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Megan Rothney; Robert Roselli

the first question, students made statistically significant gains on allthe questions. Though we have no way to directly measure the gains that can be attributed theremediation as opposed to the tutorial these results validate the effort that was put intodeveloping these materials for out of class use.(This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363).Bibliography1. Howard LP. Courseware and Packaging Environment (CAPE). http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/projects/VaNTH/index.htm2. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds). (1999). How People Learn: Brain, mind, experience

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Renee Rogge; Joan Burtner

faculty advisors conductedby the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) indicated that about 40% found the job to befulfilling and rewarding, while 30% indicated that they "did not mind the job". 7 Close to 40% ofthe respondents indicated that their organizations were very active, including a significantcommitment to community service. One-fourth reported that the organization was quite active, butdid not have a strong commitment to community service. One-fourth felt that the organization's Page 8.568.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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Jennifer Kadlowec

fundamental concepts of statics and solid mechanics in their minds; to design, buildand test and working system; and to work together and learn from one another in amultidisciplinary team.AcknowledgmentsFunding for this project was obtained from the National Science Foundation, Division ofUndergraduate Education (NSF DUE #0087683). The students responsible for the developmentare Gerri Albee, Frank Brown, Aditya Chaubal, Lewis Clayton, Michael Firth, Andrea Hare, JoePlitz and Michael Resciniti. Page 8.303.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Session 2793 Senior Capstone Design Experience: Hovering Robot Joel P. Perlin, Daniel J. Pack, Barry E. Mullins, and Richard E. Speakman Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, COAbstractThe paper describes the collective experience of a student and three mentors in creating ahovering robot in a year-long senior design project course. We present the tasks involved inidentifying requirements, generating specifications, designing the overall system, implementing thedesign, and testing and integrating subsystems. We consider the system

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Motivating students to achieve

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Debra Wright; Gretchen Hein; Mary Fran Desrochers; Mary Raber

Page 8.585.3 have minds working than minds drifting.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Given a 3 gallon jug and a 5 gallon jug and an unlimited supply of water, how do you get 4 gallons? (Fill the 5 gallon jug. Pour 3 gallons into the 3 gallon jug. Dump out the 3 gallon jug. Pour the remaining 2 gallons from the 5 gallon jug into the 3 gallon jug. Fill the 5 gallon jug. Pour one gallon off into the 3 gallon jug. 4 gallons remain in the 5 gallon jug.) § Logic puzzles Pass out logic puzzles for the students to solve. At first glance the students will just feel that

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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Robert Blake; kathleen marrs; Jeff Watt; Andrew Gavrin

fresh in thestudents minds (12 hours or less) yet long enough that the instructor has time to review arepresentative sample of the students responses (at least 1 hour). Grading of the WarmUpexercises is also subject to the instructor’s discretion. At IUPUI, most instructors grade the Page 8.797.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWarmUps on effort, rather than for technical accuracy. This encourages students to participatefully, and is especially helpful when the WarmUp focuses on

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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E. Jansen

Session 1309 Implementation and assessment of challenge-based instruction in a biomedical optics course E. Duco Jansen, Sean P. Brophy, Ann McKenna, Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Joseph T. Walsh, Jr. Department of Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (EDJ, SPB, AMJ) Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (AM, JTW

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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R. Worden

humangenome may provide additional opportunities for life-science-minded engineers in the rapidlygrowing biotechnology industry. These trends suggest the need for increased biological contentin the chemical-engineering curriculum.Over the past several years, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science atMichigan State University (MSU) has been developing educational programs to better preparestudents for employment at the interface between chemical engineering and biology. Beginningwith a fairly standard biochemical engineering reactor design course that has been taught overthe past sixteen years, the course offerings have expanded to include undergraduate researchopportunities, a state-of-the-art Biochemical Engineering Teaching

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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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

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Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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Milo Koretsky

their minds wellbefore students even matriculate. However, as practicing engineers, they will confront thevariation associated with measured data in the real world. A course in introductory statistics canforce students to attend to the concept of variation. Statistics can be defined as the science ofhow to collect, analyze, interpret and present data with the purpose of understanding variation ina system. A key objective of introductory engineering statistics is to have students recognizevariation is inevitable, and teach them skills to quantify the variation and make engineeringdecisions which account for it. The importance of statistics is well recognized in the chemicalengineering community. For example, several recent articles in Chemical

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Ronald Glotzbach

Session 2178 The Database Imperative in Computer Graphics Projects Ronald J. Glotzbach Purdue UniversityAbstractApplications of ideas and projects in Computer Graphics Technology have developed more andmore into requiring a database to drive some or all of it on the back-end. Is an imperativedeveloping where universities are more in need of producing students with database developmentor administration capabilities? This paper focuses on engineering projects with databaseinvolvement, attempting to determine the level of knowledge students should have and in

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Diversity in Materials

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Paul Miller; Oscar Barton

graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for futuredevelopment in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command,citizenship and government”. The Academy’s 4100 midshipmen are provided the opportunity topursue studies in one of several broad areas including engineering, math, science or the socialsciences. The Engineering and Weapons Division includes aerospace, electrical, mechanical,ocean, systems and weapons engineering and naval architecture, with each maintaining ABETaccreditation. The Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department provides a broad exposure inengineering. The department provides five tracks in which midshipmen can focus their selectionof major elective courses to provide

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Audeen Fentiman

Session 2793 Convincing Students That Writing Is Important Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionStudents are accustomed to writing essays and reports for only one audience: teachers whose jobit is to read and grade the papers. When the paper is assigned, the uppermost question in moststudents’ minds is, “How long does it have to be?” Students generally don’t think about how toentice someone to read the paper or what information they want to convey to the audience. Theintended audience (i.e. the teacher) must read the paper, and there is no penalty for

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Issues in Computer Education

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M. Sharma

Session: 3420 (Computers in Education) A Study of Students’ Perceptions of Computer-Based Instruction in Introductory Thermodynamics Courses M.P. Sharma1, Edward E. Anderson2, and Roman Taraban3 1 Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071-3295 sharma@uwyo.edu 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech University

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Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Session 2793 Using Calibrated Peer Review™ to Mediate Writing and to Assess Instructional Outcomes Patricia A. Carlson, Frederick C. Berry, and David Voltmer Department of Humanities and Social Sciences / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana 47803Writing in Engineering EducationThe written word is crucial to engineering for at least two compelling reasons. First, the texts ofengineering – publications that report findings or describe

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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

Session 2330 Reflective Journals: An Assessment of a Vertically Integrated Design Team Project Francis S. Broadway Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Edward A. Evans, H. Michael Cheung, Helen K. Qammar Department of Chemical Engineering Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Abstract: The use of affective/associative reflective journals and skill

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Web Systems and Web Services

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Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

mostnotable and frequently used LSI at this time. However, none of these constructs weredeveloped with engineers in mind. Focusing on engineers, Richard M. Felder and Barbara Solomon of North CarolinaState University developed the Felder-Solomon Learning Style Model. The Solomon andFelder’s Index of Learning Styles is a 44-question survey that can generate a quantitativelearning style value for each of the five dimensions.15. Each dimension answers fivequestions that are summarized in Table 1. Numerous studies have investigated the capability of asynchronous learning networks(ALNs) to provide an effective learning environment. The result of the studiesconsistently shows that for courses that incorporate ALNs, student performance usingALN

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Issues in Computer Education

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Ahmet Eskicioglu

recently, the quest to understand the thinking and learning processes has been hampered bythe lack of systematic research tools. The revolutionary progress in the study of the mind sincethe 60’s provides an abundance of scientific information with significant implications foreducation. Behaviorism, an influential school of psychology that dominated the psychologicaltheory between the two world wars, takes the objective evidence of behavior (as measured Page 8.1144.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”responses to

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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Haishan Zheng; Jason Keith

-based instructional tools may improve the motivation of students, which could bea significant factor in achieving student success. Page 8.1294.1This paper will describe four JAVA applets developed for simulation of basic heat and Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmass transfer processes. These applets are a part of “Web Instructional Tools forEngineering,” a one year project funded by the Michigan Space Grant Consortium.These four JAVA applets were to be developed with two goals in mind: to be visualenough to

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Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

, faculty usually design the learning activities of their courses with specific learningobjectives in mind. With the implementation of outcomes-based assessment, student self-assessment of their own learning and of the effectiveness of the learning activities in their coursesis a significant part of the course and program assessment of learning effectiveness.Students in an introductory engineering class were required at semester’s end to assess theeffectiveness of course learning activities (homework, projects, lectures, assigned textbookreadings, etc) in supporting their achievements of the course learning objectives. This wasaccomplished through the use of a matrix that mapped each of the course learning objectives tothe course learning

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

studentteams. Student teams would be encourage to solicit sponsorship from private industry tounderwrite the cost of competing. The EET Program at Texas A&M would be pleased tohost the first MP Showdown in the Spring 2004 semester.A Multi-University Mobile Platform Competition The mobile platform concept is now at a point where it is ready for disseminationto other universities. With this in mind, the EET/TET faculty will be working to developa multi-university mobile platform competition over the next two semesters. It is hopedthat this competition will give other engineering and technology programs a chance toevaluate the mobile platform technology and will allow them to integrate thesetechnologies into their curricula. In addition, it is

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

recognize and identify them if asked.Through interviews it has been found that students are very perceptive as to what they don’t likein a program and deem this as what is wrong with a program. “Although opinions on these Page 8.552.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmatters are not direct measures of the performance of the teacher or content learned, they arelegitimate indicators of student satisfaction; there is a substantial research base linking thissatisfaction to effective teaching and

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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Moeness Amin; Athina Petropulu; Ahmad Hoorfar; William Jemison; Robert Caverly

); • Students will use two main analytical models for a first order design of microstrip antennas (Low Profile Antennas). Page 8.906.3 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”The next step in helping students achieve these learning outcomes was to present the subtopiccontent with those outcomes in mind. At the present time, the development of each subtopic inthe program follows the general outline indicated below. • 15 to 20 minute video lectures and electronic notes that accompany a

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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Laila Guessous

such commercial software packages as mysteriousblack boxes, capable of generating results such as pressure drop, drag, and velocitydistributions, it is important for mechanical engineering programs to graduate studentswith a basic understanding of the underlying concepts, capabilities, as well as limitationsof CFD, i.e., graduates capable of assessing the validity and accuracy of the underlyingnumerical techniques used in commercial codes. This is particularly important since the“colorful” results of CFD can often mislead students into trusting all of the results(correct or erroneous) that the computer generates.With this goal in mind, a senior/beginning graduate level course on Computational FluidDynamics (ME 439/539) was introduced in the

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Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

Reaching Out to High School Girls: The Role of a Student Organization in Developing an On-campus Technology Workshop Mara H. Wasburn, Susan G. Miller Purdue UniversityAbstractWomen and girls will comprise at least half of the available science, engineering, and technologytalent pool. Therefore, it becomes imperative to attract more women and girls into thesedisciplines. In 2002 at Purdue University, the student group Women in Technology invited aselect number of high school juniors who were at risk of losing interest in math, science, andcomputers, and their parents to the Purdue campus for an all-day workshop. The program wasplanned, designed, and executed

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

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

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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

Session 2530 A Survey of Authentic Teaching in Secondary Math and Science Classrooms Tamy L. Fry1 , Teri Reed Rhoads 1 , Mark Nanny 2 and Mary John O’Hair3 The University of Oklahoma School of Industrial Engineering 1 School of Civil Engineering and Enviro nmental Science 2 Center for Educational and Community Renewal3Abstract The Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) is a project funded through the National ScienceFoundation GK-12 program in which University of Oklahoma Fellows from engineering andeducation

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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Swaminadham Midturi

unique transducers, and instrumentation inall science and engineering fields require such common course instruction and training ofstudents in all disciplines of engineering and technology. A common course in instrumentation will meet the interests of all students andprepare them to appreciate the importance of instrumentation applications in a variety ofindustries. It creates a balanced perspective in the minds of students to solveinstrumentation problems in the real world. The learning experiences through such courseswill give students confidence to design instrumentation systems starting from scratch andnot depend on the assembly of off-the-shelf devices. The course will incorporate emergingtrends in instrumentation and develop problem

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

. Creating avisual organization of information makes it much easier to see what to do next for the visual-spatial student. Both are visual tools to solve analytical problems. Several examples ofapplication of these methods are presented.IntroductionThe students at Ward College of Technology at the University of Hartford can major inArchitectural, Audio, Electronic, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering Technology. They arethus a diverse group, with different abilities. We have found that our Architectural EngineeringTechnology (AET) students, for example, tend to process information visually, whereas theAudio Engineering Technology (AUET) students process information aurally and theMechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students process information

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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Theresa Jones

correctly perceiving theirexpectations despite their repetitive efforts to convey these expectations. This study used bothquantitative and qualitative methods to understand both sides - the instructor’s expectations ofstudents and the students’ perceptions of the instructor’s expectations -in an open-ended, student-centered classroom. Four students and the instructor were interviewed throughout an upper-division undergraduate mechanical engineering course. This paper describes the research methodsand preliminary results from this study. With the increasing integration of project-centeredpractices in the engineering classroom, the results of this study are anticipated to be beneficial toother instructors who are trying to transition students from