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Curricular Change Issues

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Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

during World War II with design anddevelopment of weapons like the atomic bomb and radar defense systems, engineering came tobe more and more like applied physics. The Russian launch of Sputnik in December 1957accelerated the movement of the engineering curriculum toward applied physics. Until the mid1970s, few engineering programs contained any design projects and social courses in writing(composition) were confined to successfully passing, or having waived based on some “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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BME Courses

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John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Engineering EducationIntroductionWith the implementation of a new major in biomedical engineering at Bucknell University,faculty from the biomedical engineering program have become an integral part of theintroductory engineering course required of all first-year engineers. This course, ENGR 100Exploring Engineering, is designed to provide the students with an introduction to Bucknell’s sixengineering disciplines as well as overarching concepts such as engineering design, ethics andteamwork. This is accomplished by dividing the course into 4 components includinga group design project assessing wheelchair accessibility on campus, two student-chosen topicalseminars and the reading and analysis of engineering related books. As the topical seminars

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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Roli Varma

the Minority Engineering Math and Science orMEMS Project. However, scholarships alone are not enough; they need to be combined withother retention activities. For instance, minority students must maintain a specific course loadand grade level to keep the scholarship. This does not go well with non-traditional minoritystudents who have families to support. Further, CS and CE departments can take anunconventional approach to student retention by offering some financial incentives such astuition credit for students who are in their final year.Concluding RemarksMinority students have been taking advantage of opportunities available in IT by pursuingeducation in CS and CE against all odds. A significant number of them, however, end up leavingCS or

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

industry he returned to academia at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Statistics. He is aregistered Professional Chemical Engineer in the State of California.POLLY R. PIERGIOVANNIPolly Piergiovanni is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. She received a B.S.from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, both in Chemical Engineering. Herresearch interests include cell culture and fermentation , and the LEGO project. Page 8.557.10 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Daniel Walsh

project based learning. Laboratories, are expensive, but are an efficientvehicle to accomplish student learning. They are refreshing for many students, a welcomecounterpoint to lecture as they provide the challenge as they teach their lesson, rather than in adeferred quiz. Laboratories allow students to demonstrate outcomes mandated by ABET’sEngineering Criteria 2000. In well conceived laboratories students demonstrate an ability to: 1.Apply the tools of modern engineering and science to solve relevant problems. 2. Implementappropriate experimental procedures. 3. Handle data, draw and articulate conclusions. 4. Make “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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James Fenton; H. Russell Kunz; Suzanne Fenton

lab can be completed easily in two 4-hour lab periods. The experiment isalso suitable for use as a demonstration in a typical lecture course or as a hands-on project forhigh school students and teachers.Bibliography1. Thomas, S. and M. Zalbowitz, “Fuel Cells-Green Power”, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-99-3231 (1999).2. Larminie, J. and A. Dicks, Fuel Cell Systems Explained, John Wiley & Sons, (2000).3. Hoogers, G., Fuel Cell Technology Handbook, 1st ed, CRC Press, (2002).4. Hirschenhofer, J. H., D. B. Stauffer, R. R. Engleman, and M. G. Klett, “Fuel Cell Handbook,” Fifth Edition, National Technical Information Service, U. S. Department of Commerce, VA (2000).5. Koppel, T. and J. Reynolds, A Fuel Cell Primer: The Promise and

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Koen

period of abulia becomes more extensive) as students wait longer tobegin studying for the next unit and the effect of cramming becomes steeper in each subsequentinterval. Technically we are controlling student behavior by an external clock. If we teachstudents to complete projects in this way, we should not be surprised to learn that students exhibitthis behavior we have taught them as young engineers after they leave our classrooms. Page 7.26.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositio n Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education4.1

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Thomas Walker; Patrick Devens

