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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brow; Carol Click

familiarizing thestudents with equipment and processing that they will use throughout their time at UMR and intheir careers as ceramic engineers. A listing of specific exercises in the sophomore laboratoryclasses is given in Table 2. During the second semester, two of the exercises have strong designelements. The purpose of this paper is to describe these exercises in more detail. The designaspects will be highlighted, and the relation of the exercises to other courses in the curriculumand the specific experimental skills needed for each experiment will be discussed.Table 1. The Ceramic Engineering laboratory sequence at University of Missouri-Rolla. Year Semester Course/Number FocusSophomore Fall

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amyl Ghanem

Circle, but consideringtheir schedules and the limited benefits to them, it was decided that we would bring in guests asnecessary. Some possibilities are: students who can speak on their experiences, researchers whoare acknowledged to be successful mentors, individuals with specific expertise (ex.library/literature search, computing, and statistics).Defining “mentoring”Many definitions of mentoring exist. After research and discussion, the following definition waschosen:“Mentors are advisors, people with career experience willing to share their knowledge;supporters, people who give emotional and moral encouragement; tutors, people who givespecific feedback on one’s performance; masters, in the sense of employers to whom one isapprenticed

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Yuille

formulate the process ofhow a project becomes a SPEED project. This group will also evaluate the existing SPEEDteams to determine eligibility for continued SPEED support. An alumni survey is in the works to evaluate how SPEED has helped prepare Clarksongraduates for their careers. Clarkson is also interested in surveying corporate recruiters to findout how project participation has factored into the hiring of SPEED participants e.g. the studentsare more attractive, they have higher starting salaries, they advance quicker. There is also a discussion to develop an interdisciplinary SPEED course. This coursewould be required for all SPEED participants. Topics to be presented would include teambuilding, leadership, project management, and

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Treva Fitts; Susan Wynn; Martha Absher; Kristen Ford; Judy Russell; Glenda Kelly; Adefolakemi Oni; Gary Ybarra

) routinely administered by the Durham Public Schools at the end of eachyear. Repeated measures design analyses will compare student achievement over the course of 3years comparing progress of students receiving GE Fund Fellows instruction with a matchedcontrol group. (2) To assess students’ attitudes about math, science and engineering concepts andinterest in pursuit of a career in science or math two sets of questionnaires will be utilized. Thefirst is composed of student attitude questions taken from the National Assessment ofEducational Progress and The International Math and Science Study. The second set ofquestionnaires was developed by our program evaluation team and co nsists of a pre/post Mathand separate Science Survey with separate forms

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

. 4.Design and conducttheir own experiments as well as analyze and interpret data. 5.Improve their skill in using moderntools necessary for mechanical engineering practice. 6.Demonstrate an ability to design a systemthat meets speed and reliability requirements. 7.Develop their ability to communicate effectivelyand work in teams. These are current mechanical engineering program curricular educationaloutcomes.The specific knowledge of DC motor PWM control, vehicle and ball interaction dynamics,mechanical and electrical characteristics of sensors, and robotic vision as used to control motionwill likely have wide application in their later careers. After the competition, later laboratoryexperience requires the students to develop virtual

Conference Session

Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiaoguang Yang; Chika Nwankpa; Anthony Madonna; Karen Miu

SummerMeeting, Vancouver CA, July.16-21, 2001.[8] T. Gonen, "Electric Power Distribution System Engineering," McGraw Hill, New York NY, 1986. IX. BIOGRAPHIESKAREN MIU received her B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University,Philadelphia, PA. She was awarded an NSF Career Award in 2000 and the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. Herresearch and teaching interests include power distribution system analysis and control.CHIKA O. NWANKPA (S’88-M’90) received the Magistr Diploma in Electric Power Systems from Leningrad PolytechnicalInstitute

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter

for industrial workcell-based projects, whilein the winter quarter 2000 all teams opted for Stamp-based projects. At the conclusion of thewinter quarter 2000, it became very clear that micro-controller-based micro-robotics might bethe direction of choice for the future of our course. The fall quarter of 2001 again confirmed thatstudents find micro-controllers more fun, more reliable, more flexible, and more appropriate fortheir careers than large industrial robots. At the end of this quarter, we removed all industrialrobots except the Adept robots, and another major restructuring of the course was undertaken.Two new Stamp labs were included, and all Stamp lectures were moved up to the beginning ofthe course in order to give students as much

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Waters

looks for ways to better fit its present niche. This entailsconcepts such as customer focus, value added product and service offerings, optimumorganizational scale, knowledgeable and motivated employees, and continuous learning,especially from failures. It would encourage investments in knowledge such as idea sharing andmentoring, research, team building, education and training, career development, and job rotation.The continuing production and transmission of knowledge, i.e., Knowledge Management, is akey to the effectiveness of the manager’s role. New knowledge may be imported or created. Tobe proactive, management must experiment and learn, and then apply new knowledge. Reallynew knowledge is only obtained by failure.In the long run, all

Conference Session

New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

we are not preparing students for past career patt erns Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand skills. It is tempting to wait to see what demands arise but the historical evidence isnot comforting for companies (or countries) that fall behind.Fortunately, the prospective evolution of the semiconductor industry is fully documentedin the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) 2. This review hasbeen steadily extended both in detail and scope and is now about the best estimate ofwhat can be expected through fast incremental progress over the next 15 years. For ourpurposes, there are 2

Conference Session

Strengthening Liberal Education in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Steneck; Barbara Olds; Kathryn Neeley

at large (i.e., non-engineers). In today's world, this includes an ability to communicate using written, oral,electronic, and visual/graphic media. Engineers work in a complex professional world. Over thecourse of a day, week, or career, they can find themselves communicating with other engineeringprofessionals, with business and legal professionals, with managers, with support staff, withcustomers, with government officials, and with the general public. One day they might beselling a product to a customer, the next presenting an idea to a group of engineering colleagues,and the day after that introducing a project to the general public. Therefore, an engineering education should provide students with a sophisticatedunderstanding of

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

, starting from fall semester, 1998.The BAS degree program is a flexible degree plan designed specifically to serve additionaleducational needs of students who have earned the Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree.The primary admission requirement for BAS program is completion of an AAS degree at aregionally accredited institution. Students with AAS degrees will receive sixty hours of credit asa block transfer toward the university’s 120-hour minimum degree requirement. BAS studentsmust then complete a sixty-hour program offered by ASU East [3]. BAS program goal is toprovide students with management, leadership, critical thinking and communication skills alongwith significant work in an area of specialization that will broaden their career

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

throughouta student’s school career. However, making technology accessible for learning is challenging dueto cost, safety and implementation concerns. This paper describes a method for drawing oncurrent, real life challenges faced by researchers in the field and translating such experiences intoa secondary school level program. The concept of the competition, application of LEGOMindstorms® robotics platform, methods of organization and expansion, past experiences andfuture plans are presented. Our goal is to show an example of how to integrate off-the-shelfrobotic technology with current real-world engineering challenges and to engage students in thefields of engineering, robotics, and medicine in a fun and exciting atmosphere.Introduction and

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Elizabeth McCullough; Kimberly Rogers; Joseph Hickey; Andrew Hoff; Eric Roe; Marilyn Barger

present being tested in high school math, science,chemistry and physics courses as well as in community college chemistry courses. At presentthe HSTI team is evaluating plans to expand preliminary classroom trials throughout the scienceprograms of the School District of Hillsborough County, 11th largest in the nation.IntroductionThe High School Technology Initiative, HSTI, is a new approach to adapt and incorporate hightechnology materials into the state mandated secondary educational curricula. Members of theHSTI team believe that instructional modules can be used to engender an interest in pursuingtechnology, engineering, or science related careers by providing students with connectionsbetween technology and its underlying science as part of

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Haws

, our students will be prone to ethicalrelativism, and will continue to have difficulty explaining their ethical resolutions to others.Rawls’ theory of justice as fairness is a good place to start.References:1. Rawls, John (1999/1982). John Rawls: Collected Papers, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.2. Rawls, John (1999/1971). A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.3. Rawls, John (1999). Social Unity and Primary Goods, in John Rawls: Collected Papers, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, p. 362. Rawls’ formulation of the these two principles varied significantly during his career.4. Rawls, John (1996). Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press.Biographical Information:My

Conference Session

International Graduate Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Lax

ofprecise details in the lab notebook--are employed throughout the careers of engineers inindustry1.The IssuesGiven the importance of the undergraduate lab report both for ABET purposes and as a keystonein the professional future of engineering students, it seems as if its evaluation of the reportshould be given special attention. In most engineering schools, this task falls into the hands ofthe lab graduate teaching assistant. Not only is the lab teaching assistant often a new graduatestudent, but due to the current demographics of higher education in engineering in the U.S., s/heis also is likely to be an international student and a non-native speaker of English. According to

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey-Van Kuren

, Ohio, an assignment was developed to allow students to perform researchinto a process not covered in other manufacturing courses. Because not all processes thatstudents are likely to encounter in their careers can be covered in the curriculum, it is importantthat students gain life-long learning skills to introduce themselves to different technologies. Forseveral years, the end result of the research was a written report and oral presentation to theclass. In an effort to enhance learning, team skills, and communication skills the assignment wasmodified having students work with a partner and prepare a web page report rather than a paperbased report. The oral presentation to the class was maintained. To assess the effectiveness ofthe approach

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

; alumni surveys thatdocument professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys;and placement data of graduates.In international exchange programs, participating students earn a portion of their degreerequirements away from the home campus, and in particular, while attending a foreign campus.In some instances, US engineering schools have teamed up with a particular foreign partnerengineering school to create substantially equal courses that may be taken on either campus. Inthese cases, many of the students participating in Study Abroad will attend the partner school andtake courses that are more-or-less identical to those taught at the home campus. Therefore, if thecourse at the home campus has been approved as part

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

solutions and demonstrating openness to new ideas. The assessmentrubric includes demonstrating awareness of how various engineering disciplines complementeach other, understanding the design process from concept to prototyping, problem definition,analyzing problems from different viewpoints, and anticipating problems and developingcontingency plans. Throughout their college career, students are encouraged to develop a strongwork ethic, and to be self-motivated to achieve excellence in the field in which they work. Theassessment attributes include a measure of their professionalism, their response to suggestions orcriticism, and their use of ethical component in their decision-making strategy and considerationof the implication of the project for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno

. Page 7.824.7Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 6. Digital I/O Parameter set-up tabs for the vision system.Conclusion Exposing students to automation techniques that are currently used in industry in aneffective way of preparing students for their future careers. This not only reduces the amount oftime invested in training by companies that employ them but it also contributes significantly to Page 7.824.8productivity. NIU’s Technology Department has just updated the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Skubic

approaches are needed to develop programming competencies for event-driven software 2. Students do not typically get significant experience in studying or developingevent-driven software development. As a result, they have difficulties learning behavioralmodels for dynamic software systems and understanding the concepts necessary to design,program, and test such systems. To prepare students for their future careers as softwareengineers, they need experience in realistic projects that develop event-driven software 3. Page 7.536.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Descoteaux; Kevin Sutterer

to begin their professional careers. 5. Excite students about civil engineering and inspire them to do their best in each subject.Exciting the students is an important part of the course design, as students who are excited aboutthe subject can be mentored to acquire more knowledge, and more importantly, are more likelyto understand that knowledge. Emotion is a powerful tool for motivating students. Ideally,excited students will be motivated to learn more on their own so that class meeting time can beused for clarifying difficult concepts, mentoring, and active learning.In the cognitive learning domain (1), the lowest level of learning is knowledge, with successivelyhigher levels being comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis

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

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

for their career development. This community service-learning project involved highs and lows for instructor as well. The most rewarding aspect wasthat the criteria stated under the Engineering Criteria 2000 were met for ABET accreditationthrough community service-learning. Although some students were at first resistant to the idea ofcommunity service-learning in facility planning and design course, they became excited becausethey had done something worthwhile while working on a real problem. Furthermore, theUniversity gained through this type of community outreach in building positive image. Finally,the size of this business precludes the owner from affording to hire a professional Engineeringfirm to do the work performed by the students

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga; Bill Hutzel

the data shown so far, one might conclude that undergraduate technologycourses should continue focusing on traditional energy topics. It seems reasonable to emphasizetopics that students will typically encounter during their early careers. A four-year curriculumfor Mechanical Engineering Technology students typically includes two thermodynamicscourses with an ”energy” focus. After covering crucial concepts such as conservation of massand conservation of energy, there is a limited amount of time left over for specific applications.Traditional topics such as the Rankine Cycle for steam-driven power plants, the Otto Cycle forinternal combustion engines, or the Vapor Compression Cycle for mechanical refrigerationsystems have been taught for the

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

needed onthe job; 2) this gap in competency for oral and written skills was among the top 10 most critical. 4 For these reasons, in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology (Georgia Tech), students are now learning workplace communication skills in theirSenior Design courses. This is a start; soon students will be learning communication skills intheir other undergraduate courses as well. The instruction is based on first-hand informationfrom practicing industrial engineers. The object of this work is to better prepare industrialengineering graduates for the workplace and to enable them to move up the career ladder morequickly. The Director of Workplace Communication, with 20 years of experience

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

; Characteristics Competencies Global & Strategic These skills enable students to adapt easily within the borderless world that is experiencing rapid expanding knowledge. Industrial Skills that go beyond the scientific and professional and which are necessary in the advanced phase of the graduate's career. Humanistic These skills help create a balanced engineer with high ethical and moral standards. Practical These enable students to be directly involved with hands -on activities or re al-life situations, thus providing the basis for integrating the intra and inter engineering and non

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

maketime to meet beyond the obligatory signing of registration forms. Freshman advising seminarsare a mechanism to regularly engage faculty and freshmen in an area of mutual interest; thisregular meeting gives advisors a chance to get to know their advisees and offer support at aformative time in the student’s career. This paper describes an experiment offering a freshmanadvising seminar on digital electronics and chip design at Harvey Mudd College during the fallsemesters of 1999, 2000, and 2001.The author has found that the topic is particularly well suited to a freshman advising seminar. Page 7.48.1Freshmen arrive curious about what major

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Arora; Fariborz Asadian; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

capabilities that allow users to operatethem remotely through the Internet.The significance of this program goes beyond the integration of curriculum and technology in anacademic setting. Students entering in this program will have the opportunity to pursue high-tech careers in the field of computer-based instrumentation. In recent years, rapid advances incomputer hardware and software systems coupled with falling prices in electronics haveprompted various industrial sectors to implement computer-based measurement and automationin their plant operations. Today, with the help of advanced software systems (such asLabVIEW1) and powerful PCs it is possible to design and develop complicated virtualinstruments which have dramatically improved the accuracy

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

Education Experience Appropriate Experience Commitment to Life-Long LearningOne way of viewing the BOK is to think of it as including four components. They are 1) atechnical core, 2) a non-technical core, 3) technical electives, and 4) technical and non-technicalcourses to support an individual’s career objectives. Clearly, other models are possible.As illustrated in the following figure, and as previously noted, the BOK needed to practice CE atthe professional level in the 21st Century can no longer be accommodated within a four yearbachelor’s degree. However, and as also illustrated in the following figure, the

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

worthy of widespread adoption.NSF has showcased the project for two consecutive years in the NSF Project Showcase at theASEE national conference. Invitations have also been received to present Sooner City at the Page 7.584.2ASCE national conference (1998) and an NSF CAREER Workshop (1998). The project hasbeen described in ASEE Prism (Bert 1998) and Engineering Times (Siegel 1999).RU has received funds from the NSF CCLI program to adapt Sooner City, creating a portablecivil city to be called Garden City at RU. Garden City will rest firmly on the foundations ofSooner City. Where possible and appropriate, elements within the Sooner City web-site willremain