Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

william mullett; Gary Mullett

educational and business and industry partners in the planning andorganization of the proposal from the very beginning.When Dr. Abeles visited the campus, the college president, the chief academic officer, members ofthe development office, and this author met with him and some of his staff. At the time, webelieved that the meeting had been very productive for both parties since we learned more aboutthe Next Step Program and they learned more about STCC and its capabilities. Shortly thereafter,an RFP for a seven million dollar program was issued by NYNEX to all 2- and 4-year colleges inNew England. STCC successfully brought together a group of community colleges across theNew England footprint, submitted a proposal on behalf of the “partner schools

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

issues are considered in all concept phases of the student work. Eachteam provides formal reports, both written and oral, to management (the professors) throughoutboth semesters. Each team must prepare a budget and a program plan for all segments of theirproject. Student teams are allowed to follow their own ideas even if the professors think it maynot work. Learning from failures at this level is often a better educational tool than being Page 8.13.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Renken; John Reisel

studentsidentified the specific goals of their projects, formulated their design action plan, researched possiblesolutions, performed the engineering analysis, interacted with PNIC staff, government officials, andindustrial personnel, prepared the final report, and formally presented their results.The use of this open-ended feasibility study allowed the students to use a great deal of creativity insolving and analyzing a problem in a real-world setting with realistic constraints. Details of thestudents' final designs, cost analyses, and recommendations as well as the educational experiences ofthe mechanical engineering undergraduate students who worked on these projects are described.Background1The Pettit National Ice Center (PNIC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

activities of planning, communicating, and self evaluation. 4) reinforce appropriate interpersonal, group, and/or presentational competencies introduced in the oral communication course. 5) reflect the strategies for evaluating interpersonal, group, and/or presentational competencies introduced in the oral communication course. 6) allocate at least 30% of the course grade to oral communication assignments. 7) require students to participate in at least 15 minutes of graded oral communication assignments. 8) teach students to use oral communication skills as a way of learning and thinking critically in a discipline.Therefore, the course syllabus was developed to outline new

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Shad Reed

manyof these results. Figure 6 illustrates that the turbine design was very successful in some respectsand not as successful in others. As figure 6 shows, only 21% strongly agreed with the statementthat the project contributed to their ability to apply the conservation laws, while 57% agreed withthe statement. This could indicate that most students could see how the concepts applied, but didnot actually perform the analysis required to design their turbine. This is supported by several ofthe open-ended question responses. An example comment from a student: “More importance should have been placed on the actual planning of the design. We went into the building process with only a bare understanding of our objective, and this

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Thompson

pay offExposure to music prior to or during --> Better athletic performanceClasses outside of major --> Better grades than major classes 2 Need to beMore extracurricular activities --> Get more sleep careful; someSittting in the back row --> Lower GPA attention to selectedSingle room --> Higher grades areasStudents with part time jobs --> Lower GPANot on meal plan first year --> Better grades 1 PotentialDorm greater distance from clinic --> Likelihood to go for treatment problem(s), butFrequency & quantity of alcohol use

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

foundation for this type of instruction isknown as inquiry-based science and experiential learning or the application of constructivisttheory.Inquiry-Based ScienceWith inquiry-based/centered science approach, the real world is brought into the classroom andthe lives of students (National Academy Press, 1997). The National Science Education Standards(1996) defines inquiry as conducting activities such as making observations; posing questions;examining sources of information; planning investigations; reviewing what is known based onexperiential evidence; using tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data; proposing answers,explanations, and predictions; and communicating the results” (p. 8). An example of inquiry-basedscience of math would be a lab

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

a decision matrix to select the best of the remaining designs.Design Evaluation: Using the performance measure formula as a starting point, eachteam was to come up with a set of objectives and constraints that their potential designsshould try to meet. A weighting factor was to be associated with each objective. Usingthese objectives and constraints, a decision matrix was developed which would later beused to evaluate and compare the team's different developed designs.Task Planning: Teams were given the due dates for the project, including dates whenprogress reports were due, the competition date, and the presentation dates. They wereassigned to develop a list of tasks that needed to be completed prior to each due date andthen develop an

