Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Joan Burtner

. Meetings were held asscheduled, and the tee shirt committee had chosen a new design for the SWE shirt that was soldeach year as the organization's primary fund raising activity. Several students volunteered toorganize the tee shirt sale in December, and some of the proceeds were used to buy food for thespring term meetings. The advisors suggested that the club give some of the proceeds to theSchool of Engineering Faculty and Staff Scholarship Fund, and the membership agreed.During the second semester, however, the officers became less involved with plans for futureactivities. This was partly due to the fact that all four officers were seniors. The time demands oftheir Senior Design Course, as well as the prospect of looking for a job, was getting

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelia Barnett; Joan Burtner

conditioning, hospital, paper mill, power companies,telephone companies, various government contractors, and a biomedical pharmaceuticalcompany. Comments from employer evaluations on the students’ strengths and weaknesses werealso obtained in addition to data for the EC2000 a-k criteria. A synopsis of the employercomments for strengths were: 1)good communication skills, strong work ethic, well roundedness,teamwork, analytical skills, quality of work and initiative. Some comments related toweaknesses were: 1) needs to continue improving general engineering skills, and 2) could bemore assertive in verbal communication, project planning, organizational planning, and self-confidence. The combination of qualitative and quantitative feedback offers a richer

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Meckl

nothing” is a choice! Page 8.736.2 7. Review. What lessons did you learn? Can this dilemma be avoided in the future?Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSince there is insufficient time to discuss moral reasoning in detail, we provide a summary offour key ethical models:6 1. Duty (Rules)-Based Ethics 2. Ends-Based Ethics 3. Care-Based Ethics 4. Virtue-Based EthicsAfter each of these models has been briefly described in class, students are asked to apply onemoral principle to their proposed plan of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

such introduction. For future work, it is planned to access these benefitsby comparing student performance. Students that were exposed to the software will be asked to Page 8.742.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsolve the same problems that were used in the course before the introduction of the software.Then their grades will be compared to previous grades and conclusions will be drawn. It isexpected that a better overview of dynamic system behavior will be achieved by students

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

thedevelopment of each level is given in Figure 1. The president of the Universityestablishes the vision and mission at all levels of administration and academic units. TheOffice of Institutional Study develops and implements an assessment plan that isconsistent with the University’s mission, to graduates from all academic units(colleges/schools). The Dean’s office for each academic unit (college/school) developsan assessment system for students within the respective academic unit that is consistentwith the University system. UNIVERSITY MISSION (President) UNIVERSITY LEVEL ASSESSMENT (Office of Institutional Study

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

concepts gleaned from teaching workshops and observations from colleagues. He came into the FIC and described his struggles, confessing that he simply didn’t know what, if anything, could help him. Working with a FIC instructional designer, they planned an intensive solution. Weekly they would meet and discuss course planning and materials and as a team, they would revise and refine the course. The instructional designer also made weekly course visits and critiques. The FIC’s instructional designer and the engineering faculty member agreed that no stone would be left unturned; they discussed all aspects of the instructional process and the many personal facets involved in student-teacher interactions. Such an approach is

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

stop the production line. The experience also helped him shapehis research agenda to benefit industry. He suggested that six months is a minimum period for avisit of this nature.Dr. Chumbley suggested companies planning such an exchange experience for faculty membersarrange for housing, transportation, and an appropriate stipend. He also encouraged them toprovide assistance and information regarding such topics as banking, the locale, culture, history,and so forth to the faculty member. The faculty member should also plan to share his or herbackground, expectations of the visit, and possible family needs with the host site. It is helpful ifthe faculty member can make a preliminary visit to the site before the longer visit begins.Finally, Dr

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mireille Battikha

the construction knowledge by integrating several concepts in thecourse, which will help prepare engineers to solve real construction situations.IntroductionEnhancing the preparation of engineering students to deal with real construction projects requiresthe development of their abilities to handle several engineering concepts in an integrated fashion.Integrated management processes are complex and crucial for solving most real constructionsituations1. Whether a construction project involves developing a schedule, a plan, or an estimate,selecting a construction method and material, or improving its productivity and quality, engineersmust possess the skills to carry out integrated analytical and decision-making processes takinginto

