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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

presented, the theory that is usedto solve the case. The third page is the case solution; here the theory is put into action to solve Figure 1. Screenshot from Multimedia Engineering Statics10.the case that was previously introduced. These three pages all have multimedia content such aspictures, short movie clips, and audio explanations. The last page in each section is a simulation Page 8.919.4page. In the simulations, the students are allowed to do some constructivist activities byProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

provides an enhanced learning environment for thestudents of these teachers. Systemic reform that will: a) change the teaching of science at allgrade levels in all classrooms; and b) provide the integration of science with mathematics andin other subject areas in each school is needed. Such systemic reform must extendthroughout the K-12 pipeline.The Center for Pre-College ProgramsSince its inception, the Pre-College Center has sought to become a driving force in providingincreasing access to scientific and technological fields to all students. Through its carefuland thorough planning the Pre-College Center has been remarkably successful in reaching,those populations that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM areas.1-2 All pre

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Keilson

time will also be used for thescheduling of trips and guest speakers both from outside and from Loyola faculty.This double period may be used for some of the following:• Guest speakers (fine arts, engineering dept, outside speaker)• Video and discussion (e.g. “Building Big”, “To Engineer is Human”)• Design contest (bridge building/ LEGO robots/other)• Oral presentation period• “How things work” lab and poster presentationTopics, and themes to be covered with sample activities/assignments:(1) Engineering as creativity, design, and problem-solving a. Brain models i. Left brain/right brain creativity, Kolb cycle, Kiersey temperment (Meyers

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

2003-1488 Macro Analog to MEMS: A program for Science and Engineering Outreach to K-12 Students Catherine F. M. Clewett1, Hy D. Tran2 1 Albuquerque Country Day School (currently at New Mexico Tech), cclewett@nmt.edu 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, tran@me.unm.eduAbstractMicro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) are used as a vehicle to teach engineering andphysical sciences concepts to high school students and to encourage more students to

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill; Willie K. Ofosu

Session 2270 IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE ON LOW-INCOME AND MINORITY STUDENTS 1 Willie K. Ofosu, 2Austin B. Asgill Penn State Wilkes-Barre1/ Southern Polytechnic State University2Abstract Computer applications in processing information have established computing as anecessary tool for industry as well as the home. In recent times, information has become acommodity that all people require in their professional lives, for entertainment as well aspersonal use. More and more educational institutions and libraries are employing

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Martin; Shailendra Mehta; Ronald Steuterman; Leah Jamieson; Donald Blewett; William Oakes; Edward Coyle

School of Management, has launched theEPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative. The initiative provides opportunities for the more than 300students currently enrolled in EPICS to: (1) Learn about entrepreneurship and the management ofintellectual property in the context of the products they develop at the request of service andeducation organizations in the local community; (2) Obtain assistance from programs withinPurdue’s Krannert School of Management if they are considering the commercialization of theproducts they have developed. As one step in the evaluation of the commercial potential of theproducts they have designed and developed, the EPICS teams are encouraged to participate inentrepreneurship competitions, including Purdue’s annual $100K

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

board was that (1)a solid foundation in statistics is important preparation for industrial engineering practice as wellas for advanced degree work in engineering and (2) “solid foundation” means that graduates canselect and execute appropriate statistical techniques to analyze real data and interpret the results.In spite of having a statistics course in our curriculum, graduates did not leave with the solidfoundation we wanted. In particular, our seniors showed unsatisfactory ability to frame aproblem in terms of a hypothesis that can be tested statistically and unsatisfactory ability toselect an appropriate statistical test. New graduates were only beginning to operate at thedesirable higher levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. As

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

Session XXXX Web-Based Alternatives for Learning Engineering Science Jeff Goldberg1 and Kevin Lansey2 1 Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering/ 2 Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics College of Engineering and Mines University of ArizonaAbstractAs curricula receive increasing pressure to reduce credit hours while including non-traditionalelements, the engineering science component has sometimes been the target of

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Lineberger; Larry Stikeleather

agricultural engineering. The learning objectives for the course support the requirements of both curricula byemphasizing content and learning experiences that parallel several ABET EC2004 criteria 1. Inparticular these include, (3b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze andinterpret data; (3c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs;(3g) an ability to communicate effectively; and (3k), an ability to use the techniques, skills, andmodern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. The portion of the course emphasizing visualization and graphical communication skillsincludes computer-aided 3-D solid modeling of parts, 3-D assembly of solid part geometries,computation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

received funding in 2001, and, after an initial planning stage, states were given achance to volunteer to develop one of the 16 career clusters. Oklahoma was chosen to overseethe process due to their previous experience in developing materials similar to this project. Thefollowing career clusters were developed. 1. Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources- This cluster developed guidelines for the development of agricultural commodities from the production process through the distribution and financing occupations related to this cluster. Resources included in this cluster were food, fiber, wood products, natural resources, horticulture, and other animal products. 2. Architecture and Construction

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Burt Swersey

that unseen need. We have foundthat there are three key abilities that that can be nurtured in design courses that lead toinnovation: Page 8.1069.1 1) Learning to be critical, find the compromises in what exists and identify the unrecognized opportunities that therefore exist.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 2) Setting high goals and creating a vision of what would be ideal and then designing something that makes the vision a reality. 3) Using new existing technology

