Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

, design, model making, drawing, CAD, structures, environmentalsystems, presentations and writing. Our capstone program provides opportunities forexploration, questioning, testing, and criticism. It requires the students to use experience andknowledge gained in other courses and forces them to play an active role in their own learning. Itdemands personal accountability for decisions, and commitment to ideas and proposals that arescrutinized publicly. We believe that we have developed a model that other disciplines oncampus could well profit from observing.IntroductionThe Carnegie report "Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education andPractice" by Ernest Boyer and Lee Mitgang criticized architecture programs for lack ofintegration

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

who will record the answer, put all names on the paper, andopen the floor for discussion among the groups. Groups may ask questions of me or other nearbygroups. Rather than stopping the work at a certain time, I will typically wait a few minutes then,while the groups are still working, I’ll begin to write the correct solution on the board. Groupswho are progressing well can continue and check their answer at the end, while groups that arestuck resort to what they would have done in the first place: getting the solution from the board.The quizzes may be turned in or left with the students. If turned in, I choose to give allparticipants full credit for the quiz rather than grading their answer, since the answer was availablebefore they were

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

” Appendix B Fall Semester 2001 CE 489: Senior Design, CME 413: Construction Capstone, & CME 489: Construction Design PEER EVALUATION OF GROUP MEMBERS Your Name: ______________________________ Group No. ______ Please write the name of all of your other group members (do not include yourself) and rate the degree to which each member fulfilled his/her responsibilities in completing the assigned tasks. The possible ratings are as follows: Excellent Consistently went above and beyond -- tutored teammates

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

with teammates who have a different work ethic than they do.3. Students learn that they must complete the assignment on time.4. Students learn that they must understand the work in the competency assignment in order for it to be helpful during the exam.5. Students prepare the Competency Assignment neatly because it will be judged by one of their peers.6. Students who are the managers learn to discuss problems analytically while they take the exam (the managers are usually the last ones to finish the exam).7. Students are more enthusiastic about the course.I. IntroductionThe traditional methods of engineering instruction at the university level typically involvelecturing, homework, quizzes and exams. Although commonly viewed as “not the

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationConventional Statics instruction has been successful in teaching students to write and solveequilibrium equations based on a known free body diagram, and to construct free body diagramsfor textbook problems in which the forces and moments at supports and connections are largelyimplied by standard symbols in the problem diagrams. However, where Statics is finallyrelevant to engineering practice in the analysis and design of mechanical systems, instruction hasbeen notably unsuccessful. Students cannot go beyond textbook problems to apply Statics topractical situations, and they

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga

use in industry 5. Perform economic analysis and life cycle costing 6. Perform energy audits 7. Integrate renewable energy sourcesEach of the above major skills requires a series of subordinate skills. Some of them can beconsidered as prerequisites skills gained through traditional EET or MET programs. Energymanagement is revolved around electrical and mechanical systems. Even though the priorknowledge of EET and MET students are not similar, students can work as teams allowing peer-to-peer learning. Figure 1 summarizes subordinate skill analysis where highlighted items can beconsidered as prior knowledge or knowledge that may require minimum coverage. The numberinside the boxes on top corresponds to the numbers of the

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

trio of reading, writing, and arithmetic (or Italian high finance: how many silverpointpencils can you buy for 120 soldi? and why should you care!).I. IntroductionStarting with four seminal figures—Giorgio Vasari,1 Goethe, Freud, and Kenneth Clark 2—and afactual chronology of Leonardo’s life, the seminar examined LdV from five perspectives rangingfrom generally agreed-upon facts to a provocative “inside his head” approach. Subsequentcomparisons with passages in da Vinci’s Notebooks, the Florentine State Archives,contemporaneous letters, and eyewitness accounts helped shed light not only on the five slantsprovided above, but also on his creative process.A figure such as Leonardo can inspire students to view engineering as an expansive

