Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

there is potential for more work. Therefore, they decide that theyshould have a physical presence there. The course then follows the branch location from its formation, marketingplan development, seeking clients, responding to RFP, performing construction management services,administering a project, and even bidding on a package.The lectures contain subjects to which the students have been previously exposed in other courses, as well assubjects that benefit their company and help them succeed. Industry presentations provide the course with realworld experiences that give the teams with valuable insight and ideas.Topics that are covered include: 1. Construction Management 11. Project Planning Process 2

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Cummings

disability, and 6% Page 7.309.1of these LD students hoped to obtain degrees in engineering (as compared to 8% for non-LD Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents) 1. Of all categories of students with self-reported disabilities in their freshman year incollege, the learning disability category increased the fastest over the past decade. From 1988 to1998, the numbers of learning disabled students entering college almost tripled 1. While 16% ofnon-LD college bound males were interested in

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Bittle

THS5651IDW is a 5-4-1 segmentedcurrent steering DAC. Data was collected at the Texas Instruments’ facility on Forest Lane,Dallas Texas. LabView® software was used for instrument control and data acquisition.MATLAB software was used to process data, to calculate current cell pair outputs, and to plotthe results to determine if there were major problem areas in the current array. Plots showed noproblem areas.I. IntroductionTexas Instruments invited the author to learn about the THS5651IDW, a new high-speed digitalto analog converter (DAC), being designed at their facility on Forest Lane, Dallas Texas. Thisknowledge is being passed on to students in the Electronic Engineering Technology program atthe University of North Texas. The THS5651IDW DAC is a

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack McGourty

earliestexamples reported by Harvard University in their publication, “Confidential Guide to Courses”[1]. The use of course evaluations has instigated much controversy over the years, with manyresearchers questioning the overall effectiveness and validity of results [2]. Now, with a newemphasis in outcome-based assessment, course evaluation processes are being viewed as apotential vehicle for collecting student feedback on both course objectives and studentperceptions of learning outcomes. With the potential for course evaluation processes to take onseveral new uses, the need for technology-mediated procedures to administer these surveys hasbecome evident. The traditional paper-and-pencil versions no longer provide the degree offlexibility required for

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

its mission and appropriate to thedegrees it offers.” 1 As part of the new accreditation process, each institution must meet the CoreRequirements, and the Comprehensive Standards on institutional effectiveness, as in theexamples given below: Core Requirements: The institution engages in ongoing, integrated, and institution-wide research-based planning and evaluation processes that incorporate a systematic review of programs and services that (a) results in continuing improvement and (b) demonstrates that the institution is effectively accomplishing its mission. See Core Requirement 5, pg. 8. 1 Comprehensive Standards: The institution identifies expected outcomes for its educational programs and its

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

Conference & Exposition Copyright Page 7.51.1  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationoriginal GPS Applications course provides the theory at a level sufficient to release theentrepreneurial appetites of non-avionics majors. The course continues to attract avionics majorswith an entrepreneurial bent and an interest in global positioning systems.Student learning objectives include: 1. Understanding the U.S. NAVSTAR system in terms of the system elements including satellite, ground control, and user segments. 2. Understanding the role of time in determining

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Washington Braga

be the Internet, provided that strong interactionis obtained among students, teachers and whatever software used. A mixed environmentcombining virtual and on-site classes has been developed and used for sometime now.Students acceptance is generally quite good and often their academic achievements haveincreased significantly, mainly after an email conference system and more interactive webpages have become available. This paper presents some of the strategies and resourcescombining active and reflective techniques already implemented to enhance studentslearning.1. Introduction To my knowledge, one of the most important advances regarding modern engineeringeducation has been the development of what is generically called web based

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Session 3530 Uncovering Obstacles to the Assessment Momentum E. W. Nault, Ph. D., M. S . Leonard, Ph. D., P.E., J. Joseph Hoey, Ed.D. Clemson University/Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractWhy is the practice of assessment inconsistently applied across engineering programs withinthe same university and among engineering disciplines across the country? EngineeringCriteria 2000 1 which mandates programmatic assessment was initially adopted for applicationin 1996. Yet, six years after the adoption of the new criteria, why do we still experience highlevels of faculty resistance to program assessment? This

