Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

- and nanoscale mechanics.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the National Science Foundation though the Materials Research Science andEngineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostrcutured Materials and Interfaces (award # DMR-0079983) and CAREER Awards to Wendy Crone (award # CMS-0134385) and Robert Carpick(award # CMS-0134571) for supporting the development of our curricular materials and theirimplementation. We would also like to thank the research groups of D.J. Beebe at the Universityof Wisconsin - Madison and J.S. Moore at the University of Illinois – Champaign/Urbana fortheir assistance in the early stages of the laboratory development

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Michael Condren; Ken Lux; George C. Lisensky; Donald Stone; Arthur B. Ellis; Anne Bentley; Amy Payne; Robert Carpick; Wendy Crone

%success rate; with the video prelab the success rate increased to over 90%.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the National Science Foundation though the Materials Research Science andEngineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (award # DMR-0079983) and the Distinguished Teaching Scholars Program (award # DUE-0123904) forsupporting the development of our curricular materials and their implementation. This work isalso supported by the National Science Foundation through a Graduate Fellowship to AnneBentley, and CAREER Awards to Wendy Crone (award # CMS-0134385) and Robert Carpick(award # CMS-0134571).References1. J. Karoub, “Merrill Lynch Report Bullish on Nanotech as an Investment,” (Small Times, 2001), Vol. 2002.2. S. J

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

integration and connections between the academic major and the work world or to improve senior career preparation and pre professional development. o 5.7% uses it to promote integration and connections between general education and the academic major. o 5% uses to promote the coherence and relevance of general education. (http://www.sc.edu/fye/resources/surveys/survey_r.htm).At the engineering technology department at Miami University, the senior design project as acapstone course assimilates engineering design, analysis, and liberal education concepts such ascost/benefit analysis, environmental issues, and ethics. The capstone course presents an excellentopportunity to bring together the student’s entire undergraduate

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

Session 1170 Using the Kumon Method to Revitalize Mathematics in an Inner-Urban School District Barbara A. Oakley†, Doreen Lawrence††, Walter L. Burt†††, Broderick Boxley†††, Christopher J. Kobus† † School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University/ †† Kumon, North America/ †††School District of Pontiac Abstract It is a compelling challenge to provide inner-urban K-12 students with the skillsnecessary for a career in engineering. A solid grounding in

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

, if at all. It is hoped that papers of this nature willprovide a motivation for publishers to be aware of green issues and encourage authors to include suchdevelopments in their text for a more broad and meaningful coverage of the green alternatives indesign and construction.Another conclusion is that we may be short-changing our construction-management-careers-boundstudents in terms of not providing enough of a perspective on what the future holds so that they aremore cognizant of the “green” alternatives in their undertakings and that they help to promote thegreen cause. “With improved education regarding the nature of sustainable projects, and their truecosts and operational requirements, people will see it is not difficult to create

Conference Session

Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Grigg

appropriate;• The ability to work with faculty to integrate patent and trademark instruction into the curriculum where appropriate;• The ability to conduct patron surveys, manage the collection, and administer the duties the USPTO requires of PTDLs; and• The ability to serve as an advocate to the USPTO for patron needs.IX. Role as Advocate for Patrons to the USPTOPatent librarians, rather than spending their career trying to make the best of a flawedinformation system, must serve as advocates for their patrons. Why, for instance, is theUSPTO continuing to spend money and resources on CASSIS, an antiquated searchsystem that can only be used at a PTDL, when full text of patents is only available from1976? This does not help the independent inventor

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

very available to the students, telling the class the first day“If the door is open, come on in.” He also encouraged them to call him at home. Students went tothe library, some for the first time in their college career, and also spent time on the Internetresearching concept questions. Since there was not a single correct solution, the students werelimited in how much they could depend upon their classmates for support although, based uponstudent comments, there was frequent communication with classmates, especially in the computerlab before class. Students expressed a need for support through feedback from the instructor suchas comments on their papers and examples of what a correct assignment that met his expectationswould look like. They

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Loock; Joan Dannenhoffer

the backbone on which the programs are built. This workpresents the development of students and how institutions can foster student success.Student success is explicitly defined as more than earning a sufficient grade point average tograduate. The definition includes making progress toward fulfilling their educational and personalgoals, including developing academic and intellectual competence, establishing and maintaininginterpersonal relationships, developing an identity, deciding on a career and lifestyle, maintainingpersonal health and wellness, and developing an integrated philosophy of life.Also in this reference, the implementation and effectiveness of freshman seminars as a studentengagement tool and how institutions can be responsive

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementsPenn’s Engineering Entrepreneurship Program reflects material extracted from hundreds ofrelevant books, articles, case studies and journals. It also reflects the advice provided by manyhighly regarded academicians and practitioners. The foresight to launch this Program isattributable to the leadership of Eduardo Glandt, Dean of Penn’s School of Engineering andApplied Science. For his encouragement and for the opportunity to undertake this tremendouslyrewarding “second career,” the author is immensely thankful.Case methodology represents much of the pedagogic approach in our Program. A number ofpublications provided helpful advice about case teaching24. Moreover, hours of

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

topics. This is especially true of the students who enter the course with lowinterpersonal skills. Students leave the course with increased skills in communication, creativity, andrisk-taking. They have a foundation for understanding team development, conflictresolution, personality preferences, values, and ethical decision making. All of thesetopics are important components of a successful career in engineering. Page 8.687.20 I learned about theories and concepts 4.1 related to teamwork I learned about skills needed for effective 4.0 teamwork I was given the

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

- is desirable. The common denominator for all ET scholarly activities should bepeer review in some form and the dissemination of the results of those scholarly activities. ETfaculty at different points in their career may choose to focus on any of the six possiblecombination models of ET scholarship listed below:1. Discovery and Teaching2. Integration and Teaching3. Application and Teaching4. Discovery, Integration & Teaching5. Integration, Application & Teaching6. Discovery, Integration, Application & TeachingThe model of ET scholarship above recognizes the creativity and diversity that exist among ETprograms and faculty. In fact, Boyer suggested that a bona-fide acknowledgement of the rangeof faculty talents “would

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

prestigious CAREER proposals that emphasize both technical andeducational excellence. They say that proposals may not assume extraordinary time expendituresin order to reach their goals. Proposals must detail realistic time expenditures. Quantifying thenumbers of publications in both pedagogy and technical areas would show if this zero-sum gamedoes hold with more technical papers leading to fewer pedagogical papers. One could check thishypothesis by correlating these publication categories over a period of time. This data set couldalso then be used to see if the total number of publications, not just pedagogical publications, didcorrelate well with school rankings. One would expect that the higher number of publicationscorrelates with higher rankings

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

SEMESTER?___Yes ___No If yes, please go no further.You are:___Grad Student ____Senior ____Junior ____Sophomore ___FreshmanWhat is your present major?_________________________________________You have worked at (please mark all that apply):___an internship ___a co-op ___a job within the engineering fieldDo you believe engineering students have deficiencies in their technical communication skills?___Yes ___NoWhat types of communication have been assigned in your courses (please mark all that apply). this college semester career ___ ___ Formal presentations ___ ___ Short oral presentations ___ ___ Demonstrations ___ ___ Essays

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

in formal training. • Working on an ambiguous project is more time consuming than other projects here. • How to think outside of the box. • That real-world problems require in-depth thinking and problem solving and that the Page 8.299.12 skills I have learned earlier in my student career are actually applicable. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • My designs will work in real life and I am capable of designing something

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

required if designs are to be successful. Structured laboratory experiences (eachstudent or group of students perform rigid and contrived experiments) require less facultyresources but do little to develop student design and project management skills [10][12]. A com-promise between the two approaches has been created by the author [2].The embedded systems design experience described in [2] strives to develop professional skillsthat will serve students well in their careers in addition to the “traditional” technical skills the stu-dent expect. Overarching goals of the experience are to expose the student to a realistic embeddedsystems design environment and to develop the student’s teamwork and lifelong learning skills.The design experience strives

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

of theCollege of Arts and Letters at Southwest Missouri State University, Special Assistant to the President forStrategic Planning at University of Delaware, and Department Chair of Modern Languages at ClevelandState University.RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of theNational Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: facultymember at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering atUniversity of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University ofDelaware

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

technical entrepreneurship, facilitate technology transfer and make the Central Floridaarea a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity. This program is strongly oriented into steeringundergraduate and graduate engineering students towards careers in entrepreneurship.The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a growing metropolitan research university withcomprehensive programs of teaching, research and service to more than 35,000 students. UCFconducts high-tech research in Optics, Lasers, Communications, Simulation, Alternative energy,Materials, and other branches of engineering. UCF has developed, in partnership with industry,world-class centers and institutes that focus on these strengths and other core competencies.UCF’s location in the heart

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

, has got to be the hardest course I have ever taken in my life. It has taught me what real hard work meant to do well. I understand now what it means to study hard, getting help from the P often and working together with classmates. If I had worked hard in the beginning of the semester as hard as I did the end of the semester, I would have done awesome. My P was one of the most motivated P's I had so far in my cadet career. He knows his stuff, and he enjoys being here. He'll do anything to help a cadet; stay late hours after school to work with cadets. • Too much work. • CPT Vander Schaaf is a very good instructor and shows superb understanding of the concepts he is instructing. • I thought that

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nasir Bilal; Harold Kess; Douglas Adams

. Harold Kess is a senior undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as asummer intern to develop many of the roving laboratory experiments discussed here. Harold isthe winner of a John M. Bruce Memorial Scholarship for his research work in nondestructiveevaluation of composites and will be pursuing a Masters degree in mechanics in the fall of 2003.Dr. Douglas Adams is a third year assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and is theinstructor in the course discussed here. He is the winner of the 2003 Solberg Award for BestTeacher in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue and a 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

least Product Performance one primary design requirement. 9. Communicate for Use formal and informal communications with team, advisor, and clients Project Success to document and facilitate progress and to enhance impact of design products. 10. Pursue Needed Assess and pursue personal professional growth in concert with project Professional requirements and personal career goals. DevelopmentThe ten capstone course outcomes were checked for alignment with two sets of criteria—attributes (and performance factors) of top quality engineers and ABET criteria— to determinetheir versatility and relevance to design educators’ needs. As shown in Table 5, each

