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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

will be addressed in some detail since they are very important to the usefulness of thetemplates.Prior to assessing student achievement of an outcome, students should have experienced multiplelearning activities related to the outcome (in previous courses and/or in multiple points within thecourse where the outcome is actually assessed). Learning activities are the instructionaltechniques and activities that are use to help the students master a certain topic or skill. Commonlearning activities include readings, lectures, discussions, demonstrations, active learningexercises, homework exercises, and even projects for which sufficient formative feedback isgiven. Pedagogical research has shown that mastery learning techniques that use lots

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

D.J. Marshall

Page 8.1205.2instructor at IPFW and assistant curator of the Museum of Fort Wayne. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3260Greg Pierceall is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Purdue University in West LafayetteAssessmentsBecause students were going to receive college credit for this program, a number of projects wereestablished in order to place some empirical validity on their grade. The most effective way toaccomplish this, without unduly compromising the unique experience of actually

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

and learning and issues ofsocial structure and power and so on.18 But whichever way you approach it, there remains a richdiscourse in pedagogy and associated areas that engineering educators, as a community, are Page 8.439.4currently only on the periphery of.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Uncritical InnovationFaculty accept as a given that when embarking on a new research project or investigation or forthat matter a new engineering project, you should find out what is already

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; John J. Lucas; Dean R. Malmgren; H. Scott Fogler

this project is provided by NSF (Grant: DUE-0126497). Page 8.669.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Fogler, H. S., and S. E. LeBlanc, “Strategies for Creative Problem Solving”, Prentice Hall PTR, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1995).2. Kepner, C. H., and B. B. Tregoe, “The New Rational Manager”, Princeton Research Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1981).3. Woods, D.R., “A Strategy for Problem Solving”, 3rd ed., Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwell students learned course material. The value of exams as a learning tool has always beenquestioned. Some courses use papers or projects as the basis for evaluation instead.These methods possess the advantage of directing the attention of students to their writing buthave the disadvantage of providing the instructor with no opportunity to evaluate how well thestudents mastered the basic ideas and skills being taught. (2)In lecture based courses it is even more difficult to replace exams with other means of evaluationespecially when the course is problem solving in nature. Therefore exams

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni

://www.agresearch.cri.nz/scied/search/biotech/trad_ceese03.htmPOLLY R. PIERGIOVANNIPolly Piergiovanni is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. She received a B.S.from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, both in Chemical Engineering. Herresearch interests include cell culture and fermentation , and the LEGO project. Page 8.1015.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Coral Nocton; Ismail Fidan

SAEJournal of Manufacturing and Materials. Dr. Fidan is the recipient of 2003 Tennessee Tech University ExemplaryCourse Project Award, 2003 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2002 Provost 'Utilization ofTechnology in Instruction' Award, 2002 Technology Award by The Institute for Technological Scholarship, 2001NAIT Outstanding Professor Award. His teaching and research interests are computer integrated design andmanufacturing, electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.CORAL NOCTONMiss Coral Nocton is the president of the Tennessee Technological University’s Society of ManufacturingEngineers student chapter. Keeping her plate full, she is also the Chair of Engineering Week for the EngineeringJoint Council. During the 2000

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

weeks of tutorials and practice problems, the students weregiven a final project in which they selected a computer-based design problem from the SystemDynamics and Controls textbook used in the lecture-based course. Such problems are nottraditionally assigned in a lecture-based course, due to their broad scope and time restrictions.Thus, faculty saw as a good opportunity to use such problems as the basis for a longer-termproject. Student groups were given a list of selected problems from a wide range of applicationsand asked to select their top three choices. Faculty then assigned the problems such that eachgroup was working on a different problem. Three weeks of laboratory sessions were reserved forthe students to work on the problems and

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusong Li; Eugene J. LeBoeuf

communicates results back to the database.After the completion of simulation, results in the form of tables and graphs are available as webpages displayed on user’s web browsers, including Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond,Washington) tables and graphs. Input and Output Interfaces and Help and Tutorial systems areeach introduced in the following sections.Input Interfaces The objective of the input interface is to assist users in defining the mass transferproblem, followed by step-by-step instructions on data submission. A set of interactive inputinterface web pages are logically presented to lead users through the simulation process. Usersare provided the opportunity to input project descriptions, define the reactor configuration,determine

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

project them into likely futuredirections.IntroductionWas spring 2000 one last season of irrational optimism in the United States? On January14 of that year the Dow Jones Industrials hit a high of 11,722.98. It wouldn’t be untilJune 1 that manufacturing data and a monthly unemployment report showed the firstconcrete signs that the US economy was cooling. Do you remember when the Fedactually raised interest rates? They did on May 16, 2000, when they bumped it up by .5 to6.5%. Back then, 911 was still a US phone number, the Euro had yet to be born, and onMarch 22, Pope John-Paul II, on a visit to Israel, pleads yet again for a homeland forPalestinian refuges.On May 1, 2000, the International Engineering Education Digest (the Digest) was born

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Godbout; Hisham Alnajjar

combinations; Kirchhoff’s laws;voltage and current dividers; nodal, mesh, and loop analysis; Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems;superposition; and first-order RL and RC circuits. This paper will explain this project and itsusefulness in teaching Introductory Circuits for non-majors. Of course, the animation files arealso extremely useful for the education of Electrical Engineering majors as well.Introduction and DiscussionAs stated earlier, teaching circuit theory to non-electrical students can be very challenging. Agood percentage of these students think that a passing grade is all they need because the subject isoutside their discipline. Many are also “turned-off” to Electrical Circuits because they feel thematerial is too abstract, thus making the

Conference Session

Graduate Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

the university as well as the role in society . As President of Johns Hopkins University,Steven Muller stated that “We are . . . already in an environment for higher education that representsthe most drastic change since the founding of the . . . great universities some eight or nine centuriesago.” He went on to assert that the university will be serving new clientele, delivering instruction innew ways, and reexamining what and how it is taught. Nyquist et al, conducting the Re-envisioningthe Ph. D. Project noted that there were over 30 reports and calls for reform in graduate educationwhich not only echoed earlier reports but emphasized the exact same issues [11]. The issues, whichhave been repeated, were: effective mentoring, economic

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

Page 8.1142.5initially registers for fall courses at NAU, which begin in late August. In mid-October, when the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGerman falls semester starts, she participates via groupware technology, communicating with herdesign team members in Dresden, and submitting her contributions electronically. OverChristmas, she then flies to Dresden to participate in her team project in-person during thecritical second half of the term, when the design effort becomes more focused and intensive. Toavoid missing a critical core class for her NAU degree offered in the spring semester

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

andconscientious engineer and citizen.In specialized courses, students are taught an information base (Maxwell equations, Laplacetransform, etc.) considered useful in solving engineering problems. In addition, students arerequired to solve certain types of problems, become familiar with certain types of examples, taketests, and complete projects in order to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of the field:the methodology usually used by electrical engineers as well as the tools and processesconsidered helpful to students for learning good engineering designs and practices. As is thecase with all engineering programs, the goal of our electrical engineering program is to trainwell-rounded electrical engineers who are competent in their field

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

presents the result of this process, and providespreliminary assessment of how the new curriculum is functioning. Page 8.45.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionIn February 1997, then Dean Richard K. Miller of the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Iowa created and charged the Curriculum Advancement Task Force (CATF)with development of a vision for a new curriculum to complement the new educationalopportunities to be offered by the addition and renovation project. The

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, NorthCarolina State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Charlotte andVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The data from all nine universities havebeen placed in a common format, making it possible to carry out appropriate cross-institutionalstudies. More extensive descriptions of the SUCCEED LDB can be found elsewhere 5,6,7. TheSUCCEED LDB is a unique resource that has been and continues to be studied 3-13.SUCCEED is an ongoing project, and the LDB continues to be updated as data becomesavailable. As of the current study, the LDB contained demographic, entry, term and graduationrecords of all undergraduate students in

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

of the charter included development of job-based curriculum andtraining module units, and the dissemination of these materials to instructors ateducational institutions.The development of standards for control systems personnel was a priority goal ofthe charter. The charter also included the goal to develop widespread supportfrom local, national, and international industry. The building of strong bondsbetween education, industry, community, and government was another goal in thecharter, as was the sharing of resources that included materials, projects, staff andfaculty, equipment and facilities, grants, and others. Page 8.571.2

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chong Chen

Drafting/Design (2 courses) Machine Tool Technology Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Statics Strength of Materials Fluid Power Robotics Electrical Circuit Analysis Digital Circuit Fundamentals Electronics Introduction to Microprocessor Programmable Logic Controllers Instrumentation and Controls Industrial Electricity Engineering Economy Senior Project C++ Most of these required technical courses involve both lecture and lab. After taking thesecourses, students obtain both solid knowledge and hand-on experience on the covered topics. Thegraduates of the EMET program are expected to be able to operate, design, and troubleshoot

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

intenseconcentration that was required for the project. Models were developed of Carnot, Otto,Diesel, Brayton and Rankine cycles. The piston cylinder cycles showed a piston moving upand down with simultaneous display of properties, work and heat and the development ofa 1 st law process and cycle table and resulting efficiency. The nuclear power plant simulation displayed the components and response tothrottle, control rod motion, change in flow and a scram. Separately the reactor kineticswere programmed in Basic on an Atari 400 game computer with time responses of inputand output responses traced on a TV screen. The next step was to take the students to the computer room to execute thesimulations. It was discouraging, but then understandable

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

applets in this project. This research was funded by the Whitaker Foundation (PI, Dr. S.S. Demir). Page 8.117.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCES1. Demir, S.S., Butera, R.J, DeFranceschi, A.A, Clark, J.W, and Byrne, J.H. Phase Sensitivity and Entrainment in a Modeled Bursting Neuron. Biophysical Journal 72: 579-594, 1997.2. Demir, S.S., Clark, J.W., Murphey, C.R. and Giles, W.R. A mathematical model of a rabbit sinoatrial node cell. American Journal of Physiology 266: C832

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bertram Pariser

TCI, The College forTechnology. He has published 19 papers and serves as the Faculty Advisor to Tau Alpha PiNational Honor Society. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Electrical Engineering& Plasma Physics, and BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Dr Pariser Co-Founded 5venture companies, and as a management consultant successfully catalyzed over $100million of new shareholder value in client businesses. As Managing Partner of The MITCUCorporation, Dr. Pariser led cross-functional client teams in projects to find and capturevalue-creating profit and growth opportunities.Bpariser@alum.mit.edu Page 8.53.8 “Proceedings of

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

first summarizes the design and behavior of the TCS/computer that makesstraightforward and inexpensive exploration of a desktop computer’s thermal behavior possible.It then proposes a pedagogical approach to the exploration of thermal systems such as this thatwould be appropriate in a 2-year engineering technology program.TCS/Computer DesignTo present a viable computer project to a class for laboratory-based analysis, the computer shouldbe both generic and inexpensive. An older system of modest speed and capability was selected.This system began its life as a basic circa mid-1990s desktop IBM clone containing a 166megahertz Pentium 1 processor, 2.8 GB hard drive, Verge video card, 12X CD drive, and a250W power supply. Software consisted of the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kissock; Rebecca Blust

theclient with specific recommendations to save money by reducing energy waste or productioncosts. Each recommendation presents the current state a recommendation of the estimatedsavings, the estimated project cost, and the estimated simple payback. Last year, facilities fromThe University of Dayton Industrial Assessment Center reported savings on average of $136,000per year based on an assessment.II. Student LearningCommunicationA critical element in a successful career is the ability to communicate effectively; transferringinformation clearly and accurately is important for the students to learn. Through the IAC,students are given the opportunity to become effective communicators by extensive practiceconveying written and oral technical

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

, American Society for Engineering Education • 2001: The lectures were interesting and informative. I learned a great deal, and my ideas about environmental engineering and science have been positively affected by the knowledge I have gained. • 2001: Your perspective. We will never see “cutting edge” developments in a book. • 2001: The whole structure of the course is similar to a research project. • 2001: The best aspect was carrying the concepts from the classroom to the lab in a manner relevant to our field. Also, having a class that is new gives a fresh perspective into the future of environmental engineering. • 2002: The availability of the professor to answer student questions

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Bittner

Center, a United States Department ofTransportation research, education, and outreach center funded through the UniversityTransportation Centers Program of the Research and Special Projects Administration, organizedthe Workshop. Sponsors included the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette University, the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan Departments ofTransportation, among others. The mix of academia and practitioners on the organizingcommittee assisted in the development of a program that reflected the needs and motivations ofeach organization in the area of diversity encouragement. For the purposes of this Workshop,transportation was not limited to traditional civil engineering-based opportunities.Several

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

history. Numerous textshave provided software supplements for years, and now posting lecture notes on web sites is notunusual. Terpenny, Sullivan, et al have taken this concept one step further. They reviewed webrelated learning issues and a developed a virtual classroom [1] for engineering economics thateven allows for open ended projects with industrial interaction [2]. Their web site [3] allows stu-dents to interactively select among a variety of topics and even take multiple choice quizzes.Prompts congratulate correct answers and provide general guidance for wrong answers. The current project restricts its focus to equivalence modeling to allow interaction at anequation level much as would occur in a professor's office. The following

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly

. According to the most recent report by the U.S. TradeRepresentative, the European Union continues to be the U.S.'s largest trading partnerand, as such, is a large market for US goods and services.NIST has a number of publications that students can use to learn about EU Directivesthat could affect their design project. NIST Special Publication 951 gives an overview ofthe European process. 5 A table is included which shows the product fields affected by thenew approach. Some areas covered by directives include: medical devices, constructionproducts, machinery, and low voltage equipment.A series of reports are available dealing with directives in different sectors which studentscould consult for details specific to their project area. These documents

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Young; Richard Brow

school students.As part of the project, UMR undergraduates are developing and testing self-contained kits fordistribution to high schools. The kits will contain all of the materials and supplies needed forhigh school teachers to perform experiments and controlled demonstrations that illustrateimportant scientific principles in an entertaining manner. Laboratory exercises based on slipcasting and glass melting have been prepared for the kits. These hands-on activities give a basicunderstanding for what ceramic materials are and how they are produced. They emphasize theapplication of science (chemistry and physics) to form common raw materials into usefulproducts. At the end of the funding cycle, an example kit, written instructions, and an

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

devices require a voltage higher than that of the supply voltage, most HBridge chips contain high side driver circuitry that is transparent to the user.As an educational project the design of an NMOS exclusive H-Bridge was undertaken.This will implement simple circuitry and consist of common, easily obtainable components.This paper will demonstrate the design of the H Bridge and high side driver and willdiscuss, in depth, component choice, design considerations, and effectiveness of thisparticular circuit.1. IntroductionOften in an industrial environment power must be delivered to high voltage devices. Thismay include as simple a task as turning on and shutting off power to the load, but may alsorequire bi-directional control of power through the