Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

asthey are being emphasized more and more in industy. Each poster receives a multiplier of 0.9 –1.1. A 1.1 required a better than expected poster quality: all information was displayed very welland the team went above the project requirements to communicate effectively. A grade of 1.0was received for meeting the project requirements with a neat, professional poster. Grades of lessthan 1.0 were assigned to those posters that either did not meet the project requirements or werenot professional in appearance.Failure modesIn planning their rod, students had to take into account the possible modes of failure summarizedabove as well as shown in Figure 1 with their respective location on the rod. Figure 2 shows thedimensions to be used in the

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Daubert; Steven Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard

genre norms for each discipline involved iswarranted.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONCHRIS M. ANSONChris M. Anson received his Ph.D. from Indiana University and is Professor of English and Director of the CampusWriting and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduatecourses in language, composition, and literacy and works with faculty in nine colleges to reform undergraduateeducation in the areas of writing and speaking. He has published widely.PAULA BERARDINELLIPaula Berardinelli received her Doctorate of Education in Training and Development from North Carolina StateUniversity and a Master's in Health Education and a Bachelor's in Health Planning and Administration, both fromThe Pennsylvania State

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Bliven; Elizabeth Eschenbach

groups transforming the material they are learning into appropriate lessonsfor their classes. Having a more definite plan for implementing a physical science topic shouldincrease the chance that the teacher will make use of the material they learn in this class.E & M & Dissection ConnectionThe electricity and magnetism unit and the mechanical dissection activity seem to complementeach other because so many of the objects the teachers choose to dissect contain electricalsubsystems. Electric motors are found in mixers, toys, VCRs and saws. Electromagnets are inpumps and toys. Radios and toys that play sounds have speakers. The participants who havejust finished assembling a speaker know to look for a coil, a flexible membrane and a magnet

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

and a definite benefit to the program.7. When asked if the writing assignments were relevant to their major or planned career, most students in each section said yes. Yes Somewhat No Section E3 8 5 1 Section D 7 3 3 Control 9 3 2 Despite this apparent success, students’ reasons for this answer were alarming. 6 students in section E3, 6 in section D, and 5 students in the control section (about half of the respondents) based their answer on the scientific content of the course, not

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

has progressed, more and more EET/TET students have learned of the projectand the plan to perform beta testing in up to three separate courses during the Spring 2004semester. All of the faculty involved in the LIVE System development have been pleased withthe acceptance of these new methodologies by the students and the enthusiasm they havedemonstrated in participating in the beta testing. Many more students have shown a real interestin having access to recorded lectures that will be available to them literally at anytime,anywhere. They have indicated that by having access to the classroom material in essentially itsoriginal format, they will be able to resolve questions and issues as they arise, rather that havingto resort to their notes

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

courses are presented in Table 1 as a reference. It is clear that theoverall perception toward the LTT practice is positive for both questions. From statistical data,more than 80% of students either strongly agree or agree that the LTT is a positive experienceand should be implemented throughout the curriculum. Closer examination of the data revealsthat 100% of students surveyed feel their teaching experience is positive but some havereservations about receiving critical material from their peers instead of the instructor. This isconsistent with one of the major concerns raised by faculty - that critical information may be leftout or wrong information be given by student-teachers. This issue will be addressed later in ourLTT implementation plan

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

membrane processes and supercritical fluid technology for the processing of soupsand juices. The multidisciplinary team consisted of two undergraduate chemical engineeringstudents, one civil engineering student, and one biology student. In addition, one master’sstudent served as a project manager. Through this project students investigated advancedmembrane separation techniques as well as enzymatic, thermal, and physical/mechanicaltreatment techniques applied to vegetable processing. Their responsibility included HAZOPanalysis, project planning, budget formulation and management, literature and patent reviews,experimental design, and development of a proposal for a second phase of the clinic project. Inaddition to the engineering expertise the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

categories.Despite the commonly held view that systemic curricular change is needed, the conundrum ishow to achieve it. In short, how to build the necessary faculty consensus?There are several reasons for this apparent lack of adaptation. One experience to attempt changeat MIT is instructive. The MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics incorporated activelearning strategies and assessment tools into their Unified Engineering course after a two-yearstrategic planning process that involved all faculty in the department.7 As they discovered,“changing how we teach is more difficult than changing what we teach.” (p. T2A-15). Thischange required not only faculty buy-in, but also administrative and institutional support. Thereis a two-fold message here

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

their perceptions of their undergraduate education, their early work Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperiences, and their future plans. Surveys of recent alumni have been carried out for overfifteen years to provide information from former students on impressions of their education andto track their early post-graduate education, professional development, and work activities.Approximately ten years ago, the College developed a new method of conducting the alumnisurvey and began surveying recent graduates. Starting with the class of 1995, graduates havebeen surveyed two to three years

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Control to meet the needs of theprocess industries. This is the first degree of its kind in Australia with the first intake in 1996. It should berecognized that this was a major industry driven initiative.GURPREET KOHLIGurpreet is a PhD student at ECU with two years of experience in Lecturing and Developing Network and DataCommunication units at ECU. Gurpreet is currently investigating web services and capacity planning of e-businesssites as part of his research. Page 9.73.12 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

, industry site visits, and lectures to better provideeducation in professional engineering practice. They will also increase personal contact bothbetween lecturers and off-campus students, and between on-campus and off-campus students.The longer-term plans of the School include re-aligning both the undergraduate and postgraduateprograms with the research strengths of the School.ConclusionSince 1991, The School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University, in Victoria,Australia, has delivered complete undergraduate degree programs by distance education. Currentofferings include the three-year Bachelor of Technology and the four-year Bachelor ofEngineering, in seven major fields of specialization. Deakin is one of two universities inAustralia to

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pichai Rusmee

can take more time to explore different fields of study and take more timeto complete their degrees if at all.6 Discussion in this paper is based more on qualitativecomparison between to sample groups based on the author’s experience. To make a more validquantitative comparison, a more rigorously planned study will have to be conducted. However,there will always be some unquantifiable factors that cannot be eliminated when two verydifferent cultural groups are compared. Certain statistics that may be unacceptable to one groupmay as well be a norm in the other.ConclusionsTwo different groups of students from two different universities in two different countries weretaught in a similar manner, as much as possible, so that performance

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

; FED 101D; 3 for Statics/Dynamics and 41 for ChE courses) [ABET minimum is 48] General Education total credits: 26 (24 credits in HSS + 2 in PE) Elective total credits: 9 (9 for “concentration” courses) Total credits: 132 Planned Concentration Areas (Need 3 Related Electives): Pre-Medical (Organic Chem II, Biology II, BioTransport) Polymers (Polymer Sci, Polymer Engg, Polymer Processing) Pharmaceuticals (Biochem, Biotransport, Pharmaceutical Engg) “Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

levelcourses in each concentration, 3) continued strong senior design project courses. We have metgoals two and three as of this school year. Three of five lower level courses now have a designproject with plans to have a design project in the other two courses within two years.Ethics and integrity of design are critical elements for the education of the engineeringprofessional. We address these areas through seven design norms. Presented starting in the firstyear, they culminate as a key component of the senior design project. Design norms are generalprinciples that relate how design “ought” to be done, or moral guidelines. Normative designattempts to balance design trade-offs not only among technical/economic constraints but alsoamong ethical and

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Crowley; Susan Miertschin

achievements. An artifact is any object/item thatcan represent a student’s accomplishments and qualities in tangible form.14 Artifacts should berelevant to the audience and supportive of the portfolio. Artifacts used by students includeprogramming projects, project plans to demonstrate knowledge of project managementprinciples, data base projects, analysis related to case studies from other classes. Artifacts mustbe converted to digital media. Since students are in their junior year, they are advised to build aportfolio that can be extended to accommodate future projects.During the preplanning phase, the course defines specific online portfolio development tools,technologies, and resources. Students are required to use W3C standard technologies that

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

participating faculty members should be repeatedly made aware that the success of the team-taught module depends on the combined effectiveness of the team performance. • In planning the tutorials, it is best to involve and divide the responsibility among members of the teaching team, instead of passing the assignment to other department staff. • It is necessary and important for the coordinator to do internal control and adjustment should a disruption arise during the semester owing to the failure of a team member to deliver the anticipated performance. Page 9.1158.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

developments intersect. Power andenergy is just one of these. A pathfinder may only be able to provide a partial set ofsources for beginning queries. In technical areas, users may need tutorials for orientationand to fill gaps of knowledge needed to mine sources.The Power Engineering Society offers instructor-led sessions on power and energy basicsat its conferences and plans to continue and possibly expand this effort, perhaps online.Tutorials targeted at a specific audience (including students, the general public, andregulators) could be effectively coordinated with online reference material, includingthose contained in pathfinders. For the IEEE, Web-based tutorials will enable engineers

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

actually doing it you can see what goes on;”“When you actually see it, you understand it;” “Putting things in context adds a lot more gravityto it.”The students were very excited to have an opportunity to “do” as well as to listen and read. Theyappreciated seeing and manipulating so that they could really understand how the theory works.That was why they wanted to see if they could keep the Stirling Engine going past the taskassigned. “I liked that Dr. McLeskey is going for this hands-on stuff:” “I’m the kind of personthat I have to see and feel something to understand it.”The students expressed much enthusiasm for the activities. It made the subject more interestingfor them, especially because they were planning to be mechanical engineers and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

, four of five project sponsors plan to return in the spring, and more than 20% of thestudents have signed up for a second semester (under a different course number). Page 9.291.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure TechnologyAlliance (PITA), a partnership of Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh University and the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development.References 1

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

9.1085.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineeringcars, which seem like a luxurious house4, and cellular telephones, which are changed everysix months for reasons such as “to match my new car”5 or only for the novelty itself.We think that is serious. Reuters6 stated that one half of the world’s population, around threebillion people, live in extreme poverty, according to the International Labour Organization.They are people who live with an income of less than US$ 2 per day, the majority indeveloping countries, without housing, education and health plans. How many popularhouses could be built in poor

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reginald Tomkins; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Joseph Kisutcza; Deran Hanesian; Howard Kimmel

write a plan onhow they will incorporate the material presented in their classroom. The likely-hood of classroom implementation by the teachers was measured by post-workshop surveys. Follow-up in the classroom is now taking place. The primary post-workshop instrument was a “Readiness to Teach” survey developed for all professional development programs offered through PrE-IOP. The survey is meant to ascertain the teachers’ confidence that they will be able to teach the topics discussed in the workshop. There are four possible choices for each topic: Page 9.753.101. I would have to start from scratch. Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Leifer; Jamey Jacob

instruction on how to access the program and use the tutorials, and then learnedhow to use the software by working on the tutorials during scheduled laboratory sessions. Theywere assisted in lab by their instructors, as well as their peers. Students designed their gearsprimarily through the use of Boolean solid modeling operations (e.g. intersection, union), andwere able to see their parts in Rhinoceros depicted in both plan and rendered formats (Fig. 4).Once saved in stl format, the students could request that their parts be fabricated on the ZPrinter.Turnaround time for parts was generally no more than 24 hours, and multiple parts could befabricated in a single ZPrinter run. Figure 4: Student-designed gear, depicted in the solid modeling

