Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

over the last five years. Again, manycomments were made, but those mentioned most often included greater utilization of web-based instruction and tutorials, emphasis on 3D visualization using testing and help sessions,and project-based learning with students working in teams.The 2004 survey requested that participants list their major concerns related to the teachingof engineering/technical graphic communications at the post-secondary level. Overall, the Page 10.1359.8most cited concerns were the quality of students entering programs; staying current withchanges in technology (the cost of software/hardware, faculty development, and the

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

. 4 7. Turning Consulting Activities into Scholarship : Present or publish in a practice-based publication or at a conference on the following: -- something useful and/or new and innovative in your consulting practice -- consulting case studies -- consulting applications -- monitoring of existing or developing technologies -- integration of practice into the classroom: documenting how technical aspects of consulting practice are integrated or incorporated into the curriculum -- documenting how professional issues facing industry and the profession are incorporated into the curriculum 8. Publish or present on Independent study projects with students 9. Publish or present on your leadership and service experiences with professional societies

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

biological inputs, initialtemperature, and the spinning speed of the impeller. Again, the engineering models simulate thefermentation process so students can practice varying chemical and biological inputs and controllingprocess parameters without the expense of doing so with real equipment.The VR environment used at the Indian Hills Community College is a 2.7 meters wide by 2.1 meters tallsingle-wall, rear-projected system driven by an SGI Octane 2T M, Figure 3 (a). It is a passive stereosystem that utilizes a Christie-Digital Mirage 2000T M projector with a Stereo Graphics projector Z-screenTM. The navigation for these VR environments is accomplished using a tracking wand, so theposition and orientation of the wand is always known, allowing it be

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

which department do you currently teach? AOSS AERO BME ChE CEE EECS ENGIN IOE MSE ME NAME NERS FE PharmE PIM Other 4. Which of the following describe your current duties as a GSI (check as many as apply): hold office hours attend class teach a lab teach a discussion section give lectures grade homework or papers grade exams grade labs or projects hold review sessions email with students maintain website other

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

layer. Manycases are tested concluding that the adaptive fuzzy topologies are efficiently reducing the effectof external disturbances such as load changes and input voltage changes, on different types ofDC/DC converters. A commensurate number of components is designed and built. The components are testedindividually and in various combinations of hardware and software segments. The entire systemwill be fully tested. The other work to be completed includes the integration of the full systemand the start of the implementation stage of the project. Two categories of tests, namely, loadregulation, and line regulation will be carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposedcontrol system.References 1. J

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

has 13 core credits.The senior year includes a substantial design project, typically involving team participation, aswell as senior courses providing an in-depth treatment of digital logic and systems theory.In order to validate the number of core computer science credits required for the CpE program,the present authors carried out an e-mail survey of peer institutions, the results of which areillustrated in Fig. 2. Page 9.832.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.) (q) quantify and justify the financial impact of product and process 2. To improve the level of achievement of the following Program Outcomes. development and improvement (Note: Letters correlate with POs in ABET Self-Study Document.) (r) organize and use a project implementation plan None --- 1st year committed to defining current state of achievement of POs. (s) facilitate multidisciplinary group to accomplish q & r

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

opposed tousing technical publications as a primary measure of faculty excellence. This paper begins with abrief overview of ranking services, those who use those rankings and the benefits they derive,followed by a short literature review discourse of similar research projects. Ranking colleges and universities is a profitable business as indicated by the number ofnews magazines and publications that have jumped on the rankings bandwagon over the passseveral years.2-4 Some publications' interest in ranking colleges and universities has been openlysuspected as being financially motivated. Most educators would agree that ranking academicunits is a flawed complex process5-10 that will never be quantifiable to the point where thenumerical

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

help fill in the gaps and blind spots of the team’s mental model of thetechnology. Pacey gets at this idea of adjusting the model through interaction: “…although ideasmay arise in all sorts of ways that may be described as intuitive or participatory, there is alwaysan obligation to translate them into more rigorous, often mathematical formulations, so thatothers may understand and check them, and explore their precise implications.”226. Bias in the Design ProcessLet us now explore the means by which bias may be introduced during each stage of the designprocess. Engineering design projects typically begin with a problem specification phase. Theconstraints, requirements, and specifications of the design are elicited from the customer

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

, and Inc. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. "Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Re: Nos. 02-241, 02-516, Barbara Grutter V. Lee Ballinger & Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher V. Lee Ballinger."Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Available at http://www.umich.edu/%7Eurel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus-ussc/um/MITfinal-both.doc36. Denison University. "Improving The Economics Curriculum With Laboratory Experiments." Lessons Learned From FIPSE Projects II. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1993.37. Sullivan, W. G

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAn important observation is that our educational approach should not be “classical methods ormodern methods”, as there is a role for both, along with basic theory, principles, and equations,and other educational resources such as case studies and descriptive texts on general designconsiderations, project performance, and failure analyses. The challenge is how to makeoptimum use of this increasing rich mixture of educational resources to best prepare ourgraduates to effectively function in the computer/software intensive design environment so thatthey will consistently produce

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

, RutgersUniversity, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Princeton University.Students selected for the program spent the first summer after their senior year of collegeworking at the Labs under the guidance of a technical mentor who was a member of theR&D staff. Top researchers were selected as mentors. They worked closely withstudents, guiding the student's work in a research project and monitoring their progress.2 National Research Council, Minority Science Paths:National Science Foundation Minority GraduateFellows of 1979-81(Washington,D.C.:National Academy Press, 1995) p.1.3 National Research Council, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients (Office of Scientific andEngineering Personnel, Fellowship Programs Unit, October 1996), p.2

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fredrick Cowan; Alan Gravitt; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

support from NSF Project Number DGE-0086420. Many thanks tothe administration, faculty, and students at Westlake High School. The cost of computer timewas underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.REFERENCES1. Borning, A., 1977, “ThingLab – An Object-Oriented System for Building Simulations Using Constraints,” IJCAI, Vol. 1, pp. 497-498.2. Chi, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J., and Glaser, R., 1981, “Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices,” Cognitive Science, Vol. 5, pp. 121-152.3. diSessa, A. A., 1988, “Knowledge in Pieces,” Constructivism in the Computer Age, (Forman, G., and Pufall, P. B., eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 49-70.4

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

? Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 1998.4. Silverthorn, Dee U. (1998), “Physiology Education Today: What Comes Next?” Advances in Physiology Education, December, 20(1): S1-3.5. Krajcik, J., C. Czerniak, and C. Berger (1999), Teaching Children Science: a Project-based Approach. Boston: McGraw-Hill College.6. “The design of learning environments,” in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, J.D. Bransford, A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, Eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.7. Giorgio, T.D. and S.P. Brophy, “Challenge-based learning in biomedical engineering: A legacy cycle for biotechnology,” in ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. Washington, DC: American

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

on their offering time and peer-recommendations, not necessarily based on tie-ins with their civil engineering course.But how to educate contrarian leaders and thinkers, and how to incorporate the right amount of“gray” into a jam-packed curriculum? Engineering students are taking, on average, fewerengineering courses at a time when by almost universal estimation the complexity of the modernengineering project continues to mount (Allenby 2000/2001; Bordogna 1998; Clough 2000;TCFPD 2001). To confront the challenges of the 21st century, engineers need to polish their non-technical repertoire, and this includes developing closer ties with the liberal arts. As programsreform their curricula in response to ABET’s new outcome-oriented criteria, and

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

second quarter of the senior lab course(ChE 415) builds on the work done in UO Lab 1. The focus is on working independently,developing a project proposal, completing experimental work and writing a final technicalmemorandum that includes recommendations for future work.During 2001, in serving as a technical consultant for the microelectronics related labs in ChE415, and discussing the statistical analysis of the students throughout the year with the labinstructor, it was determined that the use of statistical methods needed to be enhanced. Reviewof the written reports confirmed this belief. Thus, two “refresher” lectures of ChE 302 wereincluded in ChE 414 during W 2002. One of the three experiments asked students to compare ifdifferent levels of

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Guido Lopez

project the technological initiatives that can be found behind its principles. In effect, a goodgrasp of the concepts of science inherent to a particular engineering discipline provides a reliableand firm scaffold to engineering students for the practice of their profession. Quite often,however, the teaching of undergraduate physics in engineering programs emphasizes manipulationof formulas and numerical computation instead of deep understanding of inherent concepts. This“cookbook” approach seriously affects the strength of the scientific foundation that physicscourses need to provide to engineering students. The use of computer software in the classroomhelps to minimize this problem substantially. In effect, much of the tedious manipulative

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell

: To provide the background and basic skills for: • Use of property tables and charts • Application of first and second laws to open and closed systems • Problem analysis and solvingPrerequisitesBy Topic: None.Course Topics: • First law of thermodynamics • Properties of substances • Ideal gas • Control-volume energy analysis • Second law and entropyComputer Use: No. Page 6.992.15Laboratory Projects: No.Please check the departmental goals that this course covers.(For more detail, refer to ME Goals which are listed at the top of "A" Matrix

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose'-Job Flores-Godoy; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Donald W. Collins; Kostas Tsakalis

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Kelly; Etienne Khayat; Fouad T. Mrad

anddocumented error values, the integration of many devices to form the whole measurementsystem introduces additional errors.This Instrumentation System Error Calculator calculates the error induced in the cascading ofa complete measurement system components integrating the transducer, the Terminal BlockeXtension module (will be called the TBX), where applicable, the Signal ConditioningeXtension for Instrumentation module (will be called the SCXI), and the Data Acquisitioncard (will be called the DAQ). Page 5.572.11 Sponsored by National Instruments as part of a “Partnership In Education” project with the AmericanUniversity of Beirut.The calculator

