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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mandeep Thukral; Kurt Gramoll

and interesting teaching methods are being developed andimplemented almost monthly due to the versatility of the Internet. In particular, the Internetallows convenient collaboration between students [1] for both engineering education and design[2]. Computers and electronic media can also be used to supplement traditional methods ofinstruction, such as lectures and textbooks, with simulations, animations and even on-demandvideo [3]. It would be hard to say that these new media types and networks are not useful in Page 7.1308.1teaching engineering education or for technical training. However, to use the Internet or Proceedings of the

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Emanuel

Conference Session

ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

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

industryThis interdisciplinary engineering educational program, which involves ECE and ME, has threecomponents to better prepare undergraduate, graduate and continuing professional educationstudents to become practitioners in microelectronics technology: 1. The cross-training of senior undergraduate engineering students in ECE and ME with modules of appropriate ECE courses taught to ME students and, conversely, modules of ME courses taught to ECE students. 2. Intermediate graduate and continuing professional education courses in ECE and ME, which continue this cross training. 3. Modular advanced graduate courses, which can be dynamically modified to satisfy

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendell King

here is that if these components are to be part of the engineer’s job, they should bepart of their education. At West Point we have developed this concept into the overarchingeducational goal of the Academy, stating 1; Graduates anticipate and respond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world. Continuing with the example of design integration, how many engineers receivededucational preparation on this part of the engineering process? Nearly all senior engineers didnot, while younger engineers may have some course work in this component of the design

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Webert Lovencin; Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

Session No: 1160A COMPARISON OF CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMAT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AND THE NATIONALUNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PAKISTAN Adnan Javed 1, Webert Lovencin2, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi 31,2 Graduate student, Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida/3 Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaAbstractThis paper compares Civil Engineering Education curriculum at the University ofFlorida (UF) with the National University of Scienc e and Technology (NUST),Pakistan. A review of courses from each school is presented to understand theCivil Engineering curriculum structure at two

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ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Currin

an effective tool is one which:1. Is easy to administer;2. Clearly defines what is being assessed t hrough well defined learning outcomes;3. Produces quantifiable results; and4. Facilitates communication of the results.The Capstone Design Course:It is worthy to note at this juncture that the capstone design course is still viewed as an essentialpart of the civil engineering technology curriculum at SPSU. Experiences when attempting to usethe course as an outcomes assessment tool have not diminished its role in the education of ourstudents. If anything, having taught the course to over 350 students in the last 5 years, its valuehas been recognized by both faculty and students alike.Before proceeding with a discussion of the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

changes.1. IntroductionSingapore is widely recognized for its high level of academic achievements. Civil Engineering(CE) plays a vital role in the development of Singapore’s infrastructure. Nanyang TechnologyUniversity (NTU) offers CE program for undergraduate and graduate students. The Universityhas implemented a hybrid American-British degree structure that incorporates the credit systemwith a prescribed core of essential subjects. This system facilitates a broad-based educationwhere students are encouraged to take general electives outside their main discipline. At theUniversity of Florida (UF), the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering provides acomprehensive CE program that includes all aspects of CE curriculum. The Department

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nathaniel Allen; Mike Klein; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

engine project was in the spring of 2001. Student response wasvery positive.IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Idaho is similar to otherdepartments in seeking ways to improve recruitment and retention as well as ideas that improvethe educational experience for our students. The premier issue of “Mechanical EngineeringDesign” magazine included an article that described how MIT students fabricate and assemble aminiature Stirling engine.1 The article reviewed the educational objectives of the project. Theseincluded assembly, designed in tolerances, concepts of power and energy transfer, analysis ofengine power output, and efficiency. Additionally, we reviewed nearly 300 student-developedweb pages on the project.2

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Osborne; Bill Carroll

and mustdesignate either UT-Arlington or UT-Dallas as their home institution. Students receive thedegree from the home institution but take courses from both. The program was conceived in thespring of 1999, and course development began in the fall of that year. The first courses wereavailable online in fall 2000 with the full complement of 24 courses planned for the 2002academic year. US News and World Report 1 recently selected CS/EE Online as one of the bestonline graduate programs in engineering.The following two sections will provide the context in which the program was conceived anddeveloped and program details, respectively. Course development related issues are thendiscussed. The final two sections of the paper describe administrative

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edward Vavrek

7 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdesign and analyze a disk cam that will provide a follower the displacement shown if figure 1.The general procedure used to graphically construct the profile is covered in the course outline.AutoCAD is used to graphically design the disk cam shown in figure 2 that would give thefollower the motion in figure 1. Follower Displacement Follower Displacement 1.200 Follower Displacement (in.) 1.000

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

breadth of options, while others offered few or no electives.Some programs offered a thesis-option, but only one required a thesis. Several programsrequired a capstone project which is usually industry-related. The information is presented inTable 1 for easier comparison. Table 1 - Comparison of program details

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NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeannette Neal

support from Erie Community College, the University at Buffalo, and our industry-academia partners is also acknowledged.1 Introduction and Project OverviewThe Web-Net Tech Program is being developed by Erie Community College in collaborationwith the University at Buffalo, guided and supported by education-industry partners. This NSFproject is designed to assist industry meet its needs for a well-trained information technology(IT) workforce and prepare students for professional careers in IT, focusing on the high-demandarea of web-network technology. The primary target population for the new Web -Net TechProgram includes industry personnel in need of IT skills training or upgrading, students inacademia, and persons desiring to join the IT

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Joan Walker

adopt traditional approaches to studentassessment and instruction: assessment is usually a written test requiring students toprovide correct answers to fact-based questions; instruction is largely a linear progressionof lectures organized around the general taxonomy of the subject matter. Summaries ofcurrent research in the learning sciences, 1 however, suggest that these approaches offerstudents limited opportunities to develop a rich conceptual understanding of thefundamental principles and applications of a domain. As part of a concerted effort toimprove BME education, the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT EngineeringResearch Center (VaNTH ERC) is investigating alternative methods for capturing andassessing students’ conceptual

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Kenimer; Jim Morgan

same schedulefor a group of three or four courses. These courses have some overlap in (or connection between)subject matter.Each course uses a teaming concept, with engineering dividing the students into teams of four,and math and science using lab partners. Since team assignments are not necessarily consistentbetween courses, a student may work in teams with several students from within the cluster whoare not part of their engineering team. Consequently, even though the freshman class as a wholeis quite large, common course scheduling and the use of teams within individual courses promotethe development of a small community atmosphere.There is much evidence of this community effect: 1. student progress towards completing key freshman-level

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ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

. The report recommended a new college of engineering technology complete witha separate new building, a dean, support staff, and various academic departments. After thatstudy was completed, an election brought about a change in state government. The newadministration introduced different priorities, so the engineering technology proposal was notacted upon, and nearly forgotten. 1Planning the programRecognizing the above perceived needs - the desires of some students to pursue vocationalpreparation, and the specific desires of local industry for qualified technologists - we began toseek background information in support of a program in electrical and electronics engineeringtechnology. We needed the following:1. Evidence for success in terms of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

framework for Constructive and collaborative, Inquiry-based E-Learningsupplementing computer science courses. Within the CIMEL multimedia framework, we havedeveloped alpha versions of new materials for two courses in computer science at quite differentlevels: a graduate level course in Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) and a firstsemester course in computer science (CS0/1) (CS0 for non-majors and CS1 for potential minorsand majors). New multimedia modules, implemented in Macromedia Flash and played throughhigh-speed connections on the web, feature audio narration, animation, simulations, quizzes, andconstructive exercises.For the OOSE course, we developed a multimedia unit on Abstract Data Types (ADTs), as a wayto formalize the meaning of

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Sherrard

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gary Bledsoe

as intended pleasure or absence of pain where pleasure is morethan just the pleasure of sensation; it is the pleasure of intellect, of feelings and imagination, andof moral sentiment. Natural Law is the precept that one should “do good and avoid evil,” and many authorshave contributed to the abundance of works on Natural Law. Saint Thomas Aquinas uniquelypresented the idea of natural law theory as 1) a theory of human nature and endowments, 2) theidea of intrinsic good, 3) the primacy of conscience, 4) the constituents of a moral act, and 5) thedouble effect. To Aquinas, nature is the kind of being one is; human nature is empiricallyobservable, and a human being exists even if it does not actualize it’s endowments. Herecognizes

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

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Keith Adolphson; Rujin Cheng; Kurt Gramoll

. IntroductionFor many years, instructors from all levels of the education community have used varioustechniques to reach students in remote locations [2]. Distance learning gives educators a newsolution to declining budgets for education, because it requires less time, cost and teachingresources to operate.The accelerating expansion of distance learning can be attributed to the growing popularity of theInternet. Deborah Coppula [1] believes that the rapid growth of the Internet is an incentive tochange the fundamental design of courses. This change should affect both the structure of theclassroom, the educator and, of course, the student [2].This paper presents research in the development of a web-based distance-learning environmentusing a database to

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Grant; Ronald Welch

in an austere environment forces the students todevelop resourcefulness, perseverance, adaptability, and creativity. This project was within thecapabilities of senior civil engineering students and represented a unique opportunity for aculminating design experience incorporating real-world considerations of health and safety,constructability, usability/sustainability, historical and environmental sensitivity, economics,political, social, ethical, and aesthetics.I. IntroductionAs long ago as the Revolutionary War, West Point, New York (Figure 1) has been critical to ournation’s defense. In the late Eighteenth Century, the high ground flanking the Hudson River

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

found in the literature 1-4. On- Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationline “tutoring systems” and monitoring systems represent one approach. These systems typicallyallow students to be aware of their class performance at all times. They can provide class notesand automatic grading of homework and quizzes. In addition, they help students organize theirwork and help make them aware of their standing in a class 5,6.There are numerous examples of case-based learning, online lectures, distance-learning courses,and industry-sponsored projects, whose aims are to increase student interest in learning

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

governance is being givento the students, and this is expected to expand in the future.2. Components of the ProgramWhen the program was planned, the primary program components were envisioned to be acommunity environment, a seminar series and a series of entrepreneurship courses; however, asthe program has evolved, many other important components have been added, primarily becauseof demand from the students. The components of the comprehensive program that have resultedare listed in Table 1. The program has evolved significantly since its inception, and some of thecomponents were discussed in an earlier paper. 1 Newer components will be emphasized in this

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Tuttle; Charles White; Gwan-Ywan Lai; Trevor Harding

materials selection in the design process,economic decision making for manufacturing processes and understanding risk and liability formaterials selection. In addition the course emphasizes teamwork and communication skillsthrough a series of team-based projects requiring written and/or oral reports. The specific projectobjectives are identified in the table below. Page 7.696.1 Table 1: Project Objectives for NSF CCLI Grant to Develop a Materials and Process Selection Course Objective Description 1 Provide tools that enable students to select, and research

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Oxtoby

the ADSP2181 1 digital signal processor. TheDSP course includes the operation and programming of a fixed-point processor and then moveson to cover the theory and implementation of common DSP applications such as filtering, audioeffects and the DFT/FFT.Because of the hardware emphasis in the course, interfacing to I/O devices has been included,permitting some external interaction to take place with the DSP algorithms. Directly interfacingsuch devices to the processor memory spaces reduces algorithm speed because wait states areneeded in any transactions with these slower I/O devices. One alternative approach is to use serialdata transfer through the processor’s serial ports and perform all the necessary scaling in the DSP.Another is to use an

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Dixon

different industries and agencies. Beginning in August 1994,mechanical engineering students in the capstone design class at Clemson have teamed withstudents from five universities and six disciplines to address multi-disciplinary projects. Thevarious combinations of students that have been used in the design teams are: (1) teams with onlyClemson mechanical engineering students, (2) teams with Clemson mechanical engineeringstudents and students from other disciplines at Clemson, (3) teams with Clemson mechanicalengineering students and mechanical engineering students from other universities, and finally (4)teams with Clemson mechanical engineering students and students of other disciplines fromother universities. The students have come from the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

powered water pumps with specified head and flow rate in the spring and fallsemesters of year 2001. The project outcomes are elaborated from the perspective ofKolb’s experiential learning cycle. The assessment techniques and their strengths andweaknesses are also discussed.I. IntroductionEmerging trends in engineering education facilitated by the Engineering Criteria2000(EC2000) developed by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology(ABET) 1 is encouraging integration of design throughout engineering curricula includingthe freshman and sophomore years 2, 3 . It is also promoting a holistic integration of 'soft'and 'technical' skills encompassing academic knowledge and life skills consistent with theengineering profession.The

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

serve as experts for thediscussion, and 32 people not officially involved in such a center joined in the discussion. Thebackground of attendees varied from engineering educators and administrators to instructionaland professional development practitioners. The participants represented 33 differentinstitutions.After brief introductions, participants were divided into small working groups of five to eight todiscuss one issue relevant to emerging centers for engineering education. These issues included:1. Developing support for a teaching and learning center2. Engaging faculty in programs developed by teaching and learning centers3. Sustaining changes implemented by teaching and learning centers4. Relating teaching and learning center innovations

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Feldman; Wayne Mackey

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes and Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Matsson

Ω 2idefined as Ta = , where Ω i is the angular velocity of the inner cylinder, ν 2 νis viscosity of the fluid, and r i , r o are the radii of the inner and outer cylinder,respectively. Visualization of the flow was made by mixing the fluid (silicone oil) with asmall amount (less than 0.1 % by weight) of titanium - dioxide coated platelets (10-20microns in diameter and 3-4 microns in thickness). Such platelets will become orientedby the flow2. By using this visualization technique, the critical Taylornumber, Ta c = 1780 1, determined from linear stability calculations can be compared with1 The critical Taylor number is increasing as the radius ratio η = ri / ro is

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Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Lachance; Ronald Welch

rather than design communication. As a response to this issue, someengineering programs are adding English professors as adjunct professors to assess/improvestudent communication skills. One unique technique used at the United States Military Academy(USMA) to demonstrate the importance of communication during an entire project is the K’NEXProject Management Exercise. The entire exercise is built around the standard project designprocess (see Figure 1: Phases of Project Design1) with the students focusing on the four primaryareas of the process: Design, Contractor Bid, Construction and Load Testing. An additionalarea added to the process is student self-assessment of their execution of each phase of theproject and the overall project. The