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Tanner

some forms of behavior thus allowing for functions that are more versatile. The robot used for the series of experiments must fulfill several goals. The robot platformneeded to have a proven design with adequate processing power as well as flexibility at amoderate cost. The objective of the experiments was to study different types of behavioralgorithms. Therefore we choose the Rug Warrior ™ 1 robot kit. Braitenberg2 describes a series of thought experiments. These thought experiments usedvarying internal configurations and different stimuli to evoke behavior patterns similar toprimitive organisms. Using the set of thought experiments provided in the book and fusionprogramming techniques, the Rug Warrior ™ robot replicated

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Yves Hascoet; Benoit Furet; Marek Balazinski

Session 2649 Application in integrated mechanical design: A concurrent engineering project Benoît Furet, Jean-Yves Hascoët, Marek Balazinski Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Nantes et École Centrale Nantes - France /École Polytechnique de Montréal - CanadaAbstractThis work presents a new educational application of integrated mechanical design. The maingoal was the industrialization of a product by a team of technician students from the InstitutUniversitaire de Technologie de Nantes/IUT (France) with a student engineer 1

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 1. Centra Symposium Screen ShotThe typical class enrollments are currently six distance students coupled with six local students.Because of these fairly small initial sizes, we have combined the distance and local sections intoone course offering. Initially, the local students attended the class through a computerconnection just as the distance students. Recently, we have combined the classes in a differentway. The College of Engineering has just completed the purchase and installation of SMARTBoard systems for all of the engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

evident when one examines thetopics presented at EDGD (Engineering Design Graphics Division) conferences and published inthe EDG Journal verses those topics published in trade journals, white papers, and otherengineering publications. Within the EDGD there are still quite a few papers and presentationsconcerning 2D documentation. Recently, there have even been discussions of a nationally normedtest for engineering graphics that is mainly focused on documentation 1.Part of the problem may be that within the EDGD there are a wide variety of educators from Page 7.324.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

the user. Economic information isthen requested, including natural gas costs, electricity cost, interest rate, and building lifetime(the later two for the time value of money calculation). Finally, the insulation, furnace, and airconditioning choices are inputted. The format of the menus is found in Fig. 1.The insulation board is available in 50 mm, 75 mm, 100 mm, and 125 mm thicknesses. Todevelop thicknesses greater than 125 mm, one or two additional layers of board are required.The program allows for a maximum of five layers of insulation board. Three options areprovided for the type of insulation. Type A insulation costs 5 cents per square meter of area foreach millimeter of thickness and has a thermal conductivity of 0.04 W/(m K). Type B

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal

presented as grammars for use in describing the worldand solving problems in the world. In this paper, we report on the first semester of our FIG and what we learnedteaching it. Page 7.1088.2Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationExpected Outcomes In planning the FIG, the authors completed OATAs (Outcome/Activity/Technique/Assessment) in a grid format. Figure 1 shows the OATAs the authors createdas they prepared to teach the FIG for the first time in the fall 2001 semester.Figure 1: First-Year

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

Session 3225 Biosystems Engineering Design Trilogy: An Overview D.D. Mann1, M.G. Britton 2, K.J. Dick 1 and D.S. Petkau 1 1 Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba / 2 Engineering Design Program, Faculty of Engineering, University of ManitobaAbstractIn the fall of 1998, the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitobaintroduced a package of three courses to enhance the teaching of engineering design. Theobjective was to teach undergraduate engineers how to design by exposing them to the type ofdesign environment they will

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moiez Tapia

does not address such engineers and professors.Degree Earned Through ExperienceThe United States Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services has some criteria, Page 7.140.1given in ‘8 code C.F.R. 214.2 (h) (4) (iii) (D)’ [given in Appendix I], to determine if theProcedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering1Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2002, American Society for Engineering Educationprofessional experience of a person without a bachelor’s degree can be considered to beequivalent to an engineering degree from an accredited engineering department 1. The INScriteria consider professional

