Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

year Metric: Number of faculty participated, workshop evaluations, mission reports Action 2: Encourage and facilitate multi-disciplinary teaching Responsibility: Dean, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs Milestones: Framework established, by-laws/policies issued by Spring 2005 Metric: Number of faculty participating in co-teaching Action 3: Encourage and facilitate industry-sponsored projects Responsibility: Dept. Chairs Timeline: Ongoing Metric: Number of industry-sponsored projects Action 4: Encourage and facilitate co-teaching by practicing engineers Responsibility: Dept. Chairs Timeline: Ongoing Metric: Number of seconded instructors

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

completion. Onlinestudents who defer a lecture generally play it back within a week in order to prepare forhomework or project submission. This again underscores the value to working students of Page 9.876.8simulteaching with recording. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering EducationEven progressive faculty members resist new media. In the GMU School of InformationTechnology and Engineering we pride ourselves on progressive approaches. We are part ofVirginia’s newest state university and are located in a

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Scmidt; Jeffrey Siegel

class and indicated that students who were getting many answers incorrect needed to increase their time studying class material or clarify the material with the instructor.6) The variety of results, particularly on opinion questions about the class, showed students the diversity of their peer’s opinions and the variety of learning desires.One of the major benefits of CPS is that it allows the instructor to preplan questions to addressseveral different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The process of generating and categorizingquestions for ARE346N, although time-consuming, illuminated the scarcity of questions at thehighest levels. The instructor compensated for this by designing homework assignments andgroup projects to address the synthesis

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Honor Passow; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

Variable Name Academic Dishonesty Professional Dishonesty (Question 7.2) (Question 11.3) Insufficient resources Not enough time (36) Lack of resources to complete job (7) Importance of success Grade pressure (15) Wanted to seem better than I was (5) Projection of blame Professor deserved it (14) Company deserved it (7) Perceived chance of success Material was too hard (13) Not

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers; Jeff Goldberg

comparison of the presurvey results leads to some interesting observations. Althoughthere is explicit training on how to use the library system in a freshmen english course, only 26%of the SIE seniors recalled this training while 41% of the sophomore chemical engineers did. Anadditional 11% of SIE seniors and 5% of chemical engineering students had received trainingfrom either library staff or from a mentor on a research project. The rest of the students reportedreceiving no training of any kind, either formal or informal. While some of the students may betransfer students or have used Advanced Placement courses to miss the courses that instruct themin how to use the library, this would be a small percentage compared to the number that say theyhave

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

option of working yourown hours, and the option of being able to choose your own research topic or projects in whichyou become engaged. Also, academia usually provides good health and retirement benefits.There is deep satisfaction in helping students. There is always the joy of seeing “the light bulbturn on” for a student when you are explaining a difficult concept. Sometimes compliments cancome at strange times. I once talked at the end of the semester with a student that had taken myclass and received a “D.” I asked him, what I could have done as an instructor to have enabledhim to receive a higher grade. His answer surprised me: “You are a great teacher! There isnothing more that you could have done. I work and have no time to study or do the

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Modesitt

universities (all within Oregon) and is a very viable organization16. Three of the 12 core courses had been available online, until the Fall of 2003. OMSE is now “re- evaluating the on-line program.” ACM: The Professional Development Centre (PD) advertises “over 250 valuable online IT training courses absolutely FREE”17. The offerings include “Java, Web Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Project Management, Telecommunications, e-Business, Networking & Security”. These training courses are “all from leading providers of Professional Development, including Sun Educational Services, Digital Think, Telecommunications Research Associates.” None of the providers are university CS or SE departments IEEE-CS: The IEEE-Computer

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

students are alsoexpected to have a “hands-on” experience with real world problems that are faced byengineering professionals. This paper is a summary of the experience of one facultymentor and his undergraduate colleague to combine both of these requirements into aneffective educational experience for the student and the instructor.The first requirement is that the problem that needs to be solved must not only be a real-world engineering problem but one that has some reasonable likely hood of being solvedin the time allowed. The only other requirement is that the student be a valued member ofthe team; taking on responsibilities that are essential to the project and ones that thefaculty mentor would need to do if assistance were not available…in

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

; -- PDIUSBD12 control signals wr_n, rd_n, ale, cs_n : OUT STD_LOGIC -- PDIUSBD12 control signals );END COMPONENT usb_interface;COMPONENT filter IS PORT( reset : IN STD_LOGIC; clock : IN STD_LOGIC; x : IN STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(31 DOWNTO 0); y : OUT STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(31 DOWNTO 0) );END COMPONENT filter;Figure 9: The component declarations of the three modules here are needed to implement the FPGAinterface. The system logic needed to implement the system in Fig. 3 is located in the “filter” module.4.2.1 Top–level Project FileThe top–level project file typically contains the components and routing logic for at leastthree modules: the top–level USB interface

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

ABILITY greatly improved=4. MEAN RESPONSE CONTROL UPOP N=143 N=80INTERPERSONAL/ TEAMWORK ABILITIES1.If I did not feel challenged by my job, I would justaccept this as part of the job I’ve been given and notrequest more challenging assignments. 2.3 3.12.My supervisor has just given me a project goal, tasks,and deadline that are totally vague and unrealistic. Iwould just not sleep and get something done! 2.2

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

‚" It is easy to visualize what each load does to the beam. ‚" This is a straightforward visualization.Several factors were revealed in the student comments that seem to have worked against animpartial trial of the software. First, a number of students in the experimental group indicated afeeling of cognitive overload at being confronted both with an unfamiliar topic and an unfamiliarinstructional medium near the end of the semester, when projects and assignments were due inall of their other courses. Second, students in the experimental section were generallyuncomfortable with the absence of lectures on the superposition topic. Finally, some studentsapparently reached a mistaken conclusion that the computer-based instructional materials

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

include attending a career fair, ice skating, bowling, a speaker series, abook club, a movie project, and industrial plant visits. Women working in engineering industriesvisit the community to discuss their experiences. These conversations give students theopportunity to learn what women in the field enjoy about their jobs as well as some of theirfrustrations.A primary component of the program is the Hypatia Seminar, a required first semester course forall students living in the community.Hypatia SeminarAll Hypatia residents are required to take a three credit seminar during their fall first semester ofenrollment. The seminar does not count for credit towards the students’ degree requirements.Currently in its third year of implementation, the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Wo; Pei-Fen Chang

Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education (1). Helping team members and cooperating in a group; (2). Helping to plan; (3). Pacing and scheduling projects; (4). Getting peer and teacher feedback on work; and (5). Teaching classmates. The shift from the traditional system of education to cooperative learning may redefinewhat a good student does, thus threatening and raising the anxiety of traditionally goodstudents. The highly competitive nature of most problem solvers also hinders teamworkability. College students receive little training on how to work as a team, and since they haveonly been in a simulated environment, they will not realize that most of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Ken Jr. Jannotta; William Lin; Richard Pfile

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. Start the KEPServerEx software package and create a new project (File | New). Add a new channel. Use all default selections except the device driver (select Modbus Ethernet). 4. Add a device to the network. Use all the default except the device address that should be set to 192.168.1.200. 5. The chart below shows how the registers in the OCS are mapped into standard Modbus address. Create four tags two for the first two inputs assigned to your groups remote I/O and two for the outputs. Make sure to make the inputs read only, and the outputs read/write.ControllerReference Max Traditional ModbusRef%I1 2048

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

atArizona State University that address selected issues are also discussed, as well as how theseissues are being integrated into the curriculum.A primary reason for the large scale interest and investments in PEM fuel cells is the largepotential market for this technology. For example, in his January 28, 2003 State of the Unionaddress, President Bush recommended the commitment of 1.2 billion dollars in research fundingfor the development of hydrogen technologies1. Most major automotive manufacturers have fuelcell development programs underway, and have produced prototype vehicles for the consumermarket2. The stationary fuel cell market, including residential applications, is projected to growto $40 billion by the year 20103.A complete fuel cell

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Henry; James Bandstra

given the limitations of resources.As students work on the various lab assignments with the technicians from CTC, they also aregiven mini-tours of other equipment and processes being developed at CTC, such as, friction stirwelding, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and rapid prototyping. In addition, many samples from Page 9.180.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprevious CTC projects are on display in the facility, which encourages discussion of othermaterials and manufacturing related topics

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"4. Methods of assessmentThe following methods are used to assess student’s performance and the effectiveness of thecourse.4.1 Student performanceIn lecture classes, 3 tests (one each month), 2 quizzes, one final, and a final project are given in asemester to assess the performance of students.Typical laboratory quizzes, each of about 15 min (containing 15 questions) is given at the end ofeach laboratory experiment/exercise. These are usually multiple choice type questions toevaluate students’ perception of each experiment. Small group discussions are also arranged

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Huddleston

issue of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering1was devoted to the topic of teaching hydraulic design. A common theme among many of thesearticles was a desire to increase the level of realism associated with engineering systemsintroduced. Jewell2 discussed the use of a commercial equation solver to facilitate hydraulicdesign instruction. Weiss and Gulliver3 discussed the use of spreadsheets to analyze varioushydraulic design projects. They illustrated that using the spreadsheet as a tool to analyzepractical engineering problems not only teaches valuable engineering analysis skills but alsoenhances students’ computer skills and helps prepare them for the challenges that they will faceprofessionally. Hodge and Taylor4 presented a set of Mathcad

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Truax

of expected outcomes and research approach accuracies. A student-centeredapproach to learning requires an approach in which the instructor becomes guide, coach,motivator, facilitator and coordinator of learning resources. This requires a context of learningwhich encourages students to actively engage in the subject matter.5In this environment the student becomes a more active participant having to analyze, question,judge, and combine ideas and information in order to define and solve problems. Learning andteaching activities for a student-centered learning process requires a more complicated designingprocess that enables students to contribute their knowledge to the learning environment. It leadsto group projects that encourage consideration

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry Lamb; David Ollis

a “canned’ program for a reasonably simple,but cute shape: a 1” cube containing a large, centered spherical hole, with circular holes cut intoeach face through to the hollow inner spherical hole. In the central spherical “hole” is a secondcube, large enough so that it cannot pass out of the cylindrical holes in the large cube faces. Onfour of the surfaces of the inner cube appear the raised letters “N, C, S, and U”. As a simpleexercise, we asked one lab group to estimate the manufacturing cost, and projected selling price,for 10,000 such cubes as

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

? What will be their nature? What percentage of the grade will depend on exams? How will other indicators (homework, participation, attendance, projects, etc.)be counted towards the grade? It is equally important that the instructor provides periodic assessment of students’ performance during the semester. The intent is: (1) to alert those that have fallen behind, and at the same time, (2) motivate “achievers” to stay the course.4) A “Back up” Plan to Assist Slow Learners and/or Potential Switchers: Many students are in engineering for a variety of reasons. Some are in because of peer pressure, or for other known or unknown reasons. They are not sure of their capabilities, having negative perception of the “class environment” and

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee

to find out if material was beingunderstood; appearing interested in teaching and students. Favorable ratings of instructorperformance were also associated with courses that increased interest in the field and whichstudents perceived as increasing their knowledge and competence.Workload and Instructor Performance The largest correlation calculated in this project between the evaluation item regardingthe instructor’s performance and the item regarding the amount of work required for the coursewas only 0.15. The scoring options for the instructor performance ranged from 1.0 (excellent) to5.0 (poor), and the scoring options for the amount of work required ranged from 1.0 (definitelytoo little) to 5.0 (definitely too much). Therefore the

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Eric Wang

Language (LEP) students in grades seven and eight. The nature of science lends itself well to concrete activities that offer students the opportunity to, not only learn English vocabulary, but to gain a better grasp of concepts when associated with inquiry and hands-on learning. We present the results of a project* that used robotics to teach MS physics to LEP students in regular classes, English as a second language (ESL) students and LEP students in a voluntary after-school program sponsored by Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA). The project was in collaboration with engineering, physics, education and the local school district to train middle school (MS) science teachers who teach high minority

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

-dependent problem solving skills learned in one context intodomain-independent skills capable of solving ill-structured problems [1]. Becoming an expertproblem solver within this new environment means adding, "knowing why" to what and howknowledge. The typical instructional solution to enhance the student’s problem solving skills isto add a “messy” end of course project, based on the faculty member’s industrial experience orconsulting work. Depending on the nature of the problem and the student's familiarity with theproject context, student success can be limited. Spiro delineated this condition, stating "cognitiveand instructional neglect of problems related to content complexity and irregularity in patterns ofknowledge use leads to learning

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

course and is generally assessed through exercises, tests and examinations);• C2- Oral and written communication ability (including arguing capacity, abilities that are considered essential for the twentieth century engineer);• C3- Interpersonal ability (also essential for the new engineer, it facilitates working in groups);• C4- Logic-mathematical reasoning ability (perhaps the most valuable ability for an engineer);• C5- Engineering interest (it is related to motivation, which is part of human emotions and has strong importance on learning);• C6- Contest among classmates (Competition is, up to a certain limit, beneficial and can motivate, but, in excess, can disrupt an educational environment);• C7- Team project

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

Page 9.613.1programs undertake initiatives to help first-year students self-identify as engineers in training, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand to encourage students to stay in engineering school. Because identifying causes of studentattrition is important to developing successful retention efforts, this project sought to identifyreasons cited by students for leaving the School of Engineering at Tulane University. Previousstudies on the learning styles of Tulane engineering students [1], coupled with evidence thatinstructional methods which engage multiple learning styles increased the

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

. Energy Module. The Energy module is delivered through traditional lectures three times a week with a supporting two-hour lab that meets weekly. It will cover the concepts and physical definition of energy and how it is used in practice. To show the importance and diversity of energy in each student’s life, a project concerning a current energy problem will be required The syllabus for the Energy module is as follows: 1. Measurements, units and data analysis 2. Introduction to the study of energy 3. Energy mechanics Page 9.1214.6 4. Conservation of energy 5. Home energy conservation Proceedings

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

instructor demonstrated respect for cadets as individuals. A5. My fellow students contributed to my learning in this course. A6. My motivation to learn and to continue learning has increased because of this course. B1. This instructor stimulated my thinking. B2. In this course, my critical thinking ability increased. B3. The homework assignments, papers, and projects in this course could be completed within the USMA time guideline of two hours 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Average Rating

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

boards, and/or in faculty research projects); developing a freshman curriculum that embodies some or most of the above features, and Page 9.1000.7 that takes full advantage of modern technology, particularly personal computers, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education multimedia materials, digital libraries, hypertext documents, and access to vast networked resources, including databases and activities on other campuses; improving ancillary skills (communication skills