Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

week semester), anexam is given. Students can use their Competency Assignment while taking the exam. Anadditional twist, however, is that the managers take the exam together in another room, andalthough each manager submits his/her own exam, the managers can discuss the exam questionsand answers with one another. Further, each manager must also grade the CompetencyAssignments from his/her teams (two assignments). The course instructor grades theCompetency Assignment submitted by the managers and the exams submitted by all. Studentshave different teammates for each assignment and everyone gets to be a manager once.Outcomes from this are:1. Students are required to meet and interact with more of their classmates.2. Students learn how to deal

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Brower

presentation by the faculty and up to threeRGSFOP OIT students in Fall 2001 and Winter 2002.Applicant Criteria -1) Recommendation by student’s spring Math, Science, or Physics teacher.2) Endorsement by student’s following fall/winter Math, Science, or Physics teacher. - The results of the experiment was to be shared with the Technology Space Camp students and their fall/winter classmates.3) 500 word essay on the subject of: “How Conducting Experiments in a Low-Gravity Environment Can Help in the Development of New Technologies used on Earth.”Publicity Strategy -The strategy to promote OIT’s Technology Space Camp was two-fold. First, an advertisementwas placed in three newspapers, the

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

, so any classroom computer activities must allowsufficient time for them to come up to speed.III. Criteria for Classroom Laptop UseHaving acknowledged that the students should somehow use the laptops in class, the next step isto determine exactly what criteria should be used to develop these classroom laptop exercises. Inreflecting on this, I have identified five characteristics as being important in this student use:1. There must be a “Value-Added” aspect to the assignment. In other words, the laptop use in class should not be simply busy work. Further, the “value-added” aspect must be clearly evident to the students.2. The student must be actively involved in using the laptop. The laptop should not be used to merely view a Powerpoint

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lyle Feisel; George Peterson

engineeringundergraduate curriculum, you will be able to….”Objective 1: Instrumentation Apply appropriate sensors, instrumentation, and/or software tools to make measurements of physical quantities.Objective 2: Models Identify the strengths and limitations of theoretical models as predictors of real world behaviors. This may include evaluating whether a theory adequately describes a physical event and establishing or validating a relationship between measured data and underlying physical principles.Objective 3: Experiment Devise an experimental approach, specify appropriate equipment and procedures, implement these procedures, and interpret the resulting data to characterize an engineering material, component

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

PowerPoint software and its potential usefulness in improving the teaching/learning of Engineering Graphics must be discretionary introduced to the students. Tosafeguard against overwhelming the students, only the features of PowerPoint that serve apurpose should be used, and in small increments as need be -- starting from simpleEngineering Graphics concepts and procedures, and building up to the compound.Four Selected Typical Engineering Graphics Case studiesThis paper presents four selected typical Engineering Graphics case studies. These are: 1) Multiview Orthographic Projection - The Loop Principle. 2) Drawing an Ellipse - The Four Point Approximate Method. 3) Drawing an Ellipse - The Revolution Method. 4) Line

Conference Session

ET ABET Pilot Visits Using TC2K

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

; Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the summer following this tumultuous year, one of us was accepted as a TAC of ABETprogram evaluator and underwent the requisite training session. As part of that training, thepreliminary TC2K accreditation criteria [1] and their implementation plans were presented. Thiswas our first real exposure to TC2K. It did not appear at that time to be a near-term challenge aswe expected to be reviewed using the existing TAC of ABET format.Two months later at the beginning of the academic year, our department chair informed us thatwe had been invited to volunteer in the 2001 pilot visit project. Our other EngineeringTechnology programs were in good shape and

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hall

5 (an e-Learning software platform fromBlackboard, Inc.) to manage all distance education courses, including those delivered over theInternet. Each of the three factors–content, pedagogy, and management–is discussed below interms of developing or adapting an electronics laboratory course for the Internet. 1. EET Laboratory Course ContentIn the EET program at Northwestern State University, lectures and laboratories courses arepresented in separate, but co-requisite courses. Because DC circuits lecture and lab are the firstelectronics courses that a student encounters in the EET degree, they often serve concurrently asan introduction to electronics, to the technical laboratory, and to university-level pedagogy. Inthe lecture course

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi

taken place at community colleges.The demographics of international students continue to change (The Chronicle of HigherEducation8) and their academic level and origin between 1990 and 2000 (ACE 9) are shown intables 1 and 2 respectively. Table 1 International Students’ Demographics Country or 1-year Country or 1-year Territory Students change Territory Students change China 54,466 +6.8% Trinidad & Tobago 2,762 +18.9% Japan 46,872 +1.0 Romania 2,716

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

Session 3560 A Work in Progress – Updating and Maintaining an Effective Assessment Program under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 J. Shawn Addington, Robert A. Johnson, and David L. Livingston Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Military InstituteThis paper serves as a follow-up to previously published works1,2 regarding the assessmentprogram developed and utilized by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at theVirginia Military Institute. In particular, the paper will: 1) outline the departmental assessmentstrategy, including the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

1, below.The elements around the ellipse in Figure 1 correspond to phases in a product lifecycle, but thedouble-headed arrows indicate that they can’t just proceed in a step-by-step process. They mustcontinually interact and each element affects, and is affected by, the others. A brief descriptionof each element is included with the detailed course description, which follows.Balancing ActsA key to the management of creative enterprises is to maintain balance. Too many popularmanagement books imply that a simple application of a single principal can result in goodmanagement. But it’s clear that a key management job is to constantly balance the competingdemands and constraints on a creative enterprise. Some dimensions of this balance can