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Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

in the 1999 – 2000 academic year and has now been conducted fortwo consecutive years. A third survey is planned for the 2001 – 2002 academic year. Summaryresults from the first two years of the study are presented here. Detailed results are available atwww.ecsel.psu.edu/setce/ExitSurvey2000.htm and www.ecsel.psu.edu/setce/ExitSurvey2001.htm.Description of the Survey The exit survey for Penn State engineering technology students was derived, withpermission, from an assessment survey for engineering schools developed by EducationalBenchmarking, Inc. * It consists of 59 questions. The first eight questions define basicdemographics of the respondent, including the student’s degree program, campus location,estimates of average weekly study

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

, university-industry collaborations are often still moreproblematic as a result of an inevitable difference in culture and perspective 3, 11, 12, 15.Industry and academia measure the success of collaboration quite differently and inevitablyperceptions of progress made, the perceived value of the outcomes and opinions regardinghow a project should be planned and managed, differ substantially between the two parties.The deployment of students on such projects is logical given the manner in which success inacademia is measured, e.g., number papers published, the generation of new knowledge,number of students successfully achieving research degrees. However, it is also logical toassume, given the opposing perspectives of academia and industry, that such

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

Project is a part of the comprehensive Southern Valley Development Project(SVDP) that aims to double the amount of cultivated land in Upper Egypt at a cost of$100 billion by 2017 to develop Toshka, East El-O-Wee-Nat, and the New Valley Oases.Twenty percent of that money is pledged by the Egyptian government -- which isbuilding the main canal and its four offshoots, the pumping station, major roads and mainelectricity network, with agriculture being only a base for the integrated developmentplanned. Industry, mining, alternative energy production -- and possibly oil and gasproduction and storage, and tourism, are parts of the vision, with plans for desert safaris,car rallies, conferences, and medical tourism.The subsections of this paper are

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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

, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationto sponsor workshops at the leading institutions in four of its (5) Latin American countries wherethe company is establishing their strategic academic alliances (Argentina, Chile, Brazil, andMexico).The WorkshopsThe Learning Factory Workshops (Figure 2) go throughthe steps that helped MEEP develop this program: fromestablishing educational objectives to planning(resources, timetable, responsibilities) to curriculumdevelopment (courses, integrated laboratory facilities,industry collaboration), and finally to outcomesassessment (designing the assessment strategy

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

Sophomore Clinic faculty worked with educationalresearchers at Rowan University’s Center for the Advancement of Learning to strengthen teameffectiveness by building teams based on learning. The underlying assumption of our plan tocreate learner-based teams was this: team members’ need to understand themselves and otherswas fundamental to successful teaming. Johnston’s Interactive Learning Model7 (ILM) waschosen for the study. It is a brain-based learning model, which uses a reporting instrument, orLearning Combination Inventory 8 (LCI) and a process (the Let Me Learn Processâ) to frame andfacilitate individual and group learning. The theoretical basis of the ILM is a set of constructsestablishing cognition, conation, and affectation as the

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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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

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”the U.S. and Canada can hold exchange research fellowships and clerkships. VaNTH institutionsare among those who have hosted BMEP scholars. CDG has also facilitated the GBFinternational exchange programs for biotechnology students from less developed countries formany years.History and Purposes of the Partnership. In 1998 a trade mission from Niedersachsen visitedNashville and Vanderbilt. Discussions about a student exchange program were initiated. In May2000 Dr. Peter Winter of CDG visited Vanderbilt and plans for a student exchange program weremade more definite. On a visit to Niedersachsen in March 2001, Dr. Jerry Collins of Vanderbiltand VaNTH visited several laboratories and offices

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 2430 Skills Assessment in Hands-On Learning and Implications for Gender Differences in Engineering Education Daniel W. Knight, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Susan J. Poole and Lawrence E. Carlson Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractA comprehensive course evaluation plan is a helpful tool for the development and revision ofnew curricula. One component of an evaluation plan is the assessment o

