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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Hugh Rogers; Ferdinand Walbaum
SECTION 2002-318 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON STUDENT PREPARATION IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES Mr. Ferdinand Walbaum, Dr. Hugh K. Rogers Human Resources Professional Education College of Engineering and Computer Siemens Power Generation, Science, University of Central Florida Muelheim, Germany Orlando, FloridaABSTRACTA Student Exchange Program began with four students from Germany visiting Siemens-Westinghouse and the University of Central Florida in Summer, 1999, as an initiative fromSiemens training officials in Muelheim, Germany. In Summer 2000, a program with four
Conference Session
Design Experiences in Energy Education
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Robert Mayer
resource assessment,technological recovery and utilization. This year, a major assignment will be to assess the(offshore) wind resource at Diego Garcia and to size a wind farm to meet a percentage of theNSF’s energy consumption.Our curriculum in ocean-environmental engineering is ably supplemented by elective courseopportunities in other disciplines including environmental economics, environmentaloceanography, environmental security, and marine environmental engineering. But, surely, themost significant learning experience comes from capstone design where students are not onlychallenged but also eager to approach problems that extend their minds to new horizons (andeven greater depths.) Ocean resource implementation on Diego Garcia was one such
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Shawn Gross; David Dinehart
. Given a resource of twelve full-time faculty, it is challenging to incorporateother civil engineering specialties such as materials or construction, especially in a manner thatdemonstrates practical application of the subjects.The objective of any engineering capstone design course should be to mesh the technicalknowledge of the discipline with an encompassing engineering problem that incorporates “realworld” issues and challenges. The primary role of a civil engineer is to serve the community; thus,it is essential that students understand the impact of engineering projects on, and the context ofengineering projects within, society. With all of the aforementioned criteria in mind, the objectiveof the structural capstone course described herein
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses share a theme, the curriculum of each course is separate; occasional assignmentsin each course relate to the curriculum of the other course. When Ward College of Technology was invited to participate in the FIPSE grant,the original plan was to have a traditional FIG with a writing course and a content coursein which the writing course assignments would relate to one of the technology courses.However, in the course of developing the FIG, the writing instructor and one of themathematics instructors at Ward College (the authors of this paper) began to talk aboutthe problems they
Conference Session
A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin
own world views which have been developed and formed over their lifetimes [2]. Students'world views often differ greatly from that of scientists and engineers. Often, due in large part tothese differences, students emerge from our classes with serious misconceptions [3] -[ 7]. In recent years, a number of writing techniques have evolved that make use of variouswriting-to-learn strategies within the domains of engineering, mathematics, and the sciences [8] -[15]. The use of writing in introductory physics classes for non-majors may help students developtheir critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In addition, writing can help them identify andconfront their misconceptions about a specific topic in physics. Science classes in
Conference Session
Assessment in Large and Small Programs
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
William Dempster; Chee Lee
Minds OnPhysics, Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company, 1999Mazur E. Peer Instruction, A Users Manual, Prentice Hall, 1997W.M DEMPSTERDr Bill Dempster is a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Strathclyde University, UK. He received hisundergraduate degree from Glasgow University (1981) and Masters (1983) and PhD (1995) from StrathclydeUniversity. His main research interests are in the field of industrial Fluid Mechanics and in particular two -phasefluid mechanics. His teac hing interests involve curriculum development and the application of activeengagement techniques to large class environments .C.K.LEEDr C. K. Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Strathclyde University. He received hisundergraduate degree (1963) and Ph.D (1966
Conference Session
Manufacturing Education and Outreach
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Beverly Davis
). Recent evidence shows that the gender gapin earnings is increasing after a period of decline (13). This gap is partly due to workers in female-dominated occupations being paid lower average wages than workers in male-dominated occupations. Themost common explanation for occupational sex segregation is that women choose different occupationsbecause they are socialized to prefer different types of work from men (10). Girls who are encouraged toplay with baby dolls and learn to take care of others may become elementary school teachers and nurseswhile boys who play with building blocks may become engineers (10). Author, J.A. Jacobs reported thatoccupational aspirations of young men and women are roughly as segregated as the occupational
Conference Session
Mentoring Graduate Students for Success
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Mara Wasburn
colleagues said she had taken the semester off. One semesterstretched into two and then three. She did not return. Neither did the male colleague who hadhelped me with my dissertation data. Someone thought he had transferred, or perhaps not. Hecould not be certain. That colleague never returned either.Since the 1960s, the attrition rate of doctoral students has consistently been estimated at 50%nationwide 1, 2, 3. The attrition rate for women students, especially those in engineering, science,and technology whose problems are exacerbated by their minority status, is estimated to be muchhigher, as they experience what is termed a “leaky pipeline” at every phase of their education 1, 4,5, 6 . The costs are measured not only in terms of the toll
Conference Session
Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Tim Diemer; Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin
Session 2420 There Is No Substitute For Face-to-Face Learning: Or Is There? Tim Diemer, Robert Wolter, Cliff Goodwin Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology/IUPUI In spring of 2000, the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision (PurdueSchool of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)offered students the option to take a sophomore level survey course fully online. The course,titled "Human Behavior in Organizations," was also offered in traditional, classroom-basedsections. The challenge the authors faced as instructors went beyond the usual