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Weinstein

the central office and the new office located across the street which will allow claimsadjusters to update and submit claims information—including digital photographs—into acentral repository. The result is a project in which each student must learn a foreigntechnology, learn to work as a team, learn how to deal with the other disciplines, developa working business plan and deliver a working prototype to solve the problem. The resultsare impressive. The team figured out how to speak one another’s languages and producedan actual prototype demonstrating the synergistic combination of backgrounds andeducational experiences that were taxed into creating a remarkable solution in a shortperiod of time.By completing the project, engineering students

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Eschenbach; Mike Loose; John Whittaker

% projects? Should the person whose favorite project has justbeen rejected plan on simply waiting for a lower rate? Nucor Corporation, with a range of netequity flow rates of 45%+ has magnified the problem. One year a 13% hurdle rate, the next yeara 46% one.The between companies comparison is also revealing. The basis of selection was publicly traded,dividend paying companies that compete with each other. Further, they are in the steel industrywhich is a mature industry, requiring high capital investment and possessing relatively stabletechnology. Thus one might expect that the MARR values would be reasonably similar. Theresults show the opposite, with net equity numbers varying from 2% to 46%.The only measure that appears reasonably stable over

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid Siddiqi

and prioritizesdesign-build selection factors from a private owner perspective. The factors considered in thestudy include single point responsibility, reducing cost, shortening duration, reducing claims,large project size, complexity, Constructability, and innovation. A questionnaire wasadministered, followed by actual interviews with private owners to validate findings from thestudy. Results from the study demonstrate the relative importance of factors considered by theprivate sector while choosing design-build for project delivery. This paper is beneficial forprivate sector owners, architect, engineers, and contractors who either are experienced or plan ondoing Design-Build projects in future.IntroductionDesign-Build is by far the fastest

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Horatio Perez-Blanco

wasdelivered carefully and solidly crated. Older equipment had to be removed to accommodate theminilab, and the installation had to be such as to avoid permanent alterations of the buildingexterior. Hence, the installation process demanded more planning and energy than thatforeseen for a normal lab situation. Besides removal of older equipment, the issues to beresolved in the installation where utilities, exhaust routing and noise levels. Organizationalrequirements were such that environmental/health regulations had to be satisfied in removingolder equipment, a process that called for careful planning and execution. Regarding utilities,compressed air was available in the assigned room, and all that was required was the installationof a filter/moisture

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

and receptivity should be considered in determining when to useexperienced-based instruction. EBI can motivate the student by showing relevance of the topicand appealing to the student’s sense of curiosity or adventure. EBI can broaden the topic byaltering the “point-of-view” of the student. And last, EBI can allow the student to get a sense ofwhat is expected from an engineer by his clients, employer, peers, and the public.Deciding how to insert the engineering experience requires planning. Reading assignments,videos, web-based information, personal stories, role-playing exercises, simulations, games, andcarefully crafted problem-solving exercises are tools that play a part in the delivery of EBI.This paper discusses the use of EBI in a

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

search for information and data thatis essential to ensure a successful project result. We found, however, that seniors typicallyresponded with reports that were rather minimal in effort and which did not reflect theirtechnical maturity. The freshmen, on the other hand, provided reports many of which werewhat one would have expected of the seniors. This paper will discuss the manner in which theteaming skills were introduced to freshmen; the manner in which they responded; the typicalresponse of seniors who were not exposed to an introductory course; and, finally, what isrecommended to extend the freshmen experience throughout the curriculum so that the seniorswould clearly demonstrate they have attained the benefits of a planned curriculum

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao, North Dakota State University; Russell Walters, Iowa State University

computer graphics and applications to construction activities suchas planning, designing, and simulation. The proposed course includes three major components: • Part I – Basic Computer Graphics: This review allows students to review the basic theories about computer graphics and learn the potential benefits for construction. • Part II – Applications in Construction: This part focuses on using available software packages based on computer graphics and their applications in construction. These include Computer Aided Design (CAD), animation, simulation, and integration. • Part III – Advanced Technologies: This part introduces new technologies related to computer graphics in

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

hires are also invited to participate indiscussions in this seminar.While participating in the seminars, students also create a teaching portfolio, which documentstheir teaching philosophy, seminar activities, and plans for teaching after graduation. An essentialcomponent of the portfolio is the statement of teaching philosophy and goals which willaccompany each student's vita and statement of research goals during the actual job applicationprocess.All students must obtain their research advisor's written permission to enroll in the PFF program.Additional requirements are set by each department. For example, in some departments studentsare allowed to join the program after passing the Ph.D. qualifying examination (typically after oneyear of

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sangsoo Ryu; M.H. Kim; Julian H. Kang; Spyros A. Kinnas

applications on the design of ocean vehicles and offshore structures.His research focuses on the prediction of unsteady sheet and tip vortex cavitation, design of high-speed propulsors,free-surface entry, inflow/propulsor interaction, and wave/body interaction.JULIAN H. KANGJulian H. Kang is an assistant professor of the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&M University. Hisresearch interests include the utilization of the Internet technology and mobile devices for construction planning andproject information management. For collaborative construction planning, he is interested in using Java 3D andXML for visualizing the construction sequence on the Web browser

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

incooperative and internship experiences7. Page 8.1246.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Beyond the cooperative and internship environments, we believe that student electronicportfolios (ePortfolios) can demonstrate and help develop at least six of the fourteen ISUCompetencies: General Knowledge, Initiative, Innovation, Planning, Communication andTeamwork. In the first-year composition course for the ABE Learning Community, we hadstudent teams develop ePortfolios in which they would develop and demonstrate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

a career panel from which students gain exposure to diverse fieldsof research and where students can hear many views on the various possibilities of academiccareers. Finally, the data suggest that we should encourage our students to enter graduate school,but that we do not have to worry so much whether they are looking to stop at an MS or tocontinue, as the data showed that most professors were not committed to a PhD upon entrance tograduate school.ImplementationTable 5 shows the activities deemed most valuable based upon our survey data, and the activitiesbeing planned or carried out at Bucknell in order to address those findings. The most importantactivity, mentoring, is the most difficult to address. Mentoring appears to be a key

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

. Theresults are assessed with student surveys. The technical aspects went well, but students wouldhave liked to have learned more about their counterparts’ culture. In the Spring of 2003, we arerepeating the course with a planned Spring Break trip to Turkey.Course StructureThe METU seniors in the project had completed EE413, a senior/Masters-level VLSI designcourse taught by Tayfun Akin in Fall 2001. Six of the students chose to continue with the designproject in Spring 2002. Although the initial proposal called for granting credit, the METUbureaucracy could not approve credit in time and the students participated on a purely voluntarybasis.The HMC juniors and seniors were enrolled in E158 (Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design),taught by David Harris in

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Graphics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Scales

provide students with adegree similar to the one that is being planned. To develop this new specialization, knowledge ofthe characteristics and concerns of the students with an interest in this type of degree isimportant. The students, as the customers of this degree, must be taken into consideration. Aprogram in any institution of higher education must also sell itself to potential customers. Toignore this aspect of creating a degree could doom the degree to failure. To obtain some of thisinformation, a descriptive study was conducted in the form of a survey given to students who arein the TED Non-Teaching Option majoring or minoring in GC. This paper will report on thefindings of this survey as well as discuss their implications for developing

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

required in developing and sustaining high-quality postgraduateprofessional programs center around five primary clusters. They include:• Cluster One: Diverse and Engaged Participants Diverse and Engaged Experienced Faculty Diverse and Engaged Experienced Students Engaged and Experienced Program Leaders• Cluster Two: Participatory Learning Cultures Shared Program Direction Community of Learners Risk-Taking Environment• Cluster Three: Interactive Teaching and Learning Critical Dialogue Integrative Learning Mentoring Cooperative Peer Learning Out-of-Class Activities• Cluster Four: Connected Program Requirements Planned Breadth and Depth Course Work Professional Residency Tangible Product

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Medina; Louis Thurston

IntegrationCurriculum integration is viewed as a way to de-emphasize engineering discipline boundaries,which normally prevent students from “seeing” beyond a particular set of courses. For example,in typical engineering programs students learn about conservation laws early on. However, thefact that conservation principles are applied in the same manner whether one deals with mass,energy, charge, or angular momentum is not intuitively made. Curriculum integration isintended to develop this intuition in the student near the beginning of their academic training. Asa result, the FC explored and planned the implementation of curriculum integration in thefreshman year and the sophomore year. The universities were left to propose, design, and putinto practice the

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Sharma

of the project, questions were rephrased and rearranged. New and more relevant questionswere added, and ineffective questions were dropped.After completing the interviews a qualitative analysis was performed. The qualitative analysisapproach (and data collection) approximately followed the model of Huberman and Miles12. Thismodel influenced the design and selection of the research questions, sample selection,methodologies, and analysis. A very important aspect of the model is the concept of an ongoingprocess of analysis that occurs during design, planning, and data collection, and continues afterdata collection has been completed, making the process inherently iterative. This provides acharacteristic mechanism of building upon the

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nasir Bilal; Harold Kess; Douglas Adams

laboratory. Experiments in the roving laboratory are to be carriedout in class, in two different on-campus facilities, and in the field. These experiments are usedby the instructor to motivate each and every theoretical discussion in class, to teach students howto plan, conduct and interpret their own experiments, and to expose students to importantemerging areas of experimental mechanics. The unique observational instructional approach ofthe course complements the roving laboratory by reversing the roles of theoretical andexperimental techniques that exist in traditional laboratory oriented classes. Instead of usingexperiments to validate theories, theories are used to validate experiments. The make-up of anindustrial advisory committee, which

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

to be carried to the awaiting customers, one expressed hisdesperation in the following manner: “water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink!”3. The Company President had planned for the anticipated announcement of the Company’s most recent engineering trump. Someticulously was the planning that the President even chooses the music that would precipitate, at just the correct moment, the unveiling ofthe engineering marvel. As the curtains lifted to reveal the gleaming, culmination of two years of painstaking work, the orchestra wasinstructed to play the last 2 minutes of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony as a suitable tribute to the engineers who worked on the project.4. The United States Department of Defense needs to name the programming

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicolae Dragulanescu; Carmen Boje

InformationSociety and the important economic and social changes it implied23. That led the following year toa report on "Europe and the global information Society". This report stressed that InformationSociety is affecting every economic sector and could be compared to the industrial revolution. In1995, a high-level expert group (European Commission 1997) was formed to analyze the socialaspect of the Information Society. It took time to get a concrete plan from the Commission on theInformation Society and not until December 1999 was an initiative presented by M. Prodi called"eEurope - An Information Society for All" (European Union, 1999). The impact of the IS oneconomy and employment had forced the Commission by June 2002 to consider "eEurope 2002an

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

detail in thelaboratory section of this paper.During the development of the course considerable care was used in the planning of instruction,use of instructional materials, and evaluation of practices suitable for teaching elementary andsecondary school students. Methods for teaching science, mathematics and engineering contentto elementary and secondary students were evaluated for appropriateness. Strengths andlimitations of a variety of teaching methods were considered. These methods and practices werethen modeled and assessed through the conduct of the course in classroom, laboratory, and in-service experiences. Methodologies included lecture, small group activities, whole group

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

department 95.9 2.5 1.6Advice of Private Counselor 94.6 4.9 0.5As a class, half have ambitions of obtaining advanced degrees - 45.6% plan on getting a MS and24.3% plan on getting a doctorate; 3.6% are interested in medical school and 1.2% are interestedin law. However, not all are completely committed to engineering - 4.6% entered with a verygood chance of changing major field and 34.3 % with some chance of switching, suggesting thatretention may remain a problem. Likewise, 7.9% indicated there was a very good chance ofchanging their career choice and 39.5% felt there was some chance of a career change.Almost a fourth (22.4%) indicated there was a very good chance that

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled Engineering H193 (or ENG H193). Prior to taking this course, the students will also havecompleted as a part of the FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of whichare coordinated with the engineering courses. The physics courses cover particle motion andelectricity and magnetism. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students,the ENG H193 course focuses primarily on the planning, execution, management,documentation, and presentation of an engineering design