Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Long; Kevin Sutterer; Frederick Berry

during the academic year for 1-1/2 hours. Though the program was free fora number of years, a nominal fee of $10 per family is now charged to join for the entire year.Over its nearly 10 year life, hundreds of middle and high school students have explored theexciting world of engineering and science thanks to their participation in EXPLORE ENGINEERING.The program has grown in popularity and stature during the past four years, thanks to the supportof the Lilly Endowment Inc. and Indiana Space Grant Consortium. Prior to the recent funding,however, the program was still successful, though operating on little to no budget, other than thecommitment of Rose-Hulman External Affairs’ staff to organize and moderate the meetingsevery other week, publish a

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

plan • Develop sound marketing and financial plansThe Entrepreneurial Program StructureThe Entrepreneurship Program is a 3-year experience as can be seen from Table 1. Thecurriculum is two-pronged and consists of:1- Active participation in the operation of a student Engineering Enterprise2- Completion of course material (instructional modules) Page 8.523.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe entrepreneurial program is designed to preserve the technical content of Lawrence

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

. Page 8.1200.1The assessment tools used include course assessments, student course portfolios, senior exit “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3166surveys and interviews, alumni surveys, the FE Exam results, co-op employer evaluations, degreeaudits, ME curriculum audits, course-end evaluations, and career surveys. Table 1 lists theseassessment tools and some of the associated details.We are constantly looking for new and better assessment tools for obtaining data on the studentoutcomes. Recently

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Butt; Sam Ramrattan; Alamgir Choudhury

the PDA devices to maintain the specified process criteria.Implementation of this teaching methodology brings the reality of the subject matter in theclassroom without introducing a formal laboratory component or practicum in the curriculum.The practice also allows the students to get acquainted with the wireless technology and itsindustrial use in process monitoring and control.1. IntroductionThe subject of process control [1,2] deals with monitoring, evaluating, and analyzing thecharacteristic parameters of a process to ensure that it meets its performance criteria in terms ofquality and cost of product by operating optimally and improving continuously. Because of thenature of variation in product and process characteristics, lack of

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Thompson

expanded into a parametric factor evaluation (PFE) form which has now beenused for a number of years. A copy illustrating this is provided in Table 1 PFE Factors forCourse Related Research Projects. A quick inspection will show that these are commonsensecharacteristics but still allow a wide latitude in choice of projects.Experience showed that there were some additional characteristics which affected the usefulnessof a project for course purposes. Although the course title and syllabus provided some guidance,some students still would choose projects which were interesting and potentially good researchcandidates but which weren't helpful in this course. The first, and most obvious, additionalcharacteristic was that the project should require

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Ann Marie Flynn

students finish in four years. In Table 1 we list the enrollment history of the School of Engineering beginning with theClass of 1999 to the present. We point out that students in the Class of 1999 actually enrolled inthe fall of 1995. The data in Table 1 are arranged such that an entry represents an enrollmentfigure for the beginning of a semester in one of four years. For example, the first entry in the1999 column represents the number of first year, full time freshmen entering the School at thebeginning of the fall 1995 semester. The second entry in this same column represents the numberof those students remaining in the School of Engineering at the beginning of the Spring 1996semester. And, finally, the last entry in the 2002 column

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu; S. Gary Teng

managing industrial projects, the benefits in working withindustry on research and application oriented projects are attractive since faculty need industrialpartners for research projects. Industrial projects also provide faculty the tools and environmentto teach students engineering concepts, principles, and practices.With the pros discussed above, the cons of working on industrial projects are what discouragedsome faculty from becoming involved in these projects. The potential problems may include thefollowing points:1. Lots of time and effort required from faculty to guide and manage these projects,2. Students’ workload increased significantly due to project work,3. Logistic and scheduling problems may be very significant,4

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

which a Nuclear Engineering Laboratory Course was based. The basic reactor experiments that were performed were quite similar to what thepioneers Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and others performed in Chicago in1942 and subsequently at the plutonium producing reactor in the state of Washington.These experiments remain similar to those done at the electric utility reactors and by thenuclear navy at times of refueling and startup. The experiments include 1) confirming the ability to measure neutrons andcalibrating the instrument channels by testing and calibrating to assure that neutrons andonly neutrons are measured, 2) starting with an empty core and then loading fuel andmonitoring neutron multiplication as a

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

, American Society for Engineering EducationOpen Systems Interconnection model commonly accepted in the applied data communicationsindustry.Traditional Project Management ModelThe traditional Project Management (PM) model developed by the Project Management Institutein their recent document PMBOK® Guide 2000 1, maps the nine PM knowledge areas into thefive PM process groups of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing, as depicted inFig.1. Project Initiating Planning Controlling Executing Closing] Management Process Process Process Process Process Knowledge Areas Project Integration Management Project Scope Management

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Donald Elger

teach problemsolving. Their schema, called the McMaster Problem Solving (MPS) program, representsproblem solving using a hierarchical structure in which the big picture ideas (i.e. the stages) areat the top and the details (specific skills and attitudes) are associated with each stage. There isstrong evidence that the MPS program has improved outcomes.A Method for Defining Quality in Problem Solving For the past fifteen years, we have worked on developing a process for teaching quality inproblem solving (Elger et al.4). During fall semester 2002, we decided to put ourunderstandings about quality on paper. To reach this goal, we selected a method from theformative assessment literature (Arter and McTighe1). This method is summarized below.1

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Cindy Finelli; Honor Passow; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

to indicate their perceived certainty of experiencingthree potential consequences (shame, embarrassment, and institutional sanctions). Responsechoices were “agree”, “not sure”, and “disagree”. The statements, modeled after published workby Cochran2, are listed here.1. “I would feel ashamed of myself if I benefited from …” [Shame]2. “Most of the people whose opinion I value would lose respect for me if they found out I had …”[Embarrassment]3. “There is a good chance that I would get caught if …” [Sanctions]DeterrentsThe authors were also interested in determining if students perceived the potential consequencesof cheating as effective deterrents. Thus, for the same three scenarios presented previously,respondents were asked to indicate the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

) technical skills throughconceptual design, and project planning; ii) communication skills through written proposals andoral presentations; iii) engineering ethics awareness through selected case studies, and iv) machineshop operation. The educational objectives of the course is to provide an opportunity for thestudents:1. To develop alternate conceptual designs2. To develop skills in project planning3. To enhance the understanding of design steps4. To develop skills in working with others in a team project5. To improve communication skills6. To develop skills in how to identify and use resources7. To develop an understanding of practical engineering problems in design8. To critically evaluate existing designs9. To improve the awareness of social

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Mehmet Ozturk; Hatice Ozturk

Session 2379 Use of Personality Profiles in forming Laboratory Groups in Two Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses Hatice Örün Öztürk1, Mehmet C. Öztürk1, Joni E. Spurlin2 1 North Carolina State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Raleigh, North Carolina 2 North Carolina State University College of Engineering

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schemmel

Page 8.429.1combination of grade level and sub-discipline, or 3 x 3 x 5 = 45. Each lesson plan has been savedProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationin Adobe's ® PDF format allowing for its use with either a Windows ® or Mac ® basedcomputer.Several content and format criteria were established prior to the development of any lesson plan(1). The most significant of these are highlighted below along with a few explanatory remarks.1. Each lesson plan must be age appropriate. It was determined early on that the lesson plans would be separated into three grade levels ranging from kindergarten to 8th grade. Obviously, an

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

businesses and industries in Iowa? • Do the partnership opportunities teachers deem important correlate with what business & industry offer and believe are important?Population and Survey InstrumentThe sample population surveyed only included the state of Iowa (teacher n=124 andbusiness/industry n=161) with 66 teachers responding and 40 business/industry professionalsresponding. The respondents consisted of teachers from 16 different rural and metropolitan schooldistricts. Teaching experience spanned 35 years, with the average years of service being 17.7years. Twenty-four percent of the teachers had been teaching 1-10 years and 74% of the teachershad been teaching 11 or more years. Forty-two or 64% of the respondents

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry Welch

by twohypotheses: Page 8.641.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3530 1) A student’s ability to self-assess is reflected in their course grade. (i.e. There is a relationship between self-assessment and course grade.) 2) Self-assessment becomes more

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

. Carter et al. has suggested best-practice processes forestablishing program educational objectives and the importance of formal organization entitiesthat collect and review appropriate constituent data 2. Some have noted the value of websites fordisseminating best-practice assessment tools 2 or to track assessment data 3, 4 . Educatingengineering faculty on the variety of assessment tools available to measure student learning, andtheir appropriate use, has been an important activity since the issuing of the new EC 2000accreditation requirements several years ago 1, 6 .BackgroundThe MIT School of Engineering began its preparation for ABET accreditation review during2000, a year and a half prior to its October 2001 ABET visit, by creating an ABET

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

, CS100M.CS100 SyllabiCS100 is a one-semester course that introduces computer programming—no previousprogramming experience is assumed. During the 14-week semester, students learn how to writeprograms using MATLAB and Java, and most importantly, gain the skills and confidence neededto further develop their programming expertise in future course work or on their own.The syllabi for the M and J tracks of CS100 are given in Table 1. The same programmingconcepts are taught in both courses using different amounts of MATLAB and Java content(MATLAB content is shaded in Table 1). CS100J is the “traditional” introductory programmingcourse taught at Cornell based on an object-oriented programming language. Two weeks ofMATLAB instruction augments this traditional

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

daytime class and the spring offering is at night. Since the initial offering in fall2001, the word of mouth has begun to attract increasingly more majors from other disciplines.Due to limited number of laboratory stations, the class size has been limited to about thirtystudents. The following table gives a profile of the students enrolled in the course. Table 1. Student Profile MAJOR FALL 2001 SPRING 2002 FALL 2002 SPRING 2003 ECET 11 9 13 10 MET 6 6 6 6 UNDECLARED 12 5

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

mentoring of students. The program has shownincrease in the number of students that apply computational science skills in their majordisciplines. It has led to increase in the number of students that are doing joint and doublemajors in Computer Science and other fields. Specific successes include the publications ofseveral papers that involved undergraduate students, and participation of students in internshipsat National Laboratories (Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia National Lab, and Office of NavalResearch Lab in Washington, DC) and high-tech industries (including Oracle Corporation).1. IntroductionComputational Science plays an immense role in research and development in almost alldisciplines, especially in mathematics, science, engineering and

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

– S interaction. In particular, we will be considering two spaces of randomoutcomes, one related to the domain of S, and the other one associated with C.A column random vector X = (X1, X2,…, Xn)Twhere T denotes transpose, in the S-space will have scalar random variables Xi, i = 1,…, n, as itselements, whereas a column random vector Y= (Y1, Y2,…, Yn)Tin the C-space will have scalar random variables Y j, j= 1,…, n, as its elements.For example, each element Xi of the S-space might represent particular features of the clusteredS, such as o Role o Behavior o Professional experience o Learning curve o On-the-job-training capability o Communications

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sterling E. Skinner; Eric G. Chapman; Sheldon Jeter

. Page 8.675.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”The Project:The project chosen for the class offered during the spring of 2002 was to design a devicewhich could transport a 1-1/2" wooden cube through as large a horizontal displacementas possible using only the potential energy source of an elevated, water-filled, 3-literbottle. Additional design requirements were added to limit the scope of the designs.These design requirements included:1) The design needed to fit within a 3’ x 3’ x 3’ volume prior to assembly.2) Any assembly or set-up needed to be completed within 5 minutes after the group