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

over TCP/IP Name Resolution and WINS http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];119493 4. Microsoft Knowledge base Article – 138449; Using and Troubleshooting the TCP/IP Scope ID http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];138449 5. Minasi M. and Lammle T. TCP/IP for NT Server, SYBEX Inc., 1997. 6. Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS): Architecture and Capacity Planning http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/commnet/WINS/WINSwp98/W INS10-12.asp 7. Michael Muuss’ website; The Story of the PING Program http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html 8. RFC 792; Internet Control Message Protocol ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

). Getting smart. Computer Graphics World, 24 (11). pp. 38 - 43.6. Dean, A. (2000, November). Intelligent data translation: How close are we? http://www.cadserver.co.uk/common/viewer/archive/2000/Nov/1/feature4.phtm7. Barr, R. E. (1999). Planning the EDG curriculum for the 21st century: A proposed team effort. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63(2), 4-12.8. Ault, H. K. (1999). 3-D geometric modeling for the 21st century. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63(2), 33-42.9. Connolly, P. E., Ross, W. A. & Bannatyne, M. W. (1999). Applied 3D modeling technology instruction for freshman computer graphics majors: Developing a foundational knowledge. Paper presented at the 54th Midyear Conference of the Engineering Design Graphics

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”graphically (the senior capstone faculty remark that these seem to be the only studentscomfortable thinking out of both sides of their brains). Just as importantly, these students haveacquired a more complete understanding of the impact that they can have as designers than thetypical engineering graduate. The graduates are moving to new areas after graduation as well,some considering graduate work in STS and some moving on to more design oriented careers bypursuing graduate work in industrial design. Continued study and assessment is planned but thereis something clearly to be learned here for consideration of the future of engineering

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

) to analyze, solve, and present solutions to engineering problems. 2. Become an effective team member. 3. Develop the communication skills necessary to package acquired technical and professional abilities that are required to succeed in engineering practice. 4. Understand the engineering profession enough to commit to a major and create an education/career plan. 5. Develop motivation for self-responsibility, life-long learning, and self-development of a person of good character.Course Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to 1. Document a rational for selection in their chosen major

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Genevieve Sapijaszko; Carlo Sapijaszko

complexity canbe configured by selecting appropriate relays to turn ON or OFF.The eTCB board is designed with many test points strategically placed to allow for variousmeasurements to be obtained. Jumpers, which are used for selecting components from their pairs,are also used to break the circuits and allow for current measurements (see Figure 9). Figure 9 The use of component-selecting jumper ports in current measurementsThe DC/AC eTCB board is the first design in what is planned to be a series of boards to addressthe needs of different curricula. The DC/AC board, being the first in the series, features thestrong geographical similarities of the schematic diagram layout and the actual layout of

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

success, ASEE Professional Books (1998).[3] http://www.abet.org/images/eac_criteria_b.pdf.[4] Nichols, J.,”A Practitioner’s Handbook for Institutional Effectiveness and Student Outcomes Assessment Implementation”, Agathon Press, New York (1995).[5] Race, P., and Brown, S., “The Lecturer’s Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Teaching, Learning, and Assessment”, Kogan Page, London (1998).[6] Pintar, A.J., Aller, B.M., Rogers, T.N, Sculz, K.H., and Shonnard, D.R., “Developing an Assessment Plan to Meet ABET EC2000”, ASEE Proceedings, Charlotte, N.C. (1999).[7] Trevisan, M.S., Davis, D.C., Calkins, D.E., and Gentili, K.L.: “Designing Sound Scoring Criteria for Assessing Student Performance”, Journal of Engineering Education

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

Title of SeminarMON 8:00-9:30 Seminar I Learning to Teach 9:30-10:30 Veteran Instructor Demonstration Class 1 10:30-11:00 Assessment of Vet Class 1 11:00-11:30 Seminar II Principles of Effective Teaching and Learning 11:30-12:30 Lunch 1:00-1:30 Seminar III Introduction to Learning Styles 1:30-2:30 Seminar IV Organizing a Class 1 (Learning Objectives) 2:30-3:30 Seminar V Organizing a Class 2 (Planning a