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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hang Choi

the kind of career path awaiting themafter they finish the undergraduate course, which they have chosen. Under the framework of theintroductory course, each major is allowed to hold 12 hour lectures.However, many faculty members of our department are already doubtful of such system, i.e.theyexpect that the effect will be minor, simply because high techs like IT, BT and NT are tooattractive for young people to think otherwise. They are concerned about a clear divide betweenpopular and unpopular majors. Unfortunately our major belongs to the latter case, irrespectiveof the fact that the shipbuilding industry in Korea is booming. Nevertheless, most faculty

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brooks Byam

opportunities for otherpossible student and faculty projects. Further recruitment and employment opportunities forstudents are available via this network. Currently the SAE groups at SVSU have networked withover 70 corporations, machine shops, job shops, retailers, foundations, professional societies,individuals, high schools, and career centers. Intellectual property currently has yet to be developed as a result of “SAE group = industrysponsor” experience. However, several unique and useful prototypes have been designed, built, andtested (See Table 1). All prototypes are still in use today by the SVSU SAE groups. Some areactual parts of the racecars, others are testing equipment and processes for future racecars, and stillothers are helpful devices

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Satish Mahajan; Joe Biernacki; Glenn Cunningham; Jeff Frolik

comments.Conclusion This paper presents an interdisciplinary, design-based approach to an introductory coursein the area of MEMS. Using team-based designs as a focus, students become familiar withvarious aspects of MEMS design, fabrication and performance assessment. The authors havefound that course objectives were best met when students were allowed to maximize theownership of their designs projects. By addressing the lessons learned, this course has improveddramatically in terms of quality of projects and course reviews. Finally, this course has excitedmany students to pursue further studies and careers in this area of increasing importance.Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge the Departments of Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

experience and are willing to apply hands-on skills • are more sought after by industry, take responsibility and contribute earlier in their careers, and rise to positions of leadership more often than do other students.The 39 students that have been involved to date in the WSU IGERT program have come from avariety of disciplines inscience and engineering. Department Participants GraduatesAs shown on Table 1, Biological Systems Engineering 8 1more than 35 students are Chemical Engineering 5currently participating in Chemistry 7 2the program, and four, Civil and Environmental 11who

Conference Session

Professional Practice in CE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

professionals complements the criteria required foraccreditation. In addition, the activities should enhance the skills required by engineeringstudents for a successful career involving the design and management of engineering andconstruction projects.AcknowledgmentThe author wishes to recognize Ms. Linda Dousay for her assistance with the productionactivities involved with the preparation of this paper.Bibliography1. Cuello, J.L. (1999). “The Cultural Values of Engineering.” The Bent, Tau Beta Pi, Knoxville, TN, 90(1), 18-20.2. “Skills for Teaming,” Journal of Engineering Education, 90(1), 113-117.3. Engineering Criteria 2000 (1999). Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Xue; Robin Qiu

professional training school/center to have awell-defined e-learning or e-education system in place to manage trainees’ personal information,help instructors improve their teaching qualities, and provide trainees’ with sufficient flexibilityto access the well-developed and properly suitable courses. The ultimate goal is to retain hightrainees’ satisfaction by meeting their career development objectives from time to time.There are many kinds of school course management systems. Typically they are used to schedulecourses, manage students/trainees’ registrations, and provide on-line transcripts and payment Page 7.355.1 Proceedings of the 2002

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Integrating Math and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Vanisko; John Scharf

plays a key role insupporting satisfaction of Criterion 3, outcomes a-k.IntroductionCarroll College, founded in 1909, is a 4-year Catholic liberal arts college in Helena, Montana.Reflecting our motto, Not for School, but for Life, the college emphasizes preparation of itsstudents for professional careers, as well as their exposure to the liberal arts and sciences.Because Carroll is a small college with approximately 1400 students, t he Department ofMathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science includes the programs, faculty, and students inall three of the academic areas designated by the department’s title. In line with its mission,Carroll College in 1996 began offering a new 4-year program leading to a Bachelor of Artsdegree with a major in

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

. Knowingthe responsibilities of the teacher as leader and creating an environment that facilitates learningare important steps in becoming a good leader.MentorTo mentor students is to help them move to the next level. In every academic institution studentsarrive with varying levels of preparation for academics and life. The "Seven Principals for GoodPractice in Undergraduate Education" 6 start with student-faculty contact. Within this principle isadvisement about the career or major of one's students. There are formal and informal contactssuch as students visiting the office, extracurricular activities, professional meetings, and formalmentorship programs. In each of these areas of possible contact it is important that the teacherunderstand the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Miers; Carl Anderson; Paula Zenner

• promotion of active, collaborative learning • promotion of faculty as mentors • integration of design, teamwork, communication, and problem-solving • inclusion of cost, project management, and quality issues • recognition of diverse learning styles and career objectivesThe program consists of an innovative sixteen credit elective path; nine credits of course work andseven credits of project work, that combines traditional classroom learning with realisticengineering practice in a modern engineering curriculum. The course work is delivered in onecredit modules and emphasizes communications, business, and teaming, as well as engineeringtopics. The project work is accomplished in student teams of 20-30 working on a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

. Page 7.646.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgmentsThis work was supported in part by NSF Career grant DMI9875251. The authors thank MikeLaCourt for his excellent work in developing the lab and in training the graduate andundergraduate teaching assistants that make it a success.References1. Riffe, W., Kettering Univ., Personal Communication, Nov. 1999.2. Dutta, D., D. E. Geister and G. Tryggvason, “Introducing Hands-On Experiences in Design/Manufacturing Education,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, 1997, pp. 219-222.3. Dutta, D., Univ. of Michigan, Personal Communication

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Mallini

and Logic . Credits: 3. Designed for non-electrical engineering majors. The course covers a broad range of analog and digital electrical engineering topics and is intended as an orientation and familiarization course as opposed to in-depth training for electrical engineering majors. The course is intended principally for Computer Science majors seeking familiarity with the hardware concepts associated with their career.”References[1] Rainbow Software, distributor of Micro-Cap analog/digital electronic circuit analysis software.http://www.micro-cap.co.uk/. Page 7.137.6

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Willie Ofosu

SETCE of Penn State University.Industrial internship ensures continued link with industry for faculty members. Newfaculty members will be well advised to consider industrial internship at an early stage oftheir career as a viable option due to the numerous advantages that may result from awork period in industry.One way of obtaining an internship opportunity is by approaching organizations in theindustry of interest with a request. One such organization is the Pennsylvania Associationof Broadcasters (PAB). PAB in conjunction with its member TV stations organizesSummer Faculty Fellowship Program in Broadcast Engineering. Through this program, afaculty member applies for a grant to be placed in the broadcast industry for a period of 4weeks. From

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Bazuin; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

aquestionnaire at the conclusion of each course. The students are all in agreement that learningreal-time DSP is very important to their careers. As an overall assessment, the students enjoyedthe laboratory experience and valued the skills they acquired. Further supporting this impression,many of the students have been interviewed by industry for permanent or internshipopportunities specifically because of their hands-on experience with DSP processors!The major concern expressed by the students was that the amount of work re quired from thethree-credit DSP course was significantly more than they expected, particularly the many hoursspent learning the necessary background to conduct some of the laboratory experiments.Therefore, the structure of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Mills

real understanding, for instance, of the physical behaviour of structures, not appreciating how the theory they have learnt can be used, and having little idea of what design really is. [2]A major part of the problem is that many faculty who have been career academics, have littlepersonal experience in doing design in practice. [e.g. 5,6]. Design was traditionally taught in anexperiential mode, as is very commonly seen in Architecture programs. Design was often seenas a “soft” course by the engineering scientists who felt that they taught the “real” content .However, there is increasing pressure from professional accreditation bodies and someengineering academics to increase the design emphasis in all engineering programs

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Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

day” program in which students spend a Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationday with various contractors exploring the intricacies, complexities, and magnitude of ongoingheavy highway and building projects in the region. The state OCA organization conducts ayearly student construction estimating competition for teams of college students from throughoutthe state. OCA also provides scholarship funding from both the state and local chapter level tosupport students who are pursuing a technical education and are interested in a career in theconstruction industry. Two OCA member companies, Kokosing

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Cress

Habits for Lifelong Learning - Form the habit of learning from your own mistakes and those of others. Develop and practice strategies to improve your learning processes. These techniques will enhance your career as an engineer/scientist/problem-solver. We all make mistakes when we solve engineering problems. Why? Lack of attention to method, misunderstanding the problem, confusion about the theory behind the possible solutions, aresome of the reasons. Practice helps. Practice, with close examination of our mistakes is one of the richest sources of learning. Recall Vicky Hendley’s article on the importance of failure. To examine your performance and reclaim credit on the two midterm exams in this

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

resistant to change. It is easier to think of agrade as something external imposed upon them by the professor than as something that theycould control by critically reviewing and revising their own work. This resistance is obvious inour current seniors, because the idea of the rubrics is new to them. We hope that our currentsophomores will have a different attitude when they are seniors, having been exposed to therubrics earlier in their academic career. However, it seems prudent to develop exercises thatspecifically challenge the attitude that their grades are not their responsibility, and thus todevelop their ability to evaluate their own work and others’. To this end, sophomores in the“Energy Balances” course in Spring 2002 are asked to help

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

meant that the students learned to anticipate problems when designing experiments, and that nothing goes right the first time. This knowledge is especially useful for students preparing to enter graduate school or a career in industry. · Since the students waited until the last minute to construct their prototype, they consequently felt unmotivated to construct a numerical model. Salt Water Distilled Water Red WaterStockBucket Control Piping Valve Piping Shutoff

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Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul LaPlume; Michael Ruane

plan for CenSSIS includes introducing imaging technology to undergraduates. Theplan seeks to generate undergraduate interest in subsurface sensing and imaging, in undergraduateresearch opportunities related to CenSSIS, and in careers in this area. An initial freshman coursewas offered at Northeastern in winter 2001, which primarily dealt with acoustic imaging 2. In2001 an ‘Introduction to Engineering’ module on imaging was developed at Boston Universitythrough CenSSIS. The module reported in this paper, ‘Exploring Hidden Worlds’ is beingoffered for the first time in spring 2002. This paper describes the module and its role inintroducing engineering (and CenSSIS) to freshmen.Exploring Hidden Worlds – Imaging Module GoalsFour specific goals were

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Globig

approach to provide students in a Project Management course with the knowledgeof a worldwide ethic and how to apply that ethic in engineering projects.INTRODUCTIONThere is constant pressure to provide a four-year engineering curriculum with the breadth ofknowledge students require as a basis for a successful career. In order to develop the non-technical skills required for success (and required by ABET) along with an increasing technicalrequirement, it has been necessary to integrate the non-technical knowledge and skillsdevelopment into our technical curriculum.The vast majority of the early and present day contributions in the ethics area emanate from civilengineering, chemical engineering and bioengineering. Not surprisingly, these fields can

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

consequences of their actions. Several participants noted that, although today’s graduatingengineers will change career directions many times as technology advances, the one constant willbe their collective ability to handle the political, legal, social, and business pressures associatedwith engineering projects.These localized perceptions are quite representative of the national engineering community atlarge. No better example of this exists than the very active involvement of the engineeringindustry in the development of the revised engineering program evaluation criteria in 2000 by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). These new criteria reflectedvarious industry concerns, including the desire to make explicit that

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

secondary school or HAVO(Hoger Algemeen Voortgezet Onderwijs) prepares children for a professional training college oruniversity of technical profession (HBO and HTO). Upon graduation the student may opt totransfer to the final grade of the six-year school in preparation for a university. The six-yearschools are referred to as the Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs (VWO) or pre-university schools and prepare students for a career at one of the country’s universities. Twotypes of VWO exist, the Atheneum and the Gymnasium. The primary difference between the Page 7.483.2Gymnasium and the Atheneum is the presence of mandatory courses in classic

