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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2558 A review of the literature showed that the teaching methodologies of lectures,experimental laboratories, design projects, case studies, games, and internships could all be usedto achieve the project goals. An analysis of the use of these methodologies, along with the resultsfrom earlier evaluations of the use of case studies in engineering classrooms, showed that casestudies are the best candidate for meeting the educational objectives (Raju and Sankar, 1999). A case is typically a record of a real-world problem that has been faced by engineers

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

assists theGK-12 Teacher with AP Biology and Introductory Biology and also helps another teacher withMarine Biology. As with the K-6 model, details of the plan are left to the Fellow and GK-12 Page 8.905.6 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Teacher and are tailored to the needs of the individual schools and teachers.Fellows who serve as “teaching assistants” focus their efforts on laboratory exercises where active“hands-on” learning is emphasized (Theme 1). Fellows can and have assisted with

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

Session: 2526 Matlab numerical method application in student research Roman Stemprok and Preeti Nagarajan University of North TexasAbstractMatrices Laboratory is a versatile package that performs a multitude of mathematical calculationsinvolving signal-processing systems and control systems, and it has toolboxes for imageprocessing, neural networks and communication applications. This “hands-on” student researchintroduces a method of capturing the luminance of roadway scenes using a charge-coupled device(CCD) camera, and later, analyzing these images to calculate the spatial

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amanda Young; Richard Brow

school students.As part of the project, UMR undergraduates are developing and testing self-contained kits fordistribution to high schools. The kits will contain all of the materials and supplies needed forhigh school teachers to perform experiments and controlled demonstrations that illustrateimportant scientific principles in an entertaining manner. Laboratory exercises based on slipcasting and glass melting have been prepared for the kits. These hands-on activities give a basicunderstanding for what ceramic materials are and how they are produced. They emphasize theapplication of science (chemistry and physics) to form common raw materials into usefulproducts. At the end of the funding cycle, an example kit, written instructions, and an

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationnot-yet accredited program in General Engineering Technology which is being offeredasynchronously to U. S. Navy personnel.1,2 Programs are available at nearly 50 sitesthrough the distance learning program known as TELETECHNET. To support thisdistance learning program, the Department of Engineering Technology has developed anumber of new initiatives for dealing with distance laboratories, samples of which aredescribed in the bibliography.3,4,5II. Mathematics for Engineering TechnologyThe determination of appropriate mathematics courses for engineering technologystudents is an on-going challenge that never

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. K. Anand; John Weese

faculty in the fourareas. A reception and dinner for the visiting team and the entire faculty occurs Monday eveningat the Faculty Club. The visiting team members caucus afterwards at the hotel.Assistant professors represent the future of the department, so they have a breakfast meeting withthe visiting team members Tuesday morning. The morning is devoted to tours and briefings aboutthe Turbomachinery Research Laboratory, the graduate computing laboratory, and a fewMechanical Engineering faculty research laboratories. A lunch with technicians and selected staffmembers gives the visiting team a view of the department’s infrastructure. The afternoon includesa meeting with the department’s Promotion and Tenure Committee, tours of additional

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Paul Marnell; Graham Walker

) it was necessary to teach the studentshow to use a specific piece of software (LabVIEW from National Instruments), and it was feltthat this could not be done by merely having static images of the instructor, since the studentswould have to see how the various elements of the program were used. To achieve this, a videocapture of the computer screen and an associated voiceover was recorded as different simpleLabVIEW programs were constructed. This was then used in conjunction with a voiceover andslide presentation associated with the lecture on how to use of the software (i.e. LabVIEW).On-Line ContentTo complement the lectures and assigned textbook a variety of other materials are made availableto the students via the internet. This on-line

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

engineering.IntroductionDepartments of engineering have now had over three years to experience the new accreditationstandards under EC 2000. The flexibility inherent in the way in which engineering departmentsaddress the needs of engineers can be both exciting and uncomfortable. Some departments maycontinue to see the above flexibility as too vague and therefore suspect. The area ofcommunication may be one of the problem areas because a typical response from engineeringfaculty may still be, “I am not an English teacher!” The lack of specific requirements may makefaculty feel that they will be forced into teaching topics or skills that may not be comfortablefor them. This paper focuses on an ongoing study of attitudes and concerns towardcommunication skill acquisition in the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

Session 2793 Personal Experiences Providing Engineering Education to a Quadriplegic Engineering Student William Haering The Pennsylvania State University – DuBois CampusAbstractThe author relates his experiences teaching and advising a quadriplegic baccalaureateengineering student. The author concludes that available time and the instructor’s fullappreciation of the processes by which the quadriplegic student must accomplish tasks areessential to successfully providing that student an engineering education. Furthermore, theauthor believes that the entire

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education quickly learn that professionalism takes precedence over grades, and that meeting the needs of the Sponsor has a high priority. Since corporate Sponsorships typically require some measure of confidentiality, it is necessary to provide alternative projects. The University/Department sponsorships carry no confidentiality requirements and are directed toward development of designs supporting the University’s teaching and research activities, e.g.: student design competitions, design of laboratory apparatus, design of research equipment, etc. The

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

a set of specifications is more importantthan producing a solution. Many times students attend laboratory, conduct the givenexperiments without understanding the contents of the experiments, or the objective associatedwith each experiment 4.Special Project CourseA major component of this course requires learners to plan, develop, and present two semester-long projects in their field of engineering technology on a subject of their choice whichdemonstrates knowledge and skills in project handling, technical writing, problem-solving andevaluation processes, and oral presentation techniques. The course enables students to: (1)complete two projects based on their field of interest, (2) prepare an effective written technicalreport, (3) plan and

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler; Jay Brockman

learning tools were developed foruse in the Introduction to Engineering Systems course at the University of Notre Dame.The course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering, and two of four courseprojects involve the RCX. The learning tools expose students to what goes on under thehood of a computer, and, in conjunction with a physical laboratory project, give them asense of working on a real workplace assignment. The Fundamental Computer is similarto the “File Clerk” explanation in Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Computation. Thesimulator for this computer can input and output values, perform basic arithmeticoperations, and control the execution of a program, while the simulator for the RCXprocessor works for a substantial portion of the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nancy Thompson; Eric Vilar; Beth Davidson; John Brader; Michael Matthews; Elisabeth Alford; Sirena Hargrove-Leak

mentors also participate fully in the research project, workingclosely with other members of the project staff--two communications specialist co-PIs, twoEnglish graduate students, and engineering faculty research advisors--to study the ways thatengineering students use language in learning to design and conduct research.Training for the graduate student mentors includes a weekly seminar on key concepts of learningtheory, discussion of ways that these theories explain the learning and progress of theundergraduate researchers, and development of theory-based teaching and coaching methods tobe used in subsequent Studio sessions. In this presentation, the co-PIs and four graduate studentsdescribe their RCS participation and its role in furthering

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

Session 2132Learning to Think Critically to Solve Engineering Problems: Revisiting John Dewey’s ideas for evaluating the engineering education Mani Mina, Iraj Omidvar, and Kathleen Knott Iowa State University1. Introduction: Engineering education1.1 Our Goals: How Well we Teach Problem Solving to Engineering StudentsIn this paper we would like to take a critical look at the process of engineering education. Inparticular, because most engineering programs aim, among other goals, to teach engineeringstudents to become problem solvers1,2, we will examine the skills that engineering

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering Education8. M. Hedley and S. Barrie, “An undergraduate microcontroller systems laboratory”, IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 345, 1998.9. D.B. Kaufman, R.M. Felder, and H. Fuller, “Accounting for individual learning effort in cooperative learning teams,” J. Engineering Educ., pp. 133-140, 2000.10. D.L. Maskell , “Student-based assessment in a multi-disciplinary problem based learning environment,” J. Engi- neering Educ., pp. 237-241, 1999.11. W.J. McKeachie and G. Gibbs, Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teach- ers, 10/e, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.12. W.R

