Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

, will be turned into a blueprint for certain segments of the city (time constraints prevent the design of an entire city). Design tasks include all facets of the traditional civil engineering program, such as site planning and layout, sewer and water infrastructure, water supply, wastewater treatment, buildings, transportation systems, channel design, floodplain analysis, and geotechnical work. A common, four-year design project unifies the Page 7.584.1 curriculum and allows material learned in early courses to carry forward, unlike the “traditional” paradigm wherein courses frequently stand as

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Pearlman; Kimberly Turner

Microelectromechanical accelerometers and tilt sensors which demonstrate concepts offorce and acceleration. The test experiments involve MEMS accelerometers, Game Boy, remotecontrolled or LEGO vehicles, and personal computers to allow students a hands-on approach tothese concepts. Handouts involving the workings of the MEMS (tiny accelerometers made ofSilicon) and SEM photos of the structures themselves are provided, along with a large-scaleplexiglass model of the MEMS sensor, so that students can see how the MEMS sensors work.The experiments have been tested with high-school students enrolled in a summer researchprogram at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and plans are in place to test theexperiments with younger students (8th grade) as well. The

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Qianjin Yue; Peifung Guo; Hung Tao Shen; Hayley Shen

in the training between students from the U.S. andfrom China. This paper will review the development, planning, organization, implementation,and results of the program.Program Development Page 7.1190.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe National Science Foundation has a long history of supporting domestic REU (Research forUndergraduates) programs. With the increasingly global nature of scientific and technologicalenterprise it is critically important to develop international experience

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Morton; John Gassert; Douglas Troy; Osama Ettouney

with no knowledge of a component’s internal design andimplementation can construct complex software systems by assembling software componentsthrough the use of visual design tools. Such characteristics make the component-basedarchitecture an excellent choice for developing flexible control software for manufacturingsystems3,4,5. Using the component-based approach, a set of generic software components can becreated and stored in a component library. The desired system can be assembled usingappropriately configured software components. Simulated components can be used in place of Page 7.651.1“real” components for testing and planning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Smaili

exhibit creative thinking, beyond classroom examples.• Students are able demonstrate the planning of the entire development cycle of a specific product from the statement of need to up to a finished product from a manufacturing process.• When engaged in a team activity with assigned responsibility, students are able to effectively organize the processes of the group and play different roles within the team, especially a leadership role.Infrastructure in Support of Needed ExperienceToward achieving the aforementioned goals and objectives the ME curriculum at the AUB hasbegun to address the need of their graduates for mechatronics experience through theestablishment of the Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory (MIML) and

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

Construction (CIC) became popular to integrate themanagement, planning, design, construction and operation of constructed facilities (Sanvido andMediiros, 1990). Jung and Gibson 1999 identified fourteen construction business functions thatmay be integrated using CIC (Jung and Gibson, 1999). A literature review of identifying Page 7.760.1multimedia educational experiences and computer applications in engineering and construction Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationprograms was conducted to obtain a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Cliff Grigg; Zachariah Chambers; Richard Layton

taken to date and our presentplans. We begin with some background information, follow with course and curriculum designconsiderations, and conclude with our plans for assessment. Page 7.459.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationII. BackgroundTwo of the authors (EW and CG), not being satisfied with the observed outcomes in this servicecourse, surveyed faculty in the mechanical department with the object of obtaining suggestionsfor improvement. The conclusions drawn were that

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationnegative factor being workload, which students rate at 7.9 on a 10-point scale (5 = “OK”).Students clearly enjoy the design and build aspects of the course, but find the workload overlystrenuous relative to their other courses.Student Group Interview Feedback Session — In addition to the standard FCQ, a third partyconducts a class interview to solicit in-depth course feedback7 . Suggestions for improvementfrom each semester are carefully evaluated when planning the next course offering. The majorityof the students agree that the course’s strengths are:• Combining engineering and business principles• Experiencing the hands-on