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

particularly significant impact on the retention of women. The data also suggest that changes in the content and presentation of the course may affect the timing of student decisions to drop. Course changes between the 2001-02 offering and the 2002-03 offering appear also to have impacted both the retention of women and the timing of student decisions to drop.Follow ThroughNotre Dame’s College of Engineering created the EG 111/112 course sequence to improve thequality of the first-year learning experience for engineering intents and to incorporate a morelearning-centered paradigm into the program. The availability of student response data hasprovided a valuable resource for assessing and planning the course sequence, as

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

craftsman and apprentice tradition came with the beginnings ofelectrical engineering. With electricity one no longer could depend on immediate sensoryinformation. Since measurement was indirect, mathematics became essential to assure effectiveand safe application. The laying of the Trans-Atlantic cable around 1860 put the shop-versus-school approach to engineering in stark contrast. The first models of the telegraph (around 1835)were seat-of-the-pants affairs: try something and see what it does. Marconi was of this opinion,while Michael Faraday and William Thomson supplied many of the theoretical underpinnings oftelegraphy.As the practitioners formulated their plans to lay a cable from Dover to Calais, Thomson andFaraday were able to predict that

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2109and concepts become more densely networked.12, 13, 14Concept maps have been used as a learning strategy, an instructional strategy, a strategyfor curriculum planning, and a means of student assessment.15 In this study, we usedconcept mapping as: (1) a form of student assessment (i.e., a measure of students’conceptual understanding of the design process); (2) a learning strategy (i.e., studentscreated maps as a study guide for their final exam and summarized course readings inconcept map

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

achieved through amajor enhancement of the contribution of the manufacturing sector to the GNP.5. Mercosul and EducationThe Education plans for Mercosul consider the promotion of an education system very similar,which goal is to form a professional capable to insert and to maintain her/him in the work marketof the four Countries of the Bloc [02].It is an ambitious goal but not impossible despite they have different educational systems besidesthe political and social challenges peculiar to each one. The language is not properly a bigproblem once they are similar what facilitates communication.In other words the objective is to get the young population educated in Schools of one Countryhaving the diplomas valid in other Countries so that they can

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

skills that would be used in the courses. Theseskills included the use of different coordinate systems, and the review of some calculus conceptssuch as the choices of the limits of definite integrals. However, as our planning moved forward,the emphasis of the Redshirt Camps shifted more towards the preparation for the workshops thatwould be taken during the semester, as well. Page 8.1044.4 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Abdullah Abonamah; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

academic model includes Learning Outcomes at all stages in the student’sacademic life. Students with the assistance of their advisors develop an individual learning plan.The Learning Outcomes emphasize planning, decision-making and application skills, and studentsare assessed for their ability to demonstrate applied synthesis and integration of knowledge andskills. There are six key Zayed University Learning Outcomes that form the basis of the ZU APMmodel. All students must demonstrate accomplishments in the six ZULOs before they graduate.They are defined as follows: • Information Literacy and Communication: ZU graduates will be able to recognize

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Ansari

. The roof,which is isolated from the ceiling, is dome shaped and supports a solar collector-cum-solar shieldassembly. The solar collector is composed of six separate triangular panels in the form of a lowpyramid. The panels are equipped with concentrators and tapered water pipes enclosed intransparent hollow pipes. A verandah, with a roof that is angled upward at nearly 30 degrees,surrounds the walls. Sun screens (which close and open according to solar position) are situatedon the east and west sides. On the south-east, south and south-west sides along the verandahenclosures with glass walls are provided for use as a sit-out and greenhouse. Fig.1 Isometric View Showing Visible External FeaturesFig. 2. shows a floor plan

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

completing the six-week on-campus session, students receive academic creditand are able to advance to the second portion of the program, which occurs during the summerfollowing the junior year.The second portion of the program is an off-campus, minimum ten week, paid internship. Theinternship program was created in response to companies’ desires to hire graduates with actualexposure to industry practices. The experience gives students exposure to everyday planning andproblem-solving activities in the organization and puts them in contact with managerial staff inthe organization. Internships come in three forms, project-oriented, shadow-to-an-executive, orexecutive assistance, with the last two being the preferred types. An effective

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

a decision matrix to select the best of the remaining designs.Design Evaluation: Using the performance measure formula as a starting point, eachteam was to come up with a set of objectives and constraints that their potential designsshould try to meet. A weighting factor was to be associated with each objective. Usingthese objectives and constraints, a decision matrix was developed which would later beused to evaluate and compare the team's different developed designs.Task Planning: Teams were given the due dates for the project, including dates whenprogress reports were due, the competition date, and the presentation dates. They wereassigned to develop a list of tasks that needed to be completed prior to each due date andthen develop an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

much as by plan. We will also have to becareful not to emphasize the use of the Internet to the exclusion of other sources. Table 2. Use of Information Technology in Instruction Course Electronic E-Mail Internet Submission Collaboration Searches CHEE 201 Material & Energy Balances I X CHEE 202 Material & Energy Balances II X CHEE 230 Modeling & Analysis X X CHEE 310 Process Fluid Mechanics X CHEE 311 Heat Transfer Operations X CHEE 312 Mass Transfer Equipment Design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmediated learning environment. Our presentation includes examples of how to constructassignments that fully exploit these CPR™ capabilities. Figure 2: Conceptual View of the “Writing/Revision Process” Instantiated by CPR™How Does CPR™ Measure Learning Outcomes?Good instructional design depends on having both objectives (desired outcomes) and a plan (ameans of accomplishment). As illustrated in the seven levels of Figure 2, the instructor sets thegoals in the writing prompt and thus initiates a guided inductive-path for attaining them bysetting expectations (performance standards) that are reverberated

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

, during which the ant presented its victory dance featuring the moonwalk.Solution DiscussionWe are proud to say that our ant ran the race the way it was planned to do so. It went around theracetrack twice and presented its victory dance without fail. However, it was not the fastestamongst its competitors, which is the one point that must be worked on.Planned Design ChangesThe ant was designed with a pulley system that moved its legs. The pulley system was ultimatelyattached to the driving wheels, which can have a fatal result if the wheels were damaged from theforces acting on it by the pulleys. For this reason, the design should be changed by attaching thepulley system to another rotating device that will not hinder the driving wheels

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

encouraged to “use common terminology,” a process that was notalways easy for instructors from English, math, chemistry, and engineering to do. Facultymembers from the four disciplines met to brainstorm strategies of cross-disciplinary assignmentsfor their cohorts. What these meetings did not consist of were plans to teach heavy-ladengrammar exercises or formatting of letters and reports.Although many faculty members from the English department initially feared that thiscollaboration would consist of only one-sided change (i.e., only the English classes wouldincorporate cross-disciplinary strategies), it became clear in the early meetings that this indeedwas a collaborative effort to give this group of engineering students an effectively

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

hands-on experience. Page 8.697.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the computer assisted manufacturing course, fixed and flexible automation, computer aidedprocess planning, computer control of manufacturing systems, group technology and cellularmanufacturing, CAD/CAM integration, and programming on CNC machining center andnumerically controlled devices are emphasized. They also work on term projects illustratingcomputer aided design and manufacturing concepts.ISE 402 and 403

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

marketplace wouldthey need to begin this workshop? After much discussion, we decided that the audience for thepilot course would be upper-level engineering undergraduate students and graduate students whoare interested in entrepreneurial opportunities. Once the prototype curriculum was created for ourinitial audience, we intend to adapt and modify the curriculum for a broader range of audiences.Next, the team struggled with course objectives. Any good course planning begins with writingcourse objectives: why is this material being taught, and what should students be expected toknow and demonstrate at the end? Course objectives perform three important functions byguiding the instructional process; providing a framework for evaluation and assessment

