Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

sections andinstitutions. Since class dynamics tend to change between institutions, teachers, or even sections,it is vital that each class maintain a level of consistency when implemented in order to insure thatdiscrepancies between sections or institutions are accounted for and is not the overriding factorfor alteration in student performance. It is vital that the application of innovative learningstrategies in the classroom result in a positive long-term impact on the quality of education in theclassroom and that this holds true regardless of the instructor. This will be a difficult task. It isevident that we can not predict every possible facet that will arise as an important criterion forinvestigation so we plan to be tenacious in the

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eswara Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy; Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

concrete reasoning methods to solve problems.A second issue is raised by our observation that most students were unable to make muchprogress while working individually on the problem. Clearly, the dynamic interaction betweenstudents was necessary to allow them to make significant progress in the allotted time. This fact,coupled with their very positive responses to working collaboratively, reinforces the usefulnessof this pedagogical method. We plan further study of this collaborative-learning dynamic usingthese exercises with future groups of engineering and science students. Page 8.317.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

upon, might be sufficient to have me attain a beggar’s bliss immediately; but, like some predator that prefers a moving prey to a motionless Page 8.482.4 one, I planned to have this pitiful attainment coincide with one of the various girlish Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education movements she made now and then as she read …4 [emphasis mine]Charlotte (ignored by Humbert as a ‘distasteful’ model) already feels threatened by Lolita (her‘edible’ Batesian mimic), as revealed by Humbert: … for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lan; Karlene Hoo; Jason Williams; Harry Parker; Charles Smith; Theodore Wiesner

a feel for what the equipment looks and feels like, as well ashow it operates. With the virtual portion, the students will become familiar with the computerinterfaces that are similar to industrial control rooms, and learn to manipulate the equipment viathose controls instead of manually turning valves and knobs. They can also explore operatingscenarios which are not easily or economically investigated with physical equipment. A powerfulcapability added by virtual experiments is the ability to use simulation to plan which laboratoryexperiments would be most useful to meet the goals of a lesson..SummaryWith the two labs complementing each other, the unit operations laboratory would be highlybeneficial to the students by teaching both the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

+ w3 A , (1)where F = Factual knowledge , C = Conceptual understanding, A = Adaptive exp ertise ,and w1 , w2 , w3 are weighting factors (constants). Selecting the values of the weighting factors issomewhat arbitrary. As a first pass, we propose that factual knowledge should be roughly half asimportant as either conceptual understanding or adaptive expertise, in which case: w1 = 0.2; w2 = 0.4; w3 = 0.4. Our current plan is to conduct the assessment and evaluation using a Two Group Design3.The control group will comprise students in the undergraduate biomechanics course offered inthe Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin; the experimental (HPL) group willcomprise students in the new

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

had the opportunityto make measurements and sketches of the existing surgical instruments. This year the distribu-tor personally conducted the sawbones training, rather than having it done by his sales staff. Healso loaned students the surgical instruments for use during their oral presentation at the end ofthe Fall semester. Students plan to test their prototypes using sawbones during the Spring semes-ter. Recently a grant was received from the implant manufacturer to provide financial resourcesfor fabrication of the prototypes and for the design team and their faculty advisor to visit themanufacturer and present their final design project results.Video System for Measuring Canine Stride LengthThis design project developed a system for

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

self-learning and research skills, • Expose students to engineering problems with realistic constrains, and use their creativity, knowledge, and skills acquired in previous courses to solve the problems, • Exercise their oral and written communication skills, and improve them by presenting written reports and oral presentations during the semester.The students had fifteen weeks to do all the work, from the definition of the project to thedevelopment and completion of the project. To achieve the goals, the activities were planned asfollows. During the first three weeks, an intensive review covering the topics of the 68HC12microcontroller, principles of mobile robots, sensors, and fuzzy set theory was given. Duringthis