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

Engineering Education”speakers, field trips, hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits1[9]. Specifically, the program will involve attracting 11th grade students to attend one oftwo two-week Science and Technology workshops. The workshops are designed tointroduce students to job opportunities in the food industry and agriculture, expose themto college life, involve them in hands-on activities, and encourage them to major inscience and engineering technology. Students will be recruited to participate in a follow-up Science and Technology Exhibit to be conducted during National Engineer’s Week inFebruary of each year. This program is unique in that it involves high school students inthe 11 th grade. These students are ready to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watson; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

the schoolof Engineering and Mines (SEM) at the University of North Dakota established a distanceeducation program to deliver Bachelor of Science engineering degrees to employees ofparticipating companies. This program was known as the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram and has recently expanded into open enrollments and renamed the Distance EngineeringDegree Program (DEDP). Currently the DEDP offers the only ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs at a distance.The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static Internet Web pages ofhandouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance student receives the

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Steven Mickelson; Tom Brumm; Anthony Ellertson

attainable through enrollment in unrelated, stand-alone courses” (p. 2). Despite theage of many learning community programs, Tinto reports that current perceptions of learningcommunities have been based largely on anecdotal evidence and institutional reports orassessments described at conferences or national meetings. Recently, however, a study wasconducted for the National Center of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment that suggestslearning communities impact student learning in several ways:1. Learning community students formed study groups that extended beyond the classroom.2. Learning community students became more actively involved in their learning than did other students.3. Learning community students perceived their learning experience was

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ralph I. Stephens

ENHANCEMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGSTUDENT MOTIVATION, LEARNING, AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH AUTO RACING INTERESTS INVOLVING MULTIPLE COURSES Ralph I. Stephens PhD, PE Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240 ralph-stephens@uiowa.eduAbstractDue to student interest in auto racing, projects with racing were incorporated into fivemechanical engineering courses involving five faculty members, nine student projects and abouttwenty students. The racing projects provided outstanding student achievements along withhaving fun.IntroductionWhile teaching a senior 58:055 Mechanical Systems Design class

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

their suggestions withthe result that its accreditation criteria requires programs to implement, utilize, and documentimprovements as a result of a CQI program.Academic departments are required to produce results in several different but complementaryareas. Activities are categorized in three broad areas of teaching, scholarly, and service. ABETcriteria is focused on the academic area of the departments in undergraduate programs. However,departments must also engage in other activities that must also be included in a total qualityimprovement (TQI) system. Those activities include responsibilities such as administrativeactivities, graduate programs, faculty development and retention, staff development, advising,student recruiting, research

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jo-Ann Murray; Urbain DeWinter; Solomon Eisenberg

sophomoreengineering undergraduates at Boston University. The program enables engineeringundergraduates to incorporate a study abroad experience in their undergraduate degree programswhile continuing to make normal progress toward their degrees. Prior exposure or facility withGerman is not expected before starting the program, but students must participate in an intensiveGerman-language course while in Dresden. The TUD was chosen as a partner in developing thisprogram because Boston University already had a small program and a resident directorestablished at this site. In addition, the TUD had appropriate faculty and laboratory facilitiesavailable to teach the requisite science and engineering courses in English. While in Dresden,students take three of four

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

activities were developed that incorporated the “Circuits Solver” module as a means tointroduce students to the application of mesh analysis and Kirchoff’s voltage law to solve circuits.In the fall of 2001, electrical network analysis classes at UTD had both EE andTelecommunications Engineering (TE) students who were each surveyed as to the benefit of themodules and technologies. Each semester a teaching assistant was assigned to support the facultyand assist the students in using the ILMs or explaining other concepts. Two graduate students rewrote the accompanying laboratory manual during the summer of2001 to insure that the principles exemplified by the modules could be easily integrated into thelaboratory sessions. Although Spring 2000

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Nestor; David Rich

” have come todominate analog and digital electronics, introductory electronics courses in Electrical andComputer Engineering programs have evolved to place greater emphasis on CMOStransistors and amplifiers. However, due to the perception that chip design is tooesoteric, both lecture and laboratory coverage of this important topic are usually deferredto more advanced courses. Design experiences are instead limited to “breadboard”circuits using discrete components and operational amplifiers.This paper presents a new approach to teaching introductory electronics that incorporatesthe design and layout of CMOS chips. The coverage of topics in the two-semestersequence only needs minor changes from the traditional approach. Topics on the physicsand

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Quint

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Engineering and Neurology, and Associate Chair of Applied Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. His research is concentrated in the application of Signal Processing to problems in medicine.Timothy A. Johnson, PhD Timothy A. Johnson holds a BSEd (1972) in education from Illinois State University, a MS (1976) in natural science from Chicago State University and a PhD (1983) in BME from UNC-Chapel Hill. Research interests include cardiovascular electrophysiology, sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition, processing and display. As an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, he teaches linear controls and directs BME laboratory

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

. • It is critical to work out details of both positions before arriving on campus, including salary, laboratory space, teaching loads, and research start-up funds. Resist the temptation to get this set with one person with an oral agreement on the trailing spouse that “everything will be taken care of when you arrive on campus”. • Talk to dual career couples at your present university to get some suggestions and ideas of how they handled their dual career search. • Talk with dual career couples at the university where you are interviewing to see how they feel the climate is for couples.Hints for Search Committees Dealing with Dual Career CouplesWhile finding a suitable dual career situation is a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Chernik; Josh Lambden; Brent Young; Bill Svrcek

. Page 8.551.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionThe University of Calgary requires “Process Dynamics and Control” as part of the degreerequirements for undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering. The course pioneered thehands-on real-time (time domain) approach to teaching process dynamics and control1. Studentsemploy dynamic process simulation using a dynamic process simulator, such as HYSYS orAspen Dynamics2 to model chemical process plants and their control systems. The student thencreates “disturbances” in the plant, which may involve changes in feed composition, flow

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Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Freddie Frazier; Kelvin Kirby

eachcourse. In addition, the team will develop an evaluation process designed to ensure thestudent has mastered the course content. The outcome of the activities will produce amodel for each mathematics course. In conjunction with the classroom and supportactivities, the project will establish a computer laboratory with instructional andevaluation tools used within the mathematics community. The judicious integration ofexperienced teaching and available technology will develop the infrastructure needed toenhance teaching and student performance in mathematics at Prairie View A&MUniversity. A preliminary study revealed that introductory courses in mathematics(algebra and trigonometry) experience a failure rate of almost fifty percent each

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationof these sensors. The many types available allow measurement of: force, linear motion,temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, electric current, pressure, light, magnetic fields, rotationalmotion, and others. The overall procedure used is to expect the students to commit to adependency before doing the actual activity. Once the activity is completed, the “real” results canbe compared with their initial thoughts. These laboratory exercises not only improve the students’abilities to translate phenomena to a plot, but they also teach a bit about how the world works.ConclusionsThe most effective and natural way to make the engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

doctoral students to consider academiaas a career. • Developing a curriculum vita and personal statement. • Participating in sessions with topics including Research- The Dissertation andBeyond; Teaching - Teaching Techniques/ Becoming An Educator; and Service- Making aLimited but Valuable Service Contribution. The participants discuss the qualificationsnecessary to obtain an academic position at a research institution. • Visiting the academic units and research laboratories according to teaching andresearch interest. Participants have an opportunity to speak with key administrators andfaculty within the unit. • Discussing with current faculty how they have successfully progressed throughtheir academic career. The

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

Session 3648 A Capstone Experience: Putting Students to the Task Dr. W. Larry Williamson, Mr. Randy Winzer Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KansasAbstractPittsburg State University has been teaching a “Capstone” class involving all seniors majoring inMechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology since being accredited by TAC/ABET.(Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology, Inc.) The class is a culmination of the knowledge the