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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kampe

assess the implication of material selection on thelifetime energy consumption for materials utilized as structural components in transportationsystems. 1 Both case studies represent subjects of projects recently assigned in a senior levelcourse entitled “Materials Selection and Design,” which is required of Materials Science andEngineering (MSE) majors and offered as a technical elective to students of other engineeringdisciplines at Virginia Tech. These case studies represent modest extensions of thegeneralized approach advanced by Ashby, 2,3 where selection charts are created to illustrateregions of material residency and performance trade-offs in two-dimensional relevant-property space.Lifetime Energy CostsThe health detriments of asbestos

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Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Gerdin

substantial contributions to this paperas part of a senior design project during the spring BASIC INTERFACING OF THE SOUND CARD ANDsemester 2001. The author further wishes to thank D. THE CD P LAYER WITH AN ELECTRONICElliott, J. Dillard, M. McCatty, and J. Rowles, for CIRCUIT.continuing to develop this work during a senior designproject during the fall semester 2001. This work was To find the interfacing requirements and limitationssupported in part by a grant from the National Science Page 7.1295.1

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Davis

team settings in the workplace, and teams can be justas useful in a distance learning environment. Teams can attack a more ambitious task together,bringing their individual strengths to bear upon the problems. As in the work setting, however,there will be some students who tend to coast on the efforts of others. In a typical assignment fora team project in distance learning, the professor can assign student teams a chat room for theirteam meetings (with the professor reviewing the chat logs); ask to be copied in the team’s emailmessages regarding the projects; and ask for a team assessment of each individual’scontributions at the termination of the assignment. Having to work together assures that students

Conference Session

New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

minor 12As part of upper division studies, ODU students must complete a minor or cluster. Theengineering management or the mechanical engineering technology minor is recommended tofulfill this requirement. The Engineering management minor courses are listed below: ENMA 301, Engineering Management ENMA 302, Engineering Economics ENMA 401, Project Management ENMA 420, Statistical Concepts Page 7.587.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ã 2002, American

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Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christene Moore; Hillary Hart

www.nspe.org/ethics/, to name a few), our modules are intendedto be more pedagogically oriented. In addition to case studies, for instance, there will be pre-assessment and follow-up exercises that put that case in a pedagogical context. Our site will alsocontain an instructor's "manual" with suggestions on how to use the materials, how to fit theminto a variety of courses, and how to handle student discussion and team exercises.The pedagogical hypothesis being tested in this project assumes that engineering faculty teachingcore courses will include ethics and professional-responsibility content in their courses morereadily if instructional materials are · more readily available · technical subject-matter-specific · adaptable for individual

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid Al-Olimat

project and to show how such tool helps students in the learning of undergraduateelectromagnetics course.IntroductionWith the rapid change of technology and its attendant introduction of new material into thecurriculum, most colleges and universities face an ever-increasing demand to optimize theircurriculum and increase the content of courses. This places large demands on educators todetermine more efficient ways of presenting material in order to ensure that students continue tohave the same basic understanding of fundamental concepts and skills as in the past. Theprimary goal of this paper is to address that concern. The development of a computer -aidedlearning tool, with the use of MatLab, will create a significant software to aid the

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

Page 7.1111.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationjobs. A variety of examples will be reviewed. Students will be asked to join in discussion ofhow the criteria for communication excellence apply to their most recent talk and report. Second, planning sheets for each of the five categories of criteria are being developed tomake it easier for students to utilize the criteria. For example, the sheet on receiving messageswill include questions on identification of the audience members, their backgrounds and areas ofinterest, their perceptions of the main project issues, and the relevant

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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Farhad Sharifi

engineering away from its dominant theme of unit operation to thebroad sophisticated exploratory engineering it is today1. With this new definition, moreinterdisciplinary activities became possible; a professor with mechanical processing backgroundmight be doing research on design of a batch or continuous reactor for producing hydrogen as afuel as an alternative source of energy12. Such kind of projects will require knowledge aboutchemistry, energy, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, environment, and many other fields.However, it is indeed a teamwork effort on a chemical engineering project. After 1980 many industries started to externalize their R&D activities to reduce the spending.Mowery & Rosenberg6 mentioned that this has been

