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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christine Masters; Renata Engel

address some of these concerns regarding the lecture portion of thecourse.Concept Question and Peer Instruction ApproachBriefly, the ‘peer instruction’ approach detailed by Mazur consists of planned, intermittentopportunities for students to assess their own understanding and to articulate their understandingto their peers and the instructor, and for the instructor to obtain immediate feedback about thelevel of student understanding of key concepts. These learning opportunities are placed atspecific times in each lecture with the frequency depending on the number of conceptsintroduced or reviewed during a particular lecture. After a concept is covered, a question thatfocuses on that single concept is projected on the overhead for the entire class

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pradip Srimani; Joseph Hughes

engineering volume by the end of 2002. A “strawman”draft, including both the computer engineering body of knowledge and major report sections, isplanned for approximately the time of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference. The conferencepresentation will describe the overall project, the status of the computer engineering volume, andplans for review of the volume. It also will provide an opportunity for members of the computerengineering community to provide suggestions and comments on the computer engineeringvolume and to participate in the review process.[1] http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/ Page 7.321.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American

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Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams

should be continuously provided as needed. Also, during this time it is important to reward team members. Rewards are typicallygiven upon completion of a task or project, but this model promotes rewards throughout theteaming process for meeting major deadlines, meeting them ahead of schedule or other acts thatdemonstrate success by the team. Rewards might consist of a “pat on the back” for a job welldone, a certificate of achievement, a pizza party for all team members, verbal acknowledgementor some other motivational event. Once the task is completed a post-assessment should beconducted to measure the effectiveness of the team. Page

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

curriculum committee has changedand modified the freshman engineering courses. In fact, simple design component is currentlybeing taught in the Introduction to Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science course. Themain project in this course is small teams of students design, build, program, and test a mobilerobot using lego parts, sensors, and a controller [7]. Utilization of sketching and computer-aideddesign are introduced at the first freshman required engineering course (GraphicalCommunications and Spatial Analysis). In addition, the philosophy of the elementaryengineering design course was changed. This was accomplished by introducing techniques fordefining problems, generating solutions, and deciding between them what are used to setup

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Session 3550 Using the SAE Aero-Design Competition to Expose Students to Multidisciplinary Design Teams Aaron R. Cowin, Terrence K. Kelly Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractStudents at Saint Louis University have an opportunity to participate in the SAE (Society ofAutomotive Engineering) Aero-Design student competition. The competition challenges studentsto design, fabricate and fly an aircraft carrying a desired weight in a pre-determined flight pattern.Participation in the project draws

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Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

Basic. A DDE server manages communicationbetween the interface objects and the OpenSim environment [11].Initial Research Academia is also making good use of computer simulation in the education of future nuclearengineers. Simulations can give the students a better understanding of the highly coupledvariable relationships in a nuclear reaction [12]. In some cases old control room simulators fromindustry have found their way into academic settings [13]. However, many nuclear programsand individual courses still make use of older, more simplified, simulation codes. The origin ofthis work began as a project to examine how these older codes could be replaced or updated,mainly in order to improve the interfacing options. It was quickly realized

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

June Ferrill

Session 2793 From Technologist to Entrepreneur: Why Experiential Learning Should Work to Expand Students’ Viewpoints and Communication Styles June Ferrill Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communications Rice UniversityAbstractAs corporations require more engineers to become members of entrepreneurial teams, universityengineering departments should seek to provide more opportunities for students to learn thediscipline’s content and communication skills needed in such roles. Students can be led

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Lau; Sven Bilen; Elizabeth Kisenwether

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society from Engineering Education Table 4 Listing of topics covered in Lab 4 Lab Section Title Section Objectives and CommentsSection Lab 4 Temperature Control Design Project 4.2 Exploring Heat Transfer Students first make some qualitative observations about the container in which they are to control the temperature 4.2.1 Heat transfer background Background material on heat transfer making analogy

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hilsen; David Wyrick

Journals Lecture Projects lecture active, Logs

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

calculation and a project that deals with resistance applications. Each student worked on a different project that dealt with “novel” resistance applications. The student from section 3 had to present his/her project both orally (using PowerPoint) and in written format. Students from sections 1 and 2 had also to present their case solutions orally and in written format but as team presentations.· For all sections, topics related to calculating the resistance of an object were not required in preparation for the final exam. Furthermore, students were not told to study problems related to resistance calculation nor the pizza case.· There were six transfer questions in all, centered on calculating the resistance of various 3-D

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Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Goldenberg; Carlos Morales

complexity of projects increases, the need for collaboration tools has increased.Not only do workers need the ability to collaborate on their actual designs, but also on theproject-management issues that accompany any large scale design endeavor. Mostdevelopers of engineering design software have answered this problem by providingsome degree of collaborative tools within their packages. It is not uncommon to find anarray of collaborative tools in today’s major engineering design packages. A quicksurvey of the toolsets available in packages such as CATIA, ProEngineer,SolidEdge/SolidWorks, Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, etc. reveals a wide range offeatures ranging from web-viewer to project-management [1,2,3,4].The major weakness with these

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

are steadily declining. The project is concerned with preparingunderprepared students for the technical workforce in an environment of globalization, rapidlychanging technology, and the declining of basic skills (communication and mathematics) ofincoming students.Our traditional approach to resolve these issues of underprepared students has been to offerdiscipline-based remedial courses. However, this compartmentalized teaching has notsucceeded in meeting the expectations of these students and reducing the attrition rate which isgenerally higher than 60%.Our project attempts to build a bridge between the skills of incoming students and the skills theymust have to meet the demands of the future workforce. This bridge is being built on a

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cliff Mirman; Radha Balamuralikrishna

Engineering Technology program as themodel example.Significance of a Proactive RelationshipOccena et. al. projected that most school students map out their career paths by the time theyenter their final year in high school2. The increased emphasis on formal education by employerscoupled with the simultaneous drop in demand for unskilled labor in the United States continuesto motivate high school graduates to pursue a college education, two -year or four year. It is truethat things do not always proceed as planned and a large number of students switch career plans,and hence their majors during their college years. However, professional bodies such as theAmerican Society for Engineering Education and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers haveembarked

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Treva Fitts; Susan Wynn; Martha Absher; Kristen Ford; Judy Russell; Glenda Kelly; Adefolakemi Oni; Gary Ybarra

of the curriculum withfocus on the life sciences. We strive to show children that math can be fun and exciting, and thatmath is in everything we do. The teachers and students at Lakewood Elementary School havebuilt a greenhouse and outdoor garden in which they grow vegetables and other plants. Allstudents have a hand in the project and take pride in the plants they grow. The garden projectprovides us with fertile ground in which to weave the use of math as the universal language ofquantification. Children make measurements of plant growth rates and make plots of th is data.They learn probability through the law of large numbers by tracking characteristics of parentsand their offspring of common garden peas. These are two of many exercises

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Brophy; Robert Roselli

0 7 MPa 1 2 3 4Figure 4. Difficulties with understanding the sign convention for shear stress. Page 7.549.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education PRS Q1: How many times has your project group met? 1. Haven’t met 2. Once 3

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Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Bailey-Van Kuren

referencebook or journal article for each person on the team in addition to any web references. The webpage was then updated to include Ø Technical Summary page. This page explains the process including diagrams to clarify concepts. Ø Links to the new pages from the base page and updated references.The students receive feedback on this page to update it prior to project completion. This pagewould be posted later for review by the class as a study guide on the process.The next step of the assignment has students performing more detailed research of the processapplications. Each student was required to summarize an application oriented journal/trademagazine article. Students in the spring 2001 semester section had an additional

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

style of working with others. One of the parents, who is annuclear engineer himself, applauded the department for helping to instill the awareness and skillsof cooperative work habits in the students. Team projects were noted as a concrete example ofhow that “unlearning” was shaped. The parents also noted an overall positive attitude conveyingwhat students can do, rather than what they can’t. Students’ increased self-confidence wasevident in how students explained their work in the labs as well as in their classroompresentations. Several parents commented that college should be the place where young people should learnhow to deal with their own problems, to learn how to learn, and to become more “street smartand people smart.” A concrete

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Josianne Basque; Sylvie Doré

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2230In recent years, one hears more and more often of product development or product engineeringas opposed to product design. This change of vocabulary reflects the basic concurrentengineering principle that consideration should be given to downstream activities, such asassembly, manufacturing, maintenance, etc. while designing the product, or in other words, toconsider the whole life cycle of the product right from the start of the project and during all thedesign phase.The term “product” is taken here in its broadest sense, as suggested by

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Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Hartman

. market since 1978. Enron still requires permits and applications from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Florida and the Bahamas, but it hopes to begin construction early in 2002 and start shipping product in the second half of 2004. 80% of the funding is to be financed through capital markets. Long-term contracts with utilities or gas contractors are expected to defray project costs. Specifically, the exam asked the following: The following page contains an article recently printed in The Wall Street Journal concerning a possible investment in a liquefied natural gas facility. As a new hire to the engineering department, you are to determine whether the investment should be made. Your presentation

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Soboyejo

3 1 3 25 32.89% Writing for professional12 journals 3 7 3 1 1 1 1 2 8 2 29 38.16% Moving into supervisory13 positions 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 10.53% Research or working on14 design projects with a college or university 2 5 1 1 3 1 7 20 26.32% Attending technical

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Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationexpanding to polyphase motor drive schemes. Details regarding the associated laboratoryexercise can be obtained at the following location: http://learn.sdstate.edu/shietpas/asee/asee02/lab_7.pdfA firm understanding of the PMDC, its equivalent circuit model and the 2-quadrant PMDCmotor drive provides numerous opportunities to students who wish to pursue design projects thatemploy a motor drive within the desired application. Section V describes a simple, yetfascinating design project that combines a prime energy source (PV array), motor drive (2-quadrant), motor (submersible pump), and load (water).V. PV-Operated Submersible Pump SystemAt this point in the course

