ASEE 2010 ZONE IV CONFERENCE MARCH 25-27 RENO, NEVADA PROCEEDINGS EDUCATING ENGINEERS IN THE WILD, WILD WEST HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO SPONSORED BY THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, PACIFIC SOUTHWEST, & ROCKY MOUNTAIN SECTIONS OF ASEE TABLE OF CONTENTS FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010 CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 8:30-10:00 A.M. Session DM: Designing and Manufacturing “Bicycle Frame Building for Engineering Undergraduates” Kurt Colvin & Jim Kish .............................................................................................................................. 1 “GIRLS SEE Summer Camp: An Event for Future and Current Female Engineering Students” Maria C. Sanchez, Nell Papavasilou, & Hernan Maldonado ...................................................................... 6 “Use of Video in Casting Education”* Craig Johnson............................................................................................................................................ 18 “Sustainable Design: Meeting the Thunder Beings of the West” John M. Murray, Roger A. Greener, Heong-seok Kim, & William T. Murray ........................................ 25 Session EE: Electrical Engineering and Technology “Curricular Innovations for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course” Reza Raeisi & Sudhanshu Singh ............................................................................................................... 37 “A Learning Community for First-Year Engineering Students”* Ding Yuan, Jude DePalma, & Nebojsa Jaksic .......................................................................................... 45 “Assessing the Effectiveness of Synchronous Content Delivery in an Online Introductory Circuits Analysis Course” Amelito Enriquez ....................................................................................................................................... 48 “Evaluating Oscilloscope Sample Rates vs. Sampling Fidelity: How to Make the Most Accurate Digital Measurements” Johnnie Hancock ....................................................................................................................................... 60 * Denotes work in progress Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:15 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Session GE1: General Engineering Education “An Applied Mathematics/Software Engineering Co-Development Project to Dynamically Predict High- Altitude Balloon Position Using Quasi Real-Time Data”* Jim Fischer & Claude Kansaku .................................................................................................................. 74 “An Overview of Engineering Education in the US under a Globalization Environment” Wangping Sun ........................................................................................................................................... 76 “The Dismantling of the Engineering Education Pipeline” Amelito Enriquez, Kate Disney, & Erik Dunmire .................................................................................... 88 “Blending Contemporary Research in Sustainability and Fundamental Skills for Graduate Success into a Team Taught, Introductory Graduate Course”* Allison Kipple & Dieter Otte .................................................................................................................. 101 “Remembering the Past to Inform the Future: Engineering and the Holocaust” Marilyn A. Dyrud .................................................................................................................................... 103 Session RR: Recruitment and Retention “Maturing of a Multidisciplinary Cohort of STEM Scholars: Year Three” Nebojsa Jaksic, Jeff Piquette, Melvin Druelinger, David Lehmpuhl, Helen Caprioglio, Juyun Cho, Paul Chacon, & Michael Mincic .......................................................................................... 121 “Improving the Participation and Retention of Minority Students in Science and Engineering through Summer Enrichment Programs” Amelito Enriquez .................................................................................................................................... 132 “Student Recruitment by Faculty Phone-a-Thons” Debra Larson & Marissa Mourer ............................................................................................................ 150 “Engineering Student Services Center Model”* Edwin Odom, Don Blackletter, Larry Staufer, & Steven Beyerlein ....................................................... 155 “Why Do They Come, Why Do They Not Return” Stuart Kellogg ......................................................................................................................................... 157 * Denotes work in progress Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 1:15-3:00 P.M. Session ME: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Technology “Technology to the Rescue! Lessons Learned from the Forced On-line Streaming of Dynamics Class” Jeigh Shelley ........................................................................................................................................... 172 “An Evolving Model for Delivering Engineering Education to a Distant Location” Kenneth W. Santarelli ............................................................................................................................. 192 “Using Sports Coaching Techniques to Enhance Project Based Learning Instruction” Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer & Faith Mimnaugh ................................................................................. 207 “Model Eliciting Activity for an Undergraduate Thermal Measurements Laboratory”* Paul van Bloemen Waanders, Andrew Kean, Glen Thorncraft, & Brian P. Self .................................... 218 “Student-Created Multimedia Dynamics Example Problems—A Model Eliciting Activity”* James M. Widmann & Brian P. Self ....................................................................................................... 220 Session DP: Design Projects “A High Frequency Transceiver for Amateur Radio Using Software Defined Radio” Jack Sun, Youssef Chedid, Kaveh Hajimohammadreza, Efrain Mendoza, Silvestre Sanchez Kinal Vachhani, James Flynn, & Sharlene Katz ...................................................................................... 223 “Software Defined Radio Communication Link for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” Brian Meadows, Charles Judah, Michael Berman, Derrick Jones, Ryan Rawson, David Alvarez, James Flynn, & Sharlene Katz ................................................................................................................ 235 “Six by Six Terrain Vehicle for Optimal Mass, Geometric Configuration and Tractive Efficiency” Gemunu Happawana & Arvind Gopi ...................................................................................................... 245 “A Student Developed Repository of Design Knowledge”* Brittany Ballard, Nathan Barrett, Brandy Holmes, & Jay McCormack .................................................. 262 “Three Stage Vibration Isolation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Gimbal Targeting System” Jose Rivera, Gemunu Happawana, Patrick Reilly, & Walter Mizuno .................................................... 264 * Denotes work in progress Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:15-5:00 P.M. Session LS: Laboratory Studies “Fountain Bench—A Hydraulic Apparatus for Formal and Informal Science Education” Said Shakerin & Camilla Saviz ............................................................................................................... 281 “Using Design, Build, Fly Projects to Provide Life Lessons in Engineering” James Helbling ...................................................................................................................................... 297 “Spaghetti Bridges: Build, Load and Repeat” Jeff Burmeister & Kyle Watson .............................................................................................................. 307 “A Laboratory-Based Course in Aerospace Engineering Failure” David Lanning, Wahyu Lestari, & Shirley Waterhouse .......................................................................... 313 “Low-Cost Take-Home Experiment on Classical Control Using Matlab/Simulink Real-Time Windows Target” Eniko T. Enikov, Vasco Polyzoev, & Joshua Gill ................................................................................... 322 Session GE2: General Engineering Education “Conceptual Change and Understanding in Engineering Education” Devlin Montfort & Shane Brown............................................................................................................ 331 “Engineering Economy with „Green‟ and Energy Evaluations” William Bloxsom .................................................................................................................................... 339 “Understanding Student and Workplace Writing in Civil Engineering”* Susan Conrad, Peter Dusicksa, & Timothy Pfeiffer ............................................................................... 342 “The Relationship between Self-Efficacy, Critical Thinking, and the Quality of First Year Engineering Students” Ann-Marie Vollstedt & Eric Wang ........................................................................................................