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Thomas Brady; Helmut Knaust; Connie Kubo Della-Piana; Andrew Swift; Jana Renner Martinez

theircollege career, and providing them with the skills for college success. This effort is especiallyimportant at UTEP because many first-year students are not calculus-ready when they enter theuniversity and, therefore, cannot declare a major in science or engineering during their first yearin college. Prior to the implementation of CircLES, these students had virtually no interactionswith the engineering and science colleges, faculty and staff during their first year. Page 7.181.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

contemporary and future technical and business careers. Our goal hasbeen to provide an introduction to such perspectives in typical interdisciplinary first-semesterclasses of engineering design and/or communications.For several years, we have been using a modification to classroom use of commercial simulationsof manufacturing. The activity is usually done in the evening accompanied by pizza and softdrinks. The materials used are paper templates that require student teams to perform many stepsof cutting, folding, adorning, inspecting for quality, and launching for accuracy on a target. Theformat is a competition allowing redesign and improvement from the first (usually quiteineffective) and second (somewhat better) member assignments and team

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ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

3 3 0 0 3 17 21 8 6 9 Semester V, Fall 54.316 Digital Electronics 3 3 3 0 0 58.323 Quality Control & Experimental Design 3 3 3 3 0 53.322 Differential Equations 3 3 3 0 0 58.300 Career Orientation 1 1 1 1 0 Technical Writing or Public Speaking 3 3 0 0 3 Values, Ethics & Responsible

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

project, and a more comprehensive writeup and reporting.Undergraduate engineering programs in the U.S. and Europe, therefore, differ substantially induration, content and philosophy. The U.S. undergraduate experience typically leaves thestudent with a range of choices for career or professional development, including medical school,graduate school in a range of disciplines, or work in one of a variety of marketplaceopportunities, not necessarily limited to engineering. In contrast, European engineering trainingtends to be much more focused on preparation for practice in a particular specialty ofengineering. Meaningful student and faculty interaction between European and U.S. engineerin gacademic and industrial sites requires recognition of and

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

incomparison to one or two courses. The sophomore projects at AAU are approximatelyequivalent to many senior projects in the US. The final projects at AAU generally exceed theMS thesis and problems reports in most US universities. Employers in Denmark (4) haveindicated that the AAU graduates are better prepared and more productive as they begin theirprofessional careers. The differences between project-based and course-based systems and some of the reasonsfor better projects at AAU are: 1) Students do several team projects, not just one. 2) Studentshave offices on campus and are expected to be in their office when not in class. 3) Students havea common class schedule and typically have at most one course difference. 4) Each project has aproject

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationMuch of this dissatisfaction and disinterest in engineering was found to occur during the firsttwo years of an engineer’s education when they are exposed to the scientific concepts they willapply during their careers. Ninety percent of engineering majors who switched to anon-engineering major, and seventy five percent who persevered, described the quality ofteaching as poor overall. Seniors about to graduate in engineering made it clear their experiencein these introductory courses had given them a shaky foundation for higher level work.The National Science Foundation, in a recent call for proposals (Action in Engineering), hasidentified several needed changes to address these findings

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Janet Schmidt; Gary Pertmer

looking for in qualified applicants. They are also asked to rate thecandidates they have interviewed as a group in terms of how well the group matched the criteriathey were looking for. Further, employers are asked which types of engineering majors they arerecruiting and if they have found significant differences in preparation of the applicants by major.Surveys are collected through the Co-Op office and the university’s Career Center. In addition,chairs were supplied with copies of the survey for use in their own career related events. Finally,at the “half way point” in the six year accreditation visit cycle, the Director of Student Researchwill both initiate an additional comprehensive survey of engineering employers which will bemailed and

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

thestudents with motivation, information, an opportunity to get to know their classmates throughteamwork, skills that they will need for their careers (and help meet ABET 2000 guidelines),information about the various disciplines, a chance to be creative, and, most importantly, that theCollege through its personnel care about them and want to help them to succeed. They feel thatthey are part of the College from the beginning.Putting Engineering Up FrontPrior to the 1990s, many engineering programs had mathematics and science up front rather thanengineering. The students viewed courses that covered these subjects as barriers to get intoengineering. The Drexel E4 program put the emphasis on engineering – hands-on labs anddesign up front - and the Ohio