Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

learned it toomust be kept current to be engaging. Continued study of the latest teaching methods, learning thenew technology, and learning about today's students are important to the success in theclassroom.Learn To Teach ExamplesTwo very short and very different cases will be discussed below. In each case the professor had afull teaching load, each was offered the opportunity for mentorship and outside assistance; onefaculty member is successful, the other was not. As in the case of the mentor relationship,cooperation and idea exchange are key to learning to teach.Case 1. A new faculty member with industrial experience and a doctorate was assigned to teachseveral classes and the associate laboratories. The mentor made classroom visits with

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

first module is an introduction and a welcome to the department. An eight-minute longdepartment video is shown which depicts different laboratories overseen by the department suchas the concrete and turbine labs. The video also recounts recent capstone student projectscomplete by our graduates.The second module is an introduction to the West Point Bridge Designer program (which will bediscussed later). The basic properties of the program are discussed and a demonstrationconducted. The students are then given a simple exercise to completely design a bridge using theWest Point Bridge Designer.The third and most interactive, team building module consists of dividing the students into groupsof four to compete in two design competitions, one using

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Russell; Walter Peters

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education15. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Code of Ethics. 13 Jan. 2003 16. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Code of Ethics. 13 Jan. 2003 17. National Society of Professional Engineers. Code of Ethics. 13 Jan. 2003 18. The American Heritage College Dictionary. 3rd ed. NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.19. Honderich, Ted., ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.Biography:JAMES A. (JAMIE) RUSSELL is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and a graduate research associate inthe Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions. His research interests include environmental management systems,industrial ecology

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

of descriptions of physical phenomena, results from experiments, demonstrations, and solved problems. • Use of physical analogies and demonstrations to illustrate the magnitudes of calculated quantities. • Experiential learning in laboratories • Collaborative learning for laboratory exercises Page 8.981.6 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Should be used more in Engineering Technology Education • Use of collaborative learning in the classroom

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

students and at the same time to make it as a symbol of strength andpower. It has been carefully studied and analyzed to cause an impact in the schools and in thestudents. The goal has been achieved once it has been pointed out as the symbol of the program.The implementation of the program started in February of 2002; it has been dimensioned to serve10 thousand students per year, including the qualification of teachers and technical staff for thenext four years.7. Physical and material aspects of the ProjectThe physical infra structure of the project counts with 16 laboratories with 20 points of networkeach, in according to the international pattern EIA/TIA 568-A, where each lab contains one Rackwith key and the local network active element

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walden Rio

. Theother problem is the fact that the visiting faculty may not be knowledgeable on the educationalprogram of the Philippines. Whatever knowledge he or she may share, may not be needed by theinstitution. It is therefore very important that a careful process be done to identify the needs ofthe school and what the visiting professor can deliver. Another way of answering the need of the faculty to undergo advance training is to sendthem abroad for short durations of at least two to three months. There is a distinct advantagewhen a faculty is sent abroad and exposed to Engineering education in a first world country as theUnited States. He will not only learn from the lecture and laboratory classes he or she attends butalso observe how each

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

Education • they worship a single god • they believe in the immortality of the soul and the happiness of life after death, and • while they believe fully in their religion and are convinced of its truth, they would abandon it for one that could be proved better(source: http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/more.htm )Bacon was the first philosopher to suggest the improvement of society through theapplication of science and technology. In his New Atlantis the House of Solomon – a kind ofobservatory and laboratory - was designated to realize this ideal. The high goal of thisinstitution was to keep order and harmony; to keep the people happy. This goal was to beachieved through extraordinary scientific advances that made it

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

total program evaluation. An adequate CGI program can be equally applied toSouthern Association Commission as Well as TAC of ABET self study practices.ABET AccreditationABET accreditation is shifting from auditing to learning outcomes of students. 1 Learning takesplace through hands-on activities that represent the application of real life problems. To providean environment of learning by doing, a series of activities must be carried out that achieves adesired outcome.2Learning strategies establish relevance and applications for all course material, balance concreteinformation with abstract concepts and use a variety of delivery modes. Learning strategiesinclude lectures, in-class demonstrations, laboratory experiences, consultations

