Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Jennifer Turns

which engineering faculty are referring toother people’s research when describing their own teaching. The results from this study wereutilized to design a workshop to bring educators and researchers together.In this paper, we report the results of our citations analysis. This includes a description of ourmethod for exploring what sources people are referencing when writing about engineering designeducation, a summary of our findings, and implications for design education.BackgroundWe believe engineering research should inform the engineering design education community.Other educational communities (such as science education) effectively utilize research in theirteaching practices (e.g., McDermott & Redish, 1999; McDermott, 1997; Hunt &

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

PowerPoint) to their peers, andsubmission of electronic/paper lab reports. Periodically a project progress report is given. Allthese activities are graded and the students get immediate feedback about their performance.Technical writing specialists from the Humanities department act as writing consultants, playinga crucial role to help improve both the written and oral presentation skills of the students.III. Overview of Course Content and GoalsLectures are given weekly by experts in the fields and vary somewhat from semester to semester.Typical lecture topics are:· Introduction to Course / Engineering Disciplines· Robotics· Safety & Reliability· Large Software Projects· Civil Infrastructure· Aerospace, Apollo, and the Lunar Module

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

engineering students have little exposure with the use of multimedia software and hardware6.3. Poor oral and written communication skills amongstst ME graduates despite their introduction into the curriculum1,2.4. A need to attract more students, especially from diverse populations, into engineering7.The Creative Design Workshop (CDW) described in this paper, addresses each of the problemsenumerated above.2.0 Creative Design WorkshopThe CDW is based on an existing learning model that currently operates on virtually alluniversity campuses – the college newspaper. What better way to train future journalists thanhave them work in a real newspaper environment, honing their interview and writing skills,while at the same time providing an invaluable

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carter

questions of this very skeptical old professor, and as those questions rapidlyaccumulated without any definitive answers, we as a faculty simply said as a body, “we’ll makeit work,” and sealed the commitment to offer the programs. This approach to design is truly anengineer’s dream and an educator’s nightmare. It is a challenge for any engineering educator. At the time of this writing, the department is completing its second year of web-basedinstruction following four years of two-way audio/video distance education instruction. Thedepartment policy requires that resident and non-resident students must receive the sameeducation. Consequently, we have a basis for comparing these student groups, and the initialresults might be surprising. Though the

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

Session 3630 ABET 2000 Criteria 3g and the Meaning of Communication Alisha A. Waller and Sheryl Greenwood Gowen Georgia State UniversityAbstractThis paper reports part of the findings from a larger research study on the ways in which the fieldof engineering education “talks” about communication. The goals of the research study are 1) toanalyze the uses and meanings of “communication” exhibited by peer reviewed papers inengineering education publications from the year 2000; 2) to analyze how the authors interpretABET 2000 Criteria 3g: “to be effective communicators;” and 3) to

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

were quick in-class exercises such as turn-to-your-partner; laboratory work on open-ended problems and design; teamwork with peer andteam evaluations; and using an electronic course management system such as BlackBoard[1].Several interesting lessons were learned from these initial trials at implementing cooperativelearning. First, working in teams does not come easily for faculty or students. It was found thatfaculty teams are harder to form than student teams but are essential since individual facultyefforts are not capable of producing systemic change. From the student point of view, teamstructure seemed to prevent the weaker students from falling too far behind their peers. Second,effective teaming requires time and well-structured

Conference Session

Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lee

artsrequirements are described as follows: 1) all students follow basically the same curriculum,taking courses available for the honors program students only; 2) only “invited” faculty serve asinstructors, faculty recognized by their peers as excellent educators; 3) the faculty frequentlyassess the effectiveness and appropriateness of the curriculum; and 4) there is an effort to keepclass sizes small (ideally less than 20) in order to maximize teacher-student interactions. Totalcredit hours for either track are identical.Survey methodologyThis study was conducted over a two year period, surveying senior engineering students duringthe 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 academic years. A total of 180 students were surveyed, with theparticipants broken out as follows

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationago4-5 However, there are some things about our entering students that have not changed overtime, mainly having to do with their preparation for college. Even though we have seen an upward trend in student SAT scores4, many of our enteringstudents are still not able to do simple algebra. Despite having taken advanced high schoolmathematics, students just are not able to do math once they reach college, which has been along standing problem6. Other students may not be able to write a complete sentence or have anappropriate science background to begin engineering7. Other students may be unable to copewith daily stresses8 or to plan for

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

position. 3. Understanding the role of atomic clocks in GPS satellites. 4. The purpose of coding in GPS. 5. The ability to develop an entrepreneurial application of GPS to a field of interest and write a paper on the application.Objectives 1 to 4 are evaluated by quizzes based on student reading and class discussions aboutthe material in three tutorials available on the Internet8, 9, 10. Students are also evaluated based onassigned Internet search topics and subsequent class discussion. Topics such as DifferentialGPS, Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing, Attenuation of GPS Signals inBuildings11, and Pseudolites12 are examples of assigned topics. Students post the links they

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amber Lehrman; Heather Nachtmann

Robinson, 1994).Introducing students to reality-based case studies allows them to appreciate real worldapplications of the course content. Case studies can be used to exemplify the importance ofaccurate data estimation and handling uncertainty.Article reviewsStudents are required to review and present a peer-reviewed article in a related course topic. Inaddition to providing a thorough overview of the article, the students are asked to address thefollowing questions:· What research was done,· How was it presented,· Did the results support the premise of the article,· Was the argument convincing, or did more or better work need to be done, and· How much of a contribution to the field it made.These article reviews provide students with the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

Page 7.566.6 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”contour and vector plots of the CFD solution. The following X-Y plots are predefined wherestudents can input experimental data or literature values for comparison to the CFD results:• Wall Pressure• Wall Mach Number• Centerline Pressure• Centerline Mach NumberFigure 5. Fluent/Flowlab Showing Pressure Contours and Wall Mach Number for aConverging/Diverging NozzleUniversity CollaborationAt the time of this writing, FlowLab exercises are being evaluated and developed at engineringdepartments (aerospace, chemical, civil, mechanical

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim

inherently safe experiments, their industrial counter partsmay include dangerous processes. These exercises are designed to develop students’ safetyhabits, both through the experience of auditing their peers and being audited by the peers.Among these experiments, the exercises on distillation and the polymer reactor are integratedwith the state-of-the-art computer system and dubbed “Chemical Plant Operations Laboratory”.The distillation column is the central piece of equipment for the Solvent Recovery System and aCSTR is the key for synthesizing Polydimethyl Siloxane (PDMS). Dow Corning supplies uswith the reactants and takes back the product synthesized by the students. This facility integratesa multipurpose pilot plant and a Honeywell TDC-3000

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hartman; Louis Plebani

assignmentwould include evaluation by their peers. After the due date, all students in the class were told toassess the games developed by their fellow students. They were required to submit an evaluationthat included an overall evaluation of the application and the results of their success in“breaking” (crashing) the application. Web Servers and Server Side Processing: There are many possibilities that could be used asexamples of web servers and server side processing. Because they are representative of thesetechnologies and also fairly ubiquitous in the real world, the course focused on the Apache Webserver and PHP server side scripting. Students were encouraged to install Apache with PHPcapability on the own computers so that they could develop

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

far.Recruiting – Long-Term ProgramsRecruiting women engineering students is a daily task within the College of Engineering at OhioState. The Director of Women in Engineering meets, writes to, or talks by phone with severalindividual women who are prospective engineering students each day. However, some programsare designed to reach large groups of young women. Four such programs are described below.Weekend for Women: High school junior and senior women interested in engineering andarchitecture are invited to OSU for a weekend in Autumn and Spring to learn more about OhioState and engineering at Ohio State. On Friday, the women and their parents, will get a tour ofthe engineering or architecture campus and will get the opportunity to meet and ask