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

engineeringcourse. The Nyquist criterion was selected since it is typically the most difficult topic forstudents in control systems. The module consists of PowerPoint slides for the lectures, aninstructor’s guide, in-class group exercises, and home assignments. The module wasassessed by instructor observations, a post-module quiz, student questionnaires andcomparison of student exam performance with previous classes.1. IntroductionModern teaching techniques, such as cooperative learning, hold great promise for increasingthe effectiveness of engineering education by improving student’s comprehension, thinkingskills, motivation, retention of information. Cooperative learning is seen by many as ameans to increase student retention. Cooperative learning, when

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 The Engineering Economics of Energy Use and Capital Investment Janis P. Terpenny, Lawrence L. Ambs, John R. Dixon, Julia L. Sullivan,1 and William G. Sullivan2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2AbstractA potential capital investment involving energy use or energy conservation is always incompetition with other possible uses of the same available capital. The competition may comefrom other energy related projects, or from proposals for, say new

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Goldberg

initial findings on three of the questions. Our results suggest that we areachieving our mission of keeping high quality students in engineering related fields and we havesucceeded at developing and operating a program that allows students an opportunity to tailor aneducational experience to their direct needs. We also have areas where we could improve, andsuggestions and strategies are included.1. IntroductionInnovative applications of engineering methodology have opened new avenues in several non-traditional areas. For example, the term financial engineering has been coined to describeactivities related to the design of new financial instruments. Similarly, the latest entertainmentspectacle at Disneyland (the Indiana Jones Adventure) is

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Heyman; Aisha K. Lawrey; Ronald H. Rockland

mathematics and science courses.To address these issues, the Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach Program (PrE-IOP), acollaboration of the Newark College of Engineering and New Jersey Institute of Technology’s(NJIT) Center for Pre-College Programs, was created. This program seeks to increase the futurepool of qualified high-tech workers, including women and minorities. PrE-IOP consists of twocomponents:1. An instructional component that implements pre-engineering curriculum in middle and high school classes.2. An outreach component that consists of a comprehensive information campaign about the rewards of engineering and technology professions.One project of the outreach component is a series of teleconferences on the theme of “Building

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

Software Engineering Curriculum are presented todemonstrate the impact of the approach on classroom instruction as well as on student learning.1. IntroductionThe methods typically employed by an instructor to solicit feedback on a regular basis regardingtheir own effectiveness or the students’ learning in a classroom setting include (i) Askingstudents if they have any questions (ii) Instructor’s reaction to student’s questions (iii)Monitoring the students’ body language and facial expressions and (iv) Reading home-works,tests, lab assignments and so on. Even though these techniques are a large part of an instructor’sdaily lives, collecting feedback in this way is a subconscious and implicit process. Thecandidness and quality of the feedback is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Joan Burtner

the following brief scenarios to exemplify typical interactions between facultyadvisors, student officers, and organization members. Although the scenarios are primarily basedon our own experiences during the eleven years that the Mercer University student chapter ofSWE has been in existence, we have made slight changes in some of the details to protect theidentities of the students and faculty involved.Scenario 1: Who Will Lead?The SWE chapter had been in existence for several years. Membership was strong, and themonthly meetings were well attended. The primary advisor was a faculty member who took a veryactive role in the leadership of the organization. She requested that the officers have meetingstwice a month in the faculty member's

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

. Preparingdemonstrations for the students was also attractive to me because the task of programmingalluded to the design of an instrument, appealing to my engineering identity, and also because myfamiliarity with the software package made the programming effortless.Figure 1: The numeric palette and its sub-palettes, displaying the variety of rudimentary mathematical functions available.III. LabVIEW’s “Mathematical” FunctionsLabVIEW programming is accomplished by choosing the appropriate blocks, represented byicons, from the “Tools” palette within the diagram and connecting the appropriate inputs andoutputs to these blocks. The most rudimentary mathematical functions in the tools palette aregrouped under the category “Numerical”. Fig. 1 displays the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

Session 2793 Hands-On Science Activities Developed for Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, Inc. Monica A. Schmidt1 and Angela M. Miller2 1 Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville / 2 Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, Inc., Knoxville, TennesseeIntroductionOutreach activities have been implemented to interest girls in careers in science and engineering,with emphasis on the physical and biological sciences. A patch program called “TheMicroscopic World” was designed for Girl Scouts in grades 1-12, sponsored by

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Spreen

the winding.The polarity of each voltage source is determined by application of the right-hand rule: fingersfollow the assumed direction of current in the winding and the thumb points in the direction ofpositive polarity of the voltage source.III. Example of Magnetic CircuitFigure 1 shows a magnetic structure which to be modeled with a magnetic circuit as an example.The core material has a relative permeability of 2000. Each of the three vertical legs of the corehas a 100-turn winding labeled 1, 2, or 3, carrying current in the direction indicated by thearrows.Figure 1 Magnetic Structure with Three Windings.Each of the three vertical legs has an effective length of 1.0 x 10-1 meters with an effective areaof 4.0 x 10-4 meter2. Each of the four

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelia Barnett; Joan Burtner

, which forms a type of partnership. When one of the partners is affected, Page 8.1181.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationall partners are affected in some way. Hence, when changing curriculum to meet EC2000 a-kcriteria, employers are affected.To assist with assessment, MUSE developed a relationship table linking MUSE outcomes, whichwere developed to meet the needs of our school, to specific EC2000 a-k criteria (Table 1). Thefirst four MUSE 8 outcomes are technical in nature; the other

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

you use control charts?• What kind of reporting techniques do you use? Who generates the reports? Who routinely sees the reports?• What kind of quality control/process control software do you use? (Excel, generic SPC, customized or proprietary)• How do you monitor incoming materials and/or your suppliers?• Do you use acceptance sampling methods? If so, what standards are they based on? Who designs the sampling plan?• What percentage of your product requires rework?The students are instructed to add questions as needed. After the interview, each student submits awritten report that includes the following: 1)Title page, 2) Introduction (Background about theorganization, Name and position of contact person, Date and method of

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

culminates “in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired inearlier coursework and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that includemost of the following considerations: economic, environmental, sustainability, manufacturabil-ity, ethical, health and safety, social, and political.”1 Engineering standards and the realistic con-straints listed previously are addressed in the design projects and must be included in the writtendesign reports. Many of these topics are addressed in design lectures or in the senior seminarcourse.Clinical Medical Professionals as Technical AdvisorsThree clinical medical professionals have volunteered as technical advisors for senior design pro-jects. They were recruited

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Schmidt

background information, define astatistical hypothesis statement, design an experiment to test this hypothesis, simulate a typicaldataset, draw a conclusion from their dataset, and defend this conclusion. Students also developskills in teamwork, technical presentations and writing, graphing, and use of statistical software Page 8.1229.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1. Engineering standards used in experimental design projects. TOPIC STANDARD

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

Session 3449 A Case Study of Faculty Collaboration to Implement a Simultaneous Engineering Oriented Curriculum Radha Balamuralikrishna, Andrew Otieno & Abul Azad Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Email: bala@ceet.niu.edu, otieno@ceet.niu.edu, azad@ceet.niu.eduIntroductionEducational initiatives that particularly reflect the paradigm of simultaneous engineering areencouraged by the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Northern IllinoisUniversity (NIU)1. The NIU engineering technology programs

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

standard softwaretool employed in the areas of signals and systems, as evidenced by the proliferation of books2-4devoted to MATLAB based exercises in those subjects, the choice of the software tool isjustified in 1, 5, 6. In a separate paper, Adams and I discuss this choice from an engineeringdesign aesthetics point of view7.This paper will report on the first-time use of the toolkit in EGR 363, Communication Systemscourse offered at Dordt College in Spring 2002. Section II will provide an overview of the in-class presentations that made use of the toolkit while Section III will review some examples thatreveal the exploratory facet of the toolkit. Section IV will discuss the student projects and will

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kau Teng Lim; David Beams

line “.end.” Text beyond that point is ignored (and may be usedfor comments or explanatory notes).Creation of a circuit file requires four basic steps: 1. drawing the circuit schematic and assigning circuit element names; 2. numbering all circuit nodes; 3. assigning numbers and assumed directions to all branch currents; 4. entering data into a circuit file in a standardized format using any ASCII text editor.Fig. 1 below will be used to illustrate the process for a simple dc circuit. R2 200Ω R1 I4 120Ω 2 V2 -4V 1

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

,taught, and practiced in the undergraduate curriculum.1 As students enter the multifaceted,interdisciplinary private sector, they are limited in advancement if their skill set is restricted onlyto their own discipline. An understanding of the processes and context of a workplace enablesricher communications and more effective practice. Several authors, including Long, have Page 8.266.2discussed the impediments to enhancing the engineering curriculum with business and Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Meckl

• Short-Term vs. Long-Term • Justice vs. MercyIn many cases, multiple dilemmas can be identified for the same situation. After studentsidentify pertinent ethical dilemmas in the Challenger case, with particular focus on the vicepresident of engineering, Joe Kilminster, they are asked to provide a course of action. To takethem through the decision-making process, they are given a seven-step procedure (Davis5): 1. State problem. Identify the moral dilemma. 2. Check facts. Seek out all available information. 3. Identify relevant factors. For example, who is affected, what laws or codes apply. 4. Develop list of options. Be creative. 5. Test options. Apply ethical models based on moral theory. 6. Make a choice. “Do

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Duane Dunlop; Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo; Donald Keating

Session 1455 Growing the National Innovation System: Assessing the Needs and Skill Sets for Innovative Professional Graduate Education Defined by the Tasks and Responsibilities of Engineer-Leaders in Industry S. J. Tricamo, 1 D. H. Sebastian, 1 J. M. Snellenberger, 2 D. D. Dunlap, 3 D. A. Keating, 4 T. G. Stanford 4 New Jersey Institute of Technology 1 / Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 Western Carolina University 3/University of South Carolina 4 AbstractThis is the second paper in the special panel