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo-Ann Murray; Urbain DeWinter; Solomon Eisenberg

sophomoreengineering undergraduates at Boston University. The program enables engineeringundergraduates to incorporate a study abroad experience in their undergraduate degree programswhile continuing to make normal progress toward their degrees. Prior exposure or facility withGerman is not expected before starting the program, but students must participate in an intensiveGerman-language course while in Dresden. The TUD was chosen as a partner in developing thisprogram because Boston University already had a small program and a resident directorestablished at this site. In addition, the TUD had appropriate faculty and laboratory facilitiesavailable to teach the requisite science and engineering courses in English. While in Dresden,students take three of four

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

courses should becombined together and the teams integrated across disciplines.During the summer of 2000, a committee composed of faculty from each department metfor two weeks to discuss the desired features, format, and policies of the new coursesequence. Since the ECE department previously had a three-semester capstone designsequence and the ME department had a two-semester sequence, some substantialcompromises had to be made. At the same time, the decision was made to increase thelevel of structure in the course and to provide a high level of support for the studentteams. This support took the form of dedicated laboratory space, increased availability offaculty resources for advising and consulting with teams, and increased project

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

• Assistant Project Manager • Construction Representative • Field Engineer • Project Officer In the second program, USMA civil and mechanical engineering majors who will beentering their junior or senior year are invited to participate in the US Air Force Academy’s(USAFA) Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory (FERL). FERL is a hands-on classroomtype program that receives three-semester hour academic credit. The lab introduces the students Page 8.1259.1to the basics of civil engineering practice and it consists of three blocks: Surveying,Construction Methods, and Construction Materials. The three-week program

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

refrigeration system instructional experimental apparatus, shown in Figure 1, was designed,developed and constructed for the undergraduate mechanical engineering laboratory at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The purpose of the instructional experimentalapparatus is to demonstrate thermodynamics processes and systems which are fundamental tounderstanding the basic concepts of thermodynamics, such as the first and second laws ofthermodynamics. In addition, this apparatus demonstrates a vapor compression refrigerationcycle. A number of thermodynamics experiments that can be performed in which the first andsecond law of thermodynamics are employed to determine the heat gained by the refrigerant inthe evaporator, the heat rejected from the

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Holger Dahms; Stefan Bartels; John Gassert; Jens Thiedke; Owe Petersen

(Design of Radar Systems) and Bosch/Blaupunkt (Chip-Design for RF-Receivers). He received the Dipl.-Ing. (U) and Ph.D degrees from the University of Hannover in1984 and 1991, respectively.HOLGER DAHMSDr. Dahms is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Fachhochschule Lübeck since 1991. He received the Dipl.-Ing (U) degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Dortmund.He has held research positions with AEG-Telefunken (control structures of switching systems) and Nixdorf(teletraffic problems in modern PABX systems and communications).JENS THIEDKEHerr Thiedke is a laboratory engineer at the Fachhochschule Lübeck (FHL), since 1994. He graduated from theFHL in 1994 with the degree of Dipl.-Ing. (FH

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Burbach

Modeling Laboratory at NC A&T. As notedabove, both the undergraduate students continued to work on the gold mine resistivity dataduring the following semester, and one, along with another student from the Summer 2002program, is still pursuing that research. These two students (one from 2001 and one from 2002)are both planning to enter graduate school and continue in geophysical research. The otherundergraduate student from the Summer 2001 program graduated in Spring 2002 and is now agraduate student working with us in development of our Seismic Physical Modeling Laboratory.ConclusionsThe North State Gold Mine Project was a great success from several different perspectives. Itwas good for the property owner because he got a geophysical survey

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

sequential digital circuits course, after thestudents had taken a linear circuits course, both at the junior level. For most students, this wastheir first exposure to mixed digital-linear circuits, and the first circuit that they had to reverseengineer. The directed design approach is used as a prelude to the senior design projects. Whilethe circuit is straightforward, it serves to reinforce the students’ knowledge of linear and digitalcircuits, their ability to analyze and design simple state machines, and their schematic captureand laboratory skills.IntroductionA key tenet for engineering technology is hands-on experiential learning. For ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET), this most often translates into building, testing, andtroubleshooting

