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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Kobus

. Figure 1 is the initial specification sheetdescribing the design goals and quality control specifications. It should be noted that the graphsand equations, along with discussions, were exclusively taken from turned in student reports. Page 8.136.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education FLUID AND THERMAL SYSTEM DESIGN ME 482/582 C.J. KobusDESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNIQUE FOR AUTOMOTIVE

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

this project-centered approach, the Engineering Graphics curriculum has beenorganized into a set of learning modules with specific educational outcomes. Table 1 lists thecurrent modularization scheme and learning outcomes. It consists of ten units that serve asindividual student projects, plus an integrated PROCEED project that is conducted at theconclusion of the course. With this modularization scheme, the ten individual units trainstudents to develop computer skills and abilities that can be later used in the larger team project.These modern course outcomes, as outlined in Table 1, were fully implemented in the Fall 2002semester using some preliminary computer graphics laboratory notes written by our group10.The initial modules stress

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

levels. Based on the comparison results, the paperconcludes that blended, hybrid courses can better serve a wide spectrum of selected studentlearning styles and yield high quality learning outcomes.IntroductionFrom the mid-1990s until the turn of the century, higher education course activities wereconducted either in the traditional classroom setting, often using the lecture format, or in thevirtual classroom setting using computer and networking technologies. During this time period,more and more brick and mortar leaning institutions augmented their classroom offering withcourses offered via the Internet (1). New competitor institutions, which provided their coursesstrictly at a distance, sprang up. Some of the startups prospered and grew while

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

significantpotential to benefit the education of students, the body of evidence supporting that assumption isstill small.1 Even if it is assumed that most lecturers possess the necessary characteristics, researchsuggests that the exclusive use of the lecture in the classroom constrains students’ learning.2 Tobe effective, the use of technology in the classroom must balance the utility of technology with theability of the instructor to incorporate it within a busy schedule. Despite the many innovations ofthe last several decades, it is evident that the chalk-blackboard-lecture format is still predominant.Various sources discuss the perseverance of this traditional method of instruction.3,4,5,6 Since evenmany who continue to lecture exclusively admit that it is

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel E Collins; Christopher Foreman; Matthew Ohland

students through their web interface. They register byclicking on the tours they are interested in. They can change their minds about the tours they wantany time prior to the start of a tour. If they miss a tour they have registered for, they can registerfor other tours that happen later; i.e., the system only indicates they are out of compliance if theyfail to register for and attend a sufficient number of tours, not if they fail to attend the tours forwhich they registered. There are system-imposed limits on the number of tours for which thestudents can register. The administrative web interface allows identification of all students whohave not met tour registration or attendance requirements.Data StructuresThe student table (Table 1) is

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Laboratory (Fall, 1 credit, 3 contact hours per week). Text: Masterson and Hurley, Chemistry: Principles and Reactions, Fort Worth, Saunders College Publishing, 1993. Supplementary instructional software: Exploring Chemistry and Introduction to General Chemistry, distributed by Falcon Software, Inc., Wentworth, NH 03282.The chemistry portion of IMPEC included several features that are not part of the typical collegechemistry experience, specifically, interactive computer simulations of experiments and problem-solving exercises done by groups in class. The students were routinely called on to dialogue withthe instructor to provide evidence of their conceptual understanding. Emphasis was placed onquestions that involved the higher

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Brown; Mel Mendelson

designed around the constituents' needs and confers two degrees: M.S. insystems engineering and MBA. The systems engineering leadership emphasis resulted fromsuggestions by local industry and the Air Force. The constituents and their needs have beenestablished and translated into a set of educational objectives and program outcomes. Sincevery few universities offer dual-degrees in systems engineering and business, the SELP fillsan important need for an integrated engineering/business curriculum.I. IntroductionToday the United States has a major shortage of engineers and scientists capable of leadingand managing complex technical projects. One example is the U.S. Air Force whoseSecretary, Hon. James Roche, has testified before the U.S. Congress [1

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

the relationships between students’ activities and the learning outcomes to beused in the assessment process. The model is tested using students’ works. The neural networksbased model is used to help decision makers improve the educational model.1. IntroductionThe educational model adopted by Zayed University (ZU), a new institution in the UAE, is basedon an Outcome-Based Educational (OBE) learning approach1. This new educational concept inthe Gulf region responds to the new demands of a modern society while continuously providingimprovement to succeed in this rapidly changing world2. It also shifts the educational paradigmfrom what the teacher should teach to what the student should learn. In the OBE learningapproach, the Learning Outcomes

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Hugh Rogers, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

State approved five AS toBS degree programs require a 16-18 credit hour core general education curriculum to meet theBS general education requirements. The 16-18 credit hours general curriculum consists oftransferable Freshman English I and II, Social Science, Natural Science, Humanities/Fine Arts,and Mathematics courses. The automatically articulated A.S. programs and the receivingprograms at the colleges and universities are listed in Table 1. A.S. Program University Degree Program Total Credits for B.S. DegreeA.S. Radiology B.S. Radiologic Technology 132A.S. Nursing

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

, one or two-day programs that provide high school and community collegeeducators with hands-on experience in the semiconductor manufacturing environment and realtools for incorporating that new knowledge into the classroom. To date, more than 700 educatorshave participated in 17 camps, which are listed in Table 1. Initially all Chip Camps were hostedby Cirent Semiconductor (now Agere Systems) at their facility in Orlando. After the first severalcamps, it became clear to the Consortium that, although Agere could provide a wonderful settingfor the camp, the Camp would have to go “on the road” to reach teachers others than those localto the greater Orlando area. Chip Camp was “mobilized” and to date has been made accessible toeducators across the

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jones; John Hackworth

which every graded item will be mapped and compared. It is good practice to make the objectives match major milestones within the course. Since most courses use textbook chapters as “stepping stones”, a logical practice is to create one objective for each text chapter, as shown in Figure 1a. In some cases, this could result in more than one learning goal being included in a single assessment objective. The result of this process should be typically 8-16 objectives. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 The reader is cautioned against a) creating an objective that both

Conference Session

Computers in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Mueller

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Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ingvar Gustavsson

the students can perform experiments of their own using the equipmentand components available. In the remote laboratory at BTH it is only possible to form predefinedcircuits using the laboratory servers described earlier. This paper focuses on user-definedexperiments made possible by a new laboratory server. First the traditional method of doinglaboratory exercises will be examined and then the remote version will be described.Traditional laboratory exercises are a successful teaching methodIn a traditional undergraduate electronics laboratory at BTH eight identical lab stations areavailable. At each station there is a lab box with a white plastic breadboard which is detachableand some desk top instruments as shown in Figure 1. An instructor

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

other university departments and to faculty-founded and alumni-founded companies, andparticipation in conferences and publications on entrepreneurship. (1) Hopkins is restructuring itsintellectual property and technology commercialization efforts.4 Prof. Wierman has begun a three-year term as the initial chairman of the Engineering School’s new Intellectual PropertyCommittee, which must develop procedures, assess technological feasibility and commercialopportunities of inventions, and make recommendations regarding intellectual property protectionfor the inventions and discoveries of its faculty, staff, and students. (2) We have begun apartnership with the Biomedical Engineering Department in which teams of entrepreneurshipstudents collaborate

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Ansari

importantmotivation, we are less concerned with measuring the success of the project in purelyengineering terms than in terms of its educational and experiential value. The rewards, as far aswe are concerned, are as much existential as tangible (1).“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Page 8.6.2II. “The Natural House” philosophyEvery living organism, including each plant and tree, is an engineering marvel. It survives bymaintaining homeostasis – a stable set of internal conditions necessary for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins

.1” In addition to educational standards, the industries that hire engineering graduates expectthese graduates to be able to function fully in interdisciplinary settings.2,3,4In multidisciplinary teamwork settings, one of the most difficult obstacles to overcome is the“languages” used by the different disciplines involved in the interdisciplinary teams. In most upperlevel undergraduate design classes, the students have just begun to understand the technicallanguage of their own disciplines and have little patience for learning another. These technicallanguage barriers can frustrate team members, impede team progress, and lead to severedysfunction in team processes.One way to overcome interdisciplinary technical language barriers is to foster