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hereford

develops the standard would be a committee operating under the auspicies ofthe ASEE or similar organization. Faculty that develop the labs then submit their assignments tothe review organization which insures the quality and originality of the assignment and enforcesthe style standard. This system is analogous to the peer review system for journal papersubmission.Current technology exists to make the review process a completely paperless system. Typically,the lab assignments are created in an electronic format and would be submitted to the reviewboard electronically. The review “editor” would then electronically send the write-ups to two (orso) reviewers. If accepted, the assignments would be stored electronically in the database.Accepted

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

they have learned, and applications of those skills in other courses.They are frequently asked to write about the concepts that were easiest to understand (andwhy), and those that were most difficult to learn (and offer suggestions for improving theinstruction).This paper has been prepared by a team of students selected from a group of volunteers. Itdescribes the course from the students’ perspective, focusing on the skills learned, activitiesthat were perceived to be valuable and those that were not, changes in their attitudes towardengineering as a career, and suggestions for improving the course next year.IntroductionA new course, Introduction to Engineering, was offered for the first time at Walnut Hills HighSchool during the 2001-2002

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

preparationof different assessment tools, such as oral examinations and presentations, peer and teacherassessment of class projects, and modified homework assignments. Page 7.941.34. MET 382 Controls and Instrumentation for AutomationThis course stresses hands-on experience in a wide area of topics, including programmable logiccontrollers (50% of time), data acquisition (35%), and industrial control (15%). In this paper wefocus only on one 2-hour laboratory assignment for data acquisition.The core learning objectives for this course are: · Identify the components of a PC-based data acquisition system. · Evaluate and select an automated data

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

classes outside of the college. We begin with the first day of class in the fall when teams of 4 or 5 students are asked toparticipate in a tower building contest using Jenga blocks. This first day exercise allows thestudents to get to know some of the people in their section and to become acquainted with theirsection instructor in an informal atmosphere. During the remainder of the semester, the studentswork in teams on laboratory projects, presentations, and in homework study-groups. Sophomore Clinic is team-taught by faculty from engineering and college writing in the fallsemester and faculty from engineering and public speaking in the spring. The curriculum inSophomore Clinic is coordinated so that the students’ writing and speaking

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

Page 7.653.3on teaching programming in the context of the introductory course. We had chosen to use theVisual Basic programming language as it would enable the students to write a Windows basedprogram, and most macro languages were based on Visual Basic.Business - Engineering students need a sense of business. The sponsors of the engineeringschool made this clear, and we tried to expose the students to business issues.To meet these challenges we designed a statics course with the following “novel” features. 1) Assignments which required analysis and explanation. 2) A series of open ended laboratory assignments. 3) A series of computer assignments to complement the laboratory investigations and allow the students to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elhag Shaban

established torectify it. We suggest to make changes in syllabi contents, stress design in courses andexams, select and retain oriented engineering faculty, show cases in courses,examinations, and laboratories that assist the students to practice design. This paperoutlines suggestions and recommendations that may substantially improve the capstonedesign in undergraduate electrical engineering to satisfy the r igorous challenge of ABETrequirements.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) is a privateprofessional agency responsible for peer review of engineering programs to meetminimum standards set forth by the agency and to enhance the existing and developfuture educational programs. Accredited programs provide the

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato

information that I usedas reference throughout my first semester. Furthermore, I chose to complete some additionalreadings given in the course so I could better understand how to teach. ISW helped me initiallydevelop my personal teaching style by showing me what teaching methods and practices werealready available and where to go to get more information on them. ISW also required me initially practice my newly developed teaching style. During ISWI taught five classes to senior instructors and my peers. There is no substitute for this type ofpractice and feedback. At the end of ISW, I had 28 formal assessments that I keep as a part ofmy record of teaching those particular classes (See Enclosure 1 for an example). Theassessments covered both