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

. Following the discussion onpedagogy, some of the specific organization and implementation issues surrounding EG111/112,including faculty participation, student peer mentors, scheduling, and communications arepresented. Next, the approaches used to assess the progress toward achieving the goals for thecourses are presented. Finally, the conclusion provides some additional comments on futureplans and how these experiences might prove useful at other institutions.II. Developing the Courses: A Multidisciplinary, Collaborative EnterpriseAs indicated above, the College embarked upon the task of developing a new, two-coursesequence that would build the foundation for the departmental degree programs, generate interestand excitement in engineering, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

developingconstruction skills, fostering confidence, improving basic instrumentation and construction skillsneeded for practice of ECE, growing a physical intuition for electrical and mechanical systems,clarifying career choices, making students feel in the home, forming long lasting peer supportstructures, developing effective team player, and improving retention rates. The course content isdescribed and early assessment results are provided. In particular we will emphasize processeducation and teamwork, which is used for the pilot course to stimulate creative problem solving. Figure 1: A basic walking Stiquito robot.The ECE 123 Course:The class is a three credit hour course for ECE freshman, consisting of short introductorylectures

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

, and scholarly work. Teaching can be evaluated on the basis o fstudent evaluation, peer evaluation, improvements in teaching style, writing teachingsupplements for a course, and other similar activities. Page 7.165.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationService to the Faculty can be judged based on the willingness and participation of teachers in theimprovement of the Faculty both in the academic areas as well as improving the image of theFaculty. Helping in the preparation of proposal for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

program envisioned by EC2000 relate to the faculty’sperception of the cost/benefit ratio of their work efforts, as determined by each member of thefaculty. Without changing incentives or making appeals to intrinsic motivators, faculty membersinevitably focus on the activities visibly rewarded by their institutions and peers 5-7. Regardlessof type of institution, these rewards focus most often on individual performance rather than oncollective actions such as curriculum reform 6. This observation has led us to examine Criterion7 (Institutional Support and Financial Resources) more closely 2. Traditionally this criterion hasfocused on the adequacy of resources needed "to assure the quality and continuity of theengineering program." We have found

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Currin

findings to their peers and faculty 6. Prepare meaningful progress reports 7. Prepare a set of engineering plans Page 7.1125.4 8. Present and defend a proposal for a project 9. Integrate knowledge from other classes 10. Work independently 11. Prepare a feasibility studyGrading: Progress Reports 10 Preliminary Engineering 40 Preliminary Design 50The reader will note that this syllabus is similar to the typical syllabus for capstone design coursesoffered by engineering and engineering technology schools throughout the nation. The coursewas developed to be a

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

aboutalternative funding sources and determining the best approach to successful proposal writing canbe challenging. Suggestions included searching for information on the Internet, contactingfunding agencies directly to discuss ideas for proposals, and forming an advisory board that canassist in searching for funds.4. Relating teaching and learning center innovations to assessment effortsWith the introduction of ABET Criteria EC2000, assessment has become a topic of unendingdiscussion on engineering campuses. In light of the importance of this topic, session participantswere asked to consider how centers could assist faculty and departments in establishing andsustaining successful assessment efforts.According to the discussion group, centers should

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

whiteboard and overheadprojector, all images must be placed under the document camera and reduced to the resolution ofa compressed TV broadcast. Consequently, writing must be large to be readable, which does notallow much information to fit on a single “page.” Most instructors in the Paducah programprepare all “slides” ahead of time due to the restrictions of the document camera, whereas in af2f course, the whiteboard supplemented by slides would be the normal mode of instruction.The instructor has a view of the remote site at a distance from the “cage” (Figure 3). A largetelevision displays an image of the remote site at a wide view. It is virtually impossible to“read” student response to a lecture due to the size of the image. The television is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Santhosh Thampuran

around the well-publicized court case on peer-to-peer audio exchange (i.e. MP3, Napster, etc.). Many students spoke up who had previously been silent during the more technical sections of the lectures. Some healthy controversies arose about ownership of artistic property. Finally, we discussed the implications of the technical aspects of digital media processing on the social and economic ramifications of their use. Other topics included laws about cars and cell-phones, the Microsoft monopoly case, and the Playstation2/Xbox rivalry.3. Student Evaluations: · Entry evaluation: On the first day of class a survey was passed out which provided us with data on student demographics, computing skills and

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

all students must be stated in terms that are measurable and demonstrable · A comprehensive plan must be developed to ensure that basic competencies are learned and reinforced throughout the time the students are enrolle d in the institution · Each discipline must specify learning outcomes congruent with the required competenciesLike many institutions (3), the Rowan University Chemical Engineering Departmentchose to use items that address multiple constituencies including alumni, industry, andthe students themselves. Assessment data from these groups were obtained throughalumni surveys, student peer-reviews, and employer surveys. These instruments werefairly straightforward to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

for planning, the generation of ideas and the resulting improved quality.In addition students have access to necessary support materials that define essentialinformation, emphasise principles and concepts and incorporate selected publications(including case studies of industrial applications and innovation in practice) which aidunderstanding.Students find the current system easy and efficient to use; they value the opportunity tocommunicate with peers, seek assistance with problems and share concerns. As allInformatics students are placed in IT environments any difficulties caused byaccessing such a system are minimal. One constraint however, is the limited ability ofstudents to write clearly, correctly and concisely. Students have welcomed

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

performance metrics on the written and oral reports, aswell as peer evaluations to assist in the determination of each students’ individual contributions.In these peer evaluations, students answered questions such as: “Did the team member seek outtasks and responsibilities?”; “Of all the team, how effective was this member?”; “How valuablewas his/her contribution?”; or “If you were an employer, would you hire this individual for a Page 7.434.4design team?”.“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

, the lecture also covers other, less obvious, but importantengineering skills. These instructions include basic and general aircraft -design principles,technical report writing, presentation methods, as well as professionalism and ethics. Besides theformal lecturing, the students skills and abilities in these subjects are constantly challengedthrough their design and fabrication activities.Design ActivitiesAbout four to six students make up a design group. In these groups, the students design andanalyze complete sailplanes or parts of them. The theoretical work includes performanceanalyses of modern high-performance gliders, their stability and control, as well as theirstructures. Other examples of that activity includes the design of testing

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

courses fail to motivatestudents and many potential engineers transfer out of their majors before they experience anyengineering3 . In either case, female students do not feel comfortable in their degree programsinitially and feel a lack of contact with their college.Therefore, it is necessary that retention efforts begin with programs that serve to integrate femalestudents into the college, peer groups, and support services available to them. These programsshould include both academic and community learning experie nces that help female students toconnect on a personal level with staff, faculty, and other female students in the college.II. WISE Retention ProgramsThe WISE Office at ASU has had several retention programs in place that have aided

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

haddeveloped for EGR 312 that term so that all students could review all presentations inpreparation for the final exam. After all the presentations and subsequent discussions, studentswere required to write a brief statement indicating their original position, which team was mostconvincing, and whether their own beliefs were changed by the opposing team.Assessment of the Project Management ModuleA variety of methods were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the project managementcomponent of EGR 312. The authors of the "Design of Field Joint for STS 51-L: Launch or NoLaunch Decision" case study provided two evaluation instruments. The first instrument (CaseStudy Evaluation I) pertained to the content of the case study; the survey consisted of

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

factors that lead to effective presentations. Sample questions were “List tworeasons why engineers need to develop good presentation skills.“ and “Prepare a single list ofthe five most important guidelines for planning, preparing, and delivering a talk. Write asentence or two justifying your choices.” The second type of assignment directed the students toweb sites or printed material and required them, normally as members of a team, to prepare ashort talk on some topic dealing with presentation skills. Topics included common mistakes indelivering a presentation, preparing for questions, preparing for a hostile audience, and dealingwith nervousness.The project management module also used two types of assignments. The first set encouragedthe

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

Page 7.337.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationclearly dominated by advising, career profiling, and special orientation programs. A significantnumber of programs employ some form of community building, although Table 6 shows no clearpreference for one method over another. Table 7 confirms Gándara’s finding that peer mentoringand tutoring programs are popular, if not well assessed. Table 8 indicates that math is, by far, themost common subject area to be addressed in special programs, most likely because it is thesubject area most commonly cited as a problem area for transitioning students