Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

at the end of the fallsemester. There was a positive, significant difference in how the students interacted with thefaculty and graduate teaching assistants, interacted with their team members, their study habitsand in their confidence and determination to become an engineer. This demonstrates the sense of Page 7.120.9community for all students. Impressed with comments from faculty and students alike, the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcollege, in fall 2001, placed a peer

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

learning experience and reduce the learning curve. With this in mind the faculty inelectrical and computer engineering program (ECE) decided to thread DSP projects from the 5thsemester to the 8th semester, requiring more rigorous experiments as students progress. Toachieve this goal the ECE faculty has endeavored to introduce several platforms throughout theprogram so that students are well acquainted with software such as C++, MATLAB, andHyperception. We feel that visualizing convolution, correlation, filter responses, FFT’s andother DSP topics substantially enhances understanding of course material. An abbreviatedcourse sequence is illustrated below: 5th semester 6th semester 7th semester 8th semester

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

Collection

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

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

activities to meet multiple objectives. The Fall Termresearch project would provide background and training to prepare the students for the 2ndAnnual Sustainability Conference the following spring.The Project Team agreed that the overall theme of the library research project for the fall termshould focus on the student’s exploration of an area of engineering that interested them.Frequently, incoming freshman have misconceptions about what engineers really do and howvaried engineering careers can be. Research into the realities of engineering careers at this earlystage would help students make informed decisions about their educational goals. The advisingpremise is that this clarity of purpose would promote motivation and commitment to theengineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

implement and maintain a closed-loop, continuous improvement system [1]. As part of that system, faculty must demonstrate thatthe program’s graduates have, in fact, acquired certain knowledge and skills including aminimum set of eleven outcomes. In addition, the system must be flexible enough to allow forthe continuous identification of areas for improvement and the ability to measure resultantimprovements. Understanding the direct and indirect relationships among student attributes andoutcomes is crucial because such knowledge can provide the foundation for continuousimprovement in engineering education and a key to realizing the promise of the new ABETcriteria. Industrial engineering departments possess and teach many of the skills necessary to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

constructing robots). The role ofevaluation and communication are stressed. The course provides an important overview andhands- on experience normally not available to engineering students until their senior designcourse.BackgroundManaging Creativity is a concept developed based on the author’s 35 years of experience in avariety of creative enterprises, including management of NASA’s $150M per year MarsExploration Program and of the Pathfinder microrover, Sojourner Truth, which roamed Mars in1997. In 1997 and 1998 the author and a collaborator (Alice M. Fairhurst, a counselingpsychologist with expertise in personality type), developed a short course in how to managecreativity for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The course

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

total delay time between a user’s action andthe system response. Latency must be below human perceptual thresholds to create acomfortable virtual environment. Other considerations for wireless design in virtualenvironments are: complete coverage of the interaction space, no interference with other wirelessdevices, the data rates between the user and the system, and low-power requirements. Thecurrent project team includes four faculty members, three graduate students and twoundergraduate students.First Year AccomplishmentsIn the first year of this project, new laboratory experiments were added to existing courses incommunications to enforce the concepts of hardware/software co-design and human factorsissues. One example of these first

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

researchplans, time to plan and conduct a staff development workshop, and time to attend extra meetingsat Georgia Tech. Many of these teachers were the primary faculty in their buildings called on byprincipals to take responsibility for extracurricular activities, including sponsoring clubs,coaching, writing grants and planning programs for students. This was the personal quality thatmade them sign up for an extensive summer workshop in the first place. However once school Page 7.586.10started back, they had very little time to complete their SummerScape action plans. Several of Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education