Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

processes and outcomes by thevarious stakeholders, are powerful drivers for more fundamental research in engineeringeducation. The two are interconnected and both embed the idea of the need to know what worksand why and how practices can be continuously improved. While the obvious focus might be inmeasuring the implementation of new practices and systems, there is an underlying expectationthat fundamental and applied research will guide these reforms. The NSF Strategic Plan in 1995identified the integration of research and education as a core strategy and Fortenberry 7foreshadowed new programs from the NSF to support educational research in Science,Mathematics, Engineering and Technology disciplines, ranging from fundamental research, toapplied

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Loock; Joan Dannenhoffer

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”the 18.6 percent rate for “selective” colleges that traditionally have lower attrition rates [1].The Student Affairs Division Plan at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte aims “toprovide services to ameliorate barriers, increase the way students “connect” to the university, andmake leadership development one of the hallmarks of the UNCC undergraduate experience” [7].Supplemental Instruction (SI) is one of the many programs provided under this directive. Theresults of offering SI showed that students who attended 5 or more SI sessions per semesteraveraged .5 - 1.0 letter grade higher

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gallagher

document, we will focus onour class’ infrastructure with particular emphasis on the design and operation of a platformindependent graphical simulation of the Khepera mobile robot. We will discuss how this freelyavailable software provides accurate simulation, ease of use, and compatibility with the realrobot in our lab. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the future plans and a set of openquestions we intend to address in future offerings of the course.1. Why WWW Autonomous Robotics?Although formal classroom instruction is necessary to the education of engineers, it is not alonesufficient. Engineering is about solving problems of practical import. In reality, such problemsare rarely as well defined as the average classroom exercise

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tara Madhyastha; Jessica Masters; Ali Shakouri

shows the number of answers viewed by each student. We can see there were a large numberof students, 22.4% for Question 1, and 45.0% for Question 2, who viewed zero answers. Many educatorshave discovered that no matter how much effort is invested into creating an educational tool, some studentswill not take advantage of these tools. This evidence, unfortunately, confirms this belief. Table 1(a) also shows that students ranked even fewer answers than they viewed: on average 1.38.This leads a common problem in collaborative filtering, known as the sparsity problem [12]. To reducethe rating sparsity, we plan to use information relating to student learning preferences. In other words,where ranks cannot be correlated between users to estimate a

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

to electrochemical processes found in separators and reactors. Theseexperiments are on an advanced level and require various electrochemical instrumentation andapparatus.Aspects of electrochemical engineering have been incorporated in various aspects of thechemical engineering curriculum. In the unit operations or senior laboratory course experimentsin metal recovery using electrodeposition on a porous carbon cathode3,In the process control lab, Jan Talbot has initiated student designed experiments inelectrochemical engineering.4,5 In this course the students must plan design and build andexperimental apparatus. Then the must demonstrate that it works and analyze the data. Finallythey give an oral presentation in addition to a technical

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

engineeringethics. Information presented in the lectures was reinforced through the activities of theindividual project teams. For the Solar Decathlon project, team meetings included lectures addressing fundamentals ofsolar energy applications, meetings to coordinate activities among the mechanical engineeringteam members, coordination meetings with the architectural team, and design presentations. Forthe first five weeks of the ME4015 semester, one weekly project team meeting was focused onsolar energy basics and highlighted material from the first two chapters of the text by Duffie andBeckman6. During this period the other weekly meeting focused on the early stages of productdevelopment including project planning, development of a project mission

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

factor but of several Page 8.392.1related factors working together, as follows. Active learners consider the nature of the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmaterials, the tasks, assignments, and knowledge for which they are accountable. Theyare cognizant of their own strengths and weaknesses and plan their work accordingly.They know and select appropriate processing and learning strategies as a function of thematerials, task requirements, and personal characteristics. Other research has shown thatit is