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carter

. Page 7.117.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education.Acknowledgements A project of this magnitude is not accomplished in a vacuum, and I would like toacknowledge the invaluable assistance that was provided by some of the support staff at UNCCharlotte. Ms. Connie Martin served as the director of Continuing Education, and in thatcapacity dedicated much of her time and that of her staff to the organization and administrationof this distance-education program. Ms. Lorraine Stanton served as the course managementsoftware technical specialist, and provided consistent and unfettered training and

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kilduff

-indicationfunction, 2S/Dt + Q.4.0 Assessment Limited quantitative assessment data is provided in the form of course and instructorevaluations. Overall instructor evaluations, ability of the instructor to “stimulate interest andmotivate learning,” and overall course quality all improved after the classroom demonstration wasinstituted. The improvement seemed significant (initial ratings were 2.8 to 3.1 (out of 4) and laterimproved to 3.6 to 3.9) but was likely caused by general course improvement over time, to whichthe in-class demonstration made only a partial contribution. Anecdotal assessment data isprovided by student response to, and success in, a design project that involved modeling theNeversink Reservoir watershed, part of the New York City

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Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

. Include bibliographies, papers and articles, minutes of subcommittee meetings, frequently asked questions about education and accreditation aspects of BS-MOE, BS-MOE proposals/plans/projects, and network members (names, with contact information, of faculty members and practitioners with interest in CE curricula). Page 7.637.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 8. Seek endorsement of and active support from ASCE Educational Activities Committee

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kimmel

the students must registerseparately. Several of the other courses are taught as lab/lecture combinations. All students mustalso complete a 15- to 24-week co-op assignment in industry as a requirement for graduation. In March 2001, a group of three Packaging Science faculty received an NSF CCLI grant toadapt materials characterization techniques to collaborative, discovery-based learning in theundergraduate Packaging Science curriculum. The major objectives of this project are:· To incorporate more science-based learning in our Packaging Science laboratory courses· To significantly increase the understanding and hands-on experience of our undergraduate students with state-of-the-art materials science characterization and investigative

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacobsen; Gautam Pillay; Fred Gunnerson

Society for Engineering Educationcollaborative program will be expanded to include research projects in broader areas ofenvironmental management, energy sciences, and national security.Laboratory scientists and engineers, together with university faculty and students, provide thefoundation for integrating R&D and education at the INEEL.A Virtual FacultyThe concept of a virtual faculty depends on several elements of cooperation. The organization ofsuch a faculty is incidental to its function and does not interfere with any current managementstructures at either the laboratory or at the universities. Three needs must be met for successfulcooperation.First, there must be a need for both education programs and research in an area of mutual

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eoin O Herlihy; William Gaughran

be used for a range of materials, simply bychanging the drill bit and the speed of the machine 10. The drill is necessary for all students tocomplete any basic project. Therefore it is essential that it be the first machine modified andaltered to allow safe operation for the paraplegic user and others. Current machine interfacedesign neglects the principle of designing for all. Redesign of the drill will make it safer,easier to use, increase productivity and allow for the inclusion of the paraplegic user.Current working heights, legislation, design factors and safety need to be addressed todevelop a user-friendly machine for all.From analysing current working heights, the problems faced by the paraplegic user havebecome evident. Figure 2

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ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Summers

. Page 7.388.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The Planning Committee can determine community needs and provide advice regarding strategicplanning matters such as: · Relevance of curricula and programs offered · Determination of community needs by identifying skill sets needed by graduatesThe Marketing/Communication Committee can provide support and suggestions for publicrelations activities: · Promotion of academic programs through networking, newsletter, and publicity · Suggestions for methods to recognize students through the media (graduation, projects, etc

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farr

Systems Leader of a Management Management Integrator Multidisciplinary Team Entry Level Project Engineer 0 Staff Engineer Figure 2. Traditional versus new engineering paradigm6In July of 2000, Stevens created the Department of Systems Engineering and EngineeringManagement to respond to the changing customer needs for both undergraduate and graduateengineering education. This paper will provide the details and lessons learned of how wedesigned, marketed, and executed three non traditional certificate and masters programs

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

andspreadsheets (In industry, the “secretary” is close to becoming an ”endangered species.”). Theyneed to realize the importance of finishing a project on time.Since the Engineering Materials course was obviously in need of a new approach, I decided touse the opportunity to have the students practice some of these skills that I had observed wereneeded in industry. This paper explains the variation, developed by this author, on the typicalteam-based learning method. The “lecture method” is partially maintained but is used only toexplain certain concepts that students have difficulty grasping or to answer specific questionsraised by a student. The remaining class time is used for “team-based learning,” where it isintended that students work together to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

. Configure VLANs c. Configure routing subnets and VLAN bindings d. Test and troubleshoot connectivity 7. Network Management a. Programmatically access MIBs on Workstations b. Programmatically access MIBs on network Devices. c. Do simple monitoring of variables d. Do threshold based alarm notification. 8. Final Team Project counts as 3 Labs.We have created a table that helps to focus our thinking on the relationships between thetheoretical and the applied. The extract below includes two of the fundamental conceptswith their associated instances and the experiential learning in the lab. A more completetable is included as Appendix C.Fundamental Concept

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

multi-institutional program MentorNet allows for significant economiesof scale in administration as well as opportunities for program growth because it can reachbroader and deeper pools of mentors and students and can provide mentoring at campuses wheresuch opportunities might be limited. (See Table: MentorNet’s Actual and Projected GrowthChart). The size and structure of the program permits MentorNet to develop and employspecialized systems and resources, such as a web-based interface to a customized, relationaldatabase related to a set of computer programs to optimize the matches between mentors andstudents and personalized, customized communications with participants. A structured e-mentoring program, MentorNet provides training and ongoing

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

motivates the VIS. In Section 3, wedescribe the VIS concept. Section 4 presents a specific VIS learning system in productionplanning. Section 5 discusses our deployment and assessment results to date. We conclude withplans for future work and dissemination of the VIS.2. Motivation and BackgroundImproving student learning has motivated new approaches to teaching in the engineeringcurriculum. This has led to innovative hands-on and project-based courses, and to the use ofeducational technology. While an exhaustive listing of new teaching approaches and techniques Page 7.1199.1is beyond the scope of this paper, several example efforts can be

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

variety of issues that could be of interest to beginning collegestudents. The topics also offer a balance between life skills, like time management and creatinga resume, to learning skills like how to take exams and studying strategies. Selling Yourself on Paper: How to Create a Resume. What is your Learning Style? Resumes Revisited. Using your Learning Style to your Best Advantage. Student Leaders Panel Discussion. Maximizing Success: How to Take Engineering Exams to Maximize Your Grade. What Good is an Internship Anyway? Teamwork Projects: Group Leader or Group Packmule. Teamwork Project: How to Work as a Group to Delegate Tasks. Time Management Skills. Roommate Conflicts (and

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

understanding and retention of new material. Page 7.1180.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFRESHMAN CLINICRowan’s two-semester Freshman Clinic sequence introduces all freshmen engineering studentsto engineering in a hands-on, active learning environment. Engineering measurements andreverse engineering methods are common threads that tie together the different engineeringdisciplines. Previous reverse engineering projects have involved common household productssuch as automatic coffee makers

