Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grimm

Session 2425 A Just-In-Time Approach to Teaching Senior Design By: Thomas R. Grimm Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe subject of this paper is the approach used to teach the senior design project course inthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Michigan Technological University. Theprimary objective in the development of the required two semester senior designsequence was to insure a positive experience in mechanical engineering design whileeliminating the procrastination that can be prevalent in long term

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

Session # 2647 Design and Use of a Standalone TCS/Computer System For Teaching Thermal Behavior Tim Cooley Purdue University, School of TechnologyWhile the modern desktop computer used by students today is a valuable analytical andcomputational tool, it is rarely studied in the classroom as a thermal system. In order toeffectively study such a potentially complex system however, there are difficulties that must beovercome. The most tangible difficulty concerns the cost and complexity of instrumenting andcontrolling the computer while still retaining its

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education7. “MathCAD” is a trademark of MathCAD, Inc.8. “Mathematica” is a trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc.9. MATLAB”, MATrix LABoratory is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc..10. “MS Excel”, Microsoft Excel is a trademark of Microsoft CorporationJAMES D. BOWENJames D. Bowen is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at UNC Charlotte. He received hisPh.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bowen teaches MATLAB programming,hydraulics, aquatic chemistry, and water quality modeling. His research interests include water quality and eutro-phication modeling, model uncertainty analysis, and the microscale fluid motions around phytoplankton

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

Session 3554 A Holistic Approach to Teaching Engineering Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Carmo D’Cruz, P.N. Vaidy Vaidyanathan University of Central FloridaAbstractWith their creative product and technology ideas, engineers are excellent sources of high growth-potential entrepreneurial and technology commercialization ventures. However, this resource hasnot been effectively supported by academia in general, to fully realize its potential.This paper reviews

Conference Session

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

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Davalos

learning," which consists of integrating innovative laboratory techniques with computermodeling and visualization tools to create an interactive and a collaborative team-orientedenvironment for students to dynamically participate in their own learning. An active learningapproach is used to develop the instructional materials for ACM. The goal of the "active learning"curriculum is to create an effective learning environment where students enjoy “hands-on”experiences through laboratory experiments and computer simulations and illustrations. Thegeneral objectives of this study are: (a) to develop a framework on active learning approach, (b) toapply this framework to design teaching modules on fundamentals and applications of ACM; and(c) to translate

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Schmidt

, statistical inference and hypothesis tests forone or two samples, and design of single-factor experiments (i.e. analysis of variance, ANOVA).When time allows, linear regression is also covered. These topics provide students with afoundation in statistics and data analysis that prepares them for the experimental design projectand for future experimental work in the BME laboratory course and in their future careers.The purpose of the experimental design project is to teach practical application of the statisticalskills (taught through lectures, homework, and exams) to design of experiments and tointerpretation of data for reaching valid conclusions. The experimental design project forcesstudents to address an open-ended problem, learn related

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

courses for first-year engineering fundamentals to a framework that involves two coursesequences with tightly coupled courses. Engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming are now offered in each of two coursesequences,1 one called the Fundamentals of Engineering and the other the Fundamentals ofEngineering for Honors. These course sequences retain part of the traditional material but nowinclude hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects.2 Teamwork, projectmanagement, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed important roles in bothsequences. This paper describes the administrative and teaching experiences with a design/buildproject course in the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

• Laboratory testing 2004 • Finalize Design • Final plans and • Analyze prototype with • Use prototype reactor specifications challenge water in class laboratory • TBD Spring 2004 • New Design Project Figure 3 The Project Organization and MilestonesEV490This is the capstone engineering course in the curriculum for the students. Students havecompleted pre-requisite courses, as shown in Figure 1, that serve to increase

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

environmental microbiologywithin our graduate and undergraduate environmental engineering curricula. For the past threeyears, we taught a novel course entitled, “Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering.”Course evaluations over the past three years suggested that the course was successful forprimarily two reasons, namely: (1) the course employed a problem-based learning approach tounderlie all learning activities; and (2) experiments were conducted by student teams facilitatinginterpersonal communication as a primary means of learning from peers. This paper outlines thespecific experimental procedures employed in the laboratory, as well as evaluates the results ofstudent input from assessment tools including: one-on-one interviews with the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

students.This course then is provided as an opportunity to the educational community to enter this “bravenew world”. Details on lecture content and recommended supporting laboratories will beprovided as hand-outs at the ASEE conference.ReferencesPublication title: Journal of SMET Education: Innovations and Research Jan. 2000 – April2000 Volume 1, Issue 1: “I Want My Pizza Hot! – A Case Study – Instructor’s Guide” by Saleh Sbenaty “Case Studies for Teaching Technology: Contexts for Case Content – Companion Note” by Mark E. Walls, May 2000 – August 2000 Volume 1, Issue 2: “Wheelies on the Beltway – A Case Study – Instructor’s Guide” by James M. Northern September 2000 – December 2000, Volume 1, Issue 3 “The

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

MATLABcapabilities support are discussed in class that includes solving a variety of problems usingsimultaneous equations, graphing, computer programming and others.The author of this paper has been teaching mechanics and structural analysis courses formany years for students in large classes. In recent years, he has incorporated the use ofmodern software tools such as MATLAB and MAPLE in teaching these courses and inencouraging students to use these very versatile tools in the learning process. Typicallyhomework assignments and group projects require the use of these tools that are easilyaccessible in the computer laboratories located across the campus. If group projects aredone using these tools, students are required to make presentations and share

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Stefanone; Jae-Shin Lee; Geraldine Gay; Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder; Scott Jones; John Dannenhoffer

conducting a study on theeffectiveness of advanced information technology tools for facilitating communication andcollaboration at a distance. This study combines fundamental research into the design and use ofthe IT tools as well as practical experience with using IT tools for distance collaboration. Ourworking hypothesis is that proper use of IT based collaboration tools can facilitate effectivedesign collaboration at a distance and can enhance our student’s education, better preparing themfor tomorrow’s workplace.Course Description To provide a formal mechanism to learn about, and subsequently teach students about, toolsand techniques for harnessing the benefits of distance collaborations, Syracuse (SU) and Cornell(CU) Universities have been

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zia Razzaq

Session 1046 An Effective Teaching Strategy for Motivation and Retention of Engineering and Technology Freshmen Zia Razzaq Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529AbstractThe introduction of a pair of new courses titled ”Explore Engineering and Technology I and II” atOld Dominion University has yielded dramatic results in both motivating and retaining freshmen.Each course is of two credit hours and is divided into three five-week modules. Each five-weekmodule is

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

” Conclusions Parsons et al. (1999) presents an excellent summary of warnings research thatreviews and summarizes data from more than 150 laboratory and field studies publishedduring the last 15 years. One interesting observation presented in this paper is that“laypersons may not recognize that a warning is poor until they see a good one.” Anexcellent start toward producing a “good” warning can be assured by ensuring that itcomplies with standards which have been available for a more than 50 years. Wheninvestigating an accident scene or equipment, where accident prevention signs were (orshould have been) utilized, it is important to document whether the signs conform to theaccepted standards published more than 50 years ago. Just as the general

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales; Thomas Consi

that can be tackled with simple tools and small budgets. We have createda Freshman seminar subject at MIT in which the students build and modify a kit-based modelrocket. In parallel we discuss the elements of rocket physics and guide them in creating theirown predictions of the what the acceleration curve should look like for the rockets. Their goalfor the term is to collect the data needed to test their predictions. To accomplish it, they build acompact microcontroller circuit that can log acceleration at 1,000 samples per second. Duringthe term, the students learn the basics of programming the microcontroller and explore its uses inthe laboratory. At the end of the term, the class goes to a large open area, launches the rockets,and returns

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

loosely tied to a FORTRAN programming course unit. Lately, we have completelyrevamped this course. While computer programming instruction remains, we now teachMATLAB, software that is currently being used in several other courses that are part of the CivilEngineering curriculum. In addition, we now teach MATLAB during a balsa wood bridgedesign competition, in which groups of students compete to build the truss-style bridge havingthe highest benefit (a function of strength) and lowest cost. Structural, cost, and profit analysesare done using MATLAB scripts that students write as homework assignments through thesemester. In course units on Dimensional and Engineering Analyses, students learn how tocompute the tensile and compressive member

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Balik; Nachiappan Nagappan; Laurie Williams; Julie Petlick; Carol Miller; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

was conducted at the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationUniversity of Utah in an undergraduate Software Engineering course 2, 4, 5 . In this work, theresearchers observed a number of educational benefits, including increased satisfaction/reducedfrustration from the students, increased confidence from the students on their project results, andreduced workload of the teaching staff. Similarly, educators at the University of California-SantaCruz have reported on the use collaborative laboratory activities in an introductory undergraduateprogramming course, specifically in the form of pair

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEach EPICS project involves a team of eight to twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profitcommunity partner – for example, a community service agency, museum or school, orgovernment agency and a faculty or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistantsfrom seven departments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors,and senior and is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through finaldeployment. Once the initial project(s) is completed and deployed, new projects

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

Session 2109 Design, Implementation, and Assessment of an HPL-inspired Undergraduate Course on Biomechanics Marcus G. Pandy, Anthony J. Petrosino, Ron E. Barr, Laura Tennant, Ajay Seth Department of Biomedical Engineering/Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712Introduction New developments in learning theory suggest that instructors can improve studentunderstanding by changing their teaching practices. Innovations in instructional design such asproblem-based, case-based, and project-based learning have been designed to combat

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

the Media Laboratory: A Case Study in Web-based Course Creation,” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Frontiers in Education Conference. 2. Green, K.C. (2001) “eCommerce Comes Slowly to the Campus,” Summary of the 2001 National Survey of Information Technology in US Higher Education, The Campus Computing Project, http://www.campuscomputing.net/. 3. Vogel, D. and Klassen, J. (2001) “Technology-supported learning: status, issues, and trends,” Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, volume 17, pp 105. 4. “Guidelines for Recognizing Faculty Teaching Effectiveness and Related Contributions,” Memorandum from Dean Ben G. Streetman to College of Engineering Faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Session 1778 Orienting Students to Important Features of ECG Cycle and Measurement Paul King, Stacy Klein, Sean Brophy Department of Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractA one-credit freshmen level biomedical engineering course is offered each fall semester tonew students to teach them how the ECG is measured and what biological factorsinfluence the characteristics of these signals. Several of the primary learning objectivesincluded evaluating anomalies in ECG traces, computationally evaluating the normal ECG,and defining and explaining

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

field of turbulent heat transfer and aerogelmanufacturing techniques, she teaches courses in introductory mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer andthermal-fluid science design.RICHARD D. WILKRichard D. Wilk is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Union College. He received his B.S, M.S. andPh.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University. He conducts research in the fields of combustionand alternative energy systems and teaches courses in freshman design, thermodynamics, heat transfer, solarenergy, turbomachinery, compressible fluid flow, and design of thermal-fluid systems. Page 8.1200.4 “Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

form), and (3) a form of instruction (i.e., organizational framework forinstructional units).In the sections that follow, we describe the data we have collected and analyzed to date,methods of evaluation, and preliminary findings. We conclude with a discussion of thepotential of concept mapping as a method for capturing and assessing students’conceptual knowledge of the design process, and an instructional technique that helpsstudents integrate new knowledge into existing knowledge structures. We also describeways in which design instructors might incorporate concept maps into their teaching, andoffer suggestions for future research.MethodsParticipants were 51 (18 females, 33 males; 49 seniors, 2 juniors) students enrolled in ayearlong

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

acceleration is independent of weight.Again, the Arabic language may have a subtle influence on the concept in question and contributeto the somewhat lower scores among the PI students. The word for gravity in Arabic,“jathibiyah,” has unusual connotations. It implies a force of “attraction” or a “pull.” The sameword is often used interchangeably to refer to magnetism although magnetism is also translated as“goowah magnetisiah” or “magnetic power.” Further research is needed to determine if there is abasic ontological difference between the concepts of gravity and magnetism in the minds of thestudents. This has implications for teaching, as instructors need to explore the connotative anddenotative aspect of English words used to describe scientific

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

detailed design of thecourse; 5) a learning outcomes assessment, and 6) a discussion of challenges for the future. A useful way of categorizing typical introduction to engineering courses has beenpresented by Sheppard and Jenison.1 One dimension contrasts teaching students as individualsversus grouping them in teams. Another dimension contrasts content (such as the traditionalengineering content of kinetics and dynamics, energy, electrical circuits, information and so forth)versus process (in particular, the process of design). On this map, the Union College Introductionto Engineering and Mechatronics course combines the teaching of content on an individual basiswith the teaching of process on a team basis. Students are grouped in sections

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

practical context,foster the development of practical skills such as oral and written communication and teamwork,as well as teach the underlying scientific principles. Learning and instructional theories explainthat providing real-life contexts increases students’ interest, provides opportunities for studentsto apply their knowledge, and prepares students for situations they will encounter aftergraduation2, 3. In addition, the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) hascompelled engineering schools to re-examine their curricula and to make appropriate changes toalign learning outcomes with the new criteria 4. Page 8.348.1

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

several different courses.Engineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is an introduction to engineeringdesign course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the Altoona Collegeof the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering designprocess is taught through team oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. Implementation of project-based learning in ED&G 100course is achieved by assigning a comprehensive project designed to encompass all thefundamental engineering principles covered in the course and to complement the projectsconducted in the associated design laboratory. The capstone project requires students todesign a product to be mass produced

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Onofrio Russo; Gunter Georgi

. Diana Flesche, a Teaching Assistant, helped greatlyin the preparation of this manuscript. Elisa Linsky provided copy editing assistance.Bibliography1. “Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in Freshmen Engineering,” J. Ingham and L. M. Folan, presentation at the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 20, 2000.2. “Introducing Design Throughout the Curriculum,” G. W. Georgi, L. M. Folan and D. R. Doucette, presentation at the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 19, 20023. “EG 1004 – Introduction to Engineering and Design,” Laboratory Manual, Polytechnic University, August, 2002.4. Freshman Engineering Website: http://eg.poly.eduONOFRIO N. RUSSOOnofrio N. Russo is the Special Assistant to the Head of Civil

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

controlled laboratory experiments with children supported these principles (Mayer,1997; Moreno & Mayer, 1999; Mayer, Heiser & Lonn, 2001). In recent years, however,research with so called “pedagogical agents”, which are computerized characters that appear on astudent’s screen to help guide the learning process, has posed some challenges for the modalityprinciple. Though these agents appear to create redundancy for the visual channel when theyappear on a screen with visual information, they still have been found to facilitate learning(Atkinson, 2002).The shear flow study reported here is an attempt to add a data point to the above investigationson the efficacy of hypermedia in learning. This study consists of a controlled examination