Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Hong Zhang; Ravi Ramachandran; Stephanie Farrell

P r o c e s s V a r ia b le S e tp o in t 17 15 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 T im e ( s ) Figure 13: Effect of integral gain on the process variableSummary This NSF-funded project is progressing well at Rowan. We have describedmultidisciplinary

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Russell

project completed under supervision.” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.1071.1The off-campus Civil Engineering program was initiated in the late 1970’s by faculty teaching evening courses inTopeka and Salina. This led to a program in Topeka in the 1980’s, administered jointly by KSU and the Universityof Kansas (KU). Courses were cross listed and students could get graduate credit at either KSU or KU. Since thegreatest demand were Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

: 80% of the laboratory reports are rated as meeting the required skills. • Course Project/Design Assessment - The target was the percentage of students rated as having satisfactory skills to complete the course project or the skills needed to complete the design of a process component design using a rubric designed to evaluate accomplishment of these skills: 80% of the project reports are rated as meeting the required skills.Faculty decided that the OA plan needed to have a quantitative evaluation of student outcomes atthe program level that is made by an external body representing the employers of our students

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nora Christianson; Henry Russell

). Page 6.853.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education• Engineers and physical scientists have the largest percentage of Ph.D. holders engaged in R&D as a major work activity. Almost 35% of all S&E R&D workers (by field of highest degree) are engineers.• Employment opportunities for S&E are expected to increase by about 51% (or 1.9 million jobs) in the next decade (1998–2008). Engineering is projected to have the largest employment gains.• The number of trained scientist and engineers in the labor force will continue to increase. The number of individuals who

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Ladesic

Curriculum TechnologyEnhancement Program (CTEP) at Embry Riddle is a University program createdby faculty for faculty who teach engineering and science. CTEP is designed toprovide engineering faculty at both ERAU campuses with incentives andopportunities to advance their skills in the use of professional-grade engineeringsoftware as well as in the use of other contemporary educational technologies. Itis hoped that this project will foster and encourage enthusiasm among theengineering faculty for the implementation of technology within the courses theyteach. It should also help them identify opportunities within the curriculum for theapplication of modern engineering technologies that could enrich course delivery,enhance student-developed design

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Gilbert; Cynthia Finley

experience in the fourth year. An effort was made each week to help thestudents relate what they were doing in the laboratory to what they were doing in the lectures andhomework assignments. The second possibility is the change in the laboratory exercises utilizingthe SimSite program. In the third year, the SimSite exercises were completed as part of anongoing project, with a project report due at the end of the semester. Many students complainedthat the project was too spread out, though, and the teaching assistant observed that nearly all ofTable 2. Sample of student responses to the question, “Did the lab exercises help you understandthe course material better?”*Third Year of Laboratory • “Yes – I learned a lot from both listening to my

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

wilson ruggiero; regina silveira; itana stiubiener

from Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in1988. In 1994, she received the M.S. degree in Physics from University of São Paulo, São Paulo, and Brazil.In 2000 she degree Ph.D. in the Department of Computer and Digital System engineering at the PolytechnicSchool of University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is teacher and researcher at LARC (Laboratory of ComputerArchitecture and Networks) where she has developed projects at multimedia applications for high-speednetwork and distance educationWilson Vicente RuggieroWilson Vicente Ruggiero is President of SCOPUS TECNOLOGIA S.A. He is an assistant professor ofComputer Department and Digital Systems Engineering of Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo andDirector of Laboratory of Computer

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Braun

at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Heworked at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 1992 to 1996, after completing the Ph.D. inElectrical Engineering at U.C. Santa Barbara. Please see www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/ for information about hiscourses, teaching interests, and research projects in semiconducting polymers. Page 6.529.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

goals that are being satisfied and those which are not. Thisinformation can motivate and direct efforts to improve curriculum.In practice, the measurement of educational outcomes is difficult and can be expensive, the results are oftenambiguous or statistically unsound. The positive impact of continuous improvement on the curriculum isdifficult to provei. Despite the difficulties and expense, accrediting groups and other agencies havemandated outcomes assessment and continuous improvement. Of special note are new criteria by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which apply to engineering programs in2000ii, and are projected to be mandated for engineering technology programs in 2001iii. The new criteriarely extensively

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Wilson

, and sponsored activities, including IE students in these efforts if they are interested. • Investigate the possibility of developing K-12 outreach programs such as summer camps and mentoring programs. • Continue the brown bag lunches and try to include more female students. • Collaborate with WES to sponsor activities for female engineering students. • Work with the campus freshman advisors to assist them with advising potential engineering students • Work with the campus tour guides to help them understand the types of projects performed in the engineering departments, and how the facility supports those projects. • Conduct surveys or interviews in other departments at UMD to try to determine why

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Reardon; Cici Mattiuzzi

that may be used includes,but is not limited to, the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data ofgraduates.”1The College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento,has initiated a new method for assessing the outcomes of our graduates, in response to the newABET requirements. This paper describes our industry site visit survey program. Page 6.581.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Behr; Christine Masters

in class actually used.” • “The overall ability to project our class work on paper to a functional lab experiment was most beneficial. My learning was further aided through use of a well designed software program that made it easy to calculate forces and moments.” • “It (MechANEX) applies very directly to what I am learning in class, what I’m doing for homework, and what I am being tested on.” • “It was extremely beneficial to have an opportunity to visualize work I had done in class and see what I read in the book. I now have a greater understanding of the relationship of the resultant force-couple system and the resultant only model.” • “It reinforced the concepts in class and also some more

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Wunderlich

; ModelingPhysical Systems". The first case study is a required semester project; the second case study is alecture example. The third case study is also from a course taught to juniors and seniors inComputer Engineering and Computer Science at Elizabethtown College ("Digital Design andInterfacing"), and is taught as a lecture example with students given the opportunity to buildNeural Network hardware during the laboratory part of the course.II. Case study #1: Mobile robots in a constrained space1) Define problem: The following problem was assigned to three groups of four students in thecourse: "Simulation & Modeling Physical Systems" at Elizabethtown College: 1"Program a real-time controlled mobile robot to seek a light source in a four-foot by four

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Margle

toreturn your rental deposit. Management companies forget about you once you are gone. Try toretrieve your deposit before you leave. It will save you time and money.Is It Worth It? The real question is “Is it worth it?” Only you can make that decision. Last spring whenI had to choose between a local engineering firm and relocating to Texas to work for IBM, Idecided that spending the summer with IBM was more important than money, proximity tohome, or the nature of the research project. I trusted my gut feeling, and I came away with oneof the best summer experiences of my career. Write down your goals. Do your homework. List the pluses and minuses. Then, askyourself, “Will I break-even?” If so, there is no doubt. Go!!Future Study

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Fithen

Engineering Design Project, May 2000 Page 6.1093.63. Jaeco Orthopedic, “Products Catalog” 214 Drexel, Hot Spring, AR 71901Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBOB FITHENBob Fithen is an assistant professor at Arkansas Tech University. He received his B.S. in MechanicalEngineering from Louisiana Tech University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&MUniversity, and his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech University. He spent four yearsworking at General Dynamics, Fort Worth and a total of five years

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain; Soon-Seng Tang; Louay Chamra

Session 1520 The Use of MathCad in a Graduate Level Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer Course Louay M. Chamra, Stephen T. McClain, and Soon-Seng Tang Department of Mechanical Engineering Mississippi State UniversityAbstractIn a graduate level two-phase flow and heat transfer course taught at Mississippi State University(MSU), students were encouraged to use MathCad for their projects and homework. Threeexample problems, the theory of the solutions, the MathCad solution, and student insightsrevealed about the problems are presented. The example

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Fereydoun Jalali

, MEE, and PhD in Electrical Engineeringfrom North Carolina State University at Raleigh, North Carolina. He has taught a variety of courses in digitaland linear systems and in electromagnetic-related topics in both EE and EET programs, with a present interestin the application of innovative approaches to teaching "difficult" topics and to laboratory and project activities. Page 6.1121.5“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert King; Joan Gosink

engineering projects and products. The Page 6.712.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses (MEL I, MEL II, and MEL III) are taught in sequence in the sophomore, junior andsenior years to facilitate implementing a complex set of educational objectives.To encourage the development of open-ended problem solving skills, the MEL courses avoid thestep-by-step procedures presented in traditional laboratory courses. In these types of courses,students can just go through the motions to get the information necessary to “fill

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

design and mechanics areas includingstatics, dynamics, kinematics, machine design, and robotics to animate mechanisms referred inthese books. Additionally, this courseware can be a good resource for design projects to reviewexisting designs and stimulate new design ideas for practicing engineers and engineering Page 6.60.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents. Moreover, it can assist the general public (including students in K-12) with a curiousmind as an animated "how things work" reference

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hank Regis; Gaby Hawat

fifteen years in the Navy as an EngineeringDuty Officer, during which time he earned a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Navy PostGraduate School in Monterey, California. He obtained his Professional Engineering license in that state. Hank hasalso worked in the oil industry and shipyard industry as a project manager and taught high school physics. Page 6.789.4 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

(due to the limitation of the study to one group’s cycle through one experiment), itis a very important work that begins building the bridge between engineering education andqualitative educational research.In 1996, Karen L. Tonso published two papers in the Journal of Engineering Education from herdissertation work in engineering classrooms2-3. As far as I can determine, her dissertation is thefirst in the United States to use engineering education as the “culture” for an ethnographicdissertation project. The significance of her work is discussed in more detail in a later section ofthe paper.II. Qualitative ResearchQualitative research can complement, verify, expand, and deepen the conclusions of ourtraditional quantitative methods. It may

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

George Piskov; Alexei Nesterov

is, that those jobs are to be filled by qualified, educated people with a minimum of a Bachelor degree. Where all these folks are supposed to be coming from? That’s a really tough question.Let’s turn to the facts. In accordance to what the Bureau of Labor Statistics says in 1996 thecomputer programmers held about 568,000 jobs. Employment of programmers is expected togrow faster then the average through the year 2006, meaning that the actual growth may besomewhere between 21 to 35 percent. At the same time, the total labor force is projected toincrease only 11 percent during the same period. Looking at these

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

: Video Call for919.871.0966 getting started and pricingwww.nuimagelabs.com Tips and TricksNuimage Labs ArchiCAD Training Book $30919.871.0966 Guidewww.nuimagelabs.comAt a Glance, Inc. ArchiCAD Project Book and CD-ROM $65800.847.6992 Frameworkinfo@awarenesslearning.comGraphisoft Step x Step Book and CD-ROM $30800.344.3468www.graphisoft.comNuimage Labs AutoCAD Bi-monthly publication $59.00919.871.0966

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Oscar Barton; Edward Lenoe; Clinton Cornell

,conduct mechanical properties testing and fractographic examination. The project served as anexcellent introduction to the mechanics of metal matrix composites and in particular comparedthe strengths of welded versus brazed MMC joints and assessed the integrity of the structuralelements.REFERENCES[1] J. Henshaw, W. F. Grant, Fabrication of Low Cost SiC/Al Metal Matric Composite BridgingComponents, Interim Report Phase I, Avco( Textron) Corporation, AMMRC TR 84-31, July1984 Page 6.193.7

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

students, who then wrote a paper on it detailing their analysis and approach to theproblem. Following this, the instructor’s solution was presented and a discussion evolved. Thisdiscussion resulted in advocating for and illustrating the advantages of a fundamental approach toengineering in a manufacturing-design setting.I. IntroductionThis is a case study used in the Senior Capstone design course in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at NCA&T State University. It originated from consulting work with a local industryby one of us (GJF) and was developed into a case study/project. In addition to its technicalaspects, the study presented opportunities for examining and comparing the differences inapproaches between students and working

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Lebduska; David DiBiasio

presented their research to the class, and,at our behest, talked about the role communication played in conducting and presenting theirresearch.EvaluationAn external evaluator administered surveys and conducted focus groups with students who hadenrolled in the course and concluded that the project had succeeded in producing gains in studentknowledge of the activities in which chemical engineers engage. One of the greatest struggles forthe students involved the group writing assignments, which they found difficult to completebecause of incompatible schedules. Some also felt that the course required too much writing for asingle-credit course. In the second iteration of the course we addressed the group logisticsproblem by giving them more instruction

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

seminars.Documenting your classroom instructions. Develop detailed syllabus that includes suchitems as test dates, assignment deadlines, expectations, reading assignments, attendancepolicy, office hours, e-mail address, telephone number, contact people for disability services,etc. Too often student evaluations of instructions are not based on instructions alone, but onother variables, that indirectly affect the learning. For example, a student may have questionsthat need to be addressed during your office hours. If you are unavailable, the students’perception of your teaching effectiveness will be adversely affected.It is extremely important to save samples of student work (original copies), exams, projects,and other types of assignments as clear indications

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Engineering Education• Design and manufacturing processes• Dimensioning, sectional views• Auxiliary views• Working drawingsHomework assignments are completed via sketching, instruments, and computer-aided design.CAD assignments are integrated throughout the course and range from 2D geometric constructionsto 3D solid modeling activities. Students also complete a final project, which typically consists ofmodeling a machine part and producing a detail drawing of the design.IV. Revisions to the Introductory CourseThe proposed revision of the introductory course is based on national trends in engineeringgraphics in both industry and education. Although some of the topics look similar to what iscurrently taught, the material in the revised course will be

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Martin; Mohammed Haque

medium for the learning” 20. “In the university,the professor’s role has historically been that of an expert who lectures or ‘professes.’ Onlinelearning is less likely to use top-down knowledge delivery methods, such as lecturing, and morelikely to rely on peer-to-peer learning in the form of collaborative discussions and team projects”10 .Concluding RemarksThe collaborative mode is manifested out of necessity in the distance learning archetype that maybe why the global acceptance of degrees received from distance institutions are uniformlyaccepted in many countries outside the United States. Teaching style does differ in the virtualuniversity and many in traditional universities will struggle to adapt to new styles of teaching.The technology

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

software.III. Laboratory sessions in the first offeringThe development of the course is a two-year project that started in July 1999. When the projectis finished, the course will have 10-12 lab sessions. We developed five lab sessions for the first Page 6.399.3offering of the course in the Spring 2000 semester. There were 5 students at the Boeing Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationclassroom, 2 at WSU Pullman and 11 in the WSU Vancouver classroom. Students worked inteams in all laboratory sessions.A