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

Engineering Education”• The most effective use of work-based projects• The methods of achieving team-work with widely dispersed students• Case Studies illustrating the diversity of students’ background, learning experiences and outcomes from the courses• Conclusions and wider implications for engineering education• Make comparisons with similar programmes which provide Masters level CPD1. IntroductionIn 1971, J. Sterling Livingston, then Professor of Business Administration at Harvard BusinessSchool report the “Myth of the well-educated Manager” [1]. “Managers are not taught in formal education programmes what they need to know to build successful careers in management. Most management graduates prefer staff positions in

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R.L. Alan Jordan

become increasinglyimportant to both industry and academic institutions.1 Industry is now often unwilling to investin bringing a product to market unless some form of exclusivity such as a patent or trade secret isavailable.2 To deliver technological contributions to society in a tangible way and to provide animportant additional source of revenue to support research efforts, academic institutions nowregularly obtain patents for the inventions of faculty and staff and actively pursue licensingagreements with industry. Pursuit of exclusivity sometimes delays academic publication ofimportant discoveries, but in general, once a patent application covering the discovery is filedwith the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), faculty should be

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lockwood-Benet; Rosa Buxeda; Manuel Hormaza; Alejandro Ruiz Acevedo; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Lueny Morell

,followed by New Jersey with 5.08. Furthermore, the location quotient for selected competitiveclusters in Puerto Rico positioned drugs at the lead. Pharma exports reached $28.6 billion inFiscal 2001, up 245% from Fiscal 1997 (Figure 1). Puerto Rico exported more pharmaceuticalproducts to foreign countries than any states (Figure 2). The continued stability of the pharmacluster is critical to our fiscal revenues, local private sector earnings and exports. Nine of the topten drugs in terms of the 2000 world saleswere manufactured in the island.An economic analysis by the Puerto Rico 30,000Industrial Development Company,PRIDCO, indicated that most of the job 25,000losses in the past, have occurred in labor

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Laurence Gould; Hisham Alnajjar; Diego Bernardete; David Pines

. 9872433 - Integrating EngineeringDesign with the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Mathematics). Initial meetingsbetween faculty from the different colleges were used to become familiar with material coveredand the textbooks used in the three courses. The major topics covered in each of the courses arepresented in Table 1. Table 1. Topics Covered in Principles of Design, Physics I, and Calculus II Principles of Engineering Physics I Calculus II (3 Credits) (4 Credits) (4 Credits) (1) Solving Problem (1) Vectors (1) Integration Methodology (2) Velocity, Acceleration

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

judging teacher progression, we developed the general levels of teacher awareness andconcern indicated in Table 1. This scale parallels other scales that describe, for instance, multiple“Stages of Concern” regarding school improvement efforts such as those advocated by theNational Staff Development Council. 12 Page 7.586.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1 SummerScape Scale of Teacher Awareness and Concern Level

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Lavoie; Jean Brousseau

Session ____Linear Algebra: a Privileged Context to Develop Abstract Notions Using Spatial Intuition Mario Lavoie, Jean Brousseau, Jean-François Goulet Université du Québec à RimouskiSituationEducational books dealing with analytic geometry, such as Swokowski 1, present thegeometry of 2D and 3D spaces and introduce vectors and their methods. However, a lotof methods developed for 2D and 3D spaces use the cross-product that does notgeneralize to space dimensions greater than three. On the other hand, educational bookspresenting linear algebra for engineers, such as Kreyszig 2

Conference Session

International Graduate Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

grammatical errors.Finally, the students were taking heavy course loads (in a second language), and they found itdifficult to devote extra time to practice their communication skills.Since the percentage (and number) of international graduate students in engineering at theUniversity of Iowa has grown over the past seven years (see Figure 1), the case to providespecial assistance in the area of communication skills becomes even more compelling. Earlyintervention to alert them of our expectations and to help them develop good writing andspeaking habits will stand them in better stead than waiting until the dissertation to address thesedeficiencies. This formative approach is less frustrating and discouraging to the students andtheir mentors. In