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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff; Marilyn Barger
equilibrium devices, we don’t want to acquire and save values while the sensor is changing its mind. If data is taken too fast or slow the result is waste. Device Construction—Materials processes or unit processes. How do the bulk structure, the thin films present, chemistry, and physics of the systems employed interact with or impact the structural design? Page 7.1086.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Process flows and Wafer level Process sequence
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ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello
Session 2793 Agent-Based Real-Time Pedagogy for Proof Construction Paul Bello and Selmer Bringsjord The Minds and Machines Laboratory Department of Cognitive Science Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY, USA 12180 bellop@cs.rpi.edu, selmer@rpi.eduThere is a disturbing paradox at the heart of contemporary American education: As thiseducation turns more and more “electronic,” we are
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jeffrey Franzone
Document 2002-31 MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 6.0 IDE TUTORIAL Creating Win32 Console-Mode Applications Jeffrey S. Franzone, Assistant Professor Engineering Technology Department University of MemphisAbstractMicrosoft Visual C++ is a commonly used programming language and application environmentin many computer science and computer engineering technology programs. Visual C++ can beused to teach both C and C++ and it boasts a highly powerful, but easy to use, developmentenvironment. One of the strengths of the Visual C++ product is
Conference Session
Instrumentation and Control Applications
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Philip McCreanor
Session 2159 Design and Construction of In-situ Moisture Sensors For a Solid Waste Landfill Philip T. McCreanor and Debra R. Reinhart Mercer University / University of Central FloridaAbstractUndergraduate students at the Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE) were employedto work on a cooperative project with graduate students at the University of Central Florida(UCF) to design a moisture sensor which could survive in the landfill environment and producereliable data. Students from the mechanical, industrial, biomedical, and environmentalengineering
Conference Session
Computers in Education Poster Session
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jason Sole; Carlos Morales
]. Page 7.1213.1This would eliminate the down-time often associated with training. Second, there would “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1520a smaller chance for the learners to forget the knowledge required to performed their task.Finally, the use of strong visuals such as pictures, diagrams and movies would minimizemistakes resulting from misidentification of tools or parts. This was the argumentpresented by Morales at an Information Systems Division session during the 2001 ASEENational Meeting [2].In this
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Issues of Concern to New Faculty
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Craig Quadrato
front of experiencedinstructors who provided me with valuable feedback. Page 7.1005.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002 American Society for Engineering Education During ISW, I was exposed to a vast curriculum of teaching principles including Felder’slearning styles, Bloom’s Taxonomy, classroom assessment techniques, effective questioning, andactive learning. As a new instructor, I was not expected to master all the valuable informationthat went racing past me. But this formal training left me with a binder of
Conference Session
Trends in Nuclear Education II
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Kirankumar Gundrai
1845 EXPLOITATION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR ELECTRICAL UTILITY Kiran Kumar Goud Gundrai, B.Tech Bapatla Engineering College, Nagarjuna University,AP, India.The harnessing of the atom changed the nature of war forever and astounded the Worldwith its awesome power. Nuclear technologies also gave us a new source of Electricpower and new capabilities in medical research and imaging. Though controversial, theengineering achievement related to nuclear technologies remain the most important of the20th century. The paper discusses the perspective
Conference Session
Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati
review their success inattaining these targets. The systems in the manual would be designed to help the programme Page 7.67.7 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrigt © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"Team to deliver this. Programme Teams should bear in mind the following stages in assuringquality:(1) Decide what needs to be done and when(2) Do it according to the time set(3) Review and record what has been done and check timing6.1 Quality Assurance Manual element 5 HeadingsThe Quality Assurance Manual Element 5 will have a number of
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Graphics
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Alain Desrochers
Session 1338 An algorithm based approach for the apprenticeship of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software Professor Alain Desrochers Department of Mechanical Engineering Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada E-mail : alain.desrochers@gme.usherb.caIntroductionContemporary CAD systems are increasingly becoming easier to learn, simpler to use and moreproductive. Several reasons can be accounted for this. Among those are the development
Conference Session
Tools of Teaching
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik
Session 1560 Paper Planes: Developing Teamwork Awareness with a Manufacturing Simulation J.P. O'Connell, M.A. Shields, M.M. Mehalik, R. Jacques* University of VirginiaAbstractWe find that many students who enter UVa have not been involved in activities which requirelarger teams to function, to adjust their structure for improved efficiency and success, and toassess individual roles in the context of goal-oriented teamwork. This may be common in otheruniversities as well. Yet, this experience is most important for engineering graduates to haveworked and achieved in for
Conference Session
Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Philip Henning
. Bydiscussing HEV-problems, all students have real-world examples in mind to which they canrelate very easily. Probably they can even go home and discuss certain things with their parents(fuel economy, emission). I had a case, in which a student asked me a question from his parentsabout car efficiencies (Is it really true that conventional vehicles have a overall efficiency of only17%, whereas HEV-cars have efficiencies of 30%?).Also, we all enjoyed giving the students some insight into the d ifference between science and Page 7.296.3engineering. The inherent difference is that engineers are producing and applying science “Proceedings of the 2002
