Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Koen

, psychiatrists, and lawyers who will testify on oneside or the other in a legal case, there is a disappointing increase in “engineers for hire” who willsay anything on any side of a technical question once they take the witness stand. The motivationfor this emerging trend is perhaps the money they are paid, but more likely it is the feeling ofpower to decide important liability claims as at least one thoughtful judge has suggested.1 Barringexceptions similar to this example, the general reputation of the engineer is for ethical conduct.Even the failure of a large engineering project does not, in general, seem to be interpreted by thepublic as a lack of engineering ethics. The public intuitively understands that it is usually thetechnical aspects of the

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Lemanowski; Ellen Yezierski; Arlisa Labrie; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 3592 A New Look at Gender Equity Professional Development for Secondary Science/Mathematics Teachers and Counselors Arlisa M. Labrie, Vivian L. Lemanowski, Bettie A. Smiley, Ellen J. Yezierski, Dale R. Baker, and Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractWISE Investments (WI) is a four-year National Science Foundation project HRD 98 72818designed for secondary science/mathematics teachers and counselors to enable them to helpinterest young women in engineering. A component of the WI program is gender equitytraining. Although the gender equity professional

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

covers the fundamentals of patents and intellectual property for undergraduate andgraduate students in engineering. The first part of the course focuses on the rules and codes thatgovern patent prosecution in the U.S. The course covers most parts of the Manual of PatentExamining Procedure (MPEP), with a special emphasis on patents and patentability. The secondpart of the course focuses on strategies and methodologies for claim drafting and patent prosecu-tion. Since it is important to write a patent with the opponent in mind, some lectures also examinelitigation issues and common techniques used to overturn patents. Finally, the ethics, codes, andlicensing agreements are covered briefly. As a final project, the students have an opportunity

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

from the Computer andInformation Science (CIS) department also participate in this project, as they plan to seek ABETaccreditation in the near future. The committee is responsible to evaluate the process in place fordepartments and to ensure consistency between departments in meeting the ABET’s criteria.The committee developed a common format for end-of-semester course (e.g. course-exit)evaluations that pertain to ABET evaluation. It consists of the course name, instructorinformation, course objectives, assessment methods, a qualitative questionnaire section, aquantitative questionnaire section, and an ABET criteria section. This web-based course-exitsurvey facilitates the process in collecting the data in a timely manner. The web-based tool

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

admission and encouraging the students to enroll in engineering.A Regional and Statewide competition on engineering-related projects and subjects is held eachyear. The MESA program includes training for the MESA advisors and information sessions forthe parents to help them encourage their students to pursue engineering and science. Over 700students are currently being served through ASU MESA. Approximately half of these studentsare young women.Our college students make additional recruitment efforts. For example, the ASU student chapterof the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) holds a recruitment day each year invitingyoung black children to the campus who have never seen it before. Through the activities, theNSBE students serve as

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

writing and distribute to students in every class. The author has developed a class policy document that has evolved over nearly twenty years and spells out numerous issues and policies associated with his classes. He updates it every semester to address any new problems or issues. The document has guidelines for laboratory notebooks and reports, term papers, and design projects. It has recommendations for homework, studying, and test taking. It includes the university Academic Integrity Policy formally addressing student cheating. There are few problems that could arise between student and professor that are not addressed by the evolving document. The author requires that all students study it every semester and gives a brief

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

. Page 8.779.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 4–Making a viscoelastic materialBoth the students and their teachers enjoyed the presentations. The following teacher commentswere typical:! Students loved the activities and trying out the experiments.! Presenters were very enthusiastic. Students enjoyed the activities and the lesson.! Great experiment! Very appropriate for this age group.Outreach as a Result of the ClassLouisiana Tech has now received a second phase grant from the NOVA project. We have twomain goals in this second phase. We will

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

. Encourage development of design skills in problem solving and experimentation, illustrative of various fundamental areas of aerospace engineering.4. Enable students to develop proficiency in written, oral, and graphic communication in the development of formal reports, and informal and formal individual presentations and papers.5. Promote engineering ethics, personal integrity and responsibility and professionalism in the conduct of laboratory activities and individual projects.6. Develop teamwork and leadership skills through laboratory experiences.Because of the number, scope, and diversity of topics and related activities, we sought to spreadthe curriculum over three semesters as opposed to one done elsewhere4. Each course combineselements

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

object.• Labeling the nature of the connections between concepts.• Identifying locations on the map where concepts are quantified.Several weeks into the course, this initial map was revised. The need for revision becameapparent when students were assigned a project to analyze the structural safety and efficiency ofthe Washington Monument. Their questions and the ways they were putting concepts togetherrequired a map that more accurately reflects how an engineer uses the concepts (see Figure 2).The revised map more effectively shows how loading and geometry are combined to calculateinternal forces and stresses. The emphasis on grouping concepts as internal and external to theobject was replaced with an emphasis on how the concepts are combined in

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gray; Andrew Miller; Francesco Costanzo; Charles Randow

” experience of the analytical/computational component required by machine orprocess design. With this in mind, we used Mathematica extensively in the classroomto show how it can be used to remove the tedious algebra from the kinds of problemsthey were encountering in their homework. In addition, we used it to show the motionassociated with many of the solutions obtained in class in the form of animations. Weencouraged students to use Mathematica in their homework and required them to use iton the team-based projects that they did in class. As is to be expected when learning anew computer language, the students had some initial difficulties with the Mathematicasyntax. However, the vast majority of them were able to quickly pick up the new syntaxand

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

the unit of analysis in a study. It is bounded in the sense that itsdefinitional borders are clear. This was a multi-case study, with each FC institution forming aseparate case, and for those programs that had designed both freshmen and sophomore curricula(RHIT and TAMU), separate cases were constructed for each curriculum. We completed a totalof eight case studies in this research project. For each case, members of our team went to thatinstitution and conducted individual interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators in thatprogram. We usually interviewed between 20 to 25 people at each institution, working closelywith the FC coordinator at each site to select a range of participants—faculty members who haddesigned and/or taught in the

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Blake; kathleen marrs; Jeff Watt; Andrew Gavrin

opportunity to think aboutthe ConceptTest, record individual answers, then discuss the ConceptTest with their neighbors.This system is often used in conjunction with classroom response systems such as Classtalk andCPS.13 Mazur has also worked to combine his methods with the JiTT strategy, as described inhis Project Galileo web site.14We have also found that using the WarmUps helps students to improve their study habits.Because WarmUps are due on lecture days (and homework on recitation days) our students haveassignments due on every day of class. This encourages them to organize their studying aroundmanageable sessions, through which they can remain alert and effective. What is Physics Good For? (or What is Biology Good for?, What is Chemistry

Conference Session

Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivier de Weck

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

william mullett; Gary Mullett

then NYNEX Corporation, this progressive program that emphasizesemployee soft skills was expanded to the New England states in 1996. Through extensiveinteraction between all New England stakeholders involved with this project, a baselinecurriculum was developed that was similar but not exactly the same as the New York curriculum.The first graduates of the NextStep program are now in the workplace, the NYNEX Corporationhas since merged with Bell Atlantic and then become Verizon, the two different curricula havebeen morphed into a single curriculum and the sometimes contentious summer Faculty Instituteshave been replaced by smaller curriculum specific gatherings. This paper will first look back at thesometimes fascinating events that helped to

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

, organization, refers to how deeply a value becomes partof the way a student forms judgments, makes decisions, and lives. Here the student not onlyvalues but also has integrated that value into a belief system. This system changes with theincorporation of new interrelated values. Subcategories are 4.1 Conceptualization of a Value and4.2 Organization of a Value System. As students progress in the discipline, moving beyond theintroductory courses, fourth level objectives become more appropriate. 4.0 Organization 4.1 Conceptualization of a Value Students choose to create their own software development model to better fit the challenges posed by the nature of their senior project. 4.2 Organization of a Value System Students

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Wright; Gretchen Hein; Mary Fran Desrochers; Mary Raber

-solving activities and a debriefingsession whereby students are prompted to reflect on their experience and how it relates to the issuesthey are/or might encounter in their team-related projects in the classroom. § Warm-ups - Intended to de-inhibitize the group and facilitate getting to know each other: § Circle the Circle - Have the group form a hand-in-hand circle. Place two large hoops together between two people (resting on their grasped hands). See how quickly the participants in the circle can cause the hoops to travel around the circle (over the people) in opposite directions, with the hoops moving through each other, and back to the originating point

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelvin Kirby

theconceptualization of a product or system, which will satisfy the need or correct thedeficiency. The most common life cycle application concerns products, projects or systems,which have definite, start and end stages. The generic model of the product or system lifecycle consists of the following phases; (1) Conceptual (Research), (2) Definition, (3) Design,(4) Development, (5) Production, (6) Operation and (7) Phase-out.7 Each phase has aselected series of tasks or objectives which are relative to the product or system. The MDRCis considered a complex system, which follows the generic model from the conceptual phaseto the operation phase. The objective is to avoid the phase-out phase and have the MDRCserve as a permanent entity within the university

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

coefficient alpha between 0.67and 0.96, and test-retest reliability of 0.79 and 0.82. The validity of the SDLRS has been studiedextensively. Some of the evidence cited in the review of the instrument include: − Content validity: strong congruence between Guglielmino’s original Dephi results and an review of the literature on self-directed learning.15 − Construct validity: Significant convergent and divergent validity found in five different studies.16-20 − Criterion validity: Significant positive correlations reported with learning projects undertaken,21, 22 with hours spent on self-directed learning,23 and with observable student behaviors related to self-directed learning.24The review also

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

-disciplinary assignments. Forexample, instructors in chemistry, calculus, and engineering tried to incorporate writingassignments into their courses while English instructors included technology in the classroom,assigned paper topics about subjects covered in the students’ other core classes, and adopteduniversal evaluative techniques. In some cases, the students were encouraged to write not onlyEnglish essays about engineering, calculus, or chemistry subject matters, but also papers thatbetter fit an “engineering genre”: design projects, proposals, memos, etc. Students wereencouraged to develop the cross-disciplinary skills of organization, grammar, “critical thinking,written and oral communication, collaborative work, and innovative, flexible

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

and is expected to be 21.2 million by 2010with a strong growth among minority groups. 6 While the white college age population willexperience growth until 2010, it is projected to decline afterwards. The minority population, Page 8.1123.2however, will continue to rise. This trend presents quite a challenge to the U.S. educational Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsystem if it is to educate these students who are traditionally underrepresented in Science andEngineering (S&E

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kau Teng Lim; David Beams

; • the simulator would support basic elements of electric circuits but would not contain macromodels of electronic devices.Matlab (The Math Works, Natick, MA) was chosen as the development platform because itprovides structured programming constructs, extensive matrix functions (including inversion ofmatrices containing complex elements), graphing capabilities, and graphical user interfaceobjects. The project became known as “MADCAT,” standing for “MAtlab Derived Circuit-Analysis Tool.” Development of the MADCAT was undertaken as a senior project by Kau TengLim in spring, 2000.Capabilities of MADCATMADCAT supports bias-point dc analysis, swept dc analysis, and swept-frequency ac analysis

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Collins; Rajesh Bhaskaran

. Page 8.755.1An informal survey of eight peer universities indicated that their situation was similar. In-dividual students might use CFD software for projects but it is not part of the curriculum.The use of CFD tends to be restricted to courses that focus on teaching numerical meth-ods. Usually, the basics of the finite-difference method are taught in detail and studentsdevelop computer codes to solve a few simple problems. The emphasis is on understandingand programming numerical methods. This is the approach used in the introductory CFDtextbooks by Anderson [1] and Tannehill et al [2], for example. There are several reasons why general-purpose CFD software has not penetrated under-graduate fluid dynamics courses to any significant extent

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anderson; Kim Gilbride

each module addressesproblem-solving, teamwork, communication skills, project development, budgeting, design,construction and project testing.By bringing Discover Engineering directly to high school classrooms we have been able to reachmany more students than previously with the summer camp alone.Well over 1000 students benefit from Discover Engineering each year, with over 1000participating in high school workshops, 120 students attending the summer camp and 100attending the career conference annually. Since launching the Discover Engineering High SchoolWorkshop program in 1999, over 4000 high school students have participated in this programalone.Survey of Students’ Knowledge and Interest in EngineeringThrough the use of pre-workshop

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

statistics. Such a system will:• Assist students in extracting the underlying common structure from engineering statistics problems that illustrate the full range of engineering disciplines.• Allow the students to generate, customize, and change a virtually infinite collection of exercises that can be solved with the assistance of the ITS. The students can explore the effect of changes to solutions.• Help students formulate and solve "practical" and "open-ended" problems, a skill stressed by the ABET Engineering Criteria.IntroductionSeveral trends have converged to make this an important project at this time:• Psychological and computational advances in CBR that allow us to use processes that model human thought, rather than those

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

understanding yet to be acquired. The moral questions of right and wrong,good and harm, justice and duty are highly speculative. Most researchers aspire for theresults of their work to improve the quality of human life. But projections about how thedevelopment of nanotechnology may evolve are varied, and various individuals carrydiffering notions and ideals about how nanotechnology might and should be used.Whenever a new technology is perceived to have a potentially significant impact onsociety, whether for benefit or for harm, public debate emerges over the meaning andsignificance of that new technology. For example, new science and technologydevelopments such as in-vitro fertilization, recombinant DNA/genetic engineering,mapping of the human genome

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

) determine the totalrate of energy expenditure (3) determine the composition of food oxidized for energy usingreaction stoichiometry (4) use a process simulator to perform mass and energy balances on thebreathing process and (5) to analyze the role of breathing in thermal regulation.Introduction Rowan’s two-semester Freshman Clinic sequence introduces all freshmen engineeringstudents to engineering in a hands-on, active learning environment. Engineering measurementsand reverse engineering methods are common threads that tie together the different engineeringdisciplines. Previous reverse engineering projects have involved common household productssuch as automatic coffee makers [1,2,3], hair dryers and electric toothbrushes [4]. Recently

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

toobtain higher percentages of both bachelor and engineering degrees over other minoritygroups; the next-generation of college students; the projected future populations; andsome possible solutions to increasing the numbers of women minority students to benefitengineering.Literature SearchA great deal of information has been written on minority females in education.Unfortunately, much of this information is inaccurate or misleading. Most often, minoritygroups are not differentiated. Therefore, all minority females are combined and while theoverall increase in engineering for the entire group may look promising, the increases inthe specific racial groups are not. NSF1, for example, states, “While overall undergraduateengineering enrollment has been

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

Pontiac and Related Programs Elsewhere In early 2001, faculty from Oakland University approached Dr. Walter Burt, theSuperintendent of the Pontiac School District, with the proposal that the district considerusing Kumon in their classrooms. Dr. Burt was not only willing—he immediatelysuggested a number of different ways in which the program might be experimentallyintroduced. Eventually, it was decided to try a twenty-week Kumon pilot projectinvolving 120 students at two elementary schools, which could be operated as part ofPontiac’s after-school Synergy program. Project Synergy is a voluntary after schoolprogram, scheduled in ten week sessions, that includes four content areas: tutoring,enrichment, dinner type meal and homework help. Kumon

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Dokachev; John Carpinelli

; Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationPartial funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation through theGateway Engineering Education Coalition.Bibliography1. Wallace, C. S. “A Suggestion for a Fast Multiplier,” IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computing, vol. EC-13, no. 2, Feb. 1964, pp. 14-17.2. Carpinelli, John D. Computer Systems Organization and Architecture. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley (2001).3. Carpinelli, John D. “The Relatively Simple CPU Simulator,” ASEE Computers in Education Journal, April-June 2002, pp. 20-26.4. Carpinelli, John D. “The Very Simple CPU Simulator,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ASEE 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

life-cycle (7, 12). According to Yudelson (15), several hundredbuildings have been registered for LEED certification and so far 20 projects have receivedcertification representing about 6 % of the total commercial and institutional buildings in 2001. It isexpected that a comprehensive energy strategy could save $ 100 billion annually in energy bills forbuildings by doubling energy efficiency and cut the carbon emissions in half in the process (7).Awareness of local and federal programs will assist building operators and owners to maximize theirsavings. Federal and state governments also promote green design. The EnergyStar program, fundedby the Department of Energy (DOE), provides initiatives for buildings displaying efficienttechnologies like