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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia M. Secola; James A. Middleton; Donovan Evans; Dale R. Baker; Bettie Smiley; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Indeed, Project 2061, which initiated the currentround of reform with Science for All Americans 8 and pushed for the establishment of nationalscience content standards, specifically addresses the importance of understanding The DesignedWorld. 9 Furthermore, the national technology standards developed by the International Societyfor Technology in Education have strong connections to engineering. 10Indeed, an engineering curriculum may be the best way for students to understand technologicaldesign or to distinguish between man-made and natural objects (Science and Technologystandard). Understanding risks and benefits or natural hazards (Science in Personal and SocialPerspectives standard) also has strong connections to engineering. Furthermore

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manssour Moeinzadeh; Jason Czapka; James Leake

conducted. In the first study students enrolled in experimental lab sections hadthe benefit of physical models, fifty in all, of varying levels of difficulty, as an aid tovisualization while engaged in the study of orthographic projections. The associated controlgroup used traditional teaching methods, without the benefit of the physical models.The second study was designed specifically to help students identified as having poorvisualization skills. The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) was used asboth a pre and post-test for all students enrolled in the graphics course. The PSVT:R pre-testresults were used to select students for the second study. Half of the students identified ashaving scored poorly on the PSVT:R were invited

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

/learningcommunities model, the pilot program sought to provide support and guidance for doctoralstudents whose progress on their dissertations had stalled. In this paper, I present an overview ofthe program; some preliminary outcome data; a discussion of the program’s effectiveness,foregrounding the voices of the participants; and some projections for the future.IntroductionStories about doctoral students who fail to complete their programs abound. Certainly PurdueUniversity was no exception in 1998 when I received my doctorate. We had our "urbanlegends;" someone knew someone who knew someone else. I remember noticing that a womanwho had been part of my statistics study group was not in any of my classes one semester. WhenI asked about her, one of my

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

Page 7.543.6 and photocell as a transducer Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe final hands-on experience for this course incorporates a project-oriented lab towards the endof the semester that uses all of the circuit components introduced in class. Typically, fourconsecutive 50-minute classes are used for the successful implementation and testing of aphotoelectric counter. The design is broken into four sections as shown in Figure 6. Studentsstart designing and building circuits from the back-end. During the first class

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

3.2 3.2 3.4 Problem Definition 3.0 2.9 3.0 Equipment Design 2.6 2.8 2.5 Technical Writing 3.4 3.6 3.3 Technical Presentations 3.5 3.5 3.5 Experimental Design 2.7 2.7 2.7 Process Design and Analysis 3.1 3.0 2.8Non-technical engineering skills such as decision making, ethics, teamwork, societal impactawareness, project management, public interaction, global awareness, diversity, entrepreneurism, andcontinuous

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

possibility of experimentation of new alternatives in the information’ssearch and in the problem’s solving. That makes the teacher an unreplaceable element,mainly in the orientation, correction, project/tasks suitability into the ideal level of thestudents background and also into the subject demands, creating the “familiarizationconditions in the ones involved with computers”46.Niquini and Botelho37 say that the teacher is an important part of the environments created Page 7.320.2by the multiple educational technologies, taking a fundamental role into the teaching- Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Washington Braga

interested in promoting changes in Engineering Education. This paper presents some reflections on teaching strategies to promote active teachingthat may result in effective learning. Most of them have been used for some time now in anundergraduate Heat Transfer course at the Mechanical Engineering Department of PUC,Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is essentially an analysis course, that issupposed to give fundamental information on Heat Transfer. A following course calledThermal Systems Projects is oriented towards technical and industrial problems. Thelearning environment to be considered herein is an extended classroom, combiningsynchronous (face-to-face meetings) and asynchronous (using Internet email conferencingsystems

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

project. However, the students had a tendency to blame the instructor for the fact thatthe student was up all night working on an assignment, when in fact the student had skipped lab.The net result was that very few labs were turned in late. Required lab attendance forced thestudents to start work on projects when they were assigned which enabled students to ask forhelp during lab. This helped reduce but not eliminate students working all night to completeassignments just before they were due. The instructor also saw an increase in the number ofstudents coming to instructor’s office for help as the students realized they had problems beforethe due date.6. Weekly writing of assessments and two office visits became required. The assessments were

