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Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michele Casey; Kevin Torres; David Loker

we are equipping them with knowledge that is applicable toequipment they interact with daily. In addition, they will have had a positive experience withengineering that will hopefully ignite an interest for further learning.1.0 IntroductionIn 2001 an outreach project was designed and implemented to provide kindergarten students withengineering technology experiences.1 In that project kindergarten students were introduced tocurrent, voltage, batteries, conductors and insulators. The project was not only a success withkindergarten students but also with 1 st grade students.The authors wanted to add another module to the kindergarten engineering curriculum. Thetopic of digital logic was decided upon. In an ASEE 2000 paper, Cooney and

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

to Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationacquire images with different band-pass filters from the remote cameras and initial resultsof image analysis.1. IntroductionThis paper describes a NASA-UMES collaborative project primarily involving passiveremote sensing experiments using reflectance patterns in the visible region of theelectromagnetic spectrum. Color and monochrome cameras mounted on a payloadstructure (gondola) attached to a tethered blimp are used to transmit remote images fromthe blimp as it ascends to pre-determined height above the ground. The images capturedby the remote cameras have

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Roger Wallace; David Adams

. Figure 1. This puzzle illustrates the basic elements of the technical communications plan in MSU’s Department of Civil & Environmental

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Torres

be obtained. These kits include: · IspDesignEXPERT Starter and ispVM System software · 44-pin in-system programming (isp) board with LED display · ispDOWNLOAD cable with 10 pin JTAG Connector · (2) MACH4 sample devices · Full documentation and user manualsThere are four seven segment LEDs on the isp board. This example will take advantage of allfour. The name “Eric” will be displayed, one character for each LED. Along with the LEDdisplays the board offers three push button switches. The example was designed to display“Eric” when both SW1 and SW2 are pushed, and only when these two are pushed together.Figure 1 shows the schematic that will display “Eric.” It was designed in the schematic

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Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Martha J. Molander; Josh Corra; Bethany Konz; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller; Abdeldjelil Belarbi

critical coordination tasks,many of which are handled by the students. Figure 1: Component Technologies for Smart Engineering Group A principle educational project, and a formal means for student training, is the SmartMaterials and Sensors course. 8,9 The technical focus is smart composite structures whichinvolves use of composites for structural applications and the use of sensors for monitoring andcontrol. The UMR Smart Composite Bridge is a field laboratory for the course 4 and aninnovative Web-resource is the primary content resource. 7,8 The learning objectives of theinterdisciplinary course are (1) to integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge, (2) to buildinterdisciplinary collaborative skills, and (3) to gain

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

, and proliferation. Manypublic universities were established in the Region between 1960 and 1985. Except for SaudiArabia where the public university system is comprised of several universities, there is today, atleast one public university in each of the five other states. When compared to Saudi Arabia, thesefive States are considerably smaller in area and population.The focus in this paper is on the colleges of engineering of the Region (Table 1). Eight collegesof engineering were founded through collaboration with institutions abroad, and each one ofthese colleges is in a university setting. Their declared mission is: to equip the young citizens ofthe Region with appropriate engineering “know how” and to enable the graduates to share in

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Krueger

Page 7.954.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationindividuals, families and communities in need” (p.1). Some authors claim that service learningprovides students with the tools and the ability to express themselves effectively in public affairsbecause it involves schools and students “sympathetically and productively” with thecommunities they serve (Eyler and Giles 1999, p. 7-19 cited in Hunter and Brisbin 2000, p. 1).Furthermore, service learning activities require students to develop skills critical to civicengagement: critical thinking, linking theory and practice, problem solving techniques

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Field

positions with superior performance over thecourse of a semester. Faculty members—one each from the Colleges of Business, Education, andEngineering—provide support to students during their work in the Laboratory. The faculty alsoteam-teach an undergraduate Business Administration course (BusAd 392) associated with theBusiness Lab experience. The course is offered in seminar format and is comprised ofinstructional components (see Table 1) designed to provide students with some of the skills theyrequire for technological problem solving, innovation, and integration. Table 1: Instructional components Team Skills Faculty Marketing Research Methodology

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Educators on the Frontier

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2002 Annual Conference

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Frank Burris; Alfredo Soeiro

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Johansen; Jens Riis; Henrik Jorgensen; Claus Balken; James Luxhoj

five-phase strategic manufacturing developmentprocess that includes the following: Table 1. A Five-Phase Process for Strategic Manufacturing Development (Source: Riis and Johansen 1) Phase Content 1. Initiation Staging and organizing the process, plus clarifying the starting point and the ambition and scope of the process. 2. External trends and Creating an organizational shared picture as regards the need strategic challenges for change, external trends and the strategic challenges of the enterprise

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Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Eschenbach

the future is to compare the past with the present and project. Themost accessible basis for this type of analysis is introductory texts. These texts have beenanalyzed in more detail in previous papers on the field’s development 9and on specific topics 1, 2.Instead of a detailed analysis of nearly a century’s set of texts, this paper relies on an evaluationof three texts. These texts include the first 6 from 1915 and two editions of the current text withthe longest history7, 8. While this is a very limited set, as an active text author who closely Page 7.1147.1reviews competitor’s texts, I would assert that in terms of topical coverage

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfredo Soeiro

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sarah Williamson; Fiona Lamb

bodies, plus students on engineering degree programmes, and professionalswithin learning and teaching. The paper herein focuses on the issues and priorities identified onlyby academics and industrialists and the subsequent responses from the Centre to those results.Details on the rest of the analysis will be published elsewhere 1. Page 7.139.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationMethodology The consultation began with a pilot study. Fifteen telephone and face-to-face interviewswere

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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Linda Madsen

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shad Reed; Donna Dorminey

expenditure of resources. The ability to develop an appropriate experimentalprocedure is so vital that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)requires that, “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability todesign and conduct experiments”1. Given the number of experiments conducted throughout their undergraduate studies, moststudents that have graduated are well prepared to conduct an experiment that has an establishedset of experimental procedures. Unfortunately, students are not nearly as well prepared to designexperimental procedures. Occasionally, laboratory exercises require students to developexperimental procedures. But even this requirement fails to satisfy the criterion set forth

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

characterized; then a detailed specification of programrequirements follows. The flexibility of the system of study is emphasized, as well as theadaptability of the program in biomedical engineering to the changing extra-academicenvironment. Conclusions are drawn from the program-related experience acquired in the 90s.1. IntroductionThe program of study in biomedical engineering has been offered – under varying names – at theFaculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, since1951. Fifty years ago, it was probably the first such a program in Europe and – maybe – in theworld. At the very beginning it was called Medical Electrotechnics, but very quickly – due tospectacular developments in nuclear science – it was

Conference Session

Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lee

permeating the future professionalpractice of engineering. Defining and achieving desired objectives in humanities education isformidable for undergraduate students in general. At one extreme, there are so-calledtraditionalists who hold the position that all “educated” individuals should demonstrate a masteryof specified topics (for example, Greek classics), with the topics more or less representing theentire history of western civilization. Examples of adherents of this position are Allen Bloomand Ed Hirsch, academics who have authored the controversial books The Closing of theAmerican Mind 1 and Cultural Literacy 2 respectively. Traditionalist curriculums tend to be veryhomogenous, with minimum flexibility regarding course selection. Taking an

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

science, such as vectors, forces, dynamics, stress, and strain. The focus areasfor the program, in the junior and senior years, are telecommunications and computersystems. Once these areas have been fully developed by May 2003, a control systemstrack is planned. Students have the flexibility to take several junior and senior levelelective courses to either broaden their exposure or to attain depth in a specific area.Systems engineering is an emerging discipline with international significance. 1 Systemsengineers must not only design complex systems, they must also deploy and managethese systems throughout the global community.Hendrix College has a program in which students can complete three years towards a BSin Physics at Hendrix and undertake

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

sixteen credit hoursengineering design requirement. However, educators as well as industry leaders preferredinnovative programs that are consistent with the mission of the institution. Therefore, in 1992ABET invited leaders from industry, academe, and the engineering professional societies toreview the accreditation process and to help outline a “quality-oriented, flexible accreditationsystem that encourages diversity and does not inhibit innovations in engineering educations.” [1].At the 1994 Engineering Accreditation Commission(EAC)Winter meeting, it was votedunanimously to change and start with a “clean page” [2]. In July1997, the EAC approved therevised program criteria that was developed by many technical engineering societies. InNovember

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Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

commercialization. IC2 also manages the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). ATI has received the Justin Morrill Award from the Technology Transfer Society and the Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year Award from the National Business Incubation Association. 1 ______________________The three semester-credit hour graduate level course is listed in four colleges(engineering, business, natural sciences, and law) and provide an opportunity for studentsfrom all four academic programs to work with student colleagues who have significantlydifferent academic backgrounds (and perspectives) than themselves. The course focuseson activities involved in

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education *This work has been supported in part by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Page 7.440.1 and was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Grant # IIS-9615688,.1. IntroductionIn today's marketplace there is an urgent need for innovative “out-of-the-box” thinkers andapproaches. In many courses students are not being encouraged to think out-of

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Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

Session 2139 Didactic Dimensions of the Future Total Worth Model John H. Ristroph, Ph.D., P.E. University of Louisiana at Lafayette AbstractThe future total worth (FTW) model [1] offers a new method for teaching engineering econo m-ics. It is easy to integrate into existing syllabi, and it provides the theoretical foundation for in-structors to address commonly occurring, practical questions such as: 1. Why is the minimum attractive rate of return (MARR) used to compute present worth (PW) and equivalent annual

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

exploration that improves self-esteem andencourages questioning and daring. The Eight-Dimensional Methodology has been recentlyevaluated with encouraging results. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education* This work has been supported in part by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), and Page 7.466.1was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Information, Robotics andIntelligent Systems, Grant # IIS-9615688,.1. IntroductionA

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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Consi

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The web site of the week highlights a site that is either technically relevant to the topic of theday, or it is a site which covers a major aspect of ocean engineering (Appendix 1). Often bothgoals could be combined with the same site. For example, the NOAA El Niño site was chosen asa prelude to a lecture on sensors because of its extensive discussion of the TAO array of data-acquisition buoys. This site is also a window into the many of ocean engineering-relatedactivities carried out by NOAA. After the web site presentation there is a short, 15 minutes or so,lecture on the engineering topic at hand. For example, a brief discussion of Bernoulli’s principleand its relation to propeller

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yves Van Hoenacker; Philippe Micheau; Patrik Doucet; Patrice Masson; Jean Lapointe; Aymeric Kron

pill counterdesigned by the students as an example. In addition to the Mechatronics and the System andProduct Design courses, the scope of this Educational Improvement Project extends to aComputer Programming course and a Project Management course. This paper shows the extentof the changes which are to be brought to all these courses.The Sherbrooke Mechanical Engineering CurriculumCompetency development and integration are the key words of the new Mechanical Engineeringcurriculum. As shown in Figure 1, design projects are used to carry out the overall integration ofdifferent competencies along two thrusts: 1) vertical integration with specific semester-basedprojects for the first four terms of the program, 2) horizontal integration with

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

Session 2793 Thinking about the Scheduling of the Introduction to Engineering Syllabus: Using a Just-in-Time Approach Matthew W. Ohland, Benjamin L. Sill, Elizabeth R. Crockett General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractThe Introduction to Engineering course at Clemson (1 semester hour) has undergone significantchange in the past year to become Introduction to Engineering and Science. This paper describeshow this significant change was managed in terms of the course schedule. The timing of variouscourse components was carefully planned for maximum effectiveness. A

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Collins; Matthew Ohland

. This paper will briefly describe the larger project, which will study a variety ofapproaches to improving the success of freshman engineering students, and specifically report onthe catalog and meta-analysis of summer bridge programs. The catalog will classify programs bytheir design options and the meta-analysis will review highlights of assessment results drawinggeneralizations where possible.IntroductionAcross the country, there is an extensive base of experience in the design and implementation ofprograms intended to improve the success of first-year engineering students. Significantresources have been spent to identify best practices in the education of first-year students (ingeneral), including entire organizations and conferences. 1 It

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

includes experiments related to refrigeration,heat exchangers, thermal conduction, transient heat transfer, internal combustion engines,combustion and emission controls for boilers, linear vibrations, dynamics balancing of rotatingshafts, kinematics of motion for piston-cams, and spring dynamics. The design project is anincubator for developing similar modern lab systems for other programs in the College ofEngineering. Some of the new labs are operated ON-LINE using the Internet to demonstrate thefull capabilities of modern computer based experimentation. LabVIEW is used for dataacquisition, analysis, presentation, and control. The paper will describe (1) new curriculumconsiderations, (2) modern laboratory features used including running ON-LINE

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

theremaining 15% rated it as “Good”.Parents welcomed both the opportunity for their children to learn more about engineering and theoffering of a day camp for middle school aged children. All parents reported their childrentalking about camp in a positive way each evening at home. When asked to rate, on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest, their interpretation of how much their kids enjoyed the camp, theaverage rating was 4.93. Many added relevant comments, such as: · “She wished it was longer than one week” · “Each day she tells me about the different activities…it was really cool” · “They made airplanes and he demonstrated his inaugural flight for the family” · “He has told us how cool it was and how much he liked his