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The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Marvin Harris; Kevin Dahm

sets the stage fordeveloping a culture in which lab safety is observed at all times. At Rowan, throughout thecourses for which this activity was designed, Junior/Senior Clinic (a research project course forundergraduates) and Unit Operations Laboratory, safe practices are tied to the students’ grades.In addition to requiring students to prepare HazOp reports for each laboratory experiment orproject, random safety checks are performed throughout the semester. This paper provides detailsfor delivering this introductory exercise, as well as student responses.IntroductionTraining students to practice safe behavior in the laboratory is essential to producing competentengineers. Creating students who instinctively and thoughtfully incorporate an

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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum

. 2Most Fachhochschulen have included a practical placement program in their courses, which meansone semester of [practical training in a company. Mostly during the main study program, studentsare expected to practice what they have learned with tasks and problems they will face duringtheir future, everyday professional experience. A degree thesis or final project covering a concreteprofessional problem to be completed in the last semester is often being developed in cooperationwith a company through this type of practical training. Small and medium-sized businesses areoften involved in these contacts with students, who frequently get their first career opportunitythrough their practical placement and degree thesis.The normal duration of studies

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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

. These include: 1) active project-based learning inside and outside of the classroom, 2) increased student-teacher dialog, 3) horizontal and vertical integration of subject matter, 4) introduction of mathematical and scientific concepts in the context of engineering, and 5) the broad use of information technology.The causes of and proposed solutions to the dissatisfaction with the exposure to chemistry andother scientific disciplines for engineering students, without assigning blame, requires anexamination of the differences between a scientist and an engineer. A scientist is one whodiscovers new principles of nature through a systematic system of observation, experimentation,and study. An engineer puts the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Iken; Mahima Ashok; J.C. Lu; Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

Engineering and, ultimately, distributed to the engineering educationcommunity at large.A related objective of this project is to lay the foundation for an integrated curriculum ininformation technology and E-business. As companies redefine their objectives and restructuretheir operations to compete more effectively in the E-business marketplace, there will beconsiderable demands for well-trained "knowledge engineers" that understand how to dobusiness electronically ("E-business") and how to synthesize large volumes of data into usefuldecision-making knowledge. Although there is a compelling need for education in informationtechnology and E-business, at present engineering programs are not commonly involved indeveloping courses or curriculum that

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Hudson

address the move from the instructor and students’ use of computers for acourse, to the instructor’s use of the computer in the classroom, to the “hands on” use bythe students in the classroom. The discussion on the evolution of the laptop use willinvolve issues such as software, websites, quizzes, participation, group projects,minimizing distractions, and setting policies on the laptop use. Information has beencollected on these subjects from various professors, informal class surveys, and a formalclass computer usage survey. The paper will address pros and cons of various techniquesas well as lessons learned.Computer Initiative BackgroundWith the cost of personal computers going down and performance going up, the trend hasbeen toward requiring

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Johnson Asumadu

ralph.tanner@wmich.edu ABSTRACT In this project, a new architecture called "Remote Wiring and MeasurementLaboratory (RwmLAB)" acts as a local multi-circuit board on a common distributed panelon the Internet. Matrix switching, data acquisition, data processing and analysis, andgraphical unit interface enabled device characterize the RwmLAB. Students are physicallyable to wire up electrical and electronics circuits at the host lab site using the Internetaccess and by means of a conventional circuit board. The data acquisition interfaceallows students to make measurements at the nodes. The data collected at the nodes aremade available on Web. The RwmLAB interface is greatly simplified by using a

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Navratil

(such as properties, structure andbonding, reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics), coordination and solution chemistry,behavior and speciation in the environment, separation and purification, chemistry of thenuclear fuel cycle and waste treatment and related topics. The lectures incorporatedmodern accelerated learning techniques, and class participation and special projects wereemphasized to enhance student comprehension and learning of the subject. This paperwill summarize these techniques and provide illustrations used in the class.INTRODUCTIONI believe that the process of learning and thinking is a complex combination of colors,pictures, scenarios, sounds and words. Multisensory ways of learning are effective sinceone stores auditory, visual

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

avoided. In indus-trial reactors unwanted byproduct formation is a serious problem. In addition, considering by-product formation presents the engineer with an opportunity to employ the field of green chemis-try. With the advent of easy to use analytical instrumentation we believe that experiments in re-action engineering should now progress to examining systems with multiple reaction products.In this manner we will integrate new technology into reaction engineering experiments.Goals and ObjectivesThe goal of this project is to create reaction engineering experiments that are similar to industrialreactors in that they contain multiple chemical reactions. The instructional objectives for stu-dents completing these laboratories are listed below

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Franke

large permanent space facilities.” 4 The Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics currently has three graduate programsrelated to space: Astronautical Engineering, Space Operations, and Aerospace and InformationOperations. Broadly speaking, the goal of the space programs offered at AFIT is to providestudents with the technical knowledge necessary to conduct, develop and manage spaceprograms that increase the United States Air Force’s effectiveness in waging war. Aftergraduation, the assignments of AFIT graduates and the projects and programs they manage mighttypically include research on new concepts, development of program requirements, acquisitionof space systems, and operation of existing space systems. AFIT’s graduate education

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

engineering programs while it offers students detailed information that can be used todevelop technically and professionally.II. System History and DevelopmentOver the past three years, SEAS has worked with student groups and faculty to develop acomprehensive web-enhanced course evaluation system to improve academic programs andcourses as well as to measure learning outcomes. The genesis of the system began three yearsago with a student project, funded by NSF Gateway Coalition, that allowed faculty evaluationdata to be uploaded to a website for student review. The website, known as Oracle (Figure 1),allowed students to review evaluation data by course or professor to guide them in courseselection. The introduction of public ratings had a profound

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Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Peter Edwards

award of a Fellowship 2 from theHigher Education Funding Council for England’s National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, theauthor obtained three years’ further funding in 2000 for the project and its applets to becomea worldwide Internet resource (MathinSite3).MathinSiteMathinSite is an on-going project whose mathematics applets are its mainstay. MathinSite’sprimary aim is to deepen student understanding of mathematics through the use ofinteractive, stimulating, visually dynamic software. An example is shown in the followingfigure - a screenshot from the ‘Mass / Spring / Damper’ applet. The scrollbars on the right here

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Anita Todd; Robert Pangborn

Conference Session

Collection Issues Forum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Bernier

, soexpensive that many small colleges cannot afford them or justify their cost since these schoolsoften tend to have smaller electronic collections. With all the new linking features that mostcommercial database services have today, smaller colleges need not be left out of today’s linkingtrends. Two of these features include the ability to add a local collection to a commercialdatabase, the static approach, or linking the database directly to the Online Public AccessCatalog (OPAC), the dynamic approach. The library at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, asmall engineering and science college in Indiana has utilized these features to connect itselectronic resources to create a more dynamic and simpler searching process. The project wascarried out

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Matson; Elizabeth Kisenwether

on written and oral communications, ability to work on multi-disciplinary teams, project planning and management skills. · Alumni interest and financial support via endowments for engineering entrepreneurship education is growing. · Participation in REEE2000 and REEE2001 Conferences – Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education, at Stanford University - confirmed that good engineering design in inherently a creative process, and gaining business acumen is key for Page 7.798.1 engineering entrepreneurship education. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ribando

problems andespecially by including “concept” questions along with conventional problem solving inassessing student performance.IntroductionIn recent years we have transformed our undergraduate heat transfer course from atypical “chalk-and-talk” lecture course to include what we call a “studio” session. Thelatter, a two-hour “hands-on” session held in a room provided with a computer for eachpair of students, supplements the two lectures each week that are held in a room having acomputer and projection system just for the instructor. Unlike the two other “hands-on”computer classrooms in our building, the one we use for the heat transfer studio sessions

