Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

outlines these positive and negative elements in addition tosuggestions to improve the new approach. Over a four-year period, the students chose a widevariety of topics. The students became creative in this regard. The appendices of this paper listthese topics. The paper offers an evaluation of this alternative approach through instructor’sobservations and students’ comments. Embedded in the paper is a comparison between thisalternative approach and the traditional way of assigning course projects.IntroductionSeveral educators have reported that the implementation of new and alternative teachingmethods improves learning by students1-5. In engineering and engineering technologyeducation, the ASEE supports this by making new teaching techniques as

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

Deans Counciland the Corporate Roundtable, ASEE, 1994. "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 116 Recommendations for Action in Support of Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,Project Kaleidoscope Report On Reports 2002. www.pkal.org7 Hazeltine, B. and Bull, C., (1999) Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices, Implications, Academic Press, SanDiego, CA.8 How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, Expanded edition, National Academy Press,Washington, DC, 2000.9 Tsang, E

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Ben Miller; Judith Norback

Session 1009 Integrating Discipline-Specific Communication Instruction based on Workforce Data into Technical Communication Courses* Lisa DuPree McNair, Judith Shaul Norback, Ben Miller School of Literature, Communication and Culture/ School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractBecause of Georgia Tech’s collaboration between the School of Literature, Communication, andCulture (LCC), College of Computing (CoC), and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)departments, our

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Development of Teaching Strategies and Assessment Methods for Course “Mechanisms” based on Students’ Outcomes Shyi-Jeng Tsai1, Pei-fen Chang2, Jiunn-Chi Wu1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering/2Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Jong-Li, TAIWANAbstractThe introduction of accrediting programs in colleges is now the main topic of the engineeringeducation reform in Taiwan. This paper presents therefore our current research results oncurriculum planning and evaluation of the mechanical engineering course based on the learningoutcomes proposed in ABET EC-2000, with example of the course “Mechanisms”. With aid

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

Introduction to Product Design and Innovation: A Cross-Disciplinary MiniCurriculum Patricia Ryaby Backer and Seth Bates San Jose State UniversityAbstractFor the past two years, faculty at San Jose State University (SJSU) have implemented a three-semester minicurriculum in Product Design and Manufacturing. The project follows the Project-Based Learning (PBL) model and is central to the Certificate Program in Product Design in theMechanical Engineering Department, the Manufacturing Systems concentration in theDepartment of Aviation and Technology, and the Industrial Design Program in the School of Artand Design. Students in the three courses in

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Westbrook

of years, I have had discussions with talented Engineering Management andIndustrial Engineering administrators who had enviable records of accomplishment. All toofrequently, the successes stopped in a relatively short time and varieties of problems ensued.Only when considered as connected data does the possibility that such events are not isolated butrelated. This paper considers the problems of success in these areas in an organized format. Allconcepts and tables are based on the experiences that have been gathered and analyzed in anattempt to learn from them.Talented, energetic people, particularly engineers are characteristically promoted intomanagement. Skills, hard work, communication skills, talented peers and subordinates and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elsa Villa; Louis Everett

analysis enables anengineer to perform “mind experiments,” one requirement in creativity. A person with goodconceptual understanding would be able to explain phenomena in simplified terms which willenable finding the critical parameters governing a behavior. Once an engineer knows whatgoverns, analysis can be used to compute how much is required for the exact response needed.To measure conceptual understanding we intend to use the Dynamics Concept Inventorydeveloped by the Foundation Coalition 2 as a pre- and post-test. 3. Student Attitudes About Study GroupsStudents taking responsibility for their education and the education of other students is animportant lesson. Students often can be available to each other at times convenient to

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

. For instance, active learning exercises can be used topromote specific engineering skills, such as brainstorming solutions, teamwork, andapproximation. Exercises can also be developed which teach a specific topic, sometimes moreefficiently than a traditional lecture. One objection raised to active learning is that it takes timeaway from other aspects of the course. As this shows active learning exercises can be structuredso that they take the place of certain lecture components thereby preserving the content to classtime ratio.When formulating specific exercises several things must be kept in mind. Open ended problemdoes not imply open ended instructions. Specific outcomes for the exercise should be identified.In addition, students should be

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

Student-Directed, Project-Based Learning in an Integrated Course Block Jonathan Stolk, Robert Martello, and Steven Krumholz Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA 02492AbstractImagine a course block in which students discuss the cultural implications of 17th century ironworking in North America in one hour, and design experiments to examine connections betweencomposition and strength in modern steel padlocks immediately afterward. In the Paul Revere:Tough as Nails course block, students don’t just study materials science and history oftechnology topics … they experience them. Through a series of

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

, business expert, benevolent despot, child, “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”protector, laissez-faire type, common-minded person, cynic, optimist and democrat. Do youimmediately see a type that fits your teaching style or the style of a teacher you know?One could use this list in a parallel manner to describe behaviors and styles of business managersin the workplace. On the job, there are managers who exhibit behaviors and manage in a waywhich would categorize them into a similar taxonomy of 21 types. Based upon the premise thatmuch can be learned through the understanding of these types, it is a

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann

museum in Binghamton, NY,commissioned an outdoor sculpture from a local sculptor, Yvonne Hobbs. In conjunction withthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Binghamton University, funding was receivedthrough a grant from the Marilyn Gaddis Rose and Stephen David Ross University andCommunity Projects Fund. Mechanical engineering students performed the work as part of theirengineering design course, as well as assisted students from the Art Department of BinghamtonUniversity with the fabrication. The mechanical engineering students were selected for theproject because they were familiar with the computer-aided engineering tools Pro/EngineerTMand Pro/MechanicaTM. These software tools were used to perform the design of the frameworkfor the sculpture

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

used for allmonitoring and shall be collected during the first six hours of the storm event discharge. Eachsample collected shall be analyzed for twelve water quality parameters. Because all twelvewater quality parameters could not be easily done in the University of Hartford EnvironmentalEngineering Laboratory (e.g., oil and grease) and that the student engineering project should gobeyond only collecting and analyzing water samples, it was decided that the student projectwould supplement the data collected by a consultant that would specifically meet therequirement of the general permit. With this in mind, the objectives of the student project wereto: • Design and construct an automatic mechanical stormwater sampler • Collect and

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Macnab

professors. Most people will be Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationquite happy to see someone else follow a code of behavior. But keep in mind that these are onlyhabits for such students. The students are not actively participating in their own learning process.Because university rewards learning, students who rigidly follow these kinds of imaginary ruleswill find themselves unrewarded for their efforts. They will not be successful in university andthey will not understand why. This in turn leads to frustration which does not, in fact, make theprofessor’s job any easier or more enjoyable.If I want to, then

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lane; Don Evans; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo; Phillip Cornwell; Brian Self

an engineering department. Interestingly, it is Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnot unusual for authors of papers on the teaching of mechanics in engineering educationto refer to the history of how the teaching of the subject developed over the centuriessince Newton and Euler published their general laws of motion (for a recent example, seeKraige [9]). However, this rich research literature on student learning of dynamics has yetto significantly influence either the presentation of the subject in textbooks or the emphasisand pedagogy used in the classroom. For the most part, the teaching of

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

Using Technology for Concepts Learning and Rapid Feedback in Statics John C. Chen,* Jennifer A. Kadlowec,* and Dexter C. Whittinghill Departments of *Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics Rowan University, Glassboro, NJAbstractIn this project our goal is to improve student learning in the foundation mechanics course Staticsas well as improve knowledge retention (durability) and knowledge application in a differentenvironment (transferability). We aim to do this by providing rapid feedback to students of theirunderstanding of key concepts and skills being presented. The feedback system acts as the focalpoint and catalyst to encourage students to assist each other in correcting

Conference Session

Building New Communities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

courses in advance. A third suggestion would be to make the timebetween observations consistent. To do this, a formal research design needs to developed. A finallimitation is the amount of time needed to increase the sample. Since the study is longitudinal,more observations of professors are needed across several institutions.References1. Harris, AH and Cox, MF. Developing an Observation System to Capture InstructionalDifferences in Engineering Classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education 92: 329-336, 2003.2. Bransford, J.D. Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, Page 10.167.5and school. Washington, DC

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Devon

Session 1442 Informal Graphics for Conceptual Design Richard Devon, Sven Bilén, Andras Gordon, and Hien Nguyen Engineering Design Program School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs Penn State UniversityAbstractEngineers who work in innovative design spaces have very different CAD and graphics needsthan those who work in more conventional design spaces. We propose to develop ideas aboutthe graphical communication needs for conceptual design. This paper will illustrate what wemean by describing a few new methods such as

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

processwith their first hands-on design experience. In particular, this article features ET 200,“Graphic Communications,” a three-credit course taken by all students in the StructuralDesign and Construction Engineering Technology Program, generally during the fallsemester of their junior year. The course content is conventional and develops basicskills in the student aimed at reading and interpreting commercial and residentialconstruction drawings. For most students, ET 200 is their first engineering course withthe potential for a design component. These design projects presented in this paper weredeveloped and implemented with specific objectives in mind: • To stimulate interest in engineering and design; • To provide the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lane; John Farris

to explore engineering challenges in the classroom.Much of teaching is focused on the knowledge and comprehension levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.When the focus changes from teaching to learning then the outcome expected is raised to theapplication, analysis, synthesis and evaluation levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. Reality learningenables and challenges students to work on higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. The goal ofreality learning is to engage students’ minds using tools and processes including generatinginformation that they may combine in new ways to produce new output.Blackboard software is used to free up class time. Much of the knowledge and comprehensionareas are done using technology. This frees class time for reality learning. Students

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

learningthat can be returned to the classroom. There has been a steady accumulation of designoptimization, refinement, and test data that can also be returned. It takes a concerted effort,however, to do so, as documentation and presentation of the laboratory experience was probablythe last thing on the mind of those students who were focused on completion of their team’scompetition aircraft.Current and Future DevelopmentA complete survey of laboratory experiments conducted over the past several years, and apreliminary review of the design-build-fly projects has revealed a host of experiments that can beintroduced into fundamental aerospace engineering classes. It is the intention that theseexperiments be documented and presented to the instructors of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

American Society for Engineering Educations Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. R.M. Felder, “The Intellectual Development of Science and Engineering Students. Part 1: Models and Changes,” Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 269-277 (Oct 2004).2. B.M. Kroll, Teaching Hearts and Minds: College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press (1992).3. D. Vernier, “Data Collection with Computers and Handhelds,” Catalog for Vernier Software & Technology, 2- 5 (2004).4. National Science Education Standards, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington DC

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Henrickson; Heather Gunter; Joseph Bonventre

simulation, and to Professor RobertLinsenmeier of Northwestern University for his valuable insights on module design.References1. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Eds: Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R..National Academy Press (Washington; 1999).2. Gunter, H.E., Bonventre, J.V., D’Avila, M.A., Sadeghpour, S., Vijaykumar, R. (2003), “Education Innovation inPhysiology” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, TN,June 22-25, 2003BiographiesHEATHER E. GUNTER received her Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard Division of Engineering andApplied Sciences and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2003 and expects to receiveher M.D. from Harvard

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Tougaw

SESSION 944 Integration of Active Learning Exercises into a Course on Probability and Statistics Douglas Tougaw Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Valparaiso University 1. Introduction The benefits of active and cooperative learning exercises have been promoted in workshops, education journals, and entire scholarly monographs.1-8 In particular, the benefits of these teaching methods have been studied and endorsed in recent years,9-12 including publication of results that show these methods to increase the effectiveness of teaching and the retention of the material by the

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

had their minds already made up about what they’re going to do. They wouldn’t listen to us.” • An engineering student: “Those business students are hard to work with. Marketing students said we’d never be able to sell it. Two days later our instructor found something like it selling for 40 bucks. The accountants said our idea was no good – too complicated. We worked okay with the electronics guys.” • An electronics student: “I kind of understand the CAD students, but I don’t know what those business students are thinking with. Instead of worrying about whether we can do it or if it will work, they just think about price and the schedule

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

Program Evaluation Aligned With the CDIO Standards Doris R. Brodeur and Edward F. Crawley Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe CDIO Initiative is a collaboration of engineering programs at universities in morethan eight countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.Collaborators have developed a set of twelve standards that characterize CDIO programsand provide the basis for program evaluation. This standards-based program evaluationextends the evaluative criteria of ABET's EC2000 and other outcomes-based approaches.Evidence of overall program value is collected from multiple sources, using bothquantitative and qualitative methods. Evidence and results

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

Session XXXX Board Notes and Questioning: Two Time-Tested Techniques for Effective Teaching Allen C. Estes, Ronald W. Welch, Fred Meyer United States Military AcademyAbstractThe ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop is celebrating itsseventh anniversary this year. So far, 171 schools have participated and this long runningAmerican Society of Civil Engineering program has produced 307 graduates. Last year, theUnited Engineering Foundation provided funding to expand the program to include electrical,chemical, and mechanical engineers

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricio Torres; Matthew Stephens

significant problems have arisen. Companies have spentmillions of human activity hours, have required a lot of resources and have created products withno value at all. Managers have made a countless number of costly mistakes which may haverequired rectification. Factories have had a great deal of products that were neither needed norappreciated by the customer and this situation has resulted in overstock of inventories. All theseproblems can be summarized in one word: Waste, what the Japanese manufacturers refer to as“muda.” For many years, there were several attempts to decrease this “muda.” The mostsignificant among these techniques are “lean thinking.” With lean thinking, demand is anticipated and it is the engine that moves the

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

UniversityProcess Control School of Chemical Engineering and BioengineeringFall, 2004 Richard L. Zollars Semester Tuning ProjectOver the latter portion of the semester you are going to be asked to tune a controller tomeet certain specifications for a heat exchanger that is located in Chattanooga, TN. Theschematic for this system is shown below. To assist you you will be given a contact for another engineering student at theUniversity of Tennessee, Chattanooga. That person will conduct the tests you requestaccording to your instructions.The first task is to determine the dynamics for this system. Keep in mind that the systemmay be idle when the

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Burton

Group had in mind a written format. However with a strong backgroundin video production, and a vision shared with others such as D.A. Rodgers [1] regarding theability of video to enhance the learning experience, the author felt that video was an appropriatemedium. This was reinforced by previous experience using video material produced by thirdparties [2] to take students on a virtual tour of silicon foundries and also by producing videos for Page 10.1048.1PSpice instruction. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

will present an overview of the freshmanseminar Women in Technology: Exploring the Possibilities, developed as the result of thispartnership. We will discuss the results of a survey of students’ attitudes and beliefs aboutwomen in technology-related disciplines, administered before and after each semester of theseminar; compare the preliminary results from those surveys to the same survey administered toa control group; and offer recommendations for strategies aimed at retaining women students intechnology and engineering.IntroductionA variety of programs have succeeded in attracting more women into the fields of science,engineering, and technology over the past two decades. Many of these women are now in highlyvisible positions. However