Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

personal strengths and weaknesses, basicinterpersonal communication skills such as giving and receiving feedback and personal timemanagement strategies.Students conclude their experience by writing a team report on their roadmaps for success inSTEM disciplines. Participants, Faculty Mentors, RISE Fellows and members of the RISEAdvisory Board will be invited to a concluding reception where the students will receive RISEcertificates of accomplishment from the Dean of the Clark School of Engineering and the Deanof the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CMPS). Parents of theparticipants are encouraged to attend the reception based on the emerging evidence that parentalsupport and encouragement are important to the success of

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liezl Van Dyk

WWW provides newopportunities for students to play a more active role in the acquisition of knowledge. For theWork-study course, students share the responsibility of identifying appropriate additionalresources for the course, as recommended by Collis (1998:377). These resources are sharedwith peer students by means of the presentation tool of WebCT. A wider selection ofresources and modalities of study materials can be distributed through WebCT. These includevideo clips and relevant computer applications. Exploitation of this WebCT facility isidentified as one of the opportunities for the WebCT classroom.3.3.3 Language of instructionFrom 2002, the Work-study course has to be presented in both Afrikaans and English. If thetraditional

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Boyce; Jung-Wuk Hong; Jaspal Sandhu; Eberhard Bamberg

Technology (MIT), has been undertaken. The new teaching paradigm, incontrast with the traditional lecture format, incorporates components of faculty-facilitated learn-ing, hands-on experiments, group discussion, web-enabled exploration, and peer learning. Amajor element of this educational reform is a collection of Web-based learning modules. The newteaching format is enabled by a mobile, wireless computing initiative that provides all studentswith laptop computers and a new classroom, built to meet the requirements of the new paradigm.Students were first taught using the new teaching methodology in fall 2001. This paper will dis-cuss the components of the new pedagogy and future steps in developing the course.I PedagogyWe have undertaken an

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Raper

Abilities:25. Ability to identify operation and production problems.26. Ability to carry out tests and experiments.27. Ability to develop optimal solutions.28. Ability to implement solutions for improved strategic competitiveness29. Skills required for effective performance as a member of a work team.30. Writing, speaking, listening skills required for effective organizational communication.31. Ability to analyze complex systems and formulate solutions using approximate qualitative and quantitative tolls and techniques.32. Skills for decision making, planning and controlling of the key resources of an organization – money and people.33. Skills necessary to critically analyze, evaluate, improve, or adapt existing

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin Grant; Brian Dickson

suggests that we produce a more “industryrelevant” student. External examiners say, “Distance Learning students add application to theirstudies”, which is perhaps not surprising since they bring that experience with them to the course Page 7.1057.5 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education”and share it with their peers and our teaching staff. The IChemE accreditation panel review(2000) confirmed that “The quality of graduates is exceptional”, which is perhaps moresurprising since many will have left

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano; Margaret Weeks

. This approach to learning known asconstructivism purports that learning is an active endeavor rather than a passive one. Teachersencourage group interaction, where the interplay among participants helps individuals becomeexplicit about their own understanding by comparing it to that of their peers. The teacher(workshop leader and facilitators) no longer acts as the “talking head” expert, but assumes therole of mentor, guiding the students (participants). This perhaps is described best in the keytenets of constructivism as developed by Martin Dougiamas (A Journey Into Constructivism,1998)14: § Faculty members come to the workshop with an established world-view, formed by years of prior experience and learning. § Even as it evolves

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

their previously higher-achieving peers. Page 7.677.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 10 5 0 -5 -10 W'99 W'99 W'00 W'00 W'01 Hyper Conv Hyper Conv Hyper PBM PAM

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.440.10 Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAn ENGINE in a new car can be turned ON if:(The KEY is ON) AND (BATTERY is ON) AND (The A/C is OFF OR The LIGHTS are OFF)Use smallest number of NAND and NOT Gates to implement the “ENGINE ON” function.This example relates to dimensionality, modification, similarity, and experimentation strategies.b2.3) Computer Science exampleFind the general solution to the “Tower of Hanoi” problem. Write a program that will producethe solution for N disks (N< 10

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

instance, Currently Available links tothe page where current industry project descriptions reside. Project Teams is a link to the pagewhere team memberships and contact information is found. Project Planning & Managementlinks to resources that instruct students on how to plan, manage and succeed as a team. DueDates links to important dates for project teams, somewhat different for each university based oninstructor preferences of desired milestones and timing. Project Reports provides guidance ongood report writing and specific requirements. • Form student project teams The formation of teams will vary from self-selected to instructor assigned as deemed appropriate by the instructor. • Select an industrial problem

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

, then have students work through one or more problems involving the analysis of arelatively simple structure. In every case, the students perform the Direct Stiffness Methodmanually, but use Excel spreadsheet software to perform matrix manipulations and MathCADcomputational software to perform mathematical computations. This presented educationalmethodology is effective for peering inside any type Black Box tool as long as the key learningsteps are clearly delineated and common computer tools are used only to perform the mundane,time consuming tasks.Specifically, students solve each problem as follows: · Use MathCAD to define local element stiffness matrices. · Use MathCAD to transform the local element stiffness matrices to global

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

. Palmer M., Bell J: Teaching Writing Skills in a First-Year Engineering Course, Liberal Education Division, ASEE Conference 1996 Page 7.218.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education14. Flemings M. C., Sadoway D. R.: Frontiers of Materials Education; MRS Proceedings v66, ©1985.15. Linden B., Vanasuppa L., Heidersbach R.: The Structure of Materials Engineering: A New Model for Materials Engineering Curricula; TMS Annual Meeting, Education Symposium (1996).16

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

. Much coaching was needed to guide the team, as mentioned above, andthese students, in particular.The mid-project review, called the System Level Design Report (SLDR) presentation to theindustry participants, was a success, as reported to us by the industry participants themselves,and by representatives of LMCO, in particular. Another point worth mentioning is that before theformal SLDR presentation, the team had to go through a practice presentation before facultycoaches and other IPPD students, and to receive critiques about their presentation. Such apractice (or peer-review) session instilled a sense of competition among the teams, and helpedthis team to improve their own presentation.Most other IPPD projects funded by LMCO had physical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

implementation represents the more general concepts.The brightest students make all of the connections easily; with help the more literalminded students also begin to see how things are related.In our experience of teaching networking in a classroom setting for computer science andIT as well as teaching courses to prepare programmers in industry to work on networkingprojects, we have found that the lectures that provide the model and vision level oflearning in these settings are almost identical. The real differences in the courses are inthe instances emphasized in the lectures and especially the instances selected for the labs.The labs for a computer science curriculum prepare a student to write and understandnetwork stacks and intermediate system

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Buck; Kathleen Wage; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

that encompass many common student misconceptions about fun-damental concepts. The questions incorporate visual diagrams and everyday situations toemphasize conceptual understanding over mathematical manipulation.Inspired by all of these factors, as well as a grant from the NSF-funded Foundation Coalition,we set out to develop both CT and DT SSCI exams. We sought to write exams coveringthe core concepts of signals and systems in a manner emphasizing conceptual understand-ing over computational mechanics. This paper reports preliminary results from studies forboth exams. The following section describes the development of the SSCI exams, includinginventories of the core concepts assessed by each exam. Section 3 describes the design ofthe

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

TAKEN TAKEN TAKEN PRIOR TAKEN CONCURRENTLY · PHYSICS I & II · MECHANICS OF MECH. · TECH. WRITING MATERIALS LAB. · STATICS · MATERIAL SCIENCE I 2 2 · COMPUTER · PROBABILITY PROGRAMMING · DYNAMICS · DIFF. EQS. · THERMO. I · THERMO. II MECH. · NUMERICAL · FLUID MECHANICS LAB. 3 2 ANALYSIS

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

another country while learningabout engineering education and industry in the countries they visited. They would hopefully beinspired to return the following year (with some of their peers) for a full term or year of overseasacademic study and/or internship in industry. Collectively called “I SEE IT,” seventeen studentsparticipated. They then served as ‘ambassadors’ to recruit others.Beginning in 1998, industrial support was sought, and Ford Motor Co. became the first industrialsponsor, signing on for a three-year commitment. In 2001 ABB Inc. became the sole corporatesponsor with a commitment for three-years of support and funds for scholarships for U.S. womenengineering students. At a press conference announcing ABB’s support, D. Howard Pierce

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Batill

EducationSalary: (Grade) Individual and group deliverables were specified. Approximately 50% of thefinal evaluation was based upon individual performance and the other 50% upon theperformance of the group. The project supervisor provided these evaluations. The groupperformance was weighted by a confidential peer review. The intent was to evaluate their abilityto do "good engineering," effectively communicate and document their efforts and workeffectively as part of a team.Key Deliverables: The team was responsible for a detailed concept product proposal and aconcept prototype. Individuals were responsible for an engineering notebook and participation inthe formal Concept Design Review. The design proposal was the project’s most highly