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

the blackboard is an important learning exercise that reinforcesconcepts presented in a lecture format. Therefore, a teaching lab has been developed that utilizesa virtual blackboard. The virtual blackboard serves the same purpose as the physical blackboardin the classroom except the workspace is on the student’s computer workstation.Hardware. A new Electrical/Electronics Teaching Laboratory (EETL) was established withtwelve (12) workstations and one teacher workstation (Figure 1). The student’s computer was aPentium III 700 MHz processor with 128 MB RAM running Windows NT 4.0. Each station haddata acquisition capabilities through a 16 channel analog-to-digital converter (NationalInstruments, PCI-MIO-16E-4) and an input/output connector block

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariesa Crow; Karen Butler-Purry; Noel Schulz

meetings were: 1. Lunch time to network/visit 2. Teaching, Learning and Gender Issues 3. Balancing Research, Teaching and Service 4. Dealing with Problem Students 5. Goal Setting and Career Management.Based on the results of the interest survey, the group leaders planned informal lunches and onesocial event. One session focused on problem situations and solutions using four scenarios aboutstudent actions and faculty responses. Early in 2002, the group visited with Jill Tietjen onrecruitment and retention issues and with Rich Felder on teaching, learning and gender. InMarch a career-planning seminar, similar to the one at UMR, is planned for the women faculty.The organizers are developing a COE Women Faculty Book that includes a

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Edwards

engineering context, or byusing graphical visualisations. In the latter case, the maxim, “A picture is worth a thousandwords” is most appropriate.Even if students have problems rearranging mathematical equations, they can, almost always,“read”, understand and draw graphs. Now a graph is basically a visualisation of amathematical equation, be it as simple as the straight-line equation or as complicated as thesolution of a second-order partial differential equation. Consequently, displaying the graph of(i.e. visualising) an equation can help deepen student understanding of the mathematicsbehind that equation. During the early 1990s, the author wrote and presented for student usesome graphical mathematics software 1 using Visual Basic. Through its use

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilson Barnes; Gouranga Banik

Society of EngineeringEducators, January, 30-34.Riggs, L.S. (1988). ' Educating Construction Managers.' Journal of Construction Engineering andManagement, ASCE, Vol. 114, No. 3, pp. 278-285.US Census Bureau (2001). .Yates, J.K. (1994). "Construction competition and competitive strategies." Journal ofManagement in Engineering, ASCE, 8(1), 58-69.Gouranga C. Banik, Ph.D., P.E.Gouranga C. Banik is an Assistant Professor of Construction Program at Southern Polytechnic State University inMarietta, Georgia. Dr. Banik completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Construction Engineering from Iowa StateUniversity. He has eleven years working experience in both private and public sector as an engineer and/orconstruction manager. He is a registered professional

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir syllabi to accomplish these goals. Figure 1 shows a syllabus from a recent course that hasbeen modified only in that it was changed to make it anonymous. CheE 201: Materials and Energy Balances This syllabus has the minimum amount of Instructor: Dr. Anonymous Office Hours: TBA content for it to actually be called a syllabus. You Meetings: MWF 10 am, 206 Harshbarger

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

series of focus groups with potentialstudents that its recruitment materials were discouraging rather than encouraging students toapply for admittance to its college of agriculture. Identifying customer requirements has alsobeen applied in other academic areas, including the development of courses and curriculum.IEs employ a variety of methods to tap into customer requirements. Methods such as QualityFunction Deployment (QFD) can employ a combination of tools—surveys, contextual inquiry,interviews, and focus groups—that yield both qualitative and quantitative data. 1 Generally,surveys are used as a means to gather quantitative data to supplement and reinforce thequalitative data gathered initially through the other methods. There are a number of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daphne Chang

processes: 1) Concrete Experience, 2)Reflective Observation, 3) Abstract Conceptualization and 4) Active Experimentation.One of the major functions of education is to shape students’ attitude toward learning and todevelop effective learning skills. The authors hope to accomplish these objectives by usingdynamic animation and team project. It is not merely about including practical experiences bututilizing these experiences to induce higher levels of learning. Furthermore, students will be Page 7.508.1exposed to the importance of team work, working collaboratively through individual differenceswhich is an integral part of real work scenarios.In the