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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jitendra Tate; Ronnie Bolick; Ajit Kelkar

emphasizes mechanical engineering concepts such as ability to applyknowledge of science; ability to design a process to meet desired needs; knowledge ofcontemporary issues; ability to solve engineering problems which are listed in course contentevaluation form of ABET (American Board of Engineering and Technology). The experiment isdivided into three laboratory sessions. Each session runs approximately one hour and fiftyminutes.LABORATORY SESSION 1: In this session students are introduced to composite materials and different manufacturingtechniques. The VARTM process is discussed in detail.Overview of Composites A composite material is made of two or more chemically different materials with adistinct interface between them. The

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Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Banzhaf

/conferences/caps/document2/2002-946_Paper.pdfWALTER BANZHAFWalter Banzhaf, Professor of Engineering Technology at Ward College of Technology, University of Hartford, is aregistered professional engineer and amateur radio operator (WB1ANE). Now in his 26th year of teaching EET, hespecializes in RF communications, antennas, fiber optics, linear integrated circuits, and keeping first year studentsinterested and happy. He received the B.E.E. and M.Eng.E.E from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from an erawhen all EE students owned a VOM and soldering iron. A senior member of IEEE, Banzhaf is the author of twobooks on computer-aided circuit analysis using SPICE

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

Session 2330 Eight-Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking About the Case and Ethics of the Mount Graham, Large Binocular Telescope Project Submitted by:Rosalyn W. Berne, Division of Technology, Culture and Communication,University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Thornton Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22904.434-924-6098. rwb@virginia.eduAnd,Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University, Electrical Engineering Department, FloridaAtlantic University, Boca Raton Florida, 33431. 561-297-2773. ravivd@fau.eduAbstract Case analysis is a common method for

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ives; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

Session 2420 commDSK: A Tool for Teaching Modem Design and Analysis Thad B. Welch Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Michael G. Morrow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI Cameron H. G. Wright Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wyoming

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Firas Zeineddine; Ahmad Smaili

. Page 8.1020.102. J. B. Cook and D. G. Olson, “The Design of a 10-bar Linkage for Four Functions Using SyMech,” Proc. of ASME DETC 2002, Paper # DETC2002/MECH-34369. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering Education3. Mechanical Dynamics, http://www.adams.com/.4. Parametric Technology Corporation, http://www.ptc.com/.5. AutoDesk Inc., http://www.autodesk.com/.6. Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, http://www.sdrc.com/.7. G. Sandor and A. Erdman, Design of Mechanism: Vol. II, Prentice Hall, 1984.8. D. T. Pham and D. Karaboga, Intelligent Optimization Techniques, Springer, 2000.9. W

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Multimedia Arena

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Meador; Amit Chourasia

andavailability at Purdue through the Department of Computer Graphics Technology. Scott Meador, Page 8.1234.1of Computer Graphics Technology, was brought into the project as an expert in 3ds max and one “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3138who has had computer animation production experience. The last two collaborators assigned tothe project were graduate students Amit Chourasia from Computer Graphics Technology, andHendry

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway

concepts, it is not effective for teaching teamwork. In fact,over-dependence on group work may undermine the learning of effective teaming skills incapstone design courses, in that the cost of learning new skills (Atherton, 1999) (i.e.changing their ways), may supplant the learning of essential teaming skills.II.D. The engineering design processThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has definedengineering design as the process of developing a component, system, and/or completeprocess for solving a particular problem or meeting a need. The engineering designprocess involves seeking a practical recommendation/solution that is constrained by andmay need to be optimized relative to issues such as cost, safety, environmental

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Blake; kathleen marrs; Jeff Watt; Andrew Gavrin

enterprise communicate their needs to one anotherfrequently, and only the necessary materials or products are delivered. Such systems rely onrapid communications technology and on distribution systems that make small, frequentdeliveries. In this way, each delivery is smaller, and contains only those materials needed forshort term operations, rather than large, infrequent deliveries based on average needs determined Page 8.797.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationlong in advance. We have

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Webb; Julie Spader; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

basic to display acontrol panel where the transmitted parameters could be adjusted. Refer Fig. 1. Page 8.250.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”II. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION Fig. 1 System diagram2.1 STEPPER MOTOR INTERFACEWe selected a 6-wire uni-polar stepper motor, sth-39d103-01: 12 V/ph, 16 A/ph and 1.8 deg/step.The six wires of the stepper motor were directly connected to the 5804 BiCMOS II UnipolarStepper-Motor Translator/Driver [5], which supplies 1.25A and 35V

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

and phase diagrams. Theyalso enjoy that they worked on “real” materials and got “real” data. Although many students feltoverwhelmed and struggled at first, they felt great satisfaction once all the pieces came togetherand that they ultimately succeeded.Bibliography1. Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams, 10, 219 (1989).2. B.D. Cullity, Elements of X-Ray Diffraction, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1978, p. 506-507.BiographyKATHERINE C. CHEN is an Associate Professor in the Materials Engineering Department at Cal Poly StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo, CA. She received her bachelor degrees (in Chemistry and Materials Science &Engineering) from Michigan State University, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At CalPoly, she teaches

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dennis Silage

Session 2632 Augmenting Hardware Experiments with Simulation in Digital Communications Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversitySo Much Equipment, So Little TimeAn undergraduate course in digital communications is usually offered with a supplementalhardware laboratory to illuminate the concepts presented in the course text. The traditionalundergraduate laboratory presents communication circuit hardware (phase-locked loops, voltage-controlled oscillators) and

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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R. Russell Rhinehart; Benjamin Lawrence; Sundararajan Madihally

Reaction Engineering”course, students are introduced to the concepts of non-ideal flow conditions in the reactor and theanalysis of non-ideal reactors via zero order models i.e., segregation and maximum mixednessmodels [1]. Further, a computational fluid dynamic modeling (CFX AEA Technologies,Pittsburgh, PA) is first introduced in the Transport Phenomena course, and they are trained toanalyze RTD in the Chemical Reaction Design Course. The project stages were: a) determine the rate law and the rate kinetic parameters: To minimize the time spent ondetermining the exact reaction mechanism, they were suggested to use a Hougan-Watson (H-W)kinetic model if the elementary reaction assumption is determined to be invalid [2]. Since the rateconstant

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

worksessions.LogisticsFaculty willing to experiment with new teaching methods were selected at the project’s inceptionin Summer 1993 for each required math, chemistry, physics, and biology course in the program.Additional faculty included three professors from the College of Engineering to evaluateengineering content and one from the College of Education to coordinate assessment and advisethe project faculty on instructional methods. Individual courses were modified, technology wasinvestigated and new methods were preliminarily inserted into existing courses for evaluation inFall 1993 and Spring 1994.Program participants were recruited from a mailing list of all applicants to the University ofFlorida for Fall 1995 admission who indicated an interest in majoring in

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

persistent experiment.”[2]One of the more recent initiatives in improving undergraduate engineering education has beenconducted by the NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition (FC), currently consisting of sixinstitutions: Arizona State University (ASU), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT),Texas A&M University (TAMU), the University of Alabama (UA), the University ofMassachusetts at Dartmouth (UMD), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UWM). Eachpartner institution worked within their particular and differing contexts to develop innovativecurricula based on four thrusts: integration of conceptual concepts across disciplines; active andcooperative learning; the use of technology in the classroom; and on-going assessment andevaluation.We

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohan Ketkar; Gopal Reddy

. Myers, G. E. Analytical methods in conduction heat transfer. Publisher: Genium Publishing, Schenectady, NY. 1987. ISBN: 0-931690-24-2. Page 8.851.9 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” 5. Incropera, F.P. and Dewitt, D.P. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. Publisher: John Wiley, New York. 2002. ISBN: 0-471-38650-2.MOHAN A. KETKAR is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the Prairie View A&

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eugene Eckstein; Charla K. Triplett

resources. The Alliance functions as a group of programs working together to collaboratively craftimproved methods to place students and promote internship experiences. While this networkinvolves technology, it relies heavily on the interpersonal interactions of the individual program Page 8.617.1coordinators, the national coordinator, and industrial participants. We have learned that the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcoordinator network is the backbone of the Alliance. Each local

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

& Economics at Lehigh University. Professor Watkins holds Ph.D. and M.P.P. degreesfrom Harvard University and a B.S. from the University of Rochester. He previously worked inoptical design and optic manufacturing engineering at Eastman Kodak. His research involves theeconomics of innovation, defense industry & dual-use manufacturing, and technology policy.Teaching areas encompass the role of technology in trade & economic growth; as well asmanagerial economics; and new product development. As faculty fellow, he directs Lehigh’sVenture initiative, which promotes innovation, inquiry-based, experimental curriculum throughoutthe university. He founded and serves as co-director of Lehigh’s Community Research and PolicyService (Lehigh

Conference Session

Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karen Grigg

. Page 8.1137.1The North Carolina State University Libraries (NCSU Libraries) joined the Patent and Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1Trademark Depository Library Program (PTDLP) in September 1977. Given the land-grant status of the University and its strong science and technology research focus, thedecision to become a patent and trademark depository program was logical.As the sole Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) in the state of NorthCarolina, the NCSU Libraries must balance the needs of independent inventors with thoseof the

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

. Cockerham, and D. Nopachai for their help with module development. Page 8.380.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences[1] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R. (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.[2] Schwartz, D.L., Brophy, S., Lin, X.D., Bransford, J.D. (1999). Software for managing complex learning: Examples from an educational psychology course. Educational Technology Research and Development

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott Wirgau; Abhinav Gupta; Vernon Matzen

the earthquake engineeringresearch community and the information technology community. Most of the engineers involvedare structural, geotechnical, and tsunami researchers, and they reside at participating universitiesacross the USA. This group’s objectives include setting up “collaborative capabilities [that] willallow analysts and experimentalists to work together in ways that were not previously possible.Tele-observation, data streaming and video streaming will provide access to data, access to state-of-the-art equipment, and the capability to cooperate across distance and time 1 .” The shake tableexperiment is one of the experiments that the NEESgrid is addressing. Additionally, NEES isdoing work on supporting hybrid experiments combining

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

..”13. Werner Adrian, consulting, Waterloo University.ROMAN STEMPROKAssistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at the University of North Texas. Registered PE inTexas. Actively involved in research for industry with more than ten years of industrial research experience, eightyears of teaching experience, and ten-plus research publications. Member of TAP5-TxDOT, IESNA, IEEE andCIE. M.E. in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal (1989), Ph.D. from the Department ofElectrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (1995).Preeti NagarajanA graduate student at the University of North Texas is pursuing a double Masters in Electronics Engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

implementation has left no negativeperceptions among our students. Also the instructors who use the system find it to be aneffective way to ensure consistency in communication and evaluation across designs in a givenyear as well as year to year. With its flexible and scalable attributes the CE Capstone evaluationand assessment system seems to have helped bridge the gap between student needs and instructorresources while maximizing the educational value of the capstone experience.1 Engineering Accreditation Commission, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” (Baltimore: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 2001) 1.2 Alan Dutson, et al, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

Session 2268 Learning Modules for the Statics Classroom Anna Dollár, Paul S. Steif Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 / Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213IntroductionMechanical integrity, which remains an essential requirement for a vast array of technologies, newand traditional, is strongly rooted in the basic subjects of mechanics. The success of students in awide range of courses in mechanical, civil, and

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donald Carpenter; Cindy Finelli; Honor Passow; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

at Kettering University and has beenactive in the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division of ASEE for several years. His research interestsinclude academic integrity among engineering students, fatigue of structural aerospace and automotive alloys andwear phenomenon in orthopedic implants.DONALD D. CARPENTER is Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. Dr.Carpenter received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2001. He is actively involved in ASEE and servesas Faculty Advisor for the American Society of Civil Engineering Student Chapter at LTU. Professionally, hisresearch interests involve water resources, stream restoration, and watershed processes.HONOR J. PASSOW, P.E., is a Ph.D

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Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

, NDC, private communications. Page 8.877.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”BiographyKATHERINE C. CHEN is an Associate Professor in the Materials Engineering Department at Cal Poly StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo, CA. She received her bachelor degrees (in Chemistry and Materials Science &Engineering) from Michigan State University, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At CalPoly, she teaches the undergraduates Structures of Materials, Kinetics of Materials, and

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

Session 3275 Tips for Teaching Obscenely Large Lectures Heidi Diefes-Dux, Deborah Follman, Robert Montgomery, William Oakes Purdue UniversityAbstractTeaching any class for the first time may be intimidating; but when that class is a lecture of 450freshman engineering students, it is downright scary. Good teaching practices including the use ofactive and cooperative learning still apply; however, many scale with lecture size. For example,reviewing 450 “minute papers” takes considerable time, even if the students’ comments are brief.This paper will present techniques that will help you

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

stimulates innovation by effectivelyusing both sides of the brain. It is a unified approach that builds on comprehensive problemsolving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math, science, engineering, technology,and daily life. The different dimensions, namely Uniqueness, Dimensionality, Directionality,Consolidation, Segmentation, Modification, Similarity, and Experimentation provide leaders,managers, and other problem solvers with new insights and thinking strategies to solve everydayproblems they face in the workplace. Problems are not constrained to a particular profession orsubject, and may be used by individuals and teams. It is easy to teach, learn and use themethodology.1. Introduction This paper details case studies where

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

trendline analysis would be useful for a faculty’s overall course evaluation for a given semester or thepast semesters and might be useful in instructional improvement process. Similarly, we plan toinclude features such as “exporting” the survey data to the Microsoft Word format or Excel sothat the data can be more easily integrated into annual program assessment reports.Bibliography:[1] Engineering Criteria 2000 3rd Edition: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States. Published by The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore MD. 1997. Available: http://www.abet.org/EAC/eac2000.html.[2] McGourty, J., Scoles, K, and Thorpe, S., “Web-based course evaluation: comparing the experience at two

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Margaret Pinnell; Gabrielle Williamson; Corinne Daprano

Society for Engineering Educationpreviously described soft skills. Another educational objective common to both classes was togive the students an appreciation of working with students and faculty members from othermajors as well as with people in the business community and representatives from non-profitorganizations. Both classes were required to do Internet and library research and to seekinformation from other professionals through personal interviews, tours, phone calls and e-mail.This was done in an effort to help the students develop their research skills and to help themunderstand how to apply information gained from their research to solve a problem. Anothereducational objective was to enhance the students’ ability to use technology to

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

technologies,and to build and renew the students’ desire to become involved in technological fields. This isaccomplished by allowing the students to experience math and science in ways that are excitingand meaningful to them in their everyday lives. The ATA utilizes project teams consisting of aneducation fellow, a science or engineering fellow (one is an undergraduate fellow and the otherone is a graduate fellow), and a participating secondary school teacher to develop and implementrelevant, hands-on lessons to teach math and science concepts in the classrooms. The lessonactivities are designed to introduce the required curriculum concepts in a fun and interestingmanner, to demonstrate the students’ potential to understand and enjoy math and science