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaw A. Owusu; Tarsha Dargan; Kimberly M. Richardson; James Thagard

specific areas to most efficiently achieve the desired results. A cross-functional environmental management team is a dynamic group. Not all individuals’ talents areneeded throughout a project. Therefore, people come into the group and leave as necessary.3.1 Management Resources New concepts in pollution prevention, design for the environment (DFE), total qualityenvironment management (TQEM), and life cycle analysis (LCA) invoke a much larger scope, ascope that cannot be addressed by a few individuals at the facility level. These new conceptsrequire that companies evaluate the environmental friendliness of the product. Product“environ-soul searching” can consider the raw materials used, the manufacturing process, theenergy requirements

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Domingo L. Uy

-Hill Book Co., NewYork, 1978, pp. 173-182.2) Hurley, R. B., Decision Tables in Software Engineering,, Van Nostrand Reinhold Data Co., New York, 1983.3) Ertas, A. & Jones, J., The Engineering Design Process,, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1993, pp. 75-79.4) Wilcox, A.D., Engineering Design Project Guidelines,, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987.5) Boylestad, R and Nashelsky, L., Electronics Devices,, 7th ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jew Jersey, 1999, Chapter 11.6) Gottfried, B. S., & Weisman, J., Introduction to Optimization Theory, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1973.DOMINGO L. UYDomingo Uy is currently an Assistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Fort Valley

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello

project, our agent will manifest itself as a simple reflex agentwith some enhancements that we will proceed to describe in detail. It is often the case thatexplicit lookup in a table is insufficient for making quick inferences. This is especially true in* A proof tool based on the semantic tableaux developed by Ulle Endriss at King’s College, UK10 Page 7.152.8* CHOGIC is a proposed system to teach different types of logic and reasoning using the rules, tactics, and strategiesin chess 6“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Stan Napper; Melvin Corley

; Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education ” B. Development of Assessment methods to analyze our performance (Mechanical Engineering examples)The Mechanical Engineering Program Educational Objectives were achieved through a combination ofinputs. The most important of these are the undergraduate course curriculum and student advising, sinceevery student is affected by these two. (Other inputs, such as participation in student societies,competitions, research projects, etc., may involve only a subset of the student body, but they give anoverall tone and level of achievement which affects the entire program.) The undergraduate coursecurriculum is certainly the most

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

class presentation. I made learning the name of all my students as early in thesemester as possible a high priority. I planned out each lesson throughout the semester using theboard note format (Figure 2 and 3) suggested to us at ETW. I also focused on increasing myenergy during class and projecting and varying my voice. I also used several teachingassessment techniques such as un-graded, unannounced quizzes and muddy point (i.e., what isthe point least understood in today’s class) papers.David: I was extremely “charged” upon my return from ETW and eagerly started revising mycourses to incorporate the principles I had learned. The two courses I taught during Fall 1999(both repeat courses for me) were open to seniors and graduate students. The

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong Hwa University; Wen-Cheng Chen, National Dong Hwa University; Lee king-lien, Department of Electro-Optic Engineering,National Taipei University of Technology; CHAO-CHIA CHENG, NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIV

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Engineering Physics & Physics

: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy. Retrieved Jan. 8, 2010 from http://www.opportunityequation.org/5. American Association of Physics Teachers. (2002). AAPT statement on physics first. Retrieved January 12, 2011 from http://www.aapt.org/policy/physicsfirst.cfm.6. National Research Council. (2001). Physics in a new era. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.7. Machold, D. K. (1992). Is physics worth teaching?Science & Education, 1, 301-311.8. Wandersee, J. H., Mintzes, J. J. & Novak, J. D. (1994) Research on alternative conceptions in science. In D. L. Gabel (ed.) Handbook of research on science teaching and learning: A project of the national science teachers association (New

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Hirleman, University of California, Merced; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Global Programs

awardees,for a final total of 58 participants. After completing orientation activities during May 2010, theparticipants traveled to China for 10-12 weeks during the summer to work on frontierengineering research projects in university, industry, and government labs in China. Eachreceived a stipend (US$4,000 for graduate students and US$3,000 for undergraduate students) tohelp support their time spent doing research. All grantees also received allowances for expensesrelated to the required orientation program, travel to and from China, lodging/meals while inChina, and a re-entry meeting. The total award amount was estimated at approximately $7,500(undergraduate students) or $8,500 (graduate students) in reimbursable expenses, and $1,400

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

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Aerospace

received a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1998. She served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama from 1998 to 2002, when she moved to Arizona State University. In 2008 she was promoted by ASU to Associate Professor. Dr. Husman has been a guest editor of Educational Psychology Review, has served on editorial board for top educational research journals, and currently sits on the editorial board of Learning and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Chanley, North Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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Mathematics

of instruction will include introduction of material, use of technology in the classroom,cooperative learning, peer sharing and modeling. As always, there will be an open studentdialogue in every class session. Note: There are two Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions.They are scheduled for Monday & Wednesday 8:50 AM to 9:50 AM.GRADING:There will be four exams, daily lab assignments, and a comprehensive final examination. Therewill be make-up exams administered for each hourly exam with permission of the instructor.Every student is required to take the final exam. The grade for the course will be computed asfollows: Exam 60% Projects 10