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duggan

composition profiles to develop sampling plan and comprehensive site assessment for a proposed property redevelopment (attachment 3).Design Capstone Design For their major design experience, a student group has developed a biosolids/Pulp and Paper Mill

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson

“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 3. Design, Redesign Cycle for Experimental Project Pilot Iterations 3 and 4 Topic Choice Experimental Plan Formal Proposal Redesign Apparatus Construction Cycle Preliminary Testing Demonstration

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

, installation of a 160-MW farm, 14 to 20 km off Horns Rev in the North Sea, will be Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcompleted later this year (2002). The latter is but one of five similar-sized offshore projectsslated for Danish waters by yr-2008. Denmark’s “Energy 21” Plan calls for 4 GW of offshorewind farm capacity by the year 2030, intending to satisfy 30% of that nation’s energy needs.4Wind energy is less predictable and more variable than tidal energy, but its potential depends onflow velocity and not on trapping (i.e., damming) a mass of fluid. Thus, construction andimplementation of a wind

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Matsumoto

, prestressedconcrete, or reinforced concrete bridge design. Even where special topics are selected, teams arerequired to link their topic to a real-life project or other practical application.Many students and employers have found this approach to be mutually beneficial. Students aremotivated to explore the design process and end products at their company, including the purposeand objectives of a project, the design basis and approach, actual calculations, and plan sheets.Engineers are pleased to help student assistants become more knowledgeable about companydesign practice and are very willing to supply these students (whom they hope will become futurefull-time employees) with the necessary information and additional insight into the backgroundand execution

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

rationale for its use in engineeringclassrooms. Sections two through four provide faculty insights and recommendations preparingstudents for teamwork, planning lessons and activities, and implementing and assessingactive/cooperative learning. Section five presents actual lessons and activities developed byparticipating faculty. The final section includes faculty profiles and interview transcripts. Thispaper loosely follows the organization of the website: we provide an overview of the use ofactive/cooperative learning in engineering education and then summarize and annotate theFoundation Coalition faculty members’ suggestions for preparing students, planning lessons, andimplementing active/cooperative learning in diverse settings.Overview of Active

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Engineering Education· Identify a problem or question related to gender equity that they wanted to pursue or investigate at their school using action research, and to implement their plan,· Return to Georgia Tech for periodic SummerScape meetings, and· Submit a written report detailing their activities and modified lesson plans.Teachers were also encouraged to observe each other periodically in the classroom to check ontheir progress in providing equitable attention to all students, and to conduct a gender equityworkshop for parents at their school.Online CommunityAll professional development materials and teacher final reports were posted online on aSummerScape WebCT course. The classroom instruments and activities were all available aspdf

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the Bioprocess Technology course were to provide students withbasic principles in cellular and molecular biology of microbial and mammalian cells, give them aworking knowledge of bioreactor operations and microbial kinetics and their industrialapplications, and introduce product recovery processes of pharmaceuticals. In this course, wealso aimed to promote and help students develop lifelong skills such as adaptive expertise,presentation and communication skills in an active learning environment. Furthermore,integrating the new educational modules developed at Vanderbilt into class material of a courseat NU was the first attempt and required strategic planning. At the beginning of the course designprocess, the topics to be covered in the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

, appear to have subsided; and more genuine concerns reflecting the current mood arebeing openly debated. A wide range of issues have surfaced; included are: (i) the need torestructure present programs and curricula; (ii) the need to introduce organizational changes; (iii)the need to develop long-term connections with neighboring industries; and (iv) the desire tofoster proper engineering culture in the classroom and at the workplace.Contributors to this constructive debate have come from industry, faculty, administration, andstudents. As a consequence, ideas, directions and preliminary plans have emerged but not yetproperly jelled. The debate goes on, and forces of change are in the air. But there are counterarguments and counter measures that

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

topics early.The second purpose is to help the students maintain focus on their experiments and ensure thatthey have not embellished the experiment so that it cannot be completed in the remaining four-week period. Students often over-design apparatuses or require expensive or unnecessaryinstrumentation. Thus, the oral proposals help to keep the students focused and the experimentssimple.Two weeks after the assignment of the project, the groups are required to submit a writtenproposal. In the proposals, the groups are expected to select the apparatus construction,materials, instrumentation, and test plan that minimize the expected uncertainty in their result.Students are expected to use uncertainty analysis with the appropriate physics to achieve

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

at ASU is described in Section 4, including the structure of the programas well as planned courses. Section 5 reports on the work completed to date, draws conclusionsand outlines future work.2 Background and Related WorkCertain characteristics of embedded systems distinguish them from other systems. Specifically,embedded systems typically interact in real time with their environment. As a result, they operateeffectively on unbounded input sequences and similarly produce output data streams that areunbounded in length. Frequently, embedded systems have safety-critical constraints or arerequired to deliver ultra-high availability. Because they function without human interventionand often in hostile or remote environments, they also must be

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

concerns addressed in August, thesis planning in October, publications inMarch, and career concerns in April. Each of the 90-minute workshops briefly introducedkey principles of communications related to the topic, followed by one or more informalpresentations by individual faculty members who had relevant experience and particularinterest in the topic. Generally, the workshops concluded with hands-on practice androundtable discussions among the graduate students.Attendance at the workshops, which was voluntary, averaged 25 graduate students, buteach of the topics attracted a slightly different group of students. In fall 2000, graduateenrollment in the USC College of Engineering and Information Technology totaled 535students, including 109

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

for assessment. For this phase, studentteams were asked to keep written records of brainstorming and other creative orconstructive stages of their design project, establish methods of communication amongteam members, and submit documentation plans. The next stage will involve a formalstudy including a control group, who will not be instructed to engage in intensive writingduring the design process, in order to apply, evaluate, and further develop the criteriagenerated during the preliminary study. During this phase, methods of relating the use of Page 7.1329.2writing during the design process to the quality of design products will also be

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Hensley; Marjorie Donovan; Christopher Ibeh; James Otter

Session 2647Accountability requires that academia operate via “design and planning”, design andplanning that is done upfront to ensure that institutional goals and objectives are attainedin a manner that is cost-effective and that meets accreditation and governance criteria. Aviable means of operating via “design and planning” is to adopt and implement the CUESASSESSMENT MODEL (CUES-AM); CUES-AM is a core component ofepistecybernetics. The themes of enhanced student learning, enhanced course deliverymethods, continuous improvement, life long learning, faculty professional developmentand systematic documentation of knowledge are embodied in the principles andprecepts of epistecybernetics’ total system approach to knowledge and assessment

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

and robot 7 Brainstorming time Show candidate designs to faculty · Develop ideas for robot design · Develop ideas for fuel cell design · Develop test / assessment plan for fuel cell 8 Fuel cell / robot fabrication 9 Fuel cell / robot fabrication Design proposal due 10 Midterm presentations Midterm progress report 11 Engineering economics Design proposal revisions due Fuel cell / robot fabrication 12 Fuel cell / robot fabrication and testing 13 Fuel cell

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; Nathan Campeau

professors believe it as well.The other recurring comment deals with the structure of the program. The informationalsessions many times overlap with what students have learned at the pre-college summerorientation and in the SEAS-orientation class that is held in the fall of their freshmanyear. This redundancy has led the students to find the informational sessions boring.There has been a tendency to try to fit too much information in one weekend. Thesolution is to have a clear objective from the beginning and ensure that all programmingpromotes that objective. To achieve this goal, the planning process will begin severalmonths earlier than in the past, and more student input will be sought, especially fromfreshmen who have recent experience with the

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

page development to enhance course presentation materials and finally refresher courses on improving your syllabus or one that reviews the basic principles of planning and conducting a distance learning course.4. An ongoing system of faculty evaluation can provide opportunities for facultymembers to request/receive peer feedback. Experienced faculty members might perform Page 7.1211.5in-class observations and hold feedback sessions to assist their faculty peers in further “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Blevins

Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has also putmore focus on including engineering management education in undergraduate engineeringprograms.4 This growth may be the result of a better understanding of the discipline and itsimportance. Industry and ABET recognizes that engineers today need not only have strongtechnical skills, but also must have management skills to help them with the organizational,staffing, planning, financing, and the human element in production, research and service issues Page 7.134.1they will soon face. Palmer (2001) states that a different type of engineer wants a degree that Proceedings of the 2002

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

engineering at Boeing. The following six weeksconsisted of individually-tailored "shadowing assignments," centering around eachfellow’s respective area of technical interest. During this time, the fellows wereindividually exposed to different management and technical programs and lived amongBoeing engineers and staff engaged in the day-to-day dynamics of engineering practice. Page 7.821.1These activities included participation in Integrated Product Teams, customer and partnervisits, planned tours of Boeing facilities, demonstrations of rapid prototyping, advancedProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz; Cathy Maltbie

studies with engineering students, and wehope to build on that current knowledge base. We plan to use the data gathered todetermine implications for teaching and using technology to enhance learning.Description of ProgramAll classes received in-person instruction which varied depending on the specificinstructional technology used in that class. The traditional class and the interactive videoclasses were standard lectures. Students in the web-based class and the streaming videoclass were required to preview the Mechanics I course material prior to the class. Theinstructor’s role changed from the traditional lecturer to that of mentor; he revieweddifficult concepts, answered questions, worked problems and gave practical examples.A statistical

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

, and is integrated withMATLAB and Stateflow for modeling event-driven behavior. It is used interactivelyfor DSP design, communications system design and control system design as well as forother simulation applications.SystemView of ELANIX 5 Inc., is a comprehensive dynamic systems analysisenvironment for the design and simulation of engineering or scientific systems. Itprovides sophisticated analysis engine for digital signal processing, RF/Analog, filterdesign, control system, communications systems and other general mathematicalsystems. It combines an intuitive block diagram interface and extensive libraries foreasy system design.EDX SignalPro is based on powerful wireless network planning tools developed by theEDX 6 division of Comarco

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Yee

of theproduct design projects are initiated by identifying the needs for the market. The productdevelopment can be either market-driven or new technology-driven. Once the needs areidentified, the first thing to do is plan for the design. This may include forming the design team,developing the required tasks, and establishing a project schedule. Employing concurrentengineering, design team usually consists of project manager, design project engineer,manufacturing engineer, material engineer, and quality assurance engineer. Depending on thesize of a company, a person may serve in multiple roles as mentioned earlier.Secondly, engineering specifications are developed based on who the customers are, what theirrequirements are, and what the

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

inengineering, and future plans and commitment to engineering were also collected at the beginning of theacademic year. At the end of the academic year, students were asked for their perception of the climateat Rowan, their satisfaction and dissatisfaction with specific aspects of the program, their participation invarious types of activities over the course of the year, their attitudes toward engineering at this point intime, and future plans and commitment to engineering. For purposes of comparability, the surveys weredesigned after reviewing several other survey instruments used in recent studies and incorporating elementsfrom them.1 Focus group interviews with about a third of the female students and interviews with facultyfilled in some of the

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Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo

-U.S. citizens with permanent visas. A survey of the latter group of graduatesthat focused on their plans after graduation showed that 14.4% of the total wanted to pursueacademic careers while 49.9% planned for employment in industry. Thus, an educationalprogram that includes partnering with industry would better meet the needs of one-half of thedoctoral students in the study group. One can only speculate on the effect that such a program Page 7.1159.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering