Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

will value the material being presented by linking what would otherwise be disjointed pieces of information;(iii) helps establish increased relevance between the material being studied and student’s perception of his career needs; and(iv) aids in increasing students grasp and retention of new material.Clearly, a paradigm shift is taking place in the academic arena in which the focus is movingaway from faculty and their teaching towards students and their learning.Other Factors: The advantages of curricular reform based on an integrated model are quiteevident as has been discussed. However, to carry out the change and execute intended reform isanother matter all together. Let us not forget that if execution is not carried out

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

Strategy. Washington, D.C., 199719. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology , Engineering Criteria 2000, Baltimore, 1996.Wendell Chris King, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, Colonel King is a career Army officer currently serving as Professor andHead of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. Hecompleted his B.S. in chemical engineering and M.S. in Civil Engineering at Tennessee Technological University,and Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee. Page 7.454.12Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Osborne; Bill Carroll

often not a practical option.Program DescriptionThe CS/EE Online Program is comprised of three degree options. Based on past experience andcurrent career goals, a student can select which of the three will best serve his/her educationalneeds. Choices include master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, orComputer Science and Engineering. To emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of this program,students in one department will be required to take at least two major courses from the otherdepartment. All three degrees are conferred with the Graduate Telecommunications EngineeringCertificate. Entrance requirements for the online programs are the same as for traditionalcampus-based programs. Degree requirements are summarized in

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

expressed enthusiasm for the technique not only asa means to seeing their own intellectual growth but also as an instructional tool that“hooks things up,” in the next study we examine concept mapping as an innovative formof instruction.Study 3MethodsStudy 3 has not yet been completed. All students (n = 61) currently enrolled in thetraditionally taught yearlong design course are serving as a control group. Next year, theinstructor will use concept mapping as an instructional tool (i.e., advance organizer).These two groups, Traditional and Innovative, will be compared in terms of theirperformance on parallel exams, course evaluations, and measures of intrinsic motivation,study strategies, and career goals and preferences. To control for pre-existing

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

Page 7.1199.2their careers after graduation. The models in the VIS must be designed so that they are Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationconfigurable, to enable exploration of data and experimentation with alternative solutions.Finally, our goal is to facilitate active learning and motivate the learning of methodology throughcase study problems.A specific learning system within the VIS is organized into what we call a course module, whichis a set of curriculum materials and computational models that can be used by an instructor, forexample, as an on-line lab assignment. A course module focuses on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

student who plans to continue a career in the development ofvirtual reality applications. Since the user is the central component of a VR system, the softwareneeds to respond to that user within very demanding time frames. The development of such anenvironment requires very different program design and implementation techniques than, forexample, a database management environment.In this course students will use the VR Juggler software system as the case study for a time-critical framework for virtual reality (www.vrjuggler.org). Class exercises will involvedeveloping small projects with VR Juggler, expanding VR Juggler to add new devices ordisplays, and modify this framework to accommodate some user requirement not supported bythe current

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

make this charge. “[W]henthe contractors told the White House about the problem, they were threatened, warned not todiscuss it,” she wrote in a declaration. “They were told the documents were classified” [1, 2,15].At the Congressional hearings, employees told of being summoned to a meeting in June 1998after Salim reported the problem to her boss [3]. Salim and four other Northrop Grummancontractors were called into the office of Laura Crabtree, who was a branch chief for computersupport in the White House, and a career civil servant [7]. Mark Lindsay, counsel for the WhiteHouse Office of Administration, was present by speakerphone. Three of those employees,Robert Haas, Betty Lambuth, and Sandra Golas, testified that Lindsay told them to fix

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk

Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2238teach them. Therefore we have designed our curriculum to provide many and varied speakingopportunities for students. These start in the freshman year and continuing through the senioryear.Mechanical Engineering students make a number of formal and informal oral presentationsduring their career at Union College. By design, these presentations tend to be short and focusedin the freshman year and they become more open ended and of longer duration by the senioryear. A number of oral presentations are required as part of a course

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Hadim; Sven Esche

Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdesigned to address a set of engineering competencies as indicated in the course objectives aswell as the overall curriculum objectives which reflect a set of competencies that the graduatingengineers are expected to acquire for a successful entry into their professional careers. Thesecompetencies are achieved through hands-on collaborative project work.The project was related to the design and analysis of a tower crane used for lifting constructionmaterial into tall buildings (Figure 1). In the first part of the project, the students were guidedthrough a set of sample design calculations on an existing design. In the second part, they wereasked to develop their own design as an improvement

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

. Based on the overall analysis of responses to the surveys, we believe the programwas successful in meeting most of the project objectives outlined for students andteachers. These surveys indicated that the students were developing their problemsolving and cognitive skills, learning programming skills, teamwork skills, and, for themost part, improving their perceptions and attitudes towards careers in science andengineering. However, while we were successful in achieving most of our objectives,problems were encountered that required modifications in our plan of operation. Thelogistics of the implementation had to be modified to fit within the operations of theNewark Public Schools. In the original plan, there was to be a “lecture” by one of

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

engineering design techniques andproviding them with the necessary foundation for their careers as technicalcommunicators. In order to achieve both of these key goals and to meet university-widegeneral requirements, Sophomore Engineering Clinics are team-taught by faculty fromthe College of Engineering and the College of Communication.Conceptual Underpinning of the StudyConsidering functions of writing beyond reporting is something of a challenge. It isrelatively easy to assess how clearly a piece of writing communicates findings.Discerning other functions is more difficult, and formal definitions and theories o f thosefunctions are few and far between.Invention will refer here to the use of writing to create knowledge. In compositiontheory

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

Northeastern University, students are given a limited opportunity to gain real worldexperience while still in college through a co-operative education program. The coopexperience reinforces the learning experience and allows the student to focus on non-classroom aspects of a potential permanent career. The cooperative education programalso gives students an opportunity to expand education through an experience in a realcompany. The co-op student is treated like a member of the staff and althoughinvolvement with key company decisions and actions varies by company, the experienceusually includes a healthy mix of tasks. Although this is a valuable learning experience, itlacks depth, is limited in responsibility and generally uses the student in only a

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

actual problems. The place that thesetwo aspects of the syllabus come together is in the engineering laboratory. It is here that thestudent is presented with a concrete problem to be solved, and they learn to apply the lessons ofthe classroom. The larger goal is to prepare the graduate to enter today’s engineering professionwith not only the proper problem-solving strategies and skills, but also to have gained experiencethat can be directly transferred to the needs of the contemporary career. This means exposure tothe latest technologies and an understanding of their concepts and applications. Perhaps the most significant aspect of engineering practice in the last decades has beenthe impact of computer technology in practically every

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Goodwine; Steven Skaar; Robert Nelson; Mihir Sen; James Mason; Stephen Batill

theirMechanical Engineering degree with course content in Business may opt to take one ortwo of their five Technical Electives with two business-related courses newly offered bythe College of Engineering. The first of these provides a foundation in financial, human-resources, supply-chain, organizational and innovation aspects of the modern corporationthat are pertinent to the career of a new engineering employee. The second course goesinto more depth on these matters, and also touches on issues pertaining toentrepreneurship and business plans. Developing an understanding of how engineeringactivities fit into the broader social and business context is a complement to thiscurriculum initiative

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Hensley; Marjorie Donovan; Christopher Ibeh; James Otter

forconsideration.Ethics and Life-Long LearningEthics is a key component of epistecybernetics and CUES-AM. The idea is to instill inCUES-AM users the need for: (a). professionalism and integrity in ones job responsibilities, (b). life-long learning and knowledge of code of ethics, (c). understanding the ramifications of engineering, scientific and technologicalinnovations on society and the environment, (d). effective communication skills with emphases on report writing,presentations and collaborative team activities, (e). community service and awareness, and (f). developing the ability to handle work and career-related ethical issues.The current plan is to include ethics instruction in CUES-AM workshops, and will

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

2001: 25 A’s, 1 BSince an objective of the class is to retain students capable of handling the rigors of anengineering curriculum a question on the final exam is: “What engineering career (if any) areyou most interested in and why? If you are not sure, which ones are you vacillating between? Ifyou are not interested in engineering anymore, what do you want to major in, and why?” Theresults were: Fall 2000: 19 retained in engineering, 1 transfer to Business, and 1 undecided. Fall 2001: 23 retained in engineering, 1 transfer to English, and 2 undecided.The College of Engineering is currently developing a database to investigate retention issues.Part of this effort will be to follow up with these Honors freshmen to see how many

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

, student advisory boards, exposure toundergraduate research, career fairs, informal talks with other students, research into howcompanies define IEs, talks with recruiters, speakers who come to classes, observations of seniorprojects, emails that describe jobs, postings outside of the IE office. The graduating studentmentions that some outside speakers are invited to classes, such as in the professional practiceand the user interface design courses, and that this is a good way to gain an understanding of thebroad nature of the discipline.At this point, the interview student does not know much about the options available to IEs. Thisstudent says that because IEs do not learn to design but rather they learn the tools they can use todesign, keeping

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

naturally toanybody that is seeking a career in engineering. I think we could learn a lot more if we focused more on theconcepts and how they apply in every-day situations.And from another — I went to a talk about fractals recently, and the visual representations of them--forexample, Koch's snowflake and the Maltese Cross. I think it would be interesting to show an example of this to theengineers in [our class]. It's confusing to explain, but I imagine programming a computer to draw fractals is veryinvolved and applicable to our class--I'm sure there are for and do while loops, or such involved. Also, the finalresults are more interesting than a computer printout of the estimated values of sine between 0 and 90 degrees (nooffense!). Why don't we

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

world; how to give good presentations; and about the dynamics of human resource management.” · “Not only did I learn a lot of information about a wide variety of subjects, but I learned how to solve problems critically and completely.”The impact of the ILTM program on our students while they are at Bucknell is exceptional. Wehope that it is at least equally relevant to their future careers, preparing them to become leadersof institutions that can take advantage of the unprecedented technological, information, andenvironmental changes occurring in the world today, and that also understand the need to actethically and responsibly to sustain a healthy balance between man and his technologies and theglobal environment

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

different personnel in the day-to-day research activities, including a number of post-graduate and under-graduate students.This is to be expected given that one of academia’s key aspirations regarding collaborativeventures is the provision of industrially relevant, “real world” research project s for studentsand the exposure of students to industry in preparation for their future careers. A recentreport by the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) 16 in the US has stated that, for thisreason, “graduate students can enhance or impede a collaboration, but they are almostalways used”. However, given that there is considerable evidence in the literature ofsignificant problems arising from fundamental differences between academia and industry, itseems

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

exposurewill motivate increasingly larger numbers of U.S. students particularly to do an experienceabroad during their undergraduate years. Additionally, as the standards, practices and processes,become more common throughout the world it will make it easier to develop internationalcooperative partnerships, exchange course credits and embark upon distance learning as amodality so as to insure lifelong learning independent of where an individual chooses to pursuetheir career or life. As a result, we see the need for a global experience as early as possible in theeducational program increasing, and the ease with which this can become accomplishedincreasing as well. This hopefully will lead to a time when more then half of the undergraduateengineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Batill

their emerging skill set,resources and schedules, but also one that effectively prepares them for their careers is difficult.Many of the elements of this experiment, as noted in the paper did appear to enhance the learningexperience, whereas some did not. Continued efforts will be made to integrate various disciplineperspectives into the capstone design experience. It is felt that not only will this improve thelearning for the engineering students but also provide the opportunity to introduce the engineer’sviewpoint to students outside the discipline. Some compromise between the two corporatecultures considered herein seems to be best suited for the students at Notre Dame, and this maybe institutionally dependent. Providing freedom that allows

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Appendix 1Program Objective #A : " The electrical engineering curriculum will produce graduates who are prepared for continuing education, professional growth and career advancement."Program Objective #B : " The electrical engineering curriculum will produce graduates who have effective analytical and communications skills."Program Objective #C : " The electrical engineering curriculum will produce graduates who are