Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

Collection

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

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; Brian Mouzon

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina (DME-USC) iswell positioned to participate in promoting and developing this emerging engineering educationfield. DME-USC established a course for teaching microcontrollers to mechanical engineeringstudents – EMCH 367, www.me.sc.edu/courses/emch367. The course consists of four majorcomponents: (a) classroom instruction; (b) homework; (c) laboratory; (d) project. The classroominstruction is focused on instilling in students the basic knowledge related to programming andusing the microcontroller. Part of the classroom instruction is performed in a computerlaboratory, where the students interact with simulation software on a one-on-one basis

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

observationsshow that the education establishment is not doing an adequate job of educating engineeringstudents for the information age. In our opinion, a major reason for this is due to lack ofappropriate educational materials that bridge the gap between theory and practice are notavailable to teachers. The Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education(LITEE) at Auburn University has therefore embarked on a project to develop these educationalmaterials. This paper discusses the development of the new educational materials and the resultsof their evaluation in the classroom.2. Goals and Educational Objectives of the Project Information technology is essential for solving critical national problems in areas such asscience and

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

encourage and enhance the development of inquiry-basedapproaches to learning science and mathematics. Science kits form the basis for much of thiseffort at grades K-5 while laboratory exercises are used at grades 6-12. Teachers learn thescience underlying each kit or exercise and the benchmarks and standards it addresses withassistance from their Fellows. Fellows provide enhancements to some kits and develop some newactivities. Page 8.905.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”•Theme 2: Communication

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Powers

science and engineering within a larger social, political and economic context.Assessing whether we have achieved these objectives is often difficult. Journal assignmentshave been very useful for addressing several of these components. Peer review and focus groupdiscussions are also used.A semester project, which is expected of each student in the class, contributes the greatestpercentage of the student’s grade (Table 2). This project has varied as the curriculum has beendeveloped. Examples include developing and testing one laboratory activity at a college level toensure success and then adapt that activity and write instructions for a middle school student, andwriting unit and lesson plans for one component of the curriculum

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J Hines; Fred Weber; John Prados; Kurt Gramoll

. TheUniversity of Tennessee's Innovative Technology Center, Outreach and Continuing EducationDivision, Center for Advanced Educational Technology, and College of Engineering facultyhave significant experience in developing interactive web-based courses [2, 3]. At theUniversity of Oklahoma, the College of Engineering Media Laboratory is headed Dr. KurtGramoll who has been involved in web-based, asynchronous course delivery and training forclose to ten years [4, 5, 6]. The synergistic combination of these two institutions produces ateam of educational professionals with the resources, experience, and desire to successfully meetthe objectives.At OU, Statics and Dynamics have been developed as initial test cases for additional coursedevelopment. These two

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Vondra; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

are computer integrated design and manufacturing,electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.ALI SEKMENDr. Ali Sekmen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tennessee State University. He receivedhis Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He holds B.S.and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Hehas published over 40 research papers in robotics, intelligent systems, and signal processing. He was amember of Intelligent Robotics Laboratory of Vanderbilt University between 1997-2000. Previously, hewas an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tennessee State University. He hasbeen involved in

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Simpson

tutors/partners/twins/mentors with an international student, not just in the laboratory and lecture-hall, but outside the more traditionally academic pursuits of a university campus. We have tried organizing cultural events involving visits to local tourist attractions as well as more “down-to-earth” activities, such as “Indian Evenings” (i.e. the Indian students prepare a curry!) and parties of different descriptions, but a lot of progress remains to be made.• Cultural problems The problem : Adapting to a different environment. The solution : Throwing yourself in at the deep end. The author’s own French students who perform their project work in the USA or the UK find the food in these two countries abominable

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

patents. He received his B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan, AnnArbor in 1977, M.S. Degree in Engineering (Product Design) from Stanford University in 1984, and a Master ofApplied Mathematical Sciences Degree (Computer Science) from University of Georgia in 2000. He has 7 yearsuniversity teaching experience, where his current applied research interests are rapid product design engineering,experimental mechanics laboratory automation, and applied optimization. Page 8.1272.14 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jaeger; Richard Chapman; Victor Nelson

a solid foundation in mathematics, science, and electrical orsoftware engineering fundamentals to introduce wireless communications theories,devices, circuits, systems, networks, standards, management, and applications. Designexperience is interwoven throughout the curriculum by introducing basic design conceptsearly, emphasizing hands-on design experiences in the laboratories, including effectiveuse of computers and other modern engineering tools, and culminating with a capstonedesign project in the senior year. In addition to its technical aspects, the curriculumemphasizes oral and written communication skills, the importance of business, economic,social and global forces on engineering, appreciation of the need to maintain the

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Yarmolenko; J. Sankar; D. Pai; Juri Filatovs

false impressionof the scope and depth of current industrial practice. Conversely, industrial software tends to bedaunting, and the ease of analysis of many situations and obtaining of various parameters andstatistics make it necessary to understand the limitations of applicability of such software. Inteaching, there is a balance between the amount of fundamentality of principles, and the extent ofsoftware involvement. Both careful selection of software and major accommodation of topics areimportant for maintaining this balance The computer related aspects of programming, specific software use, and such are treatedas laboratory-type activities, largely outside of the classroom lectures. An early lesson we havelearned is that the

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 11531.1 Introduction to Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, EGR 101All engineering students who are qualified to take calculus take EGR 101, Introduction tocomputer aided design and manufacture. Topics covered include 3D solid modelingdesign techniques, computer aided manufacturing and hands-on experiences in computer-numerically controlled (CNC) milling. EGR 101 is a three credit class consisting of a twohour lecture and a 3 hour laboratory session each week. During the semester studentswork on four design and manufacture projects. The manufacturing is accomplished usingbench top CNC milling

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene McGinnis; Denise Theobald-Roberts

biochemical engineering through an experimentabout chemical reactions. The scouts discussed the health effects of smoking and then performeda simple experiment to collect particulate deposit from cigarette smoke as well as its reactivity.Two types of cigarettes, one with a filter and one without a filter, were used. Analysis wasperformed on the chemical reaction and then on the smoke particulate deposit. The occurrence ofa fast color change was indicative of a chemical reaction when smoke was contacted with a non-hazardous laboratory chemical solution. The depository effect of the smoke was quantified. Thechemical reaction observation and quantification of the smoke particulates based on theirdeposition-capacity on the human lung was qualitatively

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

journal of Roshde Amoozeshe Shimie. p. 45-53,19933. Ghareyazie Behzad, Iran: Hopes, Achievements, and Constraints in Agricultural Biotechnology.WWW.cgiar.org/biotech/repo100/ghareyaz.pdf4. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Education Program web page.Appendix: The list of universities in Iran offering Biotechnology coursesPhD programs in biotechnology, University of TehranPhD programs in biotechnological products, Pasteur Institute of IranPhD programs in Chemical engineering-biotechnology, Tarbiat Modares UniversityPhD programs in Chemical engineering-biotechnology, Sharif University of TechnologyPhD programs in Molecular genetic, Tarbiat Modares University and NRCGEBPhD programs in Cellular and molecular biology, Kermanshah University and

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane DiMassa

memos updating their progress. Although there is no formal program at UMD for ocean or marine-relatedengineering, several senior design projects of late have had a marine emphasis. Onoccasion, these projects have a connection with other departments or facilities of theUniversity of Massachusetts or local research institutions. For example, one project wasconducted through the Center for Marine Science and Technology (CMAST), a UMass-affiliated research laboratory that has recently started a Ph.D. program. One project wasdone in conjunction with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the USpremier ocean research facilities; and another project was completed jointly with students1 The author was the course instructor for all

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Engineering and Neurology, and Associate Chair of Applied Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. His research is concentrated in the application of Signal Processing to problems in medicine.Timothy A. Johnson, PhD Timothy A. Johnson holds a BSEd (1972) in education from Illinois State University, a MS (1976) in natural science from Chicago State University and a PhD (1983) in BME from UNC-Chapel Hill. Research interests include cardiovascular electrophysiology, sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition, processing and display. As an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, he teaches linear controls and directs BME laboratory

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

. • It is critical to work out details of both positions before arriving on campus, including salary, laboratory space, teaching loads, and research start-up funds. Resist the temptation to get this set with one person with an oral agreement on the trailing spouse that “everything will be taken care of when you arrive on campus”. • Talk to dual career couples at your present university to get some suggestions and ideas of how they handled their dual career search. • Talk with dual career couples at the university where you are interviewing to see how they feel the climate is for couples.Hints for Search Committees Dealing with Dual Career CouplesWhile finding a suitable dual career situation is a

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smith; Angela Quick

conflicting worldviews and popular culture dominates and leaves many asisolated individuals, perhaps the greatest contribution is the sense of community perceived by themagnet students. This is apparent in the numbers of students who volunteer to appear onevenings or Saturday afternoons in the schools’ laboratories to finish their experimental workand perhaps share pizza following.Like most agents of change, the magnet school prompted some resistance. However, thecommunity is beginning to recognize and hail the school’s benefits and contributions. The firstsenior class will graduate in the spring of 2003. These authors hope to submit another paper in afew years showing tracking data as the magnet high school students proceed through theircollege

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Britt; Dr. Tom Eppes

Technology model and starts with algebra and algebra-basedphysics. This provides students with a less aggressive math and science challenge and gives themtime to “ramp up.” AET is an applied study that relies heavily on the application and servicing ofequipment so students spend equal time in the laboratory and lecture. Page 8.254.3“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”AET is different from more established Recording Engineering programs where musicproduction and composition are the focus. It is also distinct from a BSEE

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

- Page 8.46.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationinfrared thermography. These projects and others can be observed on the MSOE BE programhome web page at www.msoe.edu/be. The Biomedical Engineering curriculum also provides the high level of education andpractice that is required to become a Professional Engineer. The educational component ofcourses in engineering, mathematics, sciences, communications, humanities, social science,business and law, serves the overall needs of the student seeking to achieve professional status.The practical component is composed of the many laboratories and the more than 24 credits

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones; Jose Colom

Session 1332participating company. A total of 22 projects are being supported during the 2002-2003academic year with grants of up to $3000.Overall BenefitsThe IAP program is a catalytic force that promotes closer ties with the production world andstrengthens industry-university collaboration. Extensions to the basic IAP format are notuncommon and have generated improvement of laboratory facilities through company donatedequipment, joint faculty-industry proposal writing, faculty summer internships, and theenrichment of the university curriculum through the creation of new courses. In one specificinstance a company follows up the IAP experience with COOP employment that normally takesplace during the summer and semester following participation in

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

3) long-termsustainability of the outreach program.II. Project DescriptionThe engineering outreach programs that are most frequently cited as good models of K-12engineering outreach efforts are those developed by centers dedicated to outreach (ex: the Page 8.386.1Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory at the University of Colorado and the Center for “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Initiatives in Pre-College Education at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute). These centers

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Pauline Sexton; Monique Wade; Bevlee Watford

weight in the software’s animation was awarded a certificate.Additional changes included incorporating actual laboratory exercises from the engineeringcurriculum that could be slightly altered for middle school students. This turned out to be verysuccessful; the campers enjoyed these exercises and had a sense of accomplishment knowing thatengineering college students perform the exact same exercises during the school year. The twoexercises introduced into the IMAGINATION schedule were the Engineering Fundamentals’Kodak Take-Apart Lab exercise and the Industrial and Systems Engineering’s Sand CastingManufacturing Lab exercise.Camper DemographicsThe IMAGINATION 2002 campers came primarily from southwest Virginia; this is also true ofthe previous

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationinstruction at MTSU. Sridhara attended workshops3,4 on CourseInfo and learned several toolsand techniques. He developed course sites for several ET courses including Fluid Power, 5CADD,6 Statics, Strength of Materials, and Thermodynamics on CourseInfo. In reference 5,sridhara discussed the advantages and limitations of web-enhanced instruction in EngineeringTechnology citing examples from ET 4850 – Fluid Power which is a lecture/lab course. He hasdiscussed the advantages of adopting CourseInfo for CADD courses which are essentially labcourses. Currently in our department, Statics, Strength of Materials, Thermodynamics, andDynamics are taught as lecture courses without any formal laboratory

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Chernik; Josh Lambden; Brent Young; Bill Svrcek

all types of courses, such as ones with group work orthose that require the use of laboratory equipment, it does offer an exciting alternative toelectronic courses. Programming courses, numerical mathematical technique courses, andelectronic simulation courses are all highly suited to be taught in a web-based environment. Astechnology improves and becomes more accessible, the ability to convey courses completelyover the Internet becomes a reality. Page 8.551.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

environment that meets the needs of allstakeholders – industry, academics and students.1. The changing educational landscapeA long-standing characteristic of good technology education has been its blend ofclassroom and laboratory work. High technology subjects such as microelectronics facemany new pressures to sustain this goal. The weak business conditions since Fall 2000have dramatically affected the semiconductor industry and its workforce while the knock-on effects on the State economy have put severe pressure on University budgets.In spite of weak sales growth, the pace of semiconductor technology development has notslackened. The Technology Roadmap has become more aggressive (1) and globalcompetition has noticeably increased. One of the results

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

sector each year. Teamsinvented sporting goods in 2003, toys in 2002 and hand power tools in 2001. In retrospect thislast was a poor choice. Students lacked the real energy and interest they showed the next year inthe toy projects.Textbook, lab notebook and project budgetOur textbook is Ulrich & Eppinger, Product Design & Development, 2nd edition, Irwin-McGrawHill, 2000. We also require students to keep bound laboratory notebooks. Like industry labnotebooks, the project notebook is a record for all planning (including plans not carried out), allanalytical work, sketches, comments or questions that pop up during conversations, all records ofcustomer interviews, competitive analysis, experimental work or financial estimates, referencesto

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Stefanone; Jae-Shin Lee; Geraldine Gay; Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder; Scott Jones; John Dannenhoffer

only Cornell students worked on detail design of thermal protection systems,incorporating thermal and structural finite element analyses and laboratory tests of prototypesystems. In the second half, mixed teams consisting of Cornell and Syracuse students designedadhesively bonded and bolted joints for the proposed RLV. Teams were required to verify theirdesigns by physical tests. Tests of the bonded joints took place at Cornell and of the boltedjoints at Syracuse. Figure 1, Proposed 2nd generation reusable launch vehicle. Students developed preliminary designs for thermal-structural systems at critical locations on the vehicle body.Course Technology Communication in the course included synchronous lectures given using distance

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

the education process within ITE should be part of thesubject matter teacher preparation program, and that “Instructional or Educational Technology isnot Industrial and Technology Education.”Implementation The proposed program uses existing resources found in the Computer Engineering andComputer Science (CECS) Department and other College of Engineering (COE) departments.This allows access to fully equipped laboratory facilities, support staff, and many highly trainedfaculty to teach courses in this option. There are among the faculty and full-time lecturers severalcredentialed secondary school teachers. By design, all but one of the ENGR courses are presentlylisted in the catalog and are taught by experienced faculty. The Technology

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Webb; Julie Spader; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

project’s objective was to develop an asynchronous data transmission for controlling a motorvia the Internet. This method is equally applicable for controlling a motor driven instrument or aprocess from a remote location, monitoring and control of multiple motors/processes from acentralized remote location through the Internet or local area networks. Another application isdistance learning classes with virtual laboratory in the design, testing and trouble-shooting inmany electrical areas.This project incorporates (a) A stepper motor, (b) LabVIEW[3], a software residing in acomputer at the primary site for data acquisition and control, (c) A server to store data and thecontrolling software (d) A remote site computer with programs written in visual