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Teaching Strategies in BME

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Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

sciences and learning technologies in biomedical engineering. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Annual Reviews. 4, 29-48.[2] Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (CTGV). (1997). The Jasper Project: Lessons in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[3] Schwartz, D. L, Brophy, S., Lin, X. & Bransford, J. D. (1999) Software for managing complex learning: Examples from an educational psychology course. Educational Technology Research and Development. 47(2). p 39-60[4] Schwartz, D. L., Lin, X., Brophy, S., & Bransford, J. D. (1999). Toward the development of flexibly adaptive instructional designs. In Reigeluth (Ed

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

calculators (Texas Instruments and HewletPackard) connected to the teacher’s computer with cables at each seat [3,4,5]. Recently, TexasInstruments rolled out a system called Navigator, which uses wireless hubs located strategicallythroughout a classroom. Students connect to the hub through their TI calculator. This workswell in many engineering schools where the calculator is a ubiquitous device. Other manufacturesuse infrared (IR) technology to provide wireless connectivity with the instructor’s computer.The VaNTH ERC has created their own version of a CCS to leverage the wireless laptoptechnology students are using as part of the laptop initiative at Vanderbilt. One of our strongestmotivations for this project is to explore the value added by

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Streaming Video Software. Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 91, no. 3, pp.267- 274.4 - Novak, G.M. (editor), Patterson, E.T., Gavrin, and A.D., Christian, W. (1999), Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning With Web Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.5 - Baratuci, W. B., Linse, A., (2002), Heat Transfer On-Line. Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE Conference, Montreal. New York: American Society for Engineering Education.6 - Linse, A., Denton, D. and Adams, R. (2002), Making Assessment Projects Sustainable: Using Mid-Term Class Interviews to Gather Student Feedback. Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston. American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Krupczak

ofsophistication that is challenging but still understandable by the target audience was sought.Other requirements influenced the design of the activity. These were derived from the nature oflaboratory projects for non-SME&T students. The activity must be able to be set up and takendown in less than approximately 15 minutes. No permanent installations are possible. Materialsneeded should be inexpensive and readily obtained. Total cost for any materials needed shouldnot exceed US$ 200. The space needed should not exceed that of a gymnasium floor or smallparking lot. Materials should be durable and be able to withstand some rough handling withoutthe need for extensive repairs or adjustments.3 Organization of the Simulated ComputerThe organization of the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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G. Glenn Lipscomb

at $70,000 each;the extra $30,000 would be used to make the experiment Internet accessible and purchase higherquality equipment. The total expenditure would be $1.26 million and students would have accessto 18 new experiments. The cost of renovation is cut by $1 million (~50%) and students haveaccess to 12 more new experiments (~ 3 times more!). Use of the equipment would requireefficient scheduling but with the equipment available 24 hours a day significant flexibility exists.Such savings could be realized across the curriculum at all educational levels.To realize the benefits of Internet delivery, however, the educational experience must beequivalent to or better than that of a hands-on experiment. The project described here seeks

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

is an ongoing initiative, originally funded by the NSF, to“reinvent” engineering education, with an emphasis on teaching to diverse learning styles. Thisfits nicely with our goal of maintaining a positive learning environment. Page 8.224.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAs Fall 2002 was the first semester of implementation/planning for the activities listed in Table 5,it is not possible to offer an analysis of their success at this time. However initial feedback fromthe mentoring project is

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rick Duley; S P Maj; D Veal

developed which focussed on educating software engineersthrough a mixture of Computer Science fundamentals, controlled Software Engineering practicein project units, and uncontrolled commercial experience through a cooperative program (whichincidentally adds an extra year to the degree, which consists of three academic years and oneyear of industry based learning11 and this extension of the course to four years by default stillleaves the academic duration of the course short in comparison to the normal engineeringundergraduate course. (For example, the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate course at theUniversity of Western Australia is of four years duration including only twelve weeks ofpractical work experience.) This juggling of the concurrent

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Are We Losing Our Minds (2470)

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2001 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Sanford; Kenneth Williamson

© 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Kenneth J. Williamson is currently Professor and Head in the Department of Civil, Construction, andEnvironmental Engineering at Oregon State University. He is also Co-director for the Center for Water andEnvironmental Sustainability. He received a B.S. and M.S. degree from Oregon State University in CivilEngineering, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Environmental Engineering.Stephanie Sanford is Project Coordinator in the Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability(CWESt). Prior to taking a position at CWESt, Dr. Sanford served as Director of the Office of AffirmativeAction and Equal Opportunity at Oregon State University for 15 years. She has a B.A. degree in Sociologyfrom the

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Michael Barker; Mark Virkler; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

the range of student performance for assignments (e.g., homework, quizzes, exams, labreports, projects, etc.). Engineering programs therefore have a strong incentive to demonstratethat they are preparing their students for the practice of engineering. A comprehensiveevaluation of individual faculty teaching performance could help establish that the overallprogram prepares its students well.At MU, the P&T procedures state that each college/division is expected to have in place at leasttwo methods for evaluation of teaching, one of which must be student course evaluations. Forthe second method, a wide range of indicators of teaching effectiveness have been used. Theseinclude teaching awards; recommendation letters from faculty, students

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Biswajit Ray

deviceis recycled. SEL is of most concern in bulk CMOS devices. SEB and SEGR may occur inMOSFETs, however, they are avoidable by design as long as the applied drain and gate voltagesare properly derated.A radiation risk assessment for any electronic device includes the determination of TID and SEEsusceptibility of the device caused by the projected radiation environment of the spacecraft. Itshould be noted that the TID on a device can vary significantly with the amount of shieldinginterposed between the device and the outside environment, however, the SEE susceptibility donot change significantly with shielding 3,4.TID testing of devices is generally performed by exposing devices to gamma rays from a Co-60source with a dose rate of typically 50

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John Heydweiller; Huang-Chin Hung

of Chemistry, 4th ed., p. 8.6, New York, 1996.4. Froment, G. F. and Bischoff, K. B., Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, 2d ed., Wiley, New York, 1990.HUANG-CHIN HUNGHuang-Chin Hung performed this work as an independent study project while completing his M.S. in ChemicalEngineering at Syracuse University. He holds a B.S. degree from National Taiwan University.JOHN HEYDWEILLERJohn Heydweiller is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University. He has a B.S. degreefrom the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Kansas State University. Page 6.414.16 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society

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Philip Young

relativeamounts of each vary dramatically. Figure 3 shows the number of semester credits requiredby each accredited program in physics and engineering plus a separate listing of credits thatcould be taken from either engineering or physics. The physics credits do not include the two-semester sequence in general physics which is taken by almost all engineers. Physics includesModern Physics, Theoretical Mechanics, Thermal Physics, Electricity and Magnetism, Optics,Quantum Mechanics (including Atomic and Nuclear Physics), Advanced Physics Lab, andother courses commonly identified with physics. Mathematical Physics courses were notincluded because they usually cover subjects included in math courses at other schools.Electronics and Design Project courses

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Phillip J. Cornwell; David Stienstra

my own web site 3 Best of at least 5 similar sources, may link to my own web site 4 Best of at least 7 similar sources, would probably link to my own web site 5 Best of at least 10 similar sources, listed on other people’s “best of” lists, would definitely link to my own web site.III. The AssignmentEach quarter the materials science course is offered, students are assigned a project in which theyare required to apply material science knowledge to a problem of material selection and then tocommunicate their findings to an audience. Each small group selects an engineered object ordevice of interest to them. (Examples have ranged from bicycle frames to hip implants). Theythen determine the design requirements such

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2000 Annual Conference

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

., as well as an in-depth technicaldescription of a project that they undertook during this time. This mixture of writing formats,balancing technical with interpersonal issues, gives the faculty the whole perspective of theirinternship.Because in the BET program the clinical internship is part of the curriculum, and the studentsneed to be evaluated and assigned a grade, I heavily involve their supervisors in this gradingprocess. After all, they are the ones who have been in daily contact with the students and havehad more opportunities to assess their weaknesses and strengths. I ask them to evaluate thestudents under their supervision in several aspects identified by myself although the final grade isgiven by the faculty member in charge of the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Hans H. Kuehl

pinpoint where theerror lies if the final solution is incorrect.(c) Small coding errors can cause Mallard to tell the student that his/her correct answer isincorrect. Therefore, every effort should be made to ensure that the coding of each problem iserror-free.A team of two graduate students and one undergraduate student provided help in the construction Page 5.412.3and coding of problems. The simplest problems could be created and coded in a few minuteswhereas many of the more involved problems often required several hours before an acceptableversion was constructed and perfected. Before embarking on the project, the student assistantsknew some

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Robert Schottler; Kamal B. Rojiani

and self-contained and typically address a singly topic theyfit well with many undergraduate introductory structural analysis courses. We anticipate that theavailability of these applets over the web will lead to their integration in many engineeringprograms. Once the existence of these units has been publicized we expect widespread use ofthese instructional units and applets.AcknowledgementsThis project was supported in part by the Center for Innovation in Learning, Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University, and by the National Science Foundation. Their support for thiseffort is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. Hibbeler, R. C. Structural Analysis. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1999.2. Kassamali, A. Structural

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Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

laboratories that enhanced learning of the engineering design process.Product dissection projects at ISU and other Coalition schools have included systems such asdrills, bicycles, internal combustion engines, transmission, and robots5,6. The success of gettingstudents excited about the field of engineering and the design process through product dissectionand other hands-on laboratories is well documented6,7.8. Page 5.424.2III. The watt-hour meter evaluation and product dissection laboratoryThe watt-hour meter can be used to teach many aspects of the engineering design process. Thebreadth and depth that one might want to cover depends on the time

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2000 Annual Conference

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Keith K. Knapp

faculty as a role model); 4. A positive rapport with the students (i.e., the creation of an environment that allows a free exchange of ideas and questions); 5. The frequent assessment of student learning (i.e., the use of classroom assessment techniques and appropriate homework/projects); and 6. The appropriate use of technology (i.e., deciding when technology improves the learning environment).The following paragraphs briefly summarize some of the techniques presented at the ETW forthe application of the “ExCEEd model” for teaching.One of the more important characteristics of the “ExCEEd model” is its structured and efficientapproach to class (and course) organization. The basic requirements of the approach are thecreation of learning

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Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the only event that had been a collaborative effort prior to thecreation of CEMS. The retreat served as the transition point for each organization from theoutgoing leadership to the incoming executive board. The collaboration and continuity fromMEP provided the vehicle to provide the retreat each year. In 1997, in conjunction with WISE,OMEP and CEMS received funding for the retreat and an outreach project through the CampusEnvironment Team (CET) at ASU. At this point, a written definition of the Coalition wasdeveloped. Up to this point, the Coalition worked together, transitioned from leadership toleadership, and grew in strength as it continued.Today, CEMS is not only an organization of three groups, but has now expanded to include

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2000 Annual Conference

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Willard D. Bostwick

same outcome. For another project, the author identified25 different generic ways to collect program assessment data. There are probably others. Eachmethod has characteristic strengths and weaknesses. Some are clearly inappropriate orineffective to measure some outcomes but not all. However, no single measurement techniqueby itself is adequate for program assessment. The assessment plan will furnish valuable information about which outcomes need to beassessed and identify the menu of acceptable methods for assessment. The plan will also enableidentification of those outcomes where potential to collect the same information multiple times ispresent and indicate assessment ‘blind spots’ where outcomes are not adequately sampled. Agood

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Jean-Michel I. Maarek

pairs to complete nine laboratory experiments during thesemester. The laboratories have a traditional format in which students follow procedures outlinedin the laboratory handout to assemble electronic circuits and take measurements on the circuits.The last four weeks of the semester are spent completing a laboratory project in which thestudents design and implement a biomedical device prototype (electrocardiograph,electrooculograph, oximeter front-end, etc.).Two weeks before the laboratory exam, I review the assigned readings, the class notes and thelaboratory handouts. Important skills and practical knowledge that the students should haveacquired by studying the course material and working through the laboratory experiments areidentified. A

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2000 Annual Conference

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Marehalli G. Prasad; Consantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

. Figure 3: Comparison of experimental insertion loss measurements and theoretical predictions for the muffler transmission loss Page 5.525.7In addition to the two experiments described briefly above, the muffler system will also presentthe foundation for a student design project. After having determined the dynamical behavior ofthe muffler system through experimentation, the students will then be given the recording of areal sound of a vehicle engine in the form of an audio file. It will then be their task to optimizethe muffler behavior by varying its characteristic parameters (effective length of expansionchamber

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sheila R. Curl; Leslie J. Reynolds; Brent Alan Mai; Alexius E. Smith

eliminating the “facelessness” of online learning by meeting the students and instructors face-to-face at the beginning of the semester. Approximately 80% of the class members attended the orientation meeting and had their photographs taken. The Page 5.532.3 photographs were posted when the project teams were formed. This way, students who did not recognize names of their classmates, might see a familiar face in other campus settings. In the course discussion area, one student remarked to another “you are in my lab on Monday afternoons.” Common technical problems. Also during this meeting with the students

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Peggy Samson; Ken Vickers

positions in marketingand non-profit organization management before joining the University in her current position in 1990. AsCoordinator for External Programs in the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs andAcademic Services, she is responsible for projects in community relations and outreach. She has coordinated theTexas BEST regional event for Texas A&M University since its inception there in 1995. She has been extensivelyinvolved in community volunteerism and volunteer leadership roles. Page 5.641.8

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William Dalzell; Rae Jean N. Wiggins; Nishikant Sonwalkar; Michael C. Kutney; Clark K. Colton; Bonnie Burrell

Session # A Comparison of Web-Based and Laboratory Learning Environments Bonnie Burrell1, Rae Jean N. Wiggins2, Nishikant Sonwalkar2, Michael C. Kutney1, William Dalzell1, and Clark K. Colton1 1 Dept of Chemical Engineering/2Hypermedia Teaching Facility Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionA Web-based computer simulation of an actual laboratory experiment was developed for the MITLaboratory classes. This virtual experiment, which we call the Web Lab, was introduced into the"Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory" in spring 1999 and the

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Sharon A. Driscoll

experience (K). If thesubject allows, bring real-life pieces of equipment (V and K) and discuss real-life problems (Aand K) and the industrial solution. Small scale hands-on laboratory projects or demonstrationsdirectly related to the theory are now included in the course (K).V. Other SuggestionsAsk for student feedback during the semester. Problems during the semester may not be recalledat the end and is of no use to the students making comments. Try a group problem solvingexercise and have them write comments at the end of class. Was it well organized? Was enoughtime allowed? Were the problems reasonable? Student comments related to these questions canhelp in planning for the next activity. Make it a short part of the time at the end of class

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mohammad A. Zahraee; Gregory P. Neff; Susan Scachitti

development [5] which applies equally well to engineering technologyprograms as to engineering programs. The METS department expects to use this model alongwith measurable objectives defined during retreat workshops scheduled for the end of the Spring,2000 semester. Purdue West Lafayette’s MET program, with similar courses, started a learningobjectives project [3] during Fall of 1996.Criterion 3 Faculty The Purdue University Calumet METS department has started to requirefaculty to submit annual reports in the form of a personal continuous improvement report.Previously, annual reports were listings of yearly activities organized under the headings ofteaching, scholarly activity and service. Now, each faculty member must have a missionstatement or

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

as much aspossible.” One example of a project-based, hands-on learning course is Toying WithTechnology. By experiencing inquiry, problem-solving, and investigations asundergraduates, future teachers are able to pose worthwhile tasks and structuremeaningful inquiry in their own K-12 classrooms. Page 5.177.2Teachers working with a base knowledge of engineering can naturally encourage studentsto consider engineering as an interesting area to explore. A national commitment topreparing teachers with an understanding of engineering concepts will have the mostimpact on increasing the number of students remaining engaged in technology, science,and

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Crynes

comprehensive final examination. There is, however, a significant difference inhow the professor used his time. Total hours given to the class may be lower for the CDROMclass and teacher time shifted from lecture preparation and presentation to helping students byformal group tutoring and individual sessions. Results from teaching one lecture class of 47students and three classes of CDROM sections of 27, 75 and 85 students are presented. Detailsabout time distribution among various tasks are given.The PurposeOur purpose in this on going project has been to find a learning method that blends some of thebest attributes of the time tested lecture class and those of the newer technologies. We areseeking statistical data that might show any advantages over

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Murat Tanyel

Control Systems Analysis & Design Using MATLAB ® & SIMULINK®, Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley (1997).9. Helsel, R., Cutting Your Test Development Time with HP VEE, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall (1994).10. Chugani, M. L., Samant, A. R., Cerna, M., LabVIEW Signal Processing, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (1998).11. Orfanidis, S. J., Introduction to Signal Processing, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (1996).MURAT TANYELMurat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Dordt College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses.Prior to teaching at Dordt College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and