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elhag Shaban

familiar and work with engineering teams on practical projects. The capstonedesign project is a culmination of sequence of engineering courses, experimentallaboratories, summer jobs, co-op experience, team work, planning, oral and writtencommunication, applications of engineering standards, recognition of the contribution ofothers, respect to the environment, and the impact on the local economy. The majority ofthese objectives cannot be taught in a single course in the curriculum. ABET requires thatthe graduates and the capstone design should be able to demonstrate all of the aboveobjectives. The objectives and outcomes of the capstone design should be assessed andmeasured by the instructor and the results must be demonstrated to improve the

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

visualization modules and further isolate the modules’ pedagogical effect. To doso, follow-on research was conducted using the same process, visually reinforcing the sameengineering concepts but altering the visualization modules and assessment plan. It washypothesized that the students’ negative response to the multi-media presentations in 1999 wasdue to three main factors: 1) the students were not aware that concepts presented were testable,2) the visualizations involved too much detail on the finite element method (FEM) and 3) thestudents mimicked the negative perception from one professor. Therefore, the fall 2000 workreflects data resulting from three changes to the fall 1999 experiment: 1) the professor who had anegative perception of the

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

rather than just find an empty classroom to read or do homework problems between classes. Students need to unravel the myth that they need to study to 3am in order to be successful in engineering by instead learning how to use their time throughout the day efficiently and to plan for upcoming events. Creating a ‘master schedule’ and from it each week a ‘weekly schedule’ helps students begin to manage their free time and to plan appropriately when projects and exams get assigned. [Comment: in recent years successful students seem to be using a monthly planner to keep track of their commitments.]· SQ3R Textbook Reading Method: A method that forces the student to actively engage the material being read

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

forensics scenario about Alexi Romanov: Your task today is to generate a plan for how to determine whether these remains are those of Alexi Romanov. Students were asked to respond to the following questions: (1) What can you test? (2) What samples would you hope to obtain and from whom? (3) What kinds of target genes would you use? (4) What kinds of results would be definitive or inconclusive, and (5) Analyze your plan for feasibility and reliability.Using Course Evaluation to Inform Course ImprovementFive students enrolled in the Spring 2001 pilot, four senior Chemical Engineering students andone junior Civil and Environmental Engineering student. Results from the pre-test surveyindicate

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert B. Stone; Nancy Hubing

acceptable for a problem to have more than one answer and to explore creative solutions. Weaddress these issues through team activities and hands-on creativity exercises, which arediscussed in later sections. The six topic areas we cover are listed below in Fig. 1 and a samplesyllabus is included in Fig. 2. Topic 1: Engineering design as a process: Types of design: original, parametric, redesign, reverse engineering; Team work, creativity; Simple design examples. Topic 2: Problem/project clarification and specification: Project timeline planning; Gathering customer needs; Transforming needs to engineering specifications; Benchmarking. Topic 3: Functional

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wenjuan Lu; Mahala Shillingford; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Guangming Chen

if no redevelopment is implemented. Thus, it is important for the community tomake a strategic plan of attracting more business and population back to the community, througha better utilization of the idle land under the Brownfield site redevelopment scheme. Statisticalanalysis is applied in the assessment. The results will be used for the baseline studies for futureBrownfield redevelopment.Introduction:Morgan State University (MSU) is one of the one hundred and fourteen (114) historically blackcolleges and Universities (HBCU) in the country. It is the designated urban university inMaryland charged with the mission of providing a comprehensive array of programs and servicesto the citizens and organizations of the Baltimore metropolitan area

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

have been established, it is possible to detect and identify problems, deficienciesand possible areas, tasks or processes suitable for improvement. Performance measurement alsoenables the determination of the problems’ magnitude. Unfortunately, establishing indicatorsalone in not sufficient. Measurement also requires a basis of comparison to judge the currentperformance levels against the levels intended. This practice allows management andadministrative units to identify and implement corrective actions in order to obtain the level ofoptimization and improvement needed.Additionally, indicators are not only used to measure performance, they also can be to utilized tomeasure impact 1. Impact indicators can confirm that some plan or action has