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith; Denny Mahoney

driving principle, supported as necessary by business and Page 7.914.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education(systems) engineering disciplines. Targeted students include mid-career engineers andtechnical specialists with career paths to senior management.PD21 began as a two-year pilot project with funding from the National Science Foundation,during which time the consortium grew to four universities, adding the Naval PostgraduateSchool in 2000. PD21 is a consistent educational program based on

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

them an experience of howproducts are designed and assembled. The main drawback of this approach is scalability. Weoffer this course to nine sections of 32 students each. This still only reaches 20 percent of ourentering engineering students. To address the issue of offering active learning opportunities to allentering freshman, we have worked to develop activities that could be offered during the regularclass time rather than as a separate laboratory.Pilot Project 1Development and implementation of any significant change in course delivery method, in thiscase hands-on early design activities, for the entire entering engineering class at Virginia Techrequires significant planning and trials. There are usually thirty-six sections of EF1015

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Dantzler; Kevin Whitaker; Jim Richardson

grouping, cooperative learning, teamdesign projects, and an emphasis on written and oral communication. Student record dataindicates that the program has improved retention in the engineering program but has hadminimal effect on achievement. Anecdotal evidence from follow-on teachers, however, suggeststhat the TIDE program may have soft skill carry-over effects. Upper-class engineering studentswho participated in the TIDE program may exhibit more confidence, better communication skillsand greater team skills than their traditional program counterparts. To test this hypothesis, engineering faculty who teach downstream design courses thatrely heavily on student soft skills were asked to rate past students on a variety of dimensions.Each rater

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jose Fierro; Daniel Grajeda; Steve Stafford; Rosa Gomez

paper, we willhighlight their student experiences:Before Daniel and Jose began working at ACES, both had worked for the CircLES of Learningfor Entering Students (CircLES) program on campus as orientation leaders: Daniel, as asophomore and Jose, as a freshman. The CircLES program, also an MIE initiative, is a week-long orientation program for freshmen entering the university in the fields of science,engineering and mathematics. For six weeks during the summer, Daniel and Jose facilitatedmodules, led tours, assisted with design projects and constantly interacted with incomingfreshmen. Working for CircLES introduced them to many skills that they are now applying at

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Thomas; Vinod Lohani; Bevlee Watford

Session 2793 Object Oriented Analysis of Weather Data in Virginia Steven Thomas, Vinod Lohani, Bevlee Watford Senior, Computer Engineering/Assistant Professor, Engineering Fundamentals/Director, Minority Engineering Program, Virginia TechAbstract An object-oriented approach is presented to analyze drought patterns in Virginiausing probabilistic analysis of long - term weather data (i.e. Palmer Drought SeverityIndex (PDSI)). The study is a part of an undergraduate research project, funded by theoffice of the Minority Engineering program under a VT-GE program, at Virginia Tech.The purpose of the

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Collins; Matthew Ohland

. This paper will briefly describe the larger project, which will study a variety ofapproaches to improving the success of freshman engineering students, and specifically report onthe catalog and meta-analysis of summer bridge programs. The catalog will classify programs bytheir design options and the meta-analysis will review highlights of assessment results drawinggeneralizations where possible.IntroductionAcross the country, there is an extensive base of experience in the design and implementation ofprograms intended to improve the success of first-year engineering students. Significantresources have been spent to identify best practices in the education of first-year students (ingeneral), including entire organizations and conferences. 1 It

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

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S. Scott Moor

key environmental and safety concerns for the process, a review of the key uses of the product, a discussion of key economic issues including quantitative information such as current market price, total annual market, etc.In addition students are encouraged to include a simple flow diagram usually copied from one oftheir sources.I direct the students to eight basic references. Providing these references helps the project meetthe constraint of this being a quick assignment that is within a first year students’ capabilities.Three of the references provide simple introductions to the topics.1,2,3 Three are standardchemical process engineering references which are still fairly accessible to students not yettrained in

