Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

inMeasurements. He has been involved in undergraduate labs and in interdisciplinary programs to improve students’technical communication skills throughout his career at Clemson.ART YOUNG is the Robert S. Campbell Chair in Technical Communication and Professor of English. He teachescourses in writing and literature, and he founded and coordinates Clemson University's Communication-Across-the-Curriculum program.DAVID MOLINE, Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering, serves as the undergraduate laboratory coordinator and is aPhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering. He has contributed several innovative lab exercises to the curriculum. Page

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

). Each material has unique origins,chemistry, properties, standards, construction industry applications and tradeassociations, which are included in this introduction.A related goal is to introduce students to research and communication skills that willenable them to access technical information on materials, evaluate that information forquality, summarize findings concisely and communicate those findings both in writingand orally. The student will assemble a portfolio of information that has the potential tobe a useful resource on materials throughout their academic career at MSOE and beyond.GRADING GUIDELINES: The course grade will be determined from three primaryactivities—lecture, project and laboratory. There are weekly quizzes (with the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Layton

, Measurement, and Control, 119, pp.1-4.17. Doebelin, E.O., 1998, System Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis, Simulation, Design, Dekker, New York, pp. 417- 419, 539-544.RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelveyears in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. He is chair of the Modeling andIdentification Committee of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, and a member of the TeachingWorkshop Group of the ERM Division of ASEE, giving workshops on building student teams

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kena Burke; Paul Rainey

Survey during the winter and spring of 2000. The goals were to solicitinformation regarding achievement of the respective program’s educational objectives and toconfirm outcomes achievement.Most programs targeted alumni three years out of school. However, some programs targetedalumni three and five years out, to ask about professional licensure issues which were included intheir educational objectives. The intent was to gather information regarding alumni perspectiveon two aspects of the educational objectives: Achievement and appropriateness of objectives foreach specific engineering program. Also, more emphasis was placed on feedback regardingprofessional development, life-long learning and career choices. A place for commentsregarding program

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Evans; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo; Phillip Cornwell; Brian Self

FrancescoCostanzo would like to acknowledge the support provided by the National Science Foun-dation through the CCLI-EMD grant DUE-0127511. In addition, Francesco Costanzo wishesto acknowledge the support provided by the National Science Foundation CAREER pro-gram throught grant No. CMS-9733653.References [1] “Annenberg/CPB math and science collection,”, 1989. P.O. Box 2345, South Aburlington, VT 05407-2345. [2] D. B ROWN AND J. C LEMENT, “Misconceptions concerning newton’s law of action and re- action: The underestimated importance of the third law,” in Proceedings of the Second Interna- tional Seminar on Misconceptions and Educational Strategies in Science and Mechanics, J. D. Novak, ed., 3, Ithaca, NY, 1987, Cornell University, pp. 39

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

a NSF CAREER award to study the ethics of nanotechnology. Page 8.896.10Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & 10Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

benefits associated withthe array of practices under the learning communities’ umbrella. These benefits havebeen reported as improvements in student academic achievement, increased studentretention, student growth in self-esteem and self-confidence, and an increase in an arrayof student interpersonal attributes. To the extent that these outcomes can be replicatedthrough learning communities, faculty and administration are found as staunchsupporters. Lastly, learning communities are seen as fortifying students with skill setsthat ideally prepare them for a diverse array of professional careers. In essence, we seemto be about the business of fostering meaningful and lasting learning replete with “learnerindependence and choice, intrinsic motivation

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Onofrio Russo; Gunter Georgi

research in highschool. Why is this? Normally these students are given the due date only. This is whymany students will wait until the last night before the project is due, and then work on theproject to try and finish it on time. Success is not ensured because time has not beenproperly allotted to perform the tasks as specified in the scope of work.The concept of milestones contributes heavily to the success of the project. As part oftheir contract (Syllabus) and in the specifications (Manual) milestones are clearly defined.This course requires students to maintain a Design Portfolio. This book includes weeklyprogress reports used to monitor the students’ progress and is a file the students’ may useafter course completion for their own career

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

amount of knowledgethat must be mastered for success and professional growth, yet pressure exists to reducethe curriculum requirements in many engineering programs to encourage student Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.814.1 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationenrollment. Also, working engineers have a greater need to acquire knowledgethroughout their busy careers. Therefore, improvements in the effectiveness of theengineering learning processes are important issues. Better understanding of the learningprocess and application of

Conference Session

Models for Integrating Writing II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Pinkus

professionalengineers who have decided to go into writing or teaching midway through theirengineering career. More importantly, and as our large course involvement proves, theUniversity of Toronto has a good number of engineering professors who actively work tohelp incorporate written communication skills into the student curriculum. Some of theseprofessors have also been quite helpful in helping the ECC staff with the technical contentof specific assignments, but they could increase their role by working even closer with usat times.Develop an assignment databaseSomething that our group is actively engaged in at the moment is to consciously begincollecting assignment samples and information throughout the year. While the assignmentstend to change from year to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

him achance of fast career and excludes an adaptation period which is inevitably experienced by ayoung specialist. As a rule, external students have no problems of dwelling and life. Besides,the external form of education is practically indispensible for those who has to combine labouractivity with study. That is why the number of external students is stably about 30% of thetotal number of students in Russian higher schools 18. Under conditions of developing marketrelations, the advantages which are given to the student by the external system of trainingessentially raise its chances not only of a survival but also make it more competitive in relationto other forms of training. However, it should be recognized that there are many

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

- and nanoscale mechanics.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the National Science Foundation though the Materials Research Science andEngineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostrcutured Materials and Interfaces (award # DMR-0079983) and CAREER Awards to Wendy Crone (award # CMS-0134385) and Robert Carpick(award # CMS-0134571) for supporting the development of our curricular materials and theirimplementation. We would also like to thank the research groups of D.J. Beebe at the Universityof Wisconsin - Madison and J.S. Moore at the University of Illinois – Champaign/Urbana fortheir assistance in the early stages of the laboratory development

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

%success rate; with the video prelab the success rate increased to over 90%.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the National Science Foundation though the Materials Research Science andEngineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (award # DMR-0079983) and the Distinguished Teaching Scholars Program (award # DUE-0123904) forsupporting the development of our curricular materials and their implementation. This work isalso supported by the National Science Foundation through a Graduate Fellowship to AnneBentley, and CAREER Awards to Wendy Crone (award # CMS-0134385) and Robert Carpick(award # CMS-0134571).References1. J. Karoub, “Merrill Lynch Report Bullish on Nanotech as an Investment,” (Small Times, 2001), Vol. 2002.2. S. J

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

integration and connections between the academic major and the work world or to improve senior career preparation and pre professional development. o 5.7% uses it to promote integration and connections between general education and the academic major. o 5% uses to promote the coherence and relevance of general education. (http://www.sc.edu/fye/resources/surveys/survey_r.htm).At the engineering technology department at Miami University, the senior design project as acapstone course assimilates engineering design, analysis, and liberal education concepts such ascost/benefit analysis, environmental issues, and ethics. The capstone course presents an excellentopportunity to bring together the student’s entire undergraduate

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

Session 1170 Using the Kumon Method to Revitalize Mathematics in an Inner-Urban School District Barbara A. Oakley†, Doreen Lawrence††, Walter L. Burt†††, Broderick Boxley†††, Christopher J. Kobus† † School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University/ †† Kumon, North America/ †††School District of Pontiac Abstract It is a compelling challenge to provide inner-urban K-12 students with the skillsnecessary for a career in engineering. A solid grounding in

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Erdogan Sener

, if at all. It is hoped that papers of this nature willprovide a motivation for publishers to be aware of green issues and encourage authors to include suchdevelopments in their text for a more broad and meaningful coverage of the green alternatives indesign and construction.Another conclusion is that we may be short-changing our construction-management-careers-boundstudents in terms of not providing enough of a perspective on what the future holds so that they aremore cognizant of the “green” alternatives in their undertakings and that they help to promote thegreen cause. “With improved education regarding the nature of sustainable projects, and their truecosts and operational requirements, people will see it is not difficult to create

Conference Session

Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Grigg

appropriate;• The ability to work with faculty to integrate patent and trademark instruction into the curriculum where appropriate;• The ability to conduct patron surveys, manage the collection, and administer the duties the USPTO requires of PTDLs; and• The ability to serve as an advocate to the USPTO for patron needs.IX. Role as Advocate for Patrons to the USPTOPatent librarians, rather than spending their career trying to make the best of a flawedinformation system, must serve as advocates for their patrons. Why, for instance, is theUSPTO continuing to spend money and resources on CASSIS, an antiquated searchsystem that can only be used at a PTDL, when full text of patents is only available from1976? This does not help the independent inventor

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

very available to the students, telling the class the first day“If the door is open, come on in.” He also encouraged them to call him at home. Students went tothe library, some for the first time in their college career, and also spent time on the Internetresearching concept questions. Since there was not a single correct solution, the students werelimited in how much they could depend upon their classmates for support although, based uponstudent comments, there was frequent communication with classmates, especially in the computerlab before class. Students expressed a need for support through feedback from the instructor suchas comments on their papers and examples of what a correct assignment that met his expectationswould look like. They

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Loock; Joan Dannenhoffer

the backbone on which the programs are built. This workpresents the development of students and how institutions can foster student success.Student success is explicitly defined as more than earning a sufficient grade point average tograduate. The definition includes making progress toward fulfilling their educational and personalgoals, including developing academic and intellectual competence, establishing and maintaininginterpersonal relationships, developing an identity, deciding on a career and lifestyle, maintainingpersonal health and wellness, and developing an integrated philosophy of life.Also in this reference, the implementation and effectiveness of freshman seminars as a studentengagement tool and how institutions can be responsive

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementsPenn’s Engineering Entrepreneurship Program reflects material extracted from hundreds ofrelevant books, articles, case studies and journals. It also reflects the advice provided by manyhighly regarded academicians and practitioners. The foresight to launch this Program isattributable to the leadership of Eduardo Glandt, Dean of Penn’s School of Engineering andApplied Science. For his encouragement and for the opportunity to undertake this tremendouslyrewarding “second career,” the author is immensely thankful.Case methodology represents much of the pedagogic approach in our Program. A number ofpublications provided helpful advice about case teaching24. Moreover, hours of

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

topics. This is especially true of the students who enter the course with lowinterpersonal skills. Students leave the course with increased skills in communication, creativity, andrisk-taking. They have a foundation for understanding team development, conflictresolution, personality preferences, values, and ethical decision making. All of thesetopics are important components of a successful career in engineering. Page 8.687.20 I learned about theories and concepts 4.1 related to teamwork I learned about skills needed for effective 4.0 teamwork I was given the

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

- is desirable. The common denominator for all ET scholarly activities should bepeer review in some form and the dissemination of the results of those scholarly activities. ETfaculty at different points in their career may choose to focus on any of the six possiblecombination models of ET scholarship listed below:1. Discovery and Teaching2. Integration and Teaching3. Application and Teaching4. Discovery, Integration & Teaching5. Integration, Application & Teaching6. Discovery, Integration, Application & TeachingThe model of ET scholarship above recognizes the creativity and diversity that exist among ETprograms and faculty. In fact, Boyer suggested that a bona-fide acknowledgement of the rangeof faculty talents “would

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

prestigious CAREER proposals that emphasize both technical andeducational excellence. They say that proposals may not assume extraordinary time expendituresin order to reach their goals. Proposals must detail realistic time expenditures. Quantifying thenumbers of publications in both pedagogy and technical areas would show if this zero-sum gamedoes hold with more technical papers leading to fewer pedagogical papers. One could check thishypothesis by correlating these publication categories over a period of time. This data set couldalso then be used to see if the total number of publications, not just pedagogical publications, didcorrelate well with school rankings. One would expect that the higher number of publicationscorrelates with higher rankings

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

SEMESTER?___Yes ___No If yes, please go no further.You are:___Grad Student ____Senior ____Junior ____Sophomore ___FreshmanWhat is your present major?_________________________________________You have worked at (please mark all that apply):___an internship ___a co-op ___a job within the engineering fieldDo you believe engineering students have deficiencies in their technical communication skills?___Yes ___NoWhat types of communication have been assigned in your courses (please mark all that apply). this college semester career ___ ___ Formal presentations ___ ___ Short oral presentations ___ ___ Demonstrations ___ ___ Essays

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

in formal training. • Working on an ambiguous project is more time consuming than other projects here. • How to think outside of the box. • That real-world problems require in-depth thinking and problem solving and that the Page 8.299.12 skills I have learned earlier in my student career are actually applicable. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • My designs will work in real life and I am capable of designing something

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

required if designs are to be successful. Structured laboratory experiences (eachstudent or group of students perform rigid and contrived experiments) require less facultyresources but do little to develop student design and project management skills [10][12]. A com-promise between the two approaches has been created by the author [2].The embedded systems design experience described in [2] strives to develop professional skillsthat will serve students well in their careers in addition to the “traditional” technical skills the stu-dent expect. Overarching goals of the experience are to expose the student to a realistic embeddedsystems design environment and to develop the student’s teamwork and lifelong learning skills.The design experience strives

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

of theCollege of Arts and Letters at Southwest Missouri State University, Special Assistant to the President forStrategic Planning at University of Delaware, and Department Chair of Modern Languages at ClevelandState University.RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of theNational Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: facultymember at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering atUniversity of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University ofDelaware

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

technical entrepreneurship, facilitate technology transfer and make the Central Floridaarea a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity. This program is strongly oriented into steeringundergraduate and graduate engineering students towards careers in entrepreneurship.The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a growing metropolitan research university withcomprehensive programs of teaching, research and service to more than 35,000 students. UCFconducts high-tech research in Optics, Lasers, Communications, Simulation, Alternative energy,Materials, and other branches of engineering. UCF has developed, in partnership with industry,world-class centers and institutes that focus on these strengths and other core competencies.UCF’s location in the heart

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

, has got to be the hardest course I have ever taken in my life. It has taught me what real hard work meant to do well. I understand now what it means to study hard, getting help from the P often and working together with classmates. If I had worked hard in the beginning of the semester as hard as I did the end of the semester, I would have done awesome. My P was one of the most motivated P's I had so far in my cadet career. He knows his stuff, and he enjoys being here. He'll do anything to help a cadet; stay late hours after school to work with cadets. • Too much work. • CPT Vander Schaaf is a very good instructor and shows superb understanding of the concepts he is instructing. • I thought that

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nasir Bilal; Harold Kess; Douglas Adams

. Harold Kess is a senior undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as asummer intern to develop many of the roving laboratory experiments discussed here. Harold isthe winner of a John M. Bruce Memorial Scholarship for his research work in nondestructiveevaluation of composites and will be pursuing a Masters degree in mechanics in the fall of 2003.Dr. Douglas Adams is a third year assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and is theinstructor in the course discussed here. He is the winner of the 2003 Solberg Award for BestTeacher in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue and a 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for