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Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

Session 3513 Designing a Statistics Course for Chemical Engineers V.L. Young Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractThe Department of Chemical Engineering at Ohio University redesigned an existing course inexperimental design and statistics. The revision was motivated by assessment information froma variety of sources: course-based assessment in our senior Unit Operations laboratory, exitsurveys of seniors, surveys of alumni 2 years after graduation and input from our departmentaladvisory board. The consensus of faculty, students, alumni, and the advisory

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

mechanical engineering (ME) program areintroduced to the concepts of stress and strain in a solid body through the Mechanics of Materialscourse. In the first Machine Design course, junior mechanical engineering, the students learn tocalculate the bolt/rivet and joint members stresses. Due to the time constraints of a firstMechanics of Materials course there is generally insufficient time to verify the assumptionsmade in developing the theories with experimental verification. Experimental validation allowsthe student to delve into the corresponding approximate nature of these theories.The Stress Analysis Laboratory practice improves the students’ comprehension of the stresstheory learned in lecture. The literature that was examined used many

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

. These are ME 311, Processof Mechanical Design, ME 341, Manufacturing Processes, and ME 371, Numerical Methods.Traditionally, the Numerical Methods course has been case-study focused, the manufacturingclass has had a laboratory component in which students are given hands-on experience with basicmanufacturing techniques, and the design course has included a project.Ohio Northern University has implemented a continuous improvement process. While the fulldetails of this process are not important here, it is noteworthy that, as part of this process, facultymeet quarterly to review faculty and student comments during Course Outcome Assessment.During our meeting after the fall quarter of 2001, The author discussed several of the problemsnoted after

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Meade

Session 3515 Experience-Based Instruction in Engineering Education Ronald B. Meade, PhD, PE, Associate Professor Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USAF AcademyStudents mature during their engineering education moving from being a student of science andtechnology to becoming an apprentice engineer. This process will occur regardless of thepractical experience held by the engineering faculty. However, maturation may be deepened bythe apt use of experienced-based instruction (EBI). This paper examines the usefulness ofengineering experience as a teaching tool.Assessment of student readiness

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

material (i.e., mathematics, physics, chemistry, English) being taken byengineering students. Thus the SUCCEED Coalition embarked on a set of experiments in 1992 toexplore different approaches to integrate the freshman year.Coupling subject integration in the first year with an introduction to engineering was ideally suitedfor the Coalition’s program given the large resources required to conduct large-scale experiments,the availability of a multiple-campus laboratory to determine robustness, the extended period offunding, and the visibility of this NSF program. The approaches to integration studied by thecoalitions required building teams of faculty from multiple disciplines and assessment experts toevaluate the program impact and designing and

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schuyler; Kenneth Quinn

Services Infrastructure-MS1562 STW 493:[2] Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database-MS 2072 STW 494:[2] Programming a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database -MS 2073The next step was identifying the facilities necessary to teach the courses. It was decided that the best location to runthese courses would be at the local New Horizons office. This decision was made since New Horizons hadnumerous excellent classroom facilities and computer laboratories, as well as having the ability to devote entirelaboratories and hardware to the courses. Ward College’s computer laboratories would be unsuitable since they aremulti-use facilities that are shared by several programs and scheduled in traditional one to one and a half hour

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Keyser; Kourosh Rahnamai; Ronald E. Musiak

anddemonstrate a successful solution to an engineering design problem. The other portion ofthe course concentrates on developing students' problem-solving skills using engineeringcomputational tools such as MATLAB and MathCAD. In this paper we concentrate onpresenting hands-on computer experiments. These are designed to motivate students,enhance problem-solving skills, and introduce students to the latest technology in dataacquisition tools as well as data manipulation and processing using MATLAB.IntroductionTwo thirds of the semester is used for teaching the use of MathCAD and MATLAB insolving engineering problems and one third of the semester is used for hands-onexperiments. Considering that these are first-year students who have limited or

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Belle Upadhyaya

material. The development anddemonstration of the web-based teaching material is focused on one of the modules usedin the college-wide course entitled Introduction to Maintenance Engineering. Themodule incorporates interactive course material, examples, PowerPoint slides, and videoclips of rotating machinery in operation.1. IntroductionIntroduction to Maintenance Engineering is one of the courses that was developedunder a National Science Foundation Combined Research Curriculum Development (NSF-CRCD) project at The University of Tennessee. This is presented as a distance educationcourse and consists of twelve modules. The course presents the principles of variousmaintenance technologies as they are practiced by the U.S. industry. The module

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

skills needed for the practice of ECE. The course is focused on designing, debugging, and building walking robots using concepts from both electrical and mechanical engineering3. The entire course is centered on the laboratory and the construction of the robot. This includes using hand tools, soldering, using test equipment, building circuits on breadboards and on printed circuit boards, computer programming, etc. "They [the instructors] use the StiquitoTM, the robot building, as more of an engine to teach us other stuff, like basic circuitry, various equipment and how to use it, with basic computer programming ... all kinds of little things, making it well rounded."6. Develop a physical intuition for electrical and mechanical

