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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; Wendy Newstetter; Jennifer Turns

Session 2230 Learning Essays and the Reflective Learner: Supporting Reflection in Engineering Design Education Jennifer Turns, Wendy Newstetter, Janet K. Allen, and Farrokh Mistree Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstract: Learning engineering design requires more than simply having design experiences.Design experiences provide a context for students to practice design skills and an opportunity forstudents to learn deep lessons about the nature of engineering design. Reflection on theexperiences is necessary in order to recognize and realize these lessons. Student questions like“Why do we

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Jerry W. Samples

thermodynamics text. The breadth ofthe material included everything in a two-semester thermodynamics course except combustion,availability, and compressible flows. The shear volume of the material covered in just 40 lessonswas enough to make the hearty faint, not to mention the majority of the students. Realizing that aproblem existed and after some study into the use of mind-maps, an attempt to tiethermodynamics together on a single sheet of paper using this method seemed to be a worthychallenge. The first attempt at mapping the course revealed a need to carefully choose the startingpoint; both in the course and on the paper. The purpose of mapping is to prepare a visual thatgrows logically to assist in understanding the material. Topics should

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B. Lee Tuttle

replaced thejoker’s cap with the mortar board of the analytical engineer, then he can begin the convergent Page 2.121.1thinking process. The analytical mind of the engineer will immediately see that some of the newconcepts will never fly in today’s environmentally conscious society. Without employing therigor of the evaluation matrix and firm criteria, the engineer can rule out certain new ideas. CULLING is the process of separating the rotten apples from the good edible apples inthe basket. Just as the image of a bad apple smacks us in the face, so too the visual image of abad product concept will jump off the page at us. In the process

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John Valasek

transportation an engineering mind setcentered on flight safety and professional responsibility and accountability is needed. This mindset is required of personnel in air traffic control, aircraft air and ground crews, airplane designmanagement, and especially aircraft design engineers and therefore aircraft design students. Thispaper proposes that the major responsibility and accountability for flight safety rest with theaircraft design engineers since these individuals wield the most leverage for incorporating safetyduring the preliminary design process. Transferring this concept to the classroom is an expedientfor achieving improved levels of flight safety. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSMany people in industry and academia have

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leadership for the effort under this structure. While student participation can beeasily achieved if the activity can be offered for credit, as in a capstone design experience, itseems as if a club-type activity is a good alternative and involves many students from variousbackgrounds and with varying levels of ability. WPI has found that as the number of FIRSTalumni grows, such association forms naturally and forms the basis for student efforts in thecompetition.An important fact for universities to bear in mind is that FIRST includes thousands of highschool students predisposed to science and engineering. In order to reward the enthusiasm ofthese students and further pique their interest, WPI offers a full-tuition, four year scholarship toone FIRST

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Arnold F. Johnson

will also be presented. Thiscourse represents an application of engineering assessment that is of direct benefit to students.IntroductionA one credit course, primarily focusing on assessment, was developed at the University of NorthDakota to evaluate students coming from industry into UND’s Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram (CEDP). The CEDP is a videotape program coupled with required on-campus labsleading to an undergraduate degree in engineering. Many of these students are graduates oftechnical colleges and have ten to fifteen years of industrial experience. With an investment ofresources in mind (students’ time, company funds for tuition reimbursement, etc.), UND facultybegan asking “why should these students (with so much industrial

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L.J. Bohmann; B.A. Mork; Noel Schulz

class that "we have to take to graduate." With this in mind, it isimperative to continuously provide practical examples in lecture and interesting up-to-date labexperiences, to show that the material is applicable to all specialties in EE. Following this tack,students see the material to be immediately useful and are thus more motivated. Although it maytake some time to reverse the old perceptions of the "power course," students entering this courseseem to have fewer negative preconceptions than in past years.SUMMARYThe traditional Electrical Engineering Energy Conversion course is broken. We need to fix it byupdating the material, broadening the scope, and shifting the focus. Recent advances in powerelectronics and permanent magnets need to be

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Neda Fabris

that had a future.Based on my own experience and discussion with other women, I feel that a necessary componentin motivating girls to take more ”hard” science and math classes in junior high school and seniorhigh school and eventually enter science and engineering careers, is to involve mothers moreactively in the process. MOTHER-DAUGHTER WORKSHOPS AT CSULAIn the last two years, with the above thought in mind, I have applied and been successful inreceiving two grants from California lottery funding to prepare and conduct a set of introduction toengineering workshops for MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS (or any other female member of thefamily interested in girls’ development

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David B. Beyer

communications will be delivered on a “just in time” basis. As material is coveredby the major technical courses, the supporting material will be introduced and developed withinthe mathematics or science course, timed to be introduced to students as needed.The general approach in the ongoing development of this program was to create a list oftechnician competencies upon which the actual courses would be developed. The essentials ofthis list were provided by our industrial partners. These include: AT&T Corp., Siemens Rolm,York Engineering, Visual Media Group, Madge Networks, Inc., Lucent, and Eastern Datacom.The entrance requirements to this program are one year of high school algebra and one year oflaboratory science. The program is being designed

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company. Another student thought that he could have an advantage over other graduates with comparable or slightly higher GPAs by having the Special Problem experience since students perceive that companies are looking to hire someone with more that only classroom experience.• Time management skills: In general, students schedule their time while having in mind a deadline (e.g., the end of the semester).• Interpersonal skills: Today, engineering work is done in groups. The undergraduate student normally participates in meetings with personnel from the sponsoring industry. In some cases, the students write a project report gaining valuable writing skills.• Acquiring knowledge on a specific (power

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Scott Aten; Derek T. Schade; Kurt J. Colella

a demanding team designtask. Design is an important component of the engineering profession and an integral part of thedevelopment of U.S. Coast Guard engineers. At the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, design is considered a developmental experience3.The USCGA design philosophy introduces design as a process during the freshman year, stressesopen ended problem solving the sophomore year, and incorporates component and system designthe junior year. The senior year capstone experience serves as a medium for the student todemonstrate learned design skills and is the culmination of the students' design education. The Solar Splash international solar powered boat design competition has providedCoast Guard Academy engineering students

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Murali Krishnamurthi

one. The following is astep-by-step methodology I have developed for multiculturally transforming any curricula.Step 1. Educate Yourself - Before attempting to analyze and transform our curricula, we shouldeducate ourselves first on gender equity and multicultural issues. Educating ourselves requireskeeping an open mind and giving ourselves the time to learn and examine the relevant issues. We Page 2.56.1can educate ourselves by attending institutes and seminars offered nowadays at most universitiesand at conferences such as ASEE, acquiring and reading the literature from journals such asASEE Prism and the Journal of Engineering Education

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Stephen J. Ressler; Colonel Kip P. Nygren; C. Conley

used successfully in two different high school outreach activities. Studentfeedback from these activities has validated the concept of a CAD-based outreach project andprovided useful suggestions for improvement as well.Called theWEST POINT BRIDGE DESIGNER, the software guides the user through the design of atruss-type highway bridge, based on a specified design scenario. The program was developedwith three principal objectives in mind: • To stimulate interest in engineering and design. • To provide the user with an opportunity to perform a legitimate structural design, based on a realistic set of design specifications and constraints. • To focus attention on West Point’s role as America’s first engineering

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Wade C. Driscoll

Session 2457 Parametric Case Studies - Closing the Loop Wade C. Driscoll Industrial and Systems Engineering Youngstown State University AbstractTraditional case studies have proven to be effective means for teaching engineering design.Unfortunately, traditional case studies, in which all students in a class simultaneously work on thesame case study, may result in inappropriate levels of student interaction. A parametric case studyis a generalization of a

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Tom Mase

Session 2266 Integrating Design in Advanced Mechanics of Materials Through Industry Collaboration Tom Mase Associate Professor GMI Engineering & Management Institute ABSTRACTThis paper presents an discussion of integrating design through industry collaboration inAdvanced Mechanics of Materials, a junior-level course. It is hoped that this might act asanother paradigm for integrating design into traditionally analytical courses. In teachingAdvanced Mechanics of Materials this way, the students cover most of the

