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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

students are boarders at the campus. Students tend tobe economically advantaged. The culture of the institution is directed toward excellencein teaching, and faculty members identify their work with students as their top priority.The student-faculty ratio is 15:1. Curricular innovation has historically been a hallmarkof the RHIT institutional culture. In 1995, after ten years of debate and study, RHITbegan admitting women. RHIT functions within an academic quarter system as opposedto the more typical semester system.Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has had two integrated engineering programs. Aninnovative integrated first year curriculum in science, engineering, and mathematics(IFYCSEM) was initiated in 1988-1989 and piloted for three years

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Session 3454 The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University Results and Assessment To Date Dr. Mark R. Plichta Mary B. Raber Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn 2000, Michigan Technological University restructured its entire curricular offering in associa-tion with an academic calendar change from quarters to semesters. As part of this restructuringthe university developed the Enterprise Program (www.enterprise.mtu.edu), a new andinnovative experience that provides all students on

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

short and long run and gain valuable insights into theworld of work, establish relationships, and build skills that will launch them into their careersbefore they graduate. SWEP, including the MSU/EPA Summer Internship Program in particular,is an integral part of MSU’s strategy for preparing tomorrow’s environmentalists today byenhancing competence, confidence, and careers. In addition, the experience gained by thestudents through these work related experiences would further encourage their exploration ofcareer opportunities in the environmental field.Methodology/Operation of the programThe program is managed by an administrative director at MSU, Annette George, located in theschool of engineering and a project officer at the EPA. The Director

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engaged in aneffort to develop and integrate applied drug delivery coursework and experiments throughout theRowan Engineering curriculum. This paper describes a senior/graduate level elective course indrug delivery, with descriptions of the course structure, organization and content, references,experiments and projects used in this course.Introduction Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

, coupled with the course survey results, was the documentation of poorinstruction by a particular instructor. In this case, the instructor was temporarily removed fromthe classroom and from teaching required chemical engineering courses. Upon makingimprovements in his or her teaching, as documented by course surveys of the elective coursestaught, the instructor was re-integrated into the teaching of required chemical engineeringcourses.Significant changes in the Chemical Engineering curriculum have also resulted fromimplementation of our assessment/improvement/assessment cycle. For example, we recentlycombined three junior-year transport laboratories, associated with fluid mechanics, heat transfer,and mass transfer, into a single two-credit

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

Session 2542 A Novel 3D Internet-based Multimedia Method for Teaching and Learning About Engineering Management Requirements Analysis Paul G. RankyProfessor, The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering,New Jersey Institute of Technology, MERC (Multi-lifecycle Engineering Research Center), Newark, NJ, 07102, USA. Email: ranky@njit.eduIntroductionThe objective of this research was to create a case-based / problem-based teaching andlearning curriculum, supported by an advanced 3D web-enabled case library, focusing onneeds, or in other words requirements analysis.Our solution enables students

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Paul Plotkowski; Jeffrey Ray

provided with a larger view ofthe entire undergraduate curriculum including major and general education requirements andsequencing.Utilizing database management software and web tools, a system has been implemented thatprovides both students and faculty advisors with timely and accurate student program data. Theinformation is presented in an easy-to-understand format that is effectively utilized in advising.Providing this information changes the dynamics of an advising session, and allows students andtheir faculty advisors to focus their conversations on forward planning rather than bookkeeping.IntroductionProper academic advising has always been important to student success in engineering programs.In recent years, additional pressure has come to

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

intertwined with five quarters ofco-op experience. The degree requirements are met by completing 197 quarter credit hours. Atthis credit level any revisions to the curriculum must not increase credit requirements.The Electrical Engineering Undergraduate program at RIT is highly regarded1 and attractsstudents who are well prepared in an academic sense with most incoming students having takenAP Chemistry, AP Calculus and AP Physics in high school. However, a significant percentageof electrical engineering students struggle with the first two years of college work. The rigorousand theoretical coursework demands of mathematics and the physical sciences in the first twoyears of undergraduate electrical engineering education provide little time for

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

designs1.Although mechanical engineering students at Union College are exposed to CAD and FEA in anumber of courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum, MER-144 focuses on integratingdesign and analysis. If a part or assembly doesn’t meet specifications, students are expected tomodify the CAD model and analyze it again to see if the changes helped. A typical example ofthis integrated approach to engineering design is presented below. Figure 2 is an isometric viewof Team Jumper’s final design while Figure 3 illustrates the results of the finite element analysison one of the critical components. Page 8.1152.6 Figure 2

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

relationship with Parametric Technology Corporation(PTC) for facilitating campus-wide use of their software. We would also like to thank CADTrainfor providing an educational license for their eLearning solution for ProEngineer. We furtheracknowledge the Curriculum Development Award from Proctor and Gamble for product andprocess design, as well as for computer-aided design integration within the curriculum. Finally,the contributions of various teaching assistants who have had significant prior CAD andindustrial experience are appreciated.References1. Herrera, R. “Problems Encountered When Substituting the Traditional Drawing Tools for CAD Systems in Engineering Graphics Courses,” IEEE, pp. 677, 1998.2. Patrick E. Connolly, Proceedings of the

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

anddevelopment, and international initiatives dealing with nation building through educationand training. In spite of this historical leaning toward a "defacto" importance attributed to outreachactivities, the Pennsylvania State University has not previously integrated outreach as acritical element in matters concerning promotion and tenure. That is not the caseuniversally in other academic institutions. More formal definitions at Universities acrossthe country could and often do provide additional guidance for faculty striving to embracean insightful vision for outreach. In fact, some Universities have moved directly towardmaking the connection between outreach and promotion and tenure, documentingexpectations of outreach as an absolute pre

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Alec B. Scranton

increasingly required to use the Internet to work together from remote locations.For this reason, it is important for students to begin developing their communication skills in thisrelatively new medium early in an engineering curriculum. To meet this need, the courseincludes a cooperative learning group project called the “People Balance Project” in which thestudents work together in interdependent groups of five, with each group member assuming adifferent role essential to the success of the project. Since the project is delivered andimplemented on the Internet, a group may include members from different sections of thecourse, different universities, or even different countries. In the project each group of studentscollects data on the people

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

of an environmental curriculum that meet some of the needsof several different programs at the universities (engineering, science, management, andeducation). Efficiencies have been developed through initial team teaching and use of innovativeon-line resources along with development of an asynchronous learning network to supplementface-to-face teaching. Further the collaboration has developed an outreach to area K-12 teachersto provide them with tools and resources for teaching science and pre-engineering concepts in awatershed context. The outcomes of the university course and a K-12 teacher workshopdeveloped through this grant will be assessed over an initial three-year period. Finally, thecourse developed has provided an opportunity for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian West

, the teamwork skills shall be handled via laboratory experimentsand projects in Digital Logic, Discrete Electronic Devices, Integrated Circuits, Signals andSystems, and Electrical Power. At least one formal report shall be required in the last 4aforementioned classes, and a PowerPoint presentation shall be required in Electrical Power.In conclusionProgram changes, such as the USI change from ET to BSE, are fraught with difficulties. Someoneonce said that an opportunity is a difficulty turned inside out. This transition has allowed USIengineering faculty to correct some problems that had developed over the years, such as coursesequence problems. This change also “shook up” the curriculum - pruning the program enhancesthe experience for the

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

individualgrades and provide aggregate data on group performance for curriculum evaluation is a bestpractice10.McGourty11 outlines four strategies to integrate assessment into the engineering educationenvironment. These include the following: (1) initiate a structured process to involve faculty andstaff in the ongoing planning, development, and monitoring of the program; (2) offer “just-in-time” educational sessions to develop administrator, faculty and student knowledge and skills inassessment; (3) create an assessment toolbox providing administrators and faculty with templatesthat can be used in and outside the classroom; and (4) identify, review, and modify, as required,key institutional practices to ensure that they are aligned with educational

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Factory (MTF) at Arizona State University East is a15,000-sq.ft class 100 cleanroom equipped with late generation semiconductor devicefabrication tools. The Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) curriculum with amicroelectronics concentration integrates an intensive laboratory component into thecourse work in this special environment. In order to accommodate the schedules ofworking students, the courses are offered using flexible schedules. Figure 1, shows atypical course delivery design to accommodate the working student population. Thecourse development strategy is based on the following outcomes.Graduates should be able to: • Adapt easily to new technologies • Be capable of independent thinking • Communicate quantitatively thru 360

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

affective qualities has been correlatedwith student achievement, the aim of affective efforts need not be on retaining students, butrather on student achievement and retention will naturally follow. 30The fact that student interest, belonging, motivation, and most of the NACE qualities areaffective in nature suggests that an organized approach to foster appropriate affective growthcould favorably impact student success in SMET disciplines. Standard levels of affective growthhave been defined in Krathwohl’s affective taxonomy: receiving, responding, valuing,organizing, and characterization. 13 This paper recommends the integration of discipline-basedaffective objectives into curricula to enliven, incorporate, and sustain the energy of students

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Michael Condren; Ken Lux; George C. Lisensky; Donald Stone; Arthur B. Ellis; Anne Bentley; Amy Payne; Robert Carpick; Wendy Crone

.2-4 Undergraduate science and engineering majorsneed a comprehensive education that includes nanotechnology in order to successfully navigatethe challenges of the 21st century. Students need an interdisciplinary education in the basicsciences, the engineering sciences, and the information sciences, as well as an understanding ofthe relationships of these fields to nanotechnology. This has motivated the National ScienceFoundation-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) onNanostructured Materials and Interfaces at the University of Wisconsin – Madison to create anextensive education and curriculum development effort focused on nanotechnology. One themeof this effort is the development of instructional demonstration

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence J. Genalo

classroom instructors who modeled exemplary use oftechnology. The students were required to enroll in a technology rich engineering coursecalled Toying With TechnologySM which offered a positive, comfortable, and stimulatingatmosphere in order to introduce preservice teachers to aspects of science, math, andtechnology in the context of engineering. As a major component of the course, studentswere required to research and design an Engineering ABC Book tailored to both K-12students and classroom curriculum. A description of the Toying With TechnologySMcourse, cohort, and the Engineering ABC Book Project are examined and described.IntroductionToday, more than ever before, technological competence has become crucial tomaintaining our nation’s position

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

images, like the onesshown in Figures 1 and 3. Figure 4 shows an array of binary images and extracted license platesused in several tests.The LPRS was developed in a PC using previously captured images. It is now being ported to anembedded platform that integrates an arm processor, a monochrome camera and an Ethernetnetwork link. This new hardware will provide a modular, easy-to-use system of the type thatcould be deployed in the field. Students will also be characterizing the performance androbustness of the algorithms in order to evaluate the appropriateness of the system for theapplication. Page 8.458.4 Proceedings of the 2003American

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TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

accreditation visit only viewed a small snapshot of the program. In Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationretrospect, of course, this accreditation method created a number of problems. First, programquality was only an immediate concern in the year prior to an accreditation visit, tending to slowimprovements down to the accreditation cycle, usually every six years. Second, the accreditationmethod discouraged integrating program topics1. And third, this method paid no attention towhat the students needed or what the employers or any other constituents wanted in technologygraduates.While academia changes

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

from otherengineering disciplines. The course is prerequisite to our capstone project course on softwareengineering. The architecture course does not cover general software engineering topics (such astesting, estimation, and management), but it does provide students in the capstone course withfoundation skills for software design and development. This type of architecture and designcourse should be an appropriate second level course for engineers with a minor emphasis ofsoftware.IntroductionThis paper addresses the underlying issue of where and how and why architecture and design fitinto the curriculum of courses for majors in computing and for service computing courses, whichare often taken by engineering and science majors. Historically, the

Conference Session

Societal Contexts of Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim Elwazani

civic activities. On the other hand, theparticipation of engineering schools and professionals in heritage preservation helps realizethe society’s humanistic and utilitarian benefits embedded in such resources.The engineering community’s engagement in heritage education is still limited. A schemeof heritage engagement for engineering schools, in particular, has been proposed togetherwith scheme application guiding information. The scheme asserts a) incipient engagementis required, b) operative engagement is recommended with an eye on making it required,and c) professional engagement is to be considered only under very special circumstances.Guided by the proposed heritage engagement scheme, integrating heritage education intoengineering

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Dunfey; Julie Salisbury; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

involves teaching activities in addition to writing andassessment aspects. A major role and motivation for having the fellow in the classroom is to bea technical resource for the teacher. This allows for content development as well as instructionto the students from a technical background. The fellow becomes a “real-time” resource toanswer questions and clarify any concepts that a teacher not specifically trained in science orengineering may have. Through this resource position, vital communication skills are developedthat will be further discussed at length. Another key role for the fellow is to develop activitiesthat are integrated into existing science and technology curriculum. In order to best fill this role

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Gaonkar

among students.3. Encourages active learning.4. Gives prompt feedback.5. Emphasizes time on task.6. Communicates high expectations.7. Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.Engineering Feedback Model and Principles of Good TeachingThese seven principles and activities related to teaching do not even include lecturing - theforward pat h in our system model. That does not mean good lecturing is not valued. On thecontrary, it is an integral part of the model. Without the forward path, there will not be anyfeedback path.Forward Path and Lecture. Dynamic, well-organized, and enthusiastic lectures can be verymotivational to students, but its effectiveness in terms of learning is less than 20%. After ten orfifteen minutes of listening

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Gaonkar

among students.3. Encourages active learning.4. Gives prompt feedback.5. Emphasizes time on task.6. Communicates high expectations.7. Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.Engineering Feedback Model and Principles of Good TeachingThese seven principles and activities related to teaching do not even include lecturing - theforward pat h in our system model. That does not mean good lecturing is not valued. On thecontrary, it is an integral part of the model. Without the forward path, there will not be anyfeedback path.Forward Path and Lecture. Dynamic, well-organized, and enthusiastic lectures can be verymotivational to students, but its effectiveness in terms of learning is less than 20%. After ten orfifteen minutes of listening

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

, biomedical engineering, computersystems and networking subjects in an integrated environment, with the aid of a genericarchitecture, that includes 3D web-browser readable multimedia, text, images,interactive videos, active codes for calculations, and even self-assessment tools (asspreadsheets, spreadsheet templates, and others).The developed and validated cases besides traditional teaching and learning methods,and laboratory activities, use browser-readable interactive 2D and 3D objects,animation, videos, 3D objects of real components, virtual 3D disassembly methods ofobjects, and simulated (virtual) factory tours, and in the case of biomedical engineeringvirtual 3D internal and external human body virtual tours, that the students can exploreand

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

, absorption, reasoning and then the evolution of knowledge ([5], [6], [7], and[8]).In engineering, management, biomedical engineering and information technology, theapplication of these learning methodologies bring students into situations that combinelaboratory experience with real-world business environments, creating integrated andcomplex systems in which specific problems must be solved. Although thisinterdisciplinary, open-ended nature makes PBL interesting and engaging, it also poseschallenges to instructors and students that differ significantly from standard classroomlearning ([1], and [12]).Our approach mirrors real-world issues as closely as possible in an open source,networked virtual classroom, i.e. on the students' laptop monitors by

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography 1. Schertz, Karen A. and Whitney, Terry A. (2001). Design Tools for Engineering Teams An Integrated Approach, Delmar Publishing Company. 2. http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ctl/handbook/goldstein.html 3. Rockland, Ronald H. (1999). Use of Problem Solving Skills in an Introductory Microprocessor Course. 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 3147. 4. Rockland, Ronald H. (2001). Teaching Problem Solving Techniques in a Circuit Analysis Course. 2001 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1648.MOHAMAD H. AHMADIAN Mohamad H. Ahmadian is a professor of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh

simulators avaluable teaching aid as well.At Rowan we introduce process simulators starting at freshmen year and use them as apedagogical tool in several courses throughout the curriculum. This process has allowed us todevelop valuable examples and case studies to show students of the importance of reality checksand the immediate consequences of “blindly” trusting the process simulators results. Examplesapplied to system thermodynamics, distillation and reactor design will be shown.IntroductionProcess simulators are becoming a basic tool in chemical engineering programs. Senior leveldesign projects typically involve the use of either a commercial simulator or an academicsimulator such as ASPENPLUS, ChemCAD, ChemShare, FLOWTRAN, HYSYS, and PROIIw