Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

favorspresent worth methods as much for their simplicity as for the foundation that PW provides thealternative methods.At an earlier ASEE conference, Hartman 6 spoke of an engineering economy curriculum that isgrowing stagnant. His suggestions to enhance the curriculum included teaching engineeringeconomy in the context of decision analysis and design processes, and also to integrate researchadvances. Nachtmann5 and others suggest that an increased emphasis be placed on case studies.But these are more, not less. While beneficial, such integrations will increase the challenge foreducators to identify and sufficiently cover appropriate topic areas that best serve our students.So, how should we proceed? We can begin by identifying the redundant, the

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

acore curriculum for all cadets that establishes a foundation to leverage in considering social,economic and political dimensions of a problem. All cadets take courses in economics, socialscience, and political science. However, this allows us to work at a higher level of detail, butdoes not mean that others could not introduce and discuss ideas related to social, political, andeconomic principles. As educators, this represents a challenge to many faculty members, takingus out of our comfort zone of science, while requiring us to prepare to teach in different ways.Summary Environmental security is an issue of growing importance in the world, one that shakes atthe foundations of world peace. The best example that can be offered is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leroy Oberto; Sheryl Sorby

according to specifications provided by the instructors. Finally, each stu-dent was directed to develop a teaching unit that integrates some of the concepts of scientificinquiry and application discussed in the course into their 7-12 teaching. This paper describes ourMasters program, provides an outline of the course titled “The Engineering Process,” andpresents results from our first offering of the course.IntroductionThe precollege education system in America is currently under pressure to adopt standards-basedcurricula. Outcome assessment of learning is of paramount importance in this new educationalclimate. Nearly all of the national standards in math, science and technology include standardsrelated to the inclusion of “real-life” applications

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Craddock; Lizette Chevalier

, Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement Program under grant DUE-9952577. Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale College of Engineering, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts and theMaterials Technology Center provide additional support. In addition, a faculty member from theCollege of Education is involved with the assessment of the project. In addition, assessment anddevelopment is supported through an industry partner. It is hoped that the final product will serveas a national model for a diverse range of university environments. Strength of Materials or Mechanics of Materials is a second-semester sophomore or first-semester junior level engineering class, and is required for all civil engineering majors, as well asmost other engineering

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Greitzer; Diane H. Soderholm; David Darmofal; Doris Brodeur

questions have been used to teach andassess conceptual understanding in mathematics and science education. 25-29 Now, thesetools are being applied to humanities and social sciences, and to some extent toengineering education. 30-33Concept maps are useful for identifying and organizing concepts and their relationships toeach other. A concept map is a two-dimensional, hierarchical node-link diagram thatdepicts the structure of knowledge within a scientific discipline as viewed by a student, aninstructor, or an expert in a field. 34 Cornwell has used concept maps for defining bothcourse-level and curriculum-level content in mechanical engineering. 35 He finds thatconcept maps help students establish connections between the various topics and

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke

manufacturing processes that they mightencounter as part of their cooperative work experience. The revision of the curriculum in 2001caused a redesign of the course and added some design experiences to further enhance theeducational process. This paper discusses the development of the new course calledInterdisciplinary Design and Manufacturing and discusses relationship of course coverage to theSME competency gaps. The manufacturing portion describes the lecture topics and laboratoryexperiments that were an integral part of the course. The mechanical and electrical designportions describe the use of commercial toys and a self-designed toy platform that formed thebasis of the new design laboratory portion of the class. It will be demonstrated that it is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jose Fierro; Daniel Grajeda; Steve Stafford; Rosa Gomez

academic needs ofa regional, place-bound population. Our students are also non-traditional from the perspectivethat the majority are ethnic minorities, first in their families to attend college, and balance theiracademic lives with required part-time, and sometimes, full-time employment. With so manyactivities, our students tend to minimize their time on campus, and unfortunately, minimizing theutilization of academic support activities.Research findings support the fact that efforts to foster academic and social integration areespecially important for commuter students [3] . A sense of community plays an important role inretention. Campus integration can be achieved by providing students with an academic andsocial environment that enhances

