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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

extremely effective in potentiating the initiative and the imagination of theoccasional, but always welcome, small group of proactive students. And besides, as aninspirational contribution to an educational engineering web site 12, they are readily madeavailable to a larger audience. In this particular problem the experimental results supplied theincentive for further exploration using numerical tools that ended up being much more wideranging than initially planned, but this is one of the good points about open-ended problems:one finds the way as one goes along."If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have alwaysgot" 11. This is the traditional, risk-avoiding, time-saving, way of teaching. Exploringmultidisciplinary

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

meaningless results due to seemingly minor input errors(inconsistent units, unrealistic boundary conditions, etc.). During this semester’s activities, all ofthe finite element analysis results were reasonable. Overall, the teaming experience proved to bevaluable but several improvements are planned in the future. Planned modifications includesmaller teams, better documentation of team activities through the use of a team binder andproviding more guidelines for teaming activities.5.0 AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), Course, Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Award No. 0088315.References1. Barr, R. E

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myrna Swanberg; Daniel Solarek; Allen Rioux

possible toachieve complete articulation, “bridge” courses were specified. Bridge courses are courses Page 7.1038.3needed to transform the associate degree experience into one equivalent to the first two years of Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2547the CSET program as taken at The University of Toledo. This articulation planning provides thestudent with a complete picture of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Leffel; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

the new millennium.Continuous Process Improvement – CGEP Market ResearchDescription of the StudyFrom October 2000 through May 2001, Virginia Tech conducted a market research study toupdate our understanding of the educational needs of engineers. This comprehensive studycollected information from employers, potential market employees, current students, othernational consortium organizations, faculty, and competitors. A variety of researchmethodologies were used and included personal phone interviews, written questionnaires,and a literature review. Virginia Tech teams from the College of Engineering, UniversityOutreach, Institutional Research and Planning Analysis, and the Center for Survey Researchconducted the study. A total of 1,411

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno

, institutions at all levels must respond bypreparing highly qualified and competitive professionals. In addition, NIU has recently beenadmitted to NASULGC (National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges), Page 7.824.2* SME Manufacturing Education Plan goals; http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/eduhtml.pl?/mep/intro.htm&&&SME& Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand with this status an increased volume of regional outreach has been earmarked as the nextlogical step

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

elective for the Cornell students and, for all SU and many CUseniors, the course was used to satisfy their capstone design requirement. Early in the semesterthe students were split into six teams of five or six students. Each team had members fromSyracuse and Cornell, thereby requiring each team to collaborate at a distance. Two “team-building events” were held early in the semester: an outdoor challenge course and an afternoonof project planning followed by bowling. These helped students get to know each other sociallyand significantly eased the distance collaboration processes. Each team was given the task to perform the preliminary design of a thermo-structural systemfor a specific location on the vehicle shown in Figure 1. Three locations

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

years ago, the authors developed the concept of Just-In-Time Education™ (JITE).It follows many of the principles of Just-in-Time (JIT) Manufacturing. A brief history of JITeducation is summarized to provide an overview of the approach.The JITE objectives were converted into chapter outlines. These outlines are being converted intotheory, laboratory, and technical-communications text material. Each of the resulting texts isbeing designed so it can be used separately or as a package. Finally, an instructor’s manual isbeing developed that will contain strategies for presenting all or a portion of the instruction-material package in part and also as an entity.A trial offering of this course is planned for the Fall of 2004. (Interested faculty

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Farhad Sharifi

specifically to suit all various industrial demands, establishment ofa closer interdisciplinary activity among different fields seems to be necessary. This can beexplained as if companies plan to hire students after the second year, but leave them at theuniversity for another two years. Then the post-employment educational program can beperformed at the university. Several studies have been done regarding the importance of the relationship betweenuniversities and industries. Upgrading the training laboratories in the universities with modernstate of the art advanced equipment, with the assistance of local industries, will not only attractcompetitive students to engineering fields, but also trains them for modern industries8. As thenumber of

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

house was a vital step in extending educational activities to a broaderpublic.Investment in distance education culminated in the launch of TV SENAC. The result of aconsistent successful plan for gradual expansion, the new channel soon achieved nationwidecoverage, with the distribution of its signal via satellite, cable and open channels. The firstprivately owned channel in Brazil to deal exclusively with education and the fostering ofcitizenship, SENAC TV Network, to use its present name, is a breathtaking succession ofachievements. Gratifying achievements such as the technical standard of its programming andthe formal solutions of its content. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, the station discussesleisure, culture, quality of life

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josianne Basque; Sylvie Doré

learners define objectives for themselves; establish pertinence with related material within the learning system, with other courses, with the professional practice; avoid stressful situations by planning for a proper workload, by encouraging cooperation rather than competition; offer choices such as bonus activities, the possibility of improving material handed-in for evaluation, different subjects for projects; vary teaching style in order to match a wider range of learning styles, etc. • Another source of complexity is the exponential growth of knowledge, as

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Husson; Richard Rice; James Haile; II, S. Michael Kilbey; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

311c 312c,e 321c Ideally, a plan to assess the effectiveness of the interventions would involve forming parallelsections of each course, with some of the students enrolled in the control sections and theremaining students enrolled in the experimental sections. Also, the same professor should teachboth sections of a given course, the cohorts of students should be similar in terms of definedcriteria (e.g., GPA, fraction of commuting students, fraction of co-op students), and the students Page 7.219.3should not cross over from the control to the modified

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

, will be turned into a blueprint for certain segments of the city (time constraints prevent the design of an entire city). Design tasks include all facets of the traditional civil engineering program, such as site planning and layout, sewer and water infrastructure, water supply, wastewater treatment, buildings, transportation systems, channel design, floodplain analysis, and geotechnical work. A common, four-year design project unifies the Page 7.584.1 curriculum and allows material learned in early courses to carry forward, unlike the “traditional” paradigm wherein courses frequently stand as

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Pearlman; Kimberly Turner

Microelectromechanical accelerometers and tilt sensors which demonstrate concepts offorce and acceleration. The test experiments involve MEMS accelerometers, Game Boy, remotecontrolled or LEGO vehicles, and personal computers to allow students a hands-on approach tothese concepts. Handouts involving the workings of the MEMS (tiny accelerometers made ofSilicon) and SEM photos of the structures themselves are provided, along with a large-scaleplexiglass model of the MEMS sensor, so that students can see how the MEMS sensors work.The experiments have been tested with high-school students enrolled in a summer researchprogram at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and plans are in place to test theexperiments with younger students (8th grade) as well. The

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Qianjin Yue; Peifung Guo; Hung Tao Shen; Hayley Shen

in the training between students from the U.S. andfrom China. This paper will review the development, planning, organization, implementation,and results of the program.Program Development Page 7.1190.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe National Science Foundation has a long history of supporting domestic REU (Research forUndergraduates) programs. With the increasingly global nature of scientific and technologicalenterprise it is critically important to develop international experience

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Morton; John Gassert; Douglas Troy; Osama Ettouney

with no knowledge of a component’s internal design andimplementation can construct complex software systems by assembling software componentsthrough the use of visual design tools. Such characteristics make the component-basedarchitecture an excellent choice for developing flexible control software for manufacturingsystems3,4,5. Using the component-based approach, a set of generic software components can becreated and stored in a component library. The desired system can be assembled usingappropriately configured software components. Simulated components can be used in place of Page 7.651.1“real” components for testing and planning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Smaili

exhibit creative thinking, beyond classroom examples.• Students are able demonstrate the planning of the entire development cycle of a specific product from the statement of need to up to a finished product from a manufacturing process.• When engaged in a team activity with assigned responsibility, students are able to effectively organize the processes of the group and play different roles within the team, especially a leadership role.Infrastructure in Support of Needed ExperienceToward achieving the aforementioned goals and objectives the ME curriculum at the AUB hasbegun to address the need of their graduates for mechatronics experience through theestablishment of the Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory (MIML) and

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

Construction (CIC) became popular to integrate themanagement, planning, design, construction and operation of constructed facilities (Sanvido andMediiros, 1990). Jung and Gibson 1999 identified fourteen construction business functions thatmay be integrated using CIC (Jung and Gibson, 1999). A literature review of identifying Page 7.760.1multimedia educational experiences and computer applications in engineering and construction Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationprograms was conducted to obtain a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Cliff Grigg; Zachariah Chambers; Richard Layton

taken to date and our presentplans. We begin with some background information, follow with course and curriculum designconsiderations, and conclude with our plans for assessment. Page 7.459.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationII. BackgroundTwo of the authors (EW and CG), not being satisfied with the observed outcomes in this servicecourse, surveyed faculty in the mechanical department with the object of obtaining suggestionsfor improvement. The conclusions drawn were that

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationnegative factor being workload, which students rate at 7.9 on a 10-point scale (5 = “OK”).Students clearly enjoy the design and build aspects of the course, but find the workload overlystrenuous relative to their other courses.Student Group Interview Feedback Session — In addition to the standard FCQ, a third partyconducts a class interview to solicit in-depth course feedback7 . Suggestions for improvementfrom each semester are carefully evaluated when planning the next course offering. The majorityof the students agree that the course’s strengths are:• Combining engineering and business principles• Experiencing the hands-on

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elhag Shaban

familiar and work with engineering teams on practical projects. The capstonedesign project is a culmination of sequence of engineering courses, experimentallaboratories, summer jobs, co-op experience, team work, planning, oral and writtencommunication, applications of engineering standards, recognition of the contribution ofothers, respect to the environment, and the impact on the local economy. The majority ofthese objectives cannot be taught in a single course in the curriculum. ABET requires thatthe graduates and the capstone design should be able to demonstrate all of the aboveobjectives. The objectives and outcomes of the capstone design should be assessed andmeasured by the instructor and the results must be demonstrated to improve the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christa James-Byrnes

hours a week the student should plan on spending on the course. Now, the students are informed on the very first day that they should plan on spending 15-18 hours a week on the course. This time is derived from 3 hours per week to “attend lecture”, 3 hours of out of class study per week for each credit (9), and 3 to 5 hours per week checking the site, reading discussions, and submitting homework. Connectivity & Participation As part of the training for on-line instruction it was stressed that the students should participate in discussions and problem solving as a group to ensure that they feel connected to the class and the university. During the initial offering students were

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

visualization modules and further isolate the modules’ pedagogical effect. To doso, follow-on research was conducted using the same process, visually reinforcing the sameengineering concepts but altering the visualization modules and assessment plan. It washypothesized that the students’ negative response to the multi-media presentations in 1999 wasdue to three main factors: 1) the students were not aware that concepts presented were testable,2) the visualizations involved too much detail on the finite element method (FEM) and 3) thestudents mimicked the negative perception from one professor. Therefore, the fall 2000 workreflects data resulting from three changes to the fall 1999 experiment: 1) the professor who had anegative perception of the

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

rather than just find an empty classroom to read or do homework problems between classes. Students need to unravel the myth that they need to study to 3am in order to be successful in engineering by instead learning how to use their time throughout the day efficiently and to plan for upcoming events. Creating a ‘master schedule’ and from it each week a ‘weekly schedule’ helps students begin to manage their free time and to plan appropriately when projects and exams get assigned. [Comment: in recent years successful students seem to be using a monthly planner to keep track of their commitments.]· SQ3R Textbook Reading Method: A method that forces the student to actively engage the material being read

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

forensics scenario about Alexi Romanov: Your task today is to generate a plan for how to determine whether these remains are those of Alexi Romanov. Students were asked to respond to the following questions: (1) What can you test? (2) What samples would you hope to obtain and from whom? (3) What kinds of target genes would you use? (4) What kinds of results would be definitive or inconclusive, and (5) Analyze your plan for feasibility and reliability.Using Course Evaluation to Inform Course ImprovementFive students enrolled in the Spring 2001 pilot, four senior Chemical Engineering students andone junior Civil and Environmental Engineering student. Results from the pre-test surveyindicate

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert B. Stone; Nancy Hubing

acceptable for a problem to have more than one answer and to explore creative solutions. Weaddress these issues through team activities and hands-on creativity exercises, which arediscussed in later sections. The six topic areas we cover are listed below in Fig. 1 and a samplesyllabus is included in Fig. 2. Topic 1: Engineering design as a process: Types of design: original, parametric, redesign, reverse engineering; Team work, creativity; Simple design examples. Topic 2: Problem/project clarification and specification: Project timeline planning; Gathering customer needs; Transforming needs to engineering specifications; Benchmarking. Topic 3: Functional

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wenjuan Lu; Mahala Shillingford; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Guangming Chen

if no redevelopment is implemented. Thus, it is important for the community tomake a strategic plan of attracting more business and population back to the community, througha better utilization of the idle land under the Brownfield site redevelopment scheme. Statisticalanalysis is applied in the assessment. The results will be used for the baseline studies for futureBrownfield redevelopment.Introduction:Morgan State University (MSU) is one of the one hundred and fourteen (114) historically blackcolleges and Universities (HBCU) in the country. It is the designated urban university inMaryland charged with the mission of providing a comprehensive array of programs and servicesto the citizens and organizations of the Baltimore metropolitan area

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

have been established, it is possible to detect and identify problems, deficienciesand possible areas, tasks or processes suitable for improvement. Performance measurement alsoenables the determination of the problems’ magnitude. Unfortunately, establishing indicatorsalone in not sufficient. Measurement also requires a basis of comparison to judge the currentperformance levels against the levels intended. This practice allows management andadministrative units to identify and implement corrective actions in order to obtain the level ofoptimization and improvement needed.Additionally, indicators are not only used to measure performance, they also can be to utilized tomeasure impact 1. Impact indicators can confirm that some plan or action has

Conference Session

Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

students have worked with the Mt. Dioxincase that was developed through this project. This case raises a series of difficult ethicalproblems. For example, an EPA official is pressured to approve a soil excavation plan before allthe data from soil sampling studies has been compiled. The authors also include exercises thatemploy concepts in engineering and mathematics such as the following: What would be the liftforce acting on a vinyl tarp used to cover stockpiled contaminated soil under certainenvironmental conditions such as high wind velocity? 6 The ethical issues raised by Mt. Dioxincall for the use of technical knowledge and skill in designing and implementing effectivesolutions.The point of both of these examples is that it is not necessary

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

pursue their careers, while an “overwhelming majority” plan to seek the same careerregardless of the educational requirements. 37 Quite simply, students will go to school for aprofession that they perceive as having value.From this data, it would appear that increased education does not diminish appeal to prospectivestudents. For civil engineering this is good news: prospective students would not necessarilyview an increase in the length of education as an obstacle. Also encouraging is the informationpresented in Columns 2 and 3 of Table 1. According to the AICPA survey, engineering is aprofession about which students have a high opinion. 37 Unfortunately, engineering is notgenerally perceived as a profession worth pursuing by a majority of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

database or remote network devices, such as motor controllers. · Add an advanced PLC course as an elective.Changes Planned at Penn State AltoonaThe Automation Laboratory at Penn State Altoona will add the following technologies tobring the laboratory experience closer to current industrial practices. · A student station with a PLC with Controllogix will be added that controls a pneumatic robot using Devicenet capable sensors. Student groups will be rotated through the station so they get experience working with Controllogix programming and systems with Devicenet capability. · A student station will be added that uses a PLC to control two remote ac motors over either an Ethernet or proprietary type LAN network