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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Session 3555 Preparing Future Engineering Faculty: Initial Outcomes of an Innovative Teaching Portfolio Program Angela Linse, Jennifer Turns, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Tammy VanDeGrift University of WashingtonAbstractEngineering graduate students have few opportunities to explore and develop scholarlyapproaches to teaching compared to graduates in other fields. As part of an NSF funded teachingand learning center, we have developed the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP).Our initial step has been to design the program and conduct a formal study of how twoindependent

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

responded to thechallenges of ABET EC2000, we have elected to take a slightly different approach withthe focus on projects but with additional emphasis on developing the critical and creativethinking skills that will enable our students to stay enrolled in engineering and besuccessful in the upper-level required discipline specific engineering courses. An integrated approach similar in some respects to the present work has beendescribed by Watret and Martin [1]. They sought to connect mathematics and physics,incorporate common technology into each course, incorporate integrated exams thatrequire the use of mathematics and physics to solve engineering problems andincorporate more writing and presentations by students in class. Results from

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

Session # 1120 A Comparison of Student Performance in an Online with traditional Based Entry Level Engineering Course Ismail I. Orabi, Ph.D. Professor of Mechanical Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of New Haven West Haven, CT 06516AbstractWeb technology offers a diverse set of possible innovations to the traditional teachingprocess. To assess the effectiveness of online learning in entry-level engineering courses,students' performances in an

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering and Technology (ABET) requires that “Students…be prepared for engineeringpractice through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on theknowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work….”1 In numerous curricula, this majordesign experience is reserved for the last semester of the final year of the undergraduateprogram, while in other curricula, the course can span an entire year of the final undergraduateexperience.In addition to being mandated by ABET, industry representatives of potential employers thinkhighly of capstone courses. This support is demonstrated by assistance for such

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

Session 2555 Addressing the Need for Engineering Educators in Higher Education: A Proposal and an Associated Curriculum Eugene J. Audette, Ph.D., L.P. Associate Dean, Academics & Research School of Education University of St. Thomas-Minneapolis Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. Director and Chair School of Engineering & Technology Management University of St

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wayne Wentzheimer; Jeremy G. VanAntwerp; Douglas A. Vander Griend; Jennifer VanAntwerp

slipplanes and fracture mechanics. Phase diagram concepts are pulled in from the traditionalchemistry course, but the emphasis is shifted to solid solutions in order to correlate with thematerials science study of metallic solutions. Acid-base equilibrium is covered from thetraditional chemistry course, and those topics are used to build a foundation for looking at half-cell potentials and corrosion.The chemistry topics are taught in close conjunction with specific technologies in order to appealto engineering students who typically need to see why certain knowledge is valuable. Solid statechemistry proves to be difficult for students as they try to conceptualize three-dimensionalstructures for the first time. Unfortunately, many of the standard

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

the major weensure that material covered in class is relevant to the Army. Most course outlines and designprojects are written in operations order format using a military relevant scenario as an underlyingmotivation for the course. Course developers are currently seeking “links” between courseworkand the military. As courses are executed and refined, course directors continually seek toupdate the military relevance of their coursework. The goal of the nuclear engineering programat West Point is to provide the Army with junior officers who have a broad understanding of thecurrent social, political, environmental and technological challenges and issues in nuclearmatters. As part of the required general curriculum, West Point cadets take a

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Julie Petlick; Alice Scales

Occupational Education in 2000.JULIE H. PETLICK, Ph.D.Is a Research Assistant with the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education at NC StateUniversity. She has a Ph. D. in Psychology with a focus in the area of learning and cognition. Her research interestsinclude the role of technology in learning, and the use of technology to accommodate perceptual learning stylepreferences. Page 9.1088.6 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Soma

our initial study), the cost per unit is closer to $200. To disseminatethe box widely to other institutions (2-year community colleges, 4-year universities, and otherdistance-learning programs), we are exploring a cooperative effort with an electronicmanufacturing company with access to automatic surface-mount technology so that the box canbe fabricated at higher volumes (in the thousands during the first year) and at much lower per-unit cost. It is anticipated that the dissemination will also reach out to international schools wherebudget constraints and lack of expensive laboratory facilities make the Pandora box an idealinstrument for teaching electrical engineering experiments.6. Merits and limitations of the Pandora boxThe Pandora box

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Leifer; Jamey Jacob

collaborate over long distances in order tocomplete projects that are being pursued in parallel by single groups distributed among two ormore locations. This need for distance collaboration has increased as engineering firms havebecome more globalized; in fact, having skilled engineers living in lower cost-of-living areas onstaff who participate in the design process can reduce total workforce costs. Distancecollaboration can also be attractive for less far-flung organizations, simply to reduce the real andsocial costs of employee travel, and to allow “remote experts” to attend meetings withoutrequiring travel [1]. Furthermore, many organizations take advantage of distancecommunications technologies within one location, simply to reduce the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Ardebili; Ali Sadegh

technologies. It is necessary to devise,implement and evaluate innovative pedagogical approaches into the educationalprograms without compromising the traditional skills promoted in the curriculum. Overthe course of the last few years, project-based instruction has gained acceptance by theeducational community and is now being applied in a wide range of engineeringdisciplines, at various types of academic institutions and throughout the different phasesof the educational programs. This paper presents how the engineering graphics course atCCNY and BMCC was modified to be conducted in a project-based environment.An ASME study [1] conducted among US industry gives an outlook on skills and areasof knowledge valued by senior-level mangers for a BS level

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

energy supply from a non-renewable, “dirty”, and/or difficult to dispose of sources to arenewable, clean, safe hydrogen source that can be produced locally. Classroom discussions(topics and references provided below) of the hydrogen economy and its projected impacts canprecede the experiments. In this way instructors can address ABET criterion 3 items (h)understanding the impact of engineering solution in a global and societal context and (j)knowledge of contemporary issues within their core chemical engineering courses.The final motive is to stimulate interest in the area of fuel cells and associated technologies,helping to establish an infrastructure to meet future hydrogen economy work force needs in CTand nationally. The equipment used in

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Session 3268 Assessment of Engineering Mechanics Instructional Multimedia in a Variety of Instructional Settings Richard H. Hall, Nancy Hubing, Timothy A. Philpot, Ralph E. Flori, and Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri – Rolla1 AbstractStudents from ten schools, representing seven countries, used interactive multimedia as a part oftheir engineering statics classes. The software consisted of four modules, which focused on:Mohr’s Circle; Centroid and Moment of Inertia; Stress Transformation; and Structural Analysis.The students completed on

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

Integrating Material Science and Processing into the Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curriculum Using the Web James M. Fragomeni and Anwar Hossain The University of Detroit Mercy, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Detroit, Michigan 48237, USA.AbstractThe proper understanding of engineering materials is very foundational and important withrespect to all the various branches of engineering, science, and technology for a completeundergraduate engineering program. The purpose of this communication is to help satisfy thisrequirement for a more thorough undergraduate engineering

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Chesler; Leslyn Hall; Mark Chesler

engineering, eventually leading togreater diversity and gender equity in the engineering academy.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the Engineering Information Foundation for financialsupport of this three-year program (EiF00.13). In addition, this material is based upon worksupported by the National Science Foundation CAREER Grant 0234007 (NCC).Bibliography[1] ASEE.2001, "Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Techology Colleges." 2001, American Society of Engineering Education: Washington DC.[2] Etzkowitz, H., Kemelgor, C., and Uzzi, B., 2000, Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. 2000, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.[3] Valian, V., 1999, Why So Slow? The Advancement

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nadezda Berezkina; Ilya Leipunsky; Guido Lopez

Moscow, 117829 Russia ABSTRACTNon Destructive Testing (NDT) is a technology of significant importance for determining theintegrity of engineering materials in a myriad of applications. NDT has become inherent tovirtually every process in industry where the condition of parts and assemblies need to beevaluated in order to determine their usefulness and serviceability. The testing of materials playsa significant role in design and manufacture of engineering equipment and, therefore, it is anessential ingredient of engineering education and training. This paper presents a simple,inexpensive and effective method to convey the underlying science of penetrant

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

one setting may not be foranother. For example, criteria used to select a solid modeling software for a design company willdiffer when compared to the criteria used at an educational setting. In order to establish thecriteria for use during solid modeling software selection a comprehensive literature search wascompleted in databases, which included (1) Compendex, (2) Ingenta, (3) NTIS, (4) Aerospaceand High Technology, (4) AIAA online publications, (5) ASCE online journals, (6) ASMEonline journals, and (7) Mechanical Engineering Abstracts. Each database was given a script ofkeywords that included: CAD, Computer Aided Design, Solid Models, Solid Modeling, SolidModeling Software, Design Software, Design Software Criteria, Software Selection

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe; Tim Mulroy

Session A Qualitative Study of the Student Inter nship Exper ience J ohn W K Rowe, Tim J Mulr oy Sheffield Hallam Univer sity, UKAbstractStudents studying engineering in universities are often offered a departmentally facilitatedinternship at some point in their program. In the UK this activity is referred to as placement andEngineering departments encourage and positively promote the placement process to students.Typically in the UK the placement lasts for 12 months, is taken between the 2nd and 3rd year ofstudy with students placed in junior level engineering posts in a wide

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

2609 Formation of a Joint Biomedical Engineering Program between UNC-CH and NC State Stephen R. Quint, Carol N. Lucas, Timothy A. Johnson, Stephen B. Knisley, H. Troy Nagle, C. Frank Abrams, Jr., Susan M. Blanchard, Henry S. Hsiao Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill and NC StateAbstract: Biomedical engineering (BME) was a natural outgrowth of the technology revolutionin medicine in the 1960's1,2. At that time a BME graduate program was founded within the UNC-CH Medical School. Since 1968, this BME program has enjoyed an intimate and interactiverelation with

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stout; Ken Bosworth; Brian Williams; Habib Sadid; Mike Ellis

profile of the engineeringgraduate as demanded by industry and as supplied from academic appears to be getting greaterand greater. “ 2The lack of institutional mechanisms to identify and disassemble obsolete curriculum is a barrierto substantial engineering curriculum reform. A first step in this process is developing anassessment tool to identify curriculum material that is no longer relevant. All engineeringprograms that are accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)must have a continuing assessment process3. The assessment process must demonstrate that thedefined outcomes of the program are being measured. The most commonly adopted assessmenttools to satisfy these requirements are employer and alumni surveys. These

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

from The University of Colorado inBoulder in 1988. Since 1988 he has been with Department of Electrical Engineering at Howard University, where heis currently a Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interestsinclude multimedia signal processing and communications, Image processing and image analysis; and intelligentsystems applicationDonatus Cobbinah was born in Accra, Ghana. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with honorsfrom the University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana in 1997. He is currently working towards the M.S.degree in Electrical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC. His current interests include research anddevelopment of intelligent systems, and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Technology and Programming in a FreshmenComputer Science Course”, 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct 18-21, 2001, Kansas City, MO. Page 9.854.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationRibando, Robert J; “An Excel/visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming Primer”, Computers in EducationJournal,Ribando, R.J., and Galbis-Reig, V., Convective Heat and Mass Transfer from a Runner Using Some ModernSpreadsheet Features,” Computers in Education Journal, Sept 1997.Rosen E.M

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Session 1309 A Three-Week Hands-On Introduction to Biotransport & Drug Delivery for First-Year Engineering Students Daniel P. Cavanagh, John J. Wagner Biomedical Engineering Program & Department of Chemical Engineering / Department of Mechanical Engineering Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PAAbstractIn their first semester at Bucknell, all engineering students enroll in Exploring Engineeringwhich is an introductory course designed to provide the students with an introduction toBucknell’s six engineering disciplines as

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

American Society for Engineering Educationfunded alliance of educators, engineers, and industry partners developing curricula andtechnologies for tomorrow’s bioengineers. VaNTH is a cooperative effort among VanderbiltUniversity, Northwestern University, the University of Texas, and the Harvard University/MITdivision of Health Sciences and Technology (i.e., VaNTH.). Faculty teams of biomedicalengineers, learning scientists, and learning technologists work together and with industryrepresentatives to create challenge-based learning modules, or segments of courses, that can beplugged into new or existing BE or BME curricula. All modules reflect the theory and researchon effective teaching and learning compiled in How People Learn (HPL) (Bransford

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

Session Number : 3561 Linguistic Evidence of Cognitive Distr ibution: Quantifying Lear ning Among Under gr aduate Resear cher s in Engineer ing L. Donath, R. Spr ay, E. Alfor d T. McGar r y and N. Thompson Univer sity of South Car olinaAbstractThe Research Communication Studio at the University of South Carolina nurtures undergraduatelearning in engineering through guided interaction among student peers, near-peer graduatementors, and faculty members. The RCS bases its pedagogical approach on Dorothy Winsor’sconcept of thought and knowledge as a network distributed among members

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

Session No. 2492 Graduate Student Socialization in Science and Engineering: A Study of Underrepresented Minorities’ Experiences Cecilia Lucero, Ph.D. The National GEM ConsortiumIntroductionSince the early 1970s, when the underrepresentation of females and U.S. racial/ethnic groups inthe engineering professions became an exigent national concern, academia, industry, andgovernment agencies have undertaken practices that have improved the participation of minoritygroups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This improvement,however, has been questionable. Recently, for example, Dr

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Reising

of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The University of Evansville and EE/CS DepartmentThe University of Evansville is a fully-accredited, private, liberal arts and sciences baseduniversity affiliated with the United Methodist Church, proudly celebrating a history of 150years. Full-time undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2,200 students. The department ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science offers Bachelor of Science degrees in ElectricalEngineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. The department also supports aninterdisciplinary degree in Information Technology. There are currently

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Watts; Theodor Richardson

theirunderstanding of their students and teaching itself as opposed to the discipline being taught. Thispaper will compare these results and will discuss the applicability of teacher training aimed atteaching the elementary grade levels to teaching courses at the higher university level.1. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF) provides fellowship support to select engineeringgraduate students at the University of South Carolina (USC) through an award designed toenable these students to serve as resources in South Carolina public K-12 schools. Among theintended goals of the GK-12 fellowship program, such as providing K-12 educators and studentswith methods for introducing technology and elements of engineering design into their sciencecurriculum

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

sketches and drawings.- has been developed for use as a post-test. This test requires ahigher level of learning on Bloom’s Taxonomy – Levels Three and Four – Application andAnalysis.Both of these tests are being administered during the 2003 – 2004 academic year and this paperwill provide the early results about gains in student knowledge.Introduction and BackgroundUntil recently, Engineering Graphics has been a required course at most institutions, helping tocreate a strong foundation for the undergraduate engineering and technology programs. Throughthe 1970s, a full year of Engineering Graphics instruction was part of undergraduate programs.Engineering Colleges, with the pressure to teach more information and skills in theundergraduate program

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ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

research interests include multimedia signal processingand communications, Image processing and image analysis; and intelligent systems applicationAbdul Ofoli received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University ofScience and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana in 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he was a Teaching/Researchassistant in the electrical engineering department. He obtained the M. Eng. degree in electrical engineering fromHoward University in 2002 and he is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in the same university at theelectrical and computer engineering department.Sahar S. Kaddah received the B. Sc., and M. Sc. from Mansoura University, Egypt in 1988 and 1992, respectively.She obtained her PhD