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David E. Clough

Session 2513 A New Multipurpose Fluid-flow Experimental Module David E. Clough Department of Chemical Engineering University of ColoradoIn 1996, we designed and implemented a mobile fluid-flow apparatus that has found immediateand wide application at various levels of our undergraduate and graduate programs. The reasonsfor the success of this module are its ease of use and breadth of application.The fluid-flow experimental module is built into a standard mobile cart that can be wheeledconveniently to different classroom and laboratory sites, both

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Scot Douglass

Session 3561 Teaching Students, Not Texts Scot Douglass Herbst Humanities Program, University of Colorado--BoulderContext “What works and doesn’t work?” in the integration of an engineering curriculum with thehumanities has been a question we’ve been asking since the fall of 1989 when the College ofEngineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, began a new andinnovative program of Humanities for Engineers. This program was made possible by thegenerous gift of an alumnus, Clarence Herbst, Jr. (Ch. E., ‘50). Now in its eighth year, theprogram

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developed.In addition to aiding freshmen, these modules also help to fulfill EASNE’s third goal ofdeveloping novel engineering design and manufacturing modules, cooperatively developed andshared across the EASNE institutions. The first manufacturing multimedia tool to be finishedwas the Injection Molding Tutor (IMT). The tutor is an interactive multimedia software tutor thatprovides the user with part design rules and methodologies specifically with the manufacturingprocess of injection molding in mind. The IMT was tested during the course of its developmenton freshmen at both UMass Amherst and UConn. Since the completion of the IMT in August of1996 the tutor is now being distributed and evaluated at other EASNE schools and will be

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Robert J. Radin; Joan Dannenhoffer

. Page 2.476.10Bibliography[1] T. Armstrong. Multiple Intelligences In The Classroom. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Alexandria, VA, 1994.[2] H. Gardner. Frames of Mind, The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Tenth Edition. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1993.[3] H. Gardner. Multiple Intelligences, The Theory in Practice. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1993.[4] H. Gardner. “Reflections on Multiple Intelligences, Myths and Messages”. Phi Delta Kappan, pages 200-209, November 1995.Biographical InformationJOAN V. DANNENHOFFER, P.E., is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Ward College of Technology,University of Hartford. She received a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.B.A. from Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute and

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Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

production” environment. This partnership of academia, industry and government hascome together to address a basic survival issue for our quality of life in this country; acompetitive defense manufacturing base and the creation of wealth through manufacturing. Withsome few exceptions (airplanes, drugs and software come to mind) we are second class citizensin producing everything from automobiles to televisions. The urgency of meeting this challengestimulated much of the enthusiasm from the participants and contributed in no small way to thesuccess of this program.B. Industry-based Projects in AcademeToday’s Engineer cannot be working on yesterday’s problems with yesterday’s tools. They haveto understand how to work in cross functional teams, to be

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heat treatment takes place.Using this software helps in several ways. For one, the software draws “real time” figures, wherethe instructor is limited to “snapshots.” The program continuously gives a visual display of eachprocess selected. Students can view this display repeatedly until they are comfortable with thepicture that develops in their mind. Secondly, while students may not feel confident aboutworking with phase diagrams, using the computer as a tool gives them the opportunity to workwith something they are familiar with (the computer) to help understand something they are notfamiliar with.MultimediaThe newest tool has been provided via the internet.4 As reported in ASEE’s Prism, ProfessorJohn Russ established a Web site entitled

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Daniel Davis

design decisions. Design opportunities exist within every phase, not just the schematicdesign and design development phases as many believe. Just as the engineer cycles throughdesign, build, and test, the architect cycles through design, draw/model and presentation, andduring each cycle the design should be reviewed, critiqued and improved.An awareness of what occurs and why during the project development process can providestudents with a better understanding of the impact the process has on the final project design.The key to a successful project lies not with the initial concept but with the designer’s ability tomanage the design process.The Architectural Design ProcessMany are familiar with the “typical” architectural design process: the

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Susan M. Lord

Corning, the premier manufacturer of optical fibers. A highlight of this project was her comment “If someone had come to me a year ago and said that I would really like something in EE, I would have said they were crazy. But I really like this stuff. I don’t mind spending time in the lab to get it to work.”7. Crystal J. Theesfeld and Susan M. Lord, “Designing Optoelectronic Laboratories: A Unique Senior Design Opportunity,” Session 7c2, Proceedings of the 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1996. Available at http://www.caeme.elen.utah.edu/fie/SUSAN M. LORDSusan M. Lord received a B. S. in Electrical Engineering & Materials Science from Cornell University and the M.S.and Ph.D. in Electrical

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

Session 3230 COACHING STUDENTS TOWARD BETTER LEARNING--A WORKSHOP APPROACH Charles F. Yokomoto/Roger Ware Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Introduction In this paper, we describe an out-of-class, voluntary, weekly series of workshops that weoffer to students who want help in improving their ability to learn and demonstrate learning inthe engineering classroom. Weekly sessions are held, where students are given experiences inthe development of a range of learning skills and problem solving skills that have been

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Tom L. Powers; Roger Wright; O'Neill Burchett; Michael R. Manning; Bruce W. Farmer; Brad Gilbreath

thosestudents will encounter on the job after they graduate--into the course. We recently team taught amanufacturing projects course to master's-level engineering and business students. This graduatecourse included five participant groups: instructors, students, graduate assistants, sponsors, andboard members who acted as senior managers. Although including multiple participant groupsenriched our students' experience in the course, it also complicated our job as instructors. Thispaper includes a description of our course, challenges we encountered while teaching it, and ourthoughts about how to cope with those challenges. I. INTRODUCTIONThere we were, only one month into the semester, and one of our student project

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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

new faculty member and how this type of planning could ease the load inattaining tenure and promotion. Part I - An ExampleIntroductionTransition from one walk of life to another is never easy. Whether one enters academia fromindustry, graduate school or from some other venue, significant differences exist which mayhinder the progress of the new educator. In the present case, coming from industry, but withteaching experience as an adjunct, I thought I had an understanding of the teaching requirements.What to do about tenure was the farthest thing from my mind. Fortunately, I had the help of myco-author as mentor and the other staff at our site. They all helped me keep in the right directionto start with

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F. C. 'Ted' Weston

perspective and focus into realissues facing a modern manufacturing environment. This includes small as well as large firms.CIM is a philosophy that takes on different meanings depending on whether the functional viewis engineering, information systems, or operations management. It is deemed important todevelop in the mind of the student a ‘big picture’ framework of a modern manufacturingenvironment. This framework, independent of a student’s academic orientation, must include therealization of the difficulties of managing all functional areas in a constantly changing, rapid-paced, competitive environment. This changing competitive environment includes a growingglobal perspective plus increased pressure for customer satisfaction, quality, cost

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Marilyn Dyrud

.& Make evaluation criteria very specific.& Return unacceptable papers, unevaluated, for revision.Assessment TechniquesAnother possibility is to reconsider grading practices. The survey indicates that most instructorsuse traditional methodologies, such as circling errors and writing comments. While these are"tried and true" techniques, they are also time-consuming, especially if instructors are actuallyediting and revising for students.It is important to re-evaluate assessment goals: Is the purpose of evaluation to provide feedback? To prepare students for lives as professional writers, keeping in mind that engineers spend 50-80% of their time communicating in some formal fashion?1 To correct non-standard English?Each goal

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Dean R. Johnson; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

Session 3532 ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER METHODS IN DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Professor & Chairperson, and Dean R. Johnson, Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan h.mousavinezhad@wmich.edu dean.johnson@wmich.edu (616) 387-4057 FAX (616) 387-4024 I. INTRODUCTIONDigital Signal Processing

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Richard Gilbert; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

AC 1997-185: A Good Lecture: A Framework for Classroom ManagementMarilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community CollegeRenata Engel, Pennsylvania State UniversityRichard Gilbert, Page 2.17.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 1997 Session 3230 A Good Lecture: A Framework for Classroom Management Dr. Marilyn Barger, Dr. Renata Engel, Dr. Richard Gilbert Florida State University/Pennsylvania State University/University of South FloridaABSTRACTClassroom management involves global course communications as well as parochial classroomconcerns. A good series of