Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kushner; Jay Martin

the faculty, and the concern about the possibility of loss of control of whathappened to, with, and in the class. Because this is a design project, the outcome isuncertain. The process that the faculty follows will inevitably be messy, with times when wemight be uncertain as to what we will produce. In addition, there was significant concernthat we might not be able to produce a final product that reflected well on our efforts. It wasapparent that for some of the faculty involved in the first project, this was an overwhelmingconcern which resulted in their lack of interest in doing this again.Observation of StruggleConsistent with issues of loss of control and uncertainty is the reality that there will be timeswhen the faculty will struggle

Conference Session

Integrating Math and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bogdan Adamczyk; Wendy Reffeor

)students in EGR 209 (60 students). In the junior 10% 1classes the test was presented without prior 20% 1 2warning, while the sophomore class was given 30%three lectures of math review and formal warn- 40%ing. A test was also given to the fourth semester 50% 3 4sophomore class in EGR 214 - Circuit Analysis 60% 1 2I (71 students) in the winter of 2002. Appendix 70% 1 2 2A contains a combined set of questions from all 80% 2 2 3of the math tests. The test questions vary 90% 1 1 3between classes to reflect the theoretical 100% 1

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

final activity was a team initiative, called Big Business, that required teams to quicklydesign and construct a tower of LEGO® blocks while trying to optimize a cost function thatincluded tower height, number of blocks used, and time used. 4 Teams were given a mandatoryfive-minute planning period and then a timed period of up to five minutes for construction.Following this exercise, the debriefing focused on planning, decision making, problem solving,and communications.All exercises were framed in the context of the freshman design project, and debriefingcomments were related directly to team performance on the design project. Although debriefingof experiential learning activities usually involves a facilitated reflection on the

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jalaluddin Ahmad; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

to reflect minor content revisions.Table 2 depicts the updated Electrical / Electronics Technology (EET) minor that had beenestablished in the previous curriculum cycle. There existed a considerable amount of interest forthe EET minor from majors in Computer Science, Technology Education, and TechnologyManagement. As part of the EET minor degree program, the students are encouraged to take the Page 7.41.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowing classes from other departments and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Goldberg

should reflect the usersettings of the DIP switches located on the interface board. MOV P1,A takes the data read fromPort 3 and sends it out to PORT 1 where the user can observe and verify the input data on theoutput data LEDs.It can be observed that the time delay program shown as Code 3 in Figure 1 contains severalreferences to Special Function Registers (TCON and TMOD which must be specified to controlthe timer and THO and TLO which determine the delay time.) THO and TL0 are each set to 0 inorder that the register pair counts up to a full FFFFH when it flags the system. Register R1 isused as a loop counter to perform the FFFFH count a number of times.These three tasks are intimately related to the microcontroller hardware. Each involves

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beth Kolko; Linda Whang

addition,they noted a “significant decline in the mean use of scholarly materials” (scholarly materialsbeing cited books and journal articles). [5] Although this study reflects only one undergraduateclass and a small sample size, anecdotal evidence corroborates these observations in the work ofEngineering students as well. [3] Clearly, it is time to develop specific curricular strategies todeal with changes in teaching and learning practices, and discussing such changes as a field canallow us to establish expectations and standards.Evaluating Electronic Information SourcesEchoed throughout a wide variety of literature is a call for educators to teach students tocritically evaluate information they find on the Internet. For example, as Kristin

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

not have to be the case. After significant reflection about the challenges in trying to teach systems modeling it wasdecided to reform the course to be more suitable to Mechanical (and Manufacturing) engineers. Inparticular the Laplace transform was removed. This freed time to increase the coverage of differ-ential equation solutions and numerical methods. Counter to expectations, removing Laplacetransforms did not require the elimination of techniques such as Bode plots and root-locus dia-grams. A side benefit of this approach is that it allowed more time to address math deficiencies. Inparticular, all students had completed a four course calculus sequence, but many still had basicproblems [4]. The course was also enhanced by adding labs

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Thompson

design process and effectivecommunication to complete a design assignment on time. The third part of the assessment is atake-home reflective essay that is intended to allow the students to assess their knowledge andperformance in terms of effective design, teamwork, and communication practices. A panel oftwo or more faculty who are trained to use the TIDEE scoring rubrics evaluates the completedactivities.The designers of TIDEE originally intended it to be used as a mid-program assessment tool thatwould be given to students at the beginning of their junior year. Hence, programs can evaluate Page 7.377.2the quality of the first two-years

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

Conference for the American Society of Engineering Education, Charlotte, NC.4. Adams, Robin, Jennifer Turns and Cynthia J. Atman, (2001). Educating Effective Engineering Designers: The Role of Reflective Practice. Proceedings of the 2001 Design Thinking Research Symposium 5, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, December.5. Atman, Cynthia J. and Jennifer Turns (2001). Studying Engineering Design Learning: Four Verbal Protocol Analysis Studies. Design Learning and Knowing. M. McCracken, Newstetter, W., and Eastman, C. New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum.6. Atman, Cynthia J., Justin R. Chimka, Karen M. Bursic, and Heather L. Nachtmann (1999), “A comparison of freshman and senior engineering design processes,” Design Studies 20 (2), 131

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

. As in the process section, the rating reflects whetherstudents’ reports include the key issues for their product or not. The results of this analysis areshown in Figure 2. One additional category has been added for when the section was missing orinadequate. Figure 2: Quality of Coverage by Section (numbers indicate the percent of reports in each category) Intro. EHS Product Econ. Total Quality of Coverage Use Missing or Insignificant 2 4 0 4 Key Information Missing 9 39 13 35 Expected Information Covered 47 49 79 47 Exceeds

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

understanding of engineeringdisciplines, and prepare students well for the intended course of study. Nine years after the firstoffering of this course, it is time to reflect on what t his course has accomplished, and thedilemmas faced by the instructors.IntroductionTowards the end of the 1980s, engineering educators around the country began to tackle the issueof large attrition rates in undergraduate engineering programs by introducing the concept of afreshman engineering or introduction to engineering course. The idea was to teach basic collegesurvival skills to incoming freshmen and introduce them to the different fields of engineering inorder to help them make an informed choice about their future career path. Since this problemwas common to most

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

incorporatehandheld computers into technology-related courses and projects, but the immediate responsehas been positive. Students appear motivated to learn about handheld computing. The studentswere actively engaged during the labs, and their presentations were well-informed. We do notknow, however, if the number of students who use PDAs has increased. We believe that if PDAusage by the freshmen increased, then it was marginal since it did not appear that more studentswere bringing their PDAs to class by the end of the semester. We are not suggesting that PDAusage reflects the effectiveness of our methods. The goal was not to increase PDA usage, butrather to educate the students about handheld computing. Awareness and knowledge aboutPDAs do not necessarily

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

classcan greatly affect how a curved grading scale can penalize students who are very good at whatthey do if they end up in a class of similar students. We all have had year to year variability in the student quality entering our classes. Onecould argue that it is not fair to use a curved grading scale because students who happen to endup in a higher caliber class will do worse than if they were in a "normal" class. The studentswould not necessarily know any less material in the higher performing class, but their gradewould reflect that they had in fact done worse than if they had been in a lower averaging class.On the contrary, we often see a class of highly motivated students that pull all of their classmatesto a higher level of

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel

sensor technology intothe curriculum and have designed a light sensor for the robot that the robot can use to follow oravoid a light source. Students will build the sensor in class and then write the code that uses thelight sensor to solve a problem like the “cockroach problem” where the robot will seek out thedarkest area of a room or have the robot move toward a light source. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not purport to reflect the positionof the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department ofDefense. Page 7.1238.10

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

. Page 7.194.3The TPQ is widely regarded as a tool that is both reliable (i.e., meaning that it is consistent) and Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 3 Copyright © 2002, American Society from Engineering Educationvalid (i.e., meaning that metrics used accurately reflect variables measured). The TPQ addressessix primary characteristics of teams: (1) goals and results, (2) collaboration and involvement, (3)competencies, (4) communication process, (5) emotional climate, and (6) leadership. Items (1)through (5) apply directly to level of team performance and are the focus here; item (6) applies toteam leadership. At the end of the course, each student

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wiggins

conjunction with that strategic plan, course outlines and syllabi, highlighting the specificoutcomes that will achieved within each course should be prepared. For the most part this willnot necessarily require the preparation of an entire new set of course outlines and syllabi, ratheris will require modification of existing materials to reflect the program objective and outcomes.This may require the instructor to rethink the course materials to stay true to the courseobjectives and demonstrate the attainment of the course outcomes through testing. However, it Page 7.253.6may also be necessary to benchmark competencies at the beginning and end of the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

probably a reflection of the number of PSPICE assignments (5) versus hardware (8).As a result, students did not acquire the proficiency required to use PSPICE effectively.A very important posttest revelation was the time spent on hardware assignments. Studentsspent an average of 2.9 hours on each hardware homework compared to 2.8 hours on paper-and-pen work, validating that the hardware did not add a significant time burden. All respondentsfelt that the hardware cost is justified with 83% strongly recommending continued use of theHardware Experience. Table 3. The Posttest and the Response Statistics Question Avg. Min Max 1 How useful

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

problems already completed onboth classroom worksheets and homework. Further, other professors from outside the coursewere consulted as to the relevancy of not only the learning objective but the exam question aswell. Their assessment supported the validity of the course objective and the applicability ofthe exam question and concluded the exam results were probably not a result of some systemicproblem but rather reflected an apparent lack of student mastery of the objective.Subsequently, a formal review of individual test results ensued which allowed the routineidentification of students that struggled with the objective and that perhaps required assistanceto achieve the expected level of mastery. These students were counseled and encouraged

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

direction.3. Other EvidenceOf course, what we see among respondents to the survey may not reflect the state of accessrestrictions in general. Our respondents tend to have a high level of interest in educationaltechnology and a predilection to oppose access restrictions. To check out the state of the Web ingeneral, I had a student, Mihir Dharia, survey electrical engineering and computer science andengineering courses from 42 of the top 50 colleges and universities as ranked by US News &World Report. He perused course Web sites from these schools. He reported that, of those sitesproviding course notes or slides, all but 15 allowed access without a password. Of those sitesproviding homework, only 15 restricted access.The Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Benson; John Baker; David Silverstein

Paducah. This arrangement providesopportunities for convenient collaboration between faculty at UK and MuSU. In thework discussed in this paper, one primary focus is the extension of the collaboration tothe students of both institutions.3. Engineering / Engineering Technology Professional Relationship While there is significant overlap between the job functions of engineers andengineering technologists, there are also significant distinctions. The differences in theexpected job functions are reflected in the curricula of the degree programs. It seems thatthe different strengths of engineering programs and engineering technology programs atuniversities can be exploited through collaboration between engineering and engineeringtechnology

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

major London bank for the past 5 years. Engineering 410 provided me analyticalskills that I use in my job every day. The group dynamics, analytical skills, and projectmanagement techniques I learned by applying it to a real-world scenario gave metremendous experience at an early age. It was the best course I have ever had, evencompared to my Ivy League MBA courses.”Another quote from a 1988 graduate who now teaches on the faculty:”E410 is achallenge, but I found as a student, and the students that I now have in class have for themost part felt that it is the best course they have had at the Academy. Unfortunately, thecadet critiques don’t reflect this since they take the critiques while they are still caught upin the exercise of trying to

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

is good reason to include all four methods in our courses, atleast to ensure that our students can perform the necessary computations reflected in eqns. (1-4).But, is it necessary or, even, desirable to require that students be capable of employing allmethods for alternative assessments… or, for alternative selections? …even though eachmethod, properly applied, results in the same conclusion? And, if not, why not?Previously, Hartman2 reported of a pilot study by Needy (and others) in which 27 engineeringeconomy educators provided information on their course content. In all, 26 different topic areaswere identified. These included Present Worth, Rate of Return, and Benefit-Cost Ratios. AnnualWorth and Future Worth methods were not explicitly

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daina Briedis

ensure process sustainability, assessment couldjustly be done on the basis of a sampling of the student population. This approach is supportedby Nichols,9 who suggests that the aggregated accomplishments of the students in the programoutcomes are the primary available reflection on our programs. He further states that “ . . . not allstudents or graduates need take or respond to all means of assessment, since a representativesample is sufficient for evaluation of the program.” The sampling approach appears to beindirectly supported by ABET policy as well11 which clearly states that ABET accreditsprograms. This implies that its role does not include accreditation or evaluation of individualstudent performance, but rather the aggregate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Santhosh Thampuran

“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” below average. The remainder lay in the middle region. Criticisms included: lack of organization, unrealistic expectations of computing ability, overly technical presentati ons of material, and quizzes which went too far beyond what was covered in class. Suggestions for improvement included: providing students with a book or note packet, providing additional direct support with computing assignments and revising the advertised course description to more accurately reflect the requirements, pre -requisites and content of

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

this “typical” application. 3. The case sections in particular outperformed the control section when a non-traditional object was used such as a block or sheet. This can be attributed to the fact that in solving the pizza case, students have worked collaboratively on finding the resistance of a non- traditional conducting object. It seams that the effects of the case experience have lasted longer than traditional teaching. 4. Students in all sections found the 3-D figures in Part II very helpful and that was reflected in the results. 5. For result consistency, only completely correct solutions were considered. No partial credits were given if there was any calculation errors or any other problems in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

. Page 7.304.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAmerican Association for Higher Education (AAHE) defines service learning as “… a methodunder which students learn and develop through thoughtfully organized service that: is conductedin and meets the needs of a community and is coordinated with an institution of highereducation, and with the community; helps foster civic responsibility; is integrated into andenhances the academic curriculum of the students enrolled; and includes structured time forstudents to reflect on the service experience.” 2The University of San Diego (USD), understanding

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Goldenberg; Carlos Morales

because they did not exist. The user interface andprogramming interfaces were also adapted to the current task. Page 7.403.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3238Table 1, below reflects the current features of the system. Engi-Share Features • Application sharing of any Win32 program including CAD and FEA packages • Database driven contact manager • Timeline

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

the uncertaintyof the strain reading (Ume) and 0.05" (0.00127 m) as the uncertainty of the manometer reading (UDh). Figure 7 is a plot of these results for three fin lengths. This plot shows significantdifferentiation in the range of Re = 32000-100000. Below Re = 32000, the flow was not fullydeveloped affecting the stability of the strain indicator readings. Above Re = 92000, the increasinguncertainty is a reflection of the fact that the strain was approaching the linear range limitations ofthe gages. 1.100 no fin 1.000

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Segall

possibilities.It is hoped that the illustrations that follow will serve as a guide and spur many new innovationsthat can help improve engineering education. Furthermore, the humorous and discussion-likestyle of this paper is intended to reflect how the various topics can be conveyed to the studentsduring the class.II. MechanicsThe 1997 movie “Independence Day” (ID4, Paramount Pictures) was chosen to be an integralpart of an introductory class for freshmen/sophomores of all majors. ID4 was chosen in partbecause of its “looseness” with the laws of nature and stunning visual effects that create a greatopportunity to leave a lasting and hopefully educational impression. As mentioned earlier, thereare numerous topics and sub-topics that can be explored using

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

complete the project, but that they will also be required to demonstrate their knowledgeof the subject matter and be able to apply it to other situations. Because the students are notbeing asked to review the subject material to prepare for an exam, it is very important that theyare required to thoroughly examine the material before giving the presentations. If they do notspend time reviewing and reflecting on what is important from the projects, they will not retainwhat they have learned. Page 7.1244.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó