Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky; Allen Estes

plan for a specific construction project. A QualityControl plan is a series of tests (usually following prescribed ASTM standards) thatverify that the materials and methods are satisfactory and that the project will meet therequired specifications. These tests require a comprehensive background in experimentalprocedure, conduct of physical measurements, documentation of strengths anddeficiencies, critical analysis of data, and data interpretation as demonstrated byconclusions. Selecting the appropriate tests and their frequency is designing anexperiment – probably the most realistic example of how a civil engineer designsexperiments in the real world of professional practice.Background. The Construction Management course (CE490) provides in

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Eisner

necessary toestablish such programs that were clearly responsive to their needs, and also congruentwith the charter and offerings of the Department. Without a great deal of study or fanfare,it appeared that the field of “systems engineering” (SE) was one for which both industryand government had a substantial need. This was reinforced through several face-to-facemeetings that confirmed the fact that systems engineering represented a core competencythat was (and still is) essential to carrying out large and even small scale systemsintegration (SI) projects. Indeed, it became clear that many of our largest companiesoperating in the Washington metropolitan area viewed systems integration as their main-line business and that a deep understanding of

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

engineers as creators and carriers of technicalknowledge within these expert systems and their trust for each other, their knowledges, andproblem-solving methods in spite of differences in their local, national, and corporate contexts.However, some historical and contemporary accounts of engineering work show that engineers,even within the same corporation or working in the same transnational project, do not trust eachother because of tensions, for example, between manufacturing and design (Leslie 1979), anddifferent national origins (Sabbagh 1996). In a survey distributed among engineers in Germany,Spain, France and England in one division of TRW, Grandin and Dehmel (1997) found out thatthe majority of engineers surveyed felt being judged by their

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

objective is mapped to eachprogram objective using three questions: · “The objective is explicitly stated as being a learning objective for this course.” · “Students are asked to demonstrate their competence on this objective through homework, projects, test, etc.” · “Students are given formal feedback on their performance on this objective.” 10 Links to Curriculum Student Portfolios Program Outcomes Sample Assignment Sample Tests Course Syllabi: course outcomes

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

development in courses within the engineering major, not just in one specified course in technical communication. 5This empirical evidence is also supported by recent research in composition studies. Not only dosuch experiences help engineering students see the value of communication for their futurecareers, but writing in the engineering classroom also introduces students to the modes ofcommunication that are appropriate to the field of engineering. When the engineering professorassigns lab reports, project proposals, and design reports, students learn to communicate from apractitioner of engineering communication, that is, the engineering faculty member. 6

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

the environment as a national security interest. Thediscussion of environmental security will be used to emphasize the first theme of broaderapproaches to engineering education. Consider an illustration, working engineers recognize the importance of conductingdesign integration pulling together the individual pieces of a design into one coherent package.They have learned that bringing the mechanical, electrical, civil, etc., together to assemble theindividual pieces into an efficient and workable design is an essential part of any completeengineering project. There is, however, a level above the engineering design integration step.This is where the social, political, economic, and technological components are integrated. Thehypothesis

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Cooper; Wayne Burleson; Ken Watts; Santhosh Thampuran

Session 3430 An Empirical Study of Student Interaction with CD-based Multimedia Courseware W. Burleson, W. Cooper, J. Kurose, S. Thampuran, K. Watts Department of Computer Science / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts AmherstAbstractThe CD-MANIC project is developing a multimedia courseware system that combines the use ofCDs for bandwidth-intensive content with periodic Internet connections for updates, logging,assessment and access to Internet resources. Class materials distributed by CD include asemester's worth of lectures (recorded

