Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

outcome. 2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data. (ABET b) Commentary: Civil engineers frequently design and conduct field and laboratory studies, gather data and then analyze and interpret the results. Be able to do this in at least one of the major recognized civil engineering areas. Examples are traffic, geotechnical, and water quality investigations. 3. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. (ABET c) Commentary: Important design or design procurement elements are bidding versus quality-based engineer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Educationa project called the Virtual Laboratory” (VL) was initiated four years ago to bring newtools to the theoretical mechanics classroom that better illustrate how the mathematicalformalisms used in continuum mechanics, elasticity, and strength of materials model thedeformation of materials. In other words, the VL project primary goal is not that of de-scribing real materials, but that of illustrating how a material is forced to behave whendescribed by a given mathematical model. Therefore, in a way, the VL project intends toplace the material characterization problem “on its head,” that is, to make students bet-ter modelers by making them pay attention to what the mathematical language they endup using is actually allowing them to say. The main

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

the semester. Another example involves a biomedicalengineering laboratory course taught by one of the authors, in which she devoted one full classperiod to a discussion of current events. Students selected a topic of choice from the BMEnetwebsite news page and gave a report to the class on the particular engineering development theyhad researched. These successful experiments not only stimulated student interest, but they alsogave the students practical experience in finding information for themselves – an idea closelyrelated to the ABET directive of promoting life-long learning.Another form of supplementing the text during your lecture is to provide the students withrelevant handouts. For example, if you are presenting a long list of

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Mills; Tonya Emerson

both to the primary goal of student learning and to thesecondary objective of a competitive entry. CSU, Chico acquired the prerequisite testingequipment over several years, beginning with a year when we hosted the regional competition.Some portion of the fundraising for the regional conference was used to augment existinglaboratory facilities with equipment applicable to testing of the steel bridge entries. Thisequipment, including electronic instrumentation and automated data acquisition, is now readilyavailable to our students for physical testing of bridge concepts. These developments have notonly enhanced participation in the bridge contest but have also provided improvements to thestructures laboratory applicable to a variety of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Riley

Number Spring 2002Group Project 10 Textbook 13Group Test 5 More conceptual emphasis 7Accessibility of Professor 5 More applications/examples/demos 6Change to Circle/Class Dynamics 5 Concept tests 2Thermodynamics to Life 4 Final weighted too high 2History of Science components 4 Professor not organized 2No laboratory

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Malicky

, women's self-efficacy washigher than men's for 2 skills: organizing work and time spent on homework (again, arguably"effort"). For the other 8 self-efficacy measures, women and men rated themselves quite similarly.Among this sample of SME students, the largest differences were seen for engineering students,with moderate to large effect sizes favoring men for laboratory skills, test taking abilities, andability to think through problems.Leslie17 analyzed students in the CIRP database (not only SME) and found gender and racialdifferences for SME self-efficacy. At entry to college, students who self-rated their SMEpreparation as "better than most" (p. 256) had race x gender characteristics as shown in Table 1.Whether White, Black, or Hispanic, women

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Guido Lopez

, PA.[12] Serway, R. 1992. “Physics for Scientists and Engineers” Saunders Golden Sunbusrt Series. Saunders CollegePublishing. Philadelphia, PA.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.Guido W. Lopez.Guido Lopez is a Faculty member of the School of Engineering Technology at Northeastern University, Boston. Heteaches Introductory Physics for Engineers, Thermofluids Science, Instrumentation, Laboratory Experimentation,Technology and Design. Before joining NU’s faculty, he served as Department Head of the Engineering Math andScience Division at Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH. He has taught engineering and science subjects at theNational Polytechnic School in Quito, Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire, The Lowell Institute ofTechnology at Northeastern

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

high school students. The college students are responsible for their well-being and Page 8.7.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfor training them according to the guidelines set by the school district.All individuals are advised to follow safety measures while working in the laboratory. Safetyconsiderations such as wearing of safety glasses must be adhered to at all times and a mentor mustbe with the students when operating machinery.Group discussions were held to brainstorm ideas and solutions for the project

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

/2002/11/21/rtr802801.html, 21 Nov 200220. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Why Is Energy Efficiency Important?”,http://www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/eeimportant.html21. U.S. Department of Energy, “International Energy Outlook 2002”, DOE/EIA-0484 (2002),http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/tbl_a8.html22. http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/petroleum/LongTermOilSupplyPresentation.pptAbout the AuthorDOANH VAN is Associate Professor & Chair of the Engineering department at Union University. Prior to joiningUnion, Dr. Van served as Sr. Manager of Energy and Environmental Affairs for Pfizer, Inc. with global corporateresponsibilities. He is both a mechanical and environmental engin eer with advanced academic training in both.He has over 20 years of

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Ann Marie Flynn

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

membersprovide an invaluable link between industry and the engineering school by mentoring our studentsone-on-one. Because of students’ intense schedules, we do not require mentoring; however,students who elect to work with a mentor consistently perform better than those who do not.Clearly, the relationship that develops between a dedicated experienced professional and a young“apprentice” has no substitute.Between 1987 and 1999, our program grew to reach about 65 percent of our upper-level studentsat some level of instruction—either via our “stand-alone” three-credit technical electives10 or viashort modules integrated into design project, internship, laboratory, and other engineeringcourses. Our TC faculty tailored the short modules (typically five or

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

, Undergraduate Laboratory Science, andEngineering program (IMPULSE)] in the 1997–98 academic year and offered a pilot for 48students in fall 1998. Unlike other FC institutions, UMD piloted their program for only onesemester before they proposed adoption of the program to the college. They made this choice fora number of reasons. Early data were indicating greater retention and class attendance, andstudents were receiving better grades when compared to other sections of similar classes.Secondly, the school was receiving good publicity about the program and interest in the programwas coming in from potential students and their parents. Probably the biggest incentive for quickaction, however, was the impending loss of their dean, who was a big supporter of

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

. UMD is located in a smallcommunity in the southeastern part of the state. Most of its students are first generationcollege students, many are from the Portuguese minority community in the region, andmost live at home, balancing academic coursework and employment in order to assisttheir families in paying for their studies. The typical UMD freshman has an average SATscore of 1110 and an average high school grade point average of 2.8. The College ofEngineering houses six academic programs, four of which are in engineering, one inphysics, and one in textile sciences. UMD admits about 250 freshmen into engineeringeach year.The FC program at UMD is known as IMPULSE (Integrating Mathematics, Physics,Undergraduate Laboratory Science, and Engineering