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

, another idea must be proposed. This analysis, in point form, is put in writing andsubmitted to the course instructor. This assignment forces the students to explain why they havechosen a specific idea to pursue.The next design assignment is an oral presentation of the preliminary design based on theanalysis of the brainstorming session. This informal presentation is made to all of the studentsenrolled in the design trilogy. It is modeled after a weekly project meeting that encourages aninformal discussion and exchange of ideas. The students are encouraged to solicit advice fromthe audience during their presentation. Typically, this occurs approximately one month after thedesign teams have been formed.Approximately one month prior to the date of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

or five to design and manufacture an engineering product over thesemester given a set of specifications and constraints. The course introduces freshmanstudents to the field of engineering and the engineering design process that forms thebackbone of real world engineering practice. The class lectures and design integrationdraws knowledge from several different courses/fields the students will be undertaking insubsequent years thereby avoiding compartmentalization of knowledge by rigidsubject/disciplinary boundaries. The students learn project management, teamwork,engineering drawing, project presentation, data analysis, writing technical reports, andfundamentals of engineering science related to the design project assigned.UMES student

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

accommodating six very different facultymembers advising six very different projects, while providing some much-needed structure forthe students.Oral presentations have always been considered outstanding in this course. The structuralchanges have noticeably improved report writing and seem to have decreased the time spent inthe initial stages of the projects. Due to this new structure, both faculty and students have theopportunity to recognize problems earlier in the design cycle, and, administering the course is abit less like ‘herding’ cats!BackgroundTrinity University is a primarily undergraduate institution in San Antonio of approximately 2400students. Trinity is a well-regarded liberal arts and sciences institution, and incorporates

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

concepts of statics, both the studentand faculty member know the issue lies in the current topic, not the prerequisite course!Second, engineering faculty members need an instrument for formative use in assessingimplementation of new course design strategies and instructional practices intended to increasestudent learning. For example, such a tool may be used to compare the performance ofexperimental and control groups by recording pre- and post-instruction performance. Eric Mazurin his Peer Instruction guide (Mazur, 1997) used the Force Concept Inventory to assess studentlearning in his introductory physics for both experimental and control group settings byrecording pre- and post-instruction performance. His powerful data showing the value of

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

statement, and the goals and objectives of theDepartment of Construction Technology were developed through a very participative processinvolving the three Industrial Advisory Boards for all programs, students, and faculty, takingcare to ensure conformity of these with the School and University missions. For sake of brevitythese have not been included here.The second step was establishing the Specific Educational Objectives in conformity with theobjectives by the University (IUPUI) in terms of what is called Principles of UndergraduateLearning (PUL) and the ABET objectives, a-k, as our accrediting body. The PUL objectives aremainly: · Core Communication and Quantitative skills (such as writing, reading, speaking, listening

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Argrow

andjunior courses.Introduction The ProActive Philosophy for Teaching and Learning was introduced with the AerospaceCurriculum 2000 (AE 2000), in the fall of 1997. The new curriculum for the Department ofAerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) was reformed in content and a new teaching andlearning paradigm was introduced. Course content reform primarily focused on horizontalintegration of the engineering sciences, hands-on experiments, and design in a teamingenvironment. There is a renewed emphasis on the implicitness of computing andcommunications. The MATLAB programming environment is incorporated into most coursesand writing and presentation skills are emphasized. The Integrated Teaching and LearningLaboratory* (ITLL) made the reforms realizable

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

ago recognized the limitation of the lecture model: "The commonest error of the giftedscholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. Buttelling is not teaching." 2A number of instructional strategies are currently being practiced and promoted in highereducation as a means of overcoming this limitation. They include (but are not limited to)cooperative learning,3, 4, 5 case teaching,6,7 classroom assessment,8 and writing across the c Throughout the paper, we use faculty participants’ full names followed by the reference number for the Page 7.145.2website ( 1) when quoting

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Learning Laboratory (ITLL) and Program at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, hands-on curricula are an integral part of lower divisionengineering projects courses and K-12 engineering outreach programs. 2 3 An extensiveevaluation plan has been developed to investigate the efficacy of these curricula. One componentof this evaluation plan is the assessment of student skill development. This type of assessment isaccomplished by several methods, including instructor assessment, peer assessment, and self-assessment. The present study focused on student self-assessment of skills in the ITLL First-Year Engineering Projects course.Student skill self-assessment is a useful component of the projects course evaluation plan.Instructors from a wide range of

