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Laura Lucas

Session 1606 Getting students to talk in class…Using K-12 Interaction to reinforce instruction in Constructive Feedback Laura Lucas Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractThe issue of getting college students to actively participate in team situations has become amore pressing concern as team projects are increasingly added to courses to fulfill the mostcurrent ABET criteria. But the problem is that students are not prepared to successfullyparticipate in teams, being that they are seldom taught how to express their ideas or how

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Keith V. Johnson; Mark Rajai

effectively in the global economy. However, this software isrelatively new to the academia. We then present a pilot joint course between East TennesseeState University (ETSU), Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, CA, and theirindustrial consultant. The IPTeams Suite was used in a new product development course wherethe students from the two universities have interacted in teams of joint projects. We concludewith some discussions from our own experience with IPTeams Suite software and the pilotproject.II. Classroom 2000The classroom 2000 is a learning environment that would embrace new technologies and allow Page 6.1013.1

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Gary Cardinale

the way it is represented in lab may be different and therefore difficult forthe student to understand. This could have an impact on the learning process that, in turn, mightaffect their ability to design their own circuits.SIXTH STEP – Develop your own lab based on the learned concepts and use your own circuitdesigns for the experiment. Page 6.807.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationWhat follows now is an actual classroom project AND/OR logic which illustrates this process.The first step

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Robert Ryan

in the conditioned space, and dampers are provided for controlling air flow rate andoutside air induction. Sample results for temperature and humidity throughout the system arepresented. This project was completed with the assistance of a Senior Project Grant from theAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)requires students to take a laboratory course devoted to thermo-fluids experiments. Some of theequipment supporting this laboratory includes a subsonic wind tunnel, a York Trainerrefrigeration system, a pipe flow bench, a centrifugal pump test bed, and a centrifugal fan andduct system. It was

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P. Watta; N. Narasimhamurthi; Adnan Shaout

and bring a product tomarket. These software and hardware tools include hardware descriptive languages,such as HDL and VHDL, field programmable gate arrays, and digital simulationpackages, such as PowerView. The goal of this project is to integrate some of these design tools in a consistentand pedagogically sound manner throughout the ECE curriculum, thereby exposingstudents to current industry practice and state-of-the-art design technology. 1 Introduction The primary goal of this project is to expand the ECE laboratory facilities toprovide our undergraduate students with high quality experiments and design projectsin the area of Digital Design and Computer Architecture. In particular, our aim is toexpose

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Edmund Tsang

Angeles found about one-third of all college students took a course thatrequired them to do volunteer work [5]. Two large-scale studies -- one published in 1998[6] and another in 1999 [7] -- found positive impacts of community service projects onstudent development and learning.Though small in number, some engineering educators have integrated service-learninginto their curricula and demonstrated positive impacts on some of the student attributesdescribed in Criterion 3 of Engineering Criteria 2000. The Proceedings of the 2000Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) listed12 papers on service-learning in engineering, and The American Association for HigherEducation (AAHE) has published in Spring 2000 a monograph

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Thomas Kullgren; David Pape

professionals, a graduate program designed to addtechnical knowledge, leadership and management strategies to existing workplace skillswas initiated. This degree, called the Master of Science in Technological Processes,includes coursework in both technical and professional disciplines, and is targeted atindividuals with undergraduate degrees in science, engineering, computer science,mathematics, or engineering technology. The program is offered entirely on campus withevening classes and concludes with an industry-based capstone Field Project. In thispaper the first two plus years of the program are presented and analyzed. The studentpopulation, which has developed into an interesting mixture that includes a significantinternational population and a

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Jeffrey A. Donnell

provideseparate technical writing or speaking courses, which may run concurrently with certain requiredtechnical courses. Another way to provide communication instruction in the technical classroomarises when student projects are sponsored by industry. Here, the industrial sponsor receiveswritten and oral reports and suggests modifications to the students based on experience with thenorms of communication in a particular field 6,7,8. Unfortunately, these approaches to communication instruction do not solve theintegration problem so much as they reproduce it. When technical students are sent to consultwith writing center tutors, for example, that tutor may be placed at an information disadvantageand may deliver writing instructions that are colored

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Sarah Lewis; Renate Fruchter

Session Number: 2315 Mentoring Models in an A/E/C Global Teamwork e-Learning Environment Renate Fruchter, Sarah Lewis Stanford UniversityAbstractUnderstanding the goals and constraints of other disciplines are key to working well incross-disciplinary Problem-, Project-, Product-, Process-, People-Based LearningTM(P5BL) teams. Education programs rarely offer learners opportunities to participate inauthentic cross-disciplinary P5BL experiences in a global teamwork e-Learningenvironment. This paper reports on models of mentoring in cross-disciplinary learning inStanford University’s P5BL program. It addresses Architecture/Engineering/Construction(A/E/C) industry’s needs to broaden the

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Ron Eglash; Larry Kagan; Gary Gabriele; Frances Bronet; David Hess

working-through therelationships among societal considerations and the possible physical designs. For this studio, weworked on projects for which our culture’s habituated physical design responses are unsuited.This will call taken-for-granted assumptions into question.The design project acts as a vehicle to pull together a diverse number of philosophical issues,technical concerns, and basic theoretical knowledge. By using a number of modes of inquiry aswell as faculty from various disciplines, we can ask students to consider many thingssimultaneously and juggle many ways of investigation at the same time.The first studio had two main projects, as well as a series of continuing exercises in computing,drawing and technology. We began the semester

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Michael J Batchelder; Daniel F. Dolan

racing. As an important part of the solar carteam, the instrumentation team not only learns technical skills, but also the soft skills ofplanning, managing, and working with others to reach a common goal.IntroductionFocusing engineering education on projects and competitions is a popular approach togiving students experience with real open-ended design problems, teamwork,communication, and leadership1,2,3,4. ABET requires engineering programs todemonstrate that their graduates have fundamental knowledge and know how to apply itworking in teams. Student teams participating in solar car racing develop not onlytechnical skills, but also communication, project management, and teaming skills. TheCenter for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP

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Stephanie Eisenbarth; Siddhartha P. Duttagupta; Robert Walters; Paul Dawson; Joseph Guarino; George Murgel; Christopher Pentico

use of sophisticated laboratory equipment. The newly createdM.S. programs in CE, EE, and ME are engaged in an interdisciplinary research effort, which isdiscussed in this article. The technical goal is to minimize the use of hazardous chemicals incleaning high aspect ratio microstructures. Broader goals include dynamic curriculadevelopment, and student leadership and mentoring opportunities that will enhance the quality ofgraduate education and attract new students to the programs. This project symbolizes thecommitment shared by the faculty and their partners in the industry and in the government toensure the rapid, collaborative growth of professionally oriented graduate programs at BSU.I. IntroductionIn 1996, the State of Idaho transformed

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William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

outside. These are typically practicing engineers from the differentdisciplines who talk about their area and the kind of work they do. The weekly sectionlectures are devoted primarily to introducing some fundamental engineering andcomputer science principles all tied into the concept of intelligent transportation. Threemain areas are explored: Energy and Cars, Cars and Computers, and TransportationInfrastructure. In the design studio portion of the course, the students learn basic designmethodology and apply it to several individual and team design exercises. They alsocover ethics, project scheduling, and report preparation. The design studio also includesa 5-week long design project in which the students work in teams to design and buildsimple

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Luiz DaSilva

, threaded discussion, a chat areaand a web-based audio conferencing tool with whiteboard capabilities. Students were challengedto use these in order to effectively replace in-person group activities that were precluded by thedistributed character of the group.In this paper we describe student reactions and feedback to the group project and to thedistributed nature and delivery of the course, provided both informally and through a surveydeveloped in collaboration with Virginia Tech's Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning(IDDL). 32 Main Campus 17 Norfolk

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FYI Team Members; Adrian Cloete

. These Teams were led by new associate FYI deans and, most often, the professor teaching ½ the general education course, Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. ½ This course served as the "pedagogical hub”. Faculty met before and during the term to plan a cross-curricular scope and sequence ½ integration of courses ½ Students were scheduled into cohort classes Faculty Teams planned and delivered 2-hour labs each week where all members of the ½ Faculty Team would meet with the students. Students were assigned 1-2 cross-curricular Team Projects designed with terminal course objectives from all five first-term courses. For example, in the Electronics Engineering

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Edward Gehringer

Page 6.224.1best be matched ... is discussed surprisingly little in the literature.” In most cases, he says, aProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsingle assessor was matched with an assessee. The matching has been done along twodimensions: blindly or non-blindly, electronically or non-electronically.Often, reviews are done blindly, e.g., by collecting student assignments in one class, and passingthem out to other students in the next class period, using an instructor-assigned ID number* toidentify the students [KPD 95]. However, some projects use face-to-face interaction, frequentlycalled “peer revision” [Stys 98, Stys

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book; Douglas Ludlow

Session 3213 Development and Implementation of a Computer-Based Learning System in Chemical Engineering Neil L. Book, Douglas K. Ludlow and Oliver C. Sitton Department of Chemical Engineering University of Missouri - RollaAbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a computer-based learning systemfor the University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR) chemical engineering curriculum. The project hasthree major goals: provide a learner-centered study environment for our students, integrate thelearning system into

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Martha N. Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Ben Erwin

and debug something - outside of his head (2,3,4,5).Parallel to both of these ideas is the importance of a learning experience that is personallymeaningful to the student. In other words, re-creating somebody else's experience (theexperience of a famous scientist, for example) in the classroom is not sufficient to facilitate thebest learning environment. A personally meaningful project is more directly related to astudent's own direct life experience, and hence is more motivating and more likely to lead to asense of accomplishment and true understanding (1,6,7,8). Page 6.624.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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Gwan-Ywan Lai

Session 1526 Integration of Enhanced Coordinate Measuring Machine Systems with Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories and Curriculum at Kettering University Gwan-Ywan Lai Kettering UniversityI. IntroductionCoordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) are one of the most powerful and widely usedmetrological instruments in the manufacturing industry. There is virtually no workpiece whosedimensions cannot be measured with a properly equipped CMM system [1-6]. This NationalScience Foundation funded project (NSF-ILI: DUE-9851082) is to enhance two existing CMMsin

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Anna Phillips; Charles V. Camp; Paul Palazolo

created with the primarygoal of generating new knowledge and excitement about the fields of math, science, andengineering for middle school students. Two separate one-week sessions were offered June 12-16, 2000 and June 26-30 at The University of Memphis’ Herff College of Engineering, and each Page 6.1061.1day’s session was scheduled from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Project Goals and ObjectivesThis pilot program was designed with the major goal of

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

with challenges like circuit board fabrication, software validation,design reviews, functional requirements, specifications, project scheduling, project management,FDA compliance, 510K’s, clinical trials, ethical debate, patient risk, intellectual property,documentation, and a variety of other responsibilities. Having spent four or more years studyingthe theory of p-n doping, free-body diagrams, Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms, Kreb’scycle and Poiseuille’s law, it is no wonder that the recent graduate is frustrated by the seeminglydisconnect between higher education and the “real-world”.Academicians struggle to establish that balance between theory and practice. Many fear that toomuch “real-world” is simply job training. Yet, too little

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David Loker

Session 2259 Remote Data Acquisition using LabVIEW David R. Loker, P.E. Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote data acquisition laboratory project is presented for a senior technicalelective telecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology BaccalaureateProgram at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several unique characteristics ofthis project. First, the project is multidisciplinary in nature since it combines material from thetelecommunications course with material from a junior level instrumentation

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Edward Gehringer

style guidelines. The project can be supervised by graduatestudents, who undertake the responsibility of assigning work to students and integrating the workinto the site. Benefits of the project include (i) giving the students an in-depth look at severaldifferent ethical issues, (ii) constructing a resource that has been used by instructors around theworld, and (iii) providing a low-overhead mechanism for adding another course to thecurriculum. This methodology should be applicable to courses involving professional issues inall areas of engineering.1. IntroductionEthics in Computing is a fast-changing field. The “hot issues” of one year frequently were noteven on the radar screen the year before. The past seven years have seen the rise and fall

