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Information Literacy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Smith; Lawrence Whitman

The Engineering Economy course was taught in two separate sections at the same time.One section was taught aspects of MS Excel during the live class time. The second section hadlectures on MS Excel available online. Both groups were given a pre-test question requestingstudents to rate their skill level in MS Excel. A post-test question of self-assessment on skilllevel identical to the pre-test question was asked in the final week of the sixteen week course. A thirty-five point assignment allowed students to practice the learned concepts fromclass using MS Excel. The assignment required students to enter data, use multiple worksheets,create a bar graph, and use engineering economy MS Excel functions with an objective ofcomparing project

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Rakesh Sreenivasa; Kendrick Aung

was presented and discussed. One of thetools is an energy calculator that does unit conversion of different energy resources and fuelunits, and estimates the cost of electricity generation using different fuels. The other tool is acycle analyzer that conducts the first and second law analyses of power cycles for different idealgases. These tools were beta tested in a senior elective class to evaluate their effectiveness. Thestudents found the tools useful for their assignments and projects. Future improvements of thetools based on suggestions of the students were presented. These improvements are beingincorporated in the tools to make them more useful for students.Introduction Increasing popularity of the Internet and information

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

Society for Engineering Education” Session 2433Project conclusion and student evaluationDuring the fall semester of his senior year, the student decided to terminate work on hisundergraduate thesis project. A number of factors contributed to this decision. They include: • Time constraint – The student felt that there wasn’t sufficient time to simultaneously work on the thesis while also maintaining excellence in his schoolwork and being involved in extracurricular activities, such as student government and his fraternity. He was also concerned about making satisfactory progress on his capstone senior design project. This team

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

Learning and Teaching Methodology“Eighty- three percent of faculty nation wide report that lecturing is their preferredinstructional method, even while surveys of students say that question-and-answer periods,team projects, work on problem-based activities and face time with the instructor were thebiggest contributors to a positive learning experience”1.“The attention span of the students increases from the beginning of the lecture to 10 minutesinto the lecture and decreases after that point” 2.There is no formal text book for the course. Most of the lecture slides and referencematerials are posted on the web. This is facilitated by the course management program: ANew Global Learning Environment (ANGEL). ANGEL was developed by Cyber Learningand

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

-enligne.prd.fr/, simulation libraries such as http://www.eoe.org, remote laboratories such ashttp://iawww.epfl.ch/, and virtual laboratories such as http://www.esr.ruhr-uni-bochum.De/VCLab/ and tutorials such as http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/. Projects for Page 8.471.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”pedagogical material capitalization and for open distance learning diffusion are strongly supportedby the European Commission, which considers education as one of the most strategic applicationsof

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

combustion engines. Thepurpose of this project was to service gasoline engine, service the engine dynamometer,test the system and carry out some engine performance tests. If successful, engine testswill be incorporated into “EDTE 341-Power and Transportation course” or “ETME 301-Thermodynamics and Heat Power” course as one or two laboratory experiments. EDTE341 course is a technical elective and ETME 301 is a required course in MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) program. Gasoline engine was disassembled andserviced as a requirement for the laboratory part of EDTE 341 course. Servicing of theengine-dynamometer was completed as an ETME 499 project. Instrumentation for fuelconsumption measurements were added and measurements were carried. Results

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enos Charles Inniss

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn addition to preparing and presenting their own topics students were asked to evaluate both thepresentation and content of information provided by their peers. Evaluation forms were providedto the class and they were encouraged to actively participate in the Q&A session.B. Use of WebCT Course Management ToolThe course management tool WebCT was critical to the success of this project because it allowedfor • Students to personally communicate with only their group members through the web; • Groups to submit their fact sheet drafts to the instructor for review; • Groups to upload their PowerPoint presentations to the web-platform for ease of presentation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Berry

Session 2793 WE@UT – A Residential Recruitment Program for Women in Engineering Tricia S. Berry The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering at The University of Texas (WE@UT) program, a two-day in-depthresidential program, is designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding ofengineering and technology through hands-on, technology-based team projects so well informedand solid educational and career decisions are made. The objectives of this program are (1) toencourage young women to explore engineering as a career

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ventura

topic can be mapped to an attribute of an ABET EC-2000learning outcome [4]. For example, an engineering course titled ECE Project must meet theobjective of EC-2000, item c – ability to design systems. The syllabus for this course is used toidentify the attributes that map to this key-learning outcome. Below is a statement of coursegoals listed in the syllabus of the ECE Project class: 1. Learn proper library search methods for information on selected subject. 2. Organize the problem statement and design specifications. 3. Present alternate solutions and list advantages and disadvantages of each. 4. Present final solution and reasons for choice involving realistic constraints such as economic factors, reliability

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

. More, however, projected a society sharing all materialresources in conformity with the modern communist model, though ruled from a democraticbase. A lack of private property is essential in his ideal society is (see table 1.).Table 1.: Characteristics of life in More’s Utopia • all citizens work for a period of the day agriculturally, helping produce the stores that feed them all • social organization is patriarchal, in family units, with slaves for menial tasks • all property is held in common • citizens are indifferent to money, gold, silver and precious stones • all the activities are carefully supervised, including travel, marriage, the care of the sick, and the elimination of the old and infirm • war is hated, but

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 2660 CAPACITY BUILDING – ENGINEERS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D. James Madison UniversityAbstractThe global persistence of warfare, aggression, oppression and political unrest testify to thegrowing vulnerability and impatience of those who live in conditions of extreme poverty.A larger injection of aid is needed to help stabilize the poorest countries: projects thatpromise only

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gralinski; Janis Terpenny

Regional High School (ARHS) with faculty atthe University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College in addressing issues impinging thesuccess of engineering and technology curricula. More specifically, this collaboration hasfocused on: reviewing and enhancing high school teacher’s core knowledge of engineeringdesign, the curricular changes made based on this study/research, and research of gender equityissues in engineering and technology curricula. Plans to recruit and retain female students in thetechnology/engineering area at both secondary and university levels are described; including,cross-institutional projects with an emphasis on assistive technologies and universal design, anda variety of outreach activities between institutions. A structure

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

paper presents the design and development of a generic control architecture that enablesover-the-Internet access to automated manufacturing equipment. The architecture has beendeveloped through a series of projects that have been conducted at the Integrated SystemsFacility (ISF) in the Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri – Rolla.The projects include Web-based applications for materials management, product design andmachining, robot programming, and programmable logic control programming. For eachapplication, a prototype has been developed and implemented in the course Emgt 334 ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing Systems as an E-Lab Suite for various laboratory applications.The concept presented in this paper offers a

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

been very positive as demonstrated by a 50% improvement in attendance. The objectives of improved communication, problem solving, and team skills in addition to a background in BME applications have been successfully demonstrated with projects, papers, and presentations. This approach has provided additional benefits for the supervision of graduate students and for research planning. Although initially challenging, the benefits to cost ratio is so high that it is planned for incorporation in all courses in the curriculum. I. Introduction This paper presents the results of having students use the instructor’s grading rubrics to assess both oral and written presentation. For the

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

two institutions requires at least a forty-five minute commute,all of The University of Dayton Engineering Technology courses completed by Edisonstudents will be offered through distance learning. Nearly all of the Edison Community College students participating in the 2 + 2program work full-time. This fact, combined with the distance separating the twoinstitutions make providing a cohesive educational experience similar to that of residentstudents at The University of Dayton challenging. Distance learning capabilities at bothinstitutions make such an endeavor possible. During the Fall semester of 2002, the Industrial Engineering Technology programat The University of Dayton offered the IET 323 Project Management course as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

Session 2793 Pedagogy and Technology in Statics Sean W. St.Clair, Nelson C. Baker Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper will discuss ten different Statics instructional technology programs that wereconsidered for classroom use and the positive aspects of each as well as some of theirshortcomings.While in the process of a larger research project investigating the effects of technology use in theclassroom, a number of different readily available instructional programs designed for use inStatics courses were studied. The programs were being

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Eschenbach; Mike Loose; John Whittaker

of using the marginal cost of equity is that it more closely reflects the currentsources of the firm’s equity financing. The weighted average cost of equity determines the cost ofequity based on the firm’s overall equity composition, which may not be the same as its mostrecent financing composition.Capital Asset Pricing Model. The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) was developed toexplain the variation in yield rates on various types of investments and also to provide insight intothe appropriate rate to use in discounted cash flow analysis (Kellison, p. 350).4 The main benefitis that it shows the relationship between project risk and return.The CAPM identifies two types of risk. The first is unsystematic risk, also known as unique risk.This

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

examined individually in the following sections.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWebCTIn an attempt to minimize potential problems, the Active Networks I course was developed usingseveral compatible delivery and interaction strategies that were intended to provide optimumsupport for students. The IADE offerings of the ET Department had previously been defined asan asynchronous program and, in 2001, WebCT was chosen by the University as the primarycourse delivery mechanism. Asynchronous delivery of lecture material, examples, homeworkproblems, projects, self-tests and other course requirements

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

thesecompetencies.ePortfoliosFirst, our decision for using ePortfolios comes out of our desire to have a broader assessmenttool for student intellectual development and technical expertise. We believe that the portfolioprocess is a successful paradigm for broader assessment because student are given the choice tocollect certain examples (papers, reports, projects, and autobiographical information), reflect onthe significance of these examples, and to explain their selection process for the instructor and/oraudience. When done correctly, the portfolio as an educational artifact shows intellectual growthand gives the assessor of this growth a range of performances that indicate the student’sintellectual and technical development8.Second, we believe that engineers and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Hess

part. A microturbine can run for days without attentionand its total projected life that is six times that of a comparable internal combustion engine. Itshigh rotating speed gives it a great energy density. It has a nearly universal fuel capability. It isquieter than an internal combustion engine, but not as quiet as other competing technologies.Unfortunately, its tolerances are exacting and its materials are expensive. It does not respond asquickly to a load change as competing technologies. To overcome these disadvantages,additional equipment must be added, defeating much of its size and simplicity advantage. Page 8.548.3 Proceedings

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

HRS SEMET 4323 Technology Seminar 3 F,S ET 4320 Prestressed Concrete 3 SET 4324 Senior Concrete Project 3 F,S ET 4325 Senior Steel Project 3 SENGR 3302 Engineering Economics 3 S ET 4322 Foundation Design 3 SENGR 3409 PC Facilities Management 4 ALL ET Elective 3 ALLET Elective 3 ALL ET Elective 3 ALL 16 15F= fall; S = spring; SU= summer Figure 1

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

scores on theLASSI scales. Additional research could help to determine if the students are really notprogressing in their capacity for lifelong learning. Then if the students are truly not getting betterat the skills projected to increase the capacity for lifelong learning, one could further determinewhat interventions might be effective in changing this trend.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grantnumber 9802942. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.The author(s) would like to thank Eric Sandt for offering his freshman engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonhard Bernold; Joni Spurlin; Cathy Crossland; Chris Anson

Session 2793 Understanding How Freshmen Engineering Students Think They Learn Joni E. Spurlin, Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy L. Crossland, and Chris M. Anson, Ph.D. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695IntroductionThe work in this project is founded on an ongoing effort sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation* which has as its goal the establishment of a thorough understanding of “whatfreshmen do” when it comes to “college study” and how or whether

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

described work into four optimization techniques into mechanics classeshas resulted in a focus on Microsoft’s Excel™ Solver™ for undergraduate mechanics appliedoptimization instruction. This paper has described both the theory and practice of optimizationimplementation, including spreadsheet solver, solid modeling, and finite element analysis (FEA).Mechanics students in both lower and upper divisions find the above project to be a valuablelearning aid to the underlying theory of beam flexural stresses and to the software tools that areavailable to them.Subsequent work in upper division mechanics classes will include prototyping and photoelastic Page

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jaeger; Richard Chapman; Victor Nelson

a solid foundation in mathematics, science, and electrical orsoftware engineering fundamentals to introduce wireless communications theories,devices, circuits, systems, networks, standards, management, and applications. Designexperience is interwoven throughout the curriculum by introducing basic design conceptsearly, emphasizing hands-on design experiences in the laboratories, including effectiveuse of computers and other modern engineering tools, and culminating with a capstonedesign project in the senior year. In addition to its technical aspects, the curriculumemphasizes oral and written communication skills, the importance of business, economic,social and global forces on engineering, appreciation of the need to maintain the

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Yarmolenko; J. Sankar; D. Pai; Juri Filatovs

8.233.3Characterization by Digital Microscopy,” taught to graduate students 11. This is a software-based Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse, centered on Image-Pro, and is the evolved equivalent of “Quantitative” Metallography,the examination of microstructures in the optical and scanning microscope ranges. The softwarehas a large number of functionalities tailored for materials research and is rich in subject matterpossibilities. The formal lectures focused on the core topics of statistics, spatial geometry, and theproperty-structure link. Individual projects, based on the students’ thesis or

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Chimka; Alisha Youngblood; Heather Nachtmann

/ Distribution Exhibit 1. Project phasesPilot StudyThe pilot study has been conducted. In this section, some future analysis and experimentalmethods will be demonstrated, and an outline of prototypical teaching materials will be cross-validated with pilot study data. Experimental materials were designed and used to collect datafrom 58 volunteer industrial engineering students (41 reported male, and 15 reported female).The average age of the sample is 19.2 years with an average of 2.7 college semesters completed.The collected data were analyzed to evaluate a pre-prototype estimation process model, whichwas developed from reviewing multiple estimation resources (Canada and Sullivan, 1988; Canada,et al., 1995; Matthews

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

leadership skills. The CE education at UET Lahore emphasizes on thefundamental concepts and principles, which constitutes the basis of civil engineering practice. Tofoster their creative abilities, the students are assigned projects on design or laboratoryinvestigations for self-directed execution. The classroom and laboratory work is supplemented Page 8.27.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith field trips to acquaint students with the civil engineering projects of national importance

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

. However, it is also more challenging as you may have to move two labs, finishgraduate students, and complete some research projects. Some thoughts relating to advancementare:• A dual career couple member may apply a little earlier for a desired administrative position so that they can advance locally without transplanting the spouse. Dual career couples may need to be a little more creative with advancement opportunities within their local university if they do not wish to relocate.• If you or your spouse is interested in administration advancement, both partners should maintain as marketable a position within your current university as possible. This will help with resources at your current institution as well as for

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Connie Della-Piana

. CircLESalso provides students with discipline-specific student advising and requires students toparticipate in one to two semesters of science or engineering-oriented learning communities,based on their pre-college preparation in Mathematics and English. This paper describes thedesign and findings of a five-year longitudinal study of student persistence in STEM sinceimplementation of the program. Findings from the study indicate that students who participate inthe program have higher retention rates in STEM, as well as at the University, and increasedpersistence toward graduation when compared to 1997 baseline rates. Similar results are* The Model Institutions for Excellence Project is funded by the National Science Foundation (EEC# 9550502).† The