Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

concrete building construction using 3Danimation and walkthrough. It will help construction engineering or management students andnon-technical personnel on construction sites to better visualize the sequence of operations forconstructing reinforced concrete buildings. The developed 3-D computer animation model willalso help students to visualize the entire construction process of a reinforced concrete building ina few minutes, which in reality on the site would take many months.Vir tual Walkthr ough Model Development MethodologyThe focus of this research was to develop a web-based 3D computer animation model (Figure 1)showing systematic construction processes of a typical reinforced concrete building. Thefollowing steps were used:1. Developing

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

plans for future development are outlined. The resultsshow that the system is effective at meeting the instructor’s criteria for good team formation andsaving the instructor time. The source code for the application is available under an open sourcelicense for free distribution and modification.1. Introduction1.1 Problem statementForming student teams for group work often entails a major time investment for instructors. Tomake teams according to guidelines given in the cooperative-learning literature, instructorstypically design a survey, issue copies to students, collect them, and shuffle the surveys around Page 9.246.1until satisfactory

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

science. ElaineSeymour’s work on change in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)fields identifies the locus of change as critical to its success; that which emerges bothfrom top down and bottom up is the most lasting and effective. [1] Seymour and Hewittalso identify the need for change: without it, engineering and science programs may losesome of their best students to other fields. [2]At Colorado School of Mines (CSM), undergraduate curricular reform emerged fromfaculty committees and administrative imperatives to improve education, university-wide.Between 1997 and 2001, CSM disseminated faculty mini-grants to enhance classroominnovation and adaptation. Funded proposals focused on curricular reform, betterclassroom use of technology

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

). “Whole - Part - Whole” Teaching Whole Part Whole Domain-Specific Problem Problem Skills and Knowledge Context Solution Figure 1 This instructional design supports the Clouse theory where the concept beingtaught is connected (hooked) to the framework of the learner. Students learn and thenapply new knowledge in situations that will reinforce their learning. Termed

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

directing towork of other team members. In end-of-the-semester surveys, seniors have cited this as one ofthe most valuable outcomes of course (whether or not the specific interactions were good orbad). In past semesters, teams were asked to build a more or less traditional milestone chart toschedule the tasks to be accomplished. The primary vehicle to keep teams on schedule was thetask planning sheet.The BSC idea of multiple perspectives is clearly in line with Criterion 4 of EC2000 whichrequires: “… a major design experience … incorporating engineering standards and realisticconstraints that include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental;sustainability; manufacturability, ethical, health and safety, social, and political.”1

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

additional contributions from academicand industry experts. The full certificate will be delivered in 2004 and it has potential tobe extended as a component of a distance MS degree within the Arizona universities.Introduction – the challengeHigh-technology companies face a quiet crisis of technical leadership. Their products aresystems characterized by the technical complexity, global support requirements andmassive connectivity of processes. While these demands increase, the supply ofexperienced technologists who could take on the chief engineer role is diminishing fast.Figure 1 shows a demographic from one company that is typical of the aerospaceindustry

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley Dick; Russell Aubrey

resources and student welfare (3 class hrs.) • Laboratory safety and wiring (1 class hr.) Page 9.193.2 • Residential wiring techniques and the National Electrical Code (3 class hrs.) “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” • Introduction to electrical and mechanical print reading (1 class hr.) • Soldering/desoldering and reworking techniques (2 class hrs.) • Projects: An Overview of Project and Planning (1 class hr.) • Power supplies: Basic design criteria and implementation

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay Howell; Ann Wittbrodt; Alfred Moye

outlines the R&D priorities identified in theroadmap.BackgroundRecent progress in cognitive science has resulted in key insights about how people learn,how to teach, and how progress in learning can be evaluated. We know, for example,that discovery based learning, performance based assessments, and instructional systemscontinually adjusted by sensitive formative assessments can contribute to learning in Page 9.853.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineeringpowerful ways.1 Unfortunately, these practices are not

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

experience in research for baccalaureatestudents [1]. This is in addition to team-based experiences gained through capstone designprojects. By recognizing the immediate need that students have to manage their capstone designand research projects successfully, engineering management can be made experiential and more Page 9.882.1meaningful for students. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn many Australian engineering schools, senior students undertake a year-long research thesis.This project

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

7.5 years; electrical engineers, 5 years; software engineers, a mere 2.5years [1]. These estimates were devised almost a decade ago; considering the rapid paceof technological growth, these numbers are surely even smaller today.Accreditation bodies such as Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) place high emphasis on the technical currency of faculty, and require institutionsto provide opportunities for faculty to keep abreast of the pace of technological advances.ABET’s 2003-2004 criteria for accrediting engineering technology programs state [2]: In engineering technology programs, technical currency is important and must be assured by such means as a competent and inquisitive faculty, an active industrial

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeong-Hoon Kim; Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

construction schedule.1. IntroductionThe construction planning and scheduling process is composed of multiple steps that includeinterpreting the given information to figure out what to build and visualizing the constructionsequence to determine how to build it. In the visualization process of a construction sequence,professionals disassemble the planned structure into identifiable work packages that are logicallyconnected. The critical path in the logical network of the work packages is then identified usingCritical Path Method (CPM) and the construction schedule is illustrated using a bar chart.The conceptual expression of the schedule may be an effective way for explaining the entireconstruction schedule. A graphic timetable for the Java railroad

Conference Session

Federated Searching

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Schlembach; William Mischo

Session Number 2441 Metasearch Technologies in Reference Work, OAI, and Search Navigation Assistance William H. Mischo, Mary C. Schlembach Grainger Engineering Library Information Center University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIntroductionLibraries and librarians will continue to develop and collaborate on access services that betteraddress user information needs. It is important for libraries to focus on providing mechanisms totransform the many distributed digital collections into true “digital libraries” with the essentialservices that are required to make these digital libraries useful to and productive for users.1 Toaccomplish this, libraries will focus on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjan Zadnik

. See Figure 1. The second graph compares theDepartment’s data with national data over the same five years. The national data comprise themean of the three highest-scoring and the three lowest-scoring departments in the same fieldof education. See Figure 2. The scale in the graphs (–100 to +100) is proportional to the itemscale, 1 to 5, where the middle scale score of three corresponds to zero on the graphs. This isthe neutral point where students neither agree nor disagree with each statement. The graphsare represented over the full scale each time to allow ready comparison between them. Thereports also contain sufficient guidance and information, such as confidence intervals andstatistical significance of differences, to enable staff to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Simo Lehto

long experience in industry.” These types ofengineers are particularly valuable for the companies operating in the international markets.Initial estimates are that the engineers would be productive to the companies 1-2 years earlierthan the engineers studying in the current mode.For the students, the new EE model offers more effective and rewarding learning and realpersonal electiveness. The internally-driven process naturally enhances the self-knowledgeand personal strengths of the students, directs the students towards employment or anentrepreneurial career, and forms a natural start for a successful career in engineering.For the EE organizations adopting the model, it would provide benefits in the competition forhigh-quality students

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robbins; Rajapandian Ayyanar; Paul Imbertson; Ned Mohan; Ben Oni

Page 9.1135.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Minnesota. In addition, a grant of 30 k$ was received in support of this development fromNASA.Developing and Commercializing the Hardware LaboratoriesWith the help of NSF CCLI-EMD funding and the NASA support, hardware laboratorieshave been developed. Some components of these laboratories are shown in Figs 1 through 3,which are commercialized for easy access to any school desiring to adapt these. Severaluniversities have successfully received CCLI-A&I funding from NSF and more newproposals to do so have been submitted this year

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hisham Abdulmallik Al-Shahabi

Conference Session

Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

Session 1091 The Engineer Ought To Be A Man Of Business B R Dickson Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.1. IntroductionDuring the first decade of the 20th century, Dr Alex C. Humphreys, the President ofthe Stevens Institute of Technology, gave an address on ‘Business training for theengineer’ in which he began with an axiom: “Self-evident should be the truth of the proposition that the engineer ought to be a man of business, or at least informed of, and prepared to conform to, business conditions and business

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

for Engineering Educationapparent in a 1998 report of the Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization entitled“Nuclear Engineering in Transition: A Vision for the 21st Century.”1 In this report, the heads ofnuclear engineering departments around the country concur that nuclear science and engineeringprograms should continue to broaden their educational emphasis beyond just fission power to awider range of nuclear science applications such as national defense, medical technology andhealth care, materials processing, advanced industrial applications and nuclear wastemanagement and remediation.1 There is no question that paucity exists in the number of nuclear engineers entering theworkforce. In November 2002, the American Nuclear

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Calixto; Glaucia Almeida; Frederico Rodrigues; elizabeth maia

high interactive interfaces,which computers have through their multimedia resources, graphics, artificial intelligenceand virtual realities, will certainly stimulate the student’s learning process. The advent of theInternet has pushed the production of computer teaching aids even further. Web basedcourses provide not only flexibility to students learn according to their time frame and pacebut also the possibility of several students being connected simultaneously. The user-friendlyinterface provided by the Internet browser is another feature, which must not be forgotten.In the last 80 years, concrete has been the most used construction material worldwide 1.Consequently reinforced concrete is an important subject of any engineering and

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

ASEE 2004 Standard Capacitor Calibration Procedure Implemented Using Control SoftwareSvetlana Avramov-Zamurovic1, Brian Waltrip2, Andrew Koffman2 and George Piper1 1 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA avramov@usna.edu 2 National Institute of Standards and Technology*, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA IntroductionA capacitance scaling method is used to calibrate standard capacitors. This is a verypowerful technique that was introduced by Aoki and Yokoi in 1997 [1]. Reference [1]describes the general method and provides a detailed uncertainty analysis. Aoki andYokoi developed a calibration procedure based on [1

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

reflection of 30-35 students in this class at the end of semester. The surveys were completed in each of the threesemesters from August 1999 to December 2000.Survey Instrument DesignThe following were some of the sample questions used in the survey instrument: 1. List three crucial elements you should consider when deciding on a career. 2. In your opinion, what does it take to be a successful engineering technologist? 3. In general, are you satisfied with the preparation you received from high school? 4. To prepare well for engineering technology at college, how many years of mathematics and science does one need to take in high school? 5. If you’ve already decided to major in engineering technology, which

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

difference in other settings remain confinedto a single institution, department or instructor.” (From Analysis to Action, 1996)1-10Change involves risk, often inhibiting individuals from attempting new curricula ormethodologies because they are unsure or uneasy as to how exactly to go about it. To ensure thatthe innovations in the forefront of engineering technology are more widely known and adopted,NETEC provides a combination of risk-free, electronic on-demand information, personalassistance through linking institutions and individuals with experts and mentors to assist withadaptation, and face to face technical assistance via institutes, conferences and workshops.NJCATE has made substantial progress in reshaping technology education

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suguna Bommaraju

application’ and‘Identification of Unresolved lab problems’. These short writing assignments are incorporatedinto “Introduction to circuit analysis”, a freshman course in a 4-year engineering technologycurriculum at Miami University, OH. These assignments are simple, informal, and easy tocollect, check and/or grade, even for large classes.In addition to end-of-course rating instruments, three classroom assessment techniques are usedto evaluate the reaction to the assignments in ‘real- time’. These are: 1) Weekly questionnaire,2) One minute paper, and 3) Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID).A brief overview of the method, discussion of each writing assignment, grading, including asample assignment is presented in this paper. This paper

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

decrease in retention occurred,leading the engineering faculty to address the issue in a more comprehensive fashion.Solution ImplementedA typical schedule for a first-year engineering student Hope College prior to the changesdescribed below, is shown in Table 1. As would be expected, the schedule provided engineeringstudents with the necessary mathematics, chemistry, and physics background needed forengineering science classes at the sophomore level. The schedule also included college-widecore curriculum requirements.Table 2 shows a course schedule that is common for the first year students at many engineeringschools. While there are significant variations among different colleges, universities, anddepartments, the schedule outlined in Table 2 can

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

result is intuitively acceptable, the opposite grouping (homogeneousgpa and heterogeneous interest) was second best with essentially the same team rating(87.7 to 87.5 with variances of 0.09 and 0.17, respectively). Hunkeler et al.3 provide amore convincing study of the effects of individual characteristics on team performance.They concluded that: 1) four person teams outperformed three person teams, and 2) theinclusion of academically outstanding students and students with practical experienceincreases performance. They had hoped to draw some conclusions regarding the effecton team performance of the mix of Kolb Learning Styles in the teams, but the distributionof learning styles in the student sample was too skewed. The Myers-Briggs

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Ardebili; Ali Sadegh

Session 2238 A New Approach to Teaching Engineering Graphics Using Active Learning and Product Realization Mahmoud K. Ardebili1 and Ali M. Sadegh2, 1-Engineering Science Program, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York 2-Mechnical Engineering Department, the City College of New York, New YorkAbstractUndergraduate engineering programs are modifying their curricula to incorporate variousforms of active learning. This paper presents a modified engineering graphics course thatis instructed in an active learning

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Corr

people in an ever changing world. In order to achieve this Hahn sees theneed to reinstate the opportunity for young people to find that inner strength which seesthem through hard times and inspires them to go beyond what is expected by society. But, it was more than that. It was an instinctual response to a need in society, tobring back a feeling of pride in a job well done and a feeling of social responsibility… anattempt to expand the “me” into “we”. This is as true today as it was in 1940. In July 1, 1999 Dr. Renee Lerche, the director for workforce development for theFord Company, in an address before the committee on Education and the Workforce,U.S. House of representatives on Business community views on reform of the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

O. Geoffrey Egekwu; Prince Anyalebechi

range of disciplines of engineering science and technology. These courses were suchthat they involved more than one faculty and therefore required some form of team teaching.In this paper, we discuss some of the merits and demerits of the team teaching concepts thathave been employed in some of the ISAT courses.1. Intr oductionThe call for reform in the scholarship and teaching of science and technology has been partof the public debate on improving education in general, and in particular, in the effort toattract and retain engineering students. One of the common recommendations made by theearly reformers is that the academy must make a conscious effort to prepare engineeringstudents in the "overlapping neighborhoods" of engineering

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Zhang

picture of a communications system.When they learn different modulation schemes in a traditional communications theory course,they will understand how these schemes can be applied at a systems level. The system approach to teaching ”electronic communications” is expected to achieve thefollowing goals: 1) Help students understand communications concepts from a system perspective more ef- fectively. 2) Provide students with a better understanding of functionality, design, and related issues of communication system blocks. 3) Help consolidate students’ knowledge in electronic circuits and their applications in com- munication systems. 4) Provide students with a more solid foundation for higher level communications courses. 5

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rice; S. Michael Kilbey; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

in core sophomore- and junior-level chemical engineering courses. Figure 1 describes thecognitive levels of the model and summarizes other key aspects of the program. Page 9.87.1 Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education The Hierarchical Model of Mental Growth In this model, Ironic fi exceptions, learning by modeling development of Philosophic fi logic, learning by formal reasoning high-level skills Romantic fi graphics, written learning