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Saterbak

universities are designed toillustrate a scientific concept or engineering principle or to teach students basic laboratory skills.In addition, laboratory courses with freshman and sophomore students (e.g. introductory Physics,Chemistry, and Biology laboratory courses) often have high enrollments. Instructors oftendevelop course-specific protocols; many protocols are published on the Web3-5 or in journals(e.g. Journal of Chemical Education, Chemical Engineering Education, and BiochemicalEducation). In BIOE 342 and the “PLLA and PLGA Characterization” segment of the TissueEngineering Module in BIOE 441, detailed protocols are appropriate and are utilized.Open-ended projects are very common in senior capstone design courses across all

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oscar R Gonzalez; James F Leathrum; Amit Kumar H; Vishnu Lakdawala; Stephen Zahorian

-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses." American Journal of Physics (1998): 64-74.4. Saul, Jeffrey M., Deardorff, Duane L., Abbott, David S., Allain, Rhett J., and Beichner, Robert J., Evaluating introductory physics classes in light of ABET criteria : An Example of SCALE-UP Project , Proceedings of the 2000 Annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education.( also visit for related publications http://www.ncsu.edu/PER/articles.htm) Page 7.182.95. Vosniadou, S. (1990). Conceptual development in astronomy. In S. Glynn, R. Yeany, and B. Britton (eds.), The

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

covering a narrow topic rather than providing the student with the broad,complex, open-ended design problems of the real world. Focusing on only one topic ordisciplinary area can artificially eliminate conflicting constraints that can lead to ethical dilemmas.By comparison, engineering project courses do not usually fall prey to this problem and are thuspopular candidates for inclusion of ethics instruction.In this paper, we will examine a method of building ethics into a design course in such a way thatit is a truly integral and essential part of the design process. We first examine some of the relatedliterature to determine the nature and goals of engineering ethics instruction. Second, we willexplore the relationship of the student’s own

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Klegka; Robert Rabb

Page 7.167.3 Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationon designing for fatigue. Case studies provide insight into the ethical responsibilities ofengineers. Projects provide opportunities to experience design and to consider reliability,economics, and judicious use of resources. A semester long design and build project reinforcesthe design process instruction and culminates in a student competition.e. ME402, Mechanical Design, focuses on simulation-based design with special focus onapplication of design methodologies to mechanical elements and assemblies of weapons. Itintegrates principles of multiple disciplines into design efforts involving target effects, projectileflight, gun tubes, recoil devices

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Clough

---- ---- 27 15The deliverables of the course are summarized in the grading policy table below. Points x Weight = Total Pct. Project Assignments [9, 1 double] 100 5 500 36.5 Homeworks [4] 40 2 80 5.8 Pop Quizzes [9] 90 1 90 6.6 Lab Sessions [15] 150 2 300 21.9 Midterm Examinations [2] 200 1 200 14.6 Final Examination 100 2 200 14.6

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

as a tool for organized achievement, visiondevelopment, and the resolution of problems impeding the students’ education. First the chartshould be explained as needed. The students should be provided an opportunity to develop theirreflections, and a period of meaningful class discussion should follow. To fill out the BAMchart, a student begins at the basic level and moves upward toward self-actualization. The basicneeds should be understood as those needs that must be satisfied before significant progress canbe made. Basic needs include the mastery of prerequisite knowledge, access to the requiredtextbooks, the tools necessary to complete projects, course accommodations for personaldisabilities, the management of personal problems, the

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kisaalita; Thomas Reeves

are ill-defined questions to which there is on specific “right answer,” but more thanone defensible solution. “Thought problems” require higher order thinking abilities andattitudes and tend to facilitate the exhibition of intellectual curiosity (Reeves and Laffey,1999). Third, it is conducive for crossdisciplinary teams. The purpose of this paper is todescribe how we are implementing the idea in a special international section of the Fall 2002senior design, ENGR 4920. The prerequisite for ENGR 4920 is ENGR 2920 Engineering Design Methodology, inwhich students are introduced to the design process as well as related tools for decision-making.In regular ENGR 4920 sections, students are expected to complete a design project under

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

internalized assumptions in the discourse community withrespect to the context at hand. Although there is no need, from a disciplinary perspective, forevery engineering educator to engage in a sociolinguistic analysis of engineeringcommunication, it is important to realize that such work is possible and is being done, albeitslowly in the context of engineering education. This work can form a foundation for morerigorous work in engineering communication. Within the engineering education community, what do we mean by ‘an ability tocommunicate effectively?’ That is one of the goals of this research project – to analyze the usesand meanings of ‘communication’ within the engineering educational community. In addition,we consider the question of

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

, 4] include: · Learn outside of class. The most important and memorable learning experience does not occur inside the classroom. Learning outside of classes, especially in residential settings and extracurricular activities such as the arts, is vital. · Get feedback. Students say they learn significantly more in courses that are highly structured, with relatively many quizzes and short assignments – crucial to this preference is getting quick feedback from the professor. Students are frustrated and disappointed with classes that require only a final paper or project. · Work cooperatively. Challenging or complex homework assignments that force students to work