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Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mulchand Rathod

feeling that since a number of their alumni peers resided in metropolitan NY/NJ area, it should be easier to bring them together in that region. The group did not want to wait a long time, since people’s enthusiasm could go down with time to do such a program. As a result, the 2003 Labor day weekend was selected. To allow for travel time, Sunday, 8/31/03 was selected as the convention day. Based on models of many professional societies and events, the group was organized into several committees (Venue, Host, Registration, Program, Publication, Funding/Fund Raising, Meals, Presentations/Sessions, Entertainment, Volunteers). The teams reviewed a number of university alumni programs, projects, and activities 3-12 and depending on

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Gu

learners. Students get to know their classmates and instructors, and the instructors get to knowthe students and this will build a sense of class climate that centers on the academic side of the school.It is predicted that outcome of the active teaching and learning are but not limited to the following: a) Tend to get high score and complete better project b) Tend to have good friendship with the instructor and among the classmates c) Greater psychological health, social competence3. Active Teaching and Learning TechnologyA) Active teaching strategies: motivating the studentsWhat can instructors do to increase the motivation of the students to learn? Survey shows that there are eightcharacteristics of the class in

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What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

Engineering Education Table 1: Numerical SummaryCore Courses in the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Program Course InstructorSemester Number Credits Title Evaluation(s) Evaluation(s)Summer (1) IIME 400 3 Professional Development 3.8 3.8Summer (1) IIME 405 3 Project Management 3.8, 4.1 4.0, 4.4Summer (1) IIME 410 3 Accounting, Finance and Engineering Economics* 2.4, 4.5 2.2, 4.8Summer (1) IIME 415

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

through the stations until Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationeach group has worked at each station. At each station the team is directed to read andanswer a series of questions. The first station consists of a series of papers, packagingindustry publications, and technology information data sheets. The team is directed toscan through the printed material and gain some sense of the kinds of materials issuesthat are important to electronic packaging. They are also expected to develop a sense ofthe technical background necessary to work on packaging projects or research. A list ofinternet-based references

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

and search for relevant information. A knowledgeable coach provides assistance atvarious times to guide learners through the process. These ideas have been extended from theseprofessional schools to middle school classrooms using anchored instruction1, case-basedreasoning, and project-based learning7. The complexity of these challenges, combined with thenovice learners, makes it difficult to mediate students' learning to ensure everyone in the class islearning. These situated approaches to learning attempt to engage students in meaningfulresearch for important information in pursuit of helping them construct their own knowledge.Computer technology provides an additional mechanism to help teachers with the instructionalprocess necessary to

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Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

thehandheld. Infrared file transfer from one device to another can be very useful for students inteam projects and between faculty and students. The wireless environment made possible with this device provides efficient and accurateinteraction with course material and data free from transcribing errors. The pocket PC also hasthe capability of loading scientific calculator software that saves students the expense ofpurchasing a separate scientific calculator. Students are able to use the handheld PC as a personalproductivity tool. They also are able to take advantage of the UMD’s expanding wirelessnetwork, to access the Internet and their email throughout the day, without having to go into acomputer lab. Many class-related documents (lecture notes

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn order to increase diversity in graduate education, we must better understand how the factorslisted above, and others, affect today's graduate student population. Thus there is a need forcontinuing research projects, with a broad enough scope and over a long enough period of time,along the lines of the studies reported in 8 and 13. Many questions about the efficacy of today'sgraduate education, in terms of attracting and retaining our best students, need to be answered.b. Increased Information:In addition to more comprehensive research in general, it would be very useful to have a national"clearinghouse" for reporting on the efficacy of support programs for graduate students

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Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Wise; Nicholas Scambilis

, American Society of Engineering Education”there are no excuses for spelling errors. The instructor can verify when homework was turned inand control whether late homework is accepted. Grading is conducted on-line and grades areaccessible to the students at the discretion of the instructor. In WebCT, grades are automaticallyrecorded and managed within a database. “Private Mail” enables students to access instructors regarding course materials. It is an email function located within the shell of the course and is accessible only by the respective student and instructor. “Class Discussion Forum” enables the students to communicate with each other, to form groups, or to jointly work on projects

Conference Session

Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Efrat Strassberg; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

University of Toronto in the Department of Chemical Engineering and AppliedChemistry in 1982. He has spent the last five years instituting a complete web-based distancelearning program at the MS and PhD level.Efrat Strassberg is a project manager and web designer. Over the past years Ms. Strassberg hadworked on web development in the business and academic sectors. Current work involvesusability planning, animations and online education development at the University of Texas atAustin. Ms. Strassberg was a teaching assistant and instructor for Internet, Computers,Multimedia and Business courses at Tel-Aviv University and The College of management. Shecombines her academic experience and software development knowledge to create interactivesolutions for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

theuniversity research and industrial sponsor’s work. These lesson plans are placed on a web site fordissemination. The interns have visited the industrial sponsor to learn about their business anddone final project presentations for them.This program has a history of success in attracting women students into engineering and sciencemajors. It also hopes to have a larger impact in the long term as the 5th – 8th grade audiencetargeted for the lesson plans becomes of college age and chooses science, technology,engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers in (hopefully) larger numbers than before.Introduction and History:Female, high school summer research interns at Iowa State University work with engineeringindustries and Iowa State research groups to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Martha Absher; Gary Ybarra

the 2001-02 school year MUSCLE placed 12 undergraduate Engineering Teaching Fellowsfrom the Pratt School of Engineering in Lakewood Elementary School and Rogers Herr MiddleSchool. These schools were selected as partnership schools since one of the goals of this projectwas to have a specific focus on fostering an interest in math for underrepresented minoritystudents and each school has a predominantly African-American population. The majority ofteaching fellows were also African-American. Fellows assisted teachers in developing andcarrying out hands-on learning projects that integrated math into all areas of the curriculum butwith a particular emphasis on life sciences. The fellows taught in ways that were fun andexciting to the students and

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

program, students may take graduate level courses astechnical electives and count up to 15 credit hours toward both the bachelors degree and themasters degree. The student’s undergraduate program must, of course, approve the graduatelevel courses as technical electives. A student in the BS/MS program can complete as many as 15of the 45 quarter credit hours required for an MS by the time she or he receives a B.S. degree.As a result, the student requires just one year beyond the B.S. to finish a masters degree,including writing a thesis.Students in the BS/MS program may also receive 25% appointments as Graduate ResearchAssociates. Thus, they can begin work on research projects in their senior years.The Nuclear Engineering Program at Ohio State has

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

test, and make other instructors aware of the problemset. We are unclear as to the reason for the overall decline in scores from 2001.Tool # 2 Analysis of Plant Design reportsThis analysis involves “plant design reports and the AIChE senior design project. Faculty notinvolved in teaching plant design will review these for fundamental knowledge, innovation,research, and problem-solving skills1.”One of the department’s assessment efforts is to determine whether we are achieving ABEToutcome (g), the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. To address thisoutcome, a three-credit communication-specific course (CM 3410, Technical Communication forChemical Engineers) was maintained in the curriculum. As an assessment measure

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edwin Rezaei; Sri Kolla

AnnualConference, session # 3659, 1998.[14] Edwin Rézaei, Application of LabVIEW for Internet Based Instrumentation and Process Control, Master ofIndustrial Technology degree project, Bowling Green State University, August 2002.Biographical InformationEdwin Rézaei completed his Master of Industrial Technology degree at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, inAugust 2002. He also received his B.S. in Electronics and Computer Technology at Bowling Green StateUniversity, Ohio, in May 1999. His academic interests are in the area of control systems, computer networking, andcommunication systems. He is a member of ISA.Sri Kolla is a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Technology Program at the Bowling Green StateUniversity, Ohio, since 1993. He worked as

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

capital budget issues; however, others, likeincluding other program language standards, would only require a change in the course orlaboratory syllabus.References1. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.2. Modicon FactoryLink ECS, Square D Company, Chicago, IL, 1996.3. Step-by-step Guide to Project Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4. Bateson, R.N., Introduction to Control System Technology, Prentice Hall,1999 BIOGRAPHYJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received a B. S. and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from St. LouisUniversity and has completed additional graduate work at the University of South Carolina and ClemsonUniversity. Since

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Institutional Research ProfessionalsHighest Student artifacts -- those Standardized examinations, assessment strategies developed or Professionally reporting guidelines, and administered and interpreted by the self reported or information from departmental faculty (portfolios or employer evaluations -- (licensure exhibits, papers, projects) exam results, transcripts according to regional, national, or professional criteria, evaluations of co-op students or alumni)Middle Standardized examinations -- such

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

academic advisingresponsibilities, outreach programs and consulting can be classified. In teaching, the number ofcourses, labs, independent studies, supervised students’ projects, teaching evaluations by students,fellow faculty, alumni, and department head, developing new courses, etc. can be used. So, it isimportant to communicate effectively what the department goals, objectives and vision of thedepartment are and what is expected from the faculty going for tenure or promotion. This shouldbe consistent at all levels. Therefore, the tenure process will foster a positive growth and result. Ifthe department head isn’t committed to the goals, no one else will be. It is also very vital for adepartment to be fair in this process. Some faculty can get

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen

local area networking can be taught using Linux with Samba asMicrosoft at a fraction of the cost.SambaSamba is an Open Source Software (OSS) project first developed by Andrew Tridgell in 1991 atthe Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. It is designed as a suite of programswhich work together to allow workstations to access a server's filespace and printers via the SMB(Server Message Block) protocol. Initially written for UNIX, Samba runs on a variety of othernetwork operating systems (NOS).Samba, which comes packaged with most brands of the Linux Operating System (OS), is opensource code just like Linux. The source code for both, written in C, is always available todownload, test and change. There is no cost for these products

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christie

saving time, consistency ofaccess, inspired students, and family involvement. If you have tried to call a high school andreach the principal or faculty members, you are aware of how hard it is to develop a line ofcommunication. High schools often times just do not have the infrastructure to support extraphone calls, or community outreach partnerships. Many times you will have to call a teacher athome in the evenings to discuss a project or program.All of the academic enrichment programs I have worked with have staff members that answerthe phone. The organizations are easily accessible to anyone in an engineering departmentbecause they can be located in the phone book or on the web. One is able to work directly withthe organization’s president or

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

measure quantities such as the speed of sound in a wire.Acknowledgment The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge financial, equipment and computing supportfor this project from the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, the NASA Centerfor Aerospace Research and the NASA PAIR program at NC A&T State University. This workwas initially presented orally at the NEW: Update 2002 National Educators Workshop.BiographiesDEVDAS M. PAI is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He received hisM.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He teaches manufacturing processes and machine design. Aregistered Professional Engineer in North Carolina, he serves on the Professional Licensure Committees

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Megan Rothney; Robert Roselli

the first question, students made statistically significant gains on allthe questions. Though we have no way to directly measure the gains that can be attributed theremediation as opposed to the tutorial these results validate the effort that was put intodeveloping these materials for out of class use.(This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363).Bibliography1. Howard LP. Courseware and Packaging Environment (CAPE). http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/projects/VaNTH/index.htm2. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds). (1999). How People Learn: Brain, mind, experience

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelly Adams; J. Filatovs; B. Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

importance of the diverse materials.Commercial designs can be done with the same user interface but by attaching it to a commercialstandard database such as the MIL-Handbook. Given the conflicting demands of time and practicality, the availability of a materials andprocess database and selection tool will greatly facilitate the student’s ability to implementclassroom fundamentals in a meaningful way in their class design projects as they prepare totransition their skills and knowledge but limited experience into the workforce. The softwareenables students to explore a far broader spectrum of materials and processes than physicallypossible to even enumerate in class. The challenge, of course, lies in highlighting to the studentsthe care that

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

students tohave access to databases; simple CAD tools, spreadsheet use and image capture display.Also, students are able to generate or acquire data files during lab or lecture, return to adesktop environment, and continue to work. Software demonstrations and interactiveexercises could be downloaded and run in the lab and then carried home for futurereference. As they progress, students will be able to write software on their desktops thatcan be downloaded and run from the handheld. Infrared file transfer from one device toanother can be very useful for students in team projects and between faculty and students. The wireless environment made possible with this device provides efficient andaccurate interaction with course material and data free

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

new materials such as hands-on activities, interactive multimedia, andgroup learning. This balance with concrete experience is especially needed in “building-block”courses that create the foundation for advanced design courses. If we expect students to performwell with open-ended, project-centered problems, we need to provide a pedagogical basis acrossthe entire undergraduate curriculum. This paper presents such a basis for one importantengineering core topic: mechanics of materials. Active learning concepts applied in mechanicsof materials courses are discussed, including specific examples of hands-on, multimedia, andgroup design exercises.1. IntroductionOne of the needed reformations in engineering education involves a change in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

8procedure as an Engineering Clinic project. The total cost of the setup was under $500. In theexperiment, all reagents except the acid are mixed with a Lightnin’ mixer in a 2 L baffled vessel.The acid is then added slowly with a syringe pump, and the rate of addition is one of theparameters that can be studied for its effect on reaction selectivity. The full procedure has been 9described previously. Page 8.970.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationGuichardon and Falk characterize the system by

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2001 Annual Conference

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Don Merrill; Nick Safai

official records, Salt Lake Community College.Professor Nick M. Safai is the Coordinator of Engineering Science Department at SLCC . Hereceived his PhD in Engineering from Princeton University in 1977, and Masters of Science inAerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 1974, MSE in Civil Engineering in 1975, and MSEin Petroleum Reservoir Engineering in 1975 all from Princeton University. He holds a B.S. inEngineering from Michigan State in 1972. Prior to joining the academics , Dr. Safai worked inindustry, where he served as director of the Reservoir Engineering Division at Chevron OilCompany in California. He has taught both at the graduate and undergraduate levels inengineering science. He has performed research projects for the Department of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Saeid Y. Eidgahy

critical in engineeringeducation is the ability to communicate effectively with people who have preparationsother than engineering. In other words, in order for a new innovative technical project tobe funded, a marketing manager or someone with an accounting or managementbackground must be convinced of its benefits. An engineer must be able to constantlycommunicate in verbal and written forms with non-engineers. This will facilitate thegathering, integrating and conveying of information in many formats.Engineers often work as part of a team composed of many members with variedbackgrounds. As a result, developing skills in managing other people and accomplishingrequired tasks is a universal requirement for any engineer. This may involve planning

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Yousuf

. • Create virtual instruments using LabVIEW • Use data acquisition systems to measure physical quantities. • Gain good understanding of General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) communication devices and drivers.The following topics are covered during the semester: 1. Introduction to LabVIEW 2. LabVIEW programming 3. Building an application 4. Instrument drivers 5. Writing a DAQ program 6. Process control application 7. Physical applicationThe following are the laboratory projects that students perform during the semester: 1. Creating a virtual instrument (VI) and sub VI. 2. Use While, For Loops, and a waveform chart for acquiring data in real time. 3. Create a VI that takes a number representing degree Celsius and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Glenn Wrate

systems sequence. This course focuses on theelectrical design of a large commercial building or industrial complex. The students choosebetween a 20-story building and a four building campus. As with the EE-353, the project is doneby a team of two students and presented to the rest of the class at the end of the term. Page 6.365.4Proceedings of The 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThese last two courses, EE-353 and EE-355, can be taken for credit by EE and EET students,provided they have taken courses that cover the prerequisite material. Since they

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Elsawy; Ismail Fidan

Tennessee Technological University. Before assuming the current position, Dr. ElSawywas a professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Industrial Technology, University ofNorthern Iowa for seven years. From 1987 to 1992, Dr. ElSawy was a Professor and Director of theManufacturing Engineering Program at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Before that, Dr. ElSawywas a project manager in the Center for Manufacturing Productivity and Technology Transfer and theMaterials Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy New York. Dr. ElSawy holdsa Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. He is a member of ASEE, AWS, andASM. His research interests are in the areas of the Mechanical Design, Materials