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Thomas Walker; Jan Helge Bøhn

Session 1353 Pulling The Plug On The Pedagogical Pacifier By Placing Programming Courses On-line Thomas Walker, Jan Helge Bohn Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityIntroductionFor decades, engineering classrooms have changed little. The blackboard is still very prominentin engineering classrooms as is the overhead projector. These two appliances are used more thanany other to present material to engineering students in the classroom. Certainly, someclassrooms have other mediums present that are used occasionally; the TV/VCR combination,the computer

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Robin Lovgren; M. Racer

Session 2366 Statistics Projects – Three Examples to Relate Theory and Application Robin Lovgren, Michael Racer University of MemphisAbstractThe application of statistical concepts can play an important role in an engineering analysis ordesign. These concepts and their applications are sometimes difficult to convey to engineeringstudents in a typical classroom setting. To aid the students in making the connection betweenlecture and real world applications, a series of projects was developed, and assigned to thestudents. This paper provides three

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Anthony J. Muscat

Session 2213 Raising the Level of Questioning in the Undergraduate ChE Curriculum Anthony J. Muscat Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721AbstractPlanned class discussion based on the Socratic method was used to teach undergraduate chemicalengineering thermodynamics and chemical reactor design courses at the University of Arizona.The primary objective of the class discussions was to develop critical thinking skills. Acombination of

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Melvin Cherno; Kathryn A. Neeley

basiccategories: (1) direct application in the mechanics of design and construction (acoustics,physics, astronomy, drawing, geometry, materials, and arithmetic); (2) making the architect’swork intelligible and meaningful to his client and to other members of his culture(communication, cultural history); (3) making his project workable in relation to context anduse, including connection to various social systems and customs (geography, religious customs,medicine, law); and (4) making the architect ethical or “high-minded” (philosophy).Throughout the Ten Books, he is guided by a concrete vision of the use to which a design orsystem will be put. He defines the context of engineering broadly, and considers factors rangingfrom religious and social customs to

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Kay C Dee

) committee service; and, frankly, some faculty members can view advising studentorganizations as a distasteful chore or as “penance” to be paid as you climb the academic ladder -as a result, this job can tend to fall to the newest person in the department.Advising a student organization can be a rewarding experience, but can also be nerve-wrackingfor new engineering educators. Our first years as faculty members are often spent learning aboutone-on-one student advising through trial and error - accepting the responsibility to advise anentire student group can be overwhelming. Enthusiastic new educators can easily fall into thetrap of over-advising, or micromanaging, a student group. Conversely, well-meaning and laid-back advisors can adopt a “hands

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Craig Johnson

assessment. Periodic assessment of company reports and individual journalsencourage the student to improve themselves.IntroductionThere are two issues concerning assessment that engineering educators should address: 1)usingassessment as a process to improve Engineering Technology (ET) programs, and 2)developingtechnical assessment skills in students. The first issue is current and relevant to TAC-ABETprogram criteria. The second issue is less visible, but student assessment skills can also berelated to TAC-ABET as well as industry criteria.Assessment can be applied to both processes and products. Education, for example, is a process.As educators, one of our jobs is to assure and improve the quality of that process. As engineers,we have tools to do

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Frederick Orthlieb

Session 1625 Something for Everyone via NCIIA E-Team Development Projects -Introducing Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Students, Augmenting your Design Lab Budget, and Exploring Parallels between Design Innovation and Program Assessment. Frederick L. Orthlieb, P.E. Department of Engineering Swarthmore CollegeAbstractThis paper looks back over three successive NCIIA-sponsored product development projectcourses, discusses some positive outcomes for faculty and student participants, and draws someparallels between background

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Brian Jenkins; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

Session 3532 COMPUTER INTERFACES FOR TEACHING THE NINTENDO® GENERATION Thad B. Welch, Brian Jenkins Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Cameron H. G. Wright Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Air Force Academy, CO1. IntroductionThe utilization of the computer in the classroom is well documented and continues to grow in bothavailability and capability. The number of papers, e.g. (1-3

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Teresa L. Hein; Dan Budny

addition,several practitioners within the domains of physics and engineering education have noted theimportance of teaching with learning styles in mind 16 - 23. Furthermore, attention to learning stylesand learner diversity has been shown to increase student motivation to learn.This paper addresses the critical role that a learning style approach can play in terms of physicsand engineering education. Two different student populations have been selected for discussionin this paper: non-science majors taking introductory physics at American University and at-riskfreshman engineering students at Purdue University.An overview of the learning style models used by the authors will be provided. Introductoryphysics students at American University are

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Kenneth Bryden

excellence in teaching.However, even in these cases tenure is a demanding process, and it is easy to give in to timepressure and lose track of our teaching goals. This paper discusses the importance of stayingclose to the students during the tenure process and provides a series of suggestions on how thiscan be done within the limited time available.1. IntroductionThe call for change in engineering education has become so widespread that it is nearly a cliché.Studies, conferences, papers, and institutes all call for changes in engineering education. TheAmerican Society for Engineering Education1, the National Research Council2, the NationalScience Foundation3, and the Engineering Deans Council4 have all issued reports on engineeringeducation. New

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Kurt C. Gramoll; Karthik Ranga

for better understanding the design process are possibleby the use of this technology. Working professionals and engineers who may not be ableto attend traditional classes due to their full time jobs can use this web-based method tostudy online. An additional benefit is the design projects can be easily archived forviewing and use by students in future courses.IntroductionIt is well known that courses in design form an important part of the curriculum forstudents majoring in mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering. In design coursesstudents are taught to analyze problems using various equations and theories forcomputing forces, stress, strains and displacements 1. Since the design problems concernreal world objects such as shafts, gears

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Marilyn Dyrud

ofTechnology technical faculty, aimed to pinpoint practices and problems involving student workgroups.Literature TrendsThe literature regarding student groups is rich and varied. Even a small snapshot of focusedjournals and conference proceedings yields dozens of resources, with content ranging from avariety of study results to classroom methodologies. To determine the current state of affairs, Isearched ASEE publications for 1996-1998, specifically the Annual Conference Proceedings,FIE Conference Proceedings, Prism, and the Journal of Engineering Education. Articleswhich discuss student groups appear under a variety of general subject headings: cooperativelearning, collaborative learning, active learning, group work, teamwork, interactive

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Trevor Harding

administrative support to the overalltraining program. A university-wide teaching center organizes a college-wide,engineering-specific training program and provides consultation services to othersinvolved in the program. Faculty coordinators work at the departmental level to establishclear criteria of performance for GSIs and to resolve individual problems as they arise.Finally, graduate student mentors serve as non-threatening resources for information onpolicy and procedure, evaluators of GSI performance, and providers of effectivefeedback.Regardless of the model used for a GSI training program, it is essential that thedevelopmental stages of GSIs be kept in mind. The GSI’s stage of development has aprofound impact on the effectiveness of a particular

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J. Hardwick Butler; Burton Courtney

Session 1649 Distance Learning for Georgia Surveyors J. Hardwick Butler, Burton M. Courtney Middle Georgia CollegeAbstractThe Engineering faculty at Middle Georgia College has a well-established program in place toserve practicing and potential surveyors who need course credits to meet the educationalrequirements for registration as a professional surveyor in Georgia. Using state-wide distancelearning facilities and innovative approaches to promoting the classes, facilitating registration,and providing remote instruction, the program is in continuing demand by practicing

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Emin Yilmaz

throwing an 8-lb pumpkin246 feet away.The design of a pumpkin thrower was assigned to three Mechanical Engineering Technologystudents as a project for senior level "ETME 475 - Mechanical Systems Design" course. As a firststep, each student worked on their own pumpkin thrower. During the final phase, students workedon the design and manufacturing of the different parts of the project. During the early Fallsemester one student, with faculty supervision, worked on the project to redesign the pouch andtune the system. Students from the Engineering Society have also helped to set it up for tests anddecorations. Competition day was of course a Department affair.Students enjoyed working on this good engineering applications project. The Project

