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Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

obligation to society to advance its standards and toprescribe the conduct of its members."1 Page 7.946.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationPeople often ask," Why the Engineering License is so important?" The goal of the licensingprocess is to ensure that an engineer who is responsible for a given project will not jeopardize thehealth, safety, or well-being of the general public. Therefore, when a state awards a professionallicense to an engineer, it legally acknowledges that the licensee has

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Bichara; Raj Chowdhury

TECH-PREP and Certificate Programs FIGURE 2 Technology Curriculum Model at Kent State UniversityStudent pursuing a Master of Technology (MT) degree must complete a minimum of 32 graduatecredit hours. At least 16 of those hours must be the School of Technology (TECH) courses at the60000 (post-undergraduate) level and above. The students must also satisfy three (3) core courserequirements, which are: -TECH 50000 Quality Standards -TECH 60000 Project Management -TECH 60078 Research in TechnologyThe core courses are designed to provide required competencies in applied research, operationaland quantitative skills in a

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Hines; Belle Upadhyaya

course for both certificate programs.This course, along with three others, were developed under an NSF-CRCD grant. The course istaught for seniors and first-year graduate students in engineering, and is designed in a modularfashion with each module describing a specific topic in maintenance engineering. The courseactivities include team projects, and cyber-linked student projects2 with student teams in Franceand Brazil. This independent study component provides experience in team-based activity andcoordinating and carrying out project goals when the teams are separated by large distances.In order to compliment the classroom activities, a Maintenance Engineering Laboratory wasdeveloped under the NSF-CRCD grant. This self-contained teaching

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Yelton

Students into the courses allowedsome relatively low enrollment courses to fill. This is a win-win situation for everyone involved.This also enables us to have collaborative projects between technologies. These courses are nowpopulated with Information Technology and Engineering Technology students who collaborate Page 7.693.4on projects. This provides additional real world experience from which all students can really Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationbenefit. The biomedical

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

. Page 7.425.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education Session 2109In 1994, a paper was presented for ASEE giving a survey of bioengineering problems forstandard chemical engineering classes1. This article outlined a study in which individualproblems were incorporated into chemical engineering courses. In the “biomedical engineeringacross the curriculum” project, we have established stand-alone modules with homeworkproblems across a broad range of electrical and mechanical courses. For every core course

Conference Session

New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Coe; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

This paper is based on a senior machine is located right on the top of thedesign project. It is an example of a floor. There is no additional adjustmentcomplete work from conception and design tooling that would come up from the bottomto implementation in the industry. This of the vehicle.project also shows how the industry benefitsfrom supporting curriculum based projects. The design of the wheel stop mechanism has been drawn in Mechanical In design process of any device, Desktop V4 – 3D CAD system. Importantthere exists a magnitude of considerations calculations and tests were also made toand a challenge for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

thinking, identifying the best solution to the problem, preparing reports, plans,specifications, and scheduling, etc.Team work was emphasized throughout the course. In order to facilitate effective team work,students were taught how to work as a teams and specific protocols were established forresolving problems within students groups. Also as in [7], homework and lab assignments arecompleted within the student teams. Students also maintain a laboratory notebook and the needfor planning their project is stressed in order to ensure completion.In the lecture the instructor addressed questions and introduced concepts needed for the currentexperiment. This has avoided the passive style of learning, which tends to inhibit learning by allbut the most

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

instructional media had a strong effect on student achievement, while the effectof instructor differences was negligible. Selection bias, novelty factor, differences in instructionaldesign and social threats to the internal validity of the study were also rejected as a possibleexplanation for the observed differences in achievement.I. IntroductionBackgroundThe study was situated in the sixth semester Control Systems course (ELE639) in anundergraduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto,Canada. Hypermedia (text, graphics, video and sounds, linked in a non-linear, associative manner)have been introduced into the course to support experiential learning 1, 2 . A pilot project 3 withclassroom hypermedia

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

faculty, providing seed money for research, and buying equipment. Manyengineering programs seek national funding through a government organization such as theNational Science Foundation or the Department of Education. To show that the money and timewill be well spent on any particular project, an assessment plan is needed. During the projectand at the end of a project, a report is usually required to show that the program was successful,that a change was made, or a result was obtained. User-friendly guidebooks have beendeveloped that describe both formative and summative assessment. 1 Page 7.1018.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

with the experiments through MATLAB and SIMULINK, C/C++ and MentorGraphics.Introduction This project is an effort by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University to configure a novel method of teaching the junior level Communications(COMM), Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) coursesunder a common framework. These three courses are taken concurrently during the springsemester of the junior year. The effort is aimed at establishing a “proof of concept”. The maindeveloped prototype will be a laboratory manual. A long term goal is to use this prototype todevelop a laboratory oriented textbook

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

Session 2461 Teaching Engineers How to Make A Difference: Integration of Public Policy Concepts into Engineering Curricula Betsy Ennis Dulin Marshall University College of Information Technology and EngineeringAbstractEngineers, regardless of their areas of specialization, routinely are involved in projects withbroad public policy implications. For example, engineers usually play a leading role in thedesign, permitting, and construction of controversial facilities. In addition, the design anddevelopment of any new technology

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bonnie McCormick; Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

developed using the outcomes in ABET 2000 Criterion 3 a-k as a template.In addition to graduates participating in a major senior research/design project as an integral partof their educational experience, each degree program must also demonstrate that graduates havea(n):Ø Ability to apply knowledge of math and science to solve problems.Ø Ability to design and conduct experiments.Ø Ability to analyze and interpret data.Ø Capability to design system, component or processes to meet system requirements.Ø Ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.Ø Ability to identify, formulate, and solve math and science problems.Ø Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.Ø Ability to communicate effectively.Ø Knowledge and

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Flores; Thomas Brady; Helmut Knaust; Connie Kubo Della-Piana; Andrew Swift; Jana Renner Martinez

1997 Comparison Group. Sixty students who were self-selected toparticipate in the pilot project comprise the 1997 Pilot Group. A larger comparison group whochose not to participate in the pilot project makes up the 1997 comparison group. The latter isalso used as the baseline group. The 1998 and 1999 CircLES cohorts include first-time, full-time(i.e. enrolled for at least 12 hours) pre-engineering and pre-science students enrolled at UTEP inthe fall semester and who participated in the summer orientation. As the figure demonstrates, thefirst-year retention rates of CircLES cohorts are higher than the baseline group. The retentionrates for the 1997 comparison, or baseline, group was 68 percent. The first-year retention ratefor the 1997 pilot

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

project, and a more comprehensive writeup and reporting.Undergraduate engineering programs in the U.S. and Europe, therefore, differ substantially induration, content and philosophy. The U.S. undergraduate experience typically leaves thestudent with a range of choices for career or professional development, including medical school,graduate school in a range of disciplines, or work in one of a variety of marketplaceopportunities, not necessarily limited to engineering. In contrast, European engineering trainingtends to be much more focused on preparation for practice in a particular specialty ofengineering. Meaningful student and faculty interaction between European and U.S. engineerin gacademic and industrial sites requires recognition of and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Muramatsu; Flora McMartin; Joseph Tront

training in sound pedagogical practices, ashortage of training in the effective use of educational technology, short supply of requiredresources and time to produce completed and tested works, and a lack of emphasis on improvedteaching in the university faculty rewards systems are the major obstacles to materialsdevelopment. To remedy this situation, this project endeavors to create an active, engaged, andsustained virtual community of engineering educators who energetically contribute to and sharematerials from a common collection of courseware.The virtual community will take form as an incubator in which faculty are trained in soundpedagogical practices e.g., developing learning goals and assessment techniques. Next,participants will be schooled

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

, functioning of an engineer is viewed in context ofinternational scientific and economic environment. Many examples of approaches that evaluatevalue of creativity, efficiency and overall output of engineering work are available from academicand business point of view 6 - 11 . Experimentation was frequently an integral part of some Page 7.572.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinventive undertakings. Hands-on projects are believed to be one of the best avenues to teach theconcepts of the above

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

difficult to remember where you are and how to navigate among pages. One approach isillustrated in Figure 1. Here, the parent level includes the Home, Contents, Search, and Feedbackpages. At the lower child level, the pages include Instructor, General Information, Course Description,Syllabus, Exams, Laboratory, Homework, Projects, Discussion, and Links. Table 2 identifies each pageand summarizes the information it provides. With a web authoring application such as Microsoft’sFrontPage , the pages are created and arranged using simple drag-and-drop actions. Table 2. Class web pages and contents. Page Contents Home Entry point for web

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”communication facilities at UM. Faculty Mentors will provide orientations to their laboratoriesand research projects. In this context, students complete structured experiments or laboratoryexercises in small teams. Students will also participate in a series of “Lunch and Learn” sessionswhere Faculty Mentors and practicing engineers and scientists discuss their personal experiencesin science and engineering.Because the orientation program is developed around a team environment, participants willreceive training in team and professional skills. The emphasis of the training focuses theincoming student on learning about her own

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

-yearengineering design course that allows students to work in small teams and develop engineeringsolutions to practical problems. Students have specified budgets and have other “real life”constraints such as deadlines. Basic engineering principles are taught as st udents design andconstruct a project such as a wind powered water pump, or a solar cooker. Ingenuity, creativityand teamwork are the basic ingredients of a successful project. Field trials and a friendly designcompetition are celebrations of hard work and sound engineering. Other required courses areincreasingly including team based projects as a part of their execution (such as Strength ofMaterials and Statics). Students have the opportunity to participate in research activities

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Reischman; Eugene Brown

trends. These factors include such issues as theeconomy, the demographics of the U.S. population, the number of undergraduate degrees, thenumber of international students, the role played by gender and ethnicity, and the barriers toenrollment and degree completion for under-represented groups. Finally, if strategies are goingto be developed for dealing with these issues (which, after all, are a desirable purpose of anydiscussion) then information on “best practices” needs to be included as well.This is clearly an ambitious project. Honesty therefore compels me to subtitle this paper APrimer. The dictionary defines primer to be “giving the first principles of anything” and that isall I can possibly do here. There is much more information on this

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Karani; Mitty Plummer

laboratory, ten exercises were taken from thepopular text and laboratory manual by Robert L. Boylestad and Gabriel Kousouru1. Theexercises taken from the manual were related to circuit characterization of alternating currentcircuits that involved resistive, capacitive, and or inductive components. The instrumentation inthese experiments was limited to sine wave signal generators and oscilloscopes.II. The Equipment For The Remote LaboratoryThe remote laboratory requires only three major components. The first is a personal computercapable of web connection and able to run Windows 98 or a later version. The next component isa switch matrix; the one used in this project is a Cytec model PX512-1. The critical componentthat makes the laboratory work is a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Argrow

7.938.1* For a “virtual tour” of the ITLL visit http://itll.colorado.edu. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAE 2000, midway through year five. The sophomore course ASEN 2002 Introduction toThermodynamics and Aerodynamics is discussed in detail to illustrate horizontal integration,hands-on experiments, design projects, and implementation of the proactive philosophy. Finally,challenges and compromises in maintaining the AE 2000 are discussed.Engineering Knowledge, Curriculum, and a ProActive Philosophy Engineering curricula are continuously revised and updated in the United States

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Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

in engineering requires that students understand their professional and ethicalresponsibilities. ABET also asks programs to ensure that students integrate ethicalconsiderations into a "major design project." Even a quick look at these ethics requirementsmakes it clear that the ethical component of this new engineering curriculum cannot becompletely delegated to the ethics expert, for example, a philosopher who would teach afreestanding course in engineering ethics required of all engineering students. For reasons thatwe will discuss below, the freestanding course, while an essential part of a successfulengineering program, does not by itself achieve the integration of ethics into the engineeringcurriculum that ABET requires.One of the

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Smerage

Copyright ” 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”quizzes and exams in the classroom are necessary, a similar procedure would workvery well.In Biological Systems Analysis, a term project producing an original mathematicalmodel of a specific system is required; it is another activity outside the classroom. Overthe past four years, students were required to formulate their mathematical models inMathcad1. Preparation via computer of the project report included drawing processdiagrams and other graphics and word processing. Many students elected to do theirentire reports in Mathcad 1, utilizing its capabilities for passive verbal and mathematicaltexts and active mathematics.ConclusionOver the past four years

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lewis Frasch

student group was the Flow Characteristics Lab. In thisexperiment, students manually took pressure measurements along a four-inch diameter tube and,utilizing Pitot tube and orifice data, predicted K-factors for various entrances and friction factorsfor the tube. The student project group was tasked with redesigning the experiment for dataacquisition using a standard university laptop. The expectation for the new experiment was thata student would bring a laptop to the TSL, be handed a CD, and upon installing the software beable to take and analyze the lab's data.Utilizing analog pressure transducers, an A/D converter, Taltech's WinWedge software, andVisual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel, the group succeeded admirably. The system

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

knowledge base in their scientistsand engineers lies in the broad financial impact of the decisions they will make. In a survey ofmanufacturing engineering jobs, Mason 4 reports, “The results…also emphasize the importanceof a broad education. Engineers need to be technically proficient at their job and at the sametime understand the economic and engineering implications of their decisions.” The BoeingCompany CEO Philip Condit has stated, “…it is important that engineering education also havebreadth. Students need to know about business economics: What does it cost to build a project?What’s involved in integration?” 6 Page 7.593.1

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gilbert Wedekind; Chris Kobus

of their common usage, and favorable properties in beingable to control vaporization or condensation utilizing a water jacket with temperature ranges thatwould allow for the use of a mixture of hot and cold tap water. The apparatus was designed anddeveloped by a senior-level student doing a senior engineering design project - a currentrequirement for all senior-level students. Figure 1: Schematic of Experimental Apparatus.Figure 1 depicts a schematic of the experimental apparatus. The refrigerant is contained within a Page 7.126.3sealed stainless-steel vapor chamber. A semi-transparent nylon tube is attached to the

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

arequired core course for incoming chemical and biochemical engineering (CBE) graduatestudents. The course has been offered two summers 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 year, course delivery has been modified to increase instructional continuity by assigning itto one CBE faculty member who delivers the majority of class lectures. It has also been movedto the spring semester of the first year for incoming graduate students. In this way, the studentswill move into their first summer prepared to focus on their research projects without thedistractions of coursework.IntroductionNew graduate students are

Conference Session

Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sergey Yarmolenko; Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationany assumptions about shape or arrangement) is difficult in materials science, although it isrequired in medical research in many cases. This means that the various classical stereologicalparameters still prevail and must be clearly understood.ExamplesWe present several examples taken from student projects, which illustrate our approach.1). SiC/SiC compositesSiC/SiC composites exhibit excellent tensile (high toughness, strength and strain) and fatiguecharacteristics at ambient and elevated temperatures. The primary challenge in thecommercialization of these composites has been to come up with an

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

. Engineering Economics has been designed as an eight-module, three-credit course. The first seven modules present the basic fundamentals necessary to makeinvestment decisions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the eighth module, which requiresstudents to demonstrate their understanding of the principles on a real life engineeringinvestment analysis case study. The case study deals with the manufacturing of pulleys involvedin the balancing operation of machine components. Because of some malfunctioning in thebalancing operation, the manufacturer is faced with a high percentage of scrap. The analysisinvolves the identification and evaluation of alternate strategies for meeting a projected marketdemand, as specified in probabilistic terms, leading