Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

to convey a specific fluid; sizing and selecting a pump; selecting a heat exchanger; predictingsystem performance; and writing a report about the design of the system.When the tasks are identified, a completion date is selected for each one. By the end of the fifthweek of the semester, for instance, a pipe material and size will be selected. The tasks and targetcompletion dates are summarized in the form of a task planning sheet, an example of which is inTable 2. Also included on the task planner is the name/initials of the individual responsible forcompleting the task.Each group member keeps and maintains a notebook or diary of all tasks completed for the project.The diary contains any and all details of the work done by that particular

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

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

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

-based reflectivejournals as assessment tools of undergraduate chemical engineer students’ learning in avertically integrated team design project (VITDP) is the focus of this exploratory study.Participants from a large midwestern university were required to submit a reflectivejournal each week over a five-week period. The reflective journals of 23 participants wereanalyzed to unearth the conceptual descriptions of teamwork held by the participants, todescribe the role of metacognition in reflective journal writing, and to determine howreflective journals facilitate construction of knowledge. Thus, reflective journals weremeaningful as assessment tools because they communicated how VITDP participants learnand supplied valuable information to make

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

recruit thesestudents into their engineering programs.Once the students arrive, WIE program retention efforts work to counteract the trend we see ofsignificantly larger percentages of women dropping out of engineering undergraduate programsrelative to their male counterparts6,7,8. Retention activities are aimed at supporting students as wellas changing the climate in which students are immersed. Student activities range from first-yearstudent orientations, skills development programs (e.g. using power tools to tear apart and rebuildan engine), peer and professional mentoring, residence hall programs that cluster engineeringstudents together for ongoing peer support, female-clustered math and science courses, andcareer counseling and resume

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

managerial effectiveness and those managers’ consequentpreparedness for excellent performance, were in direct contrast with forced ranking methodapplied in many organizations-- some of the forced rankings being too subjective to defend themerit of company’s lean-mean objectives in severe budgetary crisis. The study found the following “abilities” of ET managers as armors against subjectiveforced ranking. 1. Demonstrated ability in building trust with peers, superiors 2. Ability to establish priorities, and setting goals 3. Effective writing: expressing ideas correctly 4. Clearly understanding clientele (and customer) needs 5. Ability of budgeting managerial work time 6. Showing and having flexibility

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

encourage them to get to know each other. • I use collaborative teaching and learning techniques. • I encourage students to participate in groups when preparing for exams and working on assignments. • I encourage students from different races and cultures to share their viewpoints on topics discussed in class.Encourage Active LearningLearning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classeslistening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments and spitting out answers.They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences,and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn a part of themselves. • I ask students to present their work to the

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

support, the § individual’s interest and motivation, the § society’s pressure and support on all of us to do better all the time, and these factors are inextricably woven together. Thus, understanding is a construction that is unique to the individual living in a particular culture, including all stresses and service in the given culture.Puzzlement is one of the factors that motivates learning, and in our cases we haveincluded several interactive exercises to increase this kind of excitement and to encouragelearning.Social negotiation and the ongoing testing of the viability of existing concepts in the faceof personal (and group, peer, and team) experience are the principle forces involved inthe filtering

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

kind must be made explicit and exploited to the greatest possible extent for the benefit of the work process and the group report. The group itself solves communication and cooperation problems with the help of a third party, if necessary. The group must hold a meeting with the group adviser at least once a week.3. The result of the international teamwork is evaluated in the work process and the specialist contribution in the group report. The group must be able to document their competence in working together on a major project assignment. Great emphasis is placed on this point. As proof of this, every individual participant in the group must answer the following four questions in writing:1

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Engineering Education The following comics problem is another non-technical introductory problem to the“Eight Dimensions”. Students were asked to write down solutions, first without the methodologyand later with it. In the beginning the average number of ideas was about five per student.However, when students were asked to use the methodology and its sub strategies to findsolutions, the number of ideas generated by each student varied from 15 to 35. These includeideas that are “unacceptable, non-feasible, expensive, too imaginative, unmarketable, useless,etc.”The comics problem Every morning T and G sit on the opposite sides of the table trying to read the samecomics section of the newspaper at the same time.Q: How can they both read it

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

include:currency, use of public transportation, a specific museum, etc. All of these presentations will becombined into a text prior to departure. Each student will receive this booklet as well as otherpertinent information. It will, in effect, become a custom guidebook for the trip. During the trip,students must keep detailed notes about their assigned topic. At the conclusion of the trip, theywill be responsible for writing a paper that details their assigned topic. They must also write acomprehensive evaluation of the trip from their perspective. This book will be compiled (with Page 8.43.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

required to do a research project on a subject of theirchoice and to write a report (five pages maximum per person) summarizing theirfindings, on which they make a brief presentation (less than 10 minutes) to the class.These presentations are peer-reviewed by their classmates.We decided to take an inclusive approach to developing course content on materials andgive members of the department an opportunity to participate in the sifting andwinnowing process later. The first working draft of AE-1231 included a list of all of theconstruction materials covered in the three existing courses. All of the lecture notes fromthe existing courses were sorted by construction material and included in the draftoutline.ASTM standards referenced in previous

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Narasingarao Sreenath

global issues—from climate change to AIDS, demographictransition, aging, carrying capacity, resource use (E.g.: water, energy, labor) etc.Dominant relationships, hierarchical modeling and techniques for combining thequantitative with the qualitative are used. A teaching tool has been developed withmodels and real-life data, which the students use in classroom exercises, as well as on aresearch project as a course requirement. The approach has been used for several years inundergraduate, university-wide course. The opportunity is provided for the students tointeract with peers in foreign countries on the selected global issues via the Internet. In Section 2 we will discuss the methodology used. Hierarchy and multilevelmodeling approach is

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Graphics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dioselin Gonzalez; Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

displaying 3D models.Director is able to render 3D scenes saved in Shockwave 3D (SW3) format usingOpenGL or DirectX. Most CAD packages are unable to write in this format directly. Tominimize the number of steps imposed on the users of the systems, the author decided towrite importers into director that could read any common file formats such as OBJ andDXF. Exporters for 3DS Max, Maya, and Lightwave 3D provided SWD files from thoserespective packages.Director’s 3D environment is extremely powerful. It allows scripting of any aspect of the3D world including vertices, lights, shaders, etc. Thus not only could models beimported but they could also be animated on the fly.In authoring mode, it is relatively easy to issue commands using Lingo to drive

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hansberry; Guido Lopez

and inexpensive tools such as screwdrivers, wire-cutting pliers, and soldering stations. The instructor provided these tools when needed and, inmany instances, students were able to carry the units with them and work on their assembly athome, in the classroom, or even at outdoor campus resting areas, without the need of a shoproom or a lab.During the oral presentation to their peers, students are required to explain the standard concepts Page 8.854.3and principles of instrumentation inherent to their projects, issues faced during the design process, “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik De Graaff; Gillian Saunders-Smits

the final (fourth) period of the third year the final project of the Bachelor program takes place.The Design Synthesis Exercise lasts 10 weeks and is only accessible for students who havecompleted the first two years of the curriculum. Students work in groups of 10 students on adesign topic chosen from a selection of topics. Each disciplinary group in the faculty is asked toprovide one or two principle tutor who must write a multi-disciplinary design assignmentsuitable this level of students. The project can therefore be classed as a problem project.The objectives of the design synthesis exercise are to enhance the student’s skills in6: - Designing - Application of knowledge - Communication (discussion, presentation, reporting

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

undergraduateteaching associates or peer mentors constitute the teaching team. The teams attend a workshopprior to the beginning of the quarter. The workshops vary from one and one-half to three daysdepending on the material to be covered and the expertise of the teaching team members. Thisworkshop includes material on how students learn, learning styles, cognitive growth in the collegeyears, assessment, standard practices, the use of the technology in the classroom along withWebCT, alternative methodologies, and the course contents. They also are instructed how to usethe collaborative exercises which are included in teaching materials.Instructional Practices - While the faculty can change the instructional materials to suit their stylesand methodologies

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Duco Jansen; Sean P. Brophy; Stacy Klein; Patrick Norris; Ming Wang, Vanderbilt University

network and server issues while some could be traced to user error due to an (unexpected)deficiency of basic computer skills of some of the freshmen, particular early in the semester. Asample of positive comments included: - “immediate feedback” - “being able to figure out what I had learned and what I hadn't understood” - “The VSAS system helped me figure out what I did and didn't know through a series of questions” - “The real time evaluation of our answers to relevant questions allowed us to learn our mistakes quickly and gain enhanced understanding by our answers along with the answers of our peers

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Yoon

the end of a class, their reports are submitted to the instructor or TA automatically. c) Students make appointments with the instructor using their PDAs to send the request to the instructor’s PDA and get a confirmation using the application suite. d) Students write answers of the exams and send answers to the instructor using the application suite. e) Students run and display their homework on the PDAs and project it on the screen with the help of the application suite.5 Development of Smart Classroom using RCSM In this section we will discuss how to use our Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware(RCSM) to develop our Smart Classroom. RCSM architecture is shown in Figure 2. In the

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

decisions have on theproducts or projects they are working on, the customer who buys the product, the owner whofinances the project and their reputation as a designer/builder and as a person. AECs through theirimportant work have vast impact on the lives of many people through health and safety issues aswell as financial issues. Bibliography • American Association of Architects (AIA). www.aia.org. • Banik, G.C. (2003) “Writing an Effective Case Study”. Proceedings: 39th Associated School of Construction (ASC) Annual Conference, Pp. 1-7, Clemson University, Clemson. • Construction Management Association of America (CMAA). www.cmaa.org. • Dorsey, Robert (1999

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Kevin Dahm

would be unlikely to argue that it is as significant of a learning objective as“drew meaningful and supportable conclusions.”Once the rubrics have been optimized, the next major task to be addressed is differentiating theperformance of individuals from the performance of the team. It is possible that a team couldhave one or more member who fully attains the desired learning outcomes, but whose teammatesfall substantially short of achieving these outcomes. Currently, the Chemical EngineeringDepartment at Rowan University uses a peer-assessment technique modeled after the processdescribed by Felder [26].Although this is a useful tool, it is somewhat over-reliant on student evaluation of their peers.Our experience indicates that reasonably

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

from the low performing schools of the region. The students are chosen sothat there is a mix of both high and low performing students and racial diversity in thegroup. The program endeavors to provide a positive experience for the participants so asto inspire them to prepare for MSET related fields in college. Also, it is hoped that theparticipants themselves will act as messengers and advocates of the program and program Page 8.853.1objectives among their siblings and peers. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps

long-term, on-line archives.The Internet is also a source of shopping, news, entertainment and many other diversions andconsequently most incoming students today are proficient in accessing on-line information, butnot necessarily in a professional capacity. The plethora of information available could be, at theleast, a distraction and can make it very difficult to find needed documentation.A new problem with accessing technical information on-line is that of assuring the quality andvalidity of the information obtained. Many of the reliable external mechanisms used byprofessionals over many years, such as peer-review and editorial oversight, are rarely used withInternet data sources. Professionals and students need to develop new techniques to

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

concerning a challenge; for example, through advanced computer-based simulations, students are able to vary parameters of a model and study the effects thatthese changes have on model performance; (5) Test Your Mettle provides a means of formativeassessment, allowing students to reflect on what they have learned thus far, and to identify anyweaknesses or misconceptions they still may have; and (6) Go Public encourages students toshare their thoughts and ideas with their peers and provides a summative assessment.HPL-inspired Course on Movement Biomechanics The senior author has previously developed and taught an undergraduate biomedicalengineering course titled “BME 342: Computational Biomechanics”. This course was designedto teach students

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

Session 2160 Undergraduate Engineers Get Credit for Saving Venice Fabio Carrera1, David DiBiasio2, and Natalie A. Mello1 1 Interdiscipilinary and Global Studies Division 2 Department of Chemical Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609IntroductionEngineering students, like their peers in other areas of study, enter college today with an openmind. They have hopes and dreams, fears and priorities . . . and when students begin theiruniversity career, their goals include

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

, teach each other, and learn from one another. It also has a social thread because thestudents have fun together and develop a commitment to the success of the community. An upperdivision student provides mentorship, leadership, and team building to the learning community.The version of this model implemented by Iowa State University and Monterrey Technical Institute(Mexico) involves a group of six to eight students from Monterrey Tech who study for a semester atIowa State with a group of six to eight Iowa State students. The entire group then moves toMonterrey Tech for the second semester.The experience to date has shown that students in leaning communities have an easieracclimation to a foreign culture. Peer acknowledgement, support, and

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Giesey

CIES, the OhioUniversity Fulbright Contact Person, and the Fulbrighters on campus were good sources forinformation, advice and critical review.The first review of the application is performed by a multidisciplinary peer review committee fromthe U.S. Criteria used to judge application include professional qualification, match of expertisewith needs of host institution, research design and methodology, and the ability to serve as acultural ambassador. In January the applications that were approved are sent to the bi-nationalcommission in the host county. This committee decides which of the approved applications will befunded. In my case there were four approved applications (three for the University of Namibia andmine for the Polytechnic) with

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

students were introduced to the modules, the first realintegration of the ILMs came in the fall of 2000. Students were asked to evaluate the modules andrespond to a survey (developed by the Evaluation Consortium of the University at Albany) in thefall of 2000, spring of 2001 and fall of 2001 sections. In addition, students were asked to write areport critiquing the modules and to offer suggestions for future development. The following is abrief description of how a number of the modules were used in the circuits classes at Rensselaerand UT-Dallas: Simple Resistive Circuits Lecture - The students were shown several examples using themodule to illustrate the principles of combining resistances in series and parallel. Students werethen given

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Page 8.327.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwant to write software but do little to entice other students to explore software developmentcareer opportunities. The practical problems faced by most secondary schools attempting toimplement these curricula include computing resource limitations and a lack of qualifiedteachers. These limitations further restrict the opportunities most students have to exploresoftware development career opportunities.With few exceptions such as the new Toronto curriculum, most secondary school programs failto address the issues motivating the research described

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

setting. One of the most excitingresponses to come from the student survey was that 96% would recommend, or would probablyrecommend, the class to their peers. Therefore, we conclude that technology introduced into theschools through teacher professional development can make a difference in students’ attitudestoward, and learning of, science and mathematics. Schools in which this materials science andtechnology course is now taught are experiencing increased enrollments in the traditionalchemistry and physics courses.ASU has had several programs, including WISE Investments 9,10 and the MESA Program, 11aimed at in-service training of teachers, counselors, and administrators to better understand DETand to teach to the standards, particularly those

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

: aProposed Baccalaureate Program and Contextual Base.18 Observing that many undergraduatesrequire more than nine semesters to complete a curriculum designed for eight, they advocate thereduction of degree requirements to 120 credits, or a reduction from 45 to 40 courses. With a“right-sized” curriculum, engineering majors have the same degree requirements as their peers inarts and sciences.As a specific example, in 1991 Carnegie Mellon University reduced the freshman course loadfrom five courses per semester to four, and now requires freshmen to take two introductoryelectives before choosing a major. Students can start the sequence of required courses in aspecific major in sophomore year fall semester and still complete their degree in four years. 19