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Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

Session 3268 Interactive Dynamics: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Undergraduate Dynamics Gary L. Gray and Francesco Costanzo Engineering Science and Mechanics Department The Pennsylvania State University Abstract Collaborative learning, computer simulations and practical experimentation are the essential elements of a new project for the enhancement of undergraduate engineering courses cur- rently being developed at Penn State University. This project introduces teamwork, hands-on

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James Kang; HonShing Wu; Shy-Shenq P. Liou; Peter Leung; Hans Soelaeman

Session 2633 Power Electronics and Motion Control Laboratory ShyShenq P. Liou, Hans Soelaeman, James Kang, HonShing Wu, and Peter Leung School of Engineering San Francisco State University1. Introduction The Power Electronics and Motion Control Laboratory (PE&MC) of the School ofEngineering, San Francisco State University serves three senior electrical engineering courses:ENGR 455 Power Electronics, ENGR 447 Control Systems, and ENGR 306 ElectromechanicalSystems. There are many projects configured for these three courses, using various apparatus.Some of

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Justin Pniower; Michael Ruane; Bennett Goldberg; Selim Unlu

than fast enough to serve our needs. You might wish to build off an alreadyexisting WWW site. But one thing to keep in mind is that your server must be connected,whether directly or indirectly through another computer, to your experimental setup.We feel that the scarcest resource needed for this project is time. While it might only take amonth to initially create a web-based experiment, additional time is needed in order to ensurethat the experiment continues to function and grow.ConclusionWeb-based experiments offer many advantages to engineering and science education. Adequatecontrol, sensor, automation and server technology is prevalent and reasonably priced. Our twoexperiments on Michelson interferometry and laser diode characterization

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Russell D. Meier

Session 2632 Active Learning in Large Lectures Russell D. Meier Kansas State UniversityI. IntroductionActive learning is powerful teaching. I have used active learning techniques in undergraduatecomputer engineering courses at Iowa State University and Kansas State University. I firmlybelieve that the learner-centered, active learning exercises have enhanced student knowledge ofthe material. I was challenged by two large lecture courses during the 1997-1998 academic year.Each course had a class size approaching 100 students. Many instructors believe that

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Philip Doepker

Criteria 2000. Page 4.330.1I. IntroductionTraditional design practices have been replaced in "World Class Companies" by concurrentengineering, which also emphasizes the team approach to the design and manufacturingfunctions. Different organizations have different names for the process. One which hasseemed to come to the forefront is the "Product Realization Process" (PRP) and is defined as"The process by which new and improved products are conceived, designed, produced,brought to market and supported. The process includes determining customer’s needs,translating these needs into engineering specifications, designing the product as well as itsproduction and

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Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

Session 1608 An Alternate Presentation Method for Final Examinations Paul D. Schreuders, Arthur Johnson University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionFinal examinations are a stressful time for everyone involved. In an effort to reduce the stresslevel (and have a little fun), over the last several years some of the faculty in the BiologicalResources Engineering Department at the University of Maryland have given final examinationsin the “Great Literature” format. The Great Literature series of final exams is based uponrecognizable literary masterpieces. The styles and general contents of

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Kuruvilla Verghese; Douglas Peplow

Session 2477 Collaborative Learning in Small Groups in a Mathematics Intensive NE Course Kuruvilla Verghese, Douglas E. Peplow Department of Nuclear Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7909AbstractSeveral of the generally required nuclear engineering undergraduate courses are intensive inmathematics and physics, for example, courses in reactor analysis and thermal hydraulics.The conventional lecture lab format is usually unsatisfactory for such courses. Translatingthe physics into mathematics and vice versa

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Luiz Lourenco; Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

Session 2526 Integration of Optical Diagnostic Techniques into the Teaching of the Thermal and Fluid Sciences Laboratory Course Chiang Shih, Luiz Lourenco and Farrukh Alvi Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida A&M University and Florida State UniversityAbstractVisual presentation has always played an important role in teaching thermal and fluid relatedcourses because "seeing is believing". However, traditional visualization techniques do notreadily provide quantitative information about the

