Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

, V.I.Grinevetsky and some others created theRussian system of higher technical education based on the close connection of theoreticalcourses with practical training in industrial workshops and laboratories. The system received awide recognition abroad as " Russian methods of training", and it was marked by the highestpremiums and awards at the international exhibitions (in Philadelphia 1876, Paris 1900) 3. Atthe same time there was no uniform government policy in the field of higher education. It wasdifferent at Alexander II, Alexander III and Nikolay II. It is possible to say that it was thepolicy of fluctuations between two approaches - conservative and democratic, as it wasdeveloped and carried out by various people and ministries and in many respects

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

these perspectives.FacultyThe primary risk factor for engineering retention that affects the faculty was workload. Toaccomplish the important, necessary tasks for teaching was not possible, given the number ofengineering faculty employed. Faculty were required to carry 12 semester hours of class and 12office hours each semester. With required laboratories, the student contact hours increased evenmore. At the time of the study, the department had ten full time faculty members. Of the ten,one was the department chair and another was the associate dean both of which had thecommensurate administrative duties further increasing faculty workload. Some of the areasaffected include: • Assessment – assessment tools are not utilized as they should

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

, S.E., Stategies for Creative Problem Solving, Prentice Hall, 1995.17 Cloete, A., Solving Problems or Problem Solving: What are we teaching our students?, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 24-27, 2001, Albuquerque, NM.18 Prusak, Z., Laboratory Experiments in Process Design and Optimization, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 24-27, 2001, Albuquerque, NM.19 Schon, D., Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, Basic Books, 1983.20 Otto, K.N, Wood, K.L., Product Design, Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development, pp.43-46, Prentice Hall, 2001.21 Lubkin, J.L.(ed.), The Teaching of Elementary Problem-Solving in Engineering and Related Fields, American Society for

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

useful are visualization techniques provided as slides 2 or inelectronic format (CD-ROM, etc.) in the last generation of materials science and engineeringtextbooks 3. These visualization software packages have become very popular, particularly whencomplex organic molecules are examined. In most cases those packages are available at a steepprice while in few other cases they are free such as Rasmol.On the other hand, in large class sizes it has been recommended the use of hands-ondemonstrations as an alternative to full laboratory experiments 4. For this purpose the studentscan be guided through a well-thought demonstration by teaching assistants. Alternatively, thepresent module proposes the use of computer graphics for a team assignment in a

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

currently occurring at many small, primarily undergraduate teaching colleges.The inclusion of undergraduates in faculty research was a natural extension of faculty researchand a welcome addition to the list of available student projects. At the same time, many facultywere involved heavily within their community and knew of potential service-based projects thatwould equally challenge and educate the students. It quickly became obvious that many studentswould love the opportunity to put their skills to work and produce a product that met a real need.In the fall of 1999, it was decided to more fully develop the civil engineering independent studyprogram to ensure every senior CE major had the opportunity to participate in a open-endedproject, in

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

approaches that a student-centered environmentcan develop. Teamwork, though, is not easy to teach, is time consuming to implement andvery difficult to evaluate and, yet, crucial for the completion of a well-rounded engineer.Training students in teamwork requires a completely new type of class (and beyond)environment with totally different activities and instructor teaching practices: one that ismore closely positioned to a “sport coach” with the ability to change the learning pace,promote students’ activities, and with a strong command of the psychology of learning.Teamwork also requires the development of new student training methods and newassessment methodologies.In this contribution, the authors will discuss several aspects related to teamwork

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Department at UMR. He is thedirector of the NSF and Halliburton Foundation funded Sustainable Design Laboratory at UMR, and serveson the editorial board of the International Journal of Industrial Engineering. His teaching and researchinterests include Rapid Product Realization, and green design and manufacturing. He has published over 50technical articles and has received over $2M in research grants.MING. C. LEUMing C. Leu is the Keith and Pat Bailey Professor in Integrated Product Development and Manufacturing,in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMR. His research is in the areas of automated motionverification and planning, dynamics and control of robots, automated assembly planning, and layeredmanufacturing. He is the ASME Vice President

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

. A user’s head and hand can be tracked withelectromagnetic sensors to provide interaction with the display system.3. Virtual Reality Display Facility at Penn StateThe Applied Research Laboratory atPenn State University has an immersiveprojection display system similar to theCAVETM in the Synthetic EnvironmentApplications Laboratory (SEA Lab)[15].The SEA Lab’s equipment includes adisplay system that permits thegeneration of a 360 degree, 10' x 10' x 9'immersive environment where users cancollaboratively interact with simulationsand data in real-time (see Figure 2). Thesystem uses four back-projectiondisplay screens; stereoscopic and Figure 2: SEA Lab Immersive Projection Display atsynchronized image rendering

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lauren Neal; Jr., Robert J. Clougherty; Ismail Fidan

Session 3550 Design, Implementation, and Assessment of WebCT-based CNC Ismail Fidan§, Lauren L. Neal¶, Robert J. Clougherty, Jr.¶ § College of Engineering/¶The Institute for Technological Scholarship Tennessee Tech University Cookeville, TN 38505Abstract In the 21st century, the Internet has become the dominant distribution system for distanceeducation and training. Many faculty members are expanding their traditional delivery methods(lecture, laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

funded research, but with fewer faculty and more courses to cover the research loads willdecrease. The untenured faculty will have a difficult time becoming tenured as the expectationsfor research funding and teaching performance have increased as universities seek only theabsolute superior new faculty. The reduced teaching loads for new faculty may be for shortertime periods as teaching demands are increasing with smaller departments. Small privateschools with little or no endowment funds have already begun to reduce faculty and staff. In addition to the severe financial crisis, there are also many educational problems. Onemajor concern is the “graying” of the faculty resulting from delayed retirements. Increasedretention may increase

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

foreign assistance, chances are increased for sustainable improvement inthe living standards of the people.Introduction“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fedhim for a lifetime.” (Anon.)“It is good fishing in troubled waters.” (Anon.)Developing countries need to be taught how to fish, rather than continually having fish Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.280.1 Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationprovided to them by the developed world. And the time is ripe for those

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

about what tobe aware of when offering simultaneous resident and distance learning courses. Theyalso learned what aspects of teaching such a course to be wary of. This paper has beendeveloped to provide others with insight into how to properly prepare for a combinedresident and distance-learning course. The paper will discuss things to be aware ofincluding what it is like to be in-class and on-screen simultaneously, how to deal withclass size and class composition issues, and communication issues. This paper alsodiscusses some serious considerations for faculty to be wary of including workloadissues, project and presentation complexities, and the reactions of guest lecturers.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

course (ENES 101) at UMBC was revamped in 2001 and has itsorigins in work done by Dally and Zhang2, and in work the author did while teaching in theFreshman Engineering ECSEL3 program at the University of Maryland, College Park. ENES 101includes an overview of engineering and an introduction to various topics within engineering. Theemphasis of the revision of the course was to make it a project based inquiry experience. Thestudents must work in interdisciplinary teams to design, build, evaluate, test, and report (both aformal written report and oral presentation) on a specified product. ENES 101 is a three-creditfreshman engineering course which consists of two fifty-minute class sessions and a two-hourdiscussion session each week over a 16 week

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

learning styles to class design can create opportunities for suchimprovements. Learning styles reflect that different individuals have preferred ways tolearn. Because of its promise to improve learning effectiveness, it was ranked by JamesStice as one of the eight key educational innovations in the last thirty years.1 Asynchronous web-based learning modules are intended for self-paced use. Thesemodules can provide an opportunity to apply pedagogical concepts to individualizedstudent learning. In particular, these modules can be specifically designed to appeal tostudents with specific learning styles. This tailoring is an advantage to instructors thathave preferred teaching styles and that have difficulty modifying their methods to facilitatethe

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

at those draft recommendations. The Committee’s draftrecommendations follow three themes: what should be taught and learned, how it should betaught and learned, and who should teach it.Introduction BackgroundASCE created the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (TCAP3)in October 2001 and charged it to “… develop, organize and execute a detailed plan for fullrealization of ASCE Policy Statement 465.” The policy’s essence is that ASCE supports theconcept of a practice-oriented masters degree or equivalent as a requirement for licensure and thepractice of civil engineering at the professional level.As one step in carrying out that charge, TCAP3 formed the Body of

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

the modernconcurrent, object oriented approach to integrated product / process design.In terms of delivering our cases we follow the Virtual Product Demo concept, in that wevirtually take the learner with us to factories, R&D studios, exhibitions and professionallaboratories and give them interesting demos explained by real-world experts withchallenging problems to solve. In all cases we show them high quality, interactive videosand often 3D objects and panoramas so that they can interrogate them and evenparticipate in digital, virtual factory tours. (Note, although this approach does NOTreplace real, working laboratories for the class, it nevertheless takes the learners into high-quality labs, that are often not in many universities

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Curriculum ComparisonThe first aspect taken into account in the comparison is the different definition of “credit”between both universities. UF defines the credit as the one semester hour, generally representingone hour (50-minute) per week of lecture or two or more hours per week of laboratory work.On the other hand, credits at UCN are the total hours that students attend a course, which is setby the institution. Total credits per course are defined by using: C = L + E + Lab + PD C = total credits for the course L = # of 45-minutes lectures E = # of 45-minutes

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

forcedconvection, the unit includes a blower to provide a uniform flow of air across the surface of theplate. With measurements of air velocity, power input, and temperature, the convectivecoefficients for forced convection can be experimentally determined for a variety of platetemperatures.The demonstration unit is small and portable, and is easy to set-up on the table in the front of theclassroom. It is low-cost, utilizing instrumentation available in the engineering laboratories. Inits typical use during a lecture class, the instructor first introduces the theoretical and empiricalequations available for calculation of convective coefficients. Using these textbook equations,the students make calculations of convective coefficients for the parameters of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

opportunities. New in Fall2001, is the "Engineer in Residence" program. Students living in Blanding III will have theopportunity to interact with an electrical engineering graduate from the College of Engineeringnow employed at Lexmark, International in Lexington, Kentucky. Evening programs areoffered to support and encourage all dorm residents. Learning communities have shown to bevery successful in retaining students.Undergraduate Research Program: The Undergraduate Research Program creates researchpartnerships between first-and second-year students and faculty researchers. The program offersstudents the opportunity to work and learn along side a research faculty. Undergraduatestudents are given the real-life experiences of working in laboratories

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Todd, R., Magleby, S., Sorensen, D., Swan, B., and Anthony, D. (1995). “A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America”, Journal of Engineering Education, 84 (2): 165-174.2. Dutson, A., Todd, R., Magleby, S., and Sorensen, C. (1997). “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses”, Journal of Engineering Education, 86 (1): 57-64.3. Davis, D., Beyerlein, S., Trevisan, M., McKenzie, L., and Gentili, K. (2002). “Innovations in Design Education Catalyzed by Outcomes-Based Accreditation”, ABET Conference on

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfrom the performing arts - who taught the mini-courses; (4) four local high school science andmath teachers, who assisted with teaching in the laboratory and accompanied students on fieldtrips (two lived in the dormitory with the students); (5) three student counselors (including oneadministrative counselor) who contacted students prior to their arrival, oversaw evening andweekend recreational activities, lived with the students, and assisted them with their classwork.The latter were selected from our undergraduate female engineering and math majors on thebasis of applications, interviews

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

solutionof complex problems at regional, national, and international levels and locations aroundthe world. This goal is to be achieved through the development of a humanitariancomponent for the CSM engineering curriculum that will teach engineering students howto bring technical knowledge and skill, as well as cultural sensitivity, to bear on the real-world problems of the less materially advantaged.Examples of this might be creating and maintaining the infrastructure of disaster relief,designing low-tech water supply and treatment systems in developing countries, assistingwith the creation of inexpensive housing opportunities for the poor, constructing schoolsor health clinics, designing and implementing sustainable ways to meet basic humanneeds

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

changes necessary for improved learning. Most faculty membersare already overloaded with teaching, research and service responsibilities, so even if theybelieve assessment is a useful activity they will often resist it as much as possible to avoid theextra workload. The key to overcome this resistance is to 1) make assessment an integral part ofthe basic course design structure and 2) provide templates and standard procedures for thefaculty to follow.Providing standard assessment procedures does not take away from faculty creativity andinvolvement in the assessment and continuous improvement process, it just focuses it on themost important items. The key is to communicate clearly the important information that must becollected for program

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Bird; Mark D'Avila; Penny Hirsch

. Students arementored by professionals in ethics and communication, participate in special study groups, andcomplete a report and presentation based on their research. Preliminary evaluation of thisenriched summer experience points to its success and suggests that the REU program is a goodsetting for preparing undergraduates to be more capable members of their profession.IntroductionSince bioengineering programs throughout the nation have outpaced the development ofappropriate teaching materials, a consortium of schools with strong bioengineering departments—Vanderbilt, Northwestern, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Harvard-MIT Divisionof Health Sciences and Technology (VaNTH)—is developing new educational technologies forthe field. VaNTH

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

associate professor at Gallaudet University. She teaches Chemistry,Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Forensic Science. She is also the co-director of theuniversity's Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) sponsored by the Department of Health andHuman Services.H. David Snyder is a professor at Gallaudet University where he teaches physics, Earth science andastronomy. He currently is working with the NASA Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics using 1960s spysatellite photographs to document changes in Bolivian vegetation. His wife keeps him busy working oninteractive visualization tools for educational websites. Page

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

Session 2325 Design and Implementation of an Aeronautical Design-Build-Fly Course Peter W. Young1, Olivier L. de Weck2, and Charles P. Coleman3 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MassachusettsIntroductionTeaching aeronautical vehicle design is a significant challenge. We have found that teaching thedesign process in a pure, traditional lecture-style format is ineffective. Undergraduate studentsyearn for hands-on experiences that allow them

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

Burlington Northern Foundation Teaching Award, Regents Award for Superior Teaching, ASEE MidwestSection Outstanding Teaching Award, and the ASEE Fluke Corporation Award for Innovation in LaboratoryInstruction. At University of Oklahoma he also received the David Ross Boyd Professorship.TIM C. KEENERTim C. Keener is a professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of the Air Pollution Control Laboratory ofthe University of Cincinnati. Dr. Keener also directs the University of Cincinnati Environmental Training Institutewhich provides short course training to environmental professionals. Dr. Keener is the recipient of the Lyman A.Ripperton Award from the Air & Waste Management Association in recognition of his distinguished achievementsas an

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

accreditation agenciesof which the main one for the METS department is ABET. Designing the tools with this aim hasallowed the METS department faculty to minimize paperwork and focus on actual continuousimprovement efforts rather than simply writing multiple reports to satisfy various constituentswho are essentially looking for the same information.The ten assessment tools developed by the METS faculty focus on assessing the following fivegeneral areas: 1) faculty, 2) student enrollment and professional activities, 3) facilities and equipment, 4) curriculum, and 5) teaching and learning.Throughout each academic year, different faculty are assigned the task of collecting andsummarizing the data for the various tools. A department assessment

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Vondra; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

received his PhD in MechanicalEngineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996. He is a senior member of IEEE and SME, andmember of ASEE, NAIT, ASME, TAS and SMTA. Dr. Fidan also serves as an associate editor for theIEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing and editorial board member for the NAITJournal of Industrial Technology and SAE Journal of Manufacturing and Materials. Dr. Fidan is therecipient of 2003 Tennessee Tech University Exemplary Course Project Award, 2003 SME OutstandingYoung Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2002 Provost 'Utilization of Technology in Instruction' Award,2002 Technology Award by The Institute for Technological Scholarship, 2001 NAIT OutstandingProfessor Award. His teaching and research interests

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 11531.1 Introduction to Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, EGR 101All engineering students who are qualified to take calculus take EGR 101, Introduction tocomputer aided design and manufacture. Topics covered include 3D solid modelingdesign techniques, computer aided manufacturing and hands-on experiences in computer-numerically controlled (CNC) milling. EGR 101 is a three credit class consisting of a twohour lecture and a 3 hour laboratory session each week. During the semester studentswork on four design and manufacture projects. The manufacturing is accomplished usingbench top CNC milling