Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

know “everything” about programming before solving theproblem. Adults take more time to complete the tasks than younger kids who are notburdened with this problem. They are content to do (and learn) whatever piece isnecessary to solve the problem at hand. Children are much less concerned with doingsomething wrong than are adults. Adults tend to be more concerned with getting theproblem right than focusing on the problem solving that occurs during the tasks.Subsequent exercises introduce sensors, digital and analog, to allow the car to interactwith its environment. In two hours students are able to program their cars to follow ablack line on a white background using an analog, reflective sensor and to avoid walls bytripping a digital, bump

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

, - every faculty member must set proper course objectives that spring exclusively from the program’s educational objectives and fully encompass all of these objectives - his or her tests and other graded assignments must completely capture these objectives Page 7.991.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education - student performance on exams or assignments must be a direct reflection of their abilities and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

objectives,that is by reading and reflecting. Although the correlation is not direct, the distinctions betweenthese two subpopulations loosely corresponds to the two methods of processing information inKolb’s model – the active processors (a combination of Types 1 and 2) and the reflectiveprocessors ( combination of Types 3 and 4) 1,2. In any event, instructors should realize that thereare a substantial number of students who prefer to learn form the text and the objectives ratherthan from the lecture and the homework.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis work was supported in part by the Engineering Education Program of the National Science Foundation underAward Number EEC-9802942.Bibliography1. Bernold, L.E., Bingham, W.L., McDonald, P.h. & Attia, T.M

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences for Env. Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Mines; Andre J. Butler; Laura Lackey; Philip McCreanor

beemployed. The report should be machine-generated and be well organized to reflect the methodology of theexperiment performed towards its conclusions. Page 7.988.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Table 3. Laboratory evaluation form for complete reports.Group member names in alphabetical order, as numbered: Last First Last First 1. 4. 2

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

pedagogical methods. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education The course assessment by faculty is also given in appendix. It provides anopportunity for an instructor to reflect upon his/her pedagogical methods and assessmenttechniques. This survey includes (a) a list of course objectives, (b) pedagogical methods,(c) assessment methods, (d) inquiry questions, and (e) suggestions. The results from thissurvey would be a valuable feedback to the instructor when he teaches the course again.Also, it can be used by another instructor who may teach the same course later or to theperson who teaches the

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Blair; David W. Miller; David Darmofal; Col. Peter W. Young; Doris Brodeur

assess students’ confidence in problem solving, theirwillingness to engage in solving challenging problems, and their sense of control of theproblem-solving situation. These attitudes can be assessed with observation, interviews,portfolios, journals, and other forms of self-assessment. In some PBL experiences,students are graded individually for group projects when the work of each individual isclearly identifiable in the final project.Feedback from instructors about the use of problem formulation and problem solving inthe aerospace engineering program at MIT has been generally positive. At the end of eachterm, instructors are asked to write Reflective Memos in which they describe the courseobjectives, teaching and learning approaches, and

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

, whether they ultimately won anything in the auction or not.The complexity of the required analyses increased throughout the semester, reflecting new topicscovered in class. For example, one of the first investment opportunities presented to the class wasthe theater, with these specifications (taken directly from a class handout): It costs $200 (this includes routine maintenance and security) to run the theater for each turn it is open for business. It takes a while for a theater to gain popularity. A theater will only bring in $75 of revenue in its first turn of operation (for a net loss of $125 that turn.) However, while the cost of running the theater remains constant, the revenues will double each of the next four turns, thus

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill

, and MATLAB and help each other with computer-related difficulties in the classroom or lab. · Learning equitable teamwork is an experiential process, greatly aided by reflection and team feedback.ConclusionsThe Introduction to Engineering course required for beginning engineering students at the OhioState University has been successfully piloted at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.The course has introduced a diverse group of students to engineering and made them aware ofcareer options in that discipline. In addition, it has given students a chance to build skills thatwill be useful to them in school and on the job - regardless of what career they choose. Students,parents, teachers, and administrators

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Yuille

additionto instructing their full course loads and attempting to keep up with their research. Thoughfaculty contributions to the projects were vital to the success of the projects, there was nomechanism to reflect this appreciation and value in the tenure process. Thus, it became difficultto keep the faculty as advisers and even more difficult to secure faculty advisers for newprojects. These department-specific projects were often times under-funded, forcing the students todivert attention from the quality of the projects in order to raise funds. Most years, the projectaccounts were spent in the red, requiring that the school of engineering ultimately cover thedeficits. The department-specific projects were not attractive to wider

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Munro

reinforce the principles learned in the 3.4 fluids lecture class. 5. I understand the basic principles of pipe and pump selection. 2.8 6. This experiment helped me to feel more competent to size pipes 2.7 and select pumps for actual liquid transport systems. 7. Having the group physically assemble the piping components 3.6 was a worthwhile experience.The relatively high scores on question no.'s 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 reflect a

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrig ht  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Page 7.56.4tactile sensors are switches that are depressed when the mechanical antenna or bumper makescontact with the other robot or the wall. Software is designed to avoid getting stuck. The Legolight sensor is used to sense the reflectivity of the gray scale. This allows the robot to determinefield position. The robot can compare successive sensor readings to estimate progress towardeither the white or the black goal.The transistors in the “soccer ball” pictured in Figure 3

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Waters

oftenstimulated by environmental stress, societal mutations are often intentional efforts of people tocreate something new. The motive force maybe needs, curiosity or accident. In biologicalselection, the members of the species that best fit the niche in terms of survival tend to fill theniche, given the environmental conditions. Societal selection is quite similar. People,organization, and things that are desired by society tend to be produced.Trend Toward Complexity- There is apparently a “time’s arrow” in the evolution of biologicaland social species, which is reflected in change through time from simple to complex and in thedevelopment of awareness, consciousness, and intelligence. The suggested explanation of thepattern of increasing complexity of

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

Society for Engineering Education A B C D E F G Class Class with Web with Web only Class with Lab with Lab with with book web assist class assist web assist class assist web assist & lab demo 0 6 4 3 4 0 1The delivery selection was largely determined by the location of information sources andthe degree of explanation what was considered appropriate for the topic. The absence ofany offering in the conventional category A was not deliberate but it does reflect thatstate-of-the-art descriptions exist largely on web sites and general information is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Taylor; Randal Goldberg; Oleg Gerovichev; Ian Donn; Anand Viswanathan

engineering labs.ObservationsThe first challenge had a lot of problems arising from the use of a “soft-tissue patient”. Sinceconsistency of the JELL-O was not uniform, lighting played a crucial role in performance.LEGO software does not allow for dynamic lighting calibration, so the teams had five minutes tocalibrate their sensors (by adjusting proper light intensity ranges) before their demonstrations.Variable light reflection, ambient light, peripheral movement, shadows and temperature becamea testing point for the robots. Limitations of LEGO software became apparent when severalteams were unable to implement their guiding and searching routines that would have beenpossible in a higher-level language. This drawback necessitated either clever

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Andrew Kline

demonstratedesign knowledge, students recognize the faux nature of these assignments. 3, 4, 5 Numerousstudies have concluded that students execute communication activities with greater motivationand meaning when situated in actual industry settings. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Further, recent quantitativeresearch on the actual writing practices and values of working engineers suggests that the typesand nature of documents most often assigned in typical design courses—proposals and reports—do not accurately reflect current industry practice, and do not fully prepare students for theirwriting tasks after graduation. 9 Thus, both the writing contexts and the writing assignments aresubstantially different in the design course reviewed, and include summaries, meeting

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry

qualitative problems. Table 3 shows that the score (average number of students whocorrectly completed each type of problem) for both the quantitative and qualitativeproblems was nearly identical, and that the standard deviation was also nearly the same.This would indicate that the students found the qualitative problems to be as challengingas their quantitative counterparts. We believe that this reflects the efforts of our facultyto write qualitative problems that would probe the students’ understanding of coreconcepts and physics. Increased emphasis on conceptual understanding should improvethe performance of students on these types of qualitative problems. Table 3. Qualitative vs. Quantitative Problems

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Cunningham; D. Joseph Mook

with their American engineering curricula. “Withoutmy masters degree from ENAC in Toulouse, it is unlikely that I would be working with anInternational Space Station contractor, as I am now,” writes Solie Marriott, a 2000/01graduate of ERAU and ENAC. But, for Solei to clear all of the exchange hurdlessuccessfully, considerable attention had to be paid to preparation, articulation and politics.If a multiple degree programs are to be successfully coordinated, both institutions must bearan equal share of the exchange burden; refinements to each agreement need to be made on anannual basis and must reflect changes in institutional policies, fluctuations in availableresources, and, occasionally, responses to unsatisfactory student treatment or

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Haws

social contract, there would be no engineeringbecause there would be no need for engineered works.Second, because societies are composed of individuals, social decisions will reflect the varyingdesires and beliefs (the personal agendas) of individuals. Yet for stability, societies need to begoverned by established, slowly evolving rules rather than subjective desires and beliefs. As aconsequence, most social contract theorists have tried to promote a “rule-generalized” approachto ethics, but with varied success. For example, Kant’s “categorical imperative” is rule-generalized, but lacks a coherent, effective hierarchy. As a parent, I experienced the categoricalimperative’s inadequacy when my son informed me that he was going to skip supper

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Dinehart

low.Foreseen events during the construction process that consumed far more time than envisionedincluded:· Material procurement (Taking the ox-cart to the river to retrieve aggregate)· Intermittent loss of power· Plumbing of the formwork· Material hauling up the hill to the cross siteThese events lead to some shifting of the construction schedule and required some longworkdays, but they did not impact the final outcome.Overall, these students participated in a start to finish design and construction experience, andwere required to reflect on and critique their work. They brought their designs to life whiledealing with significant construction constraints. Furthermore, they successfully conquered thechallenge set forth in the course, as they met

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey-Van Kuren

use of journals. A benefit of the web-based approach was that the visitorcould connect to reference articles that were from web-based journals. This was not possiblewith the former paper based approach.A final instructional concern of the web page assignment was that some teams focused on theweb page creation instead of learning about the process topic. Student teams were surprisedwhen their grade reflected the web site content more than their effort that created a flashy website. During the third semester that the process topic web pages were assigned, the instructoremphasized the content vs. web site as a part of the verbal instruction for the assignment. Thisadded emphasis produced the desired result of more depth of content and less

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

abroad for extended periods during their careers.Study Abroad programs during the educational years represent an outstanding opportunity toprepare students for the future.Unfortunately, US engineering student participation in study abroad programs does not yet Page 7.132.1adequately reflect this new reality. There is plenty of blame to go around - corporations, despite Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationurgent needs for internationally capable professionals, have for the most part

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Leffel; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

Educationcommunity.5 This theme was also reflected by the participants surveyed. Courses thatprovide real-world situations are very or somewhat important to 97% of respondents and91% of respondents view it very or somewhat important to take courses where they can usethe information immediately on the job, whereas 72% prefer courses that include a mixtureof group and on your own activities. Course Content Factor in Choosing a Course Percentage of Responses 150 100 50 0 Provides information you can Uses simulations of real-world Mixture of group

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Mehalik

any special risks due tocontamination. The ISO 14001 system and its auditors ensured that all documented processeswere up-to-date and reflected the actual practices, therefore reducing/eliminating the number ofwork-around procedures.In The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Doerner12 describes some of the characteristics of successfuland unsuccessful groups who participated in decision exercises designed to simulate theoperation of complex systems, such as food distribution in developing villages. Among manyother characteristics, Doerner noted that participants who did well in making decisions tended toformulate a large number of hypotheses about what were the critical problem areas. Thesuccessful participants also attempted to test their hypotheses

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

describes courses in general education and mathematics that can be taken at localcommunity colleges. The “B” part describes those courses provided by ODU throughTELETECHNET. I. GET Lower-Division Courses(These requirements may be met fully or partially through completion of an associate in appliedscience degree in a technology related field at an accredited community college. Specificprograms should be reviewed with the program director for articulation. ) Credits1. Technical Base 32The lower-division technical base reflects elective and major area credits earned throughAAS

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Skubic

from the sensor. Heating functions require turning on the heater, and cooling requires turning on the fan until the desired temperature is reached. Again, students reverse engineer their code and demo the program to a TA. Milestone #3 User interface prototype Students create a prototype of the user interface and demo it to their client, soliciting comments. Students also demo the interface to a TA and must discuss how their interface reflects the client’s needs and what changes will be made to address the client’s comments. Homework #4 Integration with a database Students create a database using, e.g., Microsoft Access, for storing the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Gardiner

, American Society for Engineering Educationothers were selected from the Procter & Gamble Annual Report and Proxy Statement andinvolved use of free-chlorine radicals in paper bleaching, executive compensation and other issuesseeking shareholder’s votes. 16 The news release (#7) forces reflection on what the studentperceives may have been achieved during the course. This is also an unintended and entertainingopportunity for students to flatter faculty!The teams completed assignment 3 by reviewing technical papers that had been produced bygraduate students in a manufacturing management class the prior semester. This, not only broughtout many issues germane to IE334, but also established team operating principles. The class werethen presented with

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

discrete andbatch manufacturing, they have been ignored traditionally in the academic circles of automaticprocess control, the latter focusing primarily on large-scale, continuous processing.Only a minority of today’s ChE students are finding employment in the traditional chemical andpetroleum industries. Many more are entering the job market in pharmaceuticals, specialtychemicals, biotechnology, and microelectronics. The programmed-logic controller predominatesin these sectors. Yet the typical process control course today still reflects continuous processingand PLC’s are largely ignored. This situation calls for change.At the University of Colorado, we have introduced a module in our control course(Instrumentation & Process Control, CHEN 4570

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrzej Filipkowski; Krzysztof Zaremba

forty four years, and introduced curricula reflecting thedevelopment of technology in the world. We were simply aware of what was going on andwhat should be taught. The evidence for that statement is that Polish engineers, whosucceeded to emigrate to western countries even before 1989, were very well assimilated andaccepted, and made fast careers both at universities and in industry.However, some changes in curricula had to be introduced. Close and efficient cooperationwith western countries, which will be discussed later, helped to reach a high level ofeducation.Laboratories. Hardware laboratory experience is a very crucial part of engineering education.In this respect the situation in Poland was very poor. The equipment was obsolete, mainly

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

25% Students attending Purdue University 35% Students attending Purdue Calumet University 30% Students attend out-of-state universities or other Indiana colleges 10% Students graduating from college (tracked since 1996) 80% Table 1In view of the statistic relative to college enrollment and success for students in the Region, thesestatistical data reflect the remarkable success of the Upward Bound program. Page

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

collaborative writing. 2. Provide opportunities to practice oral communication prior to Senior Design; provide opportunities for students to present to peers while studying for exams, and utilize study groups and introduce more teamwork experience before Senior Design. 3. Develop a skeleton for reports for different audiences (reflecting what is important to report); and distribute templates for organizing and communicating written and oral information. Page 7.1111.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for