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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Rasmussen; Matt Smith; David Gattie

estuaries to explore thenatural development of these resources as well as the influence of human activities on theenvironment. The course is offered during a three-week long session between spring andsummer semesters that we refer to as the Maymester. Instructors from engineering, forestresources, soil science, and geology jointly teach the course along with guest instructors fromother disciplines. The students come from diverse backgrounds (generally science-oriented) witha mix of graduate and undergraduate students as well. The emphasis of the course is on hands-on, experiential observation and learning in the field. General learning objectives for this cour seinclude: 1. Develop and understanding of the relationships between geology

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christe

institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology.” 1 TheTLT Group is the Teaching, Learning and Technology Affiliate of the American Association ofHigher Education.I. IntroductionThe on-line learning environment is different – there is no debate about that. With many classesnow making use of the virtual classroom, the Internet, traditional expectations and assumptionsare no longer valid. One prime example of this is in the assessment of both faculty performanceand instructional delivery of course materials. Purdue University has long used student surveysat the end of the semester as a tool in the tenure process, as an indicator of student satisfactionand as a feedback sensor to close the loop in classroom assessment. The

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

. Earlyinvolvement in engineering problem solving helps stimulate, refresh and/or retain the interest thatthese students have already shown in the engineering profession. Virginia Tech’s success inmaintaining a respected and rigorous engineering program is combined with an exceptionally highretention rate of its freshman in engineering. The latest figures indicate that nearly 70 percent offreshman engineering students graduate from Virginia Tech with an engineering degree; anadditional 20 percent graduate from Virginia Tech with other than an engineering degree, and theremainder transfer to another institution or take on other challenges. 1 Although admissionstandards to the engineering program are reasonably high (average 1250 combined SAT and top10% of

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Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

Session 3275 Building Better Rapport With Students: Advice for New Engineering Educators Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractGood rapport between faculty and students and its influence on effective teaching is wellknown.1-2 Workshops3-4 and courses5 on effective teaching include development of faculty-student relationships as an essential part of successful teaching. As leaders and facilitators in theclassroom, faculty must take the initiative to encourage the development of good rapport withtheir students. This is not

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

a few years, move on to management positions often related to engineering. AmericanSociety for Engineering Management (ASEM) defines Engineering Management as "the art andscience of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing and controlling activities whichhave a technological component"1. This definition is followed by the statement "Engineering Page 7.488.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationManagement is rapidly becoming recognized as a professional discipline. Engineering

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terra Smith

"To Err is Human: Building a SaferHealth System."1 This report discusses two types of preventable events: serious events and lessserious events.10 The type of errors addressed by this research group, inadequately preparedthickened liquids, is consider less serious events. Thus, the researchers sought out error-reduction strategies in terms of fluid preparation errors related to patients on swallowingdisorders or dysphagia diets. Speech pathologists are the lead allied health care professionals in terms of swallowingdisorders.3 They diagnose the nature of swallowing disorders and recommend diet texturemodifications to the attending physician. The registered dietitian and the foodservice staff areresponsible for administering the diet orders

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

program in the 1920s(the Meiklejohn Experimental College at the University of Washington), learningcommunities can now be found at four to five hundred colleges and universities acrossthe nation. 1 According to Smith, “Learning communities are a broad structural innovationthat can address a variety of issues from student retention to curriculum coherence, fromfaculty vitality to building a greater sense of community within our colleges.” Learningcommunities usually involve purposive groupings of students and coordinatedscheduling. In addition, they may involve coordinated approaches to learning and anemphasis on connecting material across disciplinary boundaries. 2As Tinto 3 points out, the learning community courses for which students co

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Integrating Math and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bogdan Adamczyk; Wendy Reffeor

Calculus and Analytic Geometry I MTH 202 Calculus and Analytic Geometry II MTH 203 Calculus and Analytic Geometry III MTH 302 Linear Algebra and Differential Equations The primary statistics used for admission to the university are the high school GPA and theACT score. The secondary admission process is primarily based upon the students’ academic per-formance in the first four semesters of the program. The average ACT scores and math placementof students for the students admitted to the program in 2000 and 2001 are shown in Table 1. Table 1: Average ACT Scores and Math Placement MTH 110 Math 122/123 Math

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Denny Mahoney

NSF and the Center for Innovation inProduct Development (CIPD) at MIT, a university consortium was formed in 1998 todisseminate a Master of Science program focused on product development leadership. Thispaper reviews the evolution of “PD21”, the “Education Consortium for Product DevelopmentLeadership in the 21 st Century,” from creation of the template Master’s degree program atMIT and formation of the consortium, to the transfer of curriculum to three other memberschools (RIT, the University of Detroit-Mercy, and the Naval Postgraduate School), to thefuture of the consortium. 1 Attention is given to the complexities and challenges associatedwith collaboration within and between universities.IntroductionRecognizing the intimate relationship

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

normally expected to spend approximately 10 hours per week on their projects. Studentteams are required to meet with their instructor weekly and submit a written status report.Formalized design methodologies are required. (See for example Pahl and Beitz [1] or Dekkerand Gibson [2].) In addition, oral presentations and final written reports are required of eachdesign team, and some companies also invite the teams to their facility for an in-house oralbriefing.Design ReportsDesign reports have been required since the course was first established. Each team must submita formal design report which counts as 25% of their course grade. The format for the finalwritten report requires students to include the following sections: Title Page

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Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Bassman; Patrick Little

), begins with a hands-on design exercise, and culminateswith the participants preparing and presenting lesson plans to be used at their own schools. Theworkshop utilizes materials from HMC’s first course in engineering, Introduction to EngineeringDesign (known as “E4”) [1], and is taught in a studio mode [2]. This paper presents somebackground material on PEPS, including the program’s goals, the current structure of PEPS, adiscussion of the assessment procedures used, and some reflections on future directions. Page 7.916.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Bailey

indicators havebeen developed and used to form teams. Prominent examples of such indicators are the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator1, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter2, and the Kolbe Index. In this paper,the focus is on using the Kolbe Index, which measures an individuals instincts and drive.The Kolbe Index has been used to successfully form teams with the fundamental idea being thata successful team is 1) composed of people with diverse Kolbe Indices and 2) balanced (so thatone type of person cannot dominate team activities). There are many times, however, when teamcomposition is based on other issues such as technical competence in the areas needed for aproject and personnel availability. In such cases where the Kolbe Index is not the dominant

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

were used to assess the impact of the program.1. IntroductionAs the practice of the profession of engineering changes, so does the education of new engineers.Over the past twenty-five years, engineering design education has evolved with the addition ofmany new topics, including: · powerful computer-aided engineering tools for design and analysis; · the concepts of concurrent engineering, sustainable engineering, life-cycle engineering, and accessibility; and · a diverse array of topics that relate to the context and environment in which design is practiced, such as global and societal issues, project management, and teamwork.The pedagogy of design education has likewise evolved with the integration of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Klegka; Robert Rabb

world.” Graduates must have experience and competence in thefollowing areas2: 1) Moral Awareness 6) Mathematics, Science and Technology 2) Communications 7) Engineering Thought Process 3) Culture 8) Creativity 4) History 9) Continued Educational Development 5) Human BehaviorEach Academic Program Goal has components or objectives from which the academicdepartments develop their goals. The Mechanical Engineering program has its own goals andobjectives to meet and support the Academic Program Goals stated above3. 1) Learn the philosophical basis for the practice of engineering that applies an

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Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

. Page 7.1292.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 1. Linking ABET Outcomes Criteria to CompetenciesConstituents participated in DDI-facilitated focus sessions, using a “Critical Incident” datagathering technique Figure 1. In these sessions, they provided hundreds of examples ofsuccessful and unsuccessful demonstrations of the eleven Criterion 3 outcomes by engineeringstudents and graduates. DDI professionals analyzed these “Critical Incident” stories andextracted fourteen dimensions or “ISU Competencies” that we believe are necessary andsufficient to demonstrate Criterion 3 (a-k) Outcomes: Engineering

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Henning

Session 1660 CLOSING THE ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK LOOP: THE USE OF A QUALITATIVE FORMATIVE EVALUATION PROCESS AND CHANGES IN A MULTI-YEAR NSF/PENN STATE GK-12 EDUCATION PROJECT. Philip H. Henning, Pennsylvania College of Technology Dan Haworth, Elizabeth Kisenwether, Robin Tallon, Oliver Finckh Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, Penn State UniversityIntroductionIn this paper 1 we describe some of the changes made as a result of informal feedback gainedthrough qualitative basement techniques in the operation of a three year science, technology, andmath education

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Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Christianson; Paul King

Page 7.1092.1school year to their single or group design projects. The exam counts about 33% of the final “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”grade, proposals and progress reports about 10%, homework exercises count the remainder.Discussions of safety and exercises involving safety are interspersed throughout the year. Specificexamples of this coverage include the following:1. Medical Error StatisticsThe recently published National Academy Press publication “To Err is Human: Building aSafer Health System”3 has provided several notable statistics that are useful for introductorycomments made at

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

illustrate the differences between projects for the disabled compared to moretraditional engineering projects the following examples are given. In each case thedifferences between these projects and more traditional engineering projects should benoted.Case 1: Safety Considerations and Modifications for a Handicap Accessible MotorcycleIn this project students worked with a triplegic who owned a wheelchair accessiblemotorcycle with a sidecar. The motorcycle had been modified previously toaccommodate the wheelchair by creating a chariot sidecar and the handlebars had beenrelocated so that it was controlled from the sidecar. The problem that the students wereasked to solve involved the braking system. The braking system required that the driverbe able

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

an organization of all levels and disciplines of engineering students. Thesestudents saw the value of this hands-on early design approach in the first year course. As a resultof this support, eight activities for the pilot were created as shown in the following table:Hands-On Activity Title Lesson Number Hands-On Kits1 Density 1 4 Shaped block, scale, tape2 Density 2 53 Archimedes’ 6 Water container

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Wakeman-Linn; Alex Perry

Education” The final project is developed during blocks 6 and 7. For this project, student teams createrobots that behave like simple animals. The students construct an environment for the robot tolive in, make the robot eat ‘food,’ and have the robot find a dark area periodically to go to sleepin. In addition to this, the groups of students must create a non-LEGO attachment to performsome task specified by each group of students 5. Table 1, below, summarizes each of the study blocks. The full descriptions of each blockare available at http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/electrical/doeepscor/.Table 1: Outline of Proposed Blocks for the Robotics Unit First Block Introduction to the basics of Mindstorms™, such as the RCX, RCX

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Blevins

disciplines.References:1. Babcock, D.L., Management Engineering and Technology, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 19962. Becerra-Fernandez, et. al, “Reaching Out to Engineering Management Students”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 19983. Beruvides, M. G., & James, M. R., “Perceptions from the Trenches: Engineering Management vs. MBA”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 19974. “Engineering Criteria 2000: 2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Programs”, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, USA 20015. Farr, John, and Bowman, B., “ABET Accreditation of Engineering Management Programs: Cotemporary and Future Issues”, Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 11 No. 4, December 19996. Kocaoglu, D., “Technology Management

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

available in the LDB for a given institution.In one set of analyses, retention refers to graduation in an engineering program during that timeperiod, which we label graduation. Because it typically takes a student a minimum of four yearsto graduate, students who have entered university after 1995 have not usually had enough time tograduate, and are excluded from these analyses. Therefore, for the graduation analyse s, we onlyinclude students matriculated in an engineering field between 1987 and 1994. The number ofstudents used in the retention analyses are listed in the header of Table 1.G. University Cohorts Graduation Percentage Graduation Date A 1987-1994 30.49

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

a a Figure 1. A Statically Determinate TrussMethod of Joints:The determination of the member forces and support reactions in the truss shown in Figure 1requires that two force equilibrium equations be written for each of the 8 joints of the truss. Thisyields a total of 16 equations that can be solved to yield the forces in the 13 members of the truss,and the 3 reactions at the supports at A and E. To obtain the MATLAB solution to this problem,the equilibrium equations for the truss are first formulated in a general format as shown in Eq. (1). Using this equation, the unknown column vector X can be solved for using the MATLAB left-division operation as shown in Eq. 2. For the above truss, the matrices

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elizabeth Orwin

intended to give the students an idea ofwhat engineering is and the kinds of problems that engineers face. The course is offered as a 1credit pass/fail course. The second semester we offer a more hands-on design course during thefreshman year. Many other institutions have moved to this model over the past 10 years, with thecommon themes of a hands-on approach, working in teams, improving oral and writtencommunication skills, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, critical thinking techniquesand solving real world problems[1]. Briller et. al. determined that enrollment in the freshmandesign course improved overall graduation rates and cumulative GPA [1]. Instructors atColorado State University instituted a new project-oriented

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

Session Teaching Biology from an Engineering Perspective: Integrating Biology into Undergraduate Engineering Education Kjell Nelson1, Robin Adams1, Mary Lidstrom2, Jeff Bonadio3, Dave Stahl4, Cynthia Atman1 1 Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, 2Department of Chemical Engineering, 3Department of Bioengineering, 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonAbstractA new course has been developed at the University of Washington that is designed to teachfundamental biological concepts specifically

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New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Goodman; Edith A. Lawson; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

sent to all conference attendees via email, and further feedback was sought andincorporated.ResultsThe results of this exercise were very significant in several ways: 1) representatives from 15universities with 4-year IT programs had participated - this represents a significant portion of theprograms in the nation; 2) representatives from three professional organizations were also inattendance – these were three of the most relevant; and 3) each representative had ampleopportunity to share all their thoughts, both as to topics and as to organization.Table 1 presents an overview of the results. There are 28 topical areas in this overview, shown inthe table in the order of how often they were mentioned (# represents the number of sticky

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

2001 semesters, with primaryemphasis on how McCabe-Thiele modeling and process simulation are integrated. The paperfocuses on trayed column distillation as an example but the approach is applicable to otherphysical processes.Course OrganizationIn a series of articles in Chemical Engineering Education, Haile 6,7,8,9,10 discussed the operation ofthe human brain and the learning process. These insights are valuable as a guide in organizing acourse. Haile described 7 a “special hierarchy,” a progression of seven levels at which a studentcan understand concepts. These levels are summarized in Table 1, along with examples ofcapabilities of students who understand distillation at a particular level. The table assumesMcCabe-Thiele is the primary

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

present paper, the design of the DAQ system is discussed from two perspectives: 1) design of the DAQ system with respect to necessary hardware, 2) design of the DAQ system with regard to required software. In brief, the effort made in this paper is to demonstrate new developments made with a portable data acquisition system applicable to the lab and field projects as well as teaching in geomechanics. It is clear that this convenient and powerful tool will help faculty in both teaching and research, as well as help engineering students in studies of Geomechanics or Engineering Mechanics. I. Introduction A revolution in high technology areas including computer technology and applications is currently in progress. Personal computers (PC) are more

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King

career. A successful application of what skills anearly engineering student has can lead to increased retention and interest on the part of thestudents. Finding the right personnel to man such a course, and finding the right designchallenges, is necessary for a good experience. This paper will address the challenge of findinggood design problems for use in Biomedical Engineering projects in a freshman course.Methods: Several of the methods to generate these projects are enumerated below:1. Go beyond your teaching team: The engineering faculty at Vanderbilt University weresurveyed by the faculty in charge of the freshman introductory engineering course for designprojects. This course covers the use of Excel, MATLAB, VRML programming, and very