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

What kinds of examples would we see in a discovery sessionA typical discovery session would last about 2 hours and cover closely the concepts discussed inthe lecture with more emphasis on the mathematical concepts and visualization. Here we show afew examples for the above lecture plan. It should be noted that the following is for theintroductory level discovery session.1. Determine the vector field of the following fields and discuss their circulation properties. r v Fa = a y .The following is a plot of the vector field rendered by Mathematica. Once the students definethe vectors the way we have indicated, they can use curl and div operations on the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

• A knowledge of contemporary issues • An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.For the past decade, the IGVC has served many engineering curricula in universities around theworld, and helped students achieve invaluable engineering training that satisfies most if not all theabove ABET criteria.Department of Defense InterestThe DoD has invested in Intelligent Unmanned Systems for the last two decades. The DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated the Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV)program in 1984. As the name implies, its focus was autonomous mobility with a program plan toprogressively advance the autonomous capabilities. The U.S. Army then initiated

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan J.S. Lasser; Ronnie Chrestman; Matthew Ohland

, timemanagement, and how to read a textbook efficiently.Two more undergraduate African American students were offered room and board in exchangefor serving as counselors to the MEW students. Their function was not authoritative, as Lasserand Snelsire agreed that it was counterproductive to impose any kind of curfew or other rule notnormally imposed by the University on resident undergraduates. The counselors provided afriendly ear, organized one or two social events, and, on weekends, drove students who wished toget off campus to surrounding towns and to church.Invitations to attend the first MEW were sent in April of 1990 to all accepted African Americanstudents who planned to major in engineering and whose math SAT scores (SAT II scores notbeing

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wiley; Hamid Khan

; Stoddard, J. L. (1999, August). Health behavior, quality of work life, and organizational effectiveness in the lumber industry. Health, Education & Behavior, 26, pp. 579-592.[12] Briksin, A. (1996, December). Fear and learning in the workplace. The Journal for Quality and Participation, 19, pp.28-34.[13] Martin, J. (1999, April). Building morale keeps employee spirits high in tough times. H.R. Focus, 76, pp. 9-10.[14] Zigon, J. (1998). Forced ranking performance appraisal/compensation plan. [On-line]. Available: Http://www.hronline.com/forums/hrnet/9811/msg00183.html[15] Deets, N. R. & Tyler, D. T. (1986, April). How Xerox improved its performance appraisals. Personnel Journal, 65, pp. 50-52.[16] Hitchcock, Darcy. (1996, December

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bebis; Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

helped them with the basic course contentwhich was one of our main goals. Future plans also include working more with communitycollege instructors and assessing their requirements.Computer vision systems are already becoming commonplace, and vision technology will soonbe applied across a broad range of business and consumer products. This means that there will bestrong industry demand for computer vision scientists and engineers, for people who understandcomputer vision technology and know how to apply it in real-world problems. As a result of ourintegrating computer vision research experiences throughout our curriculum, many students mayconsider pursuing careers in computer vision. Likewise, the use of the computer vision modulesby community

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

, Mary R., “Graduate Career Change Women Engineers versus Traditional Engineers,” Women in Engineering Conference, Conference Proceedings, Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network, Washington D.C., pp. 29-35, June 1991. 13. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Cooper Union 1989 National Survey of Undergraduate Women Engineering Students, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, NY, 1989. 14. Brush, L., “Cognitive and Affective Determinants of Course Preferences and Plans,” in S.F. Chipman, L.R. Brush & D.M. Wilson (Eds.) Women and Mathematics, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 123-150. 15. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R.; Blaisdell

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

remaking, of impulses and desires” 7.Dewey is concerned that individuals in society and in school often do things either impulsivelyor by force of authority. The external constraint imposed by society is useful in that it moderatesand controls impulse. But he believes the better source of constraint or “inhibition” is throughone’s own reflective or critical thinking 7. In a memorable passage, Dewey writes, thinking is stoppage of the immediate manifestation of impulse until that impulse has been brought into connection with other possible tendencies to action so that a more comprehensive and coherent plan of activity is formed. Some of the other tendencies to action lead to use of eye, ear

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

specific skills and knowledge gainedin the learning process will be sufficient to produce an engineer with the desired qualities.Curriculum is responsible to implement the above skills in an engineering program.Generally speaking a curriculum is a systematic plan to enhance leaning and to achieve certain Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.206.7 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationgoals. Therefore, we will define curriculum, from systems viewpoint, as an interactive feedbackdynamic process to enhance learning and to

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”names, email subject line, greeting and closing were omitted to both save time and allow foranonymity; however, grammar and spelling errors were left in the samples.1. The instructor is alerted that several students did not grasp a concept from the previouslesson. Knowing the problems the students had before the next class helped the instructor plan areview or example as part of the next lesson. Emailed journals were especially helpful becausethe ease of mailing students several times on an issue was very close to having a conference. Atother times, sending a group email with more information on the issue helped all the studentsfind success with

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

good refresher of the point of the science classes taughtin middle school. It was also good to have a chance to plan the school year with a focus.For the students, they have opportunities to explore both engineering and some specifictechnology concepts that are not usually added to the curriculum at this level. The curriculumaddresses the state standards in a realistic fashion – having students achieve the benchmarks byapplying different aspects of science to the same project. The students follow the process frombeginning to end – designing, modeling, and researching their designs as well as defending theirwork and analyzing different approaches. Rather than waiting until they have reached advancedmaterial, the students begin to apply their

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

. Students would be sectioned in classrooms with other capstone projectteam members. The capstone advisor or a faculty member from any applicable program wouldserve as the instructor. The second course might offer students the option to request instructionon specific or specialty topics pertinent to the particular capstone project, thus placing more ofthe onus of planning and learning on the student. Formal instruction would be limited to the firsthalf or less of a semester, giving way to at least one and one-half semesters of independentcapstone teamworkCHALLENGES TO INTEGRATION One of the biggest challenges that an institution encounters when trying to implement thisintegrated curriculum is satisfying an ABET requirement that states, “The

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

demonstrate the feasibility ofsolar energy and energy efficiency in the residential sector. The first Solar Decathlon washeld in fall 2002 with 14 schools competing; the second is being planned for 2005. The formal organization of the UVA team began in fall 2000 when threeengineering seniors enrolled in a special topics course in solar house design. They exploredvarious options for fulfilling the criteria that were being developed simultaneously by theSolar Decathlon sponsors. This was a realistic experience where the design criteria werenot given as aspects of the “assignment” but rather represented a moving target. The pacepicked up in spring 2001 when the three engineering students were functionally integratedinto an architecture fourth

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

shouldcarefully plan how to best use text, pictures and illustrations to present the material. Next, havingcompleted this part of the information development, the author should use the "Mimio" ® laboratoryequipment and explain the concept in the form of a short 10 to 15 minute "streaming lecture". In the CDtext, a hyperlink will then give students the option of viewing this short concept lecture for a betterunderstanding from the perspective of the author.Trained editors can then take the author's contribution and package it into the finished CD text productusing Authorware ® and the other support programs required to create an electronic text book. Thesubsequent editing allows a second party to carefully scrutinize the material, correcting grammar

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

education beyond the BS degree. The call for additionaleducation has in many ways shifted the focus away from what the policy is intended toaccomplish: building a new curriculum from the ground up. The committee in charge ofimplementing Policy Statement 465 is approaching the plan by addressing the body ofknowledge necessary for practice for the next generation of professional civil engineers. Thisincludes an undergraduate base and advanced graduate-level courses, not necessarily leading toan advanced degree. The focus is on acquiring a body of knowledge, whether through a practice-oriented MS or an approved set of advanced courses that do not lead to an advanced degree. For

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Riley

an add-on or enrichment element, but part of the reading,problem sets, and test questions in the course. This work is planned for the summer of 2003,funded by a grant from Smith College.Problematizing science as objectivity and normalizing mistakes A logical outcome of a multicultural classroom is a tendency to affirm multiple truths.5Although this has the potential to be a major stumbling block for the implementation of liberativepedagogies in a field with strong expectations of objectivity such as engineering, thermodynamicsprovides wonderful examples that counter the notion of science as objectivity. The multiplenineteenth century statements of the First and Second Laws highlight the differing perspectives ofthe historical