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi-Wei Huang; Nikos Kiritsis; David Ayrapetyan

theoretical response. All data acquisition and analysis is done usinga custom built Labview virtual instrument. This fundamental experiment from the vibration areais used at McNeese State University in many different ways throughout the mechanicalengineering curriculum. First, it is used in the freshman level Introduction to Engineering courseas an example of a typical modern engineering laboratory set up. Second, it is a very populardemonstration used in the sophomore level Strength of Materials course during the discussion ofstress-strain relations and how strain measurements are used to derive information about stress.Third, it serves as an example of transducer integration in the junior level EngineeringMeasurements Laboratory, illustrating

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikolai Dechev; William Cleghorn

internal Engineering Computing Facility(ECF) network within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. Students must use an on-campus computer laboratory to access the software. One teaching assistantis assigned to an ECF laboratory, on a weekly basis. Students are required to submit their completedassignments electronically, to a specified folder within the ECF network.Conclusion The use of enhanced visual aids in lectures as well as a computer laboratory has enriched thelearning of the students. The VRML computer models used here can illustrate a mechanical conceptwithin minutes, that would otherwise require the disassembly of a physical device, which isgenerally impractical during a lecture. Feedback from

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

total period of 4 Years & Master's Degree is of 2 Years parttime study.CE Curriculum and Teaching MethodologyTo foster students’ creative abilities, they are assigned independent projects ondesign construction or laboratory investigations. Many courses include field trips to exposestudents to practical fieldwork.The department is equipped with laboratories that meet the course requirements. These Page 8.27.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationlaboratories are: computer, concrete

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Surya Mallapragada; Maureen Griffin; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz

Session 2793 Using Rubrics to Facilitate Students’ Development of Problem Solving Skills Kevin P. Saunders1, Charles E. Glatz2, Mary E. Huba1, Maureen H. Griffin 3, Surya K. Mallapragada2, and Jacqueline V. Shanks2 1 Iowa State University Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies/ 2Iowa State University Department of Chemical Engineering/ 3 Des Moines East High SchoolAbstract We developed a series of problem-based laboratories in chemical engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nabil Ibrahim

from highschool to community college to university. Participating companies play an important rolein defining competency gaps, developing case studies, placing students in internships, anddeveloping state of the art laboratories. Competency gaps serve as a driver to curriculumdevelopment. One objective of the program has been to enhance diversity and encourageunderrepresented minorities to pursue careers in engineering by presenting them with aseamless pathway early on in their education process. The paper will also provide answersto such questions as: How to develop a stable pipeline of students? What is the role ofindustry in program development? What are the significant achievements of the 2+2+2program after three years of implementation

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 2475 Outreach Scholarship: A Valuable Key to Promotion and Tenure David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg1. Introduction Teaching, research, and service – these three words traditionally encompass thefunctional mission of the college professor. But as the 21 st Century dawned, manyuniversities have awakened to a call to reconnect to those who benefit substantially fromour scholastic activities – our constituents. The Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) echoes this realization with newly revised accreditation criteriarequiring program goals to

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

laboratories. We address the questions:“What do we want to accomplish?” and “So how might we do this effectively and efficiently?”As part of Clemson University's Writing-Across-The-Curriculum Program, English departmentconsultants worked with Mechanical Engineering faculty and graduate assistants on technicalwriting pedagogy. We report on audience, genre, and conventions as important issues in labreports and have recommended specific strategies across the program for improvements.IntroductionPedagogical questions continue about the content, feedback and methodology of the technicallaboratory writing experience in engineering programs. In fact, there is no known prescriptionfor success, and different programs try different approaches. Some programs

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

laboratories that are advancingunderstanding of this new field of science and engineering. The Pennsylvania NMT (Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology) partnershipwas established in 1998 as a state government response to the nanotechnology workforceand research needs of industry. Its guiding principle, since its inception has been thesharing of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility, a NSF National NanofabricationUsers Network (NNUN) site, with educational institutions across Pennsylvania. TheNMT Partnership has grown into a unique team effort involving over 30 institutions ofhigher education, secondary schools including vocational-technical schools, and privateindustry. The NMT Partnership has firmly established Pennsylvania as the

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

to statisticsinstructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin a collaborationamong statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; and provideengineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply their statisticalskills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering students. Having seen theconcepts and experiments already, the modules will actively engage students in applying

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salahuddin Qazi

accuracy has revolutionized long rangecommunication making possible the Internet as we know it. The rapid transition ofwavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques from laboratories to the field isadding even more capacity, and fiber is increasingly becoming the media of choice inmetropolitan area networks, local area networks, campuses, hospitals, factories and sooneven in homes. However, there is an acute need for a network to provide huge bandwidthfar beyond the capacity of current networks and it is suggested that optical Internet basedon dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a viable solution to fulfill the ever-increasing bandwidth demand in the Internet 1. The purpose of introducing a two- coursesequence in optical

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Ochoa

editorswere the required tools. Today the SST course is taught using the Motorola 68332microcontroller. This thirty-two bit device has several on-chip peripherals that give the studentsignificant resources to utilize in the laboratory. Today, the software tools include the Introl CCross Compiler, integrated development environment and associated tools. In addition, theMicroC/II Real-time Kernel is studied and used as an example real-time kernel. It has proven tobe an excellent tool for teaching real-time concepts as well as supporting of project development.The SST lecture begins with a brief review of the C Programming Language and moves quicklythrough a review of the Motorola 68332. The primary focus of the course is on the developmentof C programs

