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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

Page 7.483.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdegree). In the ‘old-style’ programs it was important to include the right courses to be preparedfor the university of choice after graduation. In 1998 the so-called ‘tweede fase’ (second phase)was introduced to the upper three grades of the VWO. The changes to the upper three gradesconcerned both changes in course content and teaching-philosophy; with classic in-class lecturesreplaced by a combination of in-class lectures and group-oriented projects, independent research,computer-based information acquisition, etc. [7]. Reasons for the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

. materials can be varied among learning style formats so that students can choose to use the ones that benefit them most. The Web-based materials in this project were coded primarily in HTML andJAVASCRIPT. The HTML code contains the structure and format of the Web-page while theJAVASCRIPT language allows one to add interactive features that will provide feedback to thestudents. Several programs were used in developing the materials and include various texteditors, Microsoft Word, Excel and Frontpage, and Flash. The best available tool foraccomplishing the desired Web-effect was used in each instance. Faculty wishing to create acourse with few Web

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

. For example, behavioral andorganizational topics are readily included, both because there is room in the curriculum for thesespecialty topics, and also because the expertise exists within the business faculty. Typical courseofferings (or even sub-course offerings) include: Personal, and Managerial Time Management;Project Management; Negotiations; Decision-making; Management of Technology; InnovationManagement; Innovation and Change in Organizations; Venture Capital and Private Equity; NewVenture Finance; Corporate Architecture; Building and Leading High-Tech Organizations; etc.Some business schools also include the area of “New Product and Process Development” (NPD orNPPD) in their curriculum offerings (see Figure 1). In some cases, these

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann McKenna

were revised at Northwestern as part of the VaNTH project. This section discussesthe main topics covered for each of the courses, the materials that were developed for the class,and how these materials align with the principles of the HPL framework. Table 1 provides detailsof these three courses. Page 7.230.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Course Quarter Students Domain ProfessorBME 338: Interaction of Winter 2001 11

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

. [1] This attitude focusesattention on the relative timing and quantitative mix of design and science. For example, somedesign initiatives expand design experiences in the first year, with the hope of introducingstudents to what engineering is all about as early as possible.[2-5] Other initiatives integratedesign throughout the curriculum with the goal of helping students in "making the transitionfrom the `seat-of-the-pants' freshman design approach to the engineering design approachrequired for the capstone experience and engineering practice." [6] Finally, senior designcapstone courses aim at exposing engineering students to the key elements of design --designmethods, project management, teaming, engineering economics, ethics, risks, and

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

topics. Faculty activities do little to encourage development and use of theseskills to improve engineering education.1.3 Engineering Education AdvancesIt is unfair to contend that no trends in engineering education have sought to recognize thechanging requirements for those in engineering practice. The recognition of the desperate needfor change has been a prominent topic in recent engineering education literature. Attempts toconsider the systems approach have led to attempts at course integration; and increasing use ofinformation technology has introduced new teaching methods and allowed students access tosoftware used in practice.Integration is primarily visible in the form of capstone senior design projects common in mostengineering schools

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Boyce; Jung-Wuk Hong; Jaspal Sandhu; Eberhard Bamberg

report that they had completed. Each team then completedthe full design report at home and handed them in one week later. Page 7.143.3*. Macintosh computers will need to have OS X installed. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Fig. 2 Two students working together on their truss design Fig. 3 A student presents his "lightest design" to the class using using the Truss Structures simulation. his laptop and the classroom's projection system.b) Online LecturesOnline

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Safford; Andres Sousa-Poza; David Dryer; Charles Keating; William Peterson

expectancies about teachers and enrollment behavior in distance learning. Communication Education, 48, no. 2, pp. 149-158, 1999.CHARLES B. KEATINGDr. Keating is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director for EngineeringManagement at Old Dominion University. Prior to joining the faculty of Old Dominion in1994, Dr. Keating served in numerous staff and command positions for over 5 years inthe US Army. In addition, he has served for over 7 years in quality engineeringmanagement at Texas Instruments and Newport News Shipbuilding, including hightechnology design, engineering, and testing oversight. He has conducted a multitude ofresearch projects in various organizations, including NASA, Thomas Jefferson NationalAccelerator Facility, and

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Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Koller

programs and processes may be more successful than leaders who see themselves as facilitators; 9. Identifying and solving problems, using adaptive planning, contributes to success; 10. Skilled and committed staff empowered to carry out partnership plans are an important element in project success; Page 7.151.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 11. A complex partnership can be strengthened by breaking it down into components; 12. University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

Section 1526 CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments Julie A. Dickerson, Diane T. Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert J. Weber, Benjamin Graubard, Feng Chen, and Zheng Min Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011Project OverviewThis CRCD project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-powerembedded systems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program.Education in the hardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves as a testbed

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

. You will be graded on the quality of your responses. c) Make a final recommendation based on your report of whether to proceed with design or not. Page 7.283.6 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”APPENDIX 3CASE STUDY: SHOULD STEM CELL RESEARCH PROCEED?HISTORYThe Human Genome Project is one of the great scientific triumphs of the twentieth century. In1953 the double helical structure of DNA was proposed by Francis Crick and James Watson, forwhich both

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

reflect such issues as technological advances and thegrowth of the engineering team in the workplace. Over the past decade the CEAB increased therequirements for complementary studies (soft skills) and moved from a proportional measure ofcurriculum to an absolute measure. Changes under consideration at the present time include: · refining the curriculum content requirements for Basic Science and Mathematics, · including morale and commitment of faculty, support staff and students as a component of the qualitative evaluation, and · including the requirement for students to be exposed to the concepts of project management.The engineering profession expects of its members competence in engineering as well as anunderstanding of the impact of

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education--I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

of graduate courses in nuclear engineering · 6 additional hours in nuclear engineering or a related field · 6 elective hours of mathematics statistics, or computer scienceand the selection of one of the following research options: · 6 credit hours of research through completion of a thesis · 6 credit hours of research through engineering practice projects · 3 hours of engineering practice project plus 6 additional hours of graduate nuclear engineering coursework.Applicants without a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, or the equivalent, must take thefollowing three courses: · NE 301: Fundamentals of Nuclear & Radiological Engineering · NE 431: Radiation Protection · NE 470: Nuclear Reactor Theory I

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Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

, Denton describes an engineer’s interestin educating others as a natural fit for engineering educators: “engineers excel at the design,analysis, and improvement of complex systems” and documents cases of engineering professorscontributing outside the realm of the traditional classroom to enhance and enrich the perceptionof engineering as a viable career choice.2An important source for designing our work was Besterfield-Sacre et. al’s extensive quantitativeand qualitative research project across 17 engineering institutions that also investigated thefactors that propel students into or out of engineering careers.3 In “Gender Ethnicity Differencesin Freshman Engineering Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” the researchers report thatgender and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheeldon; Glenn Wrate

the steady drift of circuit analysis textbooks in the non-electrical major area away frombuilding electrical examples and problems to a focus on automotive systems. The last twocourses in the sequence focus on small commercial buildings and light industrial facilities, andthen multistory buildings and large industrial facilities. Formal designs, including presentations,are required in both of these courses. Typically, one of the courses has individual projects, w hilethe other course forces the students to work in teams. The order of the project assignments hasbeen varied to deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the individual classes. These coursesare currently offered as elective courses in the Electrical Engineering program, and

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

their own abilities in those areas. Technology, as stated, isanother area of opportunity. From effective use of the Internet, to providing ideas for topicillustration, to actually teaming with a teacher to teach a Web Page Creation elective for studentsin grades 3-5, our engineering students are proving to be a valuable resource to our teachers.Finally, NCSU students are developing, with guidance from curriculum experts known to theschools, inquiry-based, integrated science lessons for teacher delivery.From an extracurricular standpoint, there are opportunities for engineering students to work asmentors on science fair projects and Science Olympiad teams. The role model aspect in theseoften-voluntary events is crucial, especially for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiang Li; Matthew Lee

system can be adopted for both lab and field measurements. It is especially convenient for field projects since the DAQ system is portable and light. This system is designed for multiple purposes. For instance, the data acquisition can measure and record stress/force, strain/displacement, velocity/acceleration, temperatures, etc. that are related to projects in civil engineering such as pile driving, foundation loading/unloading and deformation of infrastructure (i.e., pavement, slope, retaining wall, bridges etc). This system can also serve as a virtual laboratory device for purposes of teaching and research in engineering mechanics (i.e., oscilloscopes, frequency response analyzers, signal generators, A/D or D/A data converters, etc.). In the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Hopcroft

, and ends in culture. The primary objective of the work shifted from successfullycompleting the original research study to the much more difficult topic of interdisciplinary andcross-gender collaboration. The new focus is designed to facilitate the formulation of a plan thatexamines key issues that impact successful collaboration. The fact that gender is also a variablepresents intriguing and only sometimes predictable influences on the working relationship. Thispaper provides an informal and descriptive framework for conceptualizing the collaborativeresearch effort by considering expectations for successful project completion, and implicationsfor further study.II. Overview of ThemesThis paper began with some hunches about the effects that

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Turner

modules to be taught in sophomore, junior, and seniorcourses that add value to them. In other cases, we have promoted contests thatencourage students to participate in infrastructure development projects such as thedesign of the academic center for engineers and scientists and the engineering annexbuilding.The specific objectives for the green engineering building contest flow from thelarger goals outlined above are as follows: a. Create an opportunity for students and faculty to contribute to the design of the new building that will serve as a learning experience for all. b. Create a model building that illustrates UTEP’s leadership in engineering design and sustainability concepts for the El Paso Ciudad-Juarez region. c. Provide

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

. Performance considers the extent to which the outputs meet the standards of quantity,quality and timeliness of those who use the product or receive the service. 3 Behavior considersthe extent to which the team experience contributes to the growth and personal well being ofteam members. 3 Attitude is concerned with examining how the process of carrying out the workenhances the capability of members to work together interdependently in the future. 3 Table 1shows what is being measured and how it will be measured for each outcome. Outcomes Tool Performance (P) · Knowledge about the subject · Project report (on the assigned task) · Quality of the results · Project

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Amy Gross; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Copyright 8 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSystems. In this module we present the details of a microkernel, how it is used and whichmicrokernels are typically available for various microprocessors. The third module is Real-TimeEmbedded Systems. This module deals with interconnection of more complex peripherals than onespresented earlier, such as CAN networks, DA/AD converters, and PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) --- all of such devices come with variations of various microprocessors. Through such lab projects,students learn how to control various peripherals and build a (small but) complete real timedistributed microcontroller system. With the NSF CRCD grant, twenty Phytec Microcontrollerboards containing an Infineon C 167

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Niaz Latif; Michael Dyrenfurth

Program inTechnology is designed for full-time professionals. The objectives of the program are:(a) enhancement of participants’ learning skills in a continuously changing technology field, (b) enhancement of analytical and problem-solving skills in applications of technology, and(c) accentuation of professional ethics and awareness in a technological environment. Purdue’sadaptation involves offering a series of twelve courses, delivered via fourteen very intense three-day weekend sessions which are augmented with a carefully developed set of out-of-classassignments and a communication support system. Each of these weekend sessions entails 24contact hours of meeting time. In addition, a directed project is required to demonstrate researchand/or

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

thatconstitute his or her own knowledge base. Some specific examples of the successfulapplication of technology grounded in constructivist theory are evident in projects in theCarter Lawrence School (Tennessee), Clearview Elementary School (California), RalphBunche School (New York) and the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) studies.At Iowa State University engineering faculty have worked collaboratively with teachereducation faculty since 1996 to offer an undergraduate course entitled Toying withTechnologySM to elementary and secondary education majors4,5,6. This course, whichemploys the constructivist method and seeks to improve teacher preparation, began with15 preservice teachers in the first semester and has grown to about 100 preserviceteachers

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Mendieta; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

Session 1532 Predicting Primary Water Levels Using Backpropagation and General Regression Neural Networks Carlos Mendieta, Mario Garcia, Carl Steidley Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstract This project applied two Artificial Neural Network models (Backpropagation and theGeneral Regression Neural Network (GRNN)) to predict primary water levels at a single port onthe Texas coast. The data for this project was provided by the Division of Nearshore Researchand is collected hourly from several ports along the Texas coast. Important variables needed

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vis Madhavan; Janet Twomey; Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman

expert guidance.The Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at Wichita State University isdeveloping an integrated set of virtual reality models of a manufacturing line at Boeing Wichita.This mega-case will be used throughout the curriculum to vertically integrate the concepts acrossthe curriculum and provide a situated learning experience for our students. This large-scalevirtual reality factory modeling effort, “Innovation in Aircraft Manufacturing through System-Wide Virtual Reality Models and Curriculum Integration” has recently been funded by theNational Science Foundation through the Partners for Innovation program (http://www.slvr.org).The objectives of this project are to: • Foment the use of integrated virtual reality

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

educationis responsive to the needs of business, including the wider community, where this willlead to wealth creation. Current activities include:-· The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) providing funding to support large, strategic collaborative projects that increase the capability of academic institutions to respond to the needs of business and strengthen business/higher education Page 7.689.1 partnerships;Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education· The University Challenge Fund providing seed

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Harvel; Monson Hayes

windows-based program. Finally, the textprocessing procedure is linked to the graphic interface via Windows API (ApplicationPeripheral Interface) calls.Index Structure In engineering a powerful and effective information retrieval system, we can consideraccessing content that comes from a variety of different sources. Initially, however, ourproject is only concerned with extracting and accessing information, i.e., words, that appearsin prepared slides (postscript). The Classroom 2000 Project (now known as eClass), on theother hand, considered a variety of other sources, including transcriptions of handwritteninformation, transcriptions of voice, titles of we b pages that have been visited during alecture, and annotation that is added by the

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Denis Gillet

emphasizesthe use of content rather than document oriented notes; it enables users to easily edit notes thatcan contain any format supported by Web browsers, e.g. text, images, graphics, manuscripts,measurements, charts, or multimedia objects. The ELJ enables educators to supervise students’progression with their assignments and provides them with some assistance and tutoring. It alsointegrates information related with the experimentation preparation.The ELJ paradigm is currently validated in the framework of the eMersion project 8, which aimsat developing at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) hands-onresources for flexible learning in engineering education focusing on remote manipulation of realsetups and Web-based simulation

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenghsin Liu

observed twostudents sharing one workstation in CAD classes in certain state-funded universities.The advent of Internet and Intranet allows engineers to communicate with each other in acooperative process (often called "collaborative engineering”) on the same project to come upwith the best design. In fact, this engineering environment pulls in all engineers, productmanagers, manufacturing engineers, and marketers to the same project. They all have access tothe system. However, problems arise for students in the design class in terms of collaboration.The first problem is that most collaborative environments now available for product design focuson the collaboration between different designers who work on different parts of the sameproduct. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Leffel; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

line instruction video the phoneTo assess the need for new courses to offer to practicing engineers, company representativeswere asked to name their three preferred course topics for enhancing the engineers’effectiveness. Respondents identified leadership/soft skills, project management softwarecourses and information technology as preferred course topics for enhancing engineers’effectiveness. According to Bowman and Farr, “Employers are calling for [engineering]graduates who are not merely expert in design and analysis, but who possess the leadershipskills to apply their technical expertise and to capitalize on emerging construction andinformation technologies, management models, and