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Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Donald Elger

Session 2230 Performance Criteria for Quality in Problem Solving Donald Elger*, Jennifer Beller+, Steven Beyerlein*, Barbara Williams# * Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID./ +Ed. Leadership & Counseling Psych., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA./ #Ag. and Bio. Systems Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.Abstract Many educators believe that our educational system teaches students to solve problems usingcook-book procedures, instead of teaching students how to solve problems in an effective way.In trying to raise issues of teaching and learning of problem

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

in the use of computing instruments. 3. Work more effectively in small groups as a result of further developed group problem solving skills. 4. Complete the design problem solving process from experience with a semester-long, discipline-specific design project. 5. Begin building professional relationships with faculty members within the student's chosen department. 6. Resolve basic engineering and professional ethical problems. 7. Make an informed decision on an engineering major based on exposure to various fields of engineering from active representatives in those fields. 8. Utilize the common solid foundation to logically lead into the introductory major-specific courses.With this wish list in mind, a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Middleton; Cheryl Gengler; Antonio Garciq; D. L. Evans; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Peter Crouch; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

Report Card. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ 2. Berliner, David (2001), “Averages that Hide the True Extreme” The Washington Post, Outlook Section, Sunday, January 28. 3. DeBoer, G. (1991) A History of Ideas in Science Education. NY: Teachers College Press. 4. Annenberg CPB (2002), “Minds of Our Own.” http://www.learner.org/resources/resource.html?uid=26&sj=SCI 5. National Academy of Engineering (2002). Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More about Technology. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 6. National Research Council (1995). National Science Education Standards. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press. 7. International Technological Education

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, 1999, ISBN 0-309-06557-7.Saleh M. SbenatyDr. Saleh M. Sbenaty is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Damascus University, Syria and the MS andPh.D. degrees in EE from Tennessee Tech. University. He is actively engaged in curriculum development forengineering and technological education. He has written and co-authored several case studies. He is alsoconducting research in the area of mass spectrometry, power electronics, instrumentation, and lasers. Page 8.700.7

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wafeek Wahby

worksheet.Indications of the success attained through using the SATALA approach PowerPointpresentations are monitored through the students’ overwhelming positive response toexploratory presentations adopting this mode of delivery. Of course, this wouldeventually be reflected also in enrollment and retention statistics.Discussion Page 8.1013.3The ability to visualize objects and situations in one’s mind and to manipulate those Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationimages is a cognitive skill vital to many career fields

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Meckl

ethicalmindset, they need the opportunity to grapple with ethical issues throughout their undergraduatecourses. With this in mind, I attended an Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshop1 in August2002 to learn how to incorporate ethics into engineering science courses. I was scheduled toteach “Automatic Control Systems” in Fall 2002, so I decided to use this course as a test bed forinserting ethics discussions into a technical engineering class. Page 8.736.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWhen I first contemplated the idea

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ebel; Roobik Gharabagi

anddemonstrate their prototypes. Failure to meet this deadline will result in a very low gradefor the Design II. Successful demonstrations of the prototypes permit groups to proceed to the finalphase of design sequence.IV Phase III: Final Design Review In this phase of the design projects are completed by packaging and final testing ofthe working projects. Then two manuals in addition to the final report are expected fromeach group. These are the technical manual and the operational manual. The technicalmanual is written with other engineers in mind. It is a guide for troubleshooting of possibleproblems. The second manual is for non technical people interested in operation and use ofthe product. Manuals are presented to EE dept

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

significantdifference in their confidence level.References1. Ashley, S. [1997, May] Getting a Hold on Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, ASME Press.2. Harrison, O. [2002], Hands-on = Minds-on: Bringing Mechatronics to Life Without Laboratory Time, Proceeding of 2002 ASEE SE Section Annual Conference.3. Southall, S. [2001] An Industrial Controls Course Sequence for Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Proceeding of 2001 ASEE SE Section Annual Conference. Page 8.226.7 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”4

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

students achieved a feel for the level of detailinvolved in communicating the information necessary to build the part. Many found itfrustrating and difficult to imagine the three dimensional part in their mind and put a scale Page 8.831.4drawing on paper.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1. A large scale model of a MEMS hinge. The part in front is still attached; the part in the back has been released (grey ABS material has been removed).A second field trip was scheduled, to the University of

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

pressure, energy, fluid properties, and system losses. Classroom lecturesand discussions typically progress from the fundamental physics involved in each topic to itsimpact on the design and performance of commercial systems students are likely to recognize,such as excavating equipment or portable power units. As such, students are regularly presentedwith exercise questions and problems that relate the theory of the night’s topic to facets theymight be responsible for in industry. With this underlying emphasis in mind, the laboratory projectdescribed below was presented under the guise of a “get your feet wet” assignment the “newlyhired college graduate” can quickly contribute to.On the surface the assignment appears straightforward and

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

Page 8.423.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education.be different from that of a person watching a scheduled television broadcast. In particular, thefollowing common perceptions about watching regular television need to be kept in mind whendeveloping a televised course, and deliberately countered during the development of coursematerials: • TV is entertainment • TV requires no action on the viewer's part • TV is something we can 'tune out' at will • TV abhors silence3. Design of Instructional MaterialsMost students and instructors are used to the lecture format

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

Session 1532 Understanding Loading in Feedback Amplifier Analysis Manuel Toledo-Quiñones Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Puerto RicoIntroductionThe application of negative feedback concepts to the analysis and design of electronic amplifiersis widely recognized as one of the most important subjects in electrical engineering curricula.Most electrical engineering students are exposed to feedback theory in courses primarily focusedon systems and automatic controls

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Trends in Construction Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Riley

Session 970 Applied Green-Building Technologies: An Interdisciplinary Public Scholarship Course David Riley; PhD and Elizabeth Workman Department of Architectural Engineering, Penn StateAbstractBuilding construction operations significantly contribute to the degradation of the environment,through both the consumption of non-renewable natural resources and the generation of waste.Awareness is increasing, however, of design and construction strategies that can help reduce theenvironmental impact of the built environment, leading to rapid growth in the popularity of“green

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Leland

A Teaching Module for the Nyquist Stability Test Using Cooperative Learning Robert Leland Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama Box 870286 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 rleland@coe.eng.ua.edu AbstractWe describe a three-class instructional module using cooperative learning to teach theNyquist stability criterion in an undergraduate controls class. This effort brings moderneducational methods, specifically cooperative learning, into a mainstream

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

Session 1048 Fuzzy Mobile Robots: A Student Design Workshop Rocio Alba-Flores, Marian S. Stachowicz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812 ralbaflo@d.umn.edu, mstachow@d.umn.eduAbstractThis paper describes the Design Workshop course offered at the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department (ECE) at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). This workshopcourse is one mechanism by which students

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

Page 8.480.8deadline. This strategy is motivated by a desire to students doing all kinds of assignment soonProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 8Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationafter each lecture, so that, e.g., while Lecture 10 is fresh in their minds, some students will bemaking up problems, some will be annotating, and some will be creating animations. Thisinsures that I get problems, animations, etc. over a wide range of lectures, rather than having allsubmissions concentrated on the lectures that were covered near the time an assignment wasannounced.Figures 6 and 7 show the assignments I recently gave in my masters-level parallel

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

idea that he or sheexperimental work. To counter these could derive a result with 8 significant figures. Atdeficiencies, a new lab course procedure was this session it was emphasized that in the fluidsinitiated. In this program, the students are lab 3 significant figure results are probablyrequired to write initial library research reports somewhat optimistic and data should be recorded with this in mind. This problem with thethat focus on some facet of significant figures, correct use of significant figures is furtherunits, or error analysis. These reports are

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Waddah Akili

Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationknowledge and adopt a more positive stance. Learning takes place in the minds of students andnowhere else. The effectiveness of teachers lies in what they can induce students to do. To start atransformation process, teachers need to be aware and concerned! They eventually have to doaway with the “traditional and mundane” procedures and start dreaming up experiences forstudents: things that they want students to do and activities that will help students learn andacquire information and skills.In the west, a paradigm shift is taking place in the academy, where the focus is moving away fromteachers and traditional teaching towards students and

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

Education.causes and effects and try to eliminate them. Then, as a secondary optimization level, themedium and low RPN values should be analyzed and eliminated in the same manner asthe highly rated values.To summarize, the lower the rating the better in this case. The DFRA team should keepin mind the following: 'The better the definition of the wanted characteristics, the easier itis to identify potential failure modes for corrective action.'Instructional Design and Example CasesIn terms of instructional design for IE (Industrial Engineering) our cases are object-oriented and self-contained; nevertheless, they can be integrated or grouped into differentclasses of objects in a lean and flexible way, just as a modern software program, or amodern

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Akinmusuru

abovedisclaimer, therefore, ABET is able to enforce the “Beneficiaries only within NationalBoundaries” clause. Would the signatories of the Washington Accord also “bestow” ongraduates of engineering programs in countries in which existing signatories have visited andconsidered “substantially equivalent” to the programs in their programs? Thus, what would bethe place of a program in Papua New Guinea about which the Institution of Engineers Australia(IEAust) has deemed “substantially equivalent”?The above brings to mind the issue of engineers trained outside of the United Kingdom onprograms identical to those in the United Kingdom (Akinmusuru and Akinmusuru 7). Althoughthe requirement of accreditation within national boundaries is prima facie reasonable

Conference Session

Trends in Civil Engineering Accreditation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Elliott

student’s graduate advisor and graduate study committee. The advisor andcommittee must evaluate the student’s abilities relative to each ABET outcome and must identifythe evidence used as a basis for the evaluation. If significant weaknesses are noted in any area,the committee can mandate remedial action to strengthen the student’s abilities. We developed aform that the committee is to use to document the formal evaluation and evidence. The formalevaluation generally takes place during the student’s degree defense; but, the evaluation ofabilities must be kept in mind throughout the student’s tenure in the program.This concern was also alleviated somewhat by the fact that the non-engineering student mustcomplete a large number of undergraduate pre

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

, H.L. 2001. Construction: Principles, Materials and Methods, 7th Edition, JohnWiley & Sons.Young, J.F., S. Mindness, R.J. Gray & A. Bentur. 1998. The Science and Technology ofCivil Engineering Materials, Prentice Hall, pp. 189 to 201.National Stone, Sand and Gravel Assn (NSSGA) http://www.nssga.orgAggregate-ASTM C29/C29M-97 Standard Test Method for Bulk Density (“Unit Weight”) and Voids in Aggregate.ASTM C127-01 Standard Test Method For Density, Relative Density (Specific Gravity), and Absorption of Coarse Aggregate.ASTM C128-01 Standard Test Method For Density, Relative

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

determine present and futuredecisions.” Corporations make corporate policies, and governments make public policies. Itwas explained that the primary focus of the course would be on public policies, but the studentswere asked to keep in mind that some of the techniques used to influence public policydevelopment can also be used to influence corporate policy development.Several articles were given to the students to clarify the purpose of this course. The substance ofthese articles is discussed earlier in this paper under the heading “Why Engineers NeedInformation about Public Policy.” Public policy information sources were identified including theweb sites of professional societies. Specifically it was pointed out that the AICHE has issuedseveral

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

adequate natural resources has become morecritical (8).Unfortunately, there is no elixir; however, careful planning and responsible use of both renewableand non-renewable resources can enable citizens to function and thrive in the coming decades.“Green” design includes, but is not limited to addressing the challenges of metropolitan developmentsuch as water quality, erosion control, energy conservation, waste disposal, and storm water drainage Page 8.611.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2003, American Society for

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirankumar Gundrai

Session2573 The role of Science and Engineering Technology in countering Terrorism- A Global perspective Kirankumar Goud Gundrai University of Nagarjuna, India A -Summary B -Introduction C -Global or International Terrorism D -Mechanism of terrorist activities E -Terrorism and psychological problems F -U.S. perspective on terrorism G -U.S. Policy Tenets H -India’s position on cross border terrorism I -Pakistan’s position on terrorism J

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

Session 3632 A New Approach in Teaching Electromagnetism: How to Teach EM to All Levels from Freshman to Graduate and Advanced-Level Students Norman Anderson and Mani Mina Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University1. Introduction1.1. Historical perspectiveJames Clerk Maxwell provided a unified field formulation of electromagnetism in 1873 with hisfamous “Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.”1 From the beginning he explained the field wasmade of a set of observed phenomena, fundamental concepts governing electromagnetism (EM),and

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1692 TechGirl: A Website for Middle-School Girls Interested In Science and Engineering James B. Adams, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Meena Nimmagadda, Michael Wagner, Milica Milovancevic, Anjali Gupta, Sandhya Pillalamarri, Sasha Pasulka Arizona State UniversityAbstractTechGirl is an exciting, dynamically evolving, interactive website dedicated to helping middleschool girls learn about science and engineering. It is intended to help them develop anappreciation for the beneficial impact of science and engineering on

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay K. Martin; Jay Martin; Dayle K. Haglund; Jennifer Kushner

Session_____ Developing a Philosophy of Practice: A New Approach to Curricular Evolution in Engineering Education At the University of Wisconsin Dayle K. Haglund, Jennifer Kushner, Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-Madison IntroductionABET EC20001 is remarkable in the flexibility allowed engineering departments in determiningthe content of their curriculum and the methodologies used to teach the curriculum. Thisflexibility is in sharp contrast to the prescriptive curricula previously specified by ABET. Thechange to ABET EC2000 should provide

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

completed the ACT in 2001 declared a STEM major (6) • Half of the households headed by women in Kentucky have annual incomes of less than $15,000 (6) • “Women with bachelor’s degrees are paid $34,000 a year on average—about $14,000 less than men with the same level of education. Women with doctorates are paid a little less than $67,000, compared with more than $112,000 for men” (6) • Kentucky has too few “quality jobs that lead to self-sufficiency, even for women with college educations”(6). (7)With these facts and figures in mind, how can the University of Kentucky tackle the job ofrecruiting and retaining women and minority students in engineering in Kentucky? We findourselves dealing with difficult problems

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

for multiple classes. The life of an engineering undergraduate can be extremely demanding and stressful. Although never an excuse for sub-par performance, this should always be kept in mind by faculty. Aim for both effective and efficient use of time in education and a maximum rate-of-return in learning with respect to time, money, and energy invested by students. Avoid busy work assignments that are redundant, trivially plug-and-crank, or cumbersome in ways not directly related to learning course material. Students and faculty should plan, organize, streamline, and work smart as well as work hard. Design questions, assignments, tests, and class activities to maximize the learning experience relative to a reasonable degree