Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

craftsman and apprentice tradition came with the beginnings ofelectrical engineering. With electricity one no longer could depend on immediate sensoryinformation. Since measurement was indirect, mathematics became essential to assure effectiveand safe application. The laying of the Trans-Atlantic cable around 1860 put the shop-versus-school approach to engineering in stark contrast. The first models of the telegraph (around 1835)were seat-of-the-pants affairs: try something and see what it does. Marconi was of this opinion,while Michael Faraday and William Thomson supplied many of the theoretical underpinnings oftelegraphy.As the practitioners formulated their plans to lay a cable from Dover to Calais, Thomson andFaraday were able to predict that

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2109and concepts become more densely networked.12, 13, 14Concept maps have been used as a learning strategy, an instructional strategy, a strategyfor curriculum planning, and a means of student assessment.15 In this study, we usedconcept mapping as: (1) a form of student assessment (i.e., a measure of students’conceptual understanding of the design process); (2) a learning strategy (i.e., studentscreated maps as a study guide for their final exam and summarized course readings inconcept map

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

achieved through amajor enhancement of the contribution of the manufacturing sector to the GNP.5. Mercosul and EducationThe Education plans for Mercosul consider the promotion of an education system very similar,which goal is to form a professional capable to insert and to maintain her/him in the work marketof the four Countries of the Bloc [02].It is an ambitious goal but not impossible despite they have different educational systems besidesthe political and social challenges peculiar to each one. The language is not properly a bigproblem once they are similar what facilitates communication.In other words the objective is to get the young population educated in Schools of one Countryhaving the diplomas valid in other Countries so that they can

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

skills that would be used in the courses. Theseskills included the use of different coordinate systems, and the review of some calculus conceptssuch as the choices of the limits of definite integrals. However, as our planning moved forward,the emphasis of the Redshirt Camps shifted more towards the preparation for the workshops thatwould be taken during the semester, as well. Page 8.1044.4 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Abdullah Abonamah; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

academic model includes Learning Outcomes at all stages in the student’sacademic life. Students with the assistance of their advisors develop an individual learning plan.The Learning Outcomes emphasize planning, decision-making and application skills, and studentsare assessed for their ability to demonstrate applied synthesis and integration of knowledge andskills. There are six key Zayed University Learning Outcomes that form the basis of the ZU APMmodel. All students must demonstrate accomplishments in the six ZULOs before they graduate.They are defined as follows: • Information Literacy and Communication: ZU graduates will be able to recognize

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Ansari

. The roof,which is isolated from the ceiling, is dome shaped and supports a solar collector-cum-solar shieldassembly. The solar collector is composed of six separate triangular panels in the form of a lowpyramid. The panels are equipped with concentrators and tapered water pipes enclosed intransparent hollow pipes. A verandah, with a roof that is angled upward at nearly 30 degrees,surrounds the walls. Sun screens (which close and open according to solar position) are situatedon the east and west sides. On the south-east, south and south-west sides along the verandahenclosures with glass walls are provided for use as a sit-out and greenhouse. Fig.1 Isometric View Showing Visible External FeaturesFig. 2. shows a floor plan

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

completing the six-week on-campus session, students receive academic creditand are able to advance to the second portion of the program, which occurs during the summerfollowing the junior year.The second portion of the program is an off-campus, minimum ten week, paid internship. Theinternship program was created in response to companies’ desires to hire graduates with actualexposure to industry practices. The experience gives students exposure to everyday planning andproblem-solving activities in the organization and puts them in contact with managerial staff inthe organization. Internships come in three forms, project-oriented, shadow-to-an-executive, orexecutive assistance, with the last two being the preferred types. An effective

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

a decision matrix to select the best of the remaining designs.Design Evaluation: Using the performance measure formula as a starting point, eachteam was to come up with a set of objectives and constraints that their potential designsshould try to meet. A weighting factor was to be associated with each objective. Usingthese objectives and constraints, a decision matrix was developed which would later beused to evaluate and compare the team's different developed designs.Task Planning: Teams were given the due dates for the project, including dates whenprogress reports were due, the competition date, and the presentation dates. They wereassigned to develop a list of tasks that needed to be completed prior to each due date andthen develop an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

much as by plan. We will also have to becareful not to emphasize the use of the Internet to the exclusion of other sources. Table 2. Use of Information Technology in Instruction Course Electronic E-Mail Internet Submission Collaboration Searches CHEE 201 Material & Energy Balances I X CHEE 202 Material & Energy Balances II X CHEE 230 Modeling & Analysis X X CHEE 310 Process Fluid Mechanics X CHEE 311 Heat Transfer Operations X CHEE 312 Mass Transfer Equipment Design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmediated learning environment. Our presentation includes examples of how to constructassignments that fully exploit these CPR™ capabilities. Figure 2: Conceptual View of the “Writing/Revision Process” Instantiated by CPR™How Does CPR™ Measure Learning Outcomes?Good instructional design depends on having both objectives (desired outcomes) and a plan (ameans of accomplishment). As illustrated in the seven levels of Figure 2, the instructor sets thegoals in the writing prompt and thus initiates a guided inductive-path for attaining them bysetting expectations (performance standards) that are reverberated

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

, during which the ant presented its victory dance featuring the moonwalk.Solution DiscussionWe are proud to say that our ant ran the race the way it was planned to do so. It went around theracetrack twice and presented its victory dance without fail. However, it was not the fastestamongst its competitors, which is the one point that must be worked on.Planned Design ChangesThe ant was designed with a pulley system that moved its legs. The pulley system was ultimatelyattached to the driving wheels, which can have a fatal result if the wheels were damaged from theforces acting on it by the pulleys. For this reason, the design should be changed by attaching thepulley system to another rotating device that will not hinder the driving wheels

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

encouraged to “use common terminology,” a process that was notalways easy for instructors from English, math, chemistry, and engineering to do. Facultymembers from the four disciplines met to brainstorm strategies of cross-disciplinary assignmentsfor their cohorts. What these meetings did not consist of were plans to teach heavy-ladengrammar exercises or formatting of letters and reports.Although many faculty members from the English department initially feared that thiscollaboration would consist of only one-sided change (i.e., only the English classes wouldincorporate cross-disciplinary strategies), it became clear in the early meetings that this indeedwas a collaborative effort to give this group of engineering students an effectively

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

hands-on experience. Page 8.697.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the computer assisted manufacturing course, fixed and flexible automation, computer aidedprocess planning, computer control of manufacturing systems, group technology and cellularmanufacturing, CAD/CAM integration, and programming on CNC machining center andnumerically controlled devices are emphasized. They also work on term projects illustratingcomputer aided design and manufacturing concepts.ISE 402 and 403

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

marketplace wouldthey need to begin this workshop? After much discussion, we decided that the audience for thepilot course would be upper-level engineering undergraduate students and graduate students whoare interested in entrepreneurial opportunities. Once the prototype curriculum was created for ourinitial audience, we intend to adapt and modify the curriculum for a broader range of audiences.Next, the team struggled with course objectives. Any good course planning begins with writingcourse objectives: why is this material being taught, and what should students be expected toknow and demonstrate at the end? Course objectives perform three important functions byguiding the instructional process; providing a framework for evaluation and assessment

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Layton

, one student has submitted the final report of his team’s project to a conference onsymbolic computation and a second student is planning to present her team’s project at a studentconference.4. Dymola tutorialsComputer simulation, in this case, the numerical solution of initial-value problems in ODEs andDAEs using DYMOLA, is one of the main course topics. The author wrote elementary tutorials forthe first two lab/project periods to help students gain basic proficiency in using DYMOLA. Theobjective of Lab 1 is to use DYMOLA to create a model, solve the ODE, and plot the results. Theobjective of Lab 2 is to use MATLAB to import and plot results from DYMOLA simulations. Both

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

theimplementation of an eSI program. Furthermore, there is historical evidence indicating thesuccessfulness of properly implemented SI programs.3, 5 This evidence is based upon severalfactors including comparison of the grades of students who attended SI sessions versus those thatdid not attend, decreasing dropout rates in “high risk” courses, and removing the “high risk” labelfrom those classes that exhibited significant improvement in pass/fail rates. The intervals will belabeled by their associated test (i.e., Test 1 interval, Test 2 interval, and Test 3 interval).Test 1 IntervalDuring the Test 1 interval, the eSI leader and distance education students were engaged heavily inlearning the new software used for this course. The initial plans for the eSI

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

participation rates leave a lot to be desired and provide incentive to design a betterassessment plan for the second pilot. However, they also tell a story in and of themselves.Students in the experimental class continued attending near the end of the semester, even knowingthey were not required to do so, at a far greater rate than the students in either of the other twogroups.The survey conducted listed eight course objectives (Table 2) and asked the students to rate, on a5-point ordinal scale, their abilities related to the specific objectives.Ignoring the control class, due to the small sample size, requires that these data be taken morelightly than might otherwise have been possible. This is because of the effect of class size on thelearning

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

primary-type programs responding to the survey allindicated that a holistic, broad-based education, facilitated by the flexibility of a single program,was a key institutional value. (However, two of those schools also indicated plans to movetoward separately accredited discipline-specific programs.)These exceptions aside, the trend supports the hypothesis. The remaining two primary- Page 8.1113.5philosophical schools have an average initial accreditation date of 2000. The remaining 17 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

, Page 8.1026.1 American Society for Engineering Education”This paper describes an effort to develop a series of tutorial sand support materials that can beused in undergraduate materials science courses. It describes the design criteria, the contents ofeach part of the whole package, three current implementations and plans for trying them out incommunity college and high school classrooms.BackgroundFor the past five years the author’s courses have included carefully chosen assignments thatwould be easy to complete using spreadsheets but tedious if using only a calculator. Moststudents stuck with the techniques they already knew and spent a lot of time punching the keyson their calculator, with little time or

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

at theeducational department of the Society the commission on the organization of the domesticreading developed detailed regular plans and programs on various branches of knowledge,bibliographic indexes, lists of questions for control 9 . Training was conducted bycorrespondence. To the persons who have expressed a desire to be engaged in self-educationunder the direction of the commission, necessary books and brochures were sent, the subjectsof abstracts were offered. About 150 professors and teachers of Moscow University andother educational institutions took part in the work of the commission. The professor ofhistory from Moscow University P.G.Vinogradov headed the commission. In January 1897,the commission had 449 subscribers (73,5% - men

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway

to guide the approach to the task and the learnerwill select, execute, monitor, and control the use of cognitive strategies (Flavell, 1987).Cognitive strategies include sense-making, self-assessment, and reflection (NRC, 2000).II.C. TeamworkA team is a synergistic group that uses an agreed upon process to reach an agreed upongoal. The critical aspects of this definition are consensus and synergy. This definition isconsistent with that of Katzenbach and Smith (1993), whose work was cited by Levi andSlem (1995). In order to reach consensus a team must establish an effectivecommunication plan, a task that is more difficult when team members are not at the samelocation. Furthermore, the communication between team members must be based onopenness

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

affiliated with this project, as well as to otherUniversities. To facilitate this process of on-going feedback and evaluation as well asdissemination of material, we have planned a number of symposia throughout the duration of theproject, where the results of our effort will be illustrated and feedback from the Board memberswill be solicited. Furthermore, more frequent feedback from CRCD members will be obtainedthrough the project’s website at http://www.seecs.ucf.edu/ml.2. Project OverviewOur CRCD project involves a comprehensive approach to the development of a model for theintegration of Machine Learning throughout the entire engineering and science curriculum. Thegoal is increased exposure to Machine Learning technology for a wider range of

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

sacred by the local, native Apache people.The University news officials report that in the mid 1980’s the Forest Service carried outcultural surveys on Mt. Graham. Two shrines were located on Hawk and High Peaks.Additional surveys were carried out on Emerald and Plainview Peaks, and nineteen localtribes were contacted to see if they had concerns. Four tribes, the Ak-Chin, Hopi, Zuni,and the San Carlos Apache responded but raised no objections to the proposed plans forthe telescopes. The shrines were protected and the telescopes were located near EmeraldPeak on a site with no known adverse cultural impact. In 1990, two years after thecompletion of the final environmental impact statement, some members of the San CarlosApache tribe raised

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

elsewhere and did not take advantage of that opportunity. For the next version of this class, we plan to ask students if they did so on the end-of-course evaluation and questionnaire.12. Peer evaluations. To promote learning from peer appraisals, on the last day of class we had each student anonymously evaluate each of the other students. The instructors then consolidated the feedback and sent each student their results, including any comments written about them by other students. Although this is valuable feedback, it could cause discomfort if a student’s perception of their own value differs significantly from the perceptions of others. It also is not clear whether a single round of anonymous peer evaluations at the end of

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

join the men at the top and plan to leave the university in June. Respondent A-1Not surprisingly, the women faculty who were employed on campus experienced feelings ofisolation and marginalization. Thirty-one percent of the women who responded to that 1988survey expressed concern about the small number of professional women employed on campusand the resulting impact on women students I feel isolated as a woman, and sense a lack of female role models. In addition, there is a lack of females within SSU’s administration. Without mentors and a support system, it is difficult to thrive in a institution dominated by males. Respondent A-24Table 1 below shows that the percentage of women among

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

assignmentsfor completion over the summer to develop a deeper understanding of the linearprogression of the material. On September 4th, 2002, an additional 37 teachers weretrained in the Kumon method. On September 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2002, over 1000 students were given Kumonplacement tests at Twain, Franklin, Crofoot, and Herrington elementary schools, withassistance from Kumon, North America staff. In-service training was provided to theteachers to review the process of testing, comfortable starting point, planning, gradingand monitoring student progress. Lesson plans were created for each individual student,depending on their placement test results. Individualized daily class assignments werecreated for each student. Teachers were asked by

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

Page 8.687.10include: How did you generate solutions? Did one or several individuals make decisions?On a scale of 1-10, how committed were you to executing the plan? What are some of theexamples of when you received feedback during the session? This exercise is very popular and induces students to open up in ways that theywill not as members of the design team. A student might complain, “You started bossingpeople around” or “you are a mechanical engineer, you should know about this.” Thetoxic waste exercise occurs early in the semester, and allows the instructor to learn aboutteam issues and work on resolving them.5. Conflict A structure within which to understand team conflicts is presented. Several levelsof conflict are defined

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirankumar Gundrai

could be activated effectively for its brutal activities. Theyhave technological weapons and enormous funding from some countries (state sponsoredterrorism), some fanatic groups. Terrorists have deterministic plans and traps. This makesthem so powerful and effective in their operations.E-Terrorism and psychological problemsWhen terrorist acts occur, people generally look for ways to cope with the acute stressand trauma. Terrorism evokes a fundamental fear of helplessness. The violent actions arerandom, unprovoked, and intentional, and often are targeted at defenseless citizens.Trying to cope with the irrational information that is beyond normal comprehension canset off a chain of psychological events culminating in feelings of fear

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”In evaluating the scholarship of application, a written record of the project such as a technicalreport and/or a patent and an evaluation by those who received the service are necessaryingredients for evaluating this type of scholarship. Since most of the work done may have takenplace off campus, outside experts could be asked to sit on the committee reviewing the scholarlyactivity. Questions to be asked when evaluating the scholarship of application include:“Is the activity directly or indirectly related to the academic field or expertise of the professor?”“Have project goals been defined, procedures well planned, and actions carefully

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

information on schools,parents and students often rely on school rankings as they contemplate which institutions to applyto. One study revealed that up to sixty percent of some student populations cited a school'sratings as being an important selection criteria.25 Graduating high school students from uppermiddle and upper class families tend to rely more heavily on these types of rankings in selectingwhere they will apply16, 26 and which schools they will visit. In addition, researchers have foundthat the number of applications to a school increases when a school moves up in a ranking,showing that parents and students are affected by the rankings.27 Some claim that the proliferation of “early-decision plans” whereby students must indicatetheir