Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Eskicioglu

to more interaction between the instructor and students. Multimedia can be defined to bemultiple forms of media (text, graphics, images, animation, audio and video) that work together.It is unparalleled in its ability to disseminate information quickly and accurately. Before thedigital era, multimedia was delivered using one-way communication technologies such as books,magazines, radio and television. The invention of the personal computer and the Internet,however, has introduced interactivity and created an engaging learning environment. Literatureon learning and technology contains evidence that multimedia has the potential to transformevery aspect of academic endeavor from instruction and learning to research and disseminationof knowledge

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

teams that can integrate information technologies withtraditional engineering areas such as fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, materials science,manufacturing technologies, and precision design. In addition, more than 1.3 million newprogrammers, engineers, systems analysts, and computer scientists will be required between 1996to 2006 to meet the information technology demands of the nation’s industries according to areport from the U.S. Commerce Department's Office of Technology. To address this need, the vital importance of the introduction of information technologies tocreatively improve undergraduate education has been stressed by the Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching. Thus, in partnership with relevant industries, we

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

Educationinvestment and more emphasis is usually placed on its understanding when teaching engineeringeconomy. However, the analysis of this type of cash flow profile usually intimidates students.The understanding and analysis of cash flow diagrams is an integral part of engineering economyeducation especially at the undergraduate level. Several innovative methods of enhancing theteaching of engineering economy are in the literature, including incorporating spreadsheets intothe classroom lectures1, 5, the need for curriculum enhancement by integrating research advancesinto course materials4, 6, and practical factors that increase the efficacy of teaching engineeringeconomy8. In this paper, several designs and a close-form analysis of some real-life

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

are toour society by bringing the science to the students through the use of such learning agents asrobots. Robots can facilitate learning by intriguing and holding onto the student’s interest.Working directly with the robots can help students to formulate an improved knowledge andunderstanding of the importance and relevance of science and math. All the work discussed in thispaper has been developed through the implementation of several experiments developed atBinghamton University for use in local middle schools.Introduction The research discussed in this paper is focused on developing a robot and curriculum thatcan be easily integrated into the math and science courses of 5th and 6 th grade students. Theprototype robot for this

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Callahan; Paul Givens

perhaps even a BSEM which is an ABET accredited degree. TheEngineering Management curriculum integrates well with the Industrial Engineering degrees andeach adds a synergistic effect than makes each degree better than if it were the only one. The MSEM program has reached beyond the borders of the state of Florida. Althoughwas originally intended to serve the place-bound engineer in the sixty-eight counties, studentshave completed their degrees from as far away as South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio,Colorado, California, Colorado, Washington, Connecticut, and Israel. Requests for informationon the program arrive daily from countries including India, Chile, Columbia, Venezuela, andChina. It is truly becoming a global degree. Test

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

, 1977.10. N. T. Younis and D. M. Bredemeyer, “Assembly Stresses Effects Around Circular Holes,” Proceedings of theSEM Spring Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 12-14, pp. 882-888, 1995.Nashwan T. YounisNashwan T. Younis is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue UniversityFort Wayne. He received his Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1988. He is therecipient of the 2002 Illinois/Indiana Section of the American Society for Engineering Education OutstandingEducator Award. In addition to curriculum and assessments issues, his research interests include sensors and opticalexperimental stress analysis

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks; Laura Ford

competition was intended to be educational, several changes were made withrespect to team formation and ethical conduct. In the AIChE competition, faculty and graduatestudents may act only as sounding boards. In this event, teachers or advisors could assist thestudents with ideas (including specifying which reaction to use). This allowed the teachers tobetter integrate the project into their curriculum. The design and construction of the cars was tobe done primarily by the students. As with the AIChE competition, it was required that there beat least five members on a team. An entire class might be a team, and the entire team did notneed to attend the competition. To allow for flexibility in forming the teams, there was norequirement of different

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

engineering. Second, access to oncampus resources with extensive expertise in recruitment and retention of women of allbackgrounds into science and engineering would be critical to long-term success. Third, thewebsite must develop using feedback from all the major targeted constituents. Fourth, the websitemust have the support of the educational community, a mechanism to educate the educators inregards to the website location, and website content and methods to effectively assess theeducational utility of TechGirl. Fifth, the website must have a computational infrastructure thatallows for expansion and continuous change. Finally, since a website is not an isolated resource,but must exist in a highly competitive and integrated environment, ongoing

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Braddom; Charles Campbell; Shad Reed; Robert Floersheim

conducted. The student survey had645 respondents from 11 engineering courses with active websites as shown in Figure 1. TheUnited States Military Academy curriculum is unusual in that it requires all students, not justthose majoring in an engineering field, to take a series of engineering courses. Therefore, whilemost respondents were civil or mechanical engineering majors, at least 82 respondents (13%)were not. Student responses were taken from the spring and fall 2002 academic terms. Thebreakdown between terms is 196 responses or 30% of the total from spring 2002 and 449responses or 70% of the total from fall 2002. The spring 2002 and the fall 2002 surveys had 7and 8 questions respectively. The first 6 questions were identical, but the seventh

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

Engineering EducationAll incoming full-time students are enrolled in a mandatory laptop computer program.Many classrooms are wired for connection to the network and Internet and manysoftware packages are installed directly on the laptops. Students can work withoutconnecting to the network and do laboratory work from many locations on campus,including the library and campus center building (http://www.msoe.edu/ae/).Curriculum changesOver the years, Milwaukee School of Engineering’s programs, in an effort to remain atthe cutting edge, continued to add new courses and content without realisticallyevaluating whether students were able to graduate in four years. Recently, engineeringprograms at MSOE re-evaluated course credits required for graduation.MSOE

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gray; Andrew Miller; Francesco Costanzo; Charles Randow

Session 3268 Mathematica Notebooks for Classroom Use in Undergraduate Dynamics: Demonstration of Theory and Examples Charles L. Randow, Andrew J. Miller, Francesco Costanzo, Gary L. Gray The Pennsylvania State University Abstract The use of the commercially available software package Mathematica, which is capable of both solving equations and visually presenting the results, is described to assist in the teaching of an introductory course in dynamics. Improving instruction within the classroom environment and assisting

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shah Galib Habib; Arif Sirinterlikci

manufacturing design process. On the contrary, cost is not an issue for academicinstitutions since many software companies have educational programs offering drastic pricereductions.This study presents a general manufacturing process course utilizing manufacturing processsimulation tools as instructional aids. The objective of the course is to accomplish intelligent useof the software tools in learning design of parts, processes or tooling. Basics of numerical analysismethods, upon which the software are based, are also taught in the proposed course. With theassistance of these tools, students can visualize and better study the manufacturing processes.Issues such as cycle time, load and power requirements, material flow, solidification

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Nelson; Osama Abudayyeh; Edmund Tsang; Molly Williams

communication skills necessary in industry. Equally important, they becomeaware that design is not a unique solution—rather, there are many acceptable designs for a singlesystem.The Proposed Concept:Presented herein is a new curriculum for the civil engineering program at Western MichiganUniversity that: • Is based upon the evolving engineering office of the 21st century, • Utilizes modern technology and computational tools from the onset of the educational process, • Utilizes student teams and project work throughout the entire educational process, and • Stresses oral, graphical, and written communication, and team skills.An integral part of this curriculum is a freshman experience that stimulates

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

Page 8.353.1from the ground up. Our goal is to produce a curriculum which retains the salient technical“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”material, but which is more attractive to women (and probably men also). Our workinghypothesis is that the undergraduate engineering curriculum will be made more attractive withoutcompromising technically if it enhances the link between fundamentals and applications, reducescritical path lengths in the course sequence, introduces team experiences into all courses, andcreates an atmosphere of inclusion rather than exclusion. The resulting curriculum will likely berevolutionary rather

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

support for others interested in doing so.Website For Engineering Education Research and AssessmentTo support efficient, informed, data-driven group work at the engineering school, departmentand subject levels, a website devoted to engineering education research and assessment wascreated. By creating an integrated site for use at all three institutional levels, it was envisionedthat education improvement processes at the three levels could also be integrated. The primarypurpose of the website was to create a focused repository of materials related to engineeringeducation. Material included E-CUE meeting notes, discussions and studies in progress, Schoolof Engineering education reports, links to related education activities, pertinent

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Kasra; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

Page 8.822.1program criteria for the BME specialization. A key challenge in the design of an undergraduate Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBME program is to achieve an ideal balance between engineering and life science content.Ideally, these two fields are integrated in a number of specialty courses. Of prime importance isthe need for the program to be a strong engineering program not substantially diluted inengineering content with life sciences coursework. In attempting to achieve this goal our 136hour curriculum was designed to include 30 hours of basic engineering sciences

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

program educational objectives. Inparticular it discusses the educational objectives attributes that an acceptable program shouldhave in view of the requirements of criterion 2 of Engineering Criteria (EC2000). Examples ofusing surveys results are included. Finally, the interaction between the assessment coordinationand curriculum committee is discussed.IntroductionThe engineering practice continues to evolve, but engineering education has not changed at thesame rate. The need to change engineering education has led industry and constituents toquestion the relevancy of engineering programs. Therefore, ABET initiated the formationprocess for an ABET Industry Advisory Council (IAC). ABET needed more proactiveinvolvement of industry leaders

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

trained in response to the 1960’s space race.Engineers have strong backgrounds in mathematics, physics and chemistry; practiced analyticalskills; and an appreciation for integrated systems. To remain competitive, tomorrow’sengineering undergraduate must have a strong background in biology as well. Our long-termobjective is the development of a curriculum that integrates biology to a degree comparable tothe current integration of chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Ultimately, our goal is todramatically overhaul existing engineering curricula and integrate biology for engineers withinall levels of formal engineering education. Some of the short and long-term benefits of thechanges we propose include developing a pool of qualified undergraduate

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

highlyunlikely that conventional nuclear engineering programs can provide a flow of graduatesadequate to meet the near-term needs of industry and the federal government.As an alternative, we have explored the development of a national curriculum in nuclear fissionpower engineering that would serve as a certificate-based, minor concentration for undergraduatestudents majoring in traditional engineering degree programs such as mechanical, electrical,chemical, and computer engineering. The proposed program would augment conventionalundergraduate engineering degree programs with a four-course sequence offered in the juniorand senior years, accompanied by a summer practicum involving extensive laboratory experienceat a regional university reactor facility, a

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

)integrate ω to find θ. One could also choose an alternative solution procedure by taking theimpulse-momentum path relating τnet directly to ω. Thus student solutions consist of a free-bodydiagram and a graphical representation of motion applied through the structure of the dynamicsframework. Solutions produced by this procedure not only find the numerical answers, but alsoillustrate the motion and causes.Using the Dynamics Framework in a Learner-Centered CurriculumThe dynamics framework is one element of the learner-centered curriculum that we havedeveloped. A detailed description of the pedagogy used in this curriculum is given in Ellis andTurner5. The pedagogical approach to our curriculum is best understood within the context ofthree principles

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

courses to fulfill the general education component of their curriculum. Inthis day and age where technology plays an integral role in people’s daily lives, it seems odd that,although engineering students are required to take almost a third of their courses on non-engineering topics, the liberal arts students are not required to take any engineering or technology-oriented courses. Engineering courses are deemed too technical for the non-engineers to take. Atsuch colleges, the freshman-writing course is considered to be a venue to introduce youngstudents to a mature level of analytical reading, thinking, discussion, and writing. A newexperiment is being developed to make available to both engineering and non-engineering studentsa technical module

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

business, and in order to succeed in this international arena the student will have an awareness of customs and practices in different countries and the influence of diverse cultures and geopolitical factors. • The graduating student will have the professional integrity and maturity to serve humanity and its highest values, and will have the educational background required to make ethical decisions as they relate to society, corporate operations, technology, and the environment. Page 8.408.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Adrezin; Marty Wood; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

state’seconomically disadvantaged and students from historically underserved andunderrepresented groups. The Community College System continues to enroll 60 percentof all students enrolled in public institutions of higher education in the state. The system-wide “College of Technology”-a virtual college that provides aframework for high-quality engineering and engineering education and is offeredthroughout the 12 state community colleges-was implemented in 1995 and currently hasover 600 students enrolled in the Community College COT programs. The College ofTechnology (COT) offers a two-year curriculum that prepares students for the workforceand concurrently is transferable to a B.S. degree. There are two “pathways” in the Collegeof Technology, an A.S

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebecca E. Burnett

of communication skills and thegrowth of their expert-like behaviors is the focus of this paper. It begins with a very brief reviewof literature, continues with an equally brief identification of some critical assumptions and theirimplications for assessment of communication in engineering students, and concludes bysuggesting quantitative and qualitative assessment strategies and one way to ensurepedagogical integrity for the assessment process. data can provide a rich picture of students’communicative competence.Research about engineering communicationResearch in rhetoric establishes a positive relationship between technical knowledge and anability to communicate that knowledge, so students can improve their understanding of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

as theyformulated plans for integrating ethics into their curricula, e.g., IIT 1, Towson State2 and OregonInstitute of Technology.3) It became clear that if departments were to be successful in integratingethics into engineering courses, some form of development would be required for most facultymembers.Shortly after the need for a faculty development activity became clear, the College of Engineeringand the College of the Liberal Arts received a gift from an Alumnus to start joint activitiesinvolving engineering and ethics. This gift explicitly linked the Douglas and Julie Rock EthicsInstitute in Liberal Arts and the Leonhard Center. When the Directors of the Institute and Centermet to discuss possible joint projects, they quickly decided

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 2526 Adaptation Of The Learning Factory Model For Implementation In A Manufacturing Laboratory Mukasa E. Ssemakula and Gene Y. Liao Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.Abstract The Learning Factory concept was first developed as part of the TRP/NSF fundedManufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP). The objective of the LearningFactory (LF) is to integrate a practice-based engineering curriculum that balances analytical andtheoretical knowledge with physical facilities for product realization in an industrial

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Lemanowski; Ellen Yezierski; Arlisa Labrie; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

could address the degree to which teachers wouldimplement the recommended strategies to improve gender equity in the classroom.VI. Dateline Video Parts I and IIAn integral part of the gender equity workshop consisted of viewing the Dateline NBC video:Failing in Fairness Parts I and II. Originally broadcast as two segments on Dateline: Part I airedApril 7, 1992 and Part II aired Feb 8, 1994. Failing in Fairness is an examination of gender biasin American schools. The findings from twenty years of research by two social scientists, Myraand David Sadker, show that gender bias in our schools presents a challenge in providing anequitable education for boys and girls. Girls are consistently given less attention andencouragement than boys, especially

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

programs span five academic years and include an average of six co-opquarters for a typical baccalaureate degree and our graduates are highly sought by employers.However, both the American Society of Civil Engineering and the National Academy ofEngineering have advocated a Master’s degree as the first professional degree for practicingengineers. With this in mind, in 2002-2003 the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at the University of Cincinnati initiated a combined five-year BS and MS degreeprogram in Environmental Engineering (the Accelerated Engineering Degree (ACCEND)Program) with cooperative and research experiences integrated with the education. The BScomponent of the degree will be in Civil Engineering, and the MS component

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

Students Internships Computational Science Monitor Preparation by freshmen Students Mentoring and Internship Placement Fig. 1: Schematic of the model.2.1. Curriculum and Teaching InfrastructureThe curriculum and teaching infrastructure supports the development of a course that serves asboth an orientation as well as introductory course in computational science for freshmen. It alsoprovides support for interdisciplinary seminars, students mentoring and internship placementactivities

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ross Shonat

principles to solve importantproblems in medicine and biology, undergraduate biomedical engineering programs must deliveran engineering curriculum that is strongly grounded in the life sciences. These criteria areformally defined by ABET in their program criteria for bioengineering programs1 and werespecifically integrated into the development and delivery of this course. While the costsassociated with its delivery are somewhat high, both in terms of materials and instructor effort,the educational and practical experience provided is viewed as absolutely vital to the training ofbiomedical engineering students. In an era where the use of animals for teaching is declining,WPI is graduating biomedical engineering students who are fully prepared to