Conference Session

Ethics across the Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

laboratory exercise due tomorrow. She has been overwhelmed forthe last few weeks with assignments from other classes and doesn't really have time to complete this exercise. Shediscovers that her roommate took this same class the previous semester and has the complete exercise on disk.What should she do?a. She should ask her roommate to give her the disk and let her use the exercise she prepared for the previoussemester. Her roommate has an obligation to help a fellow student in need. And it is well known that engineeringclasses are too demanding for the average students.b. She should go to the professor (preferably with other students in a similar situation) and ask for more time tocomplete the assignment.c. She should redouble her efforts and work

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oguz Soysal

characteristics were introduced by laboratory demonstrations in EE and ME labs. Average wind speed 11.4 12 10.7 10.7 10.6 9.5 9.9 10 8.9 8.7 8.9 8.8 8.1 7.3 Miles/hour 8 6 4 2 0

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

described above 2) to develop guidelines for creating assignments that encourage effective student writingThis project centers on Sophomore Clinic I, a team-taught, integrated design and writingcourse at Rowan University. The hallmark of the Rowan engineering program is themultidisciplinary, project-oriented Engineering Clinic sequence and its emphasis ontechnical communication. The Clinics are taken each semester by every student. In theEngineering Clinic, modeled after the medical school concept, students and faculty fromall four engineering programs work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real-worlddesign projects, and research. The Sophomore Engineering Clinics specifically serve thedual purpose of introducing students to formalized

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Chung

Session 2793In addition, the set of relationships between cognitive processing and online process measuressuggest a potential profile of participants. Successful participants engaged in proportionally morescientific reasoning than less successful participants. In general, successful participants relied onmore laboratory/data tests and less on resource materials (i.e., experts, library, dictionary).Further, successful participants exhibited less confusion and had less of a need to fill gaps intheir knowledge. In contrast, less successful participants misinterpreted information, wereconfused, and were unsuccessful at eliminating parents even though the tests they were usingcould have eliminated a parent

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Bailey; Ozer Arnas

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education and photovoltaic devices. The completeTable 2. Summary of ME 472 Topics listing on all 40 lessons presented in ME 472Subject Lessons is listed as Table 3.Advanced Thermodynamic Analysis 7Gas and Steam Power Cycles 5 Over the course of the semester, two guestCombustion 3 speakers from different Army ResearchPower Cycle Components 1 Laboratories visited the class to offer theirVCRC 1 viewpoints and present their currentAbsorption Refrigeration 2 research

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

at NortheasternUniversity’s School of Engineering Technology and Lowell Institute School. He has been a member of thefaculty for over twenty years and has many years of service with a wide range of industrial firms.ANDREW GILCHRIST IVAndrew Gilchrist IV is a junior undergraduate at Northeastern University’s School of EngineeringTechnology, majoring in Computer Technology with a minor in Business Administration. Throughout histenure at Northeastern, Andrew has worked for the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in CambridgeMassachusetts. There, he worked on various network infrastructure projects that aided in the lab’s manyimprovements. During his free time, Mr. Gilchrist enjoys playing hockey, reading, and furthering hisknowledge in various

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

time is required to complete the activity.Few, if any, colleges are currently organized for this approach. Perhaps they will move in thatdirection in the future. In the meantime, one solution is to rethink the lecture-laboratory conceptthat is prevalent in engineering technology education and to blend the time allocated to thecourse so that the activities can be completed in longer blocks. As needed, the instructor canengage students in dialog about new concepts they need to complete the task at hand. Such just-in-time learning has advantages in that the students are ready to learn the concepts because theysee the immediate applicability for it.This type of instructional organization would work best if the curriculum were broken intosmaller

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

to the current members ofWomen in Technology. Of the 81 students involved in the group, 51 responded to the survey, fora 63% response rate.The survey questions were modified from the WEPAN Pilot Climate Survey, designed to assessengineering students’ perceptions of the educational climate at their universities 26. One studyidentified those factors as isolation, the perceived irrelevance of theoretical preparatory courses,negative experiences in laboratory courses, classroom climate, and lack of role models 27. Otherstudies have suggested that the different learning styles of women may influence their desire toenter engineering or technology fields. Finally, Santovec contends that the problem is the imagethat engineering and technology is not

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

by another required M. E. laboratory course,usually taken concurrently by senior students. Outcome P (knowledge of chemistry and calculus-based physics) is also demonstrated in other courses.Outcome I (engage in life-long learning) became a major focus of redesign in this capstone class.Outcomes D (function on multi-disciplinary teams), F (professional and ethical responsibility),H (broad education – impact global and societal context), J (knowledge of contemporary issues),Q (management of engineering projects with economic constraints), and R (dynamics of peoplein singular and group settings) were also recognized as important elements requiringstrengthening of the prior course syllabus, content and methods of teaching.Rebuild of the Course

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

theIncubator. However, typically an M.S. graduate student will concentrate on coursework duringthe first year, and on a thesis project during the second year. Also, knowledge gained from thefirst-year coursework and familiarity with facilities, equipment and laboratory procedures may beimportant to the success in research areas. Contrary to this normal flow, a first-year graduatestudent that commits to work with an Innovation Incubator client may be required to begin worksoon after arriving at the University. Since the standard commitment between the Incubator and aClient is for 12 months, then effectively the research work is front-loaded for the student. This is acultural change that carries with it both positive and negative consequences. An

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Franzone

tutorial takes a visual, step-by-step approach indemonstrating how to create a Win32, console-mode application as well as covering introductoryprogramming concepts such as the “edit, compile, link, and run” process and useful proceduressuch as printing source-code and program output. The tutorial is thorough and complete enoughto be given as a lab or homework exercise or as a class exercise done in a laboratory setting. Page 7.861.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationI. Introduction The

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

population. Equally importantly, the dimensions of the model can be directly related tothe instructional design of hypermedia materials. Synchronous and asynchronous hypermedia canthus be better used to lessen the reliance on lecturing 30, to increase student participation, tosupport visualization and laboratory experimentation31, and to encourage reflection32, allnecessary ingredients of the learning process.Learning Styles in Engineering and their ImplicationsPersonality traits and learning styles are distributed differently among practising professionals andstudents in different fields. A possible explanation for the differences is that learners who exhibitcertain preferences are drawn to a particular field. Engineering students tend to have a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Mills

81.7 Concrete design project 15.2 / 20 76.0 Practicals (laboratories) 5.9 / 10 59.3 Steel exam component 9.6 / 20 48.1 Concrete exam component 14.9 / 30 49.7 Overall 61.9 / 100 61.9These marks indicate that students generally achieved much better marks in the design projectsthan in the examinations. This raises the long-standing debate about the value of examinationsversus continuous assessment in evaluating learning outcomes, with supporters of examinationsbelieving that if students can’t produce correct solutions under pressure then they can’t havelearnt the material, while supporters of continuous assessment methods such as projects arguethat

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

, American Society for Engineering EducationV. Conclusions and Future WorkThe course in which the study was located, used a student-centered approach with emphasis onactive, experiential, problem-based learning, and had a significant design project where teamworkand communication skills were important. The project required a tight coordination of the course.All students functioned in the same computer-assisted learning environment (access to computernetwork, simulation software, computer-controlled laboratory setup). Progressive approach,project orientation and coordination ensured that the instructional design of the course remainedthe same regardless of the instructional media used in the lectures. As discussed, treatment groupswere

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

a control system as a nonlinear optimization problemin the time domain instead of placing poles and zeros or shaping the frequency response.Applications that students use in this category include office productivity suites, progra mminglanguages, simulation packages, numerical manipulation systems, symbolic manipulationsystems, computer-aided design packages, and laboratory systems. Within each categorybenefits to student learning and hindrances to adoption are similar. Therefo re, decomposingapplications of technology into these three categories facilitates productive conversations aboutimproving engineering education through the use of technology.Partner schools in the Foundation Coalition, including A&M, have concentrated on

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh