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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; Nathan Campeau

national trend where more than half of allengineering students do not graduate as engineers, with freshmen comprising half of thatnumber.1 For some students, transferring is the best option. Clearly, many students whostart out in engineering find that their calling is elsewhere, and the first two yearsespecially can be seen as a weeding out period as students find their niche. However,there was concern that SEAS was losing students who could be successful and happy intheir curriculum if had received more attention or more information about the field. AColorado study found that students lost to attrition were not academically different thanstudents who remained in the engineering program.2The retention problem reflected a greater problem at SEAS: a

Conference Session

Collection Issues Forum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bernier

along with coverage information, available formats, and a URL to theonline version if one is available. Since Rose-Hulman’s journal collection is very small, thistook only about three or four days to complete. The other way is to upload to the localadministrator a delimited text file with holdings information for each title. Each line represents atitle and each field is separated by a | (pipe).Line 1 administrator account name|password (or password:n where n is number of the library holdings file if multiple holdings filesassigned)Line 2 Page 7.814.3 Title|ISSN|URL|URL_label|FMT_Elect|FMT_CDROM

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Patrick Devens

their firstand last EF1015 course lessons. The twenty-minute test is multiple choice and includestwenty questions. The questions cover basic algebra (5 each), geometry (10 each), andtrigonometry (5 each) in both a short answer (17 each) and word problem (3 each)format. Several example questions are provided below.Example 1: If π5 = 306, log π306 = ________ . (a) 12 (b) 4 (c) π (d) 5 (e) None of these.Example 2: The value of sine θ is ________ . (a) 0.6 (b) 0.75 (c) 0.8 (d) 3 (e) None of these. Page

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Air Force Academy, we have used the 68HC11EVB in two microcontroller/ Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationmicroprocessor courses, which are required to be taken by most cadets majoring in electrical andcomputer engineering. The objective of the first course is to teach cadets (1) microcontroller-based assembly language programming skills, (2) knowledge of the functional units of amicrocontroller, and (3) techniques to interface a microcontroller with external devices3. The68HC11EVB is used for this course. During the second microcontroller/ microprocessor course,cadets learn how to program

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Val Stamboltsian; Robert Dennis; Khy Huang

concepts.The basic components of knowledge maps are nodes and links. Nodes represent concepts,facts or procedures. The links between nodes in a knowledge map represent therelationships between concepts (see Figure 1 for an example). A node-link-nodeconnection forms a proposition.Knowledge mapping has been used by various people as a research tool and as aninstructional technique to facilitate or measure meaningful learning [1-14]. Meaningfullearning is a constructive process and refers to the result of a person consciouslyanchoring new information to relevant prior conceptual understandings. Hundreds ofresearch studies have been conducted that have used knowledge maps (reviewed in [1]).Most of these studies used knowledge maps as instructional

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko

set ofnew insights for the instructor, both groups had complaints about the organization. Both groupswere pushed out of their comfort zone because the material required efforts beyond their currentlearning methods, however, the senior demonstrated a superior affective ability to handle thestress of learning new strategies. In the current offering, an initial transition is being providedfor the junior, but the target outcomes remain the same. 1. Teams – The use of the teams promoted cooperative learning and provided an atmosphere similar to industry. Because of the individual roles assigned for each module, individual grades could be factored into the project grade. The team captain had to provide meeting agendas, project

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

—students must address the interfaces between digital, analog, and mechanical systems.It is no coincidence these issues are addressed by ABET. ABET now requires curricula toinclude cross-disciplinary, project-oriented learning. The use of robots in our curriculumsatisfies these requirements. In addition, these issues satisfy the critical educational outcomes ofUSAFA. Moreover, building a BattleBot satisfies the goal of our senior capstone-design course(EE 464). The goal of EE 464 “is for all electrical engineering cadets to gain practicalexperience in the ‘real world’ of engineering problem solving by the successful design andimplementation of a challenging electrical engineering project” 1

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Walker; Chang Kim; Caye Drapcho

. Bioprocess and food processengineers often deal with complex heterogeneous system characterized by non-Newtonianbehavior. Solutions to partial differential equations that describe these complex systems aredifficult to obtain. Advantages of using Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) prototyping infood and bioprocess development (Datta 1998; Baker et al. 1999) and application to mechanicsof materials (Hillsman 1994) have been previously addressed They include: 1) quick andinexpensive testing of alternative scenarios that can result in reduced costs and increased profits,2) clear understanding of the interactions between the physical processes and their sensitivity tovarious operational parameters, and 3) front-end engineering before prototyping, making

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Nordin; Dana DeGeeter; Jenny Golder

year forty-four out of the fifty states were involved in the FIRST TM LEGO®League.3The ProcessPrior to Developing the TeamsBefore creating FLL teams, Iowa State University College of Engineering (ISU) developed apartnership with the Ames Middle School (AMS). Creating this partnership allowed ISU to helpAMS develop teams using ISU resources such as funds, student mentors, and facilities. ISUagreed to provide the necessary equipment to participate in FLL as well as the in-serviceteacher’s coaching salary (see Table 1). Table 1. Program Costs using 2001 amounts. Items Cost Coach’s Salary $800-1500 Yearly

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

their design experience in the course. (TheHum forms are available in Humanities for the Engineering Curriculum, Arms, 2001.)Different assessment forms were developed for each deliverable. Each form was to be used by theteam’s technical advisor to determine a team grade and to assess the team’s development in eightkey areas: analytic skills, communication skills, creative problem solving, life-long learning,project management, research skills, systems thinking and teamwork. The criteria are based onthe original program goals for E4 which subsequently contributed to ABET's EC2000 criteria(Quinn, 1991). These eight areas were included in each of the three different assessment forms.Faculty advisors were asked to rank from 1 to 5 their team’s

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Melissa Lin; Aik Mon

protocol with a default TCPport 80. HTTP has been used for global information service since 1990. A Universal ResourceLocator (URL) accesses HTML documents in a specific format (Method://Host:Port/Path), forexample http://www.purdue.edu/index.html, specifies the homepage of Purdue University usingHTTP protocol with the default TCP. HTTP is an application-level protocol for distributed,collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol, that can beused for many tasks beyond hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object managementsystems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [1].As specified in the article "XML”, the Extensible Markup Language, from World Wide WebConsortium [2

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Beams

Session 1320 Developing Computer-Based Laboratory Instruments in a New Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Program—a Summary David M. Beams University of Texas at TylerABSTRACT: This paper describes the culmination of a two-year project which had two aims:(1) development of computer-based laboratory instruments (CLIs) consisting of LabVIEWvirtual- instrument programs coupled with custom external hardware; (2) integration of theseCLIs into the undergraduate curriculum. Students were brought into the design process whereverpossible, giving them first- hand

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

engineering principles of buildingvirtual instrumentation and interfaces were developed from a software engineering point of view.Once this tool was sufficiently understood, we introduced standard engineering components andhad the students create virtual oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and asynchronouscommunication modules. These were all done using Visual Basic, data acquisition cards, serialinterface ports, and elementary circuitry.Table 1: Course outline of ECE 351, Engineering of Real Time Systems. * Representingprogramming assignments.Visual Basic: basic components and procedures* (3) visual programming and error trapping* (3

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

education institution. It then evolved into acomprehensive state college and now into a university. The School of Engineering is a recentexpansion for the college; a major gift in 1992 from the Rowan Foundation was the catalyst foradding engineering. Our new engineering programs seek to use innovative methods of teachingand learning to better prepare students for entry into a rapidly changing and highly competitivemarketplace. Key program features include: (1) an analytical and hands-on balance createdthrough collaborative laboratory and lecture material; (2) an emphasis on teamwork as thenecessary framework for solving complex problems; (3) incorporation of appropriatetechnologies throughout the curricula; and (4) creation of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

for sixty percent, four quizzes for twentypercent and a final exam that accounts for twenty percent of the total grade.Experiments and EquipmentExposure to each area in small groups facilitates the learning process and allows for easy rotationthrough the three technical components.The weekly syllabus, detailed in Table 1, for the three student sections is scheduled so thatstudents rotate through the area specific experiments in small groups. The system experiment isalso conducted in small teams however each faculty member facilitates the same experimentsimultaneously. Table 1: MEEM3000 Course Syllabus MEEM3000 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Week Thermal Sciences

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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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

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

content provides a broad academic background to mainly black students who are presentlyan underrepresented minority in engineering study in South Africa.Background: Deficiencies in educational backgroundAdmission to study at the University of Pretoria is based on the calculation of a so called M-score. An M-score is calculated from a student's final school examination results. For engineeringstudy a minimum M-score of 18 points out of a possible 30 points is required. For prospectiveengineering students with an M-score ranging from 12 to 17 an additional admission test is given.Admission to the Five Year Program is then considered on the results of the test. The data [1, 2] inTable 1 indicates that the average M-score for the students on the

Conference Session

Nuclear Power and the Environment

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

from the nearest urban center and 50 milesfrom the nearest downwind (prevailing wind) urban center. The site contains a mix ofwoods, field, and rural agricultural areas. The inputs into the system are as follows:1) Research and Regulation2) Construction3) Materials4) Fuel for Materials Page 7.410.45) Fuel for Construction Goods & Services6) Fuel Cycle: Mine, Mill, Conversion, Enrich, Fabricate, Waste Disposal7) Operation & Maintenance8) Decommissioning9) Emergy Charge for Accident RiskDetailed descriptions follow below of these inputs and how emergy values for each weredetermined.OUTPUT: The net electricity which is produced by the model

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

Session 1346 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Technology Commercialization of PEM Fuel Cells Doug Ramers University of North Carolina, CharlotteIn 1997, I was asked as a faculty member of Gonzaga University to participate on a project todevelop a commercializable polymer exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology forpower plants in the 1-10kw range. The project was managed, sponsored, and funded jointly byWashington Water Power (WWP) and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and TechnologyInstitute (SIRTI). Our Gonzaga engineering team, which

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

-based methods can be effective tools for learning. The use of well designed collaborativeactivities can be effective for enhancing student learning. This paper summarizes both theefforts and results in developing a team oriented, case-based approach for a junior levelintroductory course in Transportation Engineering. The intent of this approach is to supportstudent acquisition of knowledge and a context sensitive use of the skills necessary for success inthe profession. The approach used is based on the following beliefs:1. Realistic learning activities presented as cases promote learning.2. Collaboration is vital for learning and for success in the profession. The paper includes examples of the strategies used to facilitate learning

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

parts as patterns, and produced small parts designed for theprocess. They used the Materials Science laboratory furnaces to melt the material for thecastings. Another group of students used an old Tinius-Olson tensile testing machine to providethe controlled forces for deep drawing, and experimented with lubricants, forces, and speed tocontrol wrinkling – a common problem in commercial drawing operations.For the second approach, the students used a solid model of a universal joint described in thetutorial for the Solid Works [5] solid modeling software (see Figure 1), redesigned each part for Page 7.695.2two different processes, made the parts

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Ridilla; James Pocock

environmentalengineering.Construction Management Elective The elective course fulfills one of two curriculum “senior design options”. These designoptions allow students the opportunity to emphasize structural, geotechnical, environmentaland/or construction engineering. “Construction Project Management” is taught from theconstructor’s perspective. Along with traditional topics such as cost estimating, scheduling andsafety, the course examines construction methods, materials and famous construction failures. Students work in teams of two or three on a semester-long project in which they mustplan the construction of a real construction project. They find and select projects advertised forbid on the Army Corps of Engineers’ Tri-Service Solicitation Network 1 (http

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

) Program and the Freshman Engineering Honors (FEH)Program. Ongoing assessment and regular evaluations of these programs are essential tomaintain quality, ensure uniformity across sections, provide for feedback, and supply freshness.A key component of the assessments are the answers by students to evaluation inquiries collectedfrequently, regularly, and anonymously along with their comments, suggestions, and opinions.The constant cycle of self-assessment has enabled the Freshman Engineering Honors Program tocontinually evolve to quickly meet the needs of students. This present work describes ananonymous electronic journal system as it implemented and employed in the FEH Program as anear real time assessment tool.1. Introduction and BackgroundIn

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

testing procedure and theoretical analysis for review. Next, acomparison of the test results to results obtained using analytical techniques and finite elementanalysis was made.In the process of completing this project, students learned many aspects of experimental designand stress analysis including developing testing criteria, implementation of strain gages fortesting designs, correlation of theoretical and experimental results, and how to design anexperiment and collect the experimental data so that it is most useful.IntroductionThe "Program Outcomes and Assessment"1 section of the ABET evaluation criteria for 2001-2002 strongly encourage both the teaching of design and design of experiments in thecurriculum. This work addresses several of the

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor

theirlearning of design tools such as mathematical modeling programs, mechanical drawing programsand physical modeling programs, learn the value of carefully planning projects, and learn thatdesign is an iterative process even when calculations are carefully performed. Page 7.652.1In order to enhance the mission of the GVSU curriculum and to further pursue the intent goals ofABET 2000, a project was implemented in the Dynamics course at GVSU. For this project,students designed and built catapults to compete in a contest which tested the accuracy of theirdesigns.The “Program Outcomes and Assessment”1 section of the ABET evaluation criteria for 2001

Conference Session

TYCD 2002 Lower Division Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grace; Scott Klingenstein; Ron Ulseth; Nick Nicholson; Don Moen; Amy Hendrickson; Aaron Wenger; Kenneth Gentili; Paul Gordy; Jim Richardson

generation college, 50%of whom are Pell grant eligible, 50% of whom scored 18-24 on the ACT, and 17 of whom out of 55Freshmen are women. Among the two year colleges offering engineering, it would seem that theengineering faculty at ICC are a logical choice to lead the nation in a new collaboration for engineeringarticulation, recruiting, and retention.Objectives:1) By bringing together a national set of “teams” (TYC, University, and HS faculty) that can showcase strategies for program articulation, recruiting, and retention we will begin a Web-based library of faculty resources for collaborative engineering programs between TYCs and Universities. National Meeting held by July, 2002.2) Through a systematic follow-up to the national meeting we

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Turk; David Gattie

understand the link between technology andsociety. In a paper on a new paradigm for ecology and engineering, Wiedenhoft 1 comments,“The path to new paradigms lies in raising such questions [as what, why] and earnestly grapplingwith possible answers. Not a new dogma is thereby defined, but a new intensity and breadth ofsearching, a new open-mindedness, new awareness. Concerning impacts on society, the Page 7.741.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Association of American Colleges 2 says it

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

reflection of the University of Pittsburgh, the Department of IndustrialEngineering, and ultimately the instructor (as many of the projects result from personal contactsmade by the instructor). Failure is not an option! Furthermore, it is the instructor’s hope that allprojects will be successful and all students will receive a letter grade of “A” for “superiorattainment.” The actual breakdown of grading for the project is outlined in Table 1.Project SolicitationDuring the summer months prior to the SAINT Program being launched in the Fall 2001 theIndustrial Engineering faculty prepared a brochure explaining the new program in an effort tosolicit high quality projects. This brochure was distributed to project sponsors from the last fiveyears along

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

Page 7.736.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Learning Factory is a new practice-based curriculum and physical facilities for productrealization developed by the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP) [1].MEEP is a partnership between Penn State University, University of Washington, University ofPuerto Rico at Mayagüez and Sandia National Laboratories. Funding was provided by theTechnology Reinvestment Program, TRP Project # 3018, NSF Award #DMI-9413880. Themajor goal of this curriculum is to provide an improved educational experience that emphasizesthe interdependency

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven LeBlanc

have faculty members in the various courses identifyhomework problems or test problems in the class that demonstrated competency in a particularcourse objective. The faculty members then kept grade logs of these particular problems todemonstrate that, for example, 85% of the students in the course scored above a 70% onproblems related to Course Objective No. 1. As an example of this, consider a course in ProcessHeat Transfer. One of the course objectives might be to design/size a heat exchanger for aparticular process application. Accomplishing this course objective would tie back to outcomesrelated to ABET Criteria 3c (the ability to design a component to meet desired needs) and 3e (theability to formulate and solve engineering problems). The