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raj Mutharasan

Page 8.1077.4reviewed journals, the video and course materials and submitted a report analyzing various Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfactors of evaluation. From the student perspective she came to conclusions similar to ours,namely: biological terms were new and confusing, a sense of unease with the lack of a textbook,increased comfort level as course progressed, a supportive Teaching Assistant and outsidetutoring were of great help. Student suggestions for improvements included: Use of a textbook,addition of a laboratory, reviews to tie topics together, learning through more problem

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

Consortium (GWEC) wireless curriculum modules. These modules,designed through a collaborative effort of academia and industry and totaling 46 modulesat present, are revised regularly to maintain currency. Furthermore, industry membersprovide instructional tools to GWEC academic affiliates. This paper describes therevision and enhancement process of wireless technology lecture/laboratory courses byincorporating existing GWEC modules and industry tools at DeVry University, Dupagecampus. Page 8.146.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

equivalent) One course designed for incoming freshmen students providing an orientation to careers in the intended field of study. Also included is the presentation of resources available to students from the Department, College, and University.Jesuit Tradition (minimum of 12 Cr.) Theology (3 Cr.) Philosophy and/or Ethics (3 Cr.) Humanistic values* (6 Cr.)Knowledge (minimum of 16 Cr.) Science* with laboratory experience (4 Cr.) Mathematics (3 Cr.) Computer Science/Information Technology (3 Cr.) Additional experience in Science and/or Mathematics (6 Cr.)Communication Skills (minimum of 4 Cr.) Written and Oral Communication in English (4 Cr.)Cultural Diversity (minimum of 3 Cr

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Stephen Dannelly; Carl Steidley

Robot Positioning”, Department of Energy Report for the Oak Ridge National Laboratories, April 1996.8. Dannelly, R. S., Steidley, C.W., “A Student Laboratory Environment for Real-Time Software Systems Development”, The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 132-137, March 2001.CARL STEIDLEY is Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. Hisinterests are in the applications of artificial intelligence, real-time computing, and robotics. His most recent extra-university research and development appointments have been with NASA Ames Research Center, Oak Ridge Natl.Labs, and Electro Scientific Industries in Portland, ORR. STEPHEN DANNELLY is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Texas A

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”of students. The centerpiece and uniqueness of this program is a senior-level, two-semester capstone manufacturing project course that provides students with theexperience of integrating business and engineering skills toward rapid, distributedproduct realization, and a 2-plus-2 articulation between an AS degree ManufacturingEngineering Technology program to a BS degree Manufacturing Engineering program.The term “distributed” is used to emphasize that the student team is expected to usefacilities that are distributed at manufacturing laboratories on both campuses andfacilities of outside vendors and

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

secondary “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education”education.Participants spend a week in a civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical or materials engineeringlaboratory learning fundamental concepts of engineering, and developing hands-on projects theycould use as practical instructional material in their classrooms. They tour laboratories within theSchool of Engineering to learn of some of the cutting edge technology under development, andalso tour various university engineering systems such as the wastewater treatment plant. Inaddition, they participate in discussions with engineers from industry and the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

control laboratory,” Proceedings of American Control Conference, 1994.[3] Armstron, B. and Perez, R., “Control laboratory program with an accent of discovery learning,” IEEE ControlSystem Magazine, February 2001.[4] Rehg, J., “Low cost temperature and flow process control systems,” Proceedings of the ASEE 1999 NorthCentral Section Conference, April, 1999.[5] National Instruments Corporation, URL: www.ni.com[6] Feedback, Inc, URL: www.fbk.com[7] EMAC, Inc, URL: www.emacinc.com[8] White, S., Digital Signal Processing, Delmar Publishers/Thomson Learning, 2000.[9] Murrill, P., Fundamentals of Process Control Theory, 3rd Edition, 2000.[10] Stefani, R., Shakian, B., Savant, C., and Hostetter, G., Design of Feedback Control Systems, Oxford