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Gloria Rogers; Julia Williams

to document student outcomes in engineeringeducation has been driven by the adoption of revised engineering accreditation criteria,Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000).1 In Criteria 3, portfolios are mentioned as one wayto document and assess student outcomes. In a white paper issued in 1996 by the JointTask Force on Engineering Education Assessment, portfolios were referred to as beingcorrelated with nine of the eleven desired attributes of engineering graduates identified inEC2000.2A portfolio has been described as a "purposeful collection of student work that exhibitsthe student's efforts, progress, and achievements. The collection must include studentparticipation in selecting contents, the criteria for selection, the criteria for judging

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Thomas Wagner; Daniel C. Gray

layout, and leads to a designthat more rapidly configures onto hardware. A behavioral description (or architecture) tends tolook more like a traditional program. Some behavioral descriptions such as counters and statemachines synthesize well into hardware. Other behavioral descriptions, particularly those thatinvolve memory, or operations such as multiplication and division, may not lead to a design thatcan be synthesized onto an FPGA. Simply writing a design as a traditional sequential programwithout considering the hardware that is being described may not lead to a synthesizable design.A better approach is to describe some sub-components behaviorally, but keep in mind the overallhardware architecture when describing the circuit, and write

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Monson H. Hayes; Lonnie D. Harvel

Session 2532 Distance Learning Into the 21st Century Monson H. Hayes and Lonnie Harvel School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332AbstractThe Georgia Institute of Technology is in a unique position of having a campus locatedacross the Atlantic in the heart of the Lorraine region of France. Offering masters degreeprograms in electrical and mechanical engineering, Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) mustdeliver more courses than can be staffed by resident faculty. Consequently, GTL mustoffer courses by

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Jerry W. Samples

career filled with hundreds of publications and no relationships often leaves lifeunfulfilled. Our lives need balance, and each of us must determine what balance works. In theirbook, Teaching Engineering, Wankat and Oreovicz1 discuss personal management. In chaptertwo they include stress and personal health as important considerations for those in academe.They discuss efficiency in research and teaching as ways to allow for more free time. It isimportant to the reader that an early chapter is dedicated to the issue of balance. Yes, there mustbe balance in our lives. This paper discusses the things that need to be balanced along with thedistractions that lead to imbalance. It discusses goal setting and planning as the best ways tokeep the balance

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Sarah E. Irvine; Teresa L. Hein

Session 2380 TECHNOLOGY AS A TEACHING AND LEARNING TOOL: ASSESSING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING IN THE INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS LAB Teresa L. Hein, Sarah E. Irvine Department of Physics/School of Education American University Washington, DCAbstractTechnology, particularly computer-based applications are currently being incorporated withinmany domains of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education. Theprimary goal of this incorporation is the improvement of student learning. In this

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Patricia Click

courses, I started by establishinga general outline of what I needed to do to satisfy departmental requirements. The audience forthe course would be undergraduate students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science(SEAS) at the University of Virginia (UVA). Although the course itself would not be a requiredcore course, it would be on a list of electives offered by my department, the Division ofTechnology, Culture, and Communication (TCC). Besides a required first-year TCC course, andtwo required fourth-year TCC courses, students in the SEAS at UVA must take one electivecourse in TCC, usually in the second semester of their second year. All of the semester-long,200-level TCC courses focus on some aspect of the relationship between technology

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Flora McMartin

intended.IntroductionTraditional engineering education emphasized individualism, in contrast current practiceincreasingly involves team projects, cooperative learning and an emphasis on the synergypossible through group processes. Most faculty who interact regularly with their studentshave a general sense of a student’s teamwork skills. However, in order for faculty to developeffective interventions, it is necessary for them to measure the underlying skills that contributeto successful teamwork. Building on a number of existing instruments (e.g., the FoundationCoalition’s Team Evaluation Sheet) the Synthesis Coalition’s assessment team developed aself/peer assessment instrument that incorporated the best practices in engineering and otherdisciplines. This instrument was