Conference Session

Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

students have worked with the Mt. Dioxincase that was developed through this project. This case raises a series of difficult ethicalproblems. For example, an EPA official is pressured to approve a soil excavation plan before allthe data from soil sampling studies has been compiled. The authors also include exercises thatemploy concepts in engineering and mathematics such as the following: What would be the liftforce acting on a vinyl tarp used to cover stockpiled contaminated soil under certainenvironmental conditions such as high wind velocity? 6 The ethical issues raised by Mt. Dioxincall for the use of technical knowledge and skill in designing and implementing effectivesolutions.The point of both of these examples is that it is not necessary

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

pursue their careers, while an “overwhelming majority” plan to seek the same careerregardless of the educational requirements. 37 Quite simply, students will go to school for aprofession that they perceive as having value.From this data, it would appear that increased education does not diminish appeal to prospectivestudents. For civil engineering this is good news: prospective students would not necessarilyview an increase in the length of education as an obstacle. Also encouraging is the informationpresented in Columns 2 and 3 of Table 1. According to the AICPA survey, engineering is aprofession about which students have a high opinion. 37 Unfortunately, engineering is notgenerally perceived as a profession worth pursuing by a majority of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

database or remote network devices, such as motor controllers. · Add an advanced PLC course as an elective.Changes Planned at Penn State AltoonaThe Automation Laboratory at Penn State Altoona will add the following technologies tobring the laboratory experience closer to current industrial practices. · A student station with a PLC with Controllogix will be added that controls a pneumatic robot using Devicenet capable sensors. Student groups will be rotated through the station so they get experience working with Controllogix programming and systems with Devicenet capability. · A student station will be added that uses a PLC to control two remote ac motors over either an Ethernet or proprietary type LAN network

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Voon; F.C. Lai; Chean Chin Ngo

experiment, students are asked to measure the particle-laden jet velocityin a quiescent water tank. They can direct the laser beam to some specified locations andmeasure the jet velocity at those points. The measured value will be displayed on the screen andthe results are presented in a graphic format (Figure 7).LDV is just one of the possible equipment that can be introduced through “Virtual Lab.” Otherequipment such as Schlieren and interferometer will also be included in the library of “VirtualLab” in the near future. With well-planned collaboration, “Virtual Lab” not only can betterutilize the resources available within one university, but also share those in other universities,national labs, and government agencies. It is our objective to

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

Annual Conference, 2001.16. Nelson, D. H., “Applied Manufacturing Process Planning: With Emphasis on Metal Forming and Machining,” Prentice Hall, 2001.17. Ahmadian, M.H., “A Senior Seminar Course for Engineering Technology Outcomes Page 7.675.5“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Assessment,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2001.18. Pike, M., “Capstone Design Courses: A Comparison of Course Formats,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2000.BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHORSEce Yaprak: Ece Yaprak

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wood

to be competent in a more narrowly focuseddiscipline or workplace skill. In today's new manufacturing environment, the role of theengineering technology technician is expanding to include competencies such as teaming,problem solving, effective communications, planning and prioritizing, time management, andgood work ethics. 1 It has been reported that the problem-based learning (PBL) approach willaccomplish the goals of preparing graduates for this new workplace. 2, 3The South Carolina Advanced Technological Education (SC ATE) Center of Excellence has Page 7.1269.1addressed the demand for such a technician by restructuring the entry-level

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven LeBlanc

essential thatdocumentation be kept about what was discussed, what was changed, why it was changed, andhow the constituents were involved in the change process. One interesting assessment tool that Iobserved on a visit was the use of Course Summaries. At the end of each term, each facultymember prepares a Course Summary for the course(s) they have just completed teaching. In thesummary, they addressed things that went well in the course, things that didn’t go as planned andthat they would change the next time, as well as any deficiencies noted in the students'preparation from the prerequisite courses that feed into their particular course. These summaries

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

well as business enterprise issues, beyond technology, which ultimatelydriving product design decisions.These aspects of design were considered in the original planning and implementation of the 3-semester-hour course [2], formally titled ‘Aluminum Based Product Design and Manufacturing.’This has been offered annually since 1995 to entering graduate students and to senior mechanicalengineering students as a technical elective. Owing to the applied nature of the course and theoffering of a fresh industry-generated project each time, the course has been popular especiallywith students that are looking for learning experiences with industrial relevance. This typicallyincludes graduating seniors and graduate students that have gone directly to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