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Greitzer; Diane H. Soderholm; David Darmofal; Doris Brodeur

cognitive structures and theconnections students make among series of concepts.38Concept questions, also called concept tests, and coined as “ConcepTests” by Mazur, areused extensively in active learning and peer coaching environments, particularly inmathematics and science. According to Mazur, good concept questions focus on a singleconcept; are not solvable by relying solely on equations; reveal common difficulties withthe concepts; and have several plausible answers based on typical studentmisunderstandings. 39 In engineering, Danielson & Mehta are developing banks of conceptquestions in the field of statics. They have tested the instructional effectiveness of the useof concept questions at two different institutions.40Concept Maps and

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Rossetti; Kellie Scheider; Richard Cassady

clarity about the customer or sponsor’s needs, and discovering corrupt data. Thestudents involved in the project must describe their qualifications and justify being awarded theirfirst choice of the projects. The students provide industry sponsors deliverables such asrecommendations, models, designs, hardware, and/or software. Grading of the projects is basedon team accomplishment, peer evaluation, written reports, and an industry sponsor evaluation ofteam performance. This paper discusses the structure, operation, and assessment of the seniorlevel Industrial Engineering Design Course within the Department of Industrial Engineering at Page

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

allotted forthe design between the groups, divide up the sequence of steps that would have to be performed,and come up with an overarching theme for the whole contraption.Technical writing and presentationsStudents were required to submit a formal report for the first design project and a formalpresentation for the second design project. Leading up to this, one lecture was spent rewriting apre-prepared lab report as a group effort. Students were then asked to submit a 1-2 page formalexperiment report of their own; each was critiqued by the instructor, and the students alsoswapped papers for peer comments on clarity, organization of technical detail, grammar, andspelling. The following week, the first formal project reports were due. Students were

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

learningFor the students in the OOSE course, we developed instant messenger and collaborative chattools. In order to support high bandwidth information exchanges between participants, theframework for our collaborative tools uses a peer-to-peer communication scheme instead of thetraditional client-server model. A server is still used, but it only maintains the global stateinformation (e.g., availability) of participants. The communication between participants ishandled by direct, peer-to-peer connections over IP. Each peer in this configuration has acommunication component and a set of upper-level collaboration tools. The communicationcomponent communicates with the collaboration tools through shared memory, and acts as acommunication broker. This

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

tests, essay problem tests, and student surveys. Page 7.245.2Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education Students in the Energy Systems Laboratory course are expected to go beyond their ability toapply and analyze fundamental concepts and are expected to develop skills that will promotecognitive growth allowing students to synthesize and evaluate presented material. The courserequires students to conduct experiments, write formal and informal reports, and present anddiscuss results throughout the term

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Page 7.655.3the preparation of project report. Unlike a general-purpose language, Matlab Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793development goes much faster and the corresponding source codes are dramaticallyshorter.Typical programming environment requires a process of writing the program,compilation of the source code, viewing the results, and debugging. This process isrepeated in a loop until satisfactory results are obtained. After the results are generatedthey may be exported to another environment for

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Harwood; David Shaw

in the BSE program, with 1 or 2 non-engineering students per year.Class size ranged from 26 to 36 students. The MEE405 classes ranged in size from 5 to 10 andwere all senior students in the mechanical engineering concentration.Project ObjectivesThree of the objectives1 of the Geneva College engineering program are:• To train students in the design process, so that they may formulate problems, select appropriate design criteria, generate creative ideas to achieve workable goals, analyze proposed solutions appropriately and accurately, make design decisions with informed judgment and with a view to implementation, and communicate their designs and decision processes effectively, both orally and in writing.• To train

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

signals from the two services previously mentioned. InPracticum #4 the students set up an outdoor antenna specifically designed for the 137 MHz bandused by the Polar-orbiting satellites from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA). These satellites are almost sun-synchronous which means that they will be visible in aspecific location on the Earth’s surface at approximately the same time every day. The NOAAsatellites that were operating with weather images in the VHF band are NOAA-12, NOAA-14and NOAA-15 although at the time of writing this paper NOAA-14 is experiencing technicalproblems with the onboard imaging scanner giving very low quality images. The orbital periodof these satellites causes them to pass at a specific location