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gretchen Hein; Sheryl Sorby

experiments andstudies. A summary of each exploration is given in the following.Mining Engineering: With the intent of offering an overview of the mining/minerals industry, the session addressed the Mining and Mineral Process Engineering curriculum, potential careers, and a demonstra- tion using a computer to model an ore body. The teachers were introduced to the various phases involved in exploration, development, and the operation of a mine. Images were shown of the various phases of a particular project. A CD of these images was sent to the teachers so they could introduce their students to mining engineering. Page 7.1312.2Environmental

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

program and these firms.J. Funding OpportunitiesOne of the primary issues for a startup company is raising initial funding, and the CEOs Program Page 7.314.5provides information about and couples the fledgling companies with potential sources. The Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationUniversity of Maryland’s engineering school conducts a program called the Maryland IndustrialPartnerships (MIPS) Program. MIPS can provide funds to match company funds to supportR&D projects to develop products

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia LaCourse; Barrett Rock

students thought organizing and editing skills would be mostuseful early in their degree program, but they had difficulty finding time in their busy schedules. Adding a writing course is not the answer, because it further burdens a packed curriculumand concepts learned do not necessarily transfer to the thesis task. Steinker describes a coursefor the preparation of a thesis.14 He laments the lack of readiness in research and writing skills ofthe average student. His course, however, was provided prior to rather than in conjunction withthe actual thesis project. Most students have no idea of the effort that a thesis demands. Many tend to begin thewriting stage when research is almost finished. Although this was understandable before

Conference Session

Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Kuyath

improve the animations before they were placed on theweb. The advantages to creating the animations were: 1) More efficient use of class time. Lessclass time was used to introduce addressing modes so that more time was available to discussadvanced topics; and 2) Better student comprehension. Students’ grades and projects improvednoticeably. The final product took time to develop. Methods used to develop the animations andsome lessons learned will be discussed. Data will be presented, based on students’ grades andopinions that will show that the addition of web-based computer animations made the coursemore efficient and effective.Introduction:For many years the author taught introductory microprocessor courses and found that manystudents had a

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gurdip Singh

Session 1420 Evaluating the Impact of Real-time Systems Theory Course on a Multidisciplinary Embedded Systems Curriculum G. Singh1 , M. Mizuno1 , M. Neilsen1 , D. Lenhert2 , N. Zhang3 , A. Gross41 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University (KSU), fsingh,masaaki,neilseng@cis.ksu.edu2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU, zhangn@ksu.edu4 The IDEA Center, 211 S. Seth Child Road, Manhattan, KS, agross@ksu.edu Abstract The ChERT project is

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

the final resultwill be given directly to contractors for implementation. A third student, who also interned at theplant for one semester, is currently working on a senior project to help develop part of an energymanagement plan for campus. Whereas the first two students are mechanical engineering majorsthis student is in management engineering. The American Power Conference (APC) is held annually in Chicago, IL. In conjunction with Page 7.1186.3the conference the Sponsored Student Faculty (SSF) program allows students and faculty toattend conference sessions and activities designed to expose students to the energy industry.These

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Manufacturing Processes and Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sybillyn Jennings; Sunderesh Heragu; Robert Graves; Charles Malmborg

HELPFigure 2 Ten Principles Module Information DesignWhen the CD is launched, the user is taken to the Introduction screen from which an introductory video "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.672.3 Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"containing a message from the project director can be launched. The bottom of this screen has iconsthat allow the user to proceed to the:• goals and objectives screen• CD navigation screen that includes animated demonstrations illustrating how a user can

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

global poster session using the Internet and the WorldWide Web. The intent was to simulate electronically a traditional session in whichpresenters gave summaries of papers describing and analyzing projects in engineeringeducation, and engaged in dialogue with members in attendance at the session. The hopewas that such educators would use provided web locations to share 'best practices' withtheir peers globally, and in the process of reviewing other such submissions wouldcontinue their own professional development.Announcements about the electronic conference began to circulate in the late springbefore the conference. Submissions were posted as they were received. At the actualSEFI meeting the papers were summarized and the results presented as