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Welch

classrooms for an additional reason.Much of the workplace, including the workplace for software engineers, has become a teamenvironment. Team experiences in the classroom become additional training and preparation forsuccessful transitions to the workplace. Team building skills are a natural outgrowth of CL inthe classroom and students thus enter the work force with the ability to contribute successfully ina number of different work settings. The word “functional” appears in connection with “cooperative team” in the literatureexploring this pedagogical strategy and remains the key to successful applications of CL in theclassroom. The extensive reliance on group work and projects in some disciplines has led tostudent dissatisfaction because a

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marny Lawton; Donald Wroblewski

change. The field of distance education has alsogrown rapidly incorporating substantial improvements in the use of media, pedagogies, andrelated technologies.The advent of new accreditation criteria in EC 2000 provided the stimulus for engineeringeducators to reevaluate programs and curriculum, an exercise that also led many to reconsiderteaching methods and learning styles. Coincident with this movement was the emergence of newtechnologies offering the potential to permanently alter the traditional classroom experience.The challenge has been to exploit these technologies in a way that enhances the learningexperience without overly burdening faculty or compromising their role in the education process.The primary objective of this project was to

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

Page 7.736.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Learning Factory is a new practice-based curriculum and physical facilities for productrealization developed by the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP) [1].MEEP is a partnership between Penn State University, University of Washington, University ofPuerto Rico at Mayagüez and Sandia National Laboratories. Funding was provided by theTechnology Reinvestment Program, TRP Project # 3018, NSF Award #DMI-9413880. Themajor goal of this curriculum is to provide an improved educational experience that emphasizesthe interdependency

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

spacecraft.Our class consists of a lab experiment for most of the subsystems on a spacecraft: structure,attitude dynamics and control, mass properties, power, thermal, communications, propulsion,manufacturing, and orbits. In addition to the labs, the students are required to do a final project inwhich they build equipment that either illustrates a concept used in spacecraft design, or that canbe used by future generations for testing purposes.This course is offered in conjunction with, but not necessarily simultaneous to a course in spacesystems. In the space systems course, the students are introduced to the theory of each subsystemand are introduced to the design drivers for each subsystem. The lab complements most of thesesubsystems by giving the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

Page 7.483.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdegree). In the ‘old-style’ programs it was important to include the right courses to be preparedfor the university of choice after graduation. In 1998 the so-called ‘tweede fase’ (second phase)was introduced to the upper three grades of the VWO. The changes to the upper three gradesconcerned both changes in course content and teaching-philosophy; with classic in-class lecturesreplaced by a combination of in-class lectures and group-oriented projects, independent research,computer-based information acquisition, etc. [7]. Reasons for the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

. materials can be varied among learning style formats so that students can choose to use the ones that benefit them most. The Web-based materials in this project were coded primarily in HTML andJAVASCRIPT. The HTML code contains the structure and format of the Web-page while theJAVASCRIPT language allows one to add interactive features that will provide feedback to thestudents. Several programs were used in developing the materials and include various texteditors, Microsoft Word, Excel and Frontpage, and Flash. The best available tool foraccomplishing the desired Web-effect was used in each instance. Faculty wishing to create acourse with few Web

Conference Session

Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

. For example, behavioral andorganizational topics are readily included, both because there is room in the curriculum for thesespecialty topics, and also because the expertise exists within the business faculty. Typical courseofferings (or even sub-course offerings) include: Personal, and Managerial Time Management;Project Management; Negotiations; Decision-making; Management of Technology; InnovationManagement; Innovation and Change in Organizations; Venture Capital and Private Equity; NewVenture Finance; Corporate Architecture; Building and Leading High-Tech Organizations; etc.Some business schools also include the area of “New Product and Process Development” (NPD orNPPD) in their curriculum offerings (see Figure 1). In some cases, these

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann McKenna

were revised at Northwestern as part of the VaNTH project. This section discussesthe main topics covered for each of the courses, the materials that were developed for the class,and how these materials align with the principles of the HPL framework. Table 1 provides detailsof these three courses. Page 7.230.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Course Quarter Students Domain ProfessorBME 338: Interaction of Winter 2001 11

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

. [1] This attitude focusesattention on the relative timing and quantitative mix of design and science. For example, somedesign initiatives expand design experiences in the first year, with the hope of introducingstudents to what engineering is all about as early as possible.[2-5] Other initiatives integratedesign throughout the curriculum with the goal of helping students in "making the transitionfrom the `seat-of-the-pants' freshman design approach to the engineering design approachrequired for the capstone experience and engineering practice." [6] Finally, senior designcapstone courses aim at exposing engineering students to the key elements of design --designmethods, project management, teaming, engineering economics, ethics, risks, and

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

topics. Faculty activities do little to encourage development and use of theseskills to improve engineering education.1.3 Engineering Education AdvancesIt is unfair to contend that no trends in engineering education have sought to recognize thechanging requirements for those in engineering practice. The recognition of the desperate needfor change has been a prominent topic in recent engineering education literature. Attempts toconsider the systems approach have led to attempts at course integration; and increasing use ofinformation technology has introduced new teaching methods and allowed students access tosoftware used in practice.Integration is primarily visible in the form of capstone senior design projects common in mostengineering schools

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Boyce; Jung-Wuk Hong; Jaspal Sandhu; Eberhard Bamberg

report that they had completed. Each team then completedthe full design report at home and handed them in one week later. Page 7.143.3*. Macintosh computers will need to have OS X installed. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Fig. 2 Two students working together on their truss design Fig. 3 A student presents his "lightest design" to the class using using the Truss Structures simulation. his laptop and the classroom's projection system.b) Online LecturesOnline

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

expectancies about teachers and enrollment behavior in distance learning. Communication Education, 48, no. 2, pp. 149-158, 1999.CHARLES B. KEATINGDr. Keating is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director for EngineeringManagement at Old Dominion University. Prior to joining the faculty of Old Dominion in1994, Dr. Keating served in numerous staff and command positions for over 5 years inthe US Army. In addition, he has served for over 7 years in quality engineeringmanagement at Texas Instruments and Newport News Shipbuilding, including hightechnology design, engineering, and testing oversight. He has conducted a multitude ofresearch projects in various organizations, including NASA, Thomas Jefferson NationalAccelerator Facility, and

Conference Session

Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Koller

programs and processes may be more successful than leaders who see themselves as facilitators; 9. Identifying and solving problems, using adaptive planning, contributes to success; 10. Skilled and committed staff empowered to carry out partnership plans are an important element in project success; Page 7.151.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 11. A complex partnership can be strengthened by breaking it down into components; 12. University

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Section 1526 CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments Julie A. Dickerson, Diane T. Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert J. Weber, Benjamin Graubard, Feng Chen, and Zheng Min Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011Project OverviewThis CRCD project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-powerembedded systems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program.Education in the hardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves as a testbed

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

. You will be graded on the quality of your responses. c) Make a final recommendation based on your report of whether to proceed with design or not. Page 7.283.6 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”APPENDIX 3CASE STUDY: SHOULD STEM CELL RESEARCH PROCEED?HISTORYThe Human Genome Project is one of the great scientific triumphs of the twentieth century. In1953 the double helical structure of DNA was proposed by Francis Crick and James Watson, forwhich both

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

reflect such issues as technological advances and thegrowth of the engineering team in the workplace. Over the past decade the CEAB increased therequirements for complementary studies (soft skills) and moved from a proportional measure ofcurriculum to an absolute measure. Changes under consideration at the present time include: · refining the curriculum content requirements for Basic Science and Mathematics, · including morale and commitment of faculty, support staff and students as a component of the qualitative evaluation, and · including the requirement for students to be exposed to the concepts of project management.The engineering profession expects of its members competence in engineering as well as anunderstanding of the impact of

