Conference Session

Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cynthia Veit; Chris Swan

example, Arlington will continue todevelop high school projects and curriculum on the benefits of recycling. Other benefits tostudent learning include:1. Students are forced to recognize that engineering and non-engineering aspects in solving societal problems are important.2. Students are forced to “think outside the technical box” to develop appropriate and realistic solutions.3. Students come to realize that professional and social responsibilities go together.From the perspective of the course or program administrators, inclusion of CSL projects providesa successful way to have students recognize the importance of soft constraints in developingsolutions to what is perceived a technological problem. This is important since engineers

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Driscoll

Handbook for College Teachers (2nded.), Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1993, pp. 13-23.[3] Asymetrix Corporation, Multimedia ToolBook Version 3.0: Multimedia Authoring System for Windows,Bellevue, WA.[4] Driscoll, Wade C., Using Visual Basic for Engineering Computations, to be submitted to the 2003 ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings (2002)[5] Driscoll, Wade C., Visual Basic For Engineers, Workbook for Engineering Computing Published byComdoc at Youngstown State University (2000)[6] Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,Engineering Criteria 2000, 111 Market Place, # 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202 (1996)[7] Jung, I., Hosoon Ku, and D. L. Evans, A Network-based Multimedia Computerized Testing Tool

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

Educationgenerated models using lecture and demonstration as their principal mode of instruction. Thischange occurred for many reasons, some of which were the cost of upkeep on laboratories andthe lack of support given to instructors who focused upon the basics of practical engineering.Also, there had been an ongoing change in faculty where instructors of design and applied topicswere replaced with those who were more focused upon basic research of cutting-edgetechnologies while the basic engineering technologies were neglected1. Luckily, UW-Stout wasable to avoid the trend of eliminating laboratories, so we continue to have a strong history ofapplied knowledge in education. With our laboratories intact we have been able to incorporatelaboratory activities

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

Session 3657 The Community Based Capstone Design Experience: More than Meets the Eye Joseph T. Emanuel Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Bradley UniversityAbstractFor the past 36 years, Bradley University’s Industrial Engineering program has used community-based projects as the basis for the Capstone Design experience. For the past 25 years, the“clients” for these projects have been asked to pay for the service provided. The courseemphasizes real-world team problem solving and the need for strong

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

forMechanical Engineering Technology students. It combines the basic aspects of a traditionalrotary viscometer with a purely mechanical measurement system that allows students to clearlyvisualize and experience first-hand the reaction to viscous shear stress on a stationary drum inresponse to a concentric rotating cup containing the test fluid. This paper describes importantdesign features of the device, constructed from an “antique” Garrard turntable, and the majorconceptual topics students must understand in order to complete their laboratory exercise.The Rotary Viscometer SystemThe rotary viscometer system combines a Garrard turntable, used in a previous lifetime toexperience and enjoy LP albums, with a custom designed support structure containing

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

. Creating avisual organization of information makes it much easier to see what to do next for the visual-spatial student. Both are visual tools to solve analytical problems. Several examples ofapplication of these methods are presented.IntroductionThe students at Ward College of Technology at the University of Hartford can major inArchitectural, Audio, Electronic, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering Technology. They arethus a diverse group, with different abilities. We have found that our Architectural EngineeringTechnology (AET) students, for example, tend to process information visually, whereas theAudio Engineering Technology (AUET) students process information aurally and theMechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students process information

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Hood; Elizabeth Bahe; Fonda Swimmer; Ingrid St. Omer

Session 1430 Student Retention Dialogue: Focus Group Outcomes Ingrid St. Omer, Joanne Hood, Fonda Swimmer Northern Arizona University Elizabeth Bahe Scottsdale Community CollegeAbstractIn the Fall of 2001, the Admissions, Recruitment and Retention committee at Northern ArizonaUniversity’s (NAU) College of Engineering & Technology (CET) sought to begin to collect dataregarding student persistence. NAU has demonstrated a strong commitment to undergraduateeducation and diversity. According to the National

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Evans; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo; Phillip Cornwell; Brian Self

Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent misconceptions, that is, primarily whether the misconceptions should be “con-fronted, overcome, and replaced” or they should be “developed and refined”. In spite ofthis disagreement, there remains much that can be learned from this literature about howwidespread these misconceptions are and how persistent they are, even under what isgenerally considered “good” instruction. Although these studies list many student mis-conceptions, none offer good, reliable, valid assessment instruments that can be used byinstructors in a “production” mode to judge the adequacy of their instruction.One of the significant hindrances to reform in science, technology, engineering and math-ematics (STEM

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kissock; Rebecca Blust

the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Office of Industrial Technologies. 2002. Industrial Assessment Center. http://www.oit.doe.gov/iac/2. Muller, Barnish,and Kasten, 1998.3. University of Dayton. 2002. Industrial Assessment Center. http://www.engr.udayton.edu/udiac/4. The United States Department of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Center. 2002. Student DevelopmentProgram Guide5. Ray, Steve. Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student, University of Dayton Industrial Assessment Center.Interview. December 12, 2002.6. Nicholas, John M.,1998. Competitive Manufacturing Management. McGraw Hill, Boston

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

for the class. It seemed to me that the only advantage I would get from Blackboard was in the presentation of the grade information to the students. Everything else would require me to do my usual web stuff PLUS an extra step in order to connect it into Blackboard. This seemed like a lot for relatively little return.”A Construction and Civil Engineering Technology Instructor put it this way: “Blackboard is too bulky, attempting to accomplish too many objectives, thereby requiring too much time for fluency for modest user.”Another theme was access restrictions. Although both Blackboard and WebCT can reportedly beconfigured to make pages public [1], most systems are not set up to make this easy. Theacademic

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

Session 1309 Educational Innovation in Physiology: Capillary Filtration Heather E. Gunter1,2, Mark A. D’Avila2, Safa Sadeghpour2,3, Ragu Vijaykumar4, Joseph V. Bonventre2 1 Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University / 2 Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology / 3 Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT / 4 Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MITAbstractThe concepts underlying capillary

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

17-18, 1988 10. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD, November, 2000 11. NI ELVIS User Manual, National Instruments, August, 2002. Page 8.1265.12 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education 12. Ahmed A. Gamal, Sam Al-Hashmi, Varghese George, and Xiaohuan Wan, “NI-2 Oscilloscopes,” EE 2331 Project Report, Fall 2002. 13. Brian

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Eric Luczaj; Chia Han

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2003, American Society for Engineering Education”integrated throughout the process, assessing how well the program connects objectives to contentto learning and achievement.3.2 Immediate feedbackAnother area where technology can and should insert assessment into the educational process isby facilitating immediate feedback. Without timely feedback connecting student learning toinstructor evaluation, neither the instructor, nor the students nor the program administrators havethe power to affect change or to correct problems. Consider typical feedback from student toinstructor. Students evaluate a course with a course survey, completed at the end of the term.They fill out

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Zehnder

to Cornell students, however instructors at other schoolscould tailor the use of the lab by writing their own manuals to replace those provided.Use and Evaluation of Lab The virtual torsion lab was used in the Fall 2002 semester at Cornell as one of four labs in asophomore course that combines statics and mechanics of materials. The course was taken byabout 120 students. The lab will be used in the Spring 2003 at Cornell and other schoolsincluding two-year and engineering technology programs. Students were given two weeks to complete the lab. The work entailed analyzing the dataprovided to determine yield and fracture strengths, shear moduli, and to deduce relationshipsbetween stiffness, strength and dimensions of the test samples. A

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve E. Watkins; Richard Hall; Vicki Eller

once they have learned the software. • Memorability – The user should be able to use the software periodically without having to relearn it. • Errors – Users should be able to recover from errors easily. • Satisfaction – Users should feel comfortable with the system and feel that it was useful.Usability testing records usage patterns and user reactions. A designer can use this data to Page 8.1278.1improve the user interface of any computer software interface.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Sylvester

Energy promotes partnerships between the public and privatesectors to lead to sustainable utility PV markets (UPG, 1997). The Technology Experience toAccelerate Markets in Utility Photovoltaics (TEAM-UP) program funds ventures that develop Page 8.670.2sustainable markets and opportunities for PV applications. It also funds programs that takeProceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering 2177advantage of business opportunities with PV

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Electrical Engineering in 1995 fromArizona State University, Harvard University, and Purdue University, respectively. During the 2000-2001academic year, he was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Lincoln Laboratