Conference Session

Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Weber; Deborah Ross; Angela Lueking

studies before, during, and after each class.The content of the course was designed with engineering students in mind. Higher-level thinkingskills, such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are required of engineers. Presentationsincorporate general engineering fundamentals such as process flow diagrams, process control,mass balances, etc. All presentations incorporate the unifying theme of the triple bottom line; thuseconomic, environmental, and societal considerations are used in each presentation. Most guestspeakers are practicing engineers who have faced challenges in sustainability in the course of theirday-to-day activities. This also provides several networking opportunities for both the studentsand the industrial

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

typical industry engineers, technologists, and managers in mind. Tomaximize the number of returns, two key features considered in the design were accessibility ofthe survey and time required to complete the survey. Since most industry practitioners use e-mailas a standard form of communication, the survey was designed as a web page that could be sentto participants as a link within an e-mail announcement. The length of the survey was minimizedsuch that it would take most respondents less than five minutes to complete: eleven multiple-choice questions, a section for comments, and a place to provide contact information if desired.In addition, it was necessary to provide some means of ensuring only people with an appropriatebackground would complete

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Smith-Jackson; Chang Soo Nam; Chanel Thomas

design and human attributes (students).“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Maddux, Johnson and Willis (1997) 3 stated, that like any other tool, a computer may bemisused. As of today, Web pages are developed by anyone who has the capability to do so. Thereare few standards or guidelines that must be followed to publish a page. This simply means that thereare a vast number of authors on the Internet. With this in mind, it becomes even more important toeducate Web publishers responsible for designing and ensure that they not only appeal to the user’sneeds but also to the user’s behavioral styles. According

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

Session 1420 Pocket PCs as Tools in Digital Circuit Laboratories Christopher R. Carroll Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth ccarroll@d.umn.eduAbstractDigital circuit laboratories are notoriously brimming with high-technology instrumentation and allsorts of gadgets that can boggle the mind of students entering any electrical or computerengineering program. These labs are generally the first electrical or computer

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

THE WORLD, Rolla, MO • WATLOW INDUSTRIES, St. Louis, MO • META STABLE, St. Louis, MO • DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES, St. Louis, MO • PRIER PRODUCTS Grandview, MO • MISSOURI ENTERPRISE, Rolla, MO These companies also invested their engineering time and other resources to the project. Students were given real-life projects based on manufacturing processes and were required to analyze unit steps and suggest possible innovations. Many industries have instituted worker incentive programs that seek suggestions for product and process improvement. We would like to introduce this concept in the classroom to train young minds to ‘think differently’ and implant the seeds

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Swingle Nunes

Session 2793 Getting in the Groove: A Short Summer Research Experience Builds Skills and Belonging Stacie Swingle Nunes State University of New York at New PaltzBirth of the SUNY New Paltz Summer Session Research Program A program of academic support and enrichment was founded at SUNY New Paltz in themid 1980’s with the goal of increasing the retention of traditionally underrepresented andeconomically disadvantaged students with majors in the sciences, math and engineering. Theprogram is known now as AC2 in honor of the three programs that

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

. Easy to say, buthow to make students’ minds follow that path of thinking when the vast majority of theirengineering learning effort is spent on learning mathematical principles with a goal of using themfor optimization and numerical assessment. Consequently, the students are examined and gradedalmost exclusively on performance that is based on the mathematical knowledge, memorization ofprocedures and data. Despite its abstract nature, mathematics based engineering knowledge iseasily quantifiable, and there is a lot of historical experience available in teaching it. On the otherhand little learning time and grading effort is accorded to development of creativity, inventivenessand learning logical methods of designing. It is somewhat

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Furey; Eugene Brown

theappropriate background. In some cases it has been possible to establish a direct connection. Forexample, in mining and minerals engineering where in one course a “heat engine” model of mineventilation is used and in aerospace and ocean engineering where an application to propulsiondevices exits, it is possible to provide a direct and natural connection. But in many cases, theconnection is either not immediate or is more related to heat transfer than to thermodynamics. Page 8.1318.1Examples which come to mind include connections with electronic-equipment coolingrequirements or machine-tool design. Suffice it to say that in general this faculty

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu; S. Gary Teng

their work, allocating of humanand non-human resources, budgeting financial resources, and managing time. The experience inmanaging these projects related issues could improve students’ engineering, management, andproject management skills that are crucial for success in their professional careers.The benefits for industry in providing industrial projects for engineering programs include gettingfresh engineering minds and out-of-box perspective to solve design, operation, andimplementation problems, obtaining expertise in technical and systematic problem solving andproject handling, acquiring help to do projects while there is a manpower shortage, and providingemployee education through project collaborations.For faculty members involved in

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

students and the instructor and enhanced the learningenvironment.VII. Acknowledgements:This work was supported in part by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the NationalScience Foundation under Award Number EEC-987636. The authors like to acknowledge thestudents in ES101 section 11 for their help and support in this course and for their willingness tocomplete yet another evaluation form.VIII. Bibliography:Bransford JD, Brown AL, Cocking RR (eds) How People Learn : Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (ExpandedEdition), National Academic Press, (2000).Brophy SP, Norris P, Nichols M, Jansen ED - Development and Initial Experience with a Laptop-based StudentAssessment System to Enhance Classroom Instruction – Proceeding ASEE (in press) (2003

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

something students do. It requirescompelling problems and well-designed laboratories, studios, workshops, and playingspaces. It demands strenuous efforts and experts to intercede with stories, admonitions,or principles when students fail, as they must, if they are to learn. Most of the learningthat results in the expertise of the practicing scientist, engineer, or poet is accomplishedthrough hands and minds on a task. Just think of the contrast between the activities ofapprentices in a workshop and the passivity of pupils in a lecture hall.If we refocus our efforts on learning, professors can exploit information technology toprovide data, scholarly references, and simulated problems for cognitive workshops. Inthose workspaces, student investigators

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

Session 3248 Merits of Faculty Internship in Industry – A Valuable Experience Ahad S. Nasab and James H. Lorenz Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractOne of the more effective ways for the engineering technology programs to keep faculty abreastof the new developments in their respective fields is to instill a faculty internship program.Studies have shown that faculty industrial placement is a component of life-long learning thathelps to maintain and expand technological skills1. The internship program at Middle TennesseeState University (MTSU), fully supported by the industrial

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

“technical leadership” become an effective theme for your work in CTI?Representative Responses: The main area in need of improvement for me and many engineers is communication especially in presentations. This is a major area that I think holds engineers back from being able to advance into leadership positions that they are technically qualified to perform. Aspiring to be a great technical leader starts with practice. Principles of technical leadership can be used in CTI for the classwork, especially the project, for exactly that purpose. This is everything – it sums up all of my career goals. Put me on your mailing list for discussions! I will keep in mind that it is insufficient to just

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

In practice, teams are used for engineering projects for many reasons, including: P To gain innovation from a variety of creative minds. P To utilize people with different expertise and strengths P To address a task in greater detail P To serve as a check for each other, identifying potential errors and problems. To better prepare the students for the work environment, a capstone project can be assigned to teams of students [10, 11]. Capstone Projects that Use Industrial Clients Incorporating an industrial problem can enhance the capstone problem itself [6,15]. Student motivation is greatly improved by the challenge to solve a real

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

1 14. I feel satisfied with the Highly Agree 10 Highly Agree 5 Highly Agree 8 course. Agree 8 Agree 9 Agree 13 Disagree 2 Disagree 3 Disagree 1 *No answer means that these students had already made up their mind on the choice of their major.Looking at the student response, it can be concluded that the objectives of the course have beenwell satisfied. Although the students cannot be definitive about their preparation for futurecourses, the answers indicate that the course has provided them with confidence for future studyin engineering/technology. The

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

provide “just-in-time” information for current teamactivities. By doing rather than merely observing, students engaged in “constructivist”instructional techniques.In the spirit of NOVA’s mission, we have developed this course with four specific goals in mind:! To improve the science and engineering problem-solving skills of pre-service teachers! To model effective teaching methods to the students! To provide opportunities for the students to create their own problem-solving strategies and modules and practice communicating them to others.! To have outreach into the K-12 community through • workshops for in-service teachers taught by our students • presentations by our students in actual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

whencompared to their presence in the population. This underrepresentation, which is even worseamong engineering faculty, is of great concern to ASEE. Chubin and Slaughter 2 discuss in theSeptember 2002 edition of Prism what they call the “stunted pipeline” that has resulted in theabsence of minority faculty members in engineering education. They state that only 20% of thebachelor recipients are women and less than 12% were minorities in 2001. They challenge theengineering schools to produce more minority engineers, which will hopefully lead to moreminority faculty.In the April 2002 edition of Prism, Representative Vernon Ehlers, (R-MI), also makes a case forincreasing the diversity in engineering. 3 He states:Diversity is essential in engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hoskin; Ronald Welch

Session 2793 Scope Management for Independent Study projects James R. Hoskin, Ronald W. Welch Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy at West PointAbstractIndependent study projects serve as avenues for mature students to participate in detailed studyprojects on topics of their own interest. These study projects foster student creativity and self-motivated, autonomous work, which frequently results in a student’s best work. Often, theseprojects are inter-collegiate competitions, independent research, or a community or

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B.K. Hodge

3 Internal Combustion Engines 4 Combustion Turbines 5 Fuel Cells 6 Heat Exchangers 7 Absorption Chillers 8 Desiccant Dehumidifiers 9 Case Study BibliographyPictures, illustrations, and tables are extensively used to aid in student appeal and understanding.The Bibliography section was developed with instructors in mind and contains citations

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

technology studentat Buffalo State College, class of 2003, for his assistance in this project. Page 8.55.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAppendix: Program OverviewBSC-POST is designed with the following points in mind: • The program should be modular, where each module consists of machine dependent properties and methods. This would facilitate expansion of the program as one added new machines. • The program should have a graphical user interface so that the user

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King

Session 3613 Imbedding Assessment and Achievement of Course Learning Objectives with Periodic Reflection Franklin G. King and Shamsuddin Ilias North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractBy now, all engineering programs in the U.S. have a set of program outcomes (POs) that havebeen designed to meet the latest ABET requirements A critical issue related to implementing andsustaining the current ABET criteria is how to effectively use valuable faculty time to get theassessment data needed to evaluate a program and to make improvements in a program. In

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Tollner

of several common texts).Contemporary introductory thermodynamics courses focus more on the simplecompressible substance and less on other systems (e.g., the simple magnetic substance).Topics such as statistical thermodynamics and the kinetic theory of gases are given lessemphasis. There continue to be perceived relevance questions in the minds of the studentsregarding the significance of this body of knowledge to the practice of engineering, evenwith the tighter focus (compared to the treatment of the discipline in the sciences).Combinations of thermodynamics subjects and other coursesThe continuing pressure to reduce hours at the BS level provides continuing motivationto reevaluate the structure of the core of courses used to deliver the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dempsey; Craig Totman

. Page 8.375.7 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition c 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis work has been supported in part by NSF grant CMS-9634846 and in part by U.S. Armygrant DAAD 19-00-1-0479.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. ACI 446 Fracture Toughness Testing of Concrete, State-of-the-Art Report, Draft I, September 2002.2. Andre, T. “Minds-on and Hands-on Activity: Improving Instruction in Science for All Stu- dents,” Mid-Western Educational Researcher 10 (1997) 28-34.3. Elshorbagy, A. and Schonwetter, D.J. “Engineer Morphing: Bridging the Gap Between Class- roon Teaching an the Engineering Profession,” International Journal of Engineering Edu

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang; Eric Gillispie

of user interaction will bereflected immediately in the 3D real world scene and the 2D rendering result. The webwarewas written by using the GL4Java library that provides native OpenGL binding for Java. NateRobin’s well-known demos were implemented. These include translation, projection, lighteffect, texture mapping, and so on. New demos were also developed with pedagogicalconsiderations in mind to emphasize the differences between model transformation and viewtransformation. Although the webware is designed for computer graphics learning themethodology is generic and can easily be applied to other disciplines or courses that requireheavy visual presentation. This webware reflects our long-term efforts to develop web-basedcourse material to

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

: - Be more creative – place more emphasis on exploration and imagination - Appreciate aesthetic issues and put more emphasis on product form - More emphasis on physical model building – good for iteration - Communicate - Consider alternatives and keep an open mindQuotes: - “Get outside the box and work there!” - “Be mindful of aesthetics – the point of technology is to improve quality of life and sustainability.” - “Be more aware of things that are ‘artsy’ and may not make sense.”architects wanted to keep exploring ideas without considering the impact on the project schedule.The engineering team, members, perhaps because of their impending graduation, were morecomfortable with including the constraints of time on the design

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

Session 3286 Graphic Claymation – Visualization Through Sight And Touch Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Michael Lobaugh Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeIntroduction:“Introduction to Graphics and Solids Modeling” (METBD 110) is a first semester freshmen classfor all students enrolled in the Plastics Engineering Technology (PLET) and MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) programs in both the associate and bachelors programs offeredat Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. This class is a three-credit course, which meets fivehours per week for 14 weeks in a supervised lab setting. Since it is a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo

in doing so, learn eachstep incrementally as developed in both Otto3 and Ingle4 . Again according to Woods, et al1 ,instructors familiar with this system state that using reverse engineering “eases the transitionfrom the analytical courses students have taken previously to the open-ended nature of the designcourses they are currently taking”.With these pedagogical ideas in mind, we elected to proceed with a combination of reverse-engineering design examples as a background for a student-based design assignment.Curricular Re-Design to Integrate Design with ContentThe scope of the design would be limited by the work that the students had done previously in

Conference Session

Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 2602 Experiential Learning in Aircraft Structures Masoud Rais-Rohani Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA design-build-test project is used as means of providing an academic-based, industry-focusedexperiential learning opportunity for students in a senior-level aircraft structures course taught inthe Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University. Initiated as a paperdesign project in 1998, the project has rapidly evolved into a comprehensive learning experiencewith prototype development and testing as its two major elements

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Johnson; Bill Kitchen

approach requiresstudents to build a case as a result of solving the problem. Barrows argues that this approach is Page 8.287.1much more in keeping with the way real problems are addressed in the world outside of school 1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineer Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”As a result of Barrow’s influence the development team from NSTCC in cooperation withresearchers from Vanderbilt designed a framework for thinking through the process of developingand delivering a case. The Case Files Learning Cycle, shown in

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

covers the fundamentals of patents and intellectual property for undergraduate andgraduate students in engineering. The first part of the course focuses on the rules and codes thatgovern patent prosecution in the U.S. The course covers most parts of the Manual of PatentExamining Procedure (MPEP), with a special emphasis on patents and patentability. The secondpart of the course focuses on strategies and methodologies for claim drafting and patent prosecu-tion. Since it is important to write a patent with the opponent in mind, some lectures also examinelitigation issues and common techniques used to overturn patents. Finally, the ethics, codes, andlicensing agreements are covered briefly. As a final project, the students have an opportunity