sponsored project to determine The Impact of Calculus Reform on Long-term StudentPerformance. The project was broken down into three major components. The first componentwas to compare registrar data for students who had taken a traditional calculus curriculum withthose who had taken calculus in a “reformed” curriculum. The second component was aquestionnaire to discover the views of graduating seniors to the use of

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

methodology includethe use of educational objectives as design “functions” and the use of pedagogical theoriesand learning style information as part of the “analysis” step in the design process. Detailsof each step in the process are presented. The methodology is used to compare the use oforiginal and redesign projects. This comparison highlights some distinct advantages ofredesign oriented hands-on projects.1. IntroductionThere is considerable literature that addresses the advantages of using hands-onexperiences in engineering curriculum [1-14]. Although assessment indicates that theincorporation of hands-on experiences almost always improves a given course, thereappears to be a dearth of information regarding the effective design of hands-on

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

://www.ise.ufl.edu access date: 12 / 31/ 2002HAMMAD S. CHAUDHRYHammad Chaudhry is a graduate student at the UF majoring in Industrial & Systemengineering. Mr. Chaudhry is a research assistant at UF, where he has worked on severalmanagement related projects. He earned his undergraduate degree in ElectricalEngineering from NED university of Engineering and Technology.M. ALI ABBASAli Abbas is a graduate student at the Industrial & Systems Engineering department atUF. Ali has his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from NationalUniversity of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Ali has worked on a variety of Page 9.725.6management related

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Peter Shull

Inter-operable Systems Project (ISP) and the other major SP50 companies, including Honeywell, Allen Bradley, and others formed the WorldFIP standard group [2]. Figure 3 Fieldbus LAN Options [2] Further consoli-dation occurred in 1993 when the ISP and WorldFIPjoined to form the Fieldbus Foundation (FF). As a result, two protocols have evolved forLAN based process control applications: the Fieldbus Foundation, a standard

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

combustion engine system with the assistance of theNational Science Foundation, the author is attempting to provide a compact, versatile educationalsystem that is appropriate and useful in a traditional classroom setting. For the system to be useful there are several categories of objectives that must be appliedto its design. General objectives associated with any project include the optimization of size,weight, and cost. This becomes particularly important for commercially viable systems.However, during this phase of the project, called the proof-of-concept phase, these objectives aresecondary to the ultimate goal of providing a system that is both safe and realistic in itsdemonstration of thermodynamic principles. Here, the primary

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler

5 0Engineering 412 Management SemesterMath 455 Design of Even Year 7 1 Experiments Spring*Most recent completed semester Table 2: Course Frequency and EnrollmentsIn addition to the electives in a specialty area, each student is required to complete a seniorresearch/design sequence of four semester hours. This sequence allows the student to work onan engineering problem (project) requiring integration of previous knowledge and possibly theacquisition of new knowledge relevant to the specialty area. Industrial specialty projects havedealt with human factors, quality

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationprovided on this page. The Control Panel (Fig. 2) allows the course instructor to post or modifyannouncements, course material including syllabi, contest guidelines, homework, projects, andsolution to test/quiz problems. Fig. 2. Control Panel. Many of the above mentioned sites have menus that can be accessed by all users. As anexample Communication Center menus are shown in Fig. 3. The instructor can access the classroster and optionally send e-mail messages to all students or selected individuals or groups. Thistask is made easy because the class roster is created automatically when the students enroll for thecourse. However, the instructor

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

the benefits of an integrated curriculumin a less ambitious way that had the potential of serving more students. The two year projectincluded the following courses: Calculus I, II, III and Differential Equations, General Chemistry I Page 8.718.2and II, and Physics I and II and a Freshman Engineering class. The project started in Fall 94 with Session 2630planning, developing course structures and enlisting students. There were 92 students entered intothe program starting Fall of 95.III. Structure of IMPECCourses• MA 141—Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (Fall

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Chernik; Josh Lambden; Brent Young; Bill Svrcek

Tar Sands Upgrader Expansion project and completed his process control course via distance education.JOSHUA LAMBDENJosh Lambden is an undergraduate student in his final year of Chemical Engineering at the University of Calgary,Alberta, Canada. As part of the University of Calgary’s Engineering Internship Program he completed a year withSNC-Lavalin Inc., an Engineering, Procurement and Construction company. Whilst at Jacobs he worked on avariety of projects and completed his process control course via distance education.GLEN HAYGlen Hay is a post-graduate student in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta,Canada. He received his B.Sc. degree in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Yau

(tenweek) undergraduate course in Web technology. The second half of the quarter covers client-sideWeb programming with JavaScript. Again, programming assignments are implemented using thepersistent student web sites.In the past, I have taught this course with more of a focus on Web design and development. Inthat context, I used the last half of the quarter to cover Web design methodologies and the use ofprevalent industry tools for Web site generation, instead of covering client-side programming. Iadded a project component in which the students develop a Web site for an external partner.Originally, this was a faculty member (course web site or home page), student group, or familybusiness. Later I made the project into a Service Learning one that

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Matsson

signals from the force gauge, the pressure transducers and the inlettemperature sensor. Moreover, the temperature after the compressor stage will bemeasured together with the temperature before the turbine stage. This will enable thestudents to perform continuous sampling of a wider range of properties.ConclusionsThis paper has shown a model jet turbine project done by undergraduate students inmechanical engineering. It was initiated as a project in manufacturing processes wherethe students designed the engine mount and a safety enclosure. The turbine was used in afluid mechanics laboratory where the students applied their knowledge gained from thethermodynamics course. The measured and calculated thrusts were in good agreementwhile the engine

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Brook Zurn; Jeff Frolik

Educationstudents as to the advantages and disadvantages of the various instruction methods they had beenexposed to. Without exception students specifically compared chalk/white board lectures andPowerPoint type lecturing styles (noticeably absent was active learning/project based courses).A summary of their input is given in Table 1 below. TABLE 1: Survey of student impression with lecturing styles Method Advantages DisadvantagesChalk/whiteboard Learn by seeing the progression of Spend most the time writing. material. Difficult to listen, write and understand all at the Flexible format so that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

technician level is common acrossthe various industries that are applying micro- and nanofabrication, a single, unifying centerto crucial to discourage the proliferation of applications-focused micro- and nanofabricationtechnician educational programs. The NSF ATE project Planning for a National ATE Centerin Micro-and Nanoscale Manufacturing was awarded in June 2003. The first step in the planning process was to identify potential industry and educationpartners for a national center. The Regional Center for Nanofabrication ManufacturingEducation has maintained an active industry advisory board since inception, and hosts jobfairs involving dozens of companies three times each year. The industrial users of the 12NNIN sites represent another

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

Rates,” NACME Research Letter, Vo. 2 (2), 1991. 6. Snyder, N., and Bowman, B., “Improving the Pre-Engineering Education of Low-Income Minority Youth: Lessons from a Demonstration Project,” ASME Tech. Soc. Publ., Vol. 2, 1-6, 1989. 7. Baker, G., “Pre-College Preparation of Minority Students for Careers in Engineering,” Trans. of the American Nuclear Soc., Vol. 46, 35-36, 1984. 8. Das, M., “Novel Summer Camp for the Underrepresented Minority High School Students,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., Washington, D.C., 1997. 9. Engineering Institutions Ranked by Minority Retention Rates and Relative Retention Index, NACME Research Letter, Vol. 4, 1997. 10.Bibliographical InformationKeshav S. Varde is a Professor of

Conference Session

Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Katz; Donna O'Kelly; Sheldon Landsberger

studentsper year with the anticipation that the National Laboratories will then fund the student after thefirst year is completed or funding will be found from other radiochemistry or nuclear chemistryresearch projects. In such a way, funding will be used to maximize the number of graduatestudents receiving graduate degrees in radiochemistry, thus being a pipeline to DOE labs.Undergraduate students will also be recruited and encouraged to apply for summer internshipprograms. This will allow easier recruiting of graduate students. Adequate training will be givenat the University of Texas so that “down-time” is minimized. The National Laboratories haveexcellent facilities in a wide range of radiochemistry and actinide research including state-of-the

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gadalla; Kamal Shahrabi

by education and/or experience at the filed of application. 3. Equipped with general knowledge (can be specific if necessary) on the basis on which CAD/CAM systems operate such as: Geometric modeling, solid modeling, surface modeling, computer graphics, etc. 4. Is capable of customizing the CAD/CAM system. 5. Is capable of discussing his/her needs and communicate effectively with the R&D staff. 6. Performs maintenance and develops short cut solutions to improve system utilization. 7. Be able to develop, direct, and mange projects intended to develop subroutines, sub- programs or work relate material intended to serve the CAD/CAM system.3. Building a Curriculum Program for Intelligent

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Adrezin; Marty Wood; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

called Project Lead the Way (PLTW). In the PLTW consortium, students willcomplete their capstone project and one senior level course at a neighboring communitycollege. The implementation of a seamless pathway program in Engineering andEngineering Technology was first piloted with the Engineering Department at theUniversity of Connecticut and with the School of Technology at Central Connecticut StateUniversity. This paper will highlight the strategies that were used to overcomearticulation and transfer barriers between two-year community colleges and four-yearengineering programs including the following: 1 Organizational Structure 2 Administrative procedures 3 Articulation using program outcomes 4 Mentoring 5

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ira Lockwood; Caleb Chitwood; Byron Newberry

discussed, each subject to arbitrary forcing. The model presented, generated aspart of a student project within the senior Machine Vibrations class at Oklahoma ChristianUniversity, allows the students to integrate several analytical techniques into a singlecomputational design tool. With the simulation process automated within Mathcad, the studentdesigner is free to concentrate on parametric studies and optimization of the suspension response.Moreover, the presented model allows the designer to consider realistic (i.e. arbitrary) off-roadground profiles. The educational strengths of this integrated Mathcad model are discussed.II. BackgroundMost practical dynamic systems incorporate multiple degrees-of-freedom and are subject tocomplex, if not

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Voon; F.C. Lai; Chean Chin Ngo

actually touching it. The two-component LDV (3-WattArgon-ion laser) used in the demonstration is capable of measuring two velocity componentssimultaneously.The opening page of this special project has a format that is consistent with those of the regularlab assignments. Immediately followed the objectives of the experiment , the apparatus (the laserand its accessories) are introduced through a series of still photos (Figure 6). They are alsointroduced later in a video clip which shows a complete view of the laser and optical table. Theschematics for the experimental setup are also available for reference 2. To learn how to operatethe argon-ion laser in the experiment, a series of demonstrations are provided through videoclips. For this particular