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Autar Kaw

rapid feedback, askingquestions, and having high expectations.Introduction To become a better basketball player, you may attend camps, practice and playcompetitive games. However, knowing the traits of players like Michael Jordan has its ownunique place in learning to become a better basketball player. In the same spirit, this paperpresents seven traits of a highly effective engineering educator. In 1987, the Education Commission of the States and the American Association of HigherEducation co-sponsored the work – “Seven Principles for Good Practice in UndergraduateEducation”1. This work, supported by extensive research and experience, came up withguidelines for faculty, students and administrators for improving undergraduate

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Heather Cooper

about six weeks, which is a portion of acombined thermodynamics and heat transfer course.For a capstone course, it was desired to limit the heat transfer module to approximately 4-5lectures and 1-2 laboratory experiments, allowing enough time for reviewing basic concepts andintroducing sufficient new material specific to applications in plastics manufacturing. Table 1compares the basic structure and topical coverage of both the introductory course and the heattransfer module. Table 1. Comparison of heat transfer module and introductory course topics. INTRODUCTORY COURSE HEAT TRANSFER MODULE Introduction to Heat Transfer Introduction to Heat Transfer • Basic Concepts

Conference Session

Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

“Natural House” project: an experiment in learning by doingI. IntroductionRoger Schank, former Director of Institute for the Learning Sciences, at NorthwesternUniversity, and a well-known researcher and commentator on the “state of higher education”relates an experience he had with the “old guard” school of thinkers – the board of editors ofEncyclopaedia Britannica (1). For them higher (“liberal”) education meant grounding in theclassics of literature and natural philosophy. Schank believes he has a finger on the pulse offuture university education, signs of which he sees evolving in the egalitarian Internet societyand the expansion of inquiry and knowledge it has unleashed (1,2).For Schank education of the future will have little to do with

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

(ESL), and English for special purposes (ESP).Exit criteria for the Foundation Program include a TOEFL score of 500 or greater, and acumulative GPA of 2.00 or greater. Additional information on the programs and curriculum forthe PI can be found at www.pi.ac.ae.The long-term agenda for CSM in this project is to: 1) Lead efforts in curriculum, course, and facilities development that will establish the Petroleum Institute as a world-class educational institution in fields relevant to the oil and gas industries in the Arabian Gulf region; 2) Assist in the process of achieving international recognition and accreditation for the PI degree programs by a well-recognized accrediting agency (e.g. ABET); 3

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Yudelson; Latifur Khan; I-Ling Yen; Evgeny Panteleev

Session 1520 A Framework for an Intelligent On-line Education System Michael V. Yudelson, I-Ling Yen, Evgeny Panteleev, Latifur KhanAbstractThis paper addresses the issues of personalization in on-line education. It discusses problems ofknowledge structuring, user modeling, and adapting educational material to individual learners.The primary focuses of the paper include: (1) employing knowledge domains structure for amore effective personalization, (2) presenting an integrated personalization design that aims atsharing information between different adaptation techniques to achieve a better adaptation results.The proposed

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Camp; Laurie Smith King; Keith Miller; Barbara Moskal

relatedfields. These workshops were designed to prepare the college professors to teach a course ormodule concerning computer ethics and focused on both content and pedagogy. A total of threeworkshops were completed in the summers of 2000, 2001 and 2002. This paper will focus onthe evaluation of the final DOLCE workshop (2002) and the following three project goals: 1. To increase faculty and students' awareness of ethical issues in computer ethics. 2. To increase faculty and students' content knowledge in computer ethics. 3. To increase faculty knowledge of how to teach and assess computer ethics.We selected to focus this paper on the final DOLCE workshop, 2002, since evaluations from the2000 and 2001 workshops led to revisions and

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Jantzi; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

Session 2558 Creating and Testing VLANs using Network Switches Maurice Aburdene, John Jantzi, and Xiannong Meng Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a hands-on undergraduate computer network laboratory exercise inconfiguring a network switch to create and test four virtual local area networks (VLANs). Theobjective is to familiarize students with layer 1 (physical layer) and layer 2 (network interfacelayer or data link layer). The exercise is designed to allow students to discover the need for layer3 (internet or network) and, in particular, routing protocols to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

report survey information on learningoutcomes from individual courses. This work includes tracking relationships of these courseoutcomes to departmental and program outcomes in the support of continuous qualityimprovement. The paper describes the design of the web-based course-exit survey and the datacollection and analysis processes supported by the tool.IntroductionThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gannon University has developed aweb-based course-exit survey in support of its EC2000 evaluation efforts. The department hasrecently completed a major effort in restructuring and refining its departmental goals andobjectives, catalog, and operations in preparation for its next ABET visitation using EC2000criteria [1]. This

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Harper; David Meyer

involvement formiddle and elementary school students. Home Based Arts (HBA) has provided direction andvision to initiate agreements with NASA and has secured a launch window for March 1, 2003. Outcomes from this project included achievement of Sinclair's Core Competencies byEngineering Technology students and a measurable increase in student enrollment and retentionrates. The competencies of problem solving, communication, teamwork, and citizenship wereemphasized. Significant results include a growth in the Sinclair Aviation Club from 10 memberslast year to 29 members this year. Two new student groups were established in the IET Page

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

& Physiology classrooms. The instructional design of the curriculum modules was based upon the design features ofthe Legacy cycle previously mentioned14 and the overall “How People Learn” (HPL) frameworkpresented by Bransford et al.21. A short description of each curriculum unit is provided. The electrocardiogram mosaic began with the following grand challenge question,“Suppose one of your teachers visits his doctor and, as a part of a routine exam, he has hiselectrocardiogram (ECG) measured. The results are shown below. Should your teacher beconcerned about these results?” After initial brainstorming by the students, the mosaic wasbroken down into three legacy cycle modules. Challenge 1 focused on how the heart beats andwhy

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Domenico Grasso

quantity of waste areceiving stream can assimilate from the expansion of an industrial facility (see Box 1below)Box 1. Physical Balance Semester Team ProjectAn industrial development located in Northampton is proposing to discharge awastewater into a local river, which has a 7Q10 of 0.3 cms. They estimate a dischargerate of 0.1 cms with a BOD 5 of 175 mg/L, a DO concentration of 2 mg/l, a deoxygenationrate constant of 0.19 d-1 at 20°C (temperature coefficient, •, of 1.056) and a watertemperature of 25°C. To what level should the wastewater be treated to ensure that Page 8.512.4Commonwealth of Massachusetts Water Quality Standards (314 CMR 4.00

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

. By then, every course will be required to have learningoutcomes defined as part of the course syllabus. Not every outcome was intended to bestressed in every course but every outcome should be adequately stressed within thecurriculum.The VMI instrument 1asked the students to indicate on a scale of 1 to 5 how well eachdepartmental outcome was met in terms of the quality and quantity of instruction and theirown learning gains. Our concerns with the VMI instrument were that the validity andreliability might be low due to the lack of clear definition of both the scales and of what ismeant by quality and quantity of opportunity and achievement. I set out to design aninstrument based upon the constructs measured by VMI but with a more clear

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

Session 1455 Growing the National Innovation System: Reshaping Professional Graduate Education to Ensure a Strong U.S. Engineering Workforce D. A. Keating, 1 T. G. Stanford, 1 D. D. Dunlap, 2 D. R. Depew, 3 S. J. Tricamo, 4 D. H. Sebastian, 4 S. K. Fenster,4 G. S. Jakubowski, 5 M. I. Mendelson, 5 R. J. Bennett, 6 J. M. Snellenberger 7 University of South Carolina 1 / Western Carolina University 2 / Purdue University 3 New Jersey Institute of Technology 4 / Loyola Marymount University 5 St Thomas University 6 /Rolls-Royce

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

period began when Arthur D. Little, in1915, developed the concept of “unit operations” 1. The basis of this approach was the analysisof existing chemical processes and the realization that it was possible to decompose the processinto a set of “nearly independent units” with a limited number of inputs and outputs for each“unit”. Subsequently, by including equilibrium and rate processes in the analysis at all scales,ranging from the molecular to the industrial plant, the paradigm of chemical engineering evolvedto its present state. It provides a powerful set of tools for such unit operation analyses. With thisapproach, it is then possible to synthesize a process by combining these units with properattention to mass and energy balances for the