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Layton

, one student has submitted the final report of his team’s project to a conference onsymbolic computation and a second student is planning to present her team’s project at a studentconference.4. Dymola tutorialsComputer simulation, in this case, the numerical solution of initial-value problems in ODEs andDAEs using DYMOLA, is one of the main course topics. The author wrote elementary tutorials forthe first two lab/project periods to help students gain basic proficiency in using DYMOLA. Theobjective of Lab 1 is to use DYMOLA to create a model, solve the ODE, and plot the results. Theobjective of Lab 2 is to use MATLAB to import and plot results from DYMOLA simulations. Both

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

theimplementation of an eSI program. Furthermore, there is historical evidence indicating thesuccessfulness of properly implemented SI programs.3, 5 This evidence is based upon severalfactors including comparison of the grades of students who attended SI sessions versus those thatdid not attend, decreasing dropout rates in “high risk” courses, and removing the “high risk” labelfrom those classes that exhibited significant improvement in pass/fail rates. The intervals will belabeled by their associated test (i.e., Test 1 interval, Test 2 interval, and Test 3 interval).Test 1 IntervalDuring the Test 1 interval, the eSI leader and distance education students were engaged heavily inlearning the new software used for this course. The initial plans for the eSI

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

participation rates leave a lot to be desired and provide incentive to design a betterassessment plan for the second pilot. However, they also tell a story in and of themselves.Students in the experimental class continued attending near the end of the semester, even knowingthey were not required to do so, at a far greater rate than the students in either of the other twogroups.The survey conducted listed eight course objectives (Table 2) and asked the students to rate, on a5-point ordinal scale, their abilities related to the specific objectives.Ignoring the control class, due to the small sample size, requires that these data be taken morelightly than might otherwise have been possible. This is because of the effect of class size on thelearning

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

primary-type programs responding to the survey allindicated that a holistic, broad-based education, facilitated by the flexibility of a single program,was a key institutional value. (However, two of those schools also indicated plans to movetoward separately accredited discipline-specific programs.)These exceptions aside, the trend supports the hypothesis. The remaining two primary- Page 8.1113.5philosophical schools have an average initial accreditation date of 2000. The remaining 17 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

, Page 8.1026.1 American Society for Engineering Education”This paper describes an effort to develop a series of tutorial sand support materials that can beused in undergraduate materials science courses. It describes the design criteria, the contents ofeach part of the whole package, three current implementations and plans for trying them out incommunity college and high school classrooms.BackgroundFor the past five years the author’s courses have included carefully chosen assignments thatwould be easy to complete using spreadsheets but tedious if using only a calculator. Moststudents stuck with the techniques they already knew and spent a lot of time punching the keyson their calculator, with little time or

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

at theeducational department of the Society the commission on the organization of the domesticreading developed detailed regular plans and programs on various branches of knowledge,bibliographic indexes, lists of questions for control 9 . Training was conducted bycorrespondence. To the persons who have expressed a desire to be engaged in self-educationunder the direction of the commission, necessary books and brochures were sent, the subjectsof abstracts were offered. About 150 professors and teachers of Moscow University andother educational institutions took part in the work of the commission. The professor ofhistory from Moscow University P.G.Vinogradov headed the commission. In January 1897,the commission had 449 subscribers (73,5% - men

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway

to guide the approach to the task and the learnerwill select, execute, monitor, and control the use of cognitive strategies (Flavell, 1987).Cognitive strategies include sense-making, self-assessment, and reflection (NRC, 2000).II.C. TeamworkA team is a synergistic group that uses an agreed upon process to reach an agreed upongoal. The critical aspects of this definition are consensus and synergy. This definition isconsistent with that of Katzenbach and Smith (1993), whose work was cited by Levi andSlem (1995). In order to reach consensus a team must establish an effectivecommunication plan, a task that is more difficult when team members are not at the samelocation. Furthermore, the communication between team members must be based onopenness