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

help explain how young engineers can avoid such pit-falls as theystart their careers. CASE STUDY No. 3: HISTORY & ENGINEERING: Tracing Engineering Failures (and Successes) due to HistoryEngineering is one of the most human of engaging activities. One does not have to be a professional Engineer in order to BE an engineer;although it has been said that what separates an Engineer from the layman is how long it may take to accomplish a specific task to somegiven desired degree of quality and/or completeness. It is sometimes desirable to think that, unlike other more common activities,engineering is not

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

, American Society for Engineering Education”Learning Activity #1: The first three components will be taught mostly in a linear, processoriented style. However, to generate engagement students will be asked along the way to createtheir own retirement plan scenario to illustrate the concepts, terminology and methods in a waythat should interest them. The normal lecture material was supplemented with a four-partPowerPoint presentation on retirement planning that included information about retirement plansand investing options. A basic EXCEL template was provided as a starting point for each studentto develop their own retirement plan and sensitivity analysis. In the end they had some idea abouthow much they will need to save over their working career

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott T. Miller; Andrew C. Arvin; Francesco Costanzo

frequency of use of Mathematica as a presentation tool.AcknowledgmentsThe authors wishe to gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the National Sci-ence Foundation CAREER program through grant No. CMS 9733653.References[1] R. M. B OWEN, Introduction to Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, 39 of Mathematical concepts and methods in science and engineering, Plenum Press, New York, 1989.[2] F. C OSTANZO AND G. L. G RAY, “On the implementation of interactive dynamics,” Interna- tional Journal of Engineering Education, 16(5), 2000, pp. 385–393.[3] G. L. G RAY AND F. C OSTANZO, “The interactive classroom and its integration into the me- chanics curriculum,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 15(1), 1999, pp. 41–50.[4] M. E. G

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

careers has been well-documented1,2. These experiencesshould emphasize the application of the technical skills in the classroom as well as the "softer"skills such as communication, working as a team and customer interaction3-5. The need for suchexperiences has spawned many innovative approaches to senior capstone design courses6,7 aswell as design courses for underclassmen8-11. The most common model for these courses hasbeen a one semester experience intended to give the students an intense exposure to the designprocess. Page 8.540.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

completing theassignment.The next topic introduced is that of bibliographic citations and correct format. A few real-lifeexamples are provided that are so obtuse it is virtually impossible to find the source material. Aweb page provides detailed information on the importance of citations and links to several guides.While a very mundane topic, it is necessary for a quality research paper. Different style guides arediscussed. The last part of the class is devoted to the topic of plagiarism. The importance of thetopic is emphasized with some real life examples and a visit to the academic integrity site at PennState. For many students, this might be the first discussion of the topic and it is one that must beintroduced early in the academic career. The

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Torrey; James Hertel; Douglas Oppliger; Gretchen Hein; Glen Archer; Jason Keith

received her BS and MSdegrees in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.JAMES HERTEL comes to teaching following 25 years in business developing automated industrial machinery. Hereceived the BSME from Marquette University and the MS from Lawrence Universityand an MSME from theUniversity of Washington, Seattle. He is currently teaching Fundamentals of Engineering I & II, Statics andMechanics of Materials and advises the Automotive Systems Enterprise.DOUG OPPLIGER is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity. He earned his BSCE from Michigan Tech and worked for several years in the Marine ConstructionIndustry. He returned to school to pursue a career in teaching and

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman

frustration over trying to find solutions to problems for which the technical aspects were relatively mundane in comparison to the social and economic aspects. The essays from the REU program, in contrast, revolve very much around the research experience in a unique setting. The difference in student experience is also evident in the difference in post-graduation career choice of the students (with nearly all REU participants heading towards graduate education while the Haiti participants chose a number of paths including service and graduate school). Hence, it can be concluded that these three models produce three unique outcomes. • These learning experiences appear to preferentially attract women engineering students. The

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Connie Della-Piana

education.II. Circles of Learning for Entering Students (CircLES)The Circles of Learning for Entering Students (CircLES) program is a key component of theModel Institutions for Excellence (MIE) project at UTEP.11, 12, 13, & 14 CircLES is dedicated toproviding all pre-science and pre-engineering students with opportunities to develop the skillsand knowledge associated with a successful college career, to enhance student leadership skillsand self-awareness, to make connections with the university, the engineering and/or sciencecolleges and programs, and to become acquainted with STEM faculty, staff, upper divisionstudents, and their peers. The goals of the CircLES program are to increase student persistence,improve their academic performance, and

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas