Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Zern; Richard Grabiec

) Interviewing (4) Networking (5) Preparation for the “Real World” (6) Lessons LearnedPrompts were planned to be introduced once every three weeks beginning with the weekof the program kick-off dinner. The dinner was held during the eighth week of thesemester on October 16, 2001. This later than anticipated start date of the program onlyallowed for the first two prompts to be introduced before the end of the semester. Thefirst prompt required protégés to submit to the program director (First-Year Seminarinstructor) both their resume` and their mentors’ resume`. The second prompt requiredthe protégé to write a one-page summary of the communication with their mentorincorporating in the paper answers to several questions

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathaniel Allen; Mike Klein; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

. However, a good idea must be economically feasible. For the Stirling engine project,we are constrained by the $50 fee that we assess our students for laboratory courses. If we makefees too high, we discourage students from participation in our curriculum.We began this project by contacting the MIT faculty who developed the project to find thevendors who supply the basic Stirling engine kit and two castings, the engine base and theflywheel, as well as a set of plans for the engine. We ordered a kit3 for $110.00 to build ourprototype but decided to make the engine base from sheet aluminum and the flywheel from brassround stock. The kit assembled easily, and the engine ran with only minor difficulties in theengine timing. We explored several

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Adolphson; Rujin Cheng; Kurt Gramoll

Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Fig. 4. Sample of a Case Study PageCase studies are the final learning method employed (Fig. 4). Case studies are effective becausethey provide actual example of what can be created once the EMET topics are mastered. EMETstaff and School of Engineering faculty developed the initial case studies available on the site. Asthe program matures these case studies are planned to be supplemented/replaced by case studiessubmitted by actual EMET users. The intent is to illustrate how particular computer aidedengineering design and analysis tools could be or are being used to improve or prove engineeringstudents’ design

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Groff; Paul Greger; Kim Groff; Joseph Orlins

requires dams in thishazard category to be inspected every 2 years, and they must have Emergency Action Plans andOperation and Maintenance manuals. The Dam Safety Section of the New Jersey Department ofEnvironmental Protection (NJDEP-DSS) regulates all dams in the state. When dams are not incompliance with the Dam Safety Act, then dam owners may be subject to litigation from thestate Attorney General’s Office. Page 7.22.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Wadsworth Dam

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason White; Hardy Pottinger; Daryl Beetner; Vicki Eller

possible need for Windows users to download andinstall any software.Implementation Implementation of a web seminar requires considerable planning and preparation, asdepicted in the suggested seminar timeline shown in Figure 1. Time must be set aside toadvertise the seminar, to register participants, to provide participants with instructions on how toattend the seminar, to prepare slides, to rehearse for the seminar, and finally to conduct theseminar itself. If possible, first time presenters should begin planning even earlier than shown inFigure 1 to allow time for software training. Page 7.401.5 “Proceedings of the 2002

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel McAdams; Robert B. Stone; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

every aspect of the design, rather than just a component of a largersystem. The students will follow the project all the way from preliminary design concepts toinstallation of the final product into the truck.Mr. Fackrell noted that, “…working personally with the end-user has been very rewarding,especially when that user will gain so much from the project result. We have extra incentive tobuild a device that will serve beyond his expectations for years to come.”7 The incentive andsatisfaction that come to students who are involved in such “human need” projects provideadditional motivation for including such projects in the engineering curriculum.The administrators of the capstone course at BYU plan to continue providing projects thataddress

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

Academy of Engineering. Focus on the future: A national action plan for career-long education for engineers. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Engineering (ERIC Document ED 300251) (1988).20. Baker, M. Sharpening the focus of viewpoints between higher education and employers of the expertise required for contemporary and future technical managers. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 40 (3), 211-223 (1993).21. National Society of Professional Engineers. General characteristics, typical duties and responsibilities of engineers for Levels I – IX. Available WWW: http:www.nspe.org (1999 access date).22. Estrin, T. Educating the engineering manager: The UCLA experience. In, L.P. Grayson & J.M

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

, innovative, etc.) 6) the container(mostly esthetics) and 7) operations manual. The Design Evaluation is worth up to 20points.The next “work session” is free, and the Final Report (worth up to 25 points) is due in thefifteenth week.ObjectivesThe intent of the major project is: · to provide an opportunity to practice design · to provide an early focus on design in the curriculum · to demonstrate aspects of engineering, e.g., team building, planning, scheduling, communicating (orally, written, and pictorially), constructing, and selecting materials, that many in the class have not yet experienced. · to provide an opportunity for a directed, cooperative group activity · to allow students to experience the potential difficulties

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Carpenter; Harvey Smith; Murali Krishnamurthi

andmotivation, reduction of repetition in the curriculum, and the opportunity for a meaningfulframework for learning are some of the benefits that will follow from developing an integratedcurriculum in EMS [5, 10, 15, 29].3. Project MethodologyThe project follows a four-stage methodology: (1) needs analysis, (2) design and development,(3) implementation and evaluation, and (4) dissemination and continuation of effort. During theneeds analysis stage, the project advisory team was convened, scope and requirements of theproject plan were finalized, and the evaluation plan was initiated. In the design and developmentstage, pedagogical techniques for conveying EMS content were identified and the instructionalmodules were designed, with input from the

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hartono Sumali

for a few years, the course is planned to be a required course in the curriculumof Purdue University’s ABE Department. Two major issues related to requiring the course are asfollows. First, building up the laboratory equipment may require a few years’ fundingaccumulation with careful planning. For example, to ensure effective learning the course isconducted so that each student uses one PC with data acquisition hardware and software, a dataaccessory box, and a hands-on course kit for learning data acquisition and graphicalprogramming. Each team of 2 or 3 students use one instrumentation test stand as describedabove. The Department wants to keep its current practice of having faculty members instead ofteaching assistants to run undergraduate

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

teaching pedagogy can be rapidly implemented andProceedings of the 2002 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationimproved. The plan aims at fostering collegiality and providing positive feedback and interactionsbetween the members of the teams, in particular, and all of the faculty in general.The procedure for the evaluation is structured as follows: Self-evaluation. In order to provide the other three members of the group with a basis to provide constructive input, the faculty being evaluated provides a self-evaluation statement which describes his/her objectives for the course, means for assessing the success of the

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Brazel

Semester: Carrying out the Plan With one of the goals of this laboratory being to introduce long-term experiments,students were required to work in the laboratory for extended periods, which is distinctlydifferent from typical undergraduate laboratories, and this laboratory was not listed with specifictimes. Therefore, it was necessary to describe the expectations early in the semester, so that thestudents would ‘buy-in’ to the concept of the laboratory and be able to carry out the experiments.This was done at the beginning of the semester and again as the topics were discussed, so t hatstudent comments such as those described by Sharfstein and Relue 7 that the lab time wasunexpected or inadequate could be avoided.Selection of Teams

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anneliese Watt; Jeff Froyd; Julia Williams

adoptingfor their teaching of design strategies that writing teachers typically use to encouragestudents to craft documents that will meet the audience’s needs effectively. Thesestrategies include an initial analysis of the rhetorical situation (including audience),planning and drafting that takes into account the findings of this analysis, documenttesting, and final revision to ensure audience accommodation.One key to an efficient and effective writing process is learning how to analyze therhetorical situation productively before one even begins drafting a document. Thus, atechnical writing teacher will encourage students to determine their target audience, theirexact subject matter, their purpose, the genre (memo, report, evaluation, etc.) they

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

theyhave not been taught everything, but where they will have enough basic knowledge to learn thespecifics on their own as needed. During the second quarter, the lectures will be less structured,allowing for more time to develop the project and more time to explore topics that ariseunexpectedly during the project work. An outline of topics planned for coverage in IMD II isgiven in Table 2.The first project, design on paper only, is an exercise in following a logical process to learnabout an unfamiliar topic, define goals, develop working design options, and select the best one.This project would be one “sponsored” by an organization in the Rochester community. Sincethere would be no construction, no monetary support was required, but the sponsor

