Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lyle Feisel; George Peterson

an appreciation of the importance of data replication or good teamwork in a laboratory setting.] 4. Organization—organizing different values into the beginning of an internally consistent value system. [Examples: adopt a systematic approach to problem solving; demonstrate recognition of a need to balance freedom and responsibility; formulate a career plan.] 5. Characterization by a value or value complex—internalizing a value system and behaving accordingly in a pervasive, consistent, and predictable manner. [Examples: work independently and diligently, function effectively in group activities, act ethically

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Laura Grossenbacher

, because these students, if successful intheir academic careers, will go on to become practicing engineers who will have to writeproposals, environmental impact statements, feasibility studies, risk analyses, and whathave you. They will be making professional arguments, and they will be faced witharguments from others that they need to be able to analyze carefully. So, we practicethat in various ways – and of course, one obvious way is to ask them to read, write, andtalk about controversial issues in the sciences. So far, nothing here is either surprising or innovative – my colleagues and I havebeen doing this for years. And there is nothing new in the idea to use a debate formatto encourage first-year students to analyze those controversial

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

culturethat fosters interdependence, women should prefer classes that emphasize cooperative learning.In fact, both studies suggest that active participation in class, class discussion, small group work,and cooperation will improve the learning environment for women.Industry involvementVery few students choose a major with a thorough understanding of the implications for theimpact of their choice of major on what they will do after graduation. Student knowledge of thepractice of engineering and possible careers paths for engineering graduates early in theircollegiate careers is minimal at best. Without an accurate picture of the value of their major forlife after graduation, students may find it difficult to justify to themselves the hours of

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

composition ofthe team affect the communication? When and why do women report negative attitudes towardteam dynamics? How does working in teams of differing gender composition affect students’attitudes toward engineering as a major, a career, and an identity? We suspect that the dailyinformal communication events have a tremendous impact on students’ experiences. Page 7.133.10 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Third, the importance of visualization skills to engineers have been espoused

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

Session 1692 Gender Equity Professional Development for Teachers in a Summer Camp Setting Marion Usselman, Donna Whiting Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe attitudes and classroom behaviors of K-12 teachers can have a substantial impact on whethergirls perceive technical careers as appropriate and available to them. It is well documented thatelementary girls are enthusiastic in their pursuit of math and science knowledge, but thisenthusiasm often declines as the girls reach middle school1. Studies of classroom dynamicsreveal that teachers often

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

notebooks for future classes.8. Times for In-Office Meetings with students were established and these meeting were worth 5% of the total grade for the course.The rationale for the inclusion of a grade for Office visits/Notebook/Journal was to encouragethe participation of the assessment portion of the class through office visits. It was also anopportunity for the instructor to interact with the students on a more personal basis and to talk toeach student about their progress in the course, other classes, and career choices.One office visit every three weeks was required to both review progress and to determine stepsfor improvement (assessment). It was the instructor’s opinion that some students had no clue asto why they were doing poorly, or what

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

between the options within the AE and AST curricula· To develop team skills through the use of collaborative, learning-based assignments· To introduce students to various problems (areas of interest) within the agricultural engineering and technology field· To experience hands-on laboratories related to the AE and AST options· To increase involvement in professional societies and student branches· To introduce technical writing skills during the first year of study· To make first-year composition courses more meaningful to students· To establish career development/job preparation· To receive academic guidance related to curriculum issuesThese general and specific ABE LC objectives were designed to help our departmentmeet the following college

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Bassman; Patrick Little

hope that these projects introduce the possibility of engineeringas a career to the students who take part in them. To this end, during the second half of theworkshop other interactive engineering tools that might excite high school students arepresented. For example, in 2001 participants were introduced to the West Point Bridge Designercontest [4].Women in Engineering and ScienceSince almost all of the attendees have a majority of students who come from groupsunderrepresented in science and engineering, a discussion of ways to encourage these students topursue these fields beyond high school is an important component of PEPS. In 2001, with theintroduction of a significant number of attendees from girls’ schools, a focused discussion onwomen

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

computing software, an experience that will serve the students well in their futureacademic and professional careers. Page 7.1288.14 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education% Analysis of a Statically Indeterminate Frame Utilizing the Slope-Deflection Method.% ______________________________________________________________________________________________% Program objective:% To compute the moments at joints B, C, and D of the given frame using the method of slope-deflection

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

Session 2166 SYSTEMATIC THERMAL SCIENCE COURSE DEVELOPMENT AT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY MAJ Shawn E. Klawunder, CPT Blace C. Albert, and Dr. A. Özer Arnas Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy West Point, NY 10996Abstract The mission of the United States Military Academy (USMA) is “To educate, train, andinspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of charactercommitted to the values of Duty, Honor, Country; professional growth throughout a career as anofficer in the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

their books here at CHA’s facilities. A fourth alternativewould be to collect books from individual professors and send them to Herat. This last step Ihave been pursuing for a number of years and have collected some books that will be sent ifother alternatives do not work.VI. Support StaffThe administrative structure of the Faculty consists of the Dean, the Assistant Dean, theAcademic Manager, a full time technician, and a librarian. Staffing seems to be adequate for aFaculty of this size.VII. Professional DevelopmentCurrently there are no formal professional development opportunities available for the teachingstaff. This has become a major source of frustration for the teaching staff especially the juniorprofessors. They look at their careers

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

strategies for teaching digital logic touniversity students are:· Lack of prior knowledge: Most university students encounter digital logic topics for the first time at the threshold of their university career. They possess no foundation of prior information (i.e., mental schemas) that can be used to encode new information and create new schemas of understanding. This places an onus on the instructor to successfully relate the new digital logic concepts (e.g., the binary nature of data) to existing out-of-discipline concepts (such as black & white printing and images.) Such a situation requires that the instructor or course designer (a) seek information about his/her students’ academic and professional background, as well as

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

will value the material being presented by linking what would otherwise be disjointed pieces of information;(iii) helps establish increased relevance between the material being studied and student’s perception of his career needs; and(iv) aids in increasing students grasp and retention of new material.Clearly, a paradigm shift is taking place in the academic arena in which the focus is movingaway from faculty and their teaching towards students and their learning.Other Factors: The advantages of curricular reform based on an integrated model are quiteevident as has been discussed. However, to carry out the change and execute intended reform isanother matter all together. Let us not forget that if execution is not carried out

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

Strategy. Washington, D.C., 199719. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology , Engineering Criteria 2000, Baltimore, 1996.Wendell Chris King, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, Colonel King is a career Army officer currently serving as Professor andHead of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. Hecompleted his B.S. in chemical engineering and M.S. in Civil Engineering at Tennessee Technological University,and Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee. Page 7.454.12Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Osborne; Bill Carroll

often not a practical option.Program DescriptionThe CS/EE Online Program is comprised of three degree options. Based on past experience andcurrent career goals, a student can select which of the three will best serve his/her educationalneeds. Choices include master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, orComputer Science and Engineering. To emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of this program,students in one department will be required to take at least two major courses from the otherdepartment. All three degrees are conferred with the Graduate Telecommunications EngineeringCertificate. Entrance requirements for the online programs are the same as for traditionalcampus-based programs. Degree requirements are summarized in

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

expressed enthusiasm for the technique not only asa means to seeing their own intellectual growth but also as an instructional tool that“hooks things up,” in the next study we examine concept mapping as an innovative formof instruction.Study 3MethodsStudy 3 has not yet been completed. All students (n = 61) currently enrolled in thetraditionally taught yearlong design course are serving as a control group. Next year, theinstructor will use concept mapping as an instructional tool (i.e., advance organizer).These two groups, Traditional and Innovative, will be compared in terms of theirperformance on parallel exams, course evaluations, and measures of intrinsic motivation,study strategies, and career goals and preferences. To control for pre-existing

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

Page 7.1199.2their careers after graduation. The models in the VIS must be designed so that they are Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationconfigurable, to enable exploration of data and experimentation with alternative solutions.Finally, our goal is to facilitate active learning and motivate the learning of methodology throughcase study problems.A specific learning system within the VIS is organized into what we call a course module, whichis a set of curriculum materials and computational models that can be used by an instructor, forexample, as an on-line lab assignment. A course module focuses on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

student who plans to continue a career in the development ofvirtual reality applications. Since the user is the central component of a VR system, the softwareneeds to respond to that user within very demanding time frames. The development of such anenvironment requires very different program design and implementation techniques than, forexample, a database management environment.In this course students will use the VR Juggler software system as the case study for a time-critical framework for virtual reality (www.vrjuggler.org). Class exercises will involvedeveloping small projects with VR Juggler, expanding VR Juggler to add new devices ordisplays, and modify this framework to accommodate some user requirement not supported bythe current

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

make this charge. “[W]henthe contractors told the White House about the problem, they were threatened, warned not todiscuss it,” she wrote in a declaration. “They were told the documents were classified” [1, 2,15].At the Congressional hearings, employees told of being summoned to a meeting in June 1998after Salim reported the problem to her boss [3]. Salim and four other Northrop Grummancontractors were called into the office of Laura Crabtree, who was a branch chief for computersupport in the White House, and a career civil servant [7]. Mark Lindsay, counsel for the WhiteHouse Office of Administration, was present by speakerphone. Three of those employees,Robert Haas, Betty Lambuth, and Sandra Golas, testified that Lindsay told them to fix

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk

Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2238teach them. Therefore we have designed our curriculum to provide many and varied speakingopportunities for students. These start in the freshman year and continuing through the senioryear.Mechanical Engineering students make a number of formal and informal oral presentationsduring their career at Union College. By design, these presentations tend to be short and focusedin the freshman year and they become more open ended and of longer duration by the senioryear. A number of oral presentations are required as part of a course

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Hadim; Sven Esche

Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdesigned to address a set of engineering competencies as indicated in the course objectives aswell as the overall curriculum objectives which reflect a set of competencies that the graduatingengineers are expected to acquire for a successful entry into their professional careers. Thesecompetencies are achieved through hands-on collaborative project work.The project was related to the design and analysis of a tower crane used for lifting constructionmaterial into tall buildings (Figure 1). In the first part of the project, the students were guidedthrough a set of sample design calculations on an existing design. In the second part, they wereasked to develop their own design as an improvement

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

. Based on the overall analysis of responses to the surveys, we believe the programwas successful in meeting most of the project objectives outlined for students andteachers. These surveys indicated that the students were developing their problemsolving and cognitive skills, learning programming skills, teamwork skills, and, for themost part, improving their perceptions and attitudes towards careers in science andengineering. However, while we were successful in achieving most of our objectives,problems were encountered that required modifications in our plan of operation. Thelogistics of the implementation had to be modified to fit within the operations of theNewark Public Schools. In the original plan, there was to be a “lecture” by one of

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

engineering design techniques andproviding them with the necessary foundation for their careers as technicalcommunicators. In order to achieve both of these key goals and to meet university-widegeneral requirements, Sophomore Engineering Clinics are team-taught by faculty fromthe College of Engineering and the College of Communication.Conceptual Underpinning of the StudyConsidering functions of writing beyond reporting is something of a challenge. It isrelatively easy to assess how clearly a piece of writing communicates findings.Discerning other functions is more difficult, and formal definitions and theories o f thosefunctions are few and far between.Invention will refer here to the use of writing to create knowledge. In compositiontheory

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kisha Johnson; Grace Mack; John Wheatland

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

Northeastern University, students are given a limited opportunity to gain real worldexperience while still in college through a co-operative education program. The coopexperience reinforces the learning experience and allows the student to focus on non-classroom aspects of a potential permanent career. The cooperative education programalso gives students an opportunity to expand education through an experience in a realcompany. The co-op student is treated like a member of the staff and althoughinvolvement with key company decisions and actions varies by company, the experienceusually includes a healthy mix of tasks. Although this is a valuable learning experience, itlacks depth, is limited in responsibility and generally uses the student in only a

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

actual problems. The place that thesetwo aspects of the syllabus come together is in the engineering laboratory. It is here that thestudent is presented with a concrete problem to be solved, and they learn to apply the lessons ofthe classroom. The larger goal is to prepare the graduate to enter today’s engineering professionwith not only the proper problem-solving strategies and skills, but also to have gained experiencethat can be directly transferred to the needs of the contemporary career. This means exposure tothe latest technologies and an understanding of their concepts and applications. Perhaps the most significant aspect of engineering practice in the last decades has beenthe impact of computer technology in practically every

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Goodwine; Steven Skaar; Robert Nelson; Mihir Sen; James Mason; Stephen Batill

theirMechanical Engineering degree with course content in Business may opt to take one ortwo of their five Technical Electives with two business-related courses newly offered bythe College of Engineering. The first of these provides a foundation in financial, human-resources, supply-chain, organizational and innovation aspects of the modern corporationthat are pertinent to the career of a new engineering employee. The second course goesinto more depth on these matters, and also touches on issues pertaining toentrepreneurship and business plans. Developing an understanding of how engineeringactivities fit into the broader social and business context is a complement to thiscurriculum initiative

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Hensley; Marjorie Donovan; Christopher Ibeh; James Otter

forconsideration.Ethics and Life-Long LearningEthics is a key component of epistecybernetics and CUES-AM. The idea is to instill inCUES-AM users the need for: (a). professionalism and integrity in ones job responsibilities, (b). life-long learning and knowledge of code of ethics, (c). understanding the ramifications of engineering, scientific and technologicalinnovations on society and the environment, (d). effective communication skills with emphases on report writing,presentations and collaborative team activities, (e). community service and awareness, and (f). developing the ability to handle work and career-related ethical issues.The current plan is to include ethics instruction in CUES-AM workshops, and will

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

2001: 25 A’s, 1 BSince an objective of the class is to retain students capable of handling the rigors of anengineering curriculum a question on the final exam is: “What engineering career (if any) areyou most interested in and why? If you are not sure, which ones are you vacillating between? Ifyou are not interested in engineering anymore, what do you want to major in, and why?” Theresults were: Fall 2000: 19 retained in engineering, 1 transfer to Business, and 1 undecided. Fall 2001: 23 retained in engineering, 1 transfer to English, and 2 undecided.The College of Engineering is currently developing a database to investigate retention issues.Part of this effort will be to follow up with these Honors freshmen to see how many

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

, student advisory boards, exposure toundergraduate research, career fairs, informal talks with other students, research into howcompanies define IEs, talks with recruiters, speakers who come to classes, observations of seniorprojects, emails that describe jobs, postings outside of the IE office. The graduating studentmentions that some outside speakers are invited to classes, such as in the professional practiceand the user interface design courses, and that this is a good way to gain an understanding of thebroad nature of the discipline.At this point, the interview student does not know much about the options available to IEs. Thisstudent says that because IEs do not learn to design but rather they learn the tools they can use todesign, keeping