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

solutions.8. Evaluate remaining alternatives - often using more than just technical criteria - and rank results.9. Select - again with the client - the best choices and fix the design.10. Supervise construction or realization. This can involve such diverse aptitudes as project planning and control, labor relations and client interaction as well as being able to alleviate or circumvent immediate technical difficulties that may arrise.11. Supervise and monitor use and lifetime condition. Interaction with users is important here.12. Remove and recycle.Most will recognize that steps 5 through 7 in this list form the heart of the curriculum’stechnical content

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

education in the areas of writing and speaking. He has published widely.PAULA BERARDINELLIPaula Berardinelli received her Doctorate of Education in Training and Development from North Carolina StateUniversity and a Master's in Health Education and a Bachelor's in Health Planning and Administration, both fromThe Pennsylvania State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of the Training and DevelopmentProgram at North Carolina State University and has worked as a consultant in a variety of industries.LISA BULLARDLisa G. Bullard received her BS in ChE from NC State and her Ph.D. in ChE from Carnegie Mellon. She servedin engineering and management positions within Eastman Chemical Co. from 1991-2000. At N.C. State, she iscurrently the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

planning and sustainable development.DAVID DIBIASIODiBiasio is associate professor of chemical engineering, director of the WPI Washington DC Project Center andAssessment Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD). His research interests are inengineering education and assessment.NATALIE A. MELLOMello is the director of global operations in the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD). Herexpertise is in areas of risk management, health and safety for study abroad, and developing training for faculty andstaff who accompany students off-campus. Page 8.1217.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Robinson; Scott Segalewitz; Raymond Lepore

UD programs, and developed a“bridge” program to better prepare students in math and sciences.The articulation agreement was completed and approved by the administration at both institutionsearly in 2002. Subsequently, planning began for delivery of UD classes.Implementation of the Agreement: Traditional StudentsTraditional students can make a seamless transition from Edison Community College to theUniversity of Dayton. For many students, however, the biggest impediment to attending UD isthe cost. As a private institution, the University of Dayton’s tuition is over six-times the cost ofEdison Community College tuition. Furthermore, transfer students have less opportunity forscholarships and tuition assistance than those admitted to UD in

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

information for written lab reports• understand readers’ and listeners’ responses to one’s writing• assess one’s own writing skills and plan for continuing improvement• give advice and feedback to others on written communicationsThe need for better assessment and feedbackAs discussed above in the introduction, research and the experience of many instructors hasindicated that the written comments traditionally provided to students as feedback on theircommunications assignments fall short of sufficiently improving students’ communicative skills.Although many of our points will be applicable to both oral and written communications, thispaper mainly discusses written work. We focus on four ways in which the assessment of writtenwork in engineering

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

) Training of in-career high school SMET teachers in engineering education, primarily through participation in a one - week summer institute and bi-monthly workshops alongside engineering Graduate Fellows; 6) Establishment of a Galileo virtual engineering community using computer infrastructure resources at the University of Connecticut as a major venue for project planning, communication and resource/experience sharing for all participants in this project and the education community in general; 7) Development of a “Master of Engineering Education” degree to provide engineering graduate students interested in exploring teaching careers, or secondary school

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Hovde

and shared.Following the pilot year, I have led training sessions each year for additional facultymembers from other departments. These sessions have provided similar results inencouraging faculty members to feel more confident about their abilities to assessstudent communication abilities.Gaining usable results while respecting people’s time commitmentsThe purpose of outcomes assessment is to gain valid and reliable results that can befed back into the planning loop so that one can use them in curriculum decisions. Anideal way to assess communication would consume inordinate amounts of time.Because faculty members already have full schedules, many of them perceived thatthey did not have time to dedicate to communication assessment. However

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3242Biographical InformationDR. DONALD N. MERINODonald Merino is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair of Economics of Engineering and a tenured fullprofessor of Engineering and Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches EngineeringEconomy, Decision Analysis, Total Quality Management, and Strategic Planning. He is the founder and ProgramDirector of the Executive Master in Technology Management (EMTM) Program. He was founder of theundergraduate Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM) at Stevens. He won the MortonDistinguished Teaching Award

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Trioloa; Charles Garnett; Barry Mohle; Alfred Wicks; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

exists toapply this knowledge in the defense of the Nation. Collaborations such as those described in thispaper link these two groups at the personal level. In so doing, beyond bringing benefit to thepartners, it provides important benefits to the students involved, by providing them withexperience in applying the concepts of producibility, sustainability, schedule, and cost to problemsin engineering design and science.As the Navy moves forward to define its plans on a National scale, additional opportunities foruniversity collaborations will arise, including strategies directed at increasing the number of USstudents in science and engineering programs, providing for enhanced student co-op

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Ciocci

specific tasks. Phase II panels often addtopics to current courses as well as identify the need for new courses. The items identified as“Knowledge and Skills” from Phase I are also placed into the course structure. As the items aregrouped into courses, their association in those courses is purely topical. How the course istaught, in other words whether a particular task is handled as a two-week classroom analysis or asa 50-minute lecture, will be decided by the faculty member who is asked to teach the course. Thepanel merely assigns tasks to courses. The final product of Phase II is a Curriculum Map, whichis the planned sequence of courses and a list of each course with its associated tasks.Phase III is an academic preparation step that includes

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

alumni surveys. Course improvements weredescribed in two courses resulting from changes in course content implemented due to the resultsfrom program self-assessment. In addition, an ineffective instructor was identified, andimprovements were made in the instructor's teaching style. A final example demonstrated that asignificant problem in the Chemical Engineering curriculum was identified based on theassessment tools and metrics in use and a plan to correct the problem put in place. Page 8.946.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

. Conclusions and Further WorkWe were unable to measure any significant improvement in learning during our first mini-lab,and found only modest enthusiasm for the mini-labs based on question one and two. However,based on their response to question three following the second mini-lab, the students seem toagree that some form of laboratory implementation should always accompany ME279. Studentwritten comments seem to be on the whole rather positive towards having a lab experience – themost common complaint being that they would rather do the lab much earlier than the end of thesemester. They were also bothered when the equipment failed to work exactly as expected, orwhen a component broke. We plan to continue to refine our mini-lab procedures, and hope

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

importance of teamwork, planning and the value of up-front engineeringcalculations under a very tight time constraint were also realized. The studentsappreciated that this project required the participants to utilize the entire engineeringdevelopment process from concept through prototype fabrication, culminating in atangible, working model.There were also several recommendations made by the students. For example, a numberof students believed that the solar car project should be a class in itself, perhaps offered asa three credit, professional elective. They would also like to see more deadlinesestablished by the faculty throughout the course of the semester, as some studentscommented that by the time they learned the true value of religious

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

EducationThe contest actually begins with an unassembled vehicle of very specific specifications, followedby assembly and course testing in front of a panel of judges. The class-designed vehicle, yet tobe constructed, will consist of a frame, drive train, suspension, steering, and brakes. Themoonbuggy must be portable, collapsible, carry two passengers, and cover a terrain similar to themoon and strewn with lunar-like obstacles distributed randomly around the course.For the class, the first stage of the moon buggy was a design and plan only contribution to thecourse. The next stage is actual construction and entry in the NASA sponsored nationalcompetition as representatives of the University. In addition to the design and constructionplanning (of a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Redfield Robin; Robert Borchert; Brian Self

, and openended survey questions. Some more quantitative data has been received by using modified Likertscale questions on the surveys. Finally, feedback from the instructors teaching the course allowsus to analyze the perceived workload and performance of the students.This type of feedback has allowed us to continuously modify our course. Most of these changesare not dramatic, but incremental. We plan to continue evaluation of computer visualizationtools, hand-on projects, and new learning tools to make undergraduate dynamics more interestingto students are easier for them to understand.ReferencesSelf, B and Redfield, R (2001) New approaches in teaching undergraduate dynamics

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

answersprovided by their peers. With the instructor’s guidance they could create a single comprehensivelist. This may take more time, and may not be appropriate for certain learning objectives.However, in some situations this activity can help students practice sorting and prioritizing ofcritical factors that they will need to be able to differentiate in future problem solving situations.In another example, the class had recently visited a laser clinic to observe a new type of laserinstrument. At the next class session the instructor planned a lecture to explain the physicsassociated with this laser. Prior to the lecture the instructor posed several questions including - 1. While visiting the laser clinic we saw the VISX ArF excimer laser which is used

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

5,6. In the latter, students respondin small groups and a whole-class discussion to the questions: “what is helping you learn in thiscourse?” “what could be changed to improve the course?” Page 8.1195.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationConclusionsWe have designed the Thermo-CD instructional tool and the course mechanics for theIntroduction to Thermodynamics course with the goal of improving the effectiveness of activelearning in the classroom. We have also prepared an assessment plan that will

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Glenn Lipscomb

Clear and crisp video 10-15 sec Free RealOne Player, Helix™ Universal Basic image Server, Helix™ Producer Basic NetMeeting Somewhat fuzzy 1-2 sec Free Polycom ViewStation FX Superior 0-1 sec $15,000 Polycom ViaVideo Desktop Clear and crisp 1-2 sec $599 Host and client require similar equipmentWe believe the quality of the signal will have an impact on the educational effectiveness of thelabs and plan on studying its impact. For our initial work, though, we selected NetMeetingbecause it provides the closest to real-time signal with no additional cost. When running

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

instructors gave for turning down our request were about equally dividedbetween two factors. Copyright concerns. Some instructors wanted to use their material in books they planned to write, and were afraid that making it available in advance might compromise their ability to do this. Other instructors had taken material from existing texts, and were concerned that they would have to seek permission from the copyright holders. Diffidence. Several instructors felt that their material was not polished enough to be used in the database, either because they were teaching a course for the first time, or because they had not been able to devote adequate attention to it. This is a common concern expressed by instructors regarding

Conference Session

Multimedia Arena

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Meador; Amit Chourasia

is in 3D information visualization and he plans tograduate from Purdue in May of 2003. Page 8.1234.7 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

training accuracy. Because the experiments in the fluidscollaborated in the planning and evaluation of lab frequently require the use of Bernoulli’sthis report writing project. They critically equation, units can be a problem for thereviewed these initial reports and provided students. Much of the equipment presents datafeedback to guide students’ revisions. In in English units, and dimensional conversionsaddition, they were available to consult with are frequently required; plus handling lbm andstudents on their experimental lab reports. lbf can lead to problems for many of the After several semi-successful attempts, library students. To defuse this potential problem,research reports

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Hess

interactive maintenancediagnostics. Wireless communication of operation and maintenance information to those whorepair the equipment will permit more effective dispatching of maintenance people, tools, andspare parts as well as better logistic and maintenance planning for the operator and for the repairshop. Taking this one step beyond the repair shop, information technologies based in the softsciences will provide software to turn raw data into better policy decisions and innovations.Excellent information security is absolutely necessary for these innovations to become andremain effective. In the past, reliable, responsive electric power has been foundational toadvances in communication, computation, control, and a host of other information

Conference Session

Using Web-Based Engineering Information

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Clark; David Radcliffe

redevelopment, is planned for early 2003 will see the trialinstallation of metadata harvesting software. If successful this will allow the SustainabilityKnowledge Network collection to be rapidly expanded. The vision is to give the user the optionof choosing only humanly evaluated records or automatically harvested records. Project partnerswill also have the opportunity to use HotMeta 2.0 software to directly enter metadata whichadheres to the project’s metadata schema into their existing Web page. This will enable moreaccurate harvesting to occur as well as save partners time in creating separate metadatadescriptions. Increasingly, subject gateways are realising that hand-created metadata is anexpensive process that cannot be supported on a stand