Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

existing engineering undergraduate curriculum. Funded by a three-yearNSF-Course, Curriculum, Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant, the BESTEAMS curriculum iscomprehensive and developmental, offering three levels of instruction (introductory, intermediate,advanced) in three key areas of team functioning (personal awareness, interpersonal dynamics,and project management).The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of student evaluation of the introductory levelcurriculum that has been introduced into the Clark School of Engineering's - Introduction toEngineering Design course (ENES 100). Students completed three team work modules presentedby faculty trained in the module delivery during the 2001-2002 academic year. The firstIntroductory

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

side of this is thatmodeling problems need to be designed so that they readily reveal common problems withembedding behavior via constraints.IV. ExamplesAt NC State, the switch was made from AutoCAD to SolidWorks in the Spring 2001 semester.The faculty also removed all instrument drawing in the introductory courses. This transitionalperiod was not easy. One of the biggest challenges was designing new exercises that wereappropriate for the new courses. The previous courses were heavily focused on documentation –specifically detail drawings. Although several laboratory exercises involved solid modeling in Page 8.454.4AutoCAD, most CAD

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education7. “MathCAD” is a trademark of MathCAD, Inc.8. “Mathematica” is a trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc.9. MATLAB”, MATrix LABoratory is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc..10. “MS Excel”, Microsoft Excel is a trademark of Microsoft CorporationJAMES D. BOWENJames D. Bowen is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at UNC Charlotte. He received hisPh.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bowen teaches MATLAB programming,hydraulics, aquatic chemistry, and water quality modeling. His research interests include water quality and eutro-phication modeling, model uncertainty analysis, and the microscale fluid motions around phytoplankton

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

5% Laboratories 20% Dr. Maher M. Murad Page 8.390.11 August 2002 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAppendix B: A New Course in Pavement Design and Management: QuestionnairePlease answer each of the questions below based on your individual experience from taking thePavement Design and Management Course.Academic Level

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

of a Model”, ME4053 Engineering Systems Laboratory, the George W. Woodruff School of MechanicalEngineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 10 January 2003, available on line at.Sheldon M. Jeter is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the George W. WoodruffSchool of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has degrees from Clemson University, the Page 8.542.15University of Florida, and Georgia Tech. He has been on the academic faculty at Georgia Tech Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

network (28) Training to utilize the school's computing resources (29) To what Degree did your Engineering Education enhance your ability to se modern Engineering tools (46) To what degree did laboratory facilities allow you to use modern engineering tools (71)12 What is your satisfaction with: Availability of computers (27) Remote access to school's computer network (28) Training to utilize the school's computing resources (29)13 My experience abroad gave me a good understanding of a different culture (80) Page 8.1200.9

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heimdahl Peter; Brenda Puck; Danny Bee

1997 camper, when asked in a newspaper interview about the most memorableWisconsin-Stout (UW-Stout), in partnership with the thing she had ever done.Society of Manufacturing Engineering EducationFoundation (SME-EF), initiated an outreach program for girls entering the seventh grade.“STEPS for Girls” is a one-week introduction to the world of manufacturing. The girlsmanufacture radio-controlled model airplanes from raw materials. The components arefabricated in various laboratory activities using real production equipment. Each girl has anopportunity to fly her airplane with the assistance of skilled radio-controlled aircraft pilots.“STEPS for Girls” campers gain

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

, S.E., Stategies for Creative Problem Solving, Prentice Hall, 1995.17 Cloete, A., Solving Problems or Problem Solving: What are we teaching our students?, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 24-27, 2001, Albuquerque, NM.18 Prusak, Z., Laboratory Experiments in Process Design and Optimization, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 24-27, 2001, Albuquerque, NM.19 Schon, D., Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, Basic Books, 1983.20 Otto, K.N, Wood, K.L., Product Design, Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development, pp.43-46, Prentice Hall, 2001.21 Lubkin, J.L.(ed.), The Teaching of Elementary Problem-Solving in Engineering and Related Fields, American Society for

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

to requests for changes in the way that we educate andprepare engineers for the future. For example, a number of organizations and stakeholders havesponsored initiatives focused on defining new goals, developing materials, and providingresources. Such efforts include NEEDS – the National Engineering Education Database (a digitallibrary of educational technologies), the NSF Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvementprogram (that supports resource development projects), the new ABET outcome-basedaccreditation policy, and the NSF Coalitions program (that brought together institutions aroundcoalition-specific missions and large-scale curricular reform).Work directly with faculty has been a key element of efforts to enhance engineering

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

knowledge. However, lack ofsignificant differences in the validity of map propositions suggests that students have notnecessarily gained a deeper understanding of associations among concepts pertinent tothe design process. Grounded in our prior work,18 we expect that once students begin toapply their conceptual knowledge to the actual design of a device (the focus of the springsemester of the course), their maps will not only contain more concepts, but more validpropositions, more precise vocabulary, and greater integration (i.e., higher line:noderatios).Links between concept map data and the number of summers students had spent inschool, or in industrial or laboratory settings were examined (industrial experience, M =1.34, SD = .61; lab experience

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

. Recognition of educational research and teaching as valuable scholarly activities Page 8.603.4 6. Provide two-way transfer of knowledge between universities, industry and government laboratories. 7. Target lifelong learning and graduate engineering educationImpact on Product Design CurriculumDesign activity involves a broader range of disciplines:The corporations have now realized that better and more functional products can be developed ifthe design team involves more expertise than just engineering alone. This allows the use of teamapproach and concurrent engineering practices.Globalization of engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

development, three specific courses will be introduced and their learning objectivesstated. The course will be discussed in more detail subsequently.ISE 3014 Work Measurement and Methods Engineering is a survey of methods for assessing andimproving performance of individuals and groups in organizations. It is taught as a first semesterjunior course and includes basic industrial engineering tools, such as: work analysis, dataacquisition and analysis, performance evaluation and appraisal, and work measurementprocedures. As conceived, the course was to have two lectures and a three-hour laboratory eachweek of the term. According to the syllabus of record, the course learning objectives are asfollows: Having successfully completed this course, the

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

the PI differ from the learning styles of CSM Freshmen? • To what extent do practical laboratory sessions aid in the amelioration of misconceptions in mechanics? Page 8.350.11 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Hestenes, D., Wells, M., and Swackhamer, G., “Force Concept Inventory.” ThePhysics Teacher, 30, 414-158, 1992.2. Hestenes, D. and Halloun, I, “Interpreting the FCI: A Response,” The Physics Teacher, 33, 502-506 (1995).3. Hake, Richard R., “Interactive

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Reid; Charles Tiltrum

computer room. Chapter meetings are held in anauditorium style classroom which has worked very well. For the steel bridge and concretecanoe, space is set aside within our departmental laboratories. Typically this only requiresat least 300 to 500 sq. ft. Fabrication of the steel bridge occurs at a local steel fabricationcompany. Also, the students are provided access to the departmental technician workshopfor tools and equipment. This requires a certain level of trust between the department and Page 8.474.4student chapter which the students have honored to date. Space is also needed to display Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

a touchstonecase study throughout the academic term. This project was referred to in class, and by thestudents, as the “widget project.” The widget project gave students and faculty members acommon background for discussion, an opportunity to immediately apply new knowledgelearned in the class, and a vehicle for peer to peer education.Daily Topical Coverage The Design Project Management class was conducted in the System DynamicsLaboratory, a studio laboratory with 12 two-student workstations, a dual-headed projectionsystem useful for supporting impromptu design sharing and small group reporting. The DPMclass met two days per week, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Typically, each two hour session was conducted

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

event, engineering students often bringfriends and family which provides a venue for social interaction among engineering faculty,staff, and students.Freshman EngineeringA freshman engineering student entering USD must enroll in ENGR5: Introduction toEngineering. The course includes students interested in Electrical, Industrial and Systems, andMechanical Engineering. The catalog description for the course isENGR5 Introduction to Engineering (3 credits)Introduction to the field of engineering. Exploration of problem solving using the engineeringdesign process in lecture and laboratory projects. Introduction to engineering tools includingspreadsheets and graphics. Intended for majors in engineering or those exploring careers inengineering.The

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationNORMAN L. ASPERNorman Asper is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The College of New Jersey. Professor Asper is an activemember of ASME, ASEE and SAE. He has participated in the generation of the Safety Regulations for both theSolar Splash International Student Design Competition and Tour deSol. Professor Asper has degrees from Ball StateUniversity and Ohio State University.BIJAN SEPAHPOURBijan Sepahpour is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The College of New Jersey. He is activelyinvolved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

might be termed classical engineeringsituations. Much time was spent in laboratories, working through standard exercises in datacollection and analysis. Unlike the teaching that now characterizes medicine or the law,engineers were taught in an environment curiously devoid of a sense of practice. Over the years,this “decontextualization” caused distortions in attitudes and values, along with graduatingengineers who had little exposure to the types of professional maturity and judgment they wouldneed from the very first day they stepped into the work world.16Most would agree that expectations for today’s engineering education incorporates richer notionsof how people learn and of how to nurture the higher-order skills necessary for a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

. 116-121; 127. 12. Natishan, M.E., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 13. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team- Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 14. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender and Ethn icity Differences in Freshmen Engineering Student Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

8.4.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationat Albany, and (soon) the east coast laboratory of Sematech and the U.S. research lab of TokyoElectron, Ltd. A future goal is to link more fully the three components of the course. When thishappens, educational value seems greatly amplified. For example, in this year’s course, the lecturesession analysis of gear ratios occurred in the same week as the design of gearing for the student’scompetition vehicles. By this coupling, two results were achieved. Performance of the studentson an exam question regarding gear ratios was much better than last

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

years as the Berkeley assessment coordinator for theSynthesis coalition. She currently serves as the learning science and assessment consultant on VaNTH(www.vanth.org) curricula projects.MATTHEW PARSEKMatthew R. Parsek received his BS in Biology in 1989 from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and hisPh.D. degree in 1995 in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Parsek thenspent four years at the University of Iowa in the Department of Microbiology in the laboratory of Dr. E.P.Greenberg where he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow. In 1999 Dr. Parsek joined the Department of CivilEngineering as an assistant professor. He is a project leader in the biotechnology domain in the VaNTHEngineering Research

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Spreen

. MicroSim Pspice A/D Reference Manual, MicroSim Corporation, Irvine, CA 1997. Page 2-57.17. MicroSim Application Notes, MicroSim Corporation, Irvine, CA 1997. Page 169.JAMES H. SPREEN is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Indiana Institute of Technology, Ft.Wayne, Indiana. He received a B.S. in Engineering from Case Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in ElectricalEngineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM, andMagneTek. His interests include analytic and simulation modeling of transformers and electromechanical devices. Page 8.300.14 Proceedings of

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

useful are visualization techniques provided as slides 2 or inelectronic format (CD-ROM, etc.) in the last generation of materials science and engineeringtextbooks 3. These visualization software packages have become very popular, particularly whencomplex organic molecules are examined. In most cases those packages are available at a steepprice while in few other cases they are free such as Rasmol.On the other hand, in large class sizes it has been recommended the use of hands-ondemonstrations as an alternative to full laboratory experiments 4. For this purpose the studentscan be guided through a well-thought demonstration by teaching assistants. Alternatively, thepresent module proposes the use of computer graphics for a team assignment in a

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Zuckerman; Nathaniel Bowe; LaMarr Taylor; Kyle Smith; Dan Moore

market worthiness of an idea.The intent of this partnership with the Kelly School of Business is that engineers and businessmajors will begin to work together on real world problems before they ever have to in theworkplace. This type of hands on, practical education is inline with the laboratory style ofteaching present at Rose-Hulman. The hope is that the more Engineers interact in a meaningfulway with Business people, the better-rounded they are in their education and the better they willbe able to function in the workplace. While Engenius Solutions’ main focus is the development ofnew ideas, the student managers are also trying to get students to see how challenging, yetexciting it can be to be an entrepreneur in a fast paced technology

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Future Teachers, Presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Saint Louis, June 2000. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).16. Jordan, W., Silver, D., and Elmore, B., Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers, presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based Proceedings (no page Page 8.261.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” numbers).17. Jordan, W., and Elmore, B., Developing an Outreach Program to Introduce

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

of Aviation Technology and coordinator of the air traffic controleducation program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Prof. Nolan is the author of the textbook"Fundamentals of Air Traffic Control", as well as a contributing author for Microsoft Encarta. His currentresearch and teaching activities include air traffic control, airline operations, globalization and distance educationRAYMOND E. THOMPSONRaymond E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Aviation Technology and Assistant Department Head at PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette. Prof. Thompson founded the AOT Advanced Composite Laboratory and coordinatesstudent services within the department. His current research includes applied composite technology, assessment,technology in

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

in ethicalissues, given their added classroom, laboratory and work experience at this point in their careers. However,this added practical experience was not reflected in the survey results.Regarding the ethics quiz given to the freshmen, which tested the students’ ability to retain the material givenin the handouts and lectures, the average grade achieved by students taking the quiz was approximately 85%.Although the questions were relatively simple True / False questions, students were required to explain their“False” answers. Thus, the positive quiz results appear to suggest relatively good student retention of theethics material presented in the freshmen lectures.Conversely, the results of the design (with ethics) question given to the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Several Universities and colleges have developed workshops for high school teachers interested indeveloping pre-engineering curriculum. They have performed hands-on laboratory experimentsthat can be implemented at the high school level to introduce basic engineering principles andtechnology to inspire the students to study engineering7. The engineering students and the alumni(professional engineers) are also involved in supervising students completing various engineeringprojects under some engineering programs. All the states should follow the footstep ofMassachusetts that

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kenney; Thomas Jewell

power,have created an extraordinary laboratory for such investigation. The mountainous topographyand sizable river catchments in New Zealand, coupled with very high rainfall levels (especially onthe South Island), provide ideal conditions for the development of hydro-based generation.Dwindling natural gas reserves, limited deep steam reserves (from volcanic activity on the NorthIsland), a reluctance to exploit sizable coal reserves (because of environmental sensitivity togreenhouse gas emissions), and vehement political opposition to nuclear power developmentprovide additional incentives for the country’s substantial investment in hydroelectric power.Though the electricity is generated at very low cost (by world standards), the supply of power

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Toniann Rotante; Sarah Brem; Norma Hubele; George Runger; Kathryn Kennedy

Session 1526 Case-Based Reasoning for Engineering Statistics George Runger, Sarah Brem, Norma Hubele, Toniann Rotante, Kathryn Kennedy Arizona State UniversityAbstractIn this paper, we report on the formulation and early results of research supported by the NationalScience Foundation’s Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS).Using findings from cognitive science, we discuss the design of an intelligent tutoring system(ITS) that utilizes case-based reasoning (CBR) to scaffold undergraduate engineering students intheir learning of introductory probability and