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Programming and DSP Potpourri
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Sylvie Ratté; Jocelyne Caron
Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this paper, we present our project by placing it in the broader context of web use to support aninteractive and authentic learning experience. In this report, “project site” refers to the web siteassociated with this experiment, while "base sites” is reserved for the general sites introducedearlier (and outlined in Figure 1).2. Learning to program in the context of an industrial simulationThe course in this project is an advanced programming course in C++ covering the key conceptsof the object-oriented paradigm. We designed this project with two main goals in mind (withsimilar ideas see 4,5). First, to be authentic, it had to focus on problems that not only justify butalso
Conference Session
New Computer ET Course Development
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein
Session 2137 Providing a Real World Experience in the Teaching of Computer Technology By Joel Weinstein, Andrew Gilchrist IV, Kyle Hebsch, Jefferey Stevens Northeastern UniversityAbstractOne of the greatest challenges facing engineering technology educators is preparation forwhat graduates will face in the real world. Unlike the classroom, problems are notpredefined, solutions do not come from answer books and personnel are not nearly asexpert as the instructors that have prepared the students. This paper describes a courseand its methodology that helps to better prepare students for
Conference Session
Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Sastry Vedula
drives, VAR andharmonic compensation and energy efficient optimization strategies. Such developments in real-time are seen under topics such as rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. In thispaper, the application of DSP based real-time control technique towards design and developmentof power electronic equipment is explained through the use of the TI TMS320F240/243 digitalsignal processor keeping the above ideas in mind. Power electronic building blocks that composeof both hardware and software have been developed and used for rapid prototyping of existingpower electronic converters. A modular approach has been followed while building thesesystems. This modularity has given rise to flexibility in choosing and experimenting with
Conference Session
Computed Simulation and Animation
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma
1048 MagicBlocks: A Game Kit for Exploring Digital Logic Nawwaf Kharma, Leon Caro, and Vivek Venkatesh* Electrical and Computer Engineering and *Education Departments, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - H3G 1M8 kharma@ece.concordia.caAbstract: The paper introduces MagicBlocks, a LEGO™-like game that allows learners tobuild increasingly more elaborate functioning digital logic circuits
Conference Session
Building Bridges in ET
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla
, Arizona. It isat the former Williams Air Force Base in the southeast part of the Phoenix Metropolitan area;now known as the Williams Campus. The Williams Air Force Base conversion to a collegecampus has opened numerous opportunities to develop a unique partnership between two-yearand four-year institutions. ASU and Maricopa Community Colleges both received substantial Page 7.272.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationportions of the Williams facilities because of base closure. The wide
Conference Session
Physics in the K-12 Classroom
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin
work. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. IEEE Catalog number 99CH37011. ISBN 007803-5643-8. Session 13c3, 7 - 11.[27] Irvine, S. E. & Hein, T. L. (1998). Technology and the diverse learner. AAPT Announcer, 28(2), 86.[28] Jensen, E. (1998). Teaching with the brain in mind. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA.Biographical InformationTERESA LARKIN-HEINTeresa Larkin-Hein is an Assistant Professor of Physics Education at American University. Dr. Larkin-Heinreceived her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD in1982 and 1985, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction
Conference Session
Web Systems and Web Services
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
John Ristroph
schema. Acommonly used introductory approach is to identify entities and processes, make a guess at thetables, and check the tables to make sure that they are in normal form. Repeatedly checking andchanging the tables that have a poor initial design can be very laborious. This section presentsprocedures for rapidly teaching students how to obtain a good initial design and techniques forimproving that design that go beyond checking normal forms. Page 7.465.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering
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Course Assessment in ET
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Laura Lucas; Daphene Koch
formseveryone has consistent expectations and a higher level of success in meeting the goals of allparticipants. Page 7.537.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSignificanceDuring the accreditation of the Construction Technology Department (CNT) at IndianapolisUniversity – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) by the Technology AccreditationCommission of Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET) in 2001, therewas a concern about the evaluation of field trips. The assessment
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
James Kamm
instructordelivers the message of the day. The students hear it, and they see it. There is an audiocomponent and a video component. ‘The lecture’ in distance learning courses is almost alwaysdelivered by text material, that is, by reading. It may be the ‘notes’ of the instructor. It may be asummary of the available literature, or pertinent information. It may simply be the textbookreading assignment for the course, in which case there is no lecture component and the ‘class’ Page 7.395.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for
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International Collaborative Efforts
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons
7.1327.1industrial partners. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education2. The Influence of the “Cultural Gap” in University-Industry CollaborationA major difficulty with regard to the successful and effective management of university-industry collaboration, is the influence of the perceived “cultural gap” between academia andindustry and the detrimental effects that can result 7-15:· The academic culture of publishing research results in the open literature, versus a typical desire by industry to maintain data as proprietary in order to establish competitive advantage.· A considerable difference in priorities is