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D. Yogi Goswami

areawhere improvement could be made in college level education is to develop courses andtexts for students in the fields of environmental studies, business, law, economics, etc.2b. SchoolsIt is very important to teach K-12 students about the intimate relationship between solarenergy use and clean environment, because these children will eventually set the policiesthat will affect solar energy use. In order to educate school children, it is necessary toeducate and train the teachers and to develop appropriate educational materials. A largeamount of educational materials have been developed for school children in different partsof the world. These include lecture notes, experiments, project ideas, design competitions,etc. These materials are

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

faculty members in their department.Their appears to be a blind notion that such interactions can lead to a reduced level ofrecognition for one’s unique contributions. In contrast, tenured faculty members are lessaggressive in avoiding research interactions and, in many instances, often seek out suchopportunities. This team-friendly environment allows synergistic activities to evolve and becapitalized on, leading to stronger research programs. From an external perspective, fundingagencies are placing a growing emphasis on interdisciplinary research projects. This trend hasled to increased pressure on faculty to collaborate. In the case of industry-funded research,where projects tend to follow a multidisciplinary model, it is almost always the

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Nathan Richardson; Carl White

byindustrial partners. The research projects are designed to be consistent with the mission of thecenter and the university. Although the described training modules are specific to the microwavetechnology curriculum at Morgan, similar modules may be developed and integrated within anABET approved curriculum.This paper will describe the evolution and development of COMSARE’s specialized training andresearch, the organizational structure of the center, the development of partnerships, itsrecruitment process and current statistics, and the future of engineering training andmanagement.I. IntroductionThe information revolution has created an intensely competitive global marketplace that requiresan ethnically diverse workforce. The members of this workforce

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Abi Aghayere

includes a structural analysis module using M-STRUDL, and a computer-aidedexperiment module. The models can be made of either aluminum or plastic, and rigid and pinnedconnections can be modeled. Horizontal and vertical displacements are measured using linearvariable displacement transducers (LVDTs).In the structural analysis class, students were instructed to form groups of 3 or 4 students to workon a quarter-long ANEX lab project that involved a two-story, two-bay frame made of plastic.The frame was subjected to various vertical load combinations. For each load combination, eachteam was required to compare and discuss the analytical and experimental displacements anddraw the actual observed deflected shapes of the frame indicating the tension and

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materials. • It facilitates projects that are closer to actual engineering assignments in industry.I IntroductionOne of the classic problems in engineering and technology education has been how to breakthe students dependency on textbook solutions and introduce them to finding informationand fitting it to the solution of actual problems. Until recently this was left to a single"design course" experience. With ABET's emphasis on a "Capstone" experience for thestudents to synthesize their analytical skills with real problems there has been increasedattention on the problem of teaching students how to find information. Page 6.1119.1 Proceedings of

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Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas

and techniques. Also presented isa course project in which a VB program was successfully used for a real-timetemperature control system. It is concluded that, by embedding VB programming to theControl and Instrumentation curriculum, we have created an effective and efficientteaching and learning approach and, as a result, students not only have gained thetechnical knowledge but also have significantly developed their skills for computerapplications.I. IntroductionOver the last two decades we have seen a strong growing trend of computer applications,especially PC applications, in the control and instrumentation industry. In response to theneeds of current industry and graduate job market, we have revamped our old ElectricalEngineering

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as a source of information for improving team performance 2,3and accounting for individual contributions to a group project 4. Peer evaluations as a source ofinformation for small self-directed group work have an appeal because the team members are inthe best position to observe the team skills of their fellow team members. Despite thisadvantage, concerns have been levied against the use of peer evaluations. Abson 5, for example,suggested that peer evaluations can be abused and have undesirable effects on individuals in thegroup. Mathews 6 studied peer assessment of small group work in a management studiesprogram. He noted patterns of response included giving all group members the same score,collusion between group members, and potential