Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

team is an E-Team, which is sponsored by the NCIIA. E-teams work on later-stage development of an idea and a plan for its commercialization. They mayinclude engineering students as well as students from business and other majors, and each teammust have a faculty advisor. E-Teams may form as part of a course or on the independentinitiative of students, faculty, or other representatives of member institutions.17Volunteers Student design projects generally contain a large cast of volunteers, which are perhapsbest harnessed via active involvement by the faculty advisor(s) or industry/government mentors.This group includes students who work on a project without receiving academic credit or

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

learning for students with differing or opposing learning styles. In addition, theseasynchronous learning modules can provide a rich learning environment when developedwith due deliberation and planning. The purpose of this study was to test whether learning environments designed to favorspecific learning styles enhance learning for students with those learning styles, andwhether it impacts their satisfaction with the experience.2 Tutorial resource modules weredeveloped and tested in a graduate/senior-level elective engineering electrical engineeringcourse. Versions of the modules were designed for sequential and global learners.Sequential users prefer to process information linearly, and global users prefer to obtaininformation holistically or

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

component to thecourse. The laboratory activities are self-contained modules which build upon each otherculminating in the production of a microfluidic device for the filtration of nanoparticles by theconclusion of the course. The individual modules are designed to coincide with the subjectmatter under discussion in the course such as surface characterization, synthesis techniques, andsoft MEMS. These modules utilize web-based lab procedures which were developed through theUW MRSEC and have been incorporated into the web-based lab manual which was developedconcomitantly with this course.On “Micro” vs. “Nano”When planning the course, the relative emphasis to place on micro- vs. nano-scale concepts wascarefully considered. While a course devoted

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Wirgau; Abhinav Gupta; Vernon Matzen

to the girder of the shear buildinggiving it an initial excitation. The control of these actuators could be implemented in LabVIEW,as was the control for the shake table. Another future consideration is the use of the web camera. Currently the camera beingused has relatively low frames per second with basic usage limited to showing the lab setup andverifying whether or not the table is moving. Purchase of a faster, higher quality camera thatwill be able to show the video of the experiment more fluently is planned. Furthermore, with ahigher quality camera combined with proper software, it will be possible to grab a selectednumber of frames per second matching or closely matching the frequency of various structuralmodes. This would

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

extentmeasurements confirm each other.These efforts to develop systems models of engineering education and to apply them to designand evaluation are on- going. One potential use of this method is in supporting rigorous coursedesign and planning evaluation. When a new course is designed, it can be conceptually designedby creating the abstraction hierarchy model of the course. This would support instructors inexplicitly choosing the elements at each level of abstraction, including the level of Cognitive andEducational Functions which is usually implicit, that support the objectives for the course. Also,instructors can identify all the elements of a course that support a particular course objective,allowing them to determine how well they have met each

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Luttrell

topics beyond the normal scope of the course;§ Required the students to participate in a class activity while not physically in-class;§ Challenged students to a high degree of thought (content and format) to receive high marks; and§ Allowed assessment of student thoughts and writing without using in-class time.The instructor must plan for, be, and remain committed to the discussion process throughout thesemester.§ Discussion topics must be integrated with the overall course objectives and augment in-class activities, student learning.§ To maintain student interest in the discussions through the semester, there is a need to continue to focus the discussion topics in the class activities through formal (tests, quizzes, questions) and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; Brian Mouzon

two or more of the following disciplines is required:electro-mechanical devices (preferably piezoelectric), opto-mechanics, precision componentsand mechanisms; must have demonstrated capabilities in the use of computer-aided engineeringsystems.” A deluge of computers, sensors, microcontrollers, actuators has permeated the veryfabric of present-day society. Microcontroller-based devices and appliances are to be found in allthe crevices of our everyday life. Even the auto industry, a traditional mechanical engineeringfiefdom, is putting tens of microcontrollers in a modern automobile, and plans to increase this Page 8.586.1Proceedings of

Conference Session

Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Grigg

facultymembers who invent to consult with patent librarians for assistance and training.The opportunity to teach patent and trademark searching skills is enhanced in anenvironment where instruction is delivered systematically. Nerz and Weiner (2001) discussa curriculum-integrated approach to library instruction where librarians work with facultyat the curriculum level to identify strategic points at each grade level where libraryinstruction can be embedded into courses to build information literacy competencies.They state that, “in order to be relevant, library instruction must be planned strategicallyacross the curriculum and implemented in a way that allows the student to grasp thecomplexities of the information universe. There needs to be

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

processes and outcomes by thevarious stakeholders, are powerful drivers for more fundamental research in engineeringeducation. The two are interconnected and both embed the idea of the need to know what worksand why and how practices can be continuously improved. While the obvious focus might be inmeasuring the implementation of new practices and systems, there is an underlying expectationthat fundamental and applied research will guide these reforms. The NSF Strategic Plan in 1995identified the integration of research and education as a core strategy and Fortenberry 7foreshadowed new programs from the NSF to support educational research in Science,Mathematics, Engineering and Technology disciplines, ranging from fundamental research, toapplied

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Loock; Joan Dannenhoffer

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”the 18.6 percent rate for “selective” colleges that traditionally have lower attrition rates [1].The Student Affairs Division Plan at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte aims “toprovide services to ameliorate barriers, increase the way students “connect” to the university, andmake leadership development one of the hallmarks of the UNCC undergraduate experience” [7].Supplemental Instruction (SI) is one of the many programs provided under this directive. Theresults of offering SI showed that students who attended 5 or more SI sessions per semesteraveraged .5 - 1.0 letter grade higher

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gallagher

document, we will focus onour class’ infrastructure with particular emphasis on the design and operation of a platformindependent graphical simulation of the Khepera mobile robot. We will discuss how this freelyavailable software provides accurate simulation, ease of use, and compatibility with the realrobot in our lab. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the future plans and a set of openquestions we intend to address in future offerings of the course.1. Why WWW Autonomous Robotics?Although formal classroom instruction is necessary to the education of engineers, it is not alonesufficient. Engineering is about solving problems of practical import. In reality, such problemsare rarely as well defined as the average classroom exercise

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tara Madhyastha; Jessica Masters; Ali Shakouri

shows the number of answers viewed by each student. We can see there were a large numberof students, 22.4% for Question 1, and 45.0% for Question 2, who viewed zero answers. Many educatorshave discovered that no matter how much effort is invested into creating an educational tool, some studentswill not take advantage of these tools. This evidence, unfortunately, confirms this belief. Table 1(a) also shows that students ranked even fewer answers than they viewed: on average 1.38.This leads a common problem in collaborative filtering, known as the sparsity problem [12]. To reducethe rating sparsity, we plan to use information relating to student learning preferences. In other words,where ranks cannot be correlated between users to estimate a

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

to electrochemical processes found in separators and reactors. Theseexperiments are on an advanced level and require various electrochemical instrumentation andapparatus.Aspects of electrochemical engineering have been incorporated in various aspects of thechemical engineering curriculum. In the unit operations or senior laboratory course experimentsin metal recovery using electrodeposition on a porous carbon cathode3,In the process control lab, Jan Talbot has initiated student designed experiments inelectrochemical engineering.4,5 In this course the students must plan design and build andexperimental apparatus. Then the must demonstrate that it works and analyze the data. Finallythey give an oral presentation in addition to a technical

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

engineeringethics. Information presented in the lectures was reinforced through the activities of theindividual project teams. For the Solar Decathlon project, team meetings included lectures addressing fundamentals ofsolar energy applications, meetings to coordinate activities among the mechanical engineeringteam members, coordination meetings with the architectural team, and design presentations. Forthe first five weeks of the ME4015 semester, one weekly project team meeting was focused onsolar energy basics and highlighted material from the first two chapters of the text by Duffie andBeckman6. During this period the other weekly meeting focused on the early stages of productdevelopment including project planning, development of a project mission

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

factor but of several Page 8.392.1related factors working together, as follows. Active learners consider the nature of the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmaterials, the tasks, assignments, and knowledge for which they are accountable. Theyare cognizant of their own strengths and weaknesses and plan their work accordingly.They know and select appropriate processing and learning strategies as a function of thematerials, task requirements, and personal characteristics. Other research has shown thatit is

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

What kinds of examples would we see in a discovery sessionA typical discovery session would last about 2 hours and cover closely the concepts discussed inthe lecture with more emphasis on the mathematical concepts and visualization. Here we show afew examples for the above lecture plan. It should be noted that the following is for theintroductory level discovery session.1. Determine the vector field of the following fields and discuss their circulation properties. r v Fa = a y .The following is a plot of the vector field rendered by Mathematica. Once the students definethe vectors the way we have indicated, they can use curl and div operations on the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

• A knowledge of contemporary issues • An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.For the past decade, the IGVC has served many engineering curricula in universities around theworld, and helped students achieve invaluable engineering training that satisfies most if not all theabove ABET criteria.Department of Defense InterestThe DoD has invested in Intelligent Unmanned Systems for the last two decades. The DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated the Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV)program in 1984. As the name implies, its focus was autonomous mobility with a program plan toprogressively advance the autonomous capabilities. The U.S. Army then initiated

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan J.S. Lasser; Ronnie Chrestman; Matthew Ohland

, timemanagement, and how to read a textbook efficiently.Two more undergraduate African American students were offered room and board in exchangefor serving as counselors to the MEW students. Their function was not authoritative, as Lasserand Snelsire agreed that it was counterproductive to impose any kind of curfew or other rule notnormally imposed by the University on resident undergraduates. The counselors provided afriendly ear, organized one or two social events, and, on weekends, drove students who wished toget off campus to surrounding towns and to church.Invitations to attend the first MEW were sent in April of 1990 to all accepted African Americanstudents who planned to major in engineering and whose math SAT scores (SAT II scores notbeing

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

; Stoddard, J. L. (1999, August). Health behavior, quality of work life, and organizational effectiveness in the lumber industry. Health, Education & Behavior, 26, pp. 579-592.[12] Briksin, A. (1996, December). Fear and learning in the workplace. The Journal for Quality and Participation, 19, pp.28-34.[13] Martin, J. (1999, April). Building morale keeps employee spirits high in tough times. H.R. Focus, 76, pp. 9-10.[14] Zigon, J. (1998). Forced ranking performance appraisal/compensation plan. [On-line]. Available: Http://www.hronline.com/forums/hrnet/9811/msg00183.html[15] Deets, N. R. & Tyler, D. T. (1986, April). How Xerox improved its performance appraisals. Personnel Journal, 65, pp. 50-52.[16] Hitchcock, Darcy. (1996, December

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bebis; Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

helped them with the basic course contentwhich was one of our main goals. Future plans also include working more with communitycollege instructors and assessing their requirements.Computer vision systems are already becoming commonplace, and vision technology will soonbe applied across a broad range of business and consumer products. This means that there will bestrong industry demand for computer vision scientists and engineers, for people who understandcomputer vision technology and know how to apply it in real-world problems. As a result of ourintegrating computer vision research experiences throughout our curriculum, many students mayconsider pursuing careers in computer vision. Likewise, the use of the computer vision modulesby community

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

, Mary R., “Graduate Career Change Women Engineers versus Traditional Engineers,” Women in Engineering Conference, Conference Proceedings, Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network, Washington D.C., pp. 29-35, June 1991. 13. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Cooper Union 1989 National Survey of Undergraduate Women Engineering Students, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, NY, 1989. 14. Brush, L., “Cognitive and Affective Determinants of Course Preferences and Plans,” in S.F. Chipman, L.R. Brush & D.M. Wilson (Eds.) Women and Mathematics, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 123-150. 15. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R.; Blaisdell

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

remaking, of impulses and desires” 7.Dewey is concerned that individuals in society and in school often do things either impulsivelyor by force of authority. The external constraint imposed by society is useful in that it moderatesand controls impulse. But he believes the better source of constraint or “inhibition” is throughone’s own reflective or critical thinking 7. In a memorable passage, Dewey writes, thinking is stoppage of the immediate manifestation of impulse until that impulse has been brought into connection with other possible tendencies to action so that a more comprehensive and coherent plan of activity is formed. Some of the other tendencies to action lead to use of eye, ear

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

specific skills and knowledge gainedin the learning process will be sufficient to produce an engineer with the desired qualities.Curriculum is responsible to implement the above skills in an engineering program.Generally speaking a curriculum is a systematic plan to enhance leaning and to achieve certain Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.206.7 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationgoals. Therefore, we will define curriculum, from systems viewpoint, as an interactive feedbackdynamic process to enhance learning and to

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”names, email subject line, greeting and closing were omitted to both save time and allow foranonymity; however, grammar and spelling errors were left in the samples.1. The instructor is alerted that several students did not grasp a concept from the previouslesson. Knowing the problems the students had before the next class helped the instructor plan areview or example as part of the next lesson. Emailed journals were especially helpful becausethe ease of mailing students several times on an issue was very close to having a conference. Atother times, sending a group email with more information on the issue helped all the studentsfind success with

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

good refresher of the point of the science classes taughtin middle school. It was also good to have a chance to plan the school year with a focus.For the students, they have opportunities to explore both engineering and some specifictechnology concepts that are not usually added to the curriculum at this level. The curriculumaddresses the state standards in a realistic fashion – having students achieve the benchmarks byapplying different aspects of science to the same project. The students follow the process frombeginning to end – designing, modeling, and researching their designs as well as defending theirwork and analyzing different approaches. Rather than waiting until they have reached advancedmaterial, the students begin to apply their

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

. Students would be sectioned in classrooms with other capstone projectteam members. The capstone advisor or a faculty member from any applicable program wouldserve as the instructor. The second course might offer students the option to request instructionon specific or specialty topics pertinent to the particular capstone project, thus placing more ofthe onus of planning and learning on the student. Formal instruction would be limited to the firsthalf or less of a semester, giving way to at least one and one-half semesters of independentcapstone teamworkCHALLENGES TO INTEGRATION One of the biggest challenges that an institution encounters when trying to implement thisintegrated curriculum is satisfying an ABET requirement that states, “The

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

demonstrate the feasibility ofsolar energy and energy efficiency in the residential sector. The first Solar Decathlon washeld in fall 2002 with 14 schools competing; the second is being planned for 2005. The formal organization of the UVA team began in fall 2000 when threeengineering seniors enrolled in a special topics course in solar house design. They exploredvarious options for fulfilling the criteria that were being developed simultaneously by theSolar Decathlon sponsors. This was a realistic experience where the design criteria werenot given as aspects of the “assignment” but rather represented a moving target. The pacepicked up in spring 2001 when the three engineering students were functionally integratedinto an architecture fourth

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

shouldcarefully plan how to best use text, pictures and illustrations to present the material. Next, havingcompleted this part of the information development, the author should use the "Mimio" ® laboratoryequipment and explain the concept in the form of a short 10 to 15 minute "streaming lecture". In the CDtext, a hyperlink will then give students the option of viewing this short concept lecture for a betterunderstanding from the perspective of the author.Trained editors can then take the author's contribution and package it into the finished CD text productusing Authorware ® and the other support programs required to create an electronic text book. Thesubsequent editing allows a second party to carefully scrutinize the material, correcting grammar

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

education beyond the BS degree. The call for additionaleducation has in many ways shifted the focus away from what the policy is intended toaccomplish: building a new curriculum from the ground up. The committee in charge ofimplementing Policy Statement 465 is approaching the plan by addressing the body ofknowledge necessary for practice for the next generation of professional civil engineers. Thisincludes an undergraduate base and advanced graduate-level courses, not necessarily leading toan advanced degree. The focus is on acquiring a body of knowledge, whether through a practice-oriented MS or an approved set of advanced courses that do not lead to an advanced degree. For

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Riley

an add-on or enrichment element, but part of the reading,problem sets, and test questions in the course. This work is planned for the summer of 2003,funded by a grant from Smith College.Problematizing science as objectivity and normalizing mistakes A logical outcome of a multicultural classroom is a tendency to affirm multiple truths.5Although this has the potential to be a major stumbling block for the implementation of liberativepedagogies in a field with strong expectations of objectivity such as engineering, thermodynamicsprovides wonderful examples that counter the notion of science as objectivity. The multiplenineteenth century statements of the First and Second Laws highlight the differing perspectives ofthe historical