Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

are rare in undergraduates, we need to grow them in our mentors. Additionally,we need to grow these skills as students graduate. We need a low cost, but highly effectivemeans to grow mentoring skills. Furthermore, since mentoring happens in the dynamics of aconversation, the skills growth process needs a “real-time” component.We believe that mentors can grow their skills quickly by reflecting on their performanceimmediately following a mentoring session and “scripting” more effective practices. The“scripts” are pre-planned responses the mentor will use in future mentoring situations. Thementor also relies on peer observer feedback recorded during the mentoring session to guide thewriting of the scripts. The scripts are then reviewed before

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales

sag) by at least oneof the load resistors. The students measure the output voltage for each load resistor, and eachteam plots its results on a single graph on the lab whiteboard. Thus, they discover that the loadresistance must be much greater than the resistances selected for the divider.The remaining three class meetings in the first section of the subject are similar in pace andstructure. We will highlight the main features of them in the balance of this section.Week 2.In the second week we introduce diodes and LEDs, and the students investigate theability of an diode to act as a simple voltage regulator. Also in the second week, we present thethree-terminal linear voltage regulator (e.g., 7805) as a method of creating a stable voltage

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

(Eqn 7)ΔGocell = -nFEocell = -237,200 J/mol reaction favoredAlthough a reaction may be thermodynamically favored, it may not proceed at a significant rate(kinetic, ohmic and/or transport limited). Clearly, the role of free energy in determiningspontaneity can be demonstrated along with its physical significance i.e. one must impart energyto electrolyze water (consuming energy) vs. the fuel cell which produces energy.The maximum available voltage from a galvanic process or the minimum decomposition voltagein electrolysis involves thermodynamic evaluation of energy differences between the initial stateof reactant and the final state (reversible potential or E). Maximum available or minimumdecomposition voltage is useful for calculating

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

for Engineering Education Session 1793analytical classroom, that correct design theory will yield correct design practice. However,assumption fails in the design classroom12. The theoretical approach to design provides aseries of prescriptive steps which seem to encapsulate the workings of the designer’s mind.However, the steps are only evident when the design is complete. To follow those same stepsin the next design will generally not be successful because the story and the problem behindthe design will necessarily be different. In this way, correct theory can be a threat to designeducation as the student of design tries to force a fit between the

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

interdisciplinary group of humanities and social sciencesfaculty located within SEAS. The students take roughly 40% of their humanities and socialscience requirements (4 courses) in interdisciplinary HSS courses designed for engineeringstudents. (The remaining 60% of the HSS hours are selected from those offered by departmentsin the College of Arts and Sciences and designed for a general student population.) The STScourse work provides an integrative framework and intellectual foundation that help studentsdevelop an in-depth understanding of the contextual aspects of engineering practice.STS also manages the undergraduate thesis project that has been a graduation requirement ofSEAS for nearly 100 years and a major part of the engineering curriculum since

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

previously been viewed bystudents as merely another requirement for graduation. Linking with the technical writing coursealso allowed us to place sophomores in a class that is normally available only to seniors, past thetime when technical writing skills would be useful in most undergraduate classes, labs,internships and co-ops.We specifically choose to work with a communication course because of the vital andfoundational role that it plays in important student outcomes. A linked technical communicationcourse, with two sections exclusive to students from the Agricultural and BiosystemsEngineering department, allowed us to wrap up many different competencies in various lessons,and it also allowed us to simulate the type of work environment that our

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

researchers.2,4-8,18 Figure 6 – An example of modeling: engineering student with 9 concepts.Now, we are going to represent the map in a matrix form. The weighted edges connectionmatrix [W ] , which represents relationships between each concept Cj and Ck, is shown inTable 1. To do this, we can observe Figure 6. We need to verify which concepts Ck are beingaffected by each concept Cj. To do this, for each concept, we need to follow the continuoushorizontal line and observe the black dots. In the correspondent position j (line of the conceptj) – k (column of concept k with black dot) we put, at the matrix [W ] , the indicated value: +1or –1. In the others positions, we put zero. Consequently, we have in each column k whichconcept j is acting

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

research. Professors in these areas began their research focus as graduate studentsor even undergraduate students. Professors in non-traditional academic fields may have spentyears in industry prior to making the move to academia, so their research path is less defined.These professors have concentrated on being good teachers rather than good scholars. Somefields, including engineering graphics, have lent themselves to more of a supporting role toother academic areas include engineering, architecture, and interior design. Engineeringgraphics departments and professors across the country have also been absorbed into otherdepartments, such as Civil, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering, & Geodetic Sciences.Implications of academic