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

cram interstates and highways full ofmore trucks, the effects will be devastating. The entire world is experiencing increasing healthcare costs and loss of life as a result of air pollution. It has not only hit hard in the U.S., but alsowith the rest of the world. India, one of the more densely populated countries in the world isexperiencing a jump in the amount of freight shipped by trucks as a result of rapidly increasingdemand. 18 One study showed that Asian cities are being hit the hardest with air pollution beingfive times greater than other industrial countries. Urban population in these nations is projected totriple from 360 million to over a billion in 2020. 5 Other nations are facing similar situations andmany are turning to railroads

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

+: (½, ½, ½)Cl-: (0, 0, 0) (1, 0, 0) (0, 1, 0) (0, 0, 1)Coordination numbers are then for both ions equal to eight with the following ionic radii:rCs+ = 0.170 nm and rCl- = 0.181 nm. From the relation between the lattice parameter and theionic radii: aCsCl = 2·r Cs+ + 2·r Cl- = 0.405 nm.2.3 Other Crystal StructuresAfterwards, two more ceramic cubic structures, zinc blende (ZnS) and perovskite, are presentedand discussed. In particular, the CaTiO3 is of interest since a perovskite-related structure will beassigned as part of a team project, as indicated in the following section. In the case of CaTiO3the positions of the center of the ions in the unit cell are as follows:Ca2+: (0, 0, 0) (1, 0, 0) (1, 1, 0) (0, 1, 0

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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Russ Poldrack; Richard Hoge; Randy Gollub; Mark Vangel; Ian Lai; Douglas Greve; Julie Greenberg

Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMATLAB®, as well as the size of the data sets. Work is currently underway to transition thesimulation to a Web-accessible application using a conventional client/server model. The serverstores the data sets and performs the majority of the computations, while the client performs userinterface functions.We intend to make the Web-accessible version of the module available to the general public viathe Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN).32 BIRN is a consortium of universityand hospital research organizations concerned with neuroimaging data acquisition and analysis.The consortium’s initial projects are all focused on structural and functional neuroimaging data.They include a Web site

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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William Jordan; Bill Elmore

many of the things theyreally want to do anyway, which is to have fun developing exciting new courses. In this case,the class is the research project. If the professor is successful, he can then turn this work into apublication. Before a professor jumps into the world of educational research, he needs to makesure his university will accept research of this type. Some universities do not recognizeeducational research as real research. Other universities may accept educational research, butstill want you to do some traditional research. This is the case at our university. The collegeleadership still wants us to do traditional research, but we are allowed to use educationalresearch as part of our overall plan.It is also possible to sometimes

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Assessment Issues

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Roger Ware; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

theirperformance on exam problems of increasing levels of difficulty. The results of this part of theNortheastern University project were presented at the 2002 Frontiers in Education Conferencebut not published in the proceedings. The results of the study may be obtaining by contactingyokomoto@iupui.edu.3.0 The Current StudyFor the current study, the authors used a subset of the items from Northeastern University study,selecting only those items that showed a marked difference between student responses andinstructor recommendation for best practice. The investigation was expanded to assessingstudents’ self-reported behaviors and heuristic beliefs at the start of the semester and at a point inthe semester after three exams had been given. In addition, the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

Higher Education, “Top 100 Degree Producers,” Black Issues inHigher Education. 6/20/02, pp. 45-122.AuthorsSUNDIATA K. JANGHAMr. Sundiata Jangha is a doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Instituteof Technology. His research interests include prototyping, product development,engineering design education, computer-aided design, the design of complex systems andproducts, and engineering entrepreneurship. He is a member of ASME, ASEE, andNSBE. Sundiata is an ONR HBEC–FFP Fellow and a FOCUS 1996 Alumnus.ROBERT G. HALEYMr. Robert Haley is Director of Special Projects for the College of Engineering andSpecial Assistant to the President at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Haley is thefounder of the FOCUS program and continues to

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

. degree from Cornell University in 1980, and a B.S. from theUniversity of Kentucky in 1979, all in Civil Engineering. Dr. Philpot teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the project director of the U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is theauthor of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall is an Associate Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas, and PhD degree inExperimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’s Media ResearchLaboratory, and his research focuses on Web Design and Usability

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

InformationTIMOTHY A. PHILPOTTimothy A. Philpot is an Assistant Professor in the Basic Engineering Department and a Research Associate for theInstructional Software Development Center at the University of Missouri–Rolla. Dr. Philpot received a Ph.D.degree from Purdue University in 1992, an M.Engr. degree from Cornell University in 1980, and a B.S. from theUniversity of Kentucky in 1979, all in Civil Engineering. Dr. Philpot teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the project director of the U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is theauthor of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.NANCY HUBINGDr. Hubing is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Department at the University of Missouri

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

more dominant roles. A new course innanoscale mechanics for engineering students was recently taught at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. This course provided an introduction to nanoscale engineering with a direct focuson the critical role that mechanics needs to play in this developing area. The limits of continuummechanics were presented as well as newly developed mechanics theories and experimentstailored to study and describe micro- and nano-scale phenomena. Numerous demonstrations andexperiments were used throughout the course, including synthesis and fabrication techniques forcreating nanostructured materials, bubble raft models to demonstrate size scale effects in thinfilm structures, and a laboratory project to construct a

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Glenn Moffett; Thomas Hall

improving thetechnical aspects of Internet course delivery while still providing college credit for the students.The lessons that we learned through this pilot project are included in the remaining sections ofthis article.For development and management of on-line courses, Northwestern State University usesBlackboard 5 (an e-Learning software platform from Blackboard, Inc.). Blackboard is adequatefor the purpose, and it excels in some areas. Instructors can post information and assignments ina wide variety of ways. Students and instructors can communicate using discussion groups Page 6.324.2 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education taken and the student had many complaints about consistent grading with different instructors using the rubrics. • The design students appeared to pay more attention to the criteria in the rubric when they were given the rubric well in advance of the assignment and asked to use the rubric to evaluate their own work prior to handing in the assignment. • Students in the design course were allowed to specify their own categories and criteria as part of their final report rubric. This flexibility was provided to account for the diversity in the design projects. Students often included additional information or work that was

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Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

and Speaking Program, through which he has played an active rolein the College of Engineering as it prepares its programs for EC2000. Dr. Carter is presently principal investigatoron an NSF-funded project for improving students’ lab reports in science and engineering. He received his B.A. andM.A. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1986.REBECCA BRENTRebecca Brent is an education consultant specializing in effective teaching practices in higher education, Codirectorof the Faculty Development Program in the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition, and coordinator of facultydevelopment in the College of Engineering of North Carolina State University. She is also codirector of theNational Effective

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Michael Rudisill

several joint projects with industry. Mr. Rudisill received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois in 1976 and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1984 Page 6.413.8 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Appendix A - Survey Results ET 112 (17 Total) ET 210 ( 12 Total) 1. How often do you use your laptop for this class? a. Daily (every

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Jace Hargis; Anne Donnelly

Page 6.429.7provides support for on-line education via distance learning curriculum using electronic mediaProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Educationresources such as the Internet. The important point is that science can effectively be taught usingspecifically designed instructional modules placed on the Internet.The only significant difference detected in this study was when age was compared to post-assessment scores. For the range of ages of this study, at age 18, the participant viewing theconstructivist instructional module would score 7.1 in a post-assessment, although if projected tothe 30 years upper limit of the study’s

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Joan A. Burtner

Page 6.444.4from the vantage of the technical, organizational, and personal perspectives, the Linstone and Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationMitroff text is a central component of the fourth module. We discuss the Manhattan Project andits consequences in this module also. The final module, Preparing for the Future, includes muchof the information from the second half of the Linstone and Mitroff text. In addition, theinfluence of computers and the Internet is an essential component of discussions of future trends.I like to end the course with an acknowledgement of the positive actions of

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Teresa Larkin-Hein

learned in class to novel situations. Through the use of an on-lineforum, the potential exists for students to achieve greater understanding and more meaningfulreflection. A study involving the role of individual learning styles in terms of students' use ofand students' benefit from the use of on-line discussion forums is needed. Further research onthe impact of on-line discussion forums to long-term understandings and perceptions as well as acomparison to more “traditional” methods of instruction is also warranted.References1. Edwards, V. B. (1997). Editor’s introduction in Education Week. Washington, DC: Editorial Projects in Education.2. Hein, T. L., and S. E. Irvine (1998). Assessment of student understanding using on-line

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

thoughts were about ECE 100, the introductory engineering course. She said the class wasa deterrent from engineering and that the only thing that helped was the tutoring from Abel (anMEP student tutor). She thought that the modeling portion of the class was the worst and thatthe group projects were hard. Isabel would have never considered ASU without the MESA(Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement) program and knew wholeheartedly thatthe SBP solidified her coming to ASU.Kristina is also a former MESA student. She joined MESA her freshman year at Window RockHigh School on the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona. She said that a trip to ASU withthe MESA program and a CEMS Panel member, who was in AISES and in aerospaceengineering

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Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

full professor (or simply “professor”).Tenure is the achievement of a “permanent” position, one in which there must be “just cause”for dismissal. The tenure system is undergoing change, however, and it is projected that "Fewcolleges will eliminate tenure in the next 15 years, but many will become stingier about offeringit and more creative in finding alternatives to it."[16] This is one reason that the probationaryperiod for a new professor is so long. Generally, the procedure is to hire a new tenure-trackemployee at the assistant professor level and award tenure upon their promotion to associateprofessor. There are cases of being hired as an associate professor and / or being tenured inrank, but these are exceptions.For any new professor, the

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Martha C. Wilson

culture and technical creativity is the overall effect on character and personality that can be observed in those engineers whose education was liberally enriched and whose interests were not limited to their everyday work.”10The individual whose personality and character extend beyond engineering are able to embraceopportunities that occur outside the realm of engineering, enhancing not only their personal livesthrough exposure to the arts and the humanities, but also their ability to interact with non-engineers in business and society. This "engineering charisma" has played "a crucial - andfascinating - role in the success of many engineering projects . . ."11The engineer also derives benefits of a liberal education by

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

. Page 5.476.7..57 students completed the form, with the following results: waste of time (1), some value (4), 7useful (13), very useful (25), a great system (14). Future versions will offer much more planninginformation, be proactive in prioritizing course possibilities, and allow planning for multiplesemesters into the future”.Electronic portfolios are discussed in the final article appearing in the ASEE PRISM 12. “Theyare touted as the ‘next step’ in student assessment, are a great tool to exhibit a st Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology is also adopting portfolios,….”“What's in it for students? And what will motivate students to keep their portfolios current andtake the project seriously? The

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Karen Al-Ashkar

in traditional education, but plays a much larger role indistance education, perhaps simply because of the distance, or perhaps becausemotivation is one key factor that can help a student persevere against all obstacles (Hara& Kling, 1999). This is a factor that we can influence, but we can’t control.Context of the learner As educators, we can prepare students for the learning experiencesthey are to face. We can make the media no more imposing than a textbook, rather thanhave the learning curve of the media dominate. Once again we can remove barrierswherever possible, but we have little control over the context of the students’ lives. Isextensive travel a part of their working lives? Are short-notice projects that push all elseaside

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Z. Yuan; T. Tang; Pratibha Gopalam; N. Liu; Chu R. Wie; Alexander N. Cartwright

screencomponent is developed in a separate refinement scope (development unit). In this example, thefive main screen components are the circuit diagram, the BJT transistor schematic, the excessminority carrier profile in the Base, the waveforms and the planar BJT structureDuring the initial analysis of the component unit, objects with a general or reusable property areidentified. These objects are implemented into reusable custom library classes. For example,from the development of the Resistor-Transistor logic circuit, we have designed many circuitreusable symbol classes into generic library classes for use in other applet projects. Theseclasses are then documented and included into our semiconductor Java class library [6]. Aftermerging all the