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

, while others despitetheir dissatisfaction persist to graduation.14, 30, 27, 29 Primary reasons for dissatisfaction anddeparture include non-sustained student interest in the discipline and a lack of the sense ofbelonging.14, 30, 32 Moreover, affective measures have been shown to be better indicators of earlystudent departure.33 For students who do persist to graduation, dissatisfaction negatively affectsemployee qualities identified by ABET and the National Association of Colleges and Employers(NACE 2001). 1 Most of these factors, such as honesty/integrity, teamwork skills, interpersonalskills, motivation/initiative, strong work ethic, flexibility/adaptability, and self-confidence, fallinto the affective domain. Because the development of

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman; Ashok Agrawal

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

. Some of the problems chosen by thestudents were the analysis of various designs of the test section in the wind tunnel (see Fig. 1),the separated flow in a tee-junction of the pipe, a single round jet in a cross-flow, and flowthrough an asymmetric expansion. The students were required to find the correspondingexperimental results from the literature for each problem in order to validate their computationalresults. As for the first project, each group of students was required to prepare and submit anengineering report and made in-class presentation on each project. (a) (b) Figure 1 Wind Tunnel Test Section Project (a) Schematic of the Test

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Coral Nocton; Ismail Fidan

Session 1148 How to create a World Class Professional Student Chapter Ismail Fidan1, Coral Nocton2 1 SME Student Chapter Advisor, 2SME Student Chapter President College of Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505-5003AbstractThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has awarded Tennessee Tech’s student chapterthe organization’s 2002 Outstanding Chapter Award for Overall Excellence out of hundreds ofchapters nationwide and internationally. According to SME, this award was based on thefollowing factors: • Outstanding Recruitment Efforts

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

greatly expanded the business potential for commercially applying the innovationsintroduced by this technology-based discipline. Thus, many BME students are attracted by theentrepreneurial potential of the field. Also, most students graduating with the M.S. degree areemployed in industry and would benefit from training in business practices and the businessenvironment [1]. In the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at The University of North Carolina atChapel Hill (UNC-CH), annual student surveys frequently requested more exposure to the BMEindustrial sector. In a 1998 survey in our department, only about half of the students entering ourgraduate program had taken an introductory course in economics in their undergraduate

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek A. Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

software package. The course is unique forseveral reasons: 1) it is the first course that an Engineering department at CSUN has ever offeredfor non-majors, 2) it is the first computer graphics course taught by an engineering department atCSUN that was approved as a general education breadth course, and 3) it is the first freshman-level General Education course taught by the MSEM department faculty. The challenges we facedin teaching this type of course to non-technical students are many and varied. In this paper, wefocus on a subset of ideas and methods that we used to develop this course. One of the ideas, forinstance, is to raise the level of technical literacy in the general student population on campus.This includes a substantial number of

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katrina Townes-Young

educational outreach to facultyand students in an interactive, virtual setting.According to Jeffrey Branzburg, “videoconferencing allows you to bring resourcesinto your classroom that you may not be able to experience in “real life” (2001).Debuting in Fall 2001, NASA LIVE is a series of FREE, 60-minutevideoconferencing programs for colleges and universities. NASA LIVE isdesigned to: (1) communicate NASA knowledge to faculty and students in orderto increase scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical literacy; (2)increase faculty and student interest and participation in NASA and relatedprograms; (3) provide faculty and student with a network of NASA mentors andcolleagues working on programs, projects, and research in aeronautics

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tara Madhyastha; Jessica Masters; Ali Shakouri

physics that stressedthe important of students becoming actively involved in the learning process [11]. These are only some ofthe resources available, and only in one field of engineering. Despite the large volume of existing activelearning materials, the development of these materials is costly, both in time and resources. In addition to these materials crafted for a specific topic, there have been several educational softwarepackages designed to facilitate on-line testing and quizzes. WebCT [19] and Blackboard [1] are twoexisting courseware management software packages that include the functionality of on-line newsgroupsas well as instructor-created on-line quizzing. There have also been many research efforts in this domain.QuizIT, an on