Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

is based on the widely publicized book “How PeopleLearn” (HPL). The HPL teaching framework presents the learning material as a series ofchallenges that are posed through a “Legacy Cycle.” Three VANTH modules, covering sevenchallenges, were tested in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering course in Fall 2003. Theclass (N=32) was divided into two groups, control and trial, based on a random assignment.The control group performed the challenge in a traditional way (pencil and paper) while thetrial group solved the challenge using the VaNTH material located at a website. For eachgroup, a pre-test, post-test, and affect ranking were administered. The students were alsosurveyed on the learning effectiveness of the various components of each

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

delivery methods (lecture,laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web-basedcourse supplement to the complete delivery of courses online4,5. The choices that faculty mayconsider range from simply posting a syllabus to creating web-based content to enhanceclassroom instruction to exclusive online delivery.While the primary focus of web-based delivery has been in the development of standalone web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the web tosupplement and enhance classroom instruction, creating “hybrid courses”1,4,6. The author haschosen to supplement a traditional face-to-face on-campus CAD (Computer Aided Design)course with an online supplement using WebCT. These

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

with science to and even greater degree o More so for science then math, it did not appear that the math aspects were a focus, but an after thought o Most of the ETKs could incorporate math in an applied way that would be incredibly productive to learning. o How can these units be intro/or filter into another unit as a culmination experience o There are ways to integrate Language Arts / Literature and History as well Even if it isn’t included in your units teachers can adapt on their own Reading lists to link science and math to language arts and literatureWhat additional features should we include in the ETKs? For

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

rubrics have been tested by several evaluators for both associate andbaccalaureate level student work. Page 9.239.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Written Report RubricThis rubric (see Table 1) was developed some years ago to help assess TAC-ABET Criterion 1g,“an ability to communicate effectively.” “Effectively” is a term that must be defined in order todevelop a working rubric. The initial focus during the rubric’s development was workplacewriting, as apposed to academic writing. Of

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

, and possibly a lecture or two on possible scenarios if the issue is not solved. At the end of the course the group papers are graded and returned to the group. A copy is kept on file to share with interested individuals.VI. ConclusionWe have shown that a popular, credible, yearlong course can be developed that helps to educatenon-technologists to make smart decisions regarding technology in their lives and careers. Theoverall course has been extremely successful in meeting its overarching goals. It has beenoffered continually for thirteen years and is scheduled for a fourteenth. It has survived two majortop to bottom revisions of the university’s Core curriculum and it is still viewed as instillingessential integrative

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Engel; Peter Lehman; Charles Chamberlin; Angi Sorensen; Andy Sorter

electric energy use at the residence with both an energy audit and direct measurement. They measured, or used the manufacturer’s specifications to estimate, power requirements of specific appliances in the home and estimated the duty cycle of each load from a 2-week survey completed by the ranger. They also measured AC current flowing into the house and integrated over time to estimate total energy consumption in the home.The interns also needed data on the generators’ duty cycles and diesel fuel consumption at EspaLagoon to compare life cycle costs of the existing and proposed systems. The park rangersupplied fifteen months of generator data, and the interns calculated an average duty cycle of 4.7hours per

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

outcomes.Development and successful implementation of a versatile capstone course assessment andevaluation system is potentially useful. Lack of effective assessment and evaluation tools canlead to false or inaccurate conclusions about the goodness of design processes. Yet, consideringthe ubiquitous presence of capstone design courses in almost every engineering curriculum,outcomes assessment of these courses is perhaps among the most under-researched topics inengineering education.Cost, time and quality are the three basic performance measures attached to any process. In thecapstone design projects we studied, time can measured in terms of number of weeks of totaldesign time, e.g., one 15-week semester. The cost can be measured by the number of personhours

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Odis Griffin

proven to be a significant facility and an integral part of our educationalprograms, and we believe it is unique. Students who participate in the design realization projectshoused in the Ware Lab are highly recruited and have no difficulty in becoming contributors inreal-world hardware projects. In addition to the project experience, the large number of toursthrough the Ware Lab, typically several per week, offers the students numerous opportunities tomake short presentations on their projects, thus developing their speaking and presentation skills. Page 9.660.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Boucher; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

School of Computer Science and Louisiana State University in Engineering Shreveport Utah Valley State College Shreveport, LA 71115 Orem, Utah 84058Abstract Since our schools do not offer an engineering program, we teach robotic technology withinour computer science curriculum. In the process of teaching robotics technology to students at agraduate or undergraduate level, it becomes necessary to synchronize more than one robotic armfor the purpose of demonstrating the interaction between robots commonly found in industrialsettings. There are several approaches to doing this. The simplest approach is to connect the