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Trioloa; Charles Garnett; Barry Mohle; Alfred Wicks; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

an initiative with the goal of adding approximately 400 new research employeesper year to its R&D centers located throughout the United States. These comprise the NavalSurface Warfare Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Naval Air Warfare Center, Space andNaval Warfare Systems Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, the Naval Medical ResearchCenter, and the Naval Medical Health Center.Internal studies4 of the Navy’s science and technology (S&T) needs have pointed to factors whichmust be addressed if this objective is to be met. Some of these factors are internal, such aslimitations imposed by the Civil Service System on the flexibility to hire new employees and theability to reward research productivity, but often these factors

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull

analysis.While the concept of monitoring of a physical event is simple enough, the difficulty arises whenthe system must perform outside a laboratory-type setting. 4 Currently most ski analysis systemsmeasure static response in a laboratory setting. 9 The associated DAQ equipment is not designedto handle the harsh environment in which actual skiing is performed. Additionally, ski loads areprimarily dynamic. Therefore, the design of a system that can withstand the environmentalconditions of a ski slope and acquire dynamic real time data is a significant challenge. However, Page 8.420.1the resultant data and subsequent analysis offers significant

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

A Successful Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Experience by Dr. Steve Northrup, Dr. James Moriarty, Dr. Glenn Vallee and Dr. Walter Presz, Jr. ABSTRACTAn interdisciplinary team design experience has been successfully integrated into thesenior engineering laboratory effort at Western New England College. The projectobjective was to introduce the students to the design process typically associated with newproduct development. The approach was to have student teams develop a solar poweredvehicle prototype which can transport bottled water between two points on a slopedparking surface as

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

learn how to use the debugger. In the lab, the students will type in an assemblyprogram and assemble and link it and use the debugger to step through the program. There is atutor for the course that sits in the lab to help students with their programming assignments. Thetutor-student relationship benefits the tutor as well. Tutor solidifies his/her knowledge whilehelping their peers. Laboratory programming assignments are given electronically. Assignmentsare submitted and graded electronically. Following a sample project is given:Sample Laboratory Project Page 8.86.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

author taught the quadriplegic student was a freshman- levelintroduction to engineering design and graphics (ED&G 100). This course is comprised of fourdistinct components: traditional paper and pencil technical drawing, laboratory work, designprojects, and an introduction to computer tools. The design projects and the physical laboratoryexperiments were conducted in groups, and as a result the physical limitation of the student didnot require any special accommodation. The compilation of the laboratory reports, done by eachstudent, was accomplished by the quadriplegic student with a word processing program run on acomputer which the student operated by using a special mouth-operated pointing and clickingdevice and voice recognition software

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

MATLABcapabilities support are discussed in class that includes solving a variety of problems usingsimultaneous equations, graphing, computer programming and others.The author of this paper has been teaching mechanics and structural analysis courses formany years for students in large classes. In recent years, he has incorporated the use ofmodern software tools such as MATLAB and MAPLE in teaching these courses and inencouraging students to use these very versatile tools in the learning process. Typicallyhomework assignments and group projects require the use of these tools that are easilyaccessible in the computer laboratories located across the campus. If group projects aredone using these tools, students are required to make presentations and share

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

activities were developed that incorporated the “Circuits Solver” module as a means tointroduce students to the application of mesh analysis and Kirchoff’s voltage law to solve circuits.In the fall of 2001, electrical network analysis classes at UTD had both EE andTelecommunications Engineering (TE) students who were each surveyed as to the benefit of themodules and technologies. Each semester a teaching assistant was assigned to support the facultyand assist the students in using the ILMs or explaining other concepts. Two graduate students rewrote the accompanying laboratory manual during the summer of2001 to insure that the principles exemplified by the modules could be easily integrated into thelaboratory sessions. Although Spring 2000

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

. A user’s head and hand can be tracked withelectromagnetic sensors to provide interaction with the display system.3. Virtual Reality Display Facility at Penn StateThe Applied Research Laboratory atPenn State University has an immersiveprojection display system similar to theCAVETM in the Synthetic EnvironmentApplications Laboratory (SEA Lab)[15].The SEA Lab’s equipment includes adisplay system that permits thegeneration of a 360 degree, 10' x 10' x 9'immersive environment where users cancollaboratively interact with simulationsand data in real-time (see Figure 2). Thesystem uses four back-projectiondisplay screens; stereoscopic and Figure 2: SEA Lab Immersive Projection Display atsynchronized image rendering