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

of graduate courses in nuclear engineering · 6 additional hours in nuclear engineering or a related field · 6 elective hours of mathematics statistics, or computer scienceand the selection of one of the following research options: · 6 credit hours of research through completion of a thesis · 6 credit hours of research through engineering practice projects · 3 hours of engineering practice project plus 6 additional hours of graduate nuclear engineering coursework.Applicants without a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, or the equivalent, must take thefollowing three courses: · NE 301: Fundamentals of Nuclear & Radiological Engineering · NE 431: Radiation Protection · NE 470: Nuclear Reactor Theory I

Conference Session

Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

, Denton describes an engineer’s interestin educating others as a natural fit for engineering educators: “engineers excel at the design,analysis, and improvement of complex systems” and documents cases of engineering professorscontributing outside the realm of the traditional classroom to enhance and enrich the perceptionof engineering as a viable career choice.2An important source for designing our work was Besterfield-Sacre et. al’s extensive quantitativeand qualitative research project across 17 engineering institutions that also investigated thefactors that propel students into or out of engineering careers.3 In “Gender Ethnicity Differencesin Freshman Engineering Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” the researchers report thatgender and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheeldon; Glenn Wrate

the steady drift of circuit analysis textbooks in the non-electrical major area away frombuilding electrical examples and problems to a focus on automotive systems. The last twocourses in the sequence focus on small commercial buildings and light industrial facilities, andthen multistory buildings and large industrial facilities. Formal designs, including presentations,are required in both of these courses. Typically, one of the courses has individual projects, w hilethe other course forces the students to work in teams. The order of the project assignments hasbeen varied to deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the individual classes. These coursesare currently offered as elective courses in the Electrical Engineering program, and

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

their own abilities in those areas. Technology, as stated, isanother area of opportunity. From effective use of the Internet, to providing ideas for topicillustration, to actually teaming with a teacher to teach a Web Page Creation elective for studentsin grades 3-5, our engineering students are proving to be a valuable resource to our teachers.Finally, NCSU students are developing, with guidance from curriculum experts known to theschools, inquiry-based, integrated science lessons for teacher delivery.From an extracurricular standpoint, there are opportunities for engineering students to work asmentors on science fair projects and Science Olympiad teams. The role model aspect in theseoften-voluntary events is crucial, especially for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

system can be adopted for both lab and field measurements. It is especially convenient for field projects since the DAQ system is portable and light. This system is designed for multiple purposes. For instance, the data acquisition can measure and record stress/force, strain/displacement, velocity/acceleration, temperatures, etc. that are related to projects in civil engineering such as pile driving, foundation loading/unloading and deformation of infrastructure (i.e., pavement, slope, retaining wall, bridges etc). This system can also serve as a virtual laboratory device for purposes of teaching and research in engineering mechanics (i.e., oscilloscopes, frequency response analyzers, signal generators, A/D or D/A data converters, etc.). In the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Hopcroft

, and ends in culture. The primary objective of the work shifted from successfullycompleting the original research study to the much more difficult topic of interdisciplinary andcross-gender collaboration. The new focus is designed to facilitate the formulation of a plan thatexamines key issues that impact successful collaboration. The fact that gender is also a variablepresents intriguing and only sometimes predictable influences on the working relationship. Thispaper provides an informal and descriptive framework for conceptualizing the collaborativeresearch effort by considering expectations for successful project completion, and implicationsfor further study.II. Overview of ThemesThis paper began with some hunches about the effects that

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Turner

modules to be taught in sophomore, junior, and seniorcourses that add value to them. In other cases, we have promoted contests thatencourage students to participate in infrastructure development projects such as thedesign of the academic center for engineers and scientists and the engineering annexbuilding.The specific objectives for the green engineering building contest flow from thelarger goals outlined above are as follows: a. Create an opportunity for students and faculty to contribute to the design of the new building that will serve as a learning experience for all. b. Create a model building that illustrates UTEP’s leadership in engineering design and sustainability concepts for the El Paso Ciudad-Juarez region. c. Provide