Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barker

subsequently in Red Hat 7.2). Each one is described separately in the followingsections. It is anticipated that webCHARLIE will be released as an open source product in thesummer of 2002 after being used by another teacher this spring.About 500 homework exercises have already been tested in webCHARLIE for two courses,Analytical Methods and Control Systems I, with another 200 exercises in two additional coursesto be transferred from CHARLIE during the Spring 2002 semester. In addition, development ofnew exercises for an electronics course, is also planned. The webCHARLIE homework Page 7.1309.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

’s exercise to the student’s other subjects by asking questions that encourage critical thinking: Example from airplane exercise: how does this exercise relate to math/science/engineering? 5. Students should be assessed formatively, serving to inform future learning experiences · This is more of a curricular planning issue, but it basically supports the idea of taking grades throughout the semester based on actual “hands-on” content knowledge in order to give students some idea of their own levels of learning before a major grading event (midterm, final exam, etc.) 6. Students should be encouraged to become self-regulatory, self-mediated, and self-aware

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

Session # 3425 Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process · information gathering/understand problem/customer needs · problem definition/goals or requirements defined · idea generation/brainstorming/creativity · evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling · decision making/selection/planning · implementation/produce/deliver design to customer · process review & improvement/iteration Knowledge of Effective Teamwork · purpose/goals/focus · team leader or shared leadership · assigned responsibilities/accountability · team attitude/support/commitment · time management/task orientation

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

by simple quantitative analysis is the way to go. · Lab experiments need to be planned carefully such that lectures can be geared towards lab exercises while integrating the basic theory seamlessly. · Hands-on group experience in building and testing application-oriented circuits is the major draw for a course like this. · Integrate as many basic senses (lights, sound, touch, etc.) as possible into the experiments. · Opportunity to use electronic instruments in the lab is a big attraction among students.DON’Ts · Don’t let the lab kits out of the class. Not all students will remember to bring their kits to every class. This also helps in not losing a few kits during the add/drop week. · Don’t plan on students

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Sibert; C. Conley; Allen Estes

experiences require money, time,equipment, materials and planning. They are more effective if they complement thematerial covered in the classroom. This paper describes the laboratory program associatedwith the undergraduate Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures course offered to cadetsat the United States Military Academy.The reinforced concrete course at West Point covers the topics one usually finds at theundergraduate level. These include properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, beamdesign, one-way slab design, bond stresses and development length, serviceabilityrequirements, column design, and footing design. The hands-on laboratory programreinforces many of these topics and allows cadets to decide for themselves the validity ofthe

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Andrew Rose

technical skills. Some feel discussing issues related to biddingand contractors would be helpful.Students were also asked to comment on what ways summer employers can coordinate betterwith the CET department regarding summer jobs and student preparation. Students feltemployers could communicate with the CET department about summer job openings. They alsowould like employers to continue to give presentations in seminar. Students would like to knowmore about the jobs and projects they will work on. They suggest employers provide clearer jobdescriptions and be more specific about the qualifications needed. Some noted they would liketo see the plans of the jobs they are working on. One suggested having both students andemployers fill evaluation forms

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

reactors. Students will collect and analyze kinetic data,obtain values of intrinsic and observed kinetic parameters, and evaluate the performance of im-mobilized enzymes and cells using criteria established for heterogeneous catalyst systems (effec-tiveness factors).Several universities have introduced biochemical engineering courses and laboratories into theirchemical engineering curricula, primarily at the senior level as elective courses. Nam Sun Wangat the University of Maryland has developed an extensive biochemical engineering laboratory,and has introduced several experiments that explore in depth free and immobilized enzyme ki-netics, as well as a continuous bioreactor. The experiments we plan to implement at Rowan have

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationquarter sequence. In EDC, they study design and communication from an engineering perspective.Each sixteen-student section of EDC is jointly taught by a faculty member from Engineering and onefrom Arts and Sciences. All 380 freshmen take the course, which is taught by engineering facultyfrom five or six different disciplines. A small core group of faculty from each school work togetherto set goals, develop a syllabus, plan lectures, design assignments and activities, manage overallcourse assessment, and facilitate weekly faculty meetings.One goal of EDC is to communicate the excitement of engineering and thus motivate students tosucceed. EDC does this by having students work on real

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mani Mina

weekend. In all of the cases, experience showed that once they socialized on a face-to-face basis they planned study sessions as well as fun sessions. Consequently, in the electrical engineering freshman classes the emphasis is on teamwork to get students of the same interests and classes to socialize and organize their activities together—and the more get-togethers they have, the more the team gets successful results.10. Students are getting used to half-done, telegraphic-communication-like e-mail and chats. Somehow, the students are getting used to incomplete work. They can do bullet point ideas and try to get the most important part of the information in their assignment as well as presentations. When asked to organize the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

exist in an isolatedtechnical environment. The fact is that many products require a high level of technicalsophistication to even evaluate if it is the proper product for an application. As a result, todaythere must be more interaction between the developers of a new technology product and thecustomer. The scientist or engineer is therefore forced into active participation in such areas ascustomer negotiations, marketing and business planning, and manufacturing support. While theirneed for technical competence is not being reduced to support their primary task, their need forother non-technical knowledge is being increased by the many secondary roles that they arebeing asked to play.From the large industry perspective, the need for a broadened

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education · To expose students to executive management and decision making processes; · To give students opportunities to experience and participate in corporate approaches to both day-to-day problem solving and strategic planning; · To require students to be active contributors (not just observers) of typical business practices; · To prepare students to become leaders of companies conducting business centered in product and informational technologies.These goals are achieved by placing students in ten-week (minimum) paid internships thatrequire them to work in a position at

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Pimpida Punnakanta; Craig D. Lewis; Cynthia Atman

with any associated product informationsuch as material specifications, instructions for use, and any supplementary devices (e.g., extrarazor blades). In addition, teams are provided with worksheets to document their designdecisions and activities. Specific prompts include: defining each team member’s role andresponsibilities, recording the steps the teams used to complete the acitivity (a design log), listingand explaining customer expectations for the tool, identifying and justifying the most essentialcustomer expectation, and describing a complete testing procedure to address this customerexpectation. This procedure may include sketches and plans for data collection or analysis.Our study goal is to identify the level of cross-validity

Conference Session

Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Kennedy the MTIrecommendation that STS 51-L launch should occur as planned. Mueller, a NASAadministrator, asked if everyone supported this decision, but no engineer from MTI responded tothis question. NASA proceeded with its plans to launch STS 51-L on January 28 th, 1986. The preceding narrative shows that the problems with the Solid Rocket Motor were wellknown and documented since 1977. It took national prominence when the Challenger disasterhappened. The students are provided this case study in a three-part series and asked to defendthe options of “launching the shuttle,” “not launching the shuttle,” “becoming a consultant andmaking a recommendation,” and “deciding as NASA managers.”(b) Adding Competency Material In order to help

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

following section describes several models to predict the characteristics of graduatingseniors. To do this, both linear and logistic regression were used with data from our attitudinalsurveys, including data from the Senior Exit SurveyÓ, completed by all seniors when they applyfor graduation.Graduating GPASeveral models have been developed in an effort to relate graduating GPA to a number of factorsincluding EC-2000 outcomes. Independent variables included outcome measures obtained fromthe Senior Exit SurveyÓ, SAT scores and high school class rank, and variables representingeducational enhancements while an undergraduate including internship, co-op, undergraduateresearch assistantship, study abroad, and plans to attend graduate school. For example

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

underway to incorporate aspects of green engineeringthroughout the curriculum. In 1998 the Environmental Protection Agency initiated a program in greenengineering to develop a text book on green engineering; disseminate these materials andassist university professors in using these materials through national and regionalworkshops. The textbook is titled, “Green Engineering: Environmentally ConsciousDesign of Chemical Processes,” and the major authors are David Allen and DavidShonnard. The textbook is a designed for both a senior and graduate chemical engineeringcourse and a series of modules that can be employed throughout the chemical engineeringcurriculum. This paper reviews the current status and future plans of the green

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

both the universityas a whole as well as the engineering departments was one of staff and resource development.At the conclusion of the project the principles of developing inclusive curriculum were formallyincorporated into the “Policy for Development, Amendment and Approval of Programs andCourses” [18] and the “Code of Good Practice: University Teaching” [19] of the University ofSouth Australia. It is now required when planning the development or amendment of programsthat faculty should: “ …indicate in what way advice has been sought on issues of inclusivity, how that advice is acted upon in the planning and delivery of the program, and what mechanisms will be adopted to evaluate the level of success of such program

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

Director of Assessment and Innovation at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Scienceand Art. He develops assessment plans in the Art, Architecture and Engineering schools conducive to program andorganizational innovation. He is a PhD candidate in Planning at the New School for Social Research in New York.NAPHYSAH O. DUNCAN obtained a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union. She is currently aResearch Associate at The Cooper Union in the Center for Biomedical Engineering. She is pursuing a PhD in BiomedicalEngineering at Rutgers University. Page 7.233.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

, affective andpsychomotor domains. Senior level research-project planning and control activities willbring about this change. These changes will be reported in perceived quality criteria thatwill be extracted into the design of questionnaire for the purpose of gathering suchevidence.Introduction Page 7.1107.1ABET’s accreditation reform effort designed to foster effective program evaluation usesa set of criteria. This method allows programs to be flexible to many stakeholder needs. ItProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002. American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

driven. It isoutcomes driven now through the ABET program evaluation criteria. Most programevaluations, however, are done with hazy and broad “outcomes statements” as “ aftercompleting this class I have acquired the necessary skills and knowledge of appropriatemethods, procedures, and techniques.” This paper will address the “broad outcomes levelstatements” like above, to crisp learning outcomes at the activity level. These activitylevel outcomes can be measured. The changed behavior of the student, due to educationalintervention and experience at the activity level will affect the behavior in cognitive,affective and psychomotor domain. Senior level research-project planning and controlactivities will bring about this change. These changes will

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

underrepresented students (women and minorities)· To enhance learning and team skills using collaborative, learning-based educational methodology in the learning community courses· To improve written communication skills by creating a writing link between the first- year composition courses and other technical courses in the AE and AST curriculaAdditionally, we created the following specific objectives, which have served as tangibleguides for program planning:· To build excitement for the fields of engineering and technology· To increase student involvement within the department of ABE· To increase student interaction with the ABE faculty· To increase student interaction with ABE upper-level students· To have students learn about the differences

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

a problem. 7. Communicate, plan the implementation and assess the effectiveness of an engineered solution. 8. Demonstrate technical proficiency in an engineering discipline that is relevant to the needs of the Army.The Learning Model A common Learning Model was adopted for each engineering sequence to add structureto the cadet’s academic experience. Each cadet still takes a core curriculum during the first twoyears at the Academy. A portion of this curriculum gives them the math and science foundationrequired for success in each engineering sequence. All seven three-course sequences follow anintegrated progression from predominantly engineering science to mostly engineering design. Acommon design process is

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

, Newton, MA, along with eleven American institutions; namely, Carnegie-MellonUniversity, Georgia Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Lehigh Un iversity,North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Purdue University, Rice University, Stevens Instituteof Technology, University of Cincinnati, University of Notre Dame, and Washington University,(St. Louis).Of great significance, also, was the move into new and permanent quarters at the end of the year1963. This building was one of several newly constructed buildings on the new Kabul UniversityCampus which were planned and built through the joint efforts of the Royal Government ofAfghanistan and the united States Government. In 1970, a five-year curriculum was adopted. Thefive

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello

. Page 7.152.9A tutoring system for logic will often have explicitly coded solutions for each exercise that a“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”student is presented with. We feel that this is a limiting factor for how useful the system weenvision can be. An agent should be able to take the current state of the proof, and generate asequence of steps to eventually satisfy all of the goals. The ability to perform such a complexchain of inferences is the hallmark of a goal-based agent. The goal-based agent architecture thatwe endeavor to implement subsumes both traditional planning agents and

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

and describes how concept maps can be structured.Figure 1. Example of concept map and description of how concept maps can be Page 7.322.2structured (Taken from Novak, 2000).Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2002-1225Concept maps can be used as a learning strategy, an instructional strategy, a strategy forcurriculum planning, and a means of student assessment.6 Use of concept mapping hasbeen associated with the

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk

detailed CAD drawings when applicable insubsequent design courses. All parts made in machine shop for senior project and other designprojects require a CAD drawing that is checked, and signed off by the faculty advisor.Assessment of Communication SkillsAs part of the assessment plan developed for ABET EC 2000, several performance criteria weredeveloped for evaluating achievement of outcome 3g, the ability to communicate effectively(oral, written, graphical, electronic). Appendix C. presents the current performance criteria used,lists the assessment method used to measure the attainment of that performance criteria, andresults from the class of 2000. Feedback from the students and alumni (items 10 and 11 inAppendix C) is one of the major sources of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

organizations, but it is now being proposed asan individual performance measure also.III.A. The Balanced Scorecard for OrganizationsUsing the strategic goals and mission of the company, the balanced scorecard attempts toenumerate and measure several key indicators of strategic performance for an organization.Kaplan and Norton also expand the use of the balanced scorecard from a simple measurementand control tool to a planning, goal setting, communication, and learning instrument. Thebalanced scorecard is comprised of four key sections: · financial perspective, · customer perspective, · internal-business-process perspective, and · learning and growth perspective.The perspectives are sequentially

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker

Plans for Future WorkResults from this administration of the KAI instrument supported our conjecture that thecognitive styles of students enrolled in CE334 may be slightly skewed towards the adaptive endof the KAI continuum. Determining whether this is a long-term trend will require furtherinvestigation with repeated administrations of the KAI over several years. If consistent overtime, this skew is relevant to the engineering educator through predictable relationships betweencognitive style and classroom behaviors. For example, the more adaptively oriented the class,the more frustration they are likely to experience with open-ended assignments and writing-to-learn exercises. A more innovatively oriented class, on the other hand, is more likely

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oguz Soysal

(McHenry, MD) management plans to build an incliner trolley system for transportation of guests between the hotel and the top of the hill*. Two cars will operate continuously 24-hours a day, 7-days a week in such a way that when one of the cars is ascending the other car will be descending. The management would like to supply the cars from a wind-power plant to save energy. Four engineering teams will submit a proposal for the supply system, and one of the projects will be funded for realization. The basic design criteria are: • Feasibility • Efficient operation • Low cost over the economical life of 20 years • Reliability • Safety Engineering teams will determine the customer needs, make a

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

A-K outcomes, as well as the supplemental M. E. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.141.2 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationDepartment L-S outcomes, are amply assessed by the traditional mechanical engineering, cross-engineering-discipline, science/mathematics and liberal sciences courses. In addition, thecapstone design courses supplement this experience, particularly for the multi-disciplinaryoutcomes involving integrated design.This paper describes the development of a capstone course-level assessment plan

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hall

, and engineering technology courses. The previously mentioned equationeditor and symbol fonts are critical among the needed upgrades.IV. SuggestionsWe plan to continue to develop and present electronics courses and laboratories on-line. As wedo this, we are working closely with our EET Industrial Advisory Committee. After initialreservations, the committee members realized the great potential of an on-line degree. In fact,they began to recognize the value to their own companies. Since our first discussion with theadvisory committee, we have been contacted several times with questions of how soon we wouldbe able to go on-line with an electronics degree.As mentioned above, Blackboard is cumbersome when trying to present technical content in