Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walden Rio

takes money to send peopleanywhere, so the first problem is the cost the program will entail. Most of the time this problemsis solved if the government gives a grant for the faculty to undergo a short training abroad. In thiscase, the faculty receives a fixed amount on which to undergo training. If a faculty is sent on atraining program on government funds, but in an area which is not necessary or needed in hisschool, it fails its purposes. Another solution is for a school to secure a government grant and dothe planning and allocation of funds. This method allows the school to minimize costs butinvolves a lot of tedious paperwork. To send faculty abroad the first and foremost need is to identify the school in the firstworld country (such

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Goeres; Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

industrial projects under theguidance of faculty (from the visiting and host institutions) and industrial liaisons as monitors. Industry representatives present to each student team, a project outlining technical issuesof a problem to solve. The host institution and industry provide the means for the student/facultyteams to formulate and develop a work plan leading to conclusive results and recommendations.Students and faculty are required to work together (thereby getting exposed to each other'scultural work idiosyncrasies) in order to submit a report and make a professional presentation tothe industrial sponsors on the findings for each project. Students will pay tuition fees and get credit at their home institution. The home

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

student outcomes. Engineering/Engineering Technology programs should be effectively planning their curricula and courses toachieve specific student learning outcomes within a continuous improvement process. 3Faculty who incorporate a continuous improvement process, must develop outcomes-basedcourses and assess these student learning outcomes.2 Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) isbased on constituents and the services, facilities and policies required to satisfy them.Measurements are used to continuously improve the services provided. Continuous improvementrequires the integration of defined objectives and regular assessment. CQI focuses on learningperformance. CQI synchronizes course objectives with the mission of the program, department

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

Page 8.201.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” electrical technicians and soldering experts. However, it is equally important not to overwhelm students from either discipline with tasks that greatly exceed their knowledge base.During the summer of 2001, a subset of the faculty who had originally met to plan thesenior design sequence spent another week revising their plan to incorporate lessonslearned from the trial study. Modifications were made to include advisors from bothdisciplines for each team, at least two students from each discipline on each team, andmore structure

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

in the summer of 2002. A large number of modules were piloted in Fall 2002 as a formativestep. This formative assessment showed that • the design of the module partially determines the robustness of the sensor output, and care must be taken to avoid situations where the sensor output is confusing. • in the process of learning how to use the sensors and create EXPERT modules, the development effort drifted toward the creation of science labs rather than the engineering activities intended. We accept this as a step in the learning process, and plan to “reengineer” the modules early in the spring semester (in time to use the new activities in the spring of 2003). • certain sensors are difficult

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Hugh Rogers, University of Central Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

. For example, the new Bachelor of Science in AppliedScience (BS in AS) program at USF will offer upper division curriculum in the areas ofGerontology, Urban Studies, and Business Administration. The plan is designed to specificallyserve the continuing educational needs of students who have earned community college A.S.degrees and utilize existing courses and resources at the university. In these programs, the A.S.degrees from Florida community colleges will be transferred as a block of 60 credit hours towardthe B.S. in A.S. degree. The remaining 60 credit hours will be earned at the university, 48 ofwhich are required to be upper division courses. Other programs across the state are beingsimilarly revised, focused on local needs, existing

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

forecasts.Tech 4’s Chip Camps continue to be well received by teachers in central Florida. This paper willreview the program of a typical Chip Camp, emphasizing the flexible elements to allow for localtalent and industry expertise to be included in the agenda and share the results of the teachersurvey. Additionally, it will contrast the 2-day teacher format to the one-day Counselor Campthat the Consortium has also developed. Finally, the paper will share the plans for the future ofTech-4 Chip Camp in the current changing economic times.The Educational ConsortiumThe Florida High Tech Corridor Council (FHTCC) is a semi-governmental institution whosemission is to support and foster community environments that are attractive to high technologybusinesses and

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Domenico Grasso

: social balances, physical balances (mass and energy), and economic balances.Balances are used to underscore the concept of tradeoff and that there are no unequivocalanswers. The Smith course is purposefully designed to be taken early in the student Page 8.512.2academic plan of study (first or second year) so as to provide a filter through whichsubsequent courses may be viewed.COURSE PROLOGUEAs their first assignment, each student is asked to calculate her ecological footprint, thebiologically productive area needed to produce resources and absorb generated waste tomaintain her lifestyle (Leadership in Environment and Developmenthttp://www.lead.org

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

engineering core. The decisionnot to create a department of bioengineering at that time was made in part because it was difficultto identify a stand-alone fundamental core for such a department.Thus we plan to define the required revisions necessary to fully encompass 'biological' into Page 8.1002.2chemical engineering curricula so as to produce an engineer equipped to work in many fields.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Session 2613Employing the time-tested paradigm used so

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

conjunction with the requirement to construct another group's part, and to tighten the integration with the manufacturing course, a step-by-step manufacturing plan may be required. 4. The Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of curriculum reform discussions, is considering integrating the Process of Mechanical Design course with the Senior Capstone sequence (currently ME 411, 412, and 413). 5. Not all groups took advantage of the opportunity to redesign the part. This likely led to the low survey score on the question relating to redesign (question 9). Students may be required to redesign the part based on the experimental data. 6. A wider selection of materials will be provided, budgets permitting

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill

articulation agreements with eleven (11) community/junior collegesaround the state of Florida. These agreements allow FAMU to deliver its upper divisiontechnology programs at these eleven locations. In the preliminary phases of planning, it was determined that the most effective means ofdelivering these programs was through the use of distance delivery techniques. Initial delivery ofprograms began during the fall semester, 1998, with an undergraduate course offering incomputer-aided circuit analysis to the Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) campus inMiami, Florida. Subsequently, other courses in EET, CET, and CNET have been offered tosome of the eleven campuses. Being a new program within the division, the manufacturingengineering technology

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

Control: Wang et al. 14 present an architecture for Internet-assisted manufacturing system control. The architecture consists of an integrated computer-aideddesign, process planning, manufacturing, and assembly (CAD/CAPP/CAM/CAA) moduleinterfaced with a central network server that connects to CNC machines over the Internet. Thearchitecture allows remote users to operate CNC machines at distant locations. The authorshighlighted the fact that the architecture could also be applied to flexible manufacturing systemsby connecting the central network server to the FMS control computer. Therefore, results oftheir research might have a potential for a web-based “system” level application.This paper presents three Web-based manufacturing system prototypes

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Carter; John Feland

terms of the Innovation process, providing hintsto guide the would-be innovator in crossing the fence from technology to market. The Druckerand the Doblin perspectives tend to be applied once an innovation approaches or crosses thefence. Used in concert, the process and product view create an Innovation feedback loop that isuseful for both the novice and expert Innovator in their quest for the new. The processunderstanding can assist the novice in planning their path to and over the fence. The productview can assist the novice in assessing if they have set the proper course. For example, Doblinemploys the Ten Types of Innovation to create the Innovation Landscape™, an industryassessment tool that applies bibliographic data to analyze where an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Graham; Ronald Bieniek

Session 2793 Multi-Campus New Faculty Development to Improve the Culture of Teaching William G. Fahrenholtz, Ronald J. Bieniek, and Steven W. Graham University of Missouri-Rolla/University of Missouri-Rolla/University of Missouri-SystemAbstractThe strategic plan of the University of Missouri calls for renewed emphasis on student learningand the creation of learner-centered environments. As major step in achieving this vision, theUniversity of Missouri (UM) system launched the New Faculty Teaching Scholars (NFTS)Program in 2001-2002.1 It is a system-wide development program for early career

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Burbach

for future research projects.The property owner agreed to pay for Pyramid’s time in planning and supervising the project andto write a final report, as well as for some time mentoring the students.Preparing the StudentsThree NC A&T students participated in the initial phase of research at the North State Gold Minesite. Two of the students were undergraduates: one of whom was a senior physics major; theother was a junior civil engineering major. The third student was a first-year master’s student inphysics. None of these three students had any previous coursework in geology or geophysics,although the graduate student had been exposed to geophysics when he had worked for an oilcompany during a previous summer. All three were minority

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

Academic Campus situated twomiles west in the historic Fan District.The VCU School of Engineering (SoE) was established in 1996 as an initiative of theUniversity's strategic planning process in response to workforce and economic developmentneeds of Richmond and central Virginia.2 The initial undergraduate programs in mechanical,electrical, and chemical engineering received ABET accreditation in 2001. The school added anew undergraduate major in biomedical engineering in the Fall of 1998, and VCU's longstanding degree programs in Computer Science joined the SoE in the fall of 2001. In May of2000 a graduate degree program in engineering was created and added to the historic graduateprograms of biomedical engineering. With the admission of its sixth

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhixue Wang; Guangpi Lai; Feiyue Wang; A. Terry Bahill; Jeff Goldberg

are transmitted back to the student. The approach allows a higherutilization of lab equipment, saves student travel time, and provides an effective tool forlearning as students can debug programs based on visual and sensor information. Thisdevelopment has been jointly conducted in the University of Arizona's Web-based AudioVideo Educational Systems (WAVES) Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences'Complex Systems and Intelligence Science Laboratory. The web site for the materials is:http://pallas.sie.arizona.edu/newwaves/ and the work has been supported by an NSF CRCDgrant and an Outstanding Scientist Program grant from the State Planning and DevelopmentCommission of China. We focus on system architecture, programming environment

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Callahan; Paul Givens

Education” FEEDS began in 1982 when the Florida Legislature provided funds for the delivery ofoff-campus graduate engineering programs in Florida, and requested that the Board of Regentsdevelop a plan for implementation of this delivery system. Chancellor’s Memorandum CM-C-04.00-02/97 outlines the structure of the FEEDS system, and provides direction for statewideoperations. While individual universities produce and facilitate the delivery of engineering degreeprograms and courses, the FEEDS system is overseen by the following three entities:• Florida Council of Engineering Deans (FCED) - Consists of the deans of the State University System (SUS) colleges of engineering. FCED reports annually to the Board of Regents regarding

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Keilson

; Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education“Creative Problem Solving”, Edward Lumsdaine & Monika Lumsdaine“Strategies for Creative Problem Solving” H. Scott Fogler & Steven E. LeBlanc“Taking Sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in science, technology and society”,Thomas Easton“The Engines of our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, JohnLienhardSomething by or about Buckminster Fuller.Proposed Plans for Writing:Essays in response to articles and current events related to technology.A portfolio of essays from the course will emphasize the importance of research, editing andrevising written work. Students will practice other oral and written communication skills inteam

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Heyman; Aisha K. Lawrey; Ronald H. Rockland

simple, organized structure fora diverse group of experts to discuss information concerning preparing for college, how studentscan have fun with engineering, entering and graduating form engineering colleges, identifyingissuses women and minorities in engineering, and entering industry.The primary goal was for participants to take what they learned from the teleconference back totheir schools to enhance their students’ knowledge about engineering. Participants could thenrelay their own visions for the future of engineering for their students, identify ways foraddressing these issues, select strategies to address perceived problems or misconceptions, anddevelop an implementation plan for reaching those visions.TopicsThe teleconference was

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Joan Burtner

. Meetings were held asscheduled, and the tee shirt committee had chosen a new design for the SWE shirt that was soldeach year as the organization's primary fund raising activity. Several students volunteered toorganize the tee shirt sale in December, and some of the proceeds were used to buy food for thespring term meetings. The advisors suggested that the club give some of the proceeds to theSchool of Engineering Faculty and Staff Scholarship Fund, and the membership agreed.During the second semester, however, the officers became less involved with plans for futureactivities. This was partly due to the fact that all four officers were seniors. The time demands oftheir Senior Design Course, as well as the prospect of looking for a job, was getting

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelia Barnett; Joan Burtner

conditioning, hospital, paper mill, power companies,telephone companies, various government contractors, and a biomedical pharmaceuticalcompany. Comments from employer evaluations on the students’ strengths and weaknesses werealso obtained in addition to data for the EC2000 a-k criteria. A synopsis of the employercomments for strengths were: 1)good communication skills, strong work ethic, well roundedness,teamwork, analytical skills, quality of work and initiative. Some comments related toweaknesses were: 1) needs to continue improving general engineering skills, and 2) could bemore assertive in verbal communication, project planning, organizational planning, and self-confidence. The combination of qualitative and quantitative feedback offers a richer

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Meckl

nothing” is a choice! Page 8.736.2 7. Review. What lessons did you learn? Can this dilemma be avoided in the future?Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSince there is insufficient time to discuss moral reasoning in detail, we provide a summary offour key ethical models:6 1. Duty (Rules)-Based Ethics 2. Ends-Based Ethics 3. Care-Based Ethics 4. Virtue-Based EthicsAfter each of these models has been briefly described in class, students are asked to apply onemoral principle to their proposed plan of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

such introduction. For future work, it is planned to access these benefitsby comparing student performance. Students that were exposed to the software will be asked to Page 8.742.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsolve the same problems that were used in the course before the introduction of the software.Then their grades will be compared to previous grades and conclusions will be drawn. It isexpected that a better overview of dynamic system behavior will be achieved by students

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

thedevelopment of each level is given in Figure 1. The president of the Universityestablishes the vision and mission at all levels of administration and academic units. TheOffice of Institutional Study develops and implements an assessment plan that isconsistent with the University’s mission, to graduates from all academic units(colleges/schools). The Dean’s office for each academic unit (college/school) developsan assessment system for students within the respective academic unit that is consistentwith the University system. UNIVERSITY MISSION (President) UNIVERSITY LEVEL ASSESSMENT (Office of Institutional Study

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

concepts gleaned from teaching workshops and observations from colleagues. He came into the FIC and described his struggles, confessing that he simply didn’t know what, if anything, could help him. Working with a FIC instructional designer, they planned an intensive solution. Weekly they would meet and discuss course planning and materials and as a team, they would revise and refine the course. The instructional designer also made weekly course visits and critiques. The FIC’s instructional designer and the engineering faculty member agreed that no stone would be left unturned; they discussed all aspects of the instructional process and the many personal facets involved in student-teacher interactions. Such an approach is

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

stop the production line. The experience also helped him shapehis research agenda to benefit industry. He suggested that six months is a minimum period for avisit of this nature.Dr. Chumbley suggested companies planning such an exchange experience for faculty membersarrange for housing, transportation, and an appropriate stipend. He also encouraged them toprovide assistance and information regarding such topics as banking, the locale, culture, history,and so forth to the faculty member. The faculty member should also plan to share his or herbackground, expectations of the visit, and possible family needs with the host site. It is helpful ifthe faculty member can make a preliminary visit to the site before the longer visit begins.Finally, Dr

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mireille Battikha

the construction knowledge by integrating several concepts in thecourse, which will help prepare engineers to solve real construction situations.IntroductionEnhancing the preparation of engineering students to deal with real construction projects requiresthe development of their abilities to handle several engineering concepts in an integrated fashion.Integrated management processes are complex and crucial for solving most real constructionsituations1. Whether a construction project involves developing a schedule, a plan, or an estimate,selecting a construction method and material, or improving its productivity and quality, engineersmust possess the skills to carry out integrated analytical and decision-making processes takinginto

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Weinstein

the central office and the new office located across the street which will allow claimsadjusters to update and submit claims information—including digital photographs—into acentral repository. The result is a project in which each student must learn a foreigntechnology, learn to work as a team, learn how to deal with the other disciplines, developa working business plan and deliver a working prototype to solve the problem. The resultsare impressive. The team figured out how to speak one another’s languages and producedan actual prototype demonstrating the synergistic combination of backgrounds andeducational experiences that were taxed into creating a remarkable solution in a shortperiod of time.By completing the project, engineering students

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Eschenbach; Mike Loose; John Whittaker

% projects? Should the person whose favorite project has justbeen rejected plan on simply waiting for a lower rate? Nucor Corporation, with a range of netequity flow rates of 45%+ has magnified the problem. One year a 13% hurdle rate, the next yeara 46% one.The between companies comparison is also revealing. The basis of selection was publicly traded,dividend paying companies that compete with each other. Further, they are in the steel industrywhich is a mature industry, requiring high capital investment and possessing relatively stabletechnology. Thus one might expect that the MARR values would be reasonably similar. Theresults show the opposite, with net equity numbers varying from 2% to 46%.The only measure that appears reasonably stable over