Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

” who is responsible for being sure thatthe assessment of the outcome is on track according to the timeline. S/he is also responsible forcollecting and analyzing the data on a systematic basis. The faculty member prepares a briefreport that includes a description of the method(s), where in the curriculum the outcome isassessed (for program assessment purposes), and a brief report of the findings. The report ispresented at a summer faculty ABET meeting and, based on the findings, recommendationsmade for program improvement. The faculty champion is responsible to follow-up and report onthe success of the improvements. With a small department there is the advantage that 100% ofthe faculty are involved in every step, as opposed to a smaller

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

Launch Environment Rocket Mass 48 g Initial Velocity 0 m/s Engine Mass_new 16.4 g Initial Height 0 m 3 Engine Mass_empty 13 g Air Density 1.17 kg/m Thrust Time 0.5 s Ejection Charge time

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

Computer-Rich School. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.Kafai, Y. B. (1995). Minds in play: Computer game design as a context for children's learning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.Papert, S. (2000). What’s the Big Idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power. IBM Systems Journal, vol. 39, nos. 3 & 4, pp. 720-729.Papert, S. (1991). Situating Constructionism. In Constructionism, Harel, I. & Papert, S. (eds.), Ablex Publishing.Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. New York: Basic Books.Sipitakiat, A., Blikstein, P., & Cavallo, D. (2002). The GoGo Board: Moving towards highly available computational tools in learning environments. Proceedings of Interactive Computer Aided

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Jacobson

mushroom 215.42 jmpgate2 5.171 I S P 11 0 0 IS P 1 10 0 SGI 215.194 SmokeDetector 215.94 jmpgate5 Hub

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

the Future program funded by the GEFoundation.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantsHRD0001388 and. SBE-0318510. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. Page 9.488.11 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliographic Information1. National Science Foundation, Women, Minorities, and Persons

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

SESSION 1566 A Useful Intersection: The Balanced Scorecard and EC2000 John I. Hochstein1, Teong E. Tan1, William S. Janna1, Jeffrey G. Marchetta1 Tommy Jamison2, Bruce Shrader3, Michael Bilderbeck4 1 2 3 4 U. of Memphis Mueller Industries Temple-Inland Pickering Firm Memphis, TN Memphis, TN West Memphis, TN Memphis, TNAbstractThe new requirements of ABET’s EC2000 have caused the authors’ academic department toundertake a significant restructuring of its internal functions. This restructuring was

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoff Silcox

-speed internet connections. All lectures,assignments, and solutions are posted in PDF format. Setting up the online quizzes inWebCT required about two weeks. Once the online materials are prepared, the timerequired to teach the online section is comparable to that for the conventional. Thecourse materials are available at http://www.che.utah.edu/~geoff/thermo1/index.html.References(1) Wallace, D.R. and P. Mutooni, “A Comparative Evaluation of World Wide Web-Based and ClassroomTeaching,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 3, 1997, pp. 211-219.(2) Dutton, J., M. Dutton, and J. Perry, “Do Online Students Perform as Well as Lecture Students?”Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 1, 2001, pp. 131-136.(3) Haag, S. and J.C. Palais

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

intensiveand extensive properties. We provided students explicit guidance on the differences betweenintensive and extensive properties, and this is summarized in Table 2. Intensive properties Extensive properties Can be counted or experimentally measured Independent of sample size Dependent on sample sizeFluids T, P, ρ, v, u, ke, pe, s m, V, U, KE, PE, S, mvCircuits ρ, j, E, σ, q/m3 V, R, S, I, q, L, C, WWhereFluids CircuitsT = temperature ρ

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

Session 3115 From Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge To Civil Engineering Curricula Stuart G. Walesh Consultant and AuthorAbstractASCE’s Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (CAP^3) is chargedwith developing, organizing, and executing a detailed plan for the full implementation of ASCEPolicy 465 (Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice). This paper presentsthe recommendations of CAP^3’s Body of Knowledge (BOK) Committee and introduces thesubsequent curricula design effort

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Farida; Nick Safai

ASEE AnnualConference. American Society of Engineering Education.[2] Khan, A.S. and Karim, A., Susan. S., & Mark, M. 2003. A Wireless Course Sequence DesignUsing Global Wireless Education Consortium. (GWEC) Curriculum Modules and Industry Tools.Proceedings, 2003 ASEE Annual Conference. American Society of Engineering Education.[3]Jui-Han Lu and K.L.Wong, 1998. “Slot-loaded meandered rectangular microstrip antenna withcompact dual frequency operation”, Electronics Letters, vol 34, No 11, pp 1048-1049, May 1998.[4]J.S.Kuo and K.L.Wong, 2001. “A Compact microstrip antenna with meandering slots in theground plane”, Microwave optical technology letters, vol 29, pp 95-97, April 2001.[5]Amit. A. Deshmukh and Girish Kumar, 2001. “Compact Broadband

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdirectly require the scholarship of teaching, its adoption has led to a substantial increase in thenumber of engineering faculty members engaged in this form of scholarship, which has in turnled the engineering education journals to increase their sizes to accommodate dramatic increasesin the number of papers submitted.4The National Science Foundation has supported educational scholarship in engineering since thelate 1980's through the Division of Undergraduate Education and the Engineering EducationCoalitions program. Today, NSF support for engineering related education reform is in excess of$200M per year. Such support "has increased the status of educational research in

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Linser, R. and Naidu, S. Web-based simulations as teaching and learning media in political science. Paper presented at the 1999 Fifth Australian World Wide Web Conference, Lismore, Australia, (1999).8. McCollum, K. In test, students taught online outdo those taught in class. In Chronicle of Higher Education (1997).9. Nachmias, R., Mioduser, D., Oren, A. and Ram, J. Web-supported emergent-collaboration in higher education courses. Educational Technology and Society 3 (2000).10. Schutte, J. G. Virtual teaching in higher education: The new intellectual

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

decisionmaker’s final target. The edges show the causal relationships among those concepts or ideas or,in other words, how the concepts interfere each other. It is done through two basic laws ofinteraction of parts, which are, for example, “cause” or “not cause”. However, in a “cause” case,we need to inform if the action of a given concept Ci is in direction of strengthening orweakening the other(s) concept(s) C j .To construct a CM, the opinions of several specialists about a pair of concepts could becombined through a process called a vote procedure (the most voted opinion wins), what is donewhen we use a questionnaire. But, if the relationships were obtained, for example, from a textwritten by a specialist about a particular subject, we need to find

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Michigan University Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning whichsponsors the project.The Initial Design Page 9.383.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004. American Society for Engineering Education”In the mid-to-late 1990’s when the primary author was an associate professor of mechanicalengineering at University of South Alabama, he adopted the service-learning pedagogy inteaching the first- year “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering”1. In ME 101, students workedin teams to design and build laboratory equipment and

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

Computer Managed Learning and Assessment Integrated Within a Materials Engineering Program for Non-Majors Aaron S Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaAbstractThis paper reports on an on-line learning initiative in Engineering Materials for first yearstudents in diverse disciplines of engineering. This initiative was developed for general firstyear engineering students to incorporate an on-line assessment system for the major aspects oflearning and teaching: lectures, tutorials and laboratory work. This teaching approachrequired the availability of a data delivery system (using a proprietary brand of software), forprovision of pedagogical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

engineer, a customer, an enthusiast, a biker. I also had managed amotorcycle shop in the early 70’s. It was a good match. Page 9.553.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationI left the meeting with a project challenge to think about during my riding for the next month.Later that day, I met with the folks at MSOE and firmed up my assignment for the fall quarterthat would start right after Labor Day. I would teach one section of ME160 – Introduction toMechanical Engineering and deliver two large

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marc Hoit

Session 2158 Sur vey Builder : A Tool to Suppor t Assessment Mar c Hoit 1, Rick Sayer s2, Bill Lewis2, Akhil Kar ker a 2, Nar en Kamat 2 1 -Associate Dean, College of Engineer ing, Academic Affair s/ 2 -Car eer Resour ce Center Univer sity of Flor ida, Gainesville, FLAssessment is a critical component of all educational programs. The need to develop andadminister surveys to a wide variety of audiences is one of the standard techniques used in allassessment programs. One of the major

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marina Pantazidou; Paul Steif

Session 1330 Identifying the Components of Modeling Through Protocol Analysis Paul S. Steif, Marina Pantazidou Carnegie Mellon University/National Technical University of AthensIntroductionThe art of engineering involves a variety of skills, and one of them is modeling. While theterms “model” and “modeling” are not simple to define, within engineering, Piel and Truxal1offer a helpful account: “a model is the simplest possible system description that includes allimportant aspects.” One might add to this “at the appropriate level of detail and accuracy”,which helps to capture the significant amount of judgment involved

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dick Blandford

Session 3232 Softwar e Design of a Digital Filter Using Evolutionar y Methods Dr . Dick Blandfor d Univer sity of EvansvilleIntr oductionEvolutionary computation was conceived and articulated in the 1960's as a method of solvingotherwise intractable problems. Computer programs based on evolutionary techniques typicallyconsume lots of computer resources and until the 1990's the technique was implemented only bythe few who had access to those resources. Over the last ten years, computers have become fastenough and enough memory has become cheaply available that

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pravin Raut; Jonathan Lambright

for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"second exam by the students that did not obtain that threshold during the first exam. In addition,the results show that the data was not skewed during the second exam occurrence by adisproportionate number of those students that achieved 51% or above on the first examoccurrence (11 or 30%). COMPASS Exam First Time Passing Rates 50 50 45 40 37 N S 35 u t m 30 u b Number of students taking the exam. d e 25 e 20

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2. Comparison between courses at UF and UNAH Number Course UF Credits Equivalent Course UNAH Credits Term 1 Gen Ed -- S Social & Behavioral Science 3 Philosophy 4 Gen Ed- H Humanities 3 Spanish I, Foreign Language I 8 MAC 2311 Analytical Geom. & Calculus I 4 Analytical Geom., Calculus I 8 CHM 2045 General Chemistry I

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carsten Ahrens

intended to involve mostly students of the first(undergraduate) study years and of the former project year to have the possibility of letting themwork also in the following project year(s).In addition it was always an aspect of quality and equivalence of the project to have adiversified European composition. But as it happens always in international projects betweeninstitutions of higher education there are more or less active and interested students and more orless active and financially interested and supporting cooperation partners.And thirdly all participating institutions had to verify their interest in this IP in such a way thatthey paid about 50% of the travelling and living costs for their participants, students andteachers. And they had

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Reising

assigned from among those presented at The Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science at CASE Western University3. One example case from the OnlineEthics Center involved the use of technical information and data contained in one engineer sproposal by another engineer. The example is based on a case ruled on by the NSPE Board ofEthical Review. A recent newspaper article4 concerning the Justice Department investigation ofcharges that Boeing Co. obtained Lockheed Martin Corp. s proprietary documents and themisuse of proprietary information was the basis of another class discussion.The significant change to this part of the course was the requirement that students submit theiranswers to discussion questions in writing. These papers are then used

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Goda; Pete Hanlon; Lisa Shay

Session Number: 2471 Experience with Multidisciplinary Design Projects at the US Military Academy Peter D. Hanlon, Bryan S. Goda, and Lisa A. Shay Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {peter.hanlon/bryan.goda/lisa.shay}@usma.eduAbstract - The intent of Senior Design Capstone Projects at the US Military Academy is toprovide cadets with a challenging engineering problem that requires them to integrate keyconcepts from several previous EE courses. Multidisciplinary projects add to that challengebecause the students who

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Gonzales

impact of HCI cultural diversity interface design should strengthenour resolve to support education at all levels and through all markets. Concern for translation,filtering, system constrains, and other commonly used system administration techniques wouldbe at a minium.Tsalapatas, S., Stav, J.P., Brna, P., & Kalantziz, S. (2003) referenced the funding of theEuropean Commission’s Minerva-Socrates program (eCMS) that is used to design and developweb-based content for support of asynchronous eLearning, will aid in efforts to publish,discover, retrieve, and integrate educational material. The eCMS system of course organizationpedagogy moves a step further to recognize that the structure of courses often reflects theacademic practices and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

details. A screenshot of sucha page is shown in Figure 1. In addition, users via a link can see a roster of students currentlyregistered for any given course. Such a roster includes each student’s full name, major(s), andadvisor(s). The pages are automatically regenerated nightly during registration periods so noroster is more than 24 hours out of date. Page 9.368.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: Example of a Registrar

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Lynch

, 1988.COLE-TURNER, Ronald “Science, Technology, and the Mission of Theology in a New Century”. In Volume II, God and Globalization: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities, Max L. Stackhouse and D.S. Browning, eds. Trinity Press International, 2001. Chapter 4, p.139-165.FREIDSON, Eliot. Professionalism. The Third Logic. U. Chicago Press, 2001.FLORMAN, S. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering.GERT, Bernard. Morality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.HARRIS, C.E.. Jr. and Pritchard, M. S. and Rabins, M. J. Engineering Ethics, Second Edition Wadsworth, 2000HOLLENBACH, D. The Common Good and Christian Ethics, Cambridge U. Press, 2002.KRAUSE, Elliott A. Death of the Guilds. Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

Session Number: 3215 (Civil Engr Division) Involving Undergraduate and High School Students in Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards Shashi S. Nambisan, Ph.D, P.E. Professor of Civil Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas NV 89154-4015 Tel: (702) 895-1357, Fax: (702) 895-4401, E-mail: shashi@ce.unlv.eduAbstractHistorically student involvement in research at Universities and Colleges has primarily revolvedaround those in graduate programs. However, the NSF’s Research Experience forUndergraduates program and

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

Florida majoring inCivil Engineering with an emphasis in Public Works/Transportation. Mr. Javed is currentlyworking for Boyle Engineering Corporation in their civil and transportation group for the Florida-West Region.2) GARY S. DOWNING Gary S. Downing is a University of Florida graduate and a ProfessionalEngineer (P.E.) He is one of the first few graduates who successfully completed the SarasotaCounty’s PEDP, and is a member of PEDP pioneering team. He is currently serving as theEngineering Section Supervisor for the Road Program Division, Sarasota County.3) THAI TRAN Thai Tran is a Florida State University graduate, and recently got hisprofessional engineering licensure while working for the Drainage Operations, Sarasota County.He has been an

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

deployed.A clear advantage of the BEVLB Project was that it met most of the selection criteria previouslydescribed: • The topic is real and current. It provides an excellent case study for class discussion of related global and societal issues, such as the need for rehabilitation and replacement of various forms of national infrastructure. The existing inventory of AVLB’s represents a weakness in the United States military infrastructure. The vast majority of the existing AVLB’s are based on 1950’s technology, have an average age of 25 years, have never received a major upgrade, are slower than the other combat vehicles they are used to support, and carry bridges that must be operated at reduced