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

development of business plans for SpaceCommercialization around ideas for technology-based startup firms.VI. Usage experience with the Aerospace Digital LibraryThe Aerospace Digital Library (ADL) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)(www.adl.gatech.edu) 23-25 is a learner-centered resource for solving engineering problems acrosslevels and disciplines. ADL was originally inspired by the commissioned papers listed in Wilsonet al 18 as the authors sought ideas to enhance learning by iteratively presenting the same materialin different classes and problems rather than the traditional sequential curriculum. ADL has beenin existence for 3 years. Current usage rate averages several hundred users per day. In March2000, roughly 70% of the usage came from

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barker

subsequently in Red Hat 7.2). Each one is described separately in the followingsections. It is anticipated that webCHARLIE will be released as an open source product in thesummer of 2002 after being used by another teacher this spring.About 500 homework exercises have already been tested in webCHARLIE for two courses,Analytical Methods and Control Systems I, with another 200 exercises in two additional coursesto be transferred from CHARLIE during the Spring 2002 semester. In addition, development ofnew exercises for an electronics course, is also planned. The webCHARLIE homework Page 7.1309.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

’s exercise to the student’s other subjects by asking questions that encourage critical thinking: Example from airplane exercise: how does this exercise relate to math/science/engineering? 5. Students should be assessed formatively, serving to inform future learning experiences · This is more of a curricular planning issue, but it basically supports the idea of taking grades throughout the semester based on actual “hands-on” content knowledge in order to give students some idea of their own levels of learning before a major grading event (midterm, final exam, etc.) 6. Students should be encouraged to become self-regulatory, self-mediated, and self-aware

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

Session # 3425 Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process · information gathering/understand problem/customer needs · problem definition/goals or requirements defined · idea generation/brainstorming/creativity · evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling · decision making/selection/planning · implementation/produce/deliver design to customer · process review & improvement/iteration Knowledge of Effective Teamwork · purpose/goals/focus · team leader or shared leadership · assigned responsibilities/accountability · team attitude/support/commitment · time management/task orientation

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

by simple quantitative analysis is the way to go. · Lab experiments need to be planned carefully such that lectures can be geared towards lab exercises while integrating the basic theory seamlessly. · Hands-on group experience in building and testing application-oriented circuits is the major draw for a course like this. · Integrate as many basic senses (lights, sound, touch, etc.) as possible into the experiments. · Opportunity to use electronic instruments in the lab is a big attraction among students.DON’Ts · Don’t let the lab kits out of the class. Not all students will remember to bring their kits to every class. This also helps in not losing a few kits during the add/drop week. · Don’t plan on students

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Sibert; C. Conley; Allen Estes

experiences require money, time,equipment, materials and planning. They are more effective if they complement thematerial covered in the classroom. This paper describes the laboratory program associatedwith the undergraduate Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures course offered to cadetsat the United States Military Academy.The reinforced concrete course at West Point covers the topics one usually finds at theundergraduate level. These include properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, beamdesign, one-way slab design, bond stresses and development length, serviceabilityrequirements, column design, and footing design. The hands-on laboratory programreinforces many of these topics and allows cadets to decide for themselves the validity ofthe

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Andrew Rose

technical skills. Some feel discussing issues related to biddingand contractors would be helpful.Students were also asked to comment on what ways summer employers can coordinate betterwith the CET department regarding summer jobs and student preparation. Students feltemployers could communicate with the CET department about summer job openings. They alsowould like employers to continue to give presentations in seminar. Students would like to knowmore about the jobs and projects they will work on. They suggest employers provide clearer jobdescriptions and be more specific about the qualifications needed. Some noted they would liketo see the plans of the jobs they are working on. One suggested having both students andemployers fill evaluation forms

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

reactors. Students will collect and analyze kinetic data,obtain values of intrinsic and observed kinetic parameters, and evaluate the performance of im-mobilized enzymes and cells using criteria established for heterogeneous catalyst systems (effec-tiveness factors).Several universities have introduced biochemical engineering courses and laboratories into theirchemical engineering curricula, primarily at the senior level as elective courses. Nam Sun Wangat the University of Maryland has developed an extensive biochemical engineering laboratory,and has introduced several experiments that explore in depth free and immobilized enzyme ki-netics, as well as a continuous bioreactor. The experiments we plan to implement at Rowan have

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationquarter sequence. In EDC, they study design and communication from an engineering perspective.Each sixteen-student section of EDC is jointly taught by a faculty member from Engineering and onefrom Arts and Sciences. All 380 freshmen take the course, which is taught by engineering facultyfrom five or six different disciplines. A small core group of faculty from each school work togetherto set goals, develop a syllabus, plan lectures, design assignments and activities, manage overallcourse assessment, and facilitate weekly faculty meetings.One goal of EDC is to communicate the excitement of engineering and thus motivate students tosucceed. EDC does this by having students work on real

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

exist in an isolatedtechnical environment. The fact is that many products require a high level of technicalsophistication to even evaluate if it is the proper product for an application. As a result, todaythere must be more interaction between the developers of a new technology product and thecustomer. The scientist or engineer is therefore forced into active participation in such areas ascustomer negotiations, marketing and business planning, and manufacturing support. While theirneed for technical competence is not being reduced to support their primary task, their need forother non-technical knowledge is being increased by the many secondary roles that they arebeing asked to play.From the large industry perspective, the need for a broadened

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · To expose students to executive management and decision making processes; · To give students opportunities to experience and participate in corporate approaches to both day-to-day problem solving and strategic planning; · To require students to be active contributors (not just observers) of typical business practices; · To prepare students to become leaders of companies conducting business centered in product and informational technologies.These goals are achieved by placing students in ten-week (minimum) paid internships thatrequire them to work in a position at

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

with any associated product informationsuch as material specifications, instructions for use, and any supplementary devices (e.g., extrarazor blades). In addition, teams are provided with worksheets to document their designdecisions and activities. Specific prompts include: defining each team member’s role andresponsibilities, recording the steps the teams used to complete the acitivity (a design log), listingand explaining customer expectations for the tool, identifying and justifying the most essentialcustomer expectation, and describing a complete testing procedure to address this customerexpectation. This procedure may include sketches and plans for data collection or analysis.Our study goal is to identify the level of cross-validity

Conference Session

Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Kennedy the MTIrecommendation that STS 51-L launch should occur as planned. Mueller, a NASAadministrator, asked if everyone supported this decision, but no engineer from MTI responded tothis question. NASA proceeded with its plans to launch STS 51-L on January 28 th, 1986. The preceding narrative shows that the problems with the Solid Rocket Motor were wellknown and documented since 1977. It took national prominence when the Challenger disasterhappened. The students are provided this case study in a three-part series and asked to defendthe options of “launching the shuttle,” “not launching the shuttle,” “becoming a consultant andmaking a recommendation,” and “deciding as NASA managers.”(b) Adding Competency Material In order to help

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

following section describes several models to predict the characteristics of graduatingseniors. To do this, both linear and logistic regression were used with data from our attitudinalsurveys, including data from the Senior Exit SurveyÓ, completed by all seniors when they applyfor graduation.Graduating GPASeveral models have been developed in an effort to relate graduating GPA to a number of factorsincluding EC-2000 outcomes. Independent variables included outcome measures obtained fromthe Senior Exit SurveyÓ, SAT scores and high school class rank, and variables representingeducational enhancements while an undergraduate including internship, co-op, undergraduateresearch assistantship, study abroad, and plans to attend graduate school. For example

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

underway to incorporate aspects of green engineeringthroughout the curriculum. In 1998 the Environmental Protection Agency initiated a program in greenengineering to develop a text book on green engineering; disseminate these materials andassist university professors in using these materials through national and regionalworkshops. The textbook is titled, “Green Engineering: Environmentally ConsciousDesign of Chemical Processes,” and the major authors are David Allen and DavidShonnard. The textbook is a designed for both a senior and graduate chemical engineeringcourse and a series of modules that can be employed throughout the chemical engineeringcurriculum. This paper reviews the current status and future plans of the green

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

both the universityas a whole as well as the engineering departments was one of staff and resource development.At the conclusion of the project the principles of developing inclusive curriculum were formallyincorporated into the “Policy for Development, Amendment and Approval of Programs andCourses” [18] and the “Code of Good Practice: University Teaching” [19] of the University ofSouth Australia. It is now required when planning the development or amendment of programsthat faculty should: “ …indicate in what way advice has been sought on issues of inclusivity, how that advice is acted upon in the planning and delivery of the program, and what mechanisms will be adopted to evaluate the level of success of such program