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

sponsored by a local utility and a National Laboratory. They will thenconsider employment with the power industry or the Electric Utility Management Program(EUMP) graduate electric program here at New Mexico State University (see description below). This first year of experience has allowed us to test and refine the program. Our objectivesand observations are described in this paper. We are pleased with the results so far and areactively looking at a group of students, possibly even larger (if additional support from othercompanies permits) for the coming year.2. History of electric power engineering at NMSU Electrical study at NMSU can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. Establishedas the land-grant college of the state of

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Budny Dan; Teresa Larkin

kinematics, Newton’s Laws, conservation ofmomentum and energy, rotational motion, fluid mechanics, waves, and sound. Althoughtraditional in its content, the course is not taught in a traditional lecture format. Many traditionalteaching methodologies have clearly been shown to put students in the role of passive, ratherthan active, learning [15]. Numerous teaching strategies have been developed that serve to betteraccommodate students’ needs and diverse learning styles [16]. In addition, the course includesstrong conceptual and problem solving components. PMW is a 3-credit course and consists of a lecture and a laboratory component. Students mettwice a week for class sessions that are 75 minutes long. On alternate weeks, students met for atwo-hour

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

course of the semester. Each major step in the construction of the device is devolvedinto a self-contained module which provides a hands-on tool for the teaching of nanoscalemechanics concepts. a) b) Figure 2. Side (a) and top (b) views of the microfluidic device constructed and tested during the course(before membrane formation). The surface modified silver coated portion of the substrate can be seen in the bottom half of image (b).This lab was inspired by the research on “virtual walls” in microfluidic devices by Beebe andMoore10,11 as well as the educational nanotechnology laboratories created by the University ofWisconsin

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

Americancountries. Even online education entrepreneurs are emerging, like Motorola University or theUniversity of Phoenix with 85000 students and course authors paid with stock-options. Modelsto describe education units like the ECTS, European Credit Transfer System, are defined to allowinternational curriculum combination. Quality standards for open distance learning for bothproduction aspect and delivery aspects are key issues at this time.” (7)Teaching engineering sciences completely online seems to have some strong limitations, especiallyfor laboratory work and for group projects. Michau believes that in engineering fields, it isprobable that the development of online curriculum for higher education will mainly be in thedelivery of courses toward

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

Assessment of Remote Experiments and Local Simulations: Student Experiences, Satisfaction and Suggestions Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted with simulation software and being conducted remotely through the Web.The students in a

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Harry Robertshaw

detailed argument for and description of this design appears inThe Craft of Scientific Presentations [3]. Although the design advocated in this paper is commonly used at LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory [2] and Sandia National Laboratories, it is seldom seenon university campuses. That is not because technical communication specialists have nottried to teach the design. For instance, I [Alley] tried for four years to promote this designat the University of Texas at Austin and then another four years at the University ofWisconsin–Madison, but the design did not take hold outside of my classes. At VirginiaTech, though, Harry Robertshaw and I are making progress. In the MechanicalEngineering Department, all senior undergraduate students

Conference Session

Design in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

Session 1413 Life-long Learning Experiences and Simulating Multi-disciplinary Teamwork Experiences through Unusual Capstone Design Projects Joseph A. Shaeiwitz Richard Turton West Virginia UniversityIntroductionThere is significant consternation among engineering educators regarding the teaching of and theassessment of “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,” and “a recognition of the needfor, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.” 1 Questions commonly heard are: “Are werequired to have a multi

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

Society for Engineering Education a greenhorn, upstart, flash-in-the-pan, or worse and lead to hard feelings that will last. Remember that recommended changes imply that the status quo designed and fostered by current faculty is inadequate. Recommendations for changes must always be approached very diplomatically.J. Pay one’s dues with respect and deference for senior faculty. Accept that, as the new person, one may have to bite one’s tongue, swallow one’s pride, and perhaps take on less-than-preferred courses and responsibilities, just as most of the senior faculty had to do when they were a NEE. Be willing to accept and faithfully perform grunt work, particularly teaching time-intensive laboratory courses, freshman-level courses

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Future Teachers, Presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Saint Louis, June 2000. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).16. Jordan, W., Silver, D., and Elmore, B., Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers, presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based Proceedings (no page Page 8.261.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” numbers).17. Jordan, W., and Elmore, B., Developing an Outreach Program to Introduce

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Maria Kreppel; Max Rabiee

Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities, Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, 1998.4. D. A. Schon, Educating a Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1987.5. P. Wojahn, J. Dyke, L. A. Riley, E. Hensel and S. C. Brown, “Blurring Boundaries between Technical Communication and Engineering: Challenges of a Multidisciplinary, Client-Based Pedagogy,” Technical Communication Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 129-148.6. D. A. Sapp and R. D. Crabtree, “A Laboratory in Citizenship: Service Learning in the Technical Communication Classroom,” Technical Communication