Engineering Education Annual Conference © 2002 ASEEThird, the instructor grades the file.Grader4 checks both the absolute answer against a key, and also investigates the integrity of thelogical model underlying the solution. In this case, Grader4 has determined that both the answerand model for the annual payments are “OK.” However, it has detected that the answer and modelare “Suspect” for the other plan. The error in the model logic is reported in termsof the data itemsthat appear to be handled improperly. Here, the “P” and “i%” values are both “Suspect.” Thisindicates that the incorrect expression (or series of expressions) use these two data items. Otherpossible reported errors include “Missing effect” and “Unexpected effect.”Grader4 also

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zachariah Chambers; Clark Merkel

pitfalls for projects with students at this level of development is that they tendto get focused on planning and building on one idea too quickly. They don’t alwaysexplore other options thoroughly and seem to be more interested in the hands-on buildingof the project rather than on the modeling and analysis of it. It's as if the building of theproject is an end in itself. This type of behavior underplays the more important role ofthe design steps in the project. After all, the design process is the real reason we aredoing the project in the first place.One reason to expand a regular design project to a competitive poster project is to putmore of the focus back on the design process. By incorporating the poster presentation asa well-defined and

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Paradis

Education, Halifax, Nova Scotia : Dalhousie University, 1998, p. 633-640 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.107.7 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationJEAN PARADISAfter a career in the construction industry as a project manager and estimator, Jean Paradis is now a projectmanagement professor in the construction engineering department of l’École de technologie supérieure del’Université du Québec. He teaches courses in planning and control, estimating and project management. His mainresearch interests are in the use of the

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Alfred Soboyejo; Robert J. Gustafson

stay technically andprofessional current.References1. Gustafson, R. & Merrill, J. 2000. Developing an Outcomes Assessment Survey for Seniors, Alumni and Managers/Supervisors. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 18-21, St. Louis, MO.2. Gustafson, R., Castro, J. & Hussen, P. 2001. Alumni Perceptions of the Graduate Needs in Business and Finance. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 24-27, Albuquerque, NM.3. Soboyejo, A.B.O. 2001. “Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Analysis, Planning and Design” Teaching Manual, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.4. Soboyejo, A.B.O. & Gustafson, R. J. 2002. Statistical Modeling of Data from Lifelong Learning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkataramanan Mandakolathur; Malur Srinivasan

graduate research carried out by the second author under thesupervision of the primary author. Two undergraduate students observed the research work atregular intervals and gained valuable information on nanostructured ceramics and theirprocessing for the preservation of the fine-scale structure. The primary author teaches bothsenior-level undergraduate and graduate courses in materials science and plans to include thetopic of this research in the updated versions of the courses.Bibliographic Information: 1. G.E. Korth and R.L. Williams, “Dynamic consolidation of metastable nanocrystalline powders”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, vol. 26A, 1995, p.2571 2. M. Greneche, “Interfaces, surfaces and grain boundaries in

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christe

available on campus. Each category receives a total score and an overall scoreis obtained using all responses (un-weighted). Departments receive these scores and faculty maybe ranked within the department using the sub scores or the overall score. Dossiers also mustcontain the score for each course taught for the previous three years.III. Development of Meaningful StatementsAs an instructor of Internet based courses, delivered asynchronously, several problems quicklyemerged. The first challenge: how to get the forms to the students? The traditional form was notavailable electronically and so it was decided to mail the surveys to the students. Dismal returnrates indicated this plan would not work.The second challenge was not nearly as

Conference Session

Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth

first and second year women students is planned forspring 2002.It is important to reinforce that the FLRR position is to serve as a coordinator and a facilitator.The FLRR maintains a full teaching load and a research program and is not responsible fororganizing recruitment or retention activities. It is easy for the FLRR to become involved inthese activities (beyond the requirements of the position) and this tendency must be steadilyresisted by the FLRR. Also, the FLRR is a member of an engineering department, and it ispossible that there may be issues related to faculty or students in which the FLRR mustcircumvent his/her department head to achieve a successful resolution to the problem. Thedepartment head must be aware of the requirements and