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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

Design ModelOnce the written comments from all jury members are collated, they are distributed to thestudents without screening by the faculty. Each student typically receives from ten to fifteencomment sheets from the professional jury members, not all of which are in agreement regardingthe student’s project. After considering the jury comments, the students revise their designs andcontinue working towards the completion of the Design Development Phase. At the DesignDevelopment jury, the students discuss the progress they have made in developing their concept,and they prepare and present a site plan, floor plans, elevations, and sections at a scale of1 /8”=1’, a lighting scheme with specific fixtures represented in a reflected ceiling plan, a

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James Wade; Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz

, engaging technology.Results of this survey suggest that a web-based course, enhanced with an in-person lecture, is asignificant enhancement over the traditional setting. The other instructional technologies werenot viewed as being more effective than a traditional class by the students. Some additionalresults of the student surveys:• Results of the various evaluations indicate the students' acceptance of the web-based technology as an enhancement to regular classroom instruction. The surveys reflect the student view that this is an appropriate method for teaching Mechanics I and is more engaging than traditional teaching and more effective than traditional teaching alone.• Students were neutral on the effectiveness of streaming video

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Paul Flikkema

summarized in Table 1. The last three (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) arerecognized as higher-order skills that need to be developed as part of undergraduate education.Because of their importance in engineering, we add to this list Design and Teaming [2]. (Laterwe refer to this list as the ‘extended Bloom taxonomy’.)Our method for accomplishing these objectives is the integration of active learning and Kolb’sexperiential model [3]. The latter has been used successfully in engineering education reform[4] to encourage development of the skills comprising Bloom’s taxonomy. It is characterized bylearning via case studies, reflective observation, active experimentation, and abstract conceptual-ization. Active learning (see, e.g., [5]), is

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prototype. High quality, formal written documentation and oral presentations highlightingthe process were expected and delivered. The expectation of high quality of academicdeliverables was additionally reflected in the quality of prototypes produced by the studentteams. Three of the solutions to the rail rider problem are illustrated in Figure 2. While allsolutions tended to produce prototypes with suspended battery carriers, keeping the center ofmass low, it is apparent that a variety of drive wheel and drive train configurations evolved. a. b. c.Figure 2. Rail Rider Solutions: a) worm driven rail rider with rubber wheels located illustratingthe grade of the test rail

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John Klegka; Robert Rabb

curriculum and recommended changes to the goals and curriculum. Therevised Academic Program Goals of USMA are reflected in the following statement: Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.54.2 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education We expect graduates to “anticipate and respond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world.” Graduates must have experience and competence in the following areas: 1) Moral Awareness 2) Communications 3

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Karen Davis; Jr., James Caffery; Jr., Fred Beyette

diagram to implement functional specifications. This assignment gives them aforetaste of future design classes. The computer organization background prepares the studentsfor the next ECECS course they take, Computer Science I (introduction to programming in C++).We follow the same bottom-up approach taken by Patt and Patel to understanding the basicunderpinnings of computers prior to studying high-level programming concepts.Many of the academic orientation-type lectures are part of a single goal-directed activity: the finalassignment of the term is for each student to write his or her dream resume 2 that reflects thestudent’s college accomplishments and experiences. The dream resume embodies positivevisualization that sparks both investigation

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given.This is definitely reflected in the survey scores, which were 2.20 for student motivation andinterest and 2.57 for understanding. Comments included “The habitrail project sucked my will tolive” and “best was catapult and worst was habitrail”. A similar project (probably an Air Forcetraining centrifuge) will be used in the future, but it will not be as open-ended a problem. Moreguidance will also be provided to the students to aid in their understanding and performance.COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS PROBLEMSTypical of many dynamics’ classes and textbooks, most of the posed problems ask for kinematicand kinetic variables at a specific point in time, rather than over periods of time. The thoughtmay be that the dynamic concepts are new and tough enough

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Michael Warren; Jay Porter

Capture Same as abovePower Supply E3631 (Agilent) – GPIB Controlled Triple Output Power SupplyOptional Equipment 54645 (Agilent) - Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope or any digital oscilloscope with 10 ns resolution* - currently being used at A&MBecause experiments such as measuring power supply rejection ratio require the ability to change powersupply voltages, a networked power supply such as the E3631 is required. Finally, optional equipmentsuch as a good digital oscilloscope allows students to make timing measurements such as propagationdelay as well as investigate concepts such as transmission line reflections. A picture of the completeequipment setup can be seen in Figure 1. The protoboard seen in

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Thomas Kullgren; David Pape

2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Student DemographicsAfter the first two full years of operation, some interesting statistical information hasbeen gathered by the university’s graduate admissions office. Table 1 shows thedistribution of students by gender, broken down by both full time and part time students.A strong majority (93 percent) of the students are part time, reflecting the target audienceand intended nature of the program. The 2-1 ratio of male to female students isremarkably strong for a technology based graduate program, and possibly indicates theappeal of this program to a diverse audience including women

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David DiBiasio

evaluation of the "ethics" outcome from EC 2000. The evaluationquestion probes the handling of proprietary information, licensed software, confidentiality,conflicts of interest, citation of sources, quotations, and copyrights. It also evaluates the extent towhich discussion of the impact of technology on society reflected recognition of the socialresponsibilities of scientists and engineers. The rubric is shown below, but data is not availableas of this writing. Our international experience is not necessarily designed to address ethicsissues but we will use this year’s analysis to assess the degree to which this ability may be anindirect outcome of the student experience

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. Such a simulatedenvironment obeys a strict set of rules known to the designer of the simulator and these rules arehopefully closely reflective of the system being simulated. Design rules in such environmentswill always work, for they are specifically designed to meet the needs of the known, simulatedenvironment.The technologist, on the other hand, is required to make a design work in the real world, theoperation of which is only partially described by the known laws of physics, chemistry and othersciences. While knowledge of the sciences combined with mathematical skills is essential tounderstand the approximate nature of the problem, it is frequently insufficient to solve all theproblems encountered. A good technologist must be able to

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Leah Akins

, reducing workers’ comp rates,slashing job-choking red tape, and making sound investments in education, we turned crisis intocomeback”.4Naturally, this announcement has increased the pressure to meet our original mission: Increasethe supply of skilled engineering technicians. As a direct result of IBM’s announcement, alongwith other high tech investments in the region, we expect at least 400-500 job openings forengineering technicians within the region by 2003. This workforce need has not been lost on thelocal population as reflected by the strong increase in ELT course enrollment for Spring 2001.The Technology Career Paths partnership hopes to meet those workforce needs by continuing toattain our goals. We expect to offer all ELT students

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understandable and conducive to learning.”We all would like to have student evaluations positively reflect our sincere efforts inkeeping both technical learning and skill acquisition on track in project courses, wouldn’twe? We’ve all struggled with organizing and encouraging such learning in a project-oriented course. Sometimes the efforts required to juggle technical learning with generalskill enhancement while keeping a project-oriented course on track seem enormous.Industries that hire our graduates expect our students to have enhanced communication,teamwork, interpersonal and project management skills in addition to their technicallearning in project courses. From some students’ perspective in project courses

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Stephen Bronack; Horace Moo-Young

hassparked reform in colleges of education. Accrediting and advising organizations such asthe Association for the Accreditation of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) areencouraging colleges of education to produce educators who are problem-solvers, criticalthinkers, and reflective practitioners. Unfortunately, education students are oftenexpected to develop such attributes while engaged in design, development, andassessment activities divorced from any real contexts and real instructional problems. Page 6.805.1 Proceeding of 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2001, American

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course and the lectures, were redesigned to accommodate in-line digital computercontrol.Three processes reflecting the unit operations commonly found in modern chemicalmanufacturing plants were implemented in the restructured laboratory: a bench scale housemodel for temperature control, an air-pressure tank farm for relative gain analysis anddecoupling, and two interacting water tanks for multiple and cascade control. To add to thesethree processes, the implementation for a separation process is currently being designed. Theselaboratory experiments have sensors (temperature, pressure, flow, and level) for data acquisitionand final control elements.Stand-alone control stations are used to govern each process. Each station has a PC withWindows NT

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CSC1 and CSC8 was easy and required very little additional effort. The primary work involved modifying existing slide sets by incorporating interactive questions, live demonstrations and picking useful web pages to illustrate specific topics. Students had good response time from the server and participated regularly by answering questions, asking questions and by modifying the "color" of their respective dots on the seating chart to reflect their understanding of the current topic. Due to the developmental nature of the software, I did encounter about one "system crash" per semester, where the server went down with no warning. I was always able to start over by logging in to the

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Christopher Ibeh

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationKurfiss: (2)(3) “Critical thinking is a process of inquiry that involves the interplay of knowledge,skills, beliefs, attitudes and conditions directed toward forming understanding of a complexproblem, question or issue. The outcome of this inquiry is a well-reasoned, well-supportedargument, interpretation or other product that reflects a disciplined pursuit of the question.”This definition encompasses such essential elements of critical thinking as: knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, goal setting and motivation, metacognition or the capacity to control and utilize mental processes in

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they have come to the forefront ofconsciousness of both industry and education in the past few years. In order for the potential ofhigh-performance microprocessors to be realized, industry needs designers who are comfortablewith the large-scale system design problems presented by complex hardware and software. Uni-versities need to revamp their microprocessor education in order to keep up with these advances.A good approach is to update the microprocessor-based systems course to reflect the realities ofmodern embedded system designs. This requires more than just updating labs—it requires shift-ing the balance in the course toward the intellectual underpinnings of embedded system design.This approach presents new intellectual challenges and

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Stephen Stafford; Rosa Gomez; Daniela Castaneda; Connie Della-Piana

. In addition,the Center serves as a clearinghouse for information regarding graduate and professionalschools, and employment opportunities.But ACES isn’t just a facility – it’s a reflection of systemic change in the preparation ofengineering and science students for the 21st Century. Although it signifies a change inacademic culture – valuing integration as well as specialization, teamwork as well asindividual achievement, and educational innovation as well as research, ACES hopes tohone the intellectual skills needed by practicing engineers and scientists for the newmillennium.Science, engineering and mathematics fields of college study are rigorous and timedemanding. Entering college students may not be prepared for these difficult

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William J. Norman; Jerald Rounds

Engineering, Education, Architecture, Business, andeven occasionally in Agriculture. There is some diversity in curriculum focus recognizing majorindustry sectors such as Commercial, Residential, Industrial and Civil. This focus reflects thestructure of the industry entities responsible for the creation of the programs and providingfaculty in the early years. Those sponsors were typically general contractors often workingthrough their associations like the National Home Builders Association and the AssociatedGeneral Contractors of America.Today’s construction industry is significantly different from that which spawned mostconstruction academic programs. The industry dominance of general contractors with support

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Paul Chinowsky

engineering organizations is concerning, of potentialgreater concern is the alarming lack of focus being demonstrated by civil engineering programson new economy issues. In contrast to the broadening of interests being witnessed in manyindustries, too few civil engineering-related programs are adopting a global, new economyfocus6. Is this a reflection of the industry direction, or a problem with the education system? Inshort, it does not matter. What is relevant is the fact that the situation exists and it needs to beaddressed and changed. The industry cannot decry the lack of leadership if a demand and focusis not placed on creating these leaders. Similarly, civil engineering educators and graduatescannot decry a lack of industry interest if a

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William Szaroletta; Lloyd Ewing; Nancy L. Denton

Session 2168 Analog to Digital Mechanics Lab Conversion: Lessons Learned Nancy Denton, Bill Szaroletta, Lloyd Ewing Purdue UniversityAbstractTo upgrade the laboratory supporting an introductory sophomore-level strength of materials courseto reflect current industry practice and address student requests, the authors have begun convertingthe current experiments from analog instrumentation with hand-recorded data to NationalInstruments LabVIEW based testing. This paper reviews the challenges encountered during theconversion of one experiment; a three-point beam bending experiment

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright @ 2001, American Society of Engineering Education3. The placement test scores as well as high school rankings for some of the students were not available.4. College cumulative GPA reflects different sets of courses for different students.Methodology1. The source file was the institutional Student Information System file.2. A database was created of all students who took the EG course in Fall-92 and Spring-93 and those students who took the FED course in Fall-93 and Spring-94.3. The following data were included in the file: high school ranking; SAT scores; placement test scores; grades for all college courses; cumulative GPA; and

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A Boyanich; S P Maj

derived by different methods and that this difference maybe a source of confusion for a userFor both CISC platforms the higher performance PC consistently gave a higher benchmarkvalue. Any increase in clock speed of both systems gave a proportional increase inperformance of each device. By example, for the Ziff Davis Winbench99/CPUmark99 anincrease of the CPU and front side bus speeds from 350/100Mhz to 466/133Mhzrespectively gave a proportional increase in the benchmark results (+/- 2.3%). Any changein hardware performance was reflected in the results for applications tested. However norecognisable units were given for this or any of the tests in the suite. In attempt to makebenchmark results that may be more meaningful to a user or student Ziff

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J. Giolma; Kevin Nickels; Farzan Aminian

useful definitions for the term learning style. In this paper,we will utilize Felder and Silverman’s five-dimensional categorization.3 The five dimensions givenin this work include • perception, on a scale ranging from sensory to intuitive, • input, on a scale ranging from visual to auditory, • organization, on a scale ranging from inductive to deductive, • processing, on a scale ranging from active to reflective, and • understanding, on a scale ranging from sequential to global.We give particular attention to the perception dimension. Felder and Silverman’s perception scalemirrors the sensing-intuition scale of the Myers-Brigs Type Indicator1 (MBTI) for personalitytypes.Carl Jung described sensing and intuition as different

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Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

.4We believe the results from more fully implementing total constituency teaming philosophy ineducation could reflect the productivity and quality improvement seen in industry. Hopefully thedeclining enrollments in engineering trends could be reversed, with higher retention rates, greaterdiversity in the profession, greater “customer” support of the educational enterprise, and greaterquality improvement.Engineering Education Constituency Teaming ModelThe teaming model successful industries have used to improve quality, lower costs, and remaincompetitive in a brutal global playing field may be a model that merits increased attention fromthe engineering education enterprise.In comparing the over-the-wall models of engineering education

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

systems transfer Figure 1. Schematic of the general set up.also includes the integration of the simulation tools (Computer work station and software)that can be developed to reflect the exact physical layout of the manufacturing related issuesto enhance the learning process and to build the students intuitive knowledge as it relates tomanufacturing. The laboratory for the manufacturing option is designed to enable the Page 6.254.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society

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Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

design, rather than hypothesis testing focus – students will be given a designproblem and then apply experimental and analytical methods to find solutions.The potential benefits of case studies are consistent with an educational approach whichemphasizes the need to support a variety of learning styles. For instance, some students are betterat processing information using an active, hands-on style rather than a passive, reflective style,some prefer a deductive standpoint (e.g. reasoning from theory to applied facts) and others aninductive standpoint (from data to theories 6). Using cases can encourage students to use lessfamiliar styles, by having them address questions such as why the material is important (e.g., byemphasizing the application of

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

. Page 6.1002.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe ETW experience made such a dramatic impact on the team’s teaching performance3 thatthey felt motivated to pass along these hints for successful teaching. The teaching hints, whichcan be categorized into four areas: organization, preparation, practice, and rapport, weredeveloped after review of the journals kept by each team member during the workshop and thediscussions of common experiences at their respective universities during the year followingETW. The journals not only stimulated reflection by each member (material, methodology

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Steven de Haas; S.K. Ramesh; Preetham Kumar; Michael Fujita; Elizabeth Raley; Andrew Lindsay

sense. Mirrors reflect, lenses focus, prisms refract, and multiple slit- Page 6.172.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationgratings diffract laser light. All of this may be seen in one setup with the help of a lightscattering machine, often called a ‘fog machine’.In addition, several other lasers are also used in tandem with the fixed wavelength HeNe laser,notably, a tunable gas laser. The tunable laser may be dynamically tuned to ‘red’, ‘orange’, and‘yellow’, and observers may see a dynamic