Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dru Germanoski; David Brandes

and processes of inquiry" and a linking of facultyresearch and teaching2 . These recommendations point to the need for more hands-on,project-oriented learning experiences. Stream or watershed-based field studies have beenused for this purpose at a number of K-12 schools, colleges, and universities in a variety ofdisciplines3 .The emphasis on the watershed as a theme for teaching is also consistent with national trendsin land-use planning and management. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) isadvocating a watershed-based framework for protecting public health and the environment4 .Much of this emphasis is a result of non-point source pollution, in which the cumulative

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacobsen; Gautam Pillay; Fred Gunnerson

be commensurate with that goal.Third, there must be a recognized facility or group of facilities to support the anticipated work byboth students and faculty. Experience has shown that productive and profitable collaborationsbetween universities, industries, and the private sector are most successful in a campus-likeenvironment where multidisciplinary colleagues collectively participate in professional research,development, and education. In our case, two new facilities are planned that will supportsubsurface science initiatives: the Center for Science and Technology (CST) and the SubsurfaceGeosciences Laboratory (SGL). The CST facility is a research building owned by the State ofIdaho and will be located adjacent to the local branch campus

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manocher Djassemi

of the 2002 American Society of Engineering education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002 American Society for Engineering Education” At the outset of the semester students submit a proposal indicating the expected steps andactivities to complete the project. The objective of a typical factory automation laboratory projectwould be: plan, design, and build an integrated assembly/machining cell. In addition to normalteaching functions, the faculty work as consultants and provide logistical support as the projectprogresses. The faculty also provide a general guideline for implementing the project as follows:1. Project planning stage · Generating product ideas: brainstorming by entire class · Product

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

Vision” course, we were designing for a curriculum emphasizing the“pre-imaging” technologies and techniques rather than image-processing techniques as in atraditional computer-science oriented course (which was already being taught at the UGADepartment of Computer Science). We were planning to introduce concepts of appliedspectrometry in order to later develop into a color vision model as an application of multi-spectral imaging instead as a technology mimicking human color vision. We were also lookinginto lighting schemes, both structured and non-structured, and also at real-time image acquisitionmethodologies. Early in the development stage, we realized that we could not adopt the standardmode of laboratory design where groups of 2-3 students

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Summers

essential for a new location such as SOT at Lafayette during its formative years.To assist the SOT at Lafayette in achieving its goals, the SOT at Lafayette developed thefollowing purpose statement for the IAB: The purpose of the Lafayette Advisory Board will be to advise the Director of SOT at Lafayette on matters related to (1) new degree programs and options, (2) long-range planning, (3) marketing/community relations, (4) development, (5) other local policy matters.There are many ways that the advisory board can contribute to the goals of the SOT at Lafayette.The organization of the IAB will include three standing committees to assist in achieving thesegoals

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Brower

Oregon and the Northwest. A second Technology SpaceCamp is planned for Summer 2002. This paper will discuss the organization, implementation, andcourse material of the Technology Space Camp, with the expectation that other technologyschools might use this information as a blueprint for their participation in similar programs.I. BackgroundIn order to place the motivation for hosting the Technology Space Camp in proper context, adescription of the structure of the Senior Project Course and NASA's Reduced Gravity StudentFlight Opportunities Program is relevant.Senior Projects at OIT -The OIT Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) senior project course is a comprehensivegroup design project and consists of a three-quarter sequence. This sequence

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

is divided into sections detailing how process education teaching techniques wereimplemented into different level graphics classes. Each section will detail the course, how thecourse was taught in the past, the active learning activities introduced, the results of thesechanges and plans for future semesters. Suggestions for anyone considering similar changes aredetailed at the end of this paper. Process Education in Computer Graphics – METBD 110Background:Introduction to Graphics and Solids Modeling (METBD 110) is a first semester freshmen classfor all students enrolled in the PLET and MET programs in both the associate and bachelorsprograms offered at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. This class is a three-credit

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Argrow

continuous improvement procedures Near the completion of the AE 2000 planning, the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) announced new guidelines and criteria for program accreditation. The 1997aerospace engineering program criteria proposed by the American Institute of Aeronautics andAstronautics (http://www.aiaa.org) helped to finalize the first iteration of the AE 2000,particularly the upper-division courses. The outcomes-based AE 2000 assessment plan was in thespirit of that to be used by ABET evaluators. In 1999, the AE 2000 was successfully reviewed byABET. We view this as validation of the new program plan and implementation. Table 1 outlines the AE 2000. Fundamental science and mathematics courses, e.g., physics

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin

of 120 students) ofPhysics for the Modern World were offered. The 2 lecture sections were broken into 8 laboratorysections, with an average of 16 students in each lab. One of the 8 laboratory sections (a sectionconsisting of 7 students) was linked with one section of college writing (Composing the PhysicalWorld). Although Physics for the Modern World typically consists of freshman through seniors,all students enrolled in the linked courses were freshman - the College Writing class is amandatory requirement for all American University students, and the logical plan is for students tocomplete College Writing during their freshman year. A description of the curricular toolsdeveloped to link Physics for the Modern World and Composing the

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

solely experience with Page 7.1128.2 measurement project planning, on analysis design iteration to modeling and meet requirements Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education measurement meet requirements Requirements, N/A - experiment One of the Quantifiable abstraction and

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

they did not see its purpose. We planned to integrate linear algebrainto these two courses.CAD - Because we believed in context based learning, we felt that the students could learn CADwhile drawing increasingly complicated static structures.Communication - We felt it was necessary to require various forms of written, oral and visualcommunication throughout the course.Office Suite Use - Students cannot be assumed to have a working knowledge of a wordprocessing, spreadsheet, presentation suite. Yet such skills are required in industry. Therefore wechose to expose the students to this.Programming- A programming course was not required of our students. Therefore, we planned

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Morris; David Zietlow

powerful engines, new low-observable inlets, new wings, and new flight control software. The E/F was essentially a newairplane. Yet the first flight for this plane originated at Lambert International Airport located inthe center of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The decision to take-off and land at Lambert with anew airplane might at first be considered a somewhat reckless disregard for public safety.However, after considering the preparation and engineering activities leading up to the firstflight, the decision was based on confidence in a thorough engineering development programthat had determined the airplane performance a priori. The F18 E/F successfully departed andreturned to Lambert with minimal deviation from the flight plan. The first

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

as an assessment technique for all goals.Core Electrical and Computer (ECE) Engineering Curriculum The structure of the curriculum is shown in Figure 1. Many of the course titles suggest contentthat is familiar in typical ECE programs. Features that differ substantially from traditional offerings aredescribed next. The core content of the curriculum has been planned to include both Electrical and ComputerEngineering as a combined degree. The early curriculum focused only on Electrical Engineering.However, it became obvious from our marketing efforts that there was strong demand from prospectivestudents for Computer Engineering. In addition, we believe that Computer Engineering is an integralcomponent of the practice of modern

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

in academia is an educational program. Educationalprograms rather, than institutions, departments, or degrees are assessed for quality.Also, the assessment process must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of theinstitution and the objectives of the program are being measured. A fundamental goal in a totalquality setting is continuous quality improvement. In order to continuously improve the qualityof service it is necessary to continually improve the system. DMAIC strategic plan should bedeveloped with respect to each program’s long-term goals. Indeed, adding value to the quality ineducation as a long-term goal will provide programs, and a college as a whole, with sustainablecompetitive advantage in the marketplace.Core

Conference Session

Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

technical competencies. This entire process is under the responsibility of engineeringprofessors. In order for this ambitious goal to be achieved, the group of faculty put together astrategic plan based on the professional aspects of engineering practice and which calls for fiveseparate but complementary courses of action: a continuous technology watch, a researchprogram, the design of appropriate pedagogical material, the training of engineering professorsin the use of this material, the online classroom use of same material and, lastly, the publicationof results. The article ends with an analysis of the results achieved so far and an optimistic lookat the future that this novel approach allows to envisage.Key words: integrated curriculum, human

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

will run asa tool accessible from the “explore” button of the CIMEL interface and provide students withlinks to course related conference sites, search engines, and helpful hints and explanations of thetrend detection process. Additionally, the module will provide a query mechanism to access arepository of research abstracts on various main topic areas. We plan to conduct an evaluation ofthe incipient emerging trend detection inquiry-based learning module in a ProgrammingLanguages course this spring using the beta version of the CIMEL multimedia framework.Use Case Study of the Incipient Emerging Trend Detection MethodologyIn this section, we present a use case illustrating the above methodology. For this example, themain topic area is chosen

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

facultymember can identify areas for improvement regarding the effectiveness of the course insatisfying the specific course objectives and in the achievement of the overall program outcomesand educational objectives. New web-based surveys are currently being introduced to provide anenhanced evaluation of student achievement in both departmental course specific objectives andfor assessing the achievement of program educational outcomes in support courses. By buildingfrom its recent positive ABET review, the department plans to continue updating and improvingits methods of assessment. This paper summarizes these efforts.IntroductionTo be effective, an assessment plan must be flexible and adaptable. As electrical and computerengineering disciplines must

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

presents how the whole researchprogram was planned and conducted, the details of the projects selected for the students, andprocedures used to evaluate the impact of the project. This paper will help others in planningsimilar experiences for engineering undergraduate students.I. Introduction This paper describes the experiences provided in a Site for undergraduate research in"Structural Engineering" in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, Ohio. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) Site was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REUSite was to encourage talented undergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them toresearch

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

established, a plan was developed to implement a firstyear three-course sequence of engineering fundamentals for all students (i.e., all those not inFEH) but it was substantially modified according to much input from the College faculty. Atwo-quarter course sequence consisting of instruction in basic skills and hands-on laboratoryexperiences involving product dissection and real time data acquisition and centered around oneor two engineered products resulted. This approach, the Introduction to Engineering (IE)Program, was piloted in small scale in 1998-99 with 100 students and again the next year on asomewhat larger scale with 300 students. Full-scale implementation of the IE program forapproximately 850 freshman engineering students occurred in 2000

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Riesbeck; Joseph Walsh

teacher is well known. Our SolutionOur solution to these problems is to provide a Socratic software mentor** capable of providing asimilar service that Dr. Walsh provides his students. We are providing a rule-based system thatwe believe has an easier method of providing it with domain and pedagogical knowledge thanmany traditional knowledge based ITS programs. Our plan was to install it on personalcomputers previously used only for lab data collection. Students can interact with these mentorsand get assistance when their professor is not available. Through that mechanism each studentgroup in the lab can get assistance directed to their current needs, at any time they need it. Thesystem being Socratic enables it to help students debug

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses share a theme, the curriculum of each course is separate; occasional assignmentsin each course relate to the curriculum of the other course. When Ward College of Technology was invited to participate in the FIPSE grant,the original plan was to have a traditional FIG with a writing course and a content coursein which the writing course assignments would relate to one of the technology courses.However, in the course of developing the FIG, the writing instructor and one of themathematics instructors at Ward College (the authors of this paper) began to talk aboutthe problems they

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

transportationproject (policy, planning, design, construction, operations, maintenance and rehabilitation) in thecontext of several modes (highway, transit, air, rail, water, etc.). Course objectives includelinking concepts learned in this course to those from other courses and vice-versa, i.e.,integration across the curriculum. In this process, students “learn” the interactions and tradeoffsbetween policy (technology considerations, financing issues, social and environmental Page 7.121.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

first year – before their academicrecord and confidence have been seriously damaged. The first set of conditions is strictlyacademic: students are required to take appropriate remedial courses and to achieve at aparticular level in these courses. They are also required to use selected support resources.Even so, a high attrition rate is expected among this group, and so a second set ofconditions constitutes a “safe-exit” process. Participation is required in: · A two phase career planning activity developed specifically for this group. Students first meet in small groups with university career planning and advisement professionals to explore their own personal motivational connection to engineering. In accord with the needs

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

who draw up the politicians’ shopping lists by furnishing specific solutionsto particular problems.” The writer goes on to describe how engineers utilized politicalexpediency to promote their plan to put a man on the moon, which required the President’ssupport and legislative funding. 4 This high-profile example of the engineer’s political influence,when properly exerted, is but one of many, less publicized examples. By acting as advocates forsolutions to existing problems, through agenda-setting activities such as legislative testimony ormore behind-the-scenes efforts, engineers have helped move issues forward that may otherwisehave fallen subject to other legislative and agency priorities.One of the most important aspects of public policy

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

required to havea leachate collection system that allows for the collection and removal of leachate which hasprecipitated through the waste mass. While these regulatory constraints have been successful atminimizing the impact of landfills on groundwater they may not be the best long-term landfill Page 7.363.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”management plan. Microorganisms cannot operate in a dry environment and therefore the wastemass will not degrade. Moreover, the containment

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Donna Carlon

the semester males continued to control the Figure 7: Distribution of Task and Team Functions team with information giving and during Team Exercise 2 harmonizing, while the females continuedto gather information, clarify and encourage.Analysis of Task and Team Functions: Planning and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Project Management Graphical Contemporary Issues Design Lifelong Learning Oral Communication Ethical Interpretation Experimental Teaming Written Communication Global-Societal Impact Modeling Time Management Problem SolvingInstructional Content: Using only three 50-minute sessions for each module forced a less thancomprehensive presentation and required that we carefully select the module material. Forexample in the project management module, the first session contained slides on learningobjectives, justification of the material, an introduction to project planning and management withtwo short team exercises, and managing time and resources

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

3Elective 3SIXTH SEMESTERCS 305 Ethics and Law for Computing Professionals 3MSOM 303 Marketing in a Digital World 3IT Networking Core Course 3IT Concentration Related Requirement 3Elective 3SEVENTH SEMESTERIT 443 Resources Planning Requirement (New Course) 3IT 4 91 IT Seminar (New Course

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia M. Secola; James A. Middleton; Donovan Evans; Dale R. Baker; Bettie Smiley; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationState and local school districts adopting the National Science Education Standards must translatethese standards into programs that reflect local contexts and policies. The program standardsdiscuss planning and actions. Again, this can be done in many ways, because the Standards donot dictate the order, organization, or framework for science programs.However, there are some barriers to introducing an engineering curriculum that are inherent tothe organization of schools and the accountability movement that makes infusing engineeringinto the curriculum difficult. These barriers include the degree

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

works with the Learning Technology Center at Vanderbilt to applycurrent theories of Learning Science to improve instruction at various educational levels. He currently is anAssistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt. His currentresearch interests relate to using simulations and models to facilitate students understanding of difficultconcepts within engineering as part of the VaNTH Engineering Research Center (ERC).KARA BLILEYKara Bliley is currently a senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She servesas the president of Biomedical Engineering Society, and hopes to increase the involvement of BMESmembers in activities with the ERC. Her future plans involve obtaining a Ph.D