Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

accreditation purposes registration as a Professional Engineer, Architect or Surveyor is acceptable in lieu of a master’s degree. Criteria for employment, promotion, and financial recognition of faculty members should reflect emphasis on competence as a teacher, relevant industrial experience, and the master’s degree the appropriate terminal degree.4 Basic credentials consist of three years of relevant industrial experience and one of the following: a master's degree in engineering or engineering 2003-2004 technology, which is considered as the appropriate terminal degree; a master's degree in a closely related field if

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

statistically significant difference. Page 8.718.13IMPEC dropouts for Reason 2 would reflect poorly on the program, dropouts for Reason 3 Session 2630would reflect well on it (since one of the objectives of the program is to give students a realisticpicture of what engineers do), and dropouts for Reasons 1 and 4 would not really reflect onIMPEC in either direction. The same can be said of non-IMPEC dropouts with respect to thestandard freshman curriculum. It would therefore be a mistake to draw any conclusions aboutprogram effectiveness from the lack of statistical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Luttrell

generated by the case scenario. This forces most students to employwhat Kolb calls reflective observation from many viewpoints in order to develop conclusions anddevelop conjectural models of the new concept.”6 In the first batch of discussion postings thesestudents very quickly identified the main issues of system safety, cost, and connectivity. As thestudents were able to process the concept and read others postings, comments began to emergeabout the visual impact of a raised track infrastructure, safety issues surrounding magnetic andelectric impulses, environmental benefits of Maglev and connections of a Maglev system withother transportation systems.This was only the third discussion of the semester and the students were already demonstrating

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

the last 12 years. Sumiton’spopulation is very transient—with a turnover of roughly 40% each year—and the entirecounty is well below poverty level. The median household income in the area is $33,247.SAT-9 scores reflect findings indicating Sumiton students do considerably better than theother students in the county—sometimes even exceeding state averages, (Figure 2, Table2). The 10-point or more spread between Sumiton students and those of the rest of thecounty in grades three through six suggests that the Kumon mathematics program has avery positive impact on the students in this school. Table 2: SAT-9 Mathematics scores for Alabama as a whole, Walker County, and Sumiton Elementary School, 2001

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

course for a grade, concludingthat students who audited the class or took it for credit only had different motivations than otherstudents. Table 1 reflects the number of students who were part of the analysis.Table 1. Success Rate/RetentionSemester Section Number C and above Below C Success RateFall 01 Paired 44 30 14 68.18% Solo 69 31 38 44.93%Spring 02 Paired 82 54 28 65.85%Instructor 1 Solo 76 50 26 65.79%Spring 02 Paired 198 113 85

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

semester, teaching whatneeds to be taught. At that time, several of the faculty were also very active with after-hoursconsulting for a diverse cross-section of local industries and hence on the cutting edge oftechnology in their respective fields.STCC also had an active and successful development office both then and now, a reflection of thecollege president’s progressive philosophy. In fact, one of the faculty members of the ElectronicsGroup had applied for and received not one but several NSF laboratory improvement grants in theLaser Electro-Optics area [4, 5]. These grants were, to the best of our knowledge, some of thefirst that had ever been awarded to a two-year institution. During the 1995–1996 academic yearseveral events occurred that were

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Sharma

importantrole in that and are an indicator of the effectiveness of the instruction that we design and deliver.Some instructors and educators may feel uncomfortable with the concept of “student self-reflection”, because of the notion that we are here to teach students, not to ask them how they“feel” about the course. We prefer hard numbers and are more accustomed to quantitativeassessment methods. But the utility of qualitative methods (interview assessment, portfolioassessment) of assessment has been demonstrated in many science, mathematics, and engineeringcourses2.The ability to effectively integrate new learning and teaching (instructional) technology tools andparadigms into engineering pedagogy is essential for continuous improvement of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvanus Udoka; Paul Stanfield

Society for Engineering Educationprofessors had the responsibility of reminding the teams continually that the project was to becompleted as a team, and that the benefits of excelling as well as the consequences of notaccomplishing any step would reflect on the entire team, rather than the division that is allegedlynot performing.The next problem was that of scheduling. Since each class met at a different time, it was necessaryto schedule special sessions, with associated hurdles to get both classes together as neededthroughout the project. Also, scheduling of the initial meetings of each unified team with theproject manager was a very daunting task. The need to coordinate the times for about eightmembers of a team to designated time slots was

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementsPenn’s Engineering Entrepreneurship Program reflects material extracted from hundreds ofrelevant books, articles, case studies and journals. It also reflects the advice provided by manyhighly regarded academicians and practitioners. The foresight to launch this Program isattributable to the leadership of Eduardo Glandt, Dean of Penn’s School of Engineering andApplied Science. For his encouragement and for the opportunity to undertake this tremendouslyrewarding “second career,” the author is immensely thankful.Case methodology represents much of the pedagogic approach in our Program. A number ofpublications provided helpful advice about case teaching24. Moreover, hours of

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirankumar Gundrai

mass destruction, but it alsois a consequence of the highly efficient and interconnected systems that we rely on for keyservices such as transportation, information, energy, and health care. The efficientfunctioning of these systems reflects great technological achievements of the past century,but interconnectedness within and across systems also means that infrastructures arevulnerable to local disruptions, which could lead to widespread or catastrophic failures. Asterrorists seek to exploit these vulnerabilities, it is fitting that we harness the Engineering,scientific and technological capabilities to counter terrorist threats.Engineers have a major role to play in preventing or reducing the ravages of terrorism

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

;punctuation with lists; and where does the punctuation go in figures and tables. A few grammarrules presented in the context of technical documentation to an engineering course at thebeginning of each semester or quarter will, in most cases, eliminate many of these mistakes.A third concern among readers of student text is the flat dull quality that comes from much ofthe text that is produced by students. This quality reflects a lack of flow in the wording, acondition similar to reading a list that indicates no apparent connection among the various partsof the list. This lack of connection makes a reader quickly begin to wander, sometimesbecoming lost in personal thoughts far from the actual text. The three items that may helpimprove all student text

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

tosurvey our students about their achievement of specific course objectives.On their course-end feedback, the students have been extremely supportive of completing open-ended projects, especially for a real client. Relevant data are provided in Figures 5-7. Fig 5shows CE489 (client-based projects course listing) student responses to USMA-standardquestions that relate specifically to the quality of instruction and student learning; nonetheless,we also believe these particular responses also reflect student satisfaction with the coursedescribed in this paper. Baseline values are averages for CE489 and USMA-wide responses. TheUSMA baseline responses have been extremely stable over time. Last year we had two projectswith extremely low scores on the

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

in maturation of team citizenship [3] and promotes reflective evaluation [10]. Student-basedassessments were taken three ways in the initial course offering. First, students provided qualita-tive mid-semester course evaluations and suggestions. Specifically, they provided feedback onwhat instructional methods are and are not “working” for them, which course topics have beenclearly understood, and which topics are still confused. Students were encouraged to provide sug-gestions to improve the remainder of the course. I adopted my teaching style as much as possibleto further engage the students in the assessment process. Second, students provided weekly quan-titative team citizenship and participation assessments of their teammates and

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

for common global grounds for quality standards, fair employmentpractices, and useful application of human resources goes on. That this section of thepaper is not longer is less a reflection on the importance of this theme than it is of the lackof real progress that has been made over the past three years.The social imperativeWhile students from around the world strive to acquire the strongest possible technicaleducation in engineering, some older hands persist in proclaiming that the ill-named “softskills” are the ones which will ultimately be key to the successful practice of engineeringby up-and-coming engineers. But the list of “soft skills” too often is limited to things suchas public speaking techniques, management skills and the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wook-sung Yoo; Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Number Instructor name Term General instructions… Course Objectives/Assess Methods This option is always available Assess Course-Exit Survey This option is available from date to date Figure 8: A specific course pageFrom the student perspectives, on-line surveys possess several advantages: 1. Ease of access: Students are not required to fill out the form during the class time but the survey form can be accessible from any location on the campus network at any time. Thus they get more time to reflect on the questions (days/weeks as opposed to 10 minutes with no time to prepare). This encourages more honest, thoughtful (and occasionally

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

the quantitative responses and a discussion of the themes that emerged inthe “reasons for your answer” responses.5. Evaluation Results5.1 Student Questionnaires1. Course ObjectivesOverview: The most important finding about the Course Objectives has been that most of thestudents agree that these objectives had been met in Sooner City courses. These major conceptsare at the heart of Sooner City and appear in some form in the questionnaires of all Sooner Citycourses. They reflect the goal of producing engineering graduates who: a. Have developed strong design skills through repeated practice, beginning in the freshman year b. Can perform critical thinking and know how to go about solving complex, open-ended

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

formats (interviews, questions, tests, exams, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.206.14 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationquizzes, oral presentation, etc.) to express quantitative measures that reflect the degree ofachieving objectives. Evaluation should supply the instructors with the corrective measures tochange the material in the lab and to remedy the deficit in instruction techniques employed.Learning at distance, doing experiments at distance, or virtual labs, and using a computer networkwill facilitate using

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

session was covered by themedia.C. Reflection Paper: This consisted of a two page individually written paper which included apersonal assessment of what the student had gained by participating in the workshop. Studentswere asked to summarize their experiences by describing what they learned, what was new tothem, what they liked and disliked, and what they enjoyed most.VI. Program AssessmentAt the end of the workshop, students were asked to complete an evaluation form which askedthem to rate each of the program components; to make comments about their collegeexperiences, staff members, and the length of the workshop; and to make suggestions forimproving the workshop for future students.While the program was carefully planned before it began, some

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

electronics and specificallyby items such as portable CD players that have high power demands. Efforts were made duringthis time to introduce rechargeable consumer batteries, but it does not appear that rechargeablecells have cornered a large fraction of the (previously disposable) consumer battery market.Battery sales have not been as successful since 1999. Growth slowed to 5.2% in 2000 and mayhave been as low as 1.1% in 2001 (Worldofinformation, 2003). This may reflect some successin the rechargeable market, but is more likely attributable to the use of accumulated Y2Ksupplies and the impact of a cooler economy.U.S. battery manufacturing is dominated by Duracell, Eveready/Energizer (uses both brandnames) and Rayovac who produces batteries in the

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

while I said, “This is great!” …They basically gave you books, gave you a job, and you could ask people, what the heck is this and what is binary and I studied hex and I don’t know, it was self taught, there were no classes at that time. The reason they said they hired me was because there were not enough people graduating from any computer science courses in 1976, there were a few but the aerospace industry was going into computers big time and there weren’t enough people so they just hired anybody and if they could do it ok. So, anyway I did that for about three years. (Schoenhals 2001)Bob reflected on how his easiness with foreign languages played a big role in the way he learnedcomputer languages

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shah Galib Habib; Arif Sirinterlikci

FEMcode, has a wide variety of modules responding to different needs and scales. DEFORM systemsare based on a flexible automatic and optimum mesh generation criterion [2]. The meshing systemworks well with large deformation. The DEFORM systems also include equipment models tobetter reflect the real life hardware conditions. They can simulate corner unfill, load requirements,die pressures, deformed mesh structure, nodal velocities, and other field variables. They can alsoconduct thermal and coupled thermal-deformation analyses. The DEFORM systems include thefollowing versions: DEFORM-3D for 3-D process analysis, DEFORM-2D for axisymmetric andplane strain process analysis on workstations and PCs, DEFORM-PC PRO for axisymmetric andplane strain

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

the need to first introduce many specific technical skills.2.B. & 2.C. In-depth seminarsIn these two segments ,the students opted to take two out of six seminars offered. The studentswere given a brief description of each seminar and asked to rank the seminars from 1-6. Theywere also asked to weight their choices with a dollar amount (for a sum of $100). All of thestudents received their first choice and 75% received their second choice. Although the majorityof the students were accommodated by their first and second choices, there was a small butsignificant number (~20) who were assigned to both their first choice and their third, fourth, orfifth choice seminar.While it was not the goal of the seminars to reflect a specific major, most

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

a boiler plant whose thermal efficiency is 70+%.Discussion: there is a realistic limit as to how high thermal efficiency can reach. However, tohave thermal efficiency of 70 +% is truly a reflection of inelegant engineering design. It must besecond nature to engineers to maximize this number by optimizing insulation, feedwater preheat,and the amount of combustion air, etc.12. Design an automobile with 15% energy efficiency.Discussion: to say it is OK to live with 85% loss in energy transformation in today’s vehicles is toaccept a quite inelegant way of engineering. Much elegance can be achieved by working toreduce the substantial engine losses as well as losses due to idling and standby14.13. Design using rules of thumb.Discussion: it is

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

* 1993 1994 Cohort Year Figure 2. Persistence in College of Entry by Entering Cohort (Earlier Study) Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.64.8 Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMost students chose their ECE major because of a general affinity for computers and/or electricalwork. Students taking the EEP who changed majors changed into the ECE department from otherengineering majors and from PAMS. This is reflected in Figure 3

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

gate. To avoid using two power supplies, a single ended operationalamplifier such as the LM358 can be used instead of the LM741. The outputs of the window comparator are then connected to the inputs of the NOR latch.When the output C of the latch is high, the heat must be turned on and when C is low, the heatmust be turned off.The Actuator Whether the heat is turned on or off inside the box, is a reflection of the voltage level atthe output of the latch. When the output is high the heat is on and when the output is low theheat is off. This can be implemented using a relay. The relay interfaces the DC output of thelatch to the ac lamp circuit. The relay is a magnetic switch, which is normally open. The acsource is connected to the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

knowledge, the literature does not appear to suggest step-by-step proceduresto be followed by engineering educators who want to integrate new design experiences intoexisting core courses. In the remainder of this paper, we present a synthesis of our experiencewith integrating design in existing core courses in the form of steps to be followed in doing so.These steps are consistent with what other writers have reported about teaching engineeringdesign (Miri & Fu, 1993 22; Pascover,199528; Morris & LaBoube,199523; Cairns & Chrisp,1996 5;Ribando & O’Leary, 1998 31; Zhang,1999 45; Dunn-Rankin,19988; and Walter, 2002)42.Pedagogical PracticesUpon reflecting on our success and reading the literature on teaching design, it was

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Chao

. Page 8.900.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThere are also issues of the lack of clarity in some difficult topic presentations and the need formore tutorials dealing with those topics.The major thrust of the weaknesses feedback is that, with the modules in their current state, moststudents do not feel they can perform all the experiments without faculty assistance.Feedback Response For any new course, original pace estimations always need to be readjusted andsometimes drastically to reflect the true average student progress speed. This can only beascertained through the natural feedback process after

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kander

, problem-solving techniques from many disciplines, and use of the computer as a problem-solving tool.• the ability to integrate scientific and technological factors with political, social, economic, and ethical considerations. Breadth is provided through study in several different strategic sectors that reflect nationalcritical technologies, and currently include: biotechnology, energy, engineering manufacturing,environment, information and knowledge management, health systems, and telecommunications.Depth is provided through study in an area of concentration selected from among these sectors,and includes a comprehensive capstone thesis project. One objective of the program is to educate students to solve problems in a

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

” Page 8.1050.2Ownership : Support for change is extremely important and is critical. Only strong commitment for accepting changes demonstrates genuine leadership.Reflection : Feedback helps towards thoughtful evaluation of the changes implemented. Only reflection can provide a tool for continuous improvement.Nurture : Implemented changes deliver results only when nurtured and promoted with necessary support systems, documentation and infrastructures.The T.Q.M. PrinciplesInspired by the ACORN model, the author experimented on implementing certainprinciples of

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

. Images bytheir very nature require two or three dimensions and the literature is somewhat less available.However some research has been conducted in the multivariable cane and can be found in references9,14,26,42 . We will use these developments extensively in our investigations whereby the transformwill be implemented on an alphabet and its reflection in the following sequel. The overallprocedures will entail a detailed analysis of a two-dimensional “mother” wavelet implementedwithin a wavelet transform on the alphabet, N, together with a comparison to a Fourier transform.All graphics presented in this paper have been conducted on a MATLAB platform. A preliminarymathematical review is provided to reacquaint the reader with the