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

a new contract, like I worked on the Netherlands, that one was one of my big projects, the Dutch helicopter. We have another group in the U.K.; the British have their version. We are doing Singapore, United Arab Emirates; Israel just signed a new contract to upgrade to the [helicopter]. So, we have the main U.S. Army software suite, which we call, we go in lots. Lots one, two, three, we are up to four and they are planning five, six, seven, eight, down the, you know, that always adds new capabilities and new software and new hardware. But breaking off from that we will often have other countries that want differences from the U.S. Army or are not allowed to have certain things that the U.S

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

) and an M.S.degree (1999) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She plans to complete her dissertation,titled ‘Development And Validation Of Metrics To Evaluate Robotics Operator Performance’, in May 2003.TERI REED RHOADSTeri Reed Rhoads is the Director of Engineering Education of the College of Engineering, the University ofOklahoma and an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Rhoads is actively involved in research withindustry as well as with the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Department of Education, and the local schooldistrict Foundation. Her areas of interest are engineering education and assessment and K-20 integration, as well asquality engineering. She teaches Engineering Statistics, Quality

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

than a minor change from the existing standards, and will require trial,assessment, and revision before it is ready for adoption. We plan to work with a number ofpartnering institutions to perform the requisite tests and assessment.While it is clear that there are two parts to making education attractive – content and pedagogy –our effort is aimed at only the content part of the equation. We do not wish to minimize theimportance of pedagogical innovation in making education attractive and accessible, but we notethat content has received far less scrutiny than the delivery methods, and thus we believeimprovements are more critical at this juncture.Our approach to revision of the undergraduate engineering curriculum involves six steps:1

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

. • Objectives should be appropriate to the instructional area and the philosophy of the school.The next step in understanding learning objectives is to realize their purpose and importance tothe many people they affect. The next section discusses the functions of learning objectives andtheir importance to education.The Importance of Learning ObjectivesWhen learning objectives are properly stated, they serve many purposes and assist many groupsof people.10 Some of the functions of learning objectives are as follows: • Provide a focus for instruction. Learning objectives provide a focus for instruction at both program and course levels in education.10 Clearly stated learning objectives create a framework for planning a successful

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gray; Andrew Miller; Francesco Costanzo; Charles Randow

of each and every lecture? The more frequent the use, the more consistentthe appearance should be to avoid confusion—this may require more planning in thebeginning.Will these notebooks be used by the lecturer who is also the creator of the notebooks, another lec-turer, the students outside of the classroom, or a combination of these possibilities? The answer tothis question will have implications for how robust and how well documented the finalproduct must be. In the context of this project, the notebooks must be sufficiently portableas the primary intention is for them to be used by any lecturer during a classroom lecture.The notebooks may also be considered as templates for the students to refer to in solvingtheir own problems since the

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

significant number of publications available [5] on the theory, development and usageof the finite element method, it may be rather difficult for an instructor to identify aneffective plan of study. The educational objectives for a course depend on whether thestudent or practitioner is a user or a researcher/developer of the technology: • User. The user needs to learn the proper use of the finite element method for the solution of complex problems. This will require fundamental understanding of theory. • Research/Developer. The researcher/developer needs a thorough understanding of the finite element method theory in order to develop new and, perhaps, extend the existing methodologies and/or develop or modify a finite

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

consisting of the department head and a select group of ASE facultymembers was formed to develop a plan to address such issues as curriculum modernization,computer application in teaching and learning, ABET 2000 criterion 3 goals (Table 1), and mostimportantly, attraction and retention of students. Three subcommittees were formed with eachgiven the task of revising courses in one of three major curriculum areas: flight mechanics,aerodynamics, and structures. A separate subcommittee was formed to develop the curriculumfor the three new "Intro-to-ASE" courses. Table 1. ABET 2000 Criterion 3 - Program Outcomes and Assessment(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.(b) an ability to design and conduct