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dru Germanoski; David Brandes

provide a tutorial for future studentson how to use GIS to extract the watershed parameters needed for hydrologic modeling. Shewill also be presenting her work at the 2002 ASCE conference on Water Resources Planningand Management.Implementation of Curricular ImprovementsThe strength of the project is that local field exercises instill a sense of excitement andenthusiasm for curricular assignments that were formerly merely textbook cases. Thephysical connection to the site ensures that the students will regard their data as having real-world implications, not as cooked-up examples. The geosciences have a long history offieldwork as an integral part of curriculum; however, this has not been the case in the field ofcivil engineering, even in a

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

should be set in such way that permits some degree of imprecision in thework done.Sigma levels of performance are expressed often in Defects per Million Opportunities (DPMO)For “typical” shift of a process mean from a specification for every 100 product units, 93.32 ofthem will have desired characteristics that fall within m 3 σ. This corresponds to approximately66,800 defective units per million of the products for m 3 σ. For the m 6 σ process performancethere is only 3.4 DPMO. However, improvement from a three to a four sigma quality level is notthe same as an improvement from a five to a six sigma quality level. A shift in sigma qualitylevel from five to Six Sigma is a much more difficult improvement effort than a shift in sigmaquality level

Conference Session

Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna

disciplinesin a course on Welding Engineering and Design of Welded Structures by:1. Creating courseware for use at the upper senior level and developing it further by taking advantage of recent innovations in scientific research and instructional technology;2. Laying the foundation for developing a new graduate course that provides for an integration and synthesis of mechanics, materials technology, manufacturing and design;CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTThe new course seeks to emphasize on the relationship between applied mechanics and materialsscience while teaching the science of welding and the total design of welded structures. As willbe evident from the course content, it is an interdisciplinary course covering areas of mechanics,materials science

Conference Session

Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

research and design. The classes at SJSU in this combined department haveconsistently required the integration of comprehensive literature searches into their classprojects. The current curriculum of the College of Engineering has been designed withextensive input from industry and guidance from ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology). This curriculum reflects a strong component of criticalthinking throughout the engineering classes. The program objectives of each departmentcarry out this commitment. Page 7.491.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Saterbak

discussed.Bioengineering Curriculum at Rice UniversityThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in the rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering has the goal of producing a new type ofbiomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecularbiology.1-2 This type of biomedical engineer translates bench-scale scientific advances inbiological sciences into cost-effective new products and processes. New and innovative curriculain lecture and laboratory courses are being developed to educate bioengineers who not onlycreate new tissues and cell-based therapies but also deliver them at a cost

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Duarte; Brian Butz

, 11, and as a dynamic textbook 12. Recently, interactive multimedia have beenintegrated with expert system technology producing intelligent tutoring systems for engineeringstudents 13-16 . These intelligent tutoring systems "learn" about the individual student and cantailor the material to meet the needs and the learning styles appropriate to the individual student.The goal of the Interactive Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring System (IMITS) is to develop anintelligent tutor for an introductory sequence in electrical circuits and systems. The frameworkdeveloped for this system is to be transferable to and used by any discipline, not onlyengineering. The project has as its major goals to:1) Develop and integrate the components necessary to form

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter

Session 1566 A Micro-Controller Based Robotics Course for ME Students Wayne Walter, PhD, P.E. Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623IntroductionFor many years the emphasis of our robotics course has been on projects where students design,build, and test tooling to accompany an industrial robot in a workcell. At the end of a ten-weekquarter, students were expected to demonstrate a working prototype that integrates sensors,actuators, and feeders together

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

." --Mel Collier, International Symposium on Research, Development, and Practice in Digital Libraries 1997AbstractThis paper examines how digital libraries (DL) may be integrated into the learning resources ofengineering students. The advent of digital libraries has opened revolutionary opportunities inengineering education. The diversity of resources offers rich opportunities to enhanceengineering education, providing access to data, codes, problems and information that are farbeyond what each individual teacher has time to develop. However, students are largely unawareof the DL resources, as well as the most efficient manner to utilize them. Learners still require adisciplined study scheme and

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Dixon

its application into real engineering projects [Innovative Design].The first two of the stated objectives were identified as the two most important elements that anemerging engineer needs to know in the National Science Foundation sponsored - AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers’ report, “Integrating the Product Realization Process into theUndergraduate Curriculum.”Issues to be resolved by faculty membersThe faculty members who participate in the multi-disciplinary design activity must be devoted tothis effort and work to overcome the impediments to teaming. The faculty members shouldparticipate in the multi-disciplinary capstone activity because they believe that the studentsreceive benefits that cannot be obtained in a single-discipline

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

: Assessing the Impactof Writing as a Multi-Function Design Tool, outlines a two-year project to developmethods of assessing the effectiveness of engineering students’ use of writing as a designpractice. Engineering educators have long recognized the importance of effective writtencommunication skills, and many programs have incorporated an emphasis on writtencommunication within their curriculums. Indeed, the ABET 2000 criteria not onlyemphasized writing skills but also specifically located responsibility for writinginstruction within the engineering program itself: Competence in written communication in the English language is essential for the engineering graduate. Although specific coursework requirements serve as a foundation for such

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

implementation with integrated circuits, power supply limitations, and physical size constraints will govern which of several proposed systems is an optimum for any particular application.B. Oscillator and Other Transmitter Non-linearities • Inter-modulation and Cross-modulation and noise up-conversion • Receiver Single/Double Conversions versus local oscillator choices • Transmitter noise modulations considerations All physical devices are non-linear. Whether any non-linearity affects a system depends on the system architecture. In this module, the student will consider power dissipation versus Page 7.6.6 Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

tocomplement the existing emphasis on disciplinary depth.To this end, the College of Engineering began efforts to integrate the student-centered activitiesin those parts of the curriculum where they could provide the greatest benefit. The first majoreffort was to restructure the first year curriculum for all students who intend to enter the Collegeof Engineering in their second year. This included the development of a new two-coursesequence entitled “Introduction to Engineering Systems.” (These courses are designated asEG111/112 and will be referred to as such in this paper.) These multidisciplinary coursesintroduce engineering students to the role of engineers in society, and illustrate how engineersdesign systems and solve problems. This is done in

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

captures the degree to which anindividual uses each of four learning patterns. Through these patterns the learner represents howhe or she sees the world, takes in stimuli, integrates the stimuli and formulates a response to it.An individual can begin his or her learning with a particular pattern or patterns, use patterns asneeded, or avoid them. Teams were then created in order to maximize individual and collectiveuse of learning patterns. This paper will report1. The results of the initial study conducted during the Fall 2001 semester.2. An overview of the patterns that resulted from the administration of the LCI to all Freshmen and Sophomore Engineering students at Rowan3. Examples of the patterns of the teams that were assigned (to show how

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

); as an upper-division andgraduate level course (primarily to engineers); as an intensive “Intersession” class (8 day and 10day format); and as a short course for faculty. The class is based on a “creative system”,developed by the author, which codifies the techniques she developed over a 30-year managementcareer. The class builds on the NASA Systems Engineering process, which was developed by ateam, led by the author in the early 1990’s1. Many references (see Bibliography for a sample)were used to support the experienced-based course design. While there are numerous coursesavailable in elements of this class (e.g. senior design classes), to the author’s knowledge there areno other classes which integrate all the pieces into an overall process

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Drake; Mark Driver; Eric Welch

the FFT. Because of the placement of the course in the Page 7.58.4 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"curriculum, most of the students have not been formally introduced to the mathematical basis ofeither the Fourier series or the Fourier transform. Therefore, the experiment is performed usingstandard mathematical software and test cases to insure the students are using the softwareappropriately. Therefore, the first part of each semester's experiment involves plotting an knownsinusoidal

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Infusion of international issues into curriculum at participants’ home institutions Increased collaborative teaching, research, and service activities between Page 7.945.3 US and European engineering educators Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe electronic conferenceGearold Johnson, Academic Vice President of the National Technological University andRussel C. Jones, managing partner in World Expertise LLC, designed an electronicconference that took the form of a

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

© 1991 pp. 662-6646. Palmer M. A., Wnek G. E., Hudson J. B.: New Approaches for an Introductory Materials Science Course; ASEE Materials Division 1998 Conference7. Pollio H.: What Students Think about and Do in College Lecture Classes; Teaching-Learning Issues (53) University of Tennessee Learning Research Center, ©1984 [Referenced from Holou et al: First-Year Integrated Curricula: Design, Alternatives and Examples; Journal of Engineering Education, ©1999 pp. 435-48]8. Eastlake C. N.: Tell Me -I’ll Forget, Show Me - I’ll Remember, Involve Me - I’ll Understand; Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Washington DC, ©1986, pg. 420.9. Bloom B. S. and Krathwohl D. R.: Taxonomy of Educational

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Turner

http://www.utep.edu/green) and student development. The green engineeringbuilding design contest is a student development activity that strengthens the bondbetween our commuter students and the University community that serves them.Figure1. The Green Engineering Building Contest is an example of the activities thattake place in the MIE academic support model.Impact on the design of the Engineering AnnexSince integration of green engineering concepts into the design of the Engineering Annexwas a late addition to the construction project of which the budget, location, space, andbuilding functionality were already defined and approved by the Board of the Universityof Texas System, only designs that would not affect the already defined

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

approach the design was formulated early on. Experimental validation part was interesting and necessary part of the project.” · “I thought when I enrolled in this class I would be learning material that is applicable to the real world. But apparently I was wrong most of the material is geared toward grad work or upper level research. The only practical thing was the project.”Bibliography1. J.D. Lang, S. Cruse, F.D. McVey, J. McMasters, 1999, “Industry expectations of newengineers: a survey to assist curriculum designers,” J. Engng. Education 88:43-51.2. T. Mase, 1997, “Integrating design in advanced mechanics of materials through industrycollaboration,” 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2266, pp. 1-11.3. http

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

: · Gather data in a hands-on experiment. o Experimental design. o Manual and automated controls. o Automated data acquisition. · Observe and model dynamic adsorption behavior: o Non-linear data fitting. o Solute Movement Theory / the Method of Characteristics. o Concentration shock waves. · Graphing data for clarity and to support explanations.Using a mostly identical apparatus, we have modified the lab to include: · Dynamic mass balances. · Numerical integration of data. · Numerical differentiation of data. · Equilibrium adsorption isotherms based on dynamic mass balances. · Equilibrium adsorption isotherms based on the Method of Characteristics. · An open-ended

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

order tomake “thinking visible” as well as to create a sense of community7, 8, 9. For example, selfreflection is a central part of the framework for the Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE)developed by Linn and coworkers10. Students use tools in KIE to provide evidence and structurearguments, and to provide social support for students as they formulate and defend an argument.These tools implicitly promote self-reflection since students are required to organize, represent,and justify their thinking.Self-reflection activities are embedded in SIMALE in a variety of ways. The web-basedcomputer software contains a feature called the ‘share findings page4,5. This page provides aspace for the students to share their discoveries with the class

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

this case is “using feedback”. Feedback can be added to a systemor may be an integral part of it. Examples: Cruise control system of a car uses velocity feedbackto maintain a constant speed. Some eyeglasses adjust to the ambient light by changing the colorof the lenses.a7) Example for the Similarity strategyHow can sunflower seeds be separated from their shell? How can parts wrapped in protectivepaper be unpacked?An inventive (patent-based) solution to both problems is: place some quantity of the product intoa hermetic chamber. Slowly increase the pressure inside the chamber. Then abruptly let thepressure drop. This will result in an explosion that will split the product.a8) Example for the Experimentation strategyThis strategy refers to

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thompson; Craig Somerton

bicycle derailleur.One important aspect of this project was an outreach component to Andrew’s middle schoolhome room. Three times the team made presentations to this class of approximately sixty (60)students. The middle school students were engaged by the team and the project, and evenparticipated in some of the design decisions. Our sense was that this activity showed engineeringin a very positive light to the middle school students and most probably opened many of them upto this as a career opportunity. Furthermore the eclectic nature of the project provided a unifyingtheme woven through the fabric of an apparently unrelated middle-school curriculum. Theeighth graders were provided with a panoramic educational vista. This observation was