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

.• Ninety percent of engineering majors who switched to a non-engineering major, and seventy five percent who persevered, described the quality of teaching as poor overall.• Seniors about to graduate in engineering made it clear their experience in these introductory courses had given them a shaky foundation for higher level work.In a recent call for proposals (Action Agenda in Engineering) the National Science Foundationhas identified several proposed changes to improve SMET education and particularly theintroductory experience. 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

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

engineeringsystems laboratory course. This course is the second in a series of three required mechanicalengineering lab courses. The first course is an instrumentation and measurements course thatconcentrates on lab procedures and data processing. The third course is an experimentalengineering project course in which students plan and execute an experimental project that spansan entire semester. The engineering systems course is broken into two sequences. One is asequence of mechanical systems experiments. In this sequence oral and visual presentation isemphasized. The other is a sequence of thermal energy and fluid mechanics experiments. Thissequence emphasizes written reporting, and students are required to prepare several groupreports and two individual

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yun Cui; Edward Gehringer

that allfuture mapping assignments will be able to be assigned successfully (i.e., without assigning astudent to review him/herself) The strategy has been extended to second-level reviews—that is,where one student reviews another student’s review, to give students an incentive to do a carefuljob of reviewing It has also been extended to the situation where team projects are reviewed byindividual students This strategy offers great advantages for peer review of student work, andopportunity for extension to other problems like asynchronous review periods, where studentsthemselves negotiate review deadlines.1. IntroductionPeer review in the classroom is a technique that is becoming increasingly popular, with over 100papers published on the topic

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Borrelli

emotional functioning” Larsonand Wilson 4 ( p 6). Student retention theories Theories on retention of college students have been postulated and refined over the pasttwenty years. Vincent Tinto’s 7, 8 ground-breaking work forms the basis for most subsequentresearch. His theory offers guidance to universities on how they can change the campusenvironment to help students make a solid transition into college life. Retention activities arestrategies to integrate the students into the institution. Students are offered more social activities,mentoring, community and service-learning projects, and academic support. Recently, theintroduction of learning communities has been identified as helping students connect to peers insmall groups in which

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

techniques a priority in its present and future programs 3. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a software solution formonitoring and controlling a harsh environment test bed over the Internet 3. A server computer,data acquisition hardware and LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Engineering Workbench) softwaremake up the data acquisition and control system (DACS). LabVIEW is a virtual instrumentsoftware from National Instruments, which is also used in the experiment that this paperdocuments.Description of Problem The intent of this project is to research, design and develop the systems required to makethe Technovate Scott Turbofan System, Model 9005 (TS9005) experiment accessible toengineering students from a remote location

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

methods. 5. To prepare students for professional practice and further study in the area of industrial engineering emphasizing students’ creativity, innovation, teamwork, leadership roles in industry by propagating these ideas into project topics.The evaluation of how well the objectives are being met depends on the program outcomeassessment. Since most of the engineering colleges are seeking ABET6 accreditation and aretherefore obligated to satisfy eleven ABET educational outcomes’ requirements, it is onlyappropriate to incorporate ABET outcomes into this model as the program outcomes. The list ofprogram outcomes could be, however, expanded with respect to the program educational goals.The College of Engineering

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

capital budget issues; however, others, likeincluding other program language standards, would only require a change in the course orlaboratory syllabus.References1. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.2. Modicon FactoryLink ECS, Square D Company, Chicago, IL, 1996.3. Step-by-step Guide to Project Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4. Bateson, R.N., Introduction to Control System Technology, Prentice Hall,1999 BIOGRAPHYJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received a B. S. and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from St. LouisUniversity and has completed additional graduate work at the University of South Carolina and ClemsonUniversity. Since

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Institutional Research ProfessionalsHighest Student artifacts -- those Standardized examinations, assessment strategies developed or Professionally reporting guidelines, and administered and interpreted by the self reported or information from departmental faculty (portfolios or employer evaluations -- (licensure exhibits, papers, projects) exam results, transcripts according to regional, national, or professional criteria, evaluations of co-op students or alumni)Middle Standardized examinations -- such