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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

execution.Modern Business Management E-commerce: this includes business-to-business Internettransactions which have the potential for increased productivity in civil engineering andconstruction by comparing suppliers and finding new sources, learning about delivery options andtracking orders, and getting technical advice. Another e-commerce trend that will change civilengineering is electronic construction management companies that use the Internet to coordinatecommunications, share design updates, and even hold project meetings in chat rooms.V. Response of Academic InstitutionsIn response to the real need to deal with the realities of life today, civil engineering programs atmany academic institutions took a fresh look at their curricula. Many programs

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Innovations in Web Site Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Van Epps

individuals throughout the libraries to enter information directly to a central database andretrieve information, removing the additional step performed by a data entry person.Applications for web interactions with databases can be as diverse as an instruction reportingform, a list of books on approval for faculty review and a subject list of databases.This paper will provide a brief overview of some of the technologies available to createdatabase-to-web applications, describe three projects which use this approach and mention howthose applications can enhance library services and operations. The ability to generate low-maintenance pages and incorporate advanced information technolo gies enhances services topatrons while freeing staff for other more

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

to use the program SolidWorks to create solid models ofsimple machines. They will translate their designs into kinematic models using a fuseddeposition of material rapid prototyping machine (Stratasys FDM1650) at the University, andalso build soap and wax models that emulate lithography and micromachining at the K-12school.The project also includes an assessment portion to assess its effect on the students. At thebeginning and end of the program, the students will fill out a questionnaire based on the Test ofScience Related Attitudes (TOSRA). The test is designed to assess changes in student’s attitudetoward scientific inquiry. An additional method of assessment, the review of students'comments in their personal portfolios, should indicate

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

a comprehensive list of courseassignments with due dates. Decide when exams will be given, when homework assignments willbe due, and when special projects or papers will be turned in. Consider your own schedule as youare setting up the semester calendar. For example, you might want to schedule exams for each ofyour classes in different weeks, so that the grading task will be spread out. Also, you might wantto assign shorter homework sets with greater frequency to allow your preparation and gradingtime to be more evenly distributed throughout the semester. In addition to establishing thetimeline, determine what types of assignments will provide the best aids to learning. Werecommend including a writing/presentation component to every course

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Engineering EducationWhile developing entrepreneurial skills is certainly valuable, engineering students are rarelyexposed to the entrepreneurial perspective at either the undergraduate or graduate level.5,6,7Historically, curricula have been dominated by design-and-build projects with an emphasis ontechnical excellence that has for the most part excluded the overriding picture of costs, timing andother market forces. Recent conferences are particularly good sources of project-basedapproaches to meeting these objectives.8,9,10 The fundamental question of product marketability isamong the least addressed in an engineering classroom.11Championing the need for the development of entrepreneurship in engineering education is theNational Collegiate

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Oro; J Hines

(capillary tube). Pictures of anomalies such as icing during startup are also shownand discussed.A LabView graphical user interface was developed by two undergraduate students as asummer project. It collects the pressure and thermocouple data, transforms it to normalengineering units, and presents it to future students. This interface is also is served to theweb making it accessible to classrooms across campus. Close up pictures and a web camare used to show the students the operating system while the GUI is used to present Page 8.426.2thermodynamic data to the students in real time. This setup cost less than $2000 to

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

other options on how to keep their students learning during such anabsence.A two week absence from campus was required for the author to complete an internationaladoption. Although the absence was anticipated from the beginning of the semester, the exactdates of the trip were not known until about one month before the trip. Without graduatestudents to cover the missed classes and laboratories, the instructor chose a combination ofvideotaped lectures and laboratories, exams, a computer design project, selected readingassignments, and professionally produced videotapes to keep students learning during theabsence.Students and Classes AffectedThe students affected were juniors in a BS degree program in Civil Engineering Technology(CET) at the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

his or her invention by exclusively selling his orher invention or selling the invention rights and (2) the specific field benefits from the inventiondisclosure. The disclosure, part of a patent, provides the scientific details of the invention and is astepping stone to build society's storehouse of knowledge. Without the patent disclosures, manyscientific breakthroughs and advancements may have remained unknown, thereby reducing theoverall scientific storehouse and limiting further scientific advancements.Introducing IP into an Engineering CurriculumEngineering professors are known to give projects, but not many incorporate IP into their projectrequirements. References are sometimes required, specifically references to copyrighted material

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

T. N. Fogarty; Kelvin Kirby

organization. It sounds like work and the students look forward to it each year. The park director explains how each item found on the beach must be listed in a specific category on a data card. The data cards are collected and sent to the national office in Washington, DC for analysis. As part of a large research project, students take the task very seriously.ConclusionsThe Explorer Post project has become very popular. The trips to Space Center Houston havegrown from one almost full bus to two very full busses from three different high schools. We planto add another high school each year. More students are participating in visits to the collegeresearch laboratories and several schools have instituted the visit as an annual event. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

tools - forprocess simulation, data acquisition, and dynamic systems modeling – are employed whereneeded. As the students progress through the curriculum, they find that assignments requiringcomputer-aided analysis become more frequent and more complex.Word processing is used to some extent in every chemical engineering course. The earliestapplications will typically be small project reports of a few pages in length. Project reports at thejunior and senior levels become more complex. They will generally have more content, but theymay also require equation editing, and often contain embedded charts and drawings. Theequation editor included with Word® is used for equation editing; Excel® or Mathcad® are used

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Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

experiments. Papers[8,14,15,16,17] show the evolution of this approach as applied to spectrum analyzer topics. Figure 1. Example of a remote experiment using a signal generator and a data acquisition card.Most educators have utilized Java platforms for greater portability and easier access via webbrowsers. There are also projects developed in the LabVIEW™ environment that can beexecuted on a LabVIEW player freely distributed by National Instruments.We acknowledge that the dominance of the Internet in the development of information andcommunication technology has made Web-based distributed solutions increasingly attractive.Apart from providing other services, the World Wide Web is being looked upon as anenvironment for hosting modeling and simulation

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Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

. • Labs up to now are nothing new, just pre-preparation. Later labs will be better, but I don't see how using the old SDL1) Please comment on the clarity and understanding of the projects are better than another option.material presented. • Mostly useless in dealing with V&V. Labs have been strictly • Dr. Suri obviously understands the material, but I have for Reqs and Specs. trouble seeing the information as an integrated flow and not • Overall, I think they so far the labs have been completely just stories

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Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

, homework, laboratory reports, term projects, oral reports, term papers or design projects. 4. Determine the evaluation method to be employed with the artifact or evidence. 5. Establish the expected level of performance.Appendix I illustrates the evolving student learning outcomes assessment plan developed for theMET degree program at IUPUI.The Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology determined that a senior level“graduation exam” similar to the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination would be theoptimal student outcomes assessment tool for several learning objectives in the MET and CIMTdegree programs. The major impetus for the development of the exam was that, unlikeengineering students in ABET accredited programs, engineering

Conference Session

Models for Integrating Writing II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Pinkus

instructor to teach any engineering content, it does require that theinstructor work as a coach with the students on a lengthy term project. On the most basiclevel, an instructor has to deal with coaching anywhere from fifteen to twenty extremelyintelligent students through lengthy reports on topics of their choosing. Classes are usuallygrouped by engineering option, so instructors are at least limited to certain engineeringdisciplines at a time, such as electrical and computing, manufacturing, infrastructure,aerospace, nanotechnology, physics, and biomedical engineering. The topics of theseproposals, feasibility studies, and case studies are often quite extensive and complex. Onthe flip side, some proposed topics are just impractical. The

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Frank Peters; John Jackman; Sarah Ryan; Sigurdur Olafsson

An Active Learning Environment in an Integrated Industrial Engineering Curriculum Frank Peters, John Jackman, Sarah Ryan, Sigurdur Olafsson Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering fpeters@iastate.edu, jkj@iastate.edu, smryan@iastate.edu, olafsson@iastate.edu Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011AbstractWe are developing a new learning environment that supports a suite of interrelated modulesbased on real-world scenarios. The primary goals of the project are to integrate industrialengineering courses, improve students’ information technology skills, and enhance students’problem

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre; Gary Smith

AnalysisAfter consulting with the Vice President of Academic Affairs, representatives from InformationalTechnology Services (ITS), and various Department Heads, it was decided that the existingclassroom designated as CIE (Civil and Industrial Engineering) 102 should be the spacededicated to the CCL. At that time CIE 102 was designated as a university classroom whichcould be used for any class from any department or college. The room consisted ofpermanently floor-mounted tables with fixed chairs. Seating capacity was listed at 60. Ourconceptual plan called for a complete remodel of the entire room. This renovation would includenew reconfigurable furniture, instructional technologies (computer, projection system, Internetaccess, document camera, etc

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nghia Le

Session Number 2526 The Coin Detector Circuit Nghia T. Le Purdue UniversityI. IntroductionThis paper discusses the design of a Coin Detector Project that utilizes an inductor as aninductive proximity switch. The project covers basic analog/digital circuits that thestudents have learned during the first two years in the Electrical Engineering TechnologyProgram at Purdue University. Figure 1 below shows the block diagram of the project. OSCILLATOR RL ACTIVE PEAK

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Franzone

Society for Engineering EducationII. Introduction to CCL2’s Features and LimitationsCCL2 is designed to be extremely easy to use for beginning C++ students. CCL2 consists of twofiles, “consoleClass.cpp” and “consoleClass.h”. To use the class library, students simply add thetwo files to an existing Visual C++ project, declare an object of class Console in the main sourcefile, and simply use the member functions available. Both files are fairly well-documented as faras descriptions of member functions, side-effects, and the types of arguments required and returnvalues.With the exception of the class constructor and destructor, CCL2 member functions are dividedinto three categories: General-purpose functions, Console Graphics functions, and

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

. A description of the process and content follows.BackgroundThis paper is being presented to the ASEE conference attendees as a way of introducing anorientation course to the educational community. The course is designed to use the case studyapproach and to be “general” enough in content to service several technology degree programs.The National Science Foundation has provided funding for projects which generate industrial casestudies to be used in higher education. Nashville State Technical Community College has had theopportunity to be involved in several of these projects, and has developed quite an expertise in thefield of “case studies”. It seemed logical that the college needed an orientation class for students

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

shows inone extreme passive learners who view successful learning as memorization of concepts to passexams, and the other extreme consisting of fully engaged learners who see success in thelearning process as a change in self-perception and possession of new ways of seeing things inthe world. The transition stages in-between show a growing effort on the part of the learner to“make sense of concepts,” and to find some meaningful vital connections to the real world.The study conducted by Driel 6 focuses on a curriculum innovation project in higher engineeringeducation. The study is carried out against the backdrop of suspicions that the “lack of success ofmany innovation projects are due to the failure of teachers to implement the

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

collectively: (1) offer course work at Purdue University for Chineseand Purdue students (2) offer course work at the Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) forChinese and Purdue students (3) develop joint research and design projects between CAUC andPurdue University (4) develop a study abroad trip of two weeks or three weeks in which Purduestudents accompanied by faculty will research an aviation related research project in China (5)pursue joint Purdue University and CAUC faculty research opportunities (6) develop a bysemester or by year study abroad program. Meetings with the university presidents of bothinstitutions and faculty members of both universities were very successful and they seemedeagerly interested to establish a relationship with

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Veretta Sabb; Clarence Hill; Antonio Gonzalez; Freya Toledo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

exposed to different topics related primarily tohighways. Additionally, students participated in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) prep courses,time management, field trips, seminars and student projects. The first STI was a success but the organizers wanted the STI to be in accordance withthe Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). The ISTEA authorizedfunds for construction of highways, for highway safety programs, for mass transit programs, andfor other purposes. In 1994, 40 new students of South Carolina had the opportunity toparticipate of the second Institute. That year STI expanded its curriculum to reflectintermodalism, safety and environmental awareness. In addition it offered activities that showedthe

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Russell P. Kraft; Ismail Fidan

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Electronics Manufacturing Process The surface mount EM process involves multiple machines with many variables, which areoften difficult to control. This makes it hard for the operator to identify the problem and take thecorrect action when defects occur. This project targets the development of an intelligent e-manufacturing system which emulates human thinking, expert knowledge and providesassistance to the surface mount operator in the decision making process during problem solving.Surface mount processes contain dispensing, placement, and attachment steps. Right after theinspection and quality

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Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Buechler

validation tool. Assessment procedures toverify the success of the project were developed and data has been analyzed. The resulting classstructure, which was tailored to meet the needs of nontraditional students, has improved thequality of learning for all students. The study found a modest increase in average studentlearning with a significant reduction in the class standard deviation. Successful portions of thisproject have been incorporated into the day section of this course over the past 3 semesters,which consists of three 50-minute lectures taught by faculty and one 2-hour discussion sectionled by a teaching assistant per week. The use of these techniques in additional courses is beingevaluated within the department and college.I. Overview of

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Miller; Steve Walsh; Leigh Haefner; Hollylynne Stohl

could be streamed over the Internet. IBM donated fiveCrossPad2 units to support the development project as a design project completed byundergraduates in the Department of Computer Science. The initial design objectives for thisproduct were: 1. Ease of use. The system must be extremely easy to use. This implies a simple and intuitive user interface, with no “bells and whistles.” 2. One-click publishing with an integrated FTP client. The system should include an integrated FTP client so that the voice-annotated recordings can be uploaded to a server without the user having to save files and use a general purpose FTP package to upload

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

South Carolina (USC) received an award from the National ScienceFoundation’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program1 to supportfellowships and associated training that will enable graduate students in engineering to serve asresources in K-12 schools. USC is one of over 50 institutions funded by NSF through thisprogram. A major objective of USC’s projects is to help prepare today's engineering graduatestudents to be the engineering faculty of tomorrow. To succeed, these future faculty must beprepared to teach to a generation of students that has grown up in a global, high-tech society. Toteach these students, they will need better communication and teaching skills, and greaterknowledge of cognitive processes that enhance

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

some significantchanges to the course, particularly the laboratory portion. In a like manner, Biswajit Raydescribes how his college created, and then updated, a three-credit course for non-sciencemajors.6This paper will focus on the changes that were made to the laboratory portion of EL 110 for thefall of 2002, when a large percentage of the students were IIT students, and when for the firsttime a newly-created laboratory project board was used. Page 8.1136.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

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Industrial Sponsored Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Hatfield

Session 3525 “Robot Phone Home” Jerry. M. Hatfield Northern Arizona UniversityAbstract:The College of Engineering and Technology at Northern Arizona University employs a sequenceof four courses, known as Design4Practice, to provide increasing levels of design experience asstudents progress from freshmen to seniors. The sophomore level course in this sequence is basedon a semester-long project to design, build, and test a computer-controlled electro-mechanicalrobot that performs some useful function, frequently with an environmental application

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

designs.Materials Development The development of the materials produced for this project was part of a larger multi-university project, the VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering EducationalTechnologies (VaNTH ERC). The VaNTH ERC is a multi-year, multi-institutional programwith the aim “… to integrate learning science, learning technologies, and the domains ofbioengineering in order to develop effective educational resources to prepare for the future ofbioengineering.” An overall description of the VaNTH ERC may be found at its website(www.vanth.org). The National Science Foundation funds supplementary grants to NSF grantees that wantto involve classroom teachers in their research through the Research Experiences for Teachers(RET

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

solving skills; (2) motivating students and fostering confidence; (3) instilling anappreciation for the importance of prerequisite courses; (4) developing effective team players;(5) improving basic instrumentation and construction skills needed for the practice of ECE; (6)developing a physical intuition for electrical and mechanical systems; (7) clarifying careerchoices by learning if ECE is a good fit; (8) making students feel like part of the ECEdepartment; and (9) forming long-lasting peer support structures. Assessment results alsoreinforce the benefits of close instructor involvement, hands-on learning, and project-basedcourses. Additional details of the course are provided.NoteThis paper is based upon work supported by the National Science