Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tanya Capers; Kofi Nyarko; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

impact on engineering education. By providing learning environments richin varied learning methods, educators can provide students with more diverse means of receivingand applying knowledge and information resulting in a more engaging and interactiveeducational setting. Such environments allow students to construct their own understanding ofwhat they are studying through their interaction with the environment, and their use of theknowledge and skills that they already have to experiment and form a more conceptualunderstanding of the information. At Morgan State University, we have developed EM-Viz, a3D electromagnetic visualization tool designed to support undergraduate electromagneticstudents in gaining an understanding of the theory of

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

; andguiding the learner9. However, developing course objectives and consensus based on theseoutcomes was not trivial. The instructional designer was able to coach the team in this process,and the team eventually arrived at the following course objectives: • Identify and describe the function and properties of agents in a business process • Select the correct tool for decision analysis from a product business toolkit • Perform basic market research • Pitch an idea • Practice management of equals in group dynamics • Evaluate product technical constraints and feasibilityUsing these objectives as a guide, we then discussed how we would know if and when thestudents had achieved the objectives. Since the short course is not for credit, we

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

chose a set of survey instruments developed by researchers at the Departmentof Educational Studies and Center for Research on Cognition and Learning and the EducationalResearch Institute at Utrecht University in Ljubljana, The Netherlands. The surveys weredeveloped and tested in response to a national push in the Netherlands to improve teaching andencourage authentic teaching methods7 . A pair of Authentic Pedagogy questionnaires created byRoelofs and Terwel1 were designed to elicit information from secondary students relating theirexperiences with authentic teaching practices. The instruments initially consisted of twoseparate surveys: one for foreign language (English) courses and one for mathematics courses.A separate teacher’s manual was

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

. REFERENCESBransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.Brown, J. S., Collins, A. & Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Educational Researcher, 18 (1), 32-41.Changnon, D. (1998). Design and test of a “hands-on” applied climate course in an undergraduate meteorology program. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Page 8.524.9 Society, 79 (1), 79-84.Clouse, R. W., Goodin, T. L., Aniello, J. (2000). Entrepreneurship education for the third millennium: Taking over the world with the “E

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

skills needed for the practice of ECE. The course is focused on designing, debugging, and building walking robots using concepts from both electrical and mechanical engineering3. The entire course is centered on the laboratory and the construction of the robot. This includes using hand tools, soldering, using test equipment, building circuits on breadboards and on printed circuit boards, computer programming, etc. "They [the instructors] use the StiquitoTM, the robot building, as more of an engine to teach us other stuff, like basic circuitry, various equipment and how to use it, with basic computer programming ... all kinds of little things, making it well rounded."6. Develop a physical intuition for electrical and mechanical

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

contemporary literature on teaching of entrepreneurship and describes aninnovative, holistic inter-disciplinary Engineering Entrepreneurship and TechnologyCommercialization approach backed by the resources and activities of a technology incubator, toprovide engineering students and researchers with tools and opportunities for entrepreneurialsuccess, establish deeper and more meaningful community ties, and facilitate the incubation ofinvestable technology-based start-ups.Packaging the “incubator concept” into a series of graduate, undergraduate and continuingeducation short courses is a unique feature of this program, which offers practical insights, tools,objectives, case studies, strategies, mock negotiations and actions that one can apply to any

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

introduced a series of application-focused courses into its Computer Scienceprogram. The Computer Science undergraduate student body is now 42% female.Smith College advocates the inclusion of socially relevant design projects throughout thecurriculum, and projects of social relevance are assigned even in freshman year. The courseDesigning the Future, for example, is a collaboration with the Institute for Women andTechnology. Students develop toys with universal gender appeal, because research shows thatmany competitive, militaristic toys alienate girls. The Smith course includes a workshop for highschoolers called Introduce a Girl to Engineering.13The NSF PROMISE project at University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers an undergraduate coursedesigned to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

nation in a technologically changing environment using mechanical engineering principles and practices. 3. Internalize the design process and develop creativity in problem solving. 4. Demonstrate the necessary leadership and teamwork skills to work in multidisciplinary team environments. 5. …prepare graduates for advanced study in mechanical engineering…and success at top mechanical engineering graduate programs. ABET focuses on output criteria while institutions determine the method of instruction tosupport their programs. Integrating the curriculum such that more opportunities for project-basedlearning exist strengthens any program seeking ABET accreditation.Project

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

the GK-12 program. However, the instruments were not designed for this application.Under the direction of Prof. Gummer, a graduate student in the Department will develop a new,specific instrument which will be used for all Fellows and GK-12 Teachers.Externa l evaluation: In the spring of the second year, we will assemble an evaluation team tospend a day meeting with focus groups (GK-12 Teachers, Fellows, students, Fellow advisors,Outreach and Department Liaisons, Leadership Team) and learning about the impacts of theprogram. Prior to the meeting, the team will be provided with information about the programincluding the goals and objectives, participants, and the objectives of the evaluation. Theevaluation team will consist of three members

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nabil Ibrahim

Session Number 1566 PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Nabil A. Ibrahim Ph.D. AVP Graduate Studies & Research, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0025ABSTRACTThis paper deals with the value of corporate partnership in the development of a programin Manufacturing Information Engineering at San Jose State University (SJSU), known as2+2+2. The program has been developed in partnership with several high schools, threecommunity colleges and six high-tech industrial companies in Silicon Valley. Thecurriculum has been carefully articulated to enable students to move seamlessly

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Gabrielle Williamson; Corinne Daprano

members from other majors and other engineeringdisciplines. One reason for this trend is that engineering educators as well as professionals fromindustry have recognized the fact that practicing engineers are required to work with coworkersand clients that have a variety of educational backgrounds. Experiential learning is beingencouraged in engineering education because it has been recognized that students engaged in thistype of learning have better retention of technical knowledge and are better able to apply whatthey have learned in college courses to real life situations after graduation 1-3. Furthermore,industry and academia have identified the need for the development of soft skills in engineeringstudents. Among these soft skills includes

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

value to anyone who is interested in providing verticallyintegrated, multidisciplinary, practice-based engineering design experiences.Entrepreneurship and teachingBetween 1980 and 1988, during which time the Fortune 500 companies lost in excess of 3.5million jobs, 17 million new employment positions were created by entrepreneurship start-upenterprises. Then, in 1990 alone, 500,000 businesses were founded by self-employedentrepreneurs.1 Today, nearly 50 percent of the growth in the US economy can be explained byentrepreneurial activity.2 These impressive statistics make a strong case for entrepreneurship asone way to drive economic growth.Since “real world” economic success requires both technical feasibility and economic viability

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ratna Babu Chinnam; Joe Nguyen; Jenny Wang-Chavez; Hemalatha Sathya

, Greenfield Coalition for New Manufacturing Education, a multi-university-industrycoalition housed at Focus: HOPE organization in Detroit, MI, has been working hard to producesuch graduates, called a Renaissance Engineer.Greenfield Coalition education programs focus on instilling real-world experience into the studentpool by embracing “learning factory” techniques and e-learning technologies. The design and Page 8.740.1development of an Operations Management (OM) course reflect this set of beliefs and practice. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Currently, many undergraduate andfirst-year graduate students in the aforementioned fields do not have exposure to recent researchtrends in Machine Learning. This paper reports on a project in progress, funded by the NationalScience Foundation under the program Combined Research and Curriculum Development(CRCD), whose goal is to remedy this shortcoming. The project involves the development of amodel for the integration of Machine Learning into the undergraduate curriculum of thoseengineering and science disciplines mentioned above. The goal is increased exposure toMachine Learning technology for a wider range of students in science and engineering than iscurrently available. Our approach of

Conference Session

ELD Technical Papers Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

transferable set of skills that employersappreciate and reward because it demonstrates a sense of responsibility, initiative andshowcases one's capacity to solve problems. It is not the information provider’sresponsibility to figure out what the student is being asked for in a given assignment; thatresponsibility resides exclusively with the student. When a student does not understandan assignment, it is the student’s responsibility to engage the instructor in a discourseuntil the student understands specifically what is being required. In academia this isreferred to as taking responsibility for one’s own learning. The best teachers know the value of “teachable moments” a concept “consistentwith current research - that instruction in

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

and family impacts. Creative combinations of alreadyestablished international faculty contacts, graduate students, and undergraduate projects couldactually make a global experience productive for a research program. Do you have contactssomewhere else in the world that could benefit from having a student team tackle a problem forwhich they don’t have the time or resources? Could that problem be something related to yourown research? Institutional BarriersThe institutional barriers consist of concerns about the academic worth of the experience,curriculum constraints, awarding academic credit, and the calendar. Creative repackaging ofcurriculum requirements and employment of accepted assessment processes

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

answer formats. • understand the impact of, and incorporate new technologies, including computer presentation software, in oral communication. • become more critical thinkers, speakers and listeners. • learn the concepts of, and practice ethical communication.From the ISE program standpoint, an Oral Communications Thread should address the basictheory and concepts of oral communication much like a Communications course. Additionallythere should be an emphasis on personal and small group communications associated with one-on-one meetings and shop floor discussions. We want to focus specifically on having thestudents present the results of their analysis and designs developed in the courses and do not feelthe need to

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman; Jessica du Maine

. Community college turnover is fairly rapid and each year new leadership has to begroomed. The impact of the National Convention and regional conferences is so energizing thatleadership has not been an issue since 1997. The students are committed to each other and to thefuture of the chapter. In 2001, they entered their first competition and won the Region V historychallenge. In 2002, the team chapter sent a team to compete in the Boeing Flight contest at theNSBE Convention in Orlando. In its first national competition the “Gateway to the West” teamfrom Florissant Valley finished second to veteran UCLA in a field of 24 teams from universitiesaround the country. The team also took top honors for overall design and was the top prizewinner in cash

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

oultlines the students’participation withhigh schools in the competition. This paper illustrates how liberal education principles are at workin the senior design course. 7II. FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITIONAlthough the technical programs at American Universities continue to improve to maintain theirworld-wide recognition as the very best, the primary and secondary education systems do needconsiderable improvement. There is a growing gap between instructor expectation and theperformance of these high school graduates. The report “Engineering Education in a changingworld”8 addresses educational partnerships as one of sixteen action items to direct the future ofengineering education. As stated in the report, “Each engineering college, with local industry

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

strategies to significantly improve the school’s retention rate?Engineering Retention RateRetention data for engineering (all disciplines) were collected for a six- year period. Retentionrates from course to course were evaluated, as well as overall engineering graduation rates. Thefollowing table contains retention and graduation statistics for students in engineering. Thecourses shown in Table 1 were selected to track student progress since all engineering studentstook these courses, regardless of engineering discipline. Each cohort group is defined as those Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Ed Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

but even a quick review of the recent literature indicates that thediscussion concerning what is the best teaching method or assessment tool is far fromover.7-12 We have been operating under the assumption that combining the best from allapproaches, and tailoring these to fit the needs and situation of our own students, is themost effective way we can improve learning as well as student attitudes. We draw frommany different techniques and ideas including those already cited and others,13-18 and tryto provide as many opportunities for students to learn as possible. The goal of this paperis to describe our experiences and lessons learned to help other faculty interested inmodifying their courses do so in a cost-effective manner, as well as to

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

and grading philosophy throughout thecourse. The best technique for ensuring consistency is for the course director to write all theexaminations and design problems, and occasionally the homework assignments as well.Consequently, the course director only teaches a maximum of two of these small sections. In this system, the course director has several concerns, especially about examinations.First, he must ensure all the instructors have adequately covered all the central concepts in the Page 8.693.1course. Second, he must craft an examination that is clearly written, and tests those important Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

robots. Students apply computer-controlled robots in manufacturing and programmable automation. CSC455, CSC655: Computer-aided Design and Drafting - Three hours lecture and lab; 3 credits. Introducing the concepts, principles and applications of CAD. A CAD software system, Pro/Engineer, is used to support laboratory experiences and the projects. Graduate students prepare a research paper for presentation to the class. CSC475: Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Three hours lecture and lab; 3 credits. Introducing the use of CIM systems to improve productivity, information flow and management of resources. Students design and operate a pilot-scale flexible manufacturing system. Emphasis is on hardware

Conference Session

Information Literacy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Smith; Lawrence Whitman

the traditional library tour and basicinstruction [5]. What, however, would be the impact on student learning and teaching strategiesif all of these pieces were brought together and a new program for teaching information literacywas undertaken at the upper-undergraduate and graduate level in industrial engineering? A grant from the Engineering Information Foundation enabled Professors Smith andWhitman to formally assess the effectiveness of teaching using Tegrity lectures throughout fall2002. The research was designed to answer several questions about this format of instruction.How effective is this form of instruction for teaching software tools? How effective is this formof instruction for teaching the critical thinking skills

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Paul Marnell; Graham Walker

versionsof the distance learning courses. Page 8.444.8“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Biographies Dr. GRAHAM WALKER is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Manhattan College. His field of interest is systems engineering. His research has included work in instrumentation and biomechanics. He also teaches courses in design and manufacturing. Dr. PAUL MARNELL is a member of the Chemical Engineering Department at Manhattan College. His field of

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft

design concepts being used to develop these new engineeringprograms, namely:• The Institution of Engineers, Australia’s graduate capabilities 3 are placed within a sustainability framework. This framework captures the essence of what it means to do engineering. The key components are: sustainability, problem solving, engineering analysis, communication and relationships.• The program renewal process follows the teaching cycle of identifying professional needs, defining learning outcomes, creating learning activities and finding learning resources, assessing and evaluating, leading back to a review of the needs in each cycle. This is

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

develop practical soln's to ChE S U Sprobs which include consideration of environ,safety, ethical, econ issues6. Design and select optimal processes or P U Sequipment for chemical production7. Select and use computational tools to S S S P Udesign, analyze, and solve ChE problems8. W ork effectively in teams S P U9. W rite and speak effectively in a technical S U Usetting10. Independently assimilate new concepts to S S

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo

class for utilization in the design.Early, it had been proposed that the utilization of problems supplied in the text with a moredesign-oriented approach would solve the problem of connectivity of the class to actualengineering design work. After a review of the problems, it was decided to use a limited numberof these to illustrate techniques, but the “real” world connection was still lacking. Students werestill working on paper exercises without a feel for the impact that their results would have on anoverall design. It was then proposed that the students undertake a design and build project for theclass.If the lecture and labs had been connected, this would have most likely been the avenue thatwould have been followed. However, with the lab

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

andfrom the student perspective. From the academic point of view we believe that we gained a betterunderstanding of the membrane process as a secondary treatment component, and its controlrequirements. This project also improved our laboratory capabilities allowing us to include themicrokjeldahl digestion and distillation systems as additional components of the academicmaterial. These pieces of equipment will help the implementation of new laboratory experiences,and their integration in the required environmental course for CET students, as well as in electivecourses. This project also exposed the demands of research on faculty in academic programsdedicated almost exclusively to teaching, and without the support of graduate programs inengineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Rosa Gomez-Martinez; Joseph Ramos; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

and meet with other students. The Centerincludes active learning and specialized classroom facilities, quiet study areas, multi- Page 8.391.2purpose rooms, computer workrooms, lounges and vending café facilities (see Figure 2). Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2. Blueprint of ACES showing its multipurpose design.The Center also serves as a clearinghouse for information regarding graduate andprofessional schools, scholarships, undergraduate research assistantships, and