Conference Session

Nuclear Power and the Environment

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

production systems, (i.e. wind,coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, etc.), evaluated on a consistent basis, taking into account thesocial and economic effects in addition to the cost (dollar) effects. A major problemaffecting the evaluation of the environmental and social costs of energy production inconjunction with the monetary cost is a lack of standardization, without whichcomparisons are difficult or invalid. A conflict has arisen between those intent onprotecting their view of the environment and those intent on providing continuingeconomic development. Previous studies of the environmental consequences have beendone by the Pace Law School Energy Project, which is part of the Pace University Schoolof Law's Center for Environmental Legal Studies, located

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hoffman; Christopher Zappe; Steven Shooter; Michael O'Donnell

suggests that 1) managers and engineers view the same facts fromdifferent perspectives and 2) there is a general difficulty to send or receive bad news, particularlywhen it must be passed to superiors. It is possible that the level of risk was not effectivelycommunicated to higher levels of management. Lighthall6 argues that there was a lack in basicskills in statistics with the engineers, and that the data and analyses were not valid but deficient.In fact, NASA safety organizations were not staffed with professional statisticians or riskanalysts, and project engineers were not trained in modern statistical analysis techniques.3 The following hypothesis and supporting hypotheses are thus presented for this study: Engineering curricula

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

a number ofassessment instruments specifically for this project. Assessment results indicate that the presentform of the Vis-MoM courseware is well received by both professors and students. In addition,quantitative results indicate a significant increase in both short term and longer-term conceptual Page 7.341.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”understanding when using the Vis-MoM courseware over standard lecture alone. Theassessment instruments developed specifically for this

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the challenge below. You need to take this opportunity to participate in thisactivity to the best of your ability. You should identify anything you are uncertain of and identify what you would do to research more toremove this uncertainty. Your effort on this activity represents -10% of your score on the first midterm exam.Part A. Recent sports reports have focused on the use of proteins as supplements to enhance an athlete’s performance. As such, there isgreat interest in the pharmaceutical industry to produce protein-based products that can be used in over-the-counter performanceenhancing supplements. You have just been promoted to project manager at ProteinPlus Corporation. ProteinPlus Corporation’s primaryrole is to design protein

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationobjectives of these exercises were: 1) elicit and record students’ initial concepts, 2) to illustratethe functional aspects of living systems, and introduce the principle that the design space of lifeis constrained by a rational set of physical parameters, and 3)allow the instructor to establish theframework for the discussions to follow in the course.Module 2: Introduction to The Human Genome Project and genetic mapping. For this exercise,the students were shown the recently published map of the human genome1 and were challengedto decode the meanings of its annotations

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelia Barnett

conditioning, paper mill, telephone, government contractors,and a biomedical pharmaceutical company. From employer evaluations, we find most of thestudents performed extremely well. Some of the employer comments were: “Student’s greatattitude a plus … work ethic will be an asset to any organization,” “… student is a cut above therest,” “Student exceeded expectations of intern program,” “… provided great support for multi-million dollar project,” etc. Student surveys showed that students regarded their experiences positively and wantedto continue working in some form of internship or cooperative experience. However, studentsdid express anxiety in beginning work in an engineering environment with no previousexperience. Most students were able to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duke; Don Morris

of the form used to report a summary of the assessment results and anyrecommendations based on the evaluation of the results. Any particular assessment tool,homework, group project, laboratory reports, quizzes, testing, or combination deemed necessaryby the instructor could be used. The assessment might be used to monitor (M) or summatively Page 7.238.2assess (S) the student achievement. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFig. 2. Schematic diagram depicting the process for course

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Osborne; Bill Carroll

offered.Course Design and DeliveryCS/EE Online courses are delivered via the World-Wide-Web in the form of hypertext files.This permits a wide range of options for course design and implementation. All courses aredesigned to facilitate asynchronous and self-paced learning. On-line Web access (utilizingcourse WebPages and WebBoard, and email) is used to facilitate group discussions and Q&Awith the instructor, and support other logistical needs such as homework assignments. FAQs andthreaded discussions are provided through the course WebBoard. Threaded discussions andQ&As are kept from each semester and are made available to students in future semestersthrough the WebBoard. Use of the WebBoard to organize project teams in CSE 5324 is shownin Fig

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

to performance but are not a direct measure of it or when measurement arepredictors of the performance 11.Additionally, to establish an adequate measurement basis in the system, it is necessary to thinkabout why the evaluation is required 1. In this project, evaluation would measure quality andresource utilization. This provides academic units with an objective assessment of theircapabilities, processes and service delivery. It would also provide a clear measurement of theirservice performance within the confines of the expectations and needs of its stakeholders.Other essential issues in evaluation are addressed by answering the following questions 14: · Who should evaluate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bertrand Côté

pictureAt the same time as we received a grant for our project from the Service de soutien àl’enseignement, the Department of Civil Engineering was undertaking a massive overhaulof its Bachelor’s Degree program. Important objectives were to increase significantly theuse of information technologies in the classroom and to come up with learning tools thatwould be appealing and effective in promoting self-learning. Using the video files hit thetarget right on in that respect. Page 7.1056.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mina Hoorfar; Homayoun Najjaran; William Cleghorn

development of a series of software programs that can be used byinstructors, teaching assistants, and students involved in the undergraduate curricula. Theprograms are primarily developed for the teaching purposes, but they can be used in distancelearning, student projects, research laboratories, and educational workshops. This paper presents Page 7.1001.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”two sample programs developed for two mechanical systems including mechanical vibrationsystems

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

both in quality and quality of instruction and depends primarily uponthe individual director. The USC Graduate School offers dissertation workshops a fewtimes a year; however, the space is limited, the information is not discipline specific, andfew engineering students attend.The unstated assumption in graduate education seems to be that by the time studentsreach the dissertation stage, they should already know how to manage and complete theproject; unfortunately, most students have never undertaken a project of this magnitudeand are not sure how to transfer their previously-mastered skills to such a task. Thus, thefocus of the workshop became the process behind a long, messy project such as adissertation. Shifting the students' attention from

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

! § Repeat deficient grades survival - If you have questions or§ Allocate appropriate time to immediately need help, ask an upper level study mathematics § Don’t drop mathematics - student or the student support staff§ Avoid making careless Understand how this affects § Be persistent and persevere mistakes your plan to fulfill § Get to know and work with faculty§ Organize and work in a requirements on research projects - They will get mathematics study group § Plan to get to Calculus in one to know you better and what you§ Be cautious

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

and teamwork-based with assessment embeddedat every stage. The module development process has been called the Module ArchitectureÓ, aterm that is in the process of being registered by the AIM Center.The Module Architecture Ó has been initially applied to the design of a novel curriculum for acomplete associate degree program in manufacturing engineering technology. 1 Because thecontent of the manufacturing engineering field is highly interdisciplinary, application of theresults of this project can easily be introduced in either manufacturing, mechanical, or industrialengineering technologies. For the purposes of this paper the following abbreviations for thesethree programs are used, MfgET, MET, and IET

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zribi; Mohammad Al-Ansary; Ibrahim Nashawi; Haitham Lababidi; Faridah Ali; Aziz Tayfun; Adel Aly; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

students during their course of study, throughinvolvement in professional societies and design projects. Evidences for the realization of theoutcomes are gathered through surveys (exit, faculty, alumni and employer). The last threeindicate specific performances, which can be measured during coursework by the instructors.All the program outcomes are embedded into the curriculum through course objectives andoutcomes. The faculty have described how each of the course objectives is related to theprogram outcome requirements, as well as the outcome requirements of Criterion 3 and 8. Inaddition, the faculty indicated to what extent specific courses fulfill the outcome requirementsof EC2000 as shown in Table 2 for the Mechanical Engineering curriculum

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Daniel; Joshua Becker; Carlos Ortiz

Session 1351 Study on Sludge Recirculation in a Metal Removal System Carlos A. Ortiz, Ph.D., Melanie O. Daniel, Joshua A. Becker Civil Engineering Technology Southern Polytechnic State UniversityThis study was conducted with undergraduate students to evaluate the impact of chemical sludgerecirculation on the overall removal efficiency and reduction of virgin chemicals. This project wasalso performed to demonstrate to students and faculty of the Civil Engineering Technology (CET)program at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) the capabilities of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ifte Choudhury

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, an M. Phil. in Architecture from the Universityof Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, and a Ph. D. in Architecture from Texas A&M University. Dr.Choudhury has extensive experience as a consulting architect working on projects funded by the WorldBank, Asian Development Bank, and some other Multilateral Development Banks. His areas of emphasisinclude housing, alternative technology, issues related to international construction, and constructioneducation. He teaches Environmental Control Systems at an undergraduate level and InternationalConstruction at a graduate level. Page 7.930.6

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jefferson Lindsey; Frances Harackiewicz; Lizette Chevalier

strengthrelative to their classmates and to a demonstration dipole antenna. Signal strength is measuredfrom an outdoor 4 th floor balcony. Students are allowed five minutes to find the orientation fortheir best reading. The signal strength can be the voltage reading on the AGC of the television setor the dBm reading on a spectrum analyzer. Both methods have been used, but not for the samesemester since the television has a 75-Ohm connection and the spectrum analyzer has a 50-Ohmconnection.Freshmen projectThe freshmen project needs to be completed in a few hours. That includes time for learning a bitof theory, construction and testing. The staff provides the freshmen with the center frequency ofoperation of the channel, the formula to calculate wavelength

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S.Y. Eidgahy

will represent a highly effective department. Very similarly,collective actions and decisions are critical, but can only develop from truly collective dialog.In doing so, a chair should not attempt to ‘homogenize’ the members, but rather assemble aneffective mix of skills and expertise, which can contribute to the collective dialog in majorways. Rewarding faculty collectively may seem inappropriate or at times counter to ourindividual senses; however, it simply displays collective ‘attention’.In a typical engineering department, faculty members are most concerned with their owncourses and projects. Therefore, the chair must be able to provide an atmosphere wherefaculty sees their individual goals reached through meeting departmental goals. As

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

processes is a cornerstone ofEC 20001.Given the limitations of achievement tests in fulfilling outcomes assessment requirements, theassessment community has recommended several alternative approaches for assessing studentoutcomes. These include portfolios, capstone design project evaluations, student, alumni andemployer surveys, and placement data of graduates. Yet, written surveys administered to currentstudents are the most frequently used assessment instruments, due in part to two reasons – one,they are relatively inexpensive to conduct, and, two, a high response rate is almost guaranteed. Anatural question is whether these student self-assessments are valid substitutes for test questionscreated and scored by an instructor.This paper reports the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Ballinger; Craig Somerton

student organizations. It has also been the authors' experience that collegejuniors and seniors relate especially well to middle school students, perhaps even better thanmost engineering faculty. With the student organization leading the tour, presentation, andhands-on activities, the faculty member is then able to put his/her efforts into developing thecontacts with middle school classes, training the members of the student organization for theirparticipation, organizing the manufacturing facility tour, and soliciting the small amount offunding required. The need to develop the three activities of the program, manufacturing facilitytour, class presentation, and hands-on project, are, hopefully, thoroughly addressed in this paper.There are many

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

DOCUMENTATION DATA INTEGRATIONThere has been an issue raised during past presentations of this model regarding pedagogicalapproaches to teaching with this model. The engineering student will be given an overview ofeach of these topics with an exemplary activity to match. The goal is to give them an appreciationof how each of these topics impacts the design process. Unfortunately, most engineers spendlittle of their time on the job actually doing what most of them would consider “design work”. Alltoo often, engineers are tasked with responsibilities, in addition to those mentioned in theIntroduction of this paper, relating to field issues and problems, negotiations with suppliers,testing, project management, and