Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

students attend pre-engineering. (1) The effectiveness of pre-engineering units in preparing students has been underscrutiny. The consensus is that radical changes are required and steps should be taken to modifycurrent programs, teaching methods, and students’ assessment schemes.Although English is unanimously agreed upon as the language of instruction, there aredifferences of opinion on how much English is necessary. One view is that English should bephased in gradually, thus allowing for Arabic to be used simultaneously with English. Thecounter view, held by most, is that English proficiency should be acquired and exhibited at thestart.While English is used for engineering subjects by all eight colleges to varying degrees, Arabic isused almost

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liz Oshaughnessy; Barbara Goldberg

minimum of 20% of the group’s membership 10. B. Retrain recruiters and academic advisors to counter any de-facto (and possibly inadvertent) tracking of female students into non-technical careers. C. Re-examine and alter the gender image the institution presents of itself. Look at who is being used to represent the ‘faces’ of the institution. Who are the spokespersons? It may be necessary to increase the number of female recruiters, the number of photos of females in the catalog, particularly in views of students at work in laboratories, and the number of images of females in any promotional literature or advertising.2. Institutional Support: A. Strengthen the effectiveness of and access to academic

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Mook

scholarships, andpublicize the program in the media and at engineering education and study abroad conferences.An Executive Board, elected by U.S. consortium members, determines overall program policy.The current members of the Executive Committee are: Lester Gerhardt, Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (Chair); Steve Melsheimer, Clemson University; D. Joseph Mook, University ofBuffalo, SUNY; Marianne Machotka, University of Wisconsin; Billy Wood, University ofTexas-Austin; Thomas Regan, University of Maryland, James Cunningham, Embry RiddleUniversity; and Peggy Blumenthal, IIE (Ex Officio). All hold senior administrative positions intheir organizations, and six of the eight hold teaching positions as well.Program FundingThe program received initial three

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received hisB. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy and his M. S. in Engineering from PrincetonUniversity. He completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teachescourses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, propulsion, and freshman engineering.STEVEN EISENBARTHSteven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. Hereceived his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Albertson College of Idaho and a Masters and Ph.D. in Physicsfrom Baylor University. He teaches courses in electrical and computer engineering including embedded

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R.L. Alan Jordan

presentation is help at thesame time.Legal Roadblocks You may not expect your students to produce a design that needs protected. However, anydesign should be treated as if it can be patented. Students need to learn the procedure for protectionof ideas. They should be required to buy a laboratory notebook and required to make notes in thenotebook, sketches of ideas, and shown how to protect those ideas. These are habits that can beinstilled during projects of this type. There are some possible legal roadblocks that need to be considered before the project getsunderway. First, who owns the intellectual property if some ideas come out of the project that areworth patenting or copyrighting? Second, who is responsible for protecting these ideas

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

example in their Manual. A Model Handbook will be developed.R – The Course Team* This important section outlines the membership of the Programme Team, calendar of ‘Programme Team Meetings’, agreed Programme, etc.S – Course Support Services* This section will be a source of information for Programme Teams, and they should add any systems which operate in their own Faculty of Department, eg for obtaining laboratory/workshop materials for classes.T – Student Support Systems* This will be an information section about services available to help students. Programme Teams will need to be aware of these and make their students aware of them.U – Non-Attendance Systems* This section will give the safety net system for

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

turbine and are condensed back to liquid in thecondenser. Although less energy efficient than closed-cycle, the condensed water of this open-cycle process is free of salts and may be used to supplement fresh water supplies.Previous OTEC developments include a 50-kW demonstration plant aboard a Navy-barge in1971. It provided proof-of-concept closed-cycle feasibility by yielding a net 15 kW. TheJapanese later installed closed-cycle plants at Nauru and Tokunoshima that yielded a net 10 kWand 32 kW, respectively. The National Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELH) installed anexperimental 200-kW open-cycle facility in 1993 that yielded a net 50 kW. A subsequentexpansion increased the net output to 500 kW, but the facility has since been

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Raper

people, systems, and projects.4. Developed in students the ability and desire to grow intellectually and personally, in lightof an increasingly global and multicultural work environment.5. The Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla providedan educational environment to support and encourage students to succeed.6. Provided students with the knowledge of a specific engineering management emphasisarea.Department and Program Concerns:7. My education prepared me for my current position.8. My education matched my current interests.9. My Engineering Management education was of high quality.10. Department faculty were committed to students and their success.11. The Department provided modern classrooms and laboratories.12

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sastry Vedula

development of the state of the art powerelectronics laboratory at Iowa State University .S. S. VenkataHe received the Ph.D. degree form the University of South Carolina in 1971. He held various teaching positions atWest Virginia University as well as at University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Presently, he is a Professor &Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. He isFellow of IEEE, USA and the co- author of a book entitled: Introduction to Electric Energy Devices . Page 7.565.16 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Educat ion Annual

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

to the current members ofWomen in Technology. Of the 81 students involved in the group, 51 responded to the survey, fora 63% response rate.The survey questions were modified from the WEPAN Pilot Climate Survey, designed to assessengineering students’ perceptions of the educational climate at their universities 26. One studyidentified those factors as isolation, the perceived irrelevance of theoretical preparatory courses,negative experiences in laboratory courses, classroom climate, and lack of role models 27. Otherstudies have suggested that the different learning styles of women may influence their desire toenter engineering or technology fields. Finally, Santovec contends that the problem is the imagethat engineering and technology is not

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

laboratories indicated graphical rating scales were used by avast majority [19].A report by Murphy indicated a criticism of graphical ratings is the tendency of managers toassign a uniform rating. Murphy’s report studied Merck & Co, Inc. from 1978 through 1989.Merck managers assigned a rating from 1, poor, to 5, best, based on overall performance. Forappraisals during 1984 and 1985, 97.76% of the employees received a 3 or 4 appraisal rating[20]. The Cornell University researchers found 77% of their respondents’ professionalemployees rated at the comparable 3 or 4 level [14].Another shortcoming of the graphical rating is its inherent relia nce on the rater’s subjectiveanalysis of the work performance behaviors observed and their translation to the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Chung

Session 2793In addition, the set of relationships between cognitive processing and online process measuressuggest a potential profile of participants. Successful participants engaged in proportionally morescientific reasoning than less successful participants. In general, successful participants relied onmore laboratory/data tests and less on resource materials (i.e., experts, library, dictionary).Further, successful participants exhibited less confusion and had less of a need to fill gaps intheir knowledge. In contrast, less successful participants misinterpreted information, wereconfused, and were unsuccessful at eliminating parents even though the tests they were usingcould have eliminated a parent

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

with progressively greater emphasison constructivism.Advantages Of Activity-Based Learning Versus Lecture-Based TeachingOne key concept in educational improvement is that there should be more emphasis on studentlearning as opposed to the process of teaching. Research such as that reported above indicatesthat students learn best in situations in which they are actively engaged in the learning process.Furthermore, particularly in engineering technology programs, students are expected to be ableto perform useful tasks immediately upon completion of the program. There is an emphasis onwhat students can do in addition to what they know. They are expected to critically analyzeproblems and generate appropriate solutions with minimal supervision

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

clients to other resources. Thisnecessitates that effort be applied continuously to renew linkages to other services and to shareinformation on client needs. The larger community benefits from communication amongst thevarious service providers, since gaps and overlaps in services available can be identified. Anoverall communication strategy must exist in order to extend the reach of the InnovationIncubator to be statewide. Communication approaches will be discussed.I. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation in fall 2000 funded the University of Arkansas under thePartnership for Innovation program to initiate a new effort based on the “teaching through doing"paradigm. This effort is intended to produce diverse graduates equipped with and ready

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

operating system functions is the focus ofthis work. Our work marks a new approach to teaching and studying operating systems design processes. The fourspecific operating system functions studied are those of CPU scheduling, memory management,deadlock/synchronization primitives and disc scheduling. The aim of the study is to first introduce and discuss themodules in light of previous research, discuss in details the affecting parameters and their interaction and attempt tooptimize some of the lesser-established parameter-performance relationships by way of simulations. Results of thesimulations of the four functions are then analyzed in light of specific parameters and the effect they have on theoverall system performance. System performance is