Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

. Performance considers the extent to which the outputs meet the standards of quantity,quality and timeliness of those who use the product or receive the service. 3 Behavior considersthe extent to which the team experience contributes to the growth and personal well being ofteam members. 3 Attitude is concerned with examining how the process of carrying out the workenhances the capability of members to work together interdependently in the future. 3 Table 1shows what is being measured and how it will be measured for each outcome. Outcomes Tool Performance (P) · Knowledge about the subject · Project report (on the assigned task) · Quality of the results · Project

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Amy Gross; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Copyright 8 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSystems. In this module we present the details of a microkernel, how it is used and whichmicrokernels are typically available for various microprocessors. The third module is Real-TimeEmbedded Systems. This module deals with interconnection of more complex peripherals than onespresented earlier, such as CAN networks, DA/AD converters, and PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) --- all of such devices come with variations of various microprocessors. Through such lab projects,students learn how to control various peripherals and build a (small but) complete real timedistributed microcontroller system. With the NSF CRCD grant, twenty Phytec Microcontrollerboards containing an Infineon C 167

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Niaz Latif; Michael Dyrenfurth

Program inTechnology is designed for full-time professionals. The objectives of the program are:(a) enhancement of participants’ learning skills in a continuously changing technology field, (b) enhancement of analytical and problem-solving skills in applications of technology, and(c) accentuation of professional ethics and awareness in a technological environment. Purdue’sadaptation involves offering a series of twelve courses, delivered via fourteen very intense three-day weekend sessions which are augmented with a carefully developed set of out-of-classassignments and a communication support system. Each of these weekend sessions entails 24contact hours of meeting time. In addition, a directed project is required to demonstrate researchand/or

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

thatconstitute his or her own knowledge base. Some specific examples of the successfulapplication of technology grounded in constructivist theory are evident in projects in theCarter Lawrence School (Tennessee), Clearview Elementary School (California), RalphBunche School (New York) and the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) studies.At Iowa State University engineering faculty have worked collaboratively with teachereducation faculty since 1996 to offer an undergraduate course entitled Toying withTechnologySM to elementary and secondary education majors4,5,6. This course, whichemploys the constructivist method and seeks to improve teacher preparation, began with15 preservice teachers in the first semester and has grown to about 100 preserviceteachers

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Mendieta; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

Session 1532 Predicting Primary Water Levels Using Backpropagation and General Regression Neural Networks Carlos Mendieta, Mario Garcia, Carl Steidley Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstract This project applied two Artificial Neural Network models (Backpropagation and theGeneral Regression Neural Network (GRNN)) to predict primary water levels at a single port onthe Texas coast. The data for this project was provided by the Division of Nearshore Researchand is collected hourly from several ports along the Texas coast. Important variables needed

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vis Madhavan; Janet Twomey; Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman

expert guidance.The Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at Wichita State University isdeveloping an integrated set of virtual reality models of a manufacturing line at Boeing Wichita.This mega-case will be used throughout the curriculum to vertically integrate the concepts acrossthe curriculum and provide a situated learning experience for our students. This large-scalevirtual reality factory modeling effort, “Innovation in Aircraft Manufacturing through System-Wide Virtual Reality Models and Curriculum Integration” has recently been funded by theNational Science Foundation through the Partners for Innovation program (http://www.slvr.org).The objectives of this project are to: • Foment the use of integrated virtual reality

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

educationis responsive to the needs of business, including the wider community, where this willlead to wealth creation. Current activities include:-· The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) providing funding to support large, strategic collaborative projects that increase the capability of academic institutions to respond to the needs of business and strengthen business/higher education Page 7.689.1 partnerships;Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education· The University Challenge Fund providing seed

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Harvel; Monson Hayes

windows-based program. Finally, the textprocessing procedure is linked to the graphic interface via Windows API (ApplicationPeripheral Interface) calls.Index Structure In engineering a powerful and effective information retrieval system, we can consideraccessing content that comes from a variety of different sources. Initially, however, ourproject is only concerned with extracting and accessing information, i.e., words, that appearsin prepared slides (postscript). The Classroom 2000 Project (now known as eClass), on theother hand, considered a variety of other sources, including transcriptions of handwritteninformation, transcriptions of voice, titles of we b pages that have been visited during alecture, and annotation that is added by the

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Denis Gillet

emphasizesthe use of content rather than document oriented notes; it enables users to easily edit notes thatcan contain any format supported by Web browsers, e.g. text, images, graphics, manuscripts,measurements, charts, or multimedia objects. The ELJ enables educators to supervise students’progression with their assignments and provides them with some assistance and tutoring. It alsointegrates information related with the experimentation preparation.The ELJ paradigm is currently validated in the framework of the eMersion project 8, which aimsat developing at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) hands-onresources for flexible learning in engineering education focusing on remote manipulation of realsetups and Web-based simulation

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenghsin Liu

observed twostudents sharing one workstation in CAD classes in certain state-funded universities.The advent of Internet and Intranet allows engineers to communicate with each other in acooperative process (often called "collaborative engineering”) on the same project to come upwith the best design. In fact, this engineering environment pulls in all engineers, productmanagers, manufacturing engineers, and marketers to the same project. They all have access tothe system. However, problems arise for students in the design class in terms of collaboration.The first problem is that most collaborative environments now available for product design focuson the collaboration between different designers who work on different parts of the sameproduct. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Leffel; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

line instruction video the phoneTo assess the need for new courses to offer to practicing engineers, company representativeswere asked to name their three preferred course topics for enhancing the engineers’effectiveness. Respondents identified leadership/soft skills, project management softwarecourses and information technology as preferred course topics for enhancing engineers’effectiveness. According to Bowman and Farr, “Employers are calling for [engineering]graduates who are not merely expert in design and analysis, but who possess the leadershipskills to apply their technical expertise and to capitalize on emerging construction andinformation technologies, management models, and

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

Chicago, Gary, Hammond, and the Lake Station target area. The goal ofthe introductory aviation course was to interest young people in the aviation industry, which istraditionally underrepresented by minorities. The students were exposed to all three componentsof the Aviation Program: Flight training, maintenance technology and business management.They were introduced to aerodynamics, propulsion, airframe structures and aircraft syst ems. Aqualified pilot taught them the basics of flying a B-727 full motion flight simulator, and theymade a flight in a light aircraft. As a final hands-on project the students built an aluminumwinglet section. Last summer the faculty organized field trips to a major air carrier maintenancefacility and an Air Force

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Radcliffe

different set of learning activities.Students on-site do not have lectures but are supported by access to lecture and other learningresources through a combination of paper-based and web-based delivery. As this is their finalyear, many of their courses are integrative and applied in nature, including an individual thesisproject worth one quarter of the grade for the year.A typical study program for the semester on-site includes thesis, professional development, oneapplied technical course and one other project or technical course. Each engineering disciplinehas a slightly different variant on this pattern. Being on-site has distinct advantages for thelearner, including being able to see how theory-based content from courses in earlier years fits

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Karas; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

- channel data acquisition system for pressure This paper deals with development of a sensing and pressure drop assessment and a 486special leak and flow test apparatus. This CPU 166 MHz PC unit were used.apparatus would be used to check the reliabilityand performance of an innovative pneumatically Three individual channels were used inoperated injection valve for liquid molding the experimentation. The software used is anapplications. Also included are the results of application generator Windows based programvarious tests. This design is an example of one of called Visual Designer that enabled real-timethe author’s senior project carried out to fulfill BS

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Eugene Simmons; Michael Doran

develop their robotic projects. This paper will outline the goals of thecourse, the approach taken, problems encountered and solutions used along with lessons learned.Introduction: This paper describes a new course developed to provide students with the opportunity toapply knowledge gained in earlier Artificial Intelligence (AI) courses to a more tangible domain. Page 7.1264.1In this new special topics course, students, working in small groups, are required to design and Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Balmer

new millennium(see www.olin.edu). Their emphasis will be on providing a rigorous preparation in engineeringscience, team-based design, communications, independent projects and research, and principlesof business management and entrepreneurship*. Finally, in June, 1996, Robert A. Lutz, President and CEO of Chrysler Corporation (currentlyChairman of GM North America), made the following comments to a national engineeringcollege advisory committee5: "Five or six years ago Chrysler Corporation once again found itself in very serious trouble. And the reason had to do with our companies thinking. We weren't taking a holistic approach to how we ran our business. Our functional hierarchies had become ossified-, inter- and intra

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

selectengineering materials with certain properties. Students are required to complete all theseassignments and submit a hard copy of their work. These assignments are all begun in class,with the instructor starting the assignment and projecting the work on a screen for all to seewhile the students work on their individual laptops. The assignments are too long to becompleted in class so the students must finish them outside of class. In spite of the increasedcomputer literacy of our students, it has been observed that all of these exercises introducestudents to new computer skills.I. IntroductionThere is heavy demand today for college graduates to possess a high level of computer literacy.Graduates are expected to understand the traditional programs found

Conference Session

International Graduate Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

Proposal Writing” was first developed two years ago as arequired core course for incoming chemical and biochemical engineering (CBE) graduatestudents. The course has been offered in the summer with a CBE faculty member coordinatingcourse content and projects. Various CBE faculty members delivered individual lectures, and ateam of CBE faculty members graded student work.This course does not take the place of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses that may berequired by the university after an English proficiency evaluation or a speaking andcomprehension skills test. The ESL courses focus on basic skills associated with everydaycommunication (grammar, pronunciation, conversation, reading, and writing), while this coursefocuses on the art of

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Cooney

, then delivering a good conclusionshould be a stated objective for the assignment.Example Lab Report Rubrics: Simple, Complete, and Creative Figures 1-4 show rubrics from four high school teachers. The Figure 1 shows a generalscience rubric. Each level has a detailed description of the criteria for performance at this level.Note that there is an even number of “Levels” – this is recommended to prevent too many“middle” responses. Point values are assigned for each level; the final grade is a total of allpoints earned. Figure 2 is a chemistry lab report rubric developed as part of a “Writing Across theCurriculum” project. It examines in detail the content and format of the report, includingrequirements for specific data and font size

Conference Session

TYCD 2002 Lower Division Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grace; Scott Klingenstein; Ron Ulseth; Nick Nicholson; Don Moen; Amy Hendrickson; Aaron Wenger; Kenneth Gentili; Paul Gordy; Jim Richardson

collaborationaimed at moving TYCs to the forefront of engineering education is highly desirable.At Itasca Community College we have been building an engineering program for over a decade. It startedwith the realization that our calculus physics should be taught as an introduction to the necessary analysisof engineering, not as a theory of physics course for one or two physics majors per decade. We customizedthe program further by building into it lab-centered instruction and student-design projects. We created asense of ownership for the program by students and a very real support network via a student LearningCommunity. Our program now stands at the cusp of being the fifth largest in Minnesota through the state-funded construction of an Engineering Center

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Taylor

program; · a core of courses taught by the Weatherhead School of Management, including New Venture Creation and a new course on Technology Entrepreneurship; · a physics master’s thesis involving an entrepreneurially oriented project. This will typically arise from an entrepreneurially oriented internship in a sponsor company, or from a student-designed research project that will be the basis for launching a new venture; · options for elective courses tailored to the needs of each student; · an active seminar program provides continual exposure to scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs who are actively engaged in forming new high-tech ventures

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Alfred Soboyejo; Robert J. Gustafson

courses 186 66.4%C Attending a professional conference 177 63.2%D Earning an advanced degree 119 42.5%E Reading technical books 108 38.6%F Attending corporate training sessions 103 36.8%G Increasing job responsibility 94 33.6%H Research or working on design projects with a college or 93 33.2% universityI Taking college courses for credit

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

during our tour as Welliver fellows. We also visit thesimulator labs, manufacturing and flight test.In my flight test course I have included guest lecturers from Boeing and received severalcase studies to use for classroom exercises. The course, which is offered spring quarterto seniors, focuses on many practical engineering problems. Students work in teams withrotating responsibilities. Reports are written following documentation requirementstypical for certification. The students now have to become familiar with the FARs(Federal Air Regulations), as motivation for their data collection.KumarI developed a Sterling Engine fabrication project for "hands-on", quarter long labexperience in ME 3044 (introduction to manufacturing). This was the first

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga

still interested in demand-sidemanagement projects to distribute the demand profile, which prevent the construction of newgenerating facilities. Students may even get funding for developing electronic devices that mayprovide consumers the status of an electrical power grid so that consumers can be educated touse large residential appliances when there is a low power demand in the grid.Outreach EffortsOne of the by-products of using energy audits as hands on activities is that they can be designedto help communities. Instead of conducting on campus projects, students may choose to helpreducing the energy consumption of residences around the campus. Since there is interest inincorporating solar energy to residential users at the federal level

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

. Constructive learning goes beyond learning byreceiving knowledge, to learning by building systems, with immediate, visual feedback.Collaborative learning encourages students to interact with instructors and librarians via livelinks and remote-controlled “show me” sessions and by reviewing multimedia FAQs of recorded“show me” sessions. Inquiry-based learning guides the student into pursuing exploratoryresearch in a community of students and scholars. A text mining and visualization tool enablesstudents to identify and explore emerging technology trends in computer science as part of ourinquiry-based framework. Our project documents, evaluation materials and a prototype areavailable at www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cimel.1.0 IntroductionCIMEL is a multimedia

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Masakazu Obata; Leon Sanders; Keiichi Sato; Yuko Hoshino

Copyright© 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationseries of lectures, by doing some simple homework assignments, by writing a report on theresearch projects they were doing that time, and by giving oral reports on their writtenreports. They were expected to learn how to write engineering reports. It was hoped thatwhat they learned could be applied to writing reports in any language.The technical report writing course followed the schedule below.Week Class content1 introduction of the course preparing a brief memo explaining the student’s project (due Week 2)2 discussing content of a report, title page through reference and bibliography preparing a short outline for

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

, as a team effort producesthe needed proof-of-principle. Equipment within the appropriate departments that couldbreadboard an idea under consideration is brought to this table. Such a table has been initiallyfocused on physics and electrical engineering to take advantage of the resources available. TheIncubator is prepared to expand into other engineering and science areas as clients express needsand matches to equipment and facilities can be made. These collaborative projects enrich both thelarger community and our own educational mission by integrating students’ research, creativework, classroom learning, and practical projects. They also promote collaboration among differentgenerations of students, teachers, and community partners. The

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Intelligence, and CST 452, Human-Computer Interaction.Bachelor of Science in Information Technologyo Based on both assessment of separate course outcomes and assessment of program outcomes, the BSIT program has undergone extensive renovation during 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 academic years: revised course descriptions for CST 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 437, and 438, enhanced hands-on computer components throughout the program curriculum, and introduction of the two-part capstone project, IS 420A/B.Master of Science in Software Engineeringo The updated MSSE curriculum emphasizes the state-of-the art concepts of SDLC (Software Development

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

support of NSF (which started from spring of 2002) has increased the momentum of theefforts that started in 1998 for creation of the State of the Art Laboratory. Successful implementationof this project will result in several measurable outcomes including:1. Generation of comprehensive blueprints for fabrication of apparatuses necessary for precision experimentation in the areas of Mechanics of Materials and Dynamics of Machinery.2. Creation of detailed laboratory manuals-ready for distribution to students.3. A well thought out and comprehensive plan for putting together an affordable model laboratory that successfully addresses the fundamental requirements of undergraduate laboratories in mechanical and civil engineering as well as

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Gomez

weigh more than an existing containeron the market (+ 4oz). Detailed CAD drawings of the prototype must be supplied with thespecific scale to be determined by the design team. A full-scale model of the prototype will besupplied using materials that accurately depict the materials intended for the design. Instructionsfor the use of the system must be written in technical form and include illustrations and/orpictograms.The teams are also responsible for completing a research report on the use and need for recyclingHDPE oil containers. This includes pictures, graphs, as well as examples and expert testimonyrelevant to the project. An electronic presentation (PowerPoint) is also required. Thepresentation includes the entire process of designing the