Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zac Bunnell; Garett Scott; Sundararajan Madihally

0.4 0.2 0.0 15 20 25 30 35 40 Water Flow Rate (lb/min)Figure 2: HETP values versus water flow rate for air at 12.8 SCFM. (data shows propagationof maximum uncertainty).HETP values were calculated and graphed against liquid mass flux. As shown in Figure 2,HETP values increased as liquid mass flux increased. As liquid mass flux increases, mass-transfer decreases; therefore, HETP values increase to reflect the lower mass-transfer efficiency.The HETP values calculated were found to be reasonably close to the expected values (~0.8 ft

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Heaslip

successful leverage of partner universities topresent an academic program highly-valued by both participants and their employers. Itappears to reflect a style of industry-focused post graduate engineering education that has ahigh potential for success in other jurisdictions. Page 9.264.7

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Smith; Steven Nichols

longer reflective paper. In these assignments, students should articulate what theylearned from the video and from subsequent discussions.To encourage wide-spread use of this educational tool, the National Institute for EngineeringEthics has sent a free copy of Incident at Morales to all engineering deans for use in engineeringethics education and to all major engineering societies for use by practicing engineers. It hasalso been used in Central and South American countries as well as several countries in Europe.It is the belief of the authors of this paper and the video team that Incident at Morales is a highlyeffective method of communicating ethics to students in engineering education and to engineersin industry.Reference: Davis, Michael

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

Figure 5 – TPC-W Database SchemaFor RAIDb level 1 and 2, database tables were evenly distributed throughout the cluster. InRAIDb-1 organizations, the entire database was replicated on each node. For odd-numberednode RAIDb-2 systems, one node contained the entire database, while the remaining nodesprovided equally partitioned redundancy. For even-numbered node RAIDb-2 systems, all tableswere equally distributed and replicated among the available nodes.Testing ClientThe Java–based testing client was created to gather data about database performance by playinga series of “recorded” SQL statements. By using the same statements, and the same series ofstatements, change in performance reflects actual change in throughput and disassociates anychange in

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

. Page 9.1073.6 The first suggestion was that when the groups have completed the drawings and planningfor the engine, they should exchange the manufacturing responsibility with another group to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”make. Any changes to the design would require a consultation with the design team and thedrawings altered to reflect a revision change. This is the method that the manufacturing industryactually follows; machinists do not normally alter the dimensions, tolerance, or design withoutthe engineering designer’s approval. This suggestion will be incorporated in the current

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Scott Shepard

increase with thesquare of the distance. Thus, beyond some distance, radio will always “win.” This seemscounterintuitive: wouldn’t you always do better by focusing your light into a fiber whereit’s confined by total-internal-reflection? The mathematics of this counterintuitive resulttherefore whets the students’ appetite, in a modern context. Another motivating curiosityarises as follows. Since the formula for calculating radio losses naturally involves thegain of the transmitting and receiving antennas, how do we account for these at opticalfrequencies – when the transmitter is a laser or LED and the receiver is a photodetector(instead of a dipole or a horn or a dish or another standard radio antenna)?A Simple Model for the Effective Antenna

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

engineering degree requirements to 128 credithours. Faculty must carefully design degree programs that reflect these directives and at thesame time minimize the potential effects of such directives on the public’s health and safety.Elizandro and Matson1 have presented a systematic methodology for administering degreeprograms in this type of environment. That approach extends the ABET Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Programs2 by defining curriculum effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness refersto the achievement level of ABET Program Outcomes and Program Objectives, and efficiencymeasures the portion of the curriculum devoted to each Program Outcome and ProgramObjective

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

studentsin evaluating their ethic and moral decision-making. This model is designed with theassumption that there are some givens in our institutions and society. Our institutionsmay have a Code of Ethics similar to the Professional Engineer’s Code of Ethics includedin some coursework. Some corporations have Value Statements and Statements ofIntegrity stressing the importance of ethical decision-making. Our society holds all of usaccountable for certain norms and expectations, reflecting our requirements of being agood citizen. This model also considers personal values, attitudes, principles, andperceptions as powerful influences on decision-making. However, this model is designedto show that most decision-making is made in a split second, a moments

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

teamwork, problem solving, professional and ethicalresponsibility, communication skills and the use of modern tools received relatively higherratings, which reflects the trends in the workplace requirements. Figure 4 clearly shows thevarying levels of satisfaction of graduates with respect to their preparation in the college. Thedata is stratified with five-year increments (nominal duration for graduation). The collegegraduates prior to 1995 consider themselves not prepared for most of the outcomes.Significant improvements in the level of satisfaction of the graduates after 1995 is due to theefforts of the college to improve design education and its integration in the programs.Furthermore, in the latter years, there has been an increased awareness

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Seek new challenges and take informed risks. Understand that knowledge is gained through making connections with faculty and other students and among different disciplines, courses, and experiences.The resulting faculty goals to meet this mission are: Set high expectations for learning in your courses. Reflect critically on your own teaching and students’ learning. Enhance the role that the Miami Plan principles play in your courses, even in the large- enrollment ones. (The Miami plan is a broad set of distributed course requirements which encourages students to think critically, engage with other learners, understand contexts, and

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

evaluation. If not, the class gets a poor one.Id. Good evaluations can be reflections of something other than good teaching: they cansometimes be the result of teachers pandering to students’ prejudices, or never challengingstudents. Id.Evaluations also do not necessarily have a high correlation with how much students havelearned: while correlations may be positive when objective indices of student learning are usedas criteria, many are weak in magnitude or modest. [5] Some researchers have found thatevaluations are influenced by the halo effect by things irrelevant to student learning, such asgrading leniency. [6] However, it is the authors’ opinion that this “halo effect” in summativeassessments can be mitigated by careful structuring of the

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Page 9.558.2factors, albeit at a more detailed level, in her model for self-directed learning. 11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCandy, in his extensive review of self-directed learning, summarizes the characteristics of theself-directed learner from many sources. 12 These characteristics fall into two sets, personalattributes and skills, that are analogous to Flammer’s “will do” and can do.” Candy’s lists are: “Will do” Attributes: curious/motivated, methodical/disciplined, logical/analytical, reflective/self-aware, flexible, interdependent/interpersonally competent

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

facilities as well. Little extra effort is required to teachthe online students, although their added numbers are reflected in grading and mentoring effortsjust as much as if they were physically present in class. Most importantly, synchronous Internetcourse delivery opens up availability of higher education to a whole new sector of our societyand correspondingly opens up a whole new market to the university. Furthermore, the studentpopulation reached, and the corresponding market, becomes even larger when asynchronousoffering of recorded synchronous courses is considered. However, these gains have not beenachieved without some pains.The authors have supported experimental synchronous Internet access to courses at GMU forseveral years, starting with

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

great deal from one another; collaboration, if harnessed appropriately, is apowerful tool in learning. Finally, for many subjects in the sciences or technologies, physicalreferents or manipulatives can serve to enhance learning. Instructional methods which drawtogether many of these techniques have recently been introduced in Statics3.Implications of Conceptual Difficulties Associated with StaticsWhile the techniques alluded to above can be valuable, how should Statics instruction reflect theconceptual difficulties which are peculiar to Statics? Statics instruction faces the followingdilemma. There are a significant number of concepts, which go beyond those addressed infreshman physics, which students must learn and use, in combinations, to

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

Botball KitThe Botball kit has been a work in progress since the early 90’s when KISS Institute for PracticalRobotics (KIPR), a non-profit organization focusing on learning and skills development throughthe application of technology, particularly robotics, was founded. In its current form, the kitincludes the Handy Board [14] (with charger and serial interface), LEGO RCX (with serialinterface), DC motors (both LEGO and modified servo motors), servo motors, touch sensors (3types), light sensors (general, break beam, and reflectance), proximity sensors (both optical andSONAR), a modified CMUcam and over 1900 pieces of LEGO, mostly LEGO Technic. Crosscompatibility between the Handy Board and RCX environment is maintained where reasonable(e.g., at

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

skills” (4.1/5), “I used graphics” (4.0/5), and “Thisproject made clear the relevance of economic considerations” (4.2/5). Student commentsgenerally reflect that the project was a positive experience and that they felt they had learnedboth about engineering and about the ADA and issues facing those in wheelchairs. Field Hockey Field

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

innovation (along with building faculty reward systems that predominantly reward federallyfunded scientific research), it has become extremely difficult for many university faculty andadministrators to undergo required change and to reflect the modern process of purposeful, systematicengineering innovation for needs-driven technology development. As Barwise and Perry have noted:“Different organisms can rip the same reality apart in different ways, ways that are appropriate to theirown needs, their own perceptual abilities and their own capacities for action.”53. The Concept of CultureJuran noted that understanding the concept of different cultural patterns is extremely important inimplementing effective breakthrough innovations and creating change

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 9987066. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Page 9.1132.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationunder-representation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in this workforce –issues addressed by the STEP project - remain areas of concern. See, e.g

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

)provide opportunities for students to develop communication and team skills; and (e)provide support in academic success strategies. Where the present effort differs from these successful freshman-engineeringprograms at other universities is, in my view, a significantly increased emphasis onengineering ethics, a significant focus on the societal and global implications of theengineering profession today and careful study and reflection upon the profound impactengineers have upon the natural world. In addition, the Watson program has, in manyways, fully integrated the freshman program with our minority-engineering program. Thedistinction between these two efforts often seems non-existent.Freshman Courses The focus of the freshman year

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

not used as a criterion in selecting students for this scholarship. Should two studentshave identical credentials and need but differ only in non-merit aspects, we certainly hope thatwe will be able to find support for both. The more diverse demographics perhaps reflect needand interest distributions. The lower percentage of women students in CSEMS should be viewedwith the fact that the university statistics are for the overall institute, not the subset of the moremale-dominated CSEMS colleges.Table 1. FAST demographics compared to overall GIT US citizen/resident undergrads. African- Asian- Caucasian Hispanic- Native- Women American American

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

noted,though, that Rice University has a site license for LabVIEW, allowing broad distribution of thesoftware across campus computers, if necessary.Virtual Labs Developed 1. Pre-Lab for Wave Tank II Experiment The VL for this experiment is a simulation of a boat’s motion with incident beam waves. A second order differential equation of a system with a forcing function is used in the Page 9.1403.3 experimental analysis and the VL simulation to model the boat’s response to the generated waves. The student solves several cases that reflect different values of natural Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

accountable for doing their part and mastery of the material.• face-to-face interaction Some or all group members must work together to achieve the group’s goals.• appropriate use of interpersonal skills Group members learn and practice teaming, communication, conflict management and leadership skills.• regular self-assessment of group functioning. Groups periodically reflect and evaluate their performance and identify ways to improve that performance.Correctly applied, cooperative learning techniques increase the students’ motivation to learn,material retention, depth of understanding, and teamwork/communication skills [18] by forcingstudents to work in the more effective (lower) levels in Figure 2.Cooperative learning techniques may be the

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David Baumann; David McDonald

build and test their product orprototype.The outcome of the design review will be decisions that set the direction of the project and astatus for the team. The decisions made will be firm and must be reevaluated by all partiesbefore any changes can be made. Upon completion of the design review, the status for the teamwill be red, yellow, or green.Red status means that the team’s design review and possibly the design has serious problems.Key information is missing or serious errors were made in the design/decision process. If a teamreceives this status they are to put the current design on hold and complete the required tasks thatwill provide them with the needed information to continue with their project. A red statustypically reflects

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

Planning Grant on the topic of “Information Technology in theIntegrated Civil Engineering Curriculum”, and this paper reflects findings from this effort. Theprimary emphasis of this paper is on the utilization of Information Technology within the civilengineering profession and in the large-scale products and systems the civil engineeringprofession provides, operates and maintains. Instructional technology, both general and IT isnoted more as a part of implementing changes within the educational environment.Information technology as utilized in CE can be placed into four general categories. (1) personalIT/computing tools – which all graduates and civil engineers need at a fairly high level ofproficiency, (2) civil engineering systems tools such

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

will also examine some of the issues and impediments confronting TechnologyEducation in this process of change.IntroductionThe shift from Industrial Arts to Technology Education in the public secondary education systemseems to be superficial. The name change more accurately reflects a shift from the industrialtools used in a wood or metal shop to that of a more current and identifiable technology. Theissue here is real change that must also include the type of knowledge used and the role it playsin the learning process. This paper will discuss the use of Design Competitions, developed inacademia, as a tool for change in secondary (9-12) Technology Education as a regional casestudy. The paper will outline the types of knowledge and the role it

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

students’ overall learning in laboratory so as to better prepare themfor industry and/or graduate research, we have (1) created a new lecture course on engineeringexperimentation to accompany the laboratory, (2) increased the emphasis on experimentalplanning and data analysis for each lab project, (3) implemented a peer-review and reportrevision procedure, (4) require students to follow industry standards for recording data inlaboratory notebooks, and (5) completely revised the department’s Lab Manual to reflect thesechanges in emphasis. This paper describes the organization and effectiveness of our revisedlaboratory sequence in comparison with our previous approach.IntroductionThe unit operations laboratory is generally regarded as an ideal

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

’ attention on the engineering aspects of their assignments.1. Asking students to reflect on the projects they completed had a definite impact. Students in the assessment sections were able to identify more types of scientific communication at the end of the semester, by a factor of 2 or 3. Section E3 Section D Control Exit survey # types 1.9 2.6 1.6 Entry survey # types 1.0 0.8 1.2 Average change 0.9 1.8 0.42. All students showed significant learning in the sections of a lab report. The writing consultant program in general effectively

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

establishing appreciation of theteacher’s perspective. Students who were taught by their fellow students can also learn from thisexperience through a process of observation, self-reflection and peer judgment.Our Prior LTT ExperienceThe LTT concept was first adopted by Shih and Hollis in an NSF-sponsored project for thecreation of a dynamics system laboratory. It was used as a cost-effective way to train students toprovide assistance to their fellow students in the laboratory. Students working in a group wereasked to be responsible for the complete set up and operation of only one out of a set ofexperiments so that they could gain valuable experience by fully mastering one experiment. Theresponsible students were then asked to serve as teaching

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

) Correlation between personal evaluation and team evaluation: The results show the correlation between the 10-question Personal Evaluation Questionnaireand the 4-questions Team Evaluation Questionnaire. It was found that some students participatemore actively in their teams when they feel comfortable working with the team and feelingcomfortable with their role. Another deduction may be that students seems become moreopen-minded as well as enjoy/appreciate teamworkQualitative results: Abilities learned from the courseOverall, the top three abilities students gained were:(1) Effective use of time to reach consensus(2) Growth of problem-solving ability(3) Development of teamwork strategiesStudents’ Reflections on Team’s effectiveness Next, we

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

socialization processes start from elementary to middle school, shifting from familyattachments to peer groups and teacher-centered learning. In the "intense years" of high school(Fukuzawa and LeTendre8), learning techniques shift to small-group discussions, cooperativeprojects and self-reflective criticism preparing students for the university and for work in theadult world. At Kagoshima University, most subjects has only one 90 minute lecture per weekwith the professor (with minimal inquiries originating from students during class), afterwardsstudents are pretty much on their own if they need further help, so it was assumed that Japanesestudents would be better prepared to learn on their own via Distance Education than studentsfrom USA. Ironically