Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

for teaching and for the subject matter.C4. My instructor had a structure or plan for every lesson's learning activities.C5. My instructor helped me to understand the importance and practical significance of thiscourse.C6. My instructor used well-articulated learning objectives to guide my learning.C7. My instructor communicated effectively.C8. My instructor demonstrated that he or she cares about my learning.C9. My instructor demonstrated positive expectations of the cadets in the class.C10. My instructor used visual images (pictures, demonstrations, models, diagrams, simulations,etc.) to enhance my learning.C11. My instructor gave me timely and accurate feedback on my learning progress.C12. In this course, the exams were fair and relevant

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

the term, the information that is collected through theevaluation process will be processed and used to evaluate the effectiveness of the modules.Status of the ProjectCurrently, the three modules described above are ready for use in the spring quarter. Additionalinformation about these modules can be found in another paper5 in the proceedings of thisconference. Modules using particles size analysis and surface roughness are in the developmentstage. We plan to have five (or possibly six) modules in total. At the end of the spring quarter,an overall evaluation of the project will take place.Conclusions Page 8.838.8 Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jitendra Tate; Ronnie Bolick; Ajit Kelkar

. This new experiment generated lot of interest in undergraduate students to perform theresearch in the general area of manufacturing of composites. This laboratory experiment has yetto be assessed. It is planned to assess this laboratory experiment upon class completion this year.Bibliography 1. Daniel I. M.; Ishai Ori; 1994, “Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials”, Oxford University Press 2. Strong A. B.; 1989, “Fundamentals of Composite Manufacturing: Materials, Methods, and Applications”, Society of Manufacturing Engineers 3. BGF Industries, Inc.; “http://www.bgf.com/cchart.htm 4. Hexcel Corporation, Inc.; “http://www.hexcelfibers.com/Markets/Products/Continuous /_Productlist.htm” 5. The Dow Chemical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

of Introduction to Engineering were taught at Walnut Hills. While studentsundoubtedly talked to each other about their projects, the students in one class did not have anopportunity to see the sorter systems constructed by teams in the other class. After collecting thefinal drafts of reports from all teams in both sections, the instructors made copies of the reportsand gave a copy of each team’s report to a team in the other section. Teams receiving the reporthad one day to read it and plan their approach to reconstructing the sorter system described inthat report. The next day, they presented to the instructors a list of the materials they would needto build the sorter. They had the remainder of that day and one more to build the sorter and

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfred Roudebush

life cycle phases and does not account for inputs ofenvironment, goods, and services. Page 8.529.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Decisions based on an environmental impact analysis may rely on an EnvironmentalImpact Statement. An Environmental Impact Statement is an inventory, analysis, and evaluationof the effect of a planned built environment project on surrounding environmental quality asstipulated by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)6. Decisions based on anEnvironmental Impact Statement

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raj Mutharasan

most difficulty. Homework problems and class discussion of how to go about genemanipulations were used to help overcome these problems. A short text on genetic engineeringwas used during the second offering of the course to provide students with an immediatelyavailable reference source. Instructors made use of assigned problem sets to give the studentsexperience in the practical issues that arise in planning gene cloning, scale-up of fermentations,drug distribution in the body and biosensor operation. Thus, students were able to make theconnection between such things as rate equations used in biological systems and thoseencountered previously in their engineering courses. Another useful approach was to brieflysummarize previous class materials

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilmorat Ratchukool; Arnold Lumsdaine

required than is anticipated. It was only possible to developthese tutorials because a graduate student in instructional technology was assigned to do most ofthe “grunt work” of development. Also, as in many areas of course development, planning wellis the key to success, more than the number of hours devoted to development. Many hours arewasted if clear paths for development, along with storyboards, are not created early on in thedevelopment process.VIDEO TUTORIALSDescription Students were introduced to the MDSolids software package, which has features to assist inunderstanding many aspects of solid mechanics [3], including Shear Force and Bending Momentdiagrams. There would seem to be little to be gained pedagogically by encouraging students

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

established. • Advising for computer engineering students has been streamlined. Computer engineering students are now advised in the ECE department.New relationships have been built with local industry. For example, Alabama Power provided$500,000 in endowment funds to provide scholarships for ECE students; negotiations areunderway with Ferson Optics and Radiance Technologies for hiring ECE Co-op students; andFerson Optics is planning to commercialize a provisional patent on a beam splitter developed bythe ECE faculty.ConclusionThe ABET 2000 accreditation process was a constructive learning experience. It is the intent ofABET that engineering education be shaped by the consumers of electrical and computerengineering graduates in addition

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

has developed a three-semester plan to implement adistance learning laboratory for this course. Currently, the development effort has justentered its second semester. Page 8.143.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1. Network-based Architecture for Mobile Platform.Phase I – Platform And Monitoring/Control Methodology DevelopmentThe distance learning laboratory development project began during the Fall 2001semester. The overall goal of the first phase was to assess the learning motivation

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

sections andinstitutions. Since class dynamics tend to change between institutions, teachers, or even sections,it is vital that each class maintain a level of consistency when implemented in order to insure thatdiscrepancies between sections or institutions are accounted for and is not the overriding factorfor alteration in student performance. It is vital that the application of innovative learningstrategies in the classroom result in a positive long-term impact on the quality of education in theclassroom and that this holds true regardless of the instructor. This will be a difficult task. It isevident that we can not predict every possible facet that will arise as an important criterion forinvestigation so we plan to be tenacious in the

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eswara Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy; Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

concrete reasoning methods to solve problems.A second issue is raised by our observation that most students were unable to make muchprogress while working individually on the problem. Clearly, the dynamic interaction betweenstudents was necessary to allow them to make significant progress in the allotted time. This fact,coupled with their very positive responses to working collaboratively, reinforces the usefulnessof this pedagogical method. We plan further study of this collaborative-learning dynamic usingthese exercises with future groups of engineering and science students. Page 8.317.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

upon, might be sufficient to have me attain a beggar’s bliss immediately; but, like some predator that prefers a moving prey to a motionless Page 8.482.4 one, I planned to have this pitiful attainment coincide with one of the various girlish Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education movements she made now and then as she read …4 [emphasis mine]Charlotte (ignored by Humbert as a ‘distasteful’ model) already feels threatened by Lolita (her‘edible’ Batesian mimic), as revealed by Humbert: … for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lan; Karlene Hoo; Jason Williams; Harry Parker; Charles Smith; Theodore Wiesner

a feel for what the equipment looks and feels like, as well ashow it operates. With the virtual portion, the students will become familiar with the computerinterfaces that are similar to industrial control rooms, and learn to manipulate the equipment viathose controls instead of manually turning valves and knobs. They can also explore operatingscenarios which are not easily or economically investigated with physical equipment. A powerfulcapability added by virtual experiments is the ability to use simulation to plan which laboratoryexperiments would be most useful to meet the goals of a lesson..SummaryWith the two labs complementing each other, the unit operations laboratory would be highlybeneficial to the students by teaching both the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

+ w3 A , (1)where F = Factual knowledge , C = Conceptual understanding, A = Adaptive exp ertise ,and w1 , w2 , w3 are weighting factors (constants). Selecting the values of the weighting factors issomewhat arbitrary. As a first pass, we propose that factual knowledge should be roughly half asimportant as either conceptual understanding or adaptive expertise, in which case: w1 = 0.2; w2 = 0.4; w3 = 0.4. Our current plan is to conduct the assessment and evaluation using a Two Group Design3.The control group will comprise students in the undergraduate biomechanics course offered inthe Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin; the experimental (HPL) group willcomprise students in the new

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

had the opportunityto make measurements and sketches of the existing surgical instruments. This year the distribu-tor personally conducted the sawbones training, rather than having it done by his sales staff. Healso loaned students the surgical instruments for use during their oral presentation at the end ofthe Fall semester. Students plan to test their prototypes using sawbones during the Spring semes-ter. Recently a grant was received from the implant manufacturer to provide financial resourcesfor fabrication of the prototypes and for the design team and their faculty advisor to visit themanufacturer and present their final design project results.Video System for Measuring Canine Stride LengthThis design project developed a system for

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

self-learning and research skills, • Expose students to engineering problems with realistic constrains, and use their creativity, knowledge, and skills acquired in previous courses to solve the problems, • Exercise their oral and written communication skills, and improve them by presenting written reports and oral presentations during the semester.The students had fifteen weeks to do all the work, from the definition of the project to thedevelopment and completion of the project. To achieve the goals, the activities were planned asfollows. During the first three weeks, an intensive review covering the topics of the 68HC12microcontroller, principles of mobile robots, sensors, and fuzzy set theory was given. Duringthis

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

solutions.8. Evaluate remaining alternatives - often using more than just technical criteria - and rank results.9. Select - again with the client - the best choices and fix the design.10. Supervise construction or realization. This can involve such diverse aptitudes as project planning and control, labor relations and client interaction as well as being able to alleviate or circumvent immediate technical difficulties that may arrise.11. Supervise and monitor use and lifetime condition. Interaction with users is important here.12. Remove and recycle.Most will recognize that steps 5 through 7 in this list form the heart of the curriculum’stechnical content

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

education in the areas of writing and speaking. He has published widely.PAULA BERARDINELLIPaula Berardinelli received her Doctorate of Education in Training and Development from North Carolina StateUniversity and a Master's in Health Education and a Bachelor's in Health Planning and Administration, both fromThe Pennsylvania State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of the Training and DevelopmentProgram at North Carolina State University and has worked as a consultant in a variety of industries.LISA BULLARDLisa G. Bullard received her BS in ChE from NC State and her Ph.D. in ChE from Carnegie Mellon. She servedin engineering and management positions within Eastman Chemical Co. from 1991-2000. At N.C. State, she iscurrently the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

planning and sustainable development.DAVID DIBIASIODiBiasio is associate professor of chemical engineering, director of the WPI Washington DC Project Center andAssessment Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD). His research interests are inengineering education and assessment.NATALIE A. MELLOMello is the director of global operations in the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD). Herexpertise is in areas of risk management, health and safety for study abroad, and developing training for faculty andstaff who accompany students off-campus. Page 8.1217.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Robinson; Scott Segalewitz; Raymond Lepore

UD programs, and developed a“bridge” program to better prepare students in math and sciences.The articulation agreement was completed and approved by the administration at both institutionsearly in 2002. Subsequently, planning began for delivery of UD classes.Implementation of the Agreement: Traditional StudentsTraditional students can make a seamless transition from Edison Community College to theUniversity of Dayton. For many students, however, the biggest impediment to attending UD isthe cost. As a private institution, the University of Dayton’s tuition is over six-times the cost ofEdison Community College tuition. Furthermore, transfer students have less opportunity forscholarships and tuition assistance than those admitted to UD in

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

information for written lab reports• understand readers’ and listeners’ responses to one’s writing• assess one’s own writing skills and plan for continuing improvement• give advice and feedback to others on written communicationsThe need for better assessment and feedbackAs discussed above in the introduction, research and the experience of many instructors hasindicated that the written comments traditionally provided to students as feedback on theircommunications assignments fall short of sufficiently improving students’ communicative skills.Although many of our points will be applicable to both oral and written communications, thispaper mainly discusses written work. We focus on four ways in which the assessment of writtenwork in engineering

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

) Training of in-career high school SMET teachers in engineering education, primarily through participation in a one - week summer institute and bi-monthly workshops alongside engineering Graduate Fellows; 6) Establishment of a Galileo virtual engineering community using computer infrastructure resources at the University of Connecticut as a major venue for project planning, communication and resource/experience sharing for all participants in this project and the education community in general; 7) Development of a “Master of Engineering Education” degree to provide engineering graduate students interested in exploring teaching careers, or secondary school

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Hovde

and shared.Following the pilot year, I have led training sessions each year for additional facultymembers from other departments. These sessions have provided similar results inencouraging faculty members to feel more confident about their abilities to assessstudent communication abilities.Gaining usable results while respecting people’s time commitmentsThe purpose of outcomes assessment is to gain valid and reliable results that can befed back into the planning loop so that one can use them in curriculum decisions. Anideal way to assess communication would consume inordinate amounts of time.Because faculty members already have full schedules, many of them perceived thatthey did not have time to dedicate to communication assessment. However

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3242Biographical InformationDR. DONALD N. MERINODonald Merino is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair of Economics of Engineering and a tenured fullprofessor of Engineering and Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches EngineeringEconomy, Decision Analysis, Total Quality Management, and Strategic Planning. He is the founder and ProgramDirector of the Executive Master in Technology Management (EMTM) Program. He was founder of theundergraduate Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM) at Stevens. He won the MortonDistinguished Teaching Award

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Trioloa; Charles Garnett; Barry Mohle; Alfred Wicks; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

exists toapply this knowledge in the defense of the Nation. Collaborations such as those described in thispaper link these two groups at the personal level. In so doing, beyond bringing benefit to thepartners, it provides important benefits to the students involved, by providing them withexperience in applying the concepts of producibility, sustainability, schedule, and cost to problemsin engineering design and science.As the Navy moves forward to define its plans on a National scale, additional opportunities foruniversity collaborations will arise, including strategies directed at increasing the number of USstudents in science and engineering programs, providing for enhanced student co-op

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Ciocci

specific tasks. Phase II panels often addtopics to current courses as well as identify the need for new courses. The items identified as“Knowledge and Skills” from Phase I are also placed into the course structure. As the items aregrouped into courses, their association in those courses is purely topical. How the course istaught, in other words whether a particular task is handled as a two-week classroom analysis or asa 50-minute lecture, will be decided by the faculty member who is asked to teach the course. Thepanel merely assigns tasks to courses. The final product of Phase II is a Curriculum Map, whichis the planned sequence of courses and a list of each course with its associated tasks.Phase III is an academic preparation step that includes

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

alumni surveys. Course improvements weredescribed in two courses resulting from changes in course content implemented due to the resultsfrom program self-assessment. In addition, an ineffective instructor was identified, andimprovements were made in the instructor's teaching style. A final example demonstrated that asignificant problem in the Chemical Engineering curriculum was identified based on theassessment tools and metrics in use and a plan to correct the problem put in place. Page 8.946.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

. Conclusions and Further WorkWe were unable to measure any significant improvement in learning during our first mini-lab,and found only modest enthusiasm for the mini-labs based on question one and two. However,based on their response to question three following the second mini-lab, the students seem toagree that some form of laboratory implementation should always accompany ME279. Studentwritten comments seem to be on the whole rather positive towards having a lab experience – themost common complaint being that they would rather do the lab much earlier than the end of thesemester. They were also bothered when the equipment failed to work exactly as expected, orwhen a component broke. We plan to continue to refine our mini-lab procedures, and hope

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

importance of teamwork, planning and the value of up-front engineeringcalculations under a very tight time constraint were also realized. The studentsappreciated that this project required the participants to utilize the entire engineeringdevelopment process from concept through prototype fabrication, culminating in atangible, working model.There were also several recommendations made by the students. For example, a numberof students believed that the solar car project should be a class in itself, perhaps offered asa three credit, professional elective. They would also like to see more deadlinesestablished by the faculty throughout the course of the semester, as some studentscommented that by the time they learned the true value of religious

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

EducationThe contest actually begins with an unassembled vehicle of very specific specifications, followedby assembly and course testing in front of a panel of judges. The class-designed vehicle, yet tobe constructed, will consist of a frame, drive train, suspension, steering, and brakes. Themoonbuggy must be portable, collapsible, carry two passengers, and cover a terrain similar to themoon and strewn with lunar-like obstacles distributed randomly around the course.For the class, the first stage of the moon buggy was a design and plan only contribution to thecourse. The next stage is actual construction and entry in the NASA sponsored nationalcompetition as representatives of the University. In addition to the design and constructionplanning (of a