Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

continuity to develop a relationship based on mutual respect. A good areafor interaction is through industry advisory boards. These have a formal structure but allow forcontinuous personal contact. Other good areas for interaction include industry sponsoredstudent projects (as long as the outcomes and deliverables are clearly understood by bothparties), guest classroom lectures, and getting-to-know-you days. To be effective there shouldbe interaction on all levels, from institution president/senior industry management toDean/Chief Engineer to student/engineer. There must also be an agreed on extraction process sothat if things don’t work out as expected one party or the other can gracefully withdraw withoutcreating hard feelings.III. Partnering with

Conference Session

ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Z. Joan Delalic; Richard Cohen; Jim J-S Chen; Dennis Silage

-training courses, dynamic modular courses, and interdisciplinary projects and research withthe support of the microelectronics industry. The microelectronics industry is acutely aware ofthe need for innovations in packaging and thermal management to supplement the advances andpromise of low power consumption CMOS design and the SOC design methodology. Suchinnovations are needed if the clock speed and computational power of compact future systemsare to increase. This initiative addresses the development of curriculum in such micro and nanoscale technology in microelectronics and VLSI and in the materials science, heat transfer, andthermal management of such devices and, as a consequence, builds a closer working relationshipwith the microelectronic

Conference Session

Inquiring MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

students in the Reservations need to be nurtured, motivated and encouraged to pursuehigher education in MSE disciplines. The College of Engineering and Architecture of NorthDakota State University and the five Tribally Controlled Community Colleges in the State ofNorth Dakota are currently working on a multi-year collaborative project to increase the numberof Native American students pursuing college education in mathematics, science, andengineering disciplines. Motivating and encouraging the high and junior high students from thefive Reservations in the State to pursue college education in engineering is one of the majorobjectives of the project. Currently in its third year, the project is engaging groups of high andjunior high students from

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill

one of the bins.The basic skills taught in this class are ones expected to be valuable to engineers and also tothose students who choose careers in other fields. In the “basic skills” portion of the course,students learn to · work in teams · analyze and present data using a variety of coordinate systems · use spreadsheet software · draw and analyze simple electrical circuits · use a mathematics package (MATLAB) · write laboratory and technical project reports · prepare visual aids using computer software · give effective oral presentations · make multi-view and isometric sketches · make section views · make working drawings, including dimensions and tolerances, to be

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

in UK Materials faculty. It presents an extremely effectiveway of working developmentally with the materials community, and outputs from thefunded projects are made available to the whole community via a final workshop,Centre web-site and final reports.Fund for the Development of Teaching & Learning (FDTL) projectsThe UK government higher education funding councils in 2000 provided funding forthe establishment of the following three projects aimed at encouraging innovation andstimulating developments in teaching and learning within the area of materialstechnology: § The Keynote Project (focusing on key skills in the curriculum) § DOITPOMS (enhancing student learning through the use of C&IT) § Tutoring Materials (identifying

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke

the course.When first conceived, it was believed that the design and manufacturing portions of the coursecould be close-coupled such that the extensive manufacturing laboratory facilities available atKettering University could be used to create prototypes of the design projects. Weekly meetingswith an interdisciplinary team of faculty developed interesting projects but topics that would notlend themselves to the close-coupling philosophy. The major obstacle was that themanufacturing facilities would be used in a non-traditional manner and would not allow the Page 7.303.1students to see the proper utilization of the equipment. An example

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jenkins; John Kramlich

………………. - Students iv) Design projects………………. - Students v) Reviews………………………. - Student peers - Instructors - Outside experts vi) Self Assessments…………….. - Faculty/instructors vii) Seminar attendance…………. - Students viii) TA evaluations……………... - Students - Instructors Ceramic Engineering i) Completion of required courses - Students ii) Experiential learning…………. - Students (research, design, co- op, intern

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

. At the end of the program the students have solidknowledge of basic science courses, basic engineering courses and specific engineering courses,besides the experience acquired with the development of projects in partnership with enterprises.I. IntroductionPeople live today in a world of no frontiers, with complete new values, a global world, in themiddle of post industrial revolution, neo liberal policies and no jobs. The challenge in Brazil, likeany other Country of West World is to form professionals with scientific minds to developscience and technology in according to the complexity of modern day-by-day life. Science andtechnology has to promote the progress of contemporary society drawing a complete new future.It is essentially, to make

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

introductorythermodynamics modules include interactive exercises, immediate feedback, graphical modeling,physical world simulation, and exploration. This paper presents and demonstrates some of theactive learning exercises developed to date specifically for this project. Assessment methods tomeasure the effect of active learning in virtual learning environments that are under developmentare also discussed.1. IntroductionIn a recent speech [1], Michael Parmentier, Director of Readiness and Training, U.S. Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, referred to today’s learners as “The Nitendo Generation” whose firstchoice for learning is not static text and graphics, but rather interaction with rich multimedia andsimulations. Consequently, the U.S. Department of Defense

Conference Session

Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

firststep in our assessment, we analyzed papers and project reports from both classes for thequality and quantity of the references which students used. Citations were reviewed forscholarly publications, for currency, and for their overall breadth in representing the projecttopic. This gave us a benchmark of the students’ command of engineering resources beforethey were given access to our web site. As we analyzed the papers, we discovered that thestudents needed access to examples of technical report writing, and guidance on how to citetheir references and how to create a complete bibliography.Project GoalsThe goals of our project were to: 1) significantly improve the students’ knowledge of theliterature of their discipline; 2) increase the

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

. 1IntroductionEngineering design involves visualization. This visualization requires understanding howpieces of structures or machines fit together and how they will function when exposedto loads. Engineering laboratories provide critical hands-on experiences that buildvisualization skills at the same time that material or structure behaviors aredemonstrated. But engineering laboratory time is limited partly because of creditreductions in the curriculum and cost restrictions. Engineering laboratories areexpensive from the machines needed to conduct the experiments to the staff timeneeded to train and support the activity. The project reported here is focused towardoptimizing the use of laboratory time.Historically, students came to the university

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

engineeringdesign of different classical bus architectures, and discuss various CPU’s and peripherals. In thelaboratory students’s design and build their own custom microprocessor projects using thepopular and versatile 68HC11, an embedded CISC (“complex instruction set computer”) CPU.This laboratory particularly needs an adroit understanding of the HC11’s software architecture,i.e. its unique assembly language. Giving students a better introduction to HC11 assemblylanguage would allow us to concentrate more on hardware system architecture and advancedsoftware programming techniques like mixed assembly and C, which has routinely been taughtin the laboratory since 1995.Based on these diverse needs, we took the unusual step of deciding to teach two

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

authentic and real-world environments. · ABET guidelines also promote authentically-based engineering projects · Toys allow learners touch, feel, and manipulate models of real world-applications 2. Learning should involve social negotiation and mediation. · This supports and extends ABET guidelines by letting students work in groups with toys as the shared manipulative for learning 3. Content and skills should be made relevant to the learner. · Example: Use a toy to demonstrate fundamental properties of the content in a way a student can easily remember. See “Airplane Exercise” in Appendix. 4. Content and skills should be understood within the framework of the learner’s prior knowledge. · Link #3

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Taras Grechyn; Petro Gogolyuk; Ilya Grinberg

curriculumdevelopment approaches. Theoretical instructions, laboratory exercises, and projects shouldinclude emerging issues and be common to several disciplines across the curriculum.One of the topics of such integration is identifying and linking related issues in electricalengineering/electrical engineering technology and thermodynamics courses.An example of such a topic is sizing conductors based on their current carrying capacity as wellas fault current calculations.Power distribution systems for industrial facilities with voltages less than 1 kV are decisive interms of systems’ reliability, voltage quality, energy savings, and electromagnetic compatibilityamong others.In such systems only fuses or automatic (molded case) circuit breakers are used to

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

Session 2309 A Biomedical Engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program at Purdue University Karen M. Haberstroh, and Thomas J. Webster Department of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1296IntroductionA recent study by the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that highest need for engineers inthe next decade will be in the biomedical sector, with 33% more jobs projected by the year20081. Clearly, programs are needed to increase the number of qualified and diverseengineers trained in biological sciences and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

Session 2793 Batch Grading of Excel Homework Assignments Dennis R. Stevenson, P.E. Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-ParksideThis is a report of a design project to incorporate automated grading of Excel homeworkassignments in an engineering economy course. The instructional faculty wished to (1) reducethe amount of time spent on grading and at the same time (2) improve the quality of grading and(3) reduce the lag time in providing feedback of results to students.A grading system, somewhat unimaginatively named Grader4, has been used for

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion

relatively consistent with only minor changes. This consistency cannot besaid for the focus and content of the laboratories. Initially, the weekly laboratory assignmentswhere used to reinforce specific VHDL features or hardware principles and then were followedby a multi-week quarter ending project. This bottom-up approach was met with limited success. Page 7.787.61 For the record, Xilinx’s Foundation Series version 3.1 is currently being used. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationMany

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Duff

subject semesters. Much of thestructure of the course as it was to be taught in the Internet version was incorporated into those twosemesters of the traditionally taught course. The essential characteristics of learning elements such asquizzes, homework, exams and group projects, were then carried over into the Internet version. As aresult, a number of specific comparisons could be credibly made between the traditionally taught courseand the Internet taught course.Some features incorporated into the Internet course are 1) that both quizzes and homework are nowautomatically graded so that immediate feedback is provided to the student, 2) some course materialhas been animated and student group projects are presented to the rest of the class on the

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

Session 3130 Development of a Problem Test Bank for Linear Circuits and Its Implications for Improving Learning and the Assessment of Student Learning Charles F. Yokomoto, Maher E. Rizkalla Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringI. IntroductionIn this paper, we describe an on-going project that is taking place in our departmentwhose goals are to establish some uniformity in the assessment of student learning acrosssections in our introductory linear circuit analysis course, to promote an understanding inthe culture of our department of the different levels of cognitive

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationpredecessors did, their experiences for the most part are limited to those of an "end user," and nota "developer." Therefore, the concept of programming is foreign to many of them.(ii) It is well understood that a programming language cannot be learned by just reading a text-book or listening to class lectures. One needs to read the textbook, attend lectures, and more im-portantly, practice the subject matter by writing programs. This is the justification for addinglaboratory modules to programming courses.An improvement to the lecture technique of teaching programming courses is to run the sampleprograms in the classroom and show the results via projection display equipment. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

. International Experiences 10 Tours Begin 10a. Library Skills 10b. Student Panel 11a. Ethics 11b. Registration Review (Registration begins this week) 12 Fall Break – students work on projects, classes do not meet 13a. Units and Dimensions 13b. Estimation of Answers 14 Thanksgiving—students work on projects, classes do not meet 15a. Minidesign #3 Demonstration in Class 15b. Course Evaluation 16 Grade review, meetings with instructor Page

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

planning.The program incorporates Information Technology (IT) to facilitate students’ creativity andindependent thinking. Lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, design projects, practical training,industrial visits and seminars are employed to equip the students with principles and practicalaspects of CE.In both institutions, students typically complete the degree course requirement in four years. Atthe UF, a bachelor degree study is divided into two phases: general education and upperdivisions. In the first two years, students take: Writing for Engineer, Humanities, Social &Behavior Science ,General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Geometry &Calculus, Physics with Calculus and Physics Laboratory (see Table 1).In the

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

system are both easily observable and related to fluid mechanics. Effective use of these phenomena as demonstrations would bring a lively atmosphere in the classroom and help inspire students to learn the subject. (4) Homework or projects. Some blood problems are suitable for more in-depth study and can thus be used as homework or projects in the course. In our classroom experience, we noticed how merely mentioning such topics immediately captured the student’s attention and galvanized their interest unlike anything we had seen before. Working through this type of projects would provide a deeper insight to some key concepts in fluid mechanics.III. ImplementationThe plan mentioned above was implemented in the fall semester

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

creation of a modernteaching laboratory, curriculum design, and growth in faculty and students.The new MS program follows the structure of our existing MSEE and MSCE degrees, andrequires little additional university investment. Specific course offerings will be described, alongwith their laboratory components and the set-up of the Photonics Instructional Laboratory.Curricular overlap with senior electives and with graduate students from other disciplines will alsobe presented. Connections for research and entrepreneurship in photonics have been created,allowing students to undertake MS thesis work, MS projects, or prepare for Ph.D. level study.Recent connections to distance learning will be described.This paper also will describe the

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

· Pocket Logger · Oscilloscope · Digital MultimeterOnce the data was gathered, students learned things such as lab report formats, importantequations and Microsoft Excel. All three tools helped students take their experimental data andpresent it in a usable format.LabworkEngineering is an application of scientific knowledge to real world situations. To truly knowwhat engineering is, students must have some sort of real life situations and projects to workon. That is where the labs come in. These labs are not simple, one-day labs that one wouldexpect to do in a physics or chemistry class. They are a series of related labs, each series

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edwin Zivi; Jenelle Piepmeier

Academy students andgraduates approximately 125 ABET accredited Systems engineering majors per year. The ten-fold increase in Systems department enrollment since moving to Maury hall in 1976 required aninnovative facility design to provide the most laboratory, classroom, and design project supportspace within the existing building structure.During the 1999-2000 academic year, the joint Systems and Electrical Engineering departmentrenovation committee performed a requirements driven study. Initial steps included therequirements questionnaire summarized in Appendix A and the formation of subcommittees tostudy: • Temporary swing space facilities • General facility design • Lab-classroom designConcurrently, a pilot “classroom-of-the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie Ofosu

profession as a faculty teaching in atechnology program, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)stipulate that one must have some industrial experience, among other expectations. Thevalue of this lies in the fact that it helps in bringing aspects of the real world to theclassroom. This helps the students to appreciate how the theories and principles learnt inthe classroom relate to practices in industry. Page 7.555.1Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education.This project was sponsored by the Minority Office and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Eberhardt

designed to re-enforce concepts and expose students to a cooperative laboratoryenvironment. Student groups participate in two conceptual design projects, one a flightvehicle, the other a space mission. Multi-media presentations provide the framework forthe concepts. To attract the widest range of students possible, analysis has beeneliminated in favor of conceptual understanding.AA101 has always made use of the web for providing information. In the past, the webpage was static. The AA101 web page has now transitioned to a dynamic resource wherestudents can interactively determine such things as how range or speed affects aircraftweight. They can interact with a visualization tool to understand simple controls.Students can participate in discussion

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand population studies… It advances fundamental concepts, creates knowledge for the molecularto the organ systems levels, and develops innovative biologics, materials, processes, implants,devices and informatics approaches for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, forpatient rehabilitation, and for improving health”.IV. The Biomedical Engineering ProjectThe coordinating team of Lusiada Engineering School has conceived and developed a project ofan biomedical engineering program, which basic characteristics are:- under graduation,- five years,- the inclusion of new courses- the effective work in projects 2.So besides the

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Petry

assessment plan. The goals andobjectives are clearly defined. Learning experiences and assessment measures are bothtraditional and innovative. These innovative approaches will serve as a model to otherdisciplines.Assessment OverviewEducational assessment is generally considered a method of evaluating student performance andattainment. Although this may sound relatively simple in fact it is a complicated challenge foradministrators and faculty at universities throughout the United States. Architectural programsare somewhat unique. In addition to the traditional means of assessment (i.e. testing) thesubjective nature of the design studio projects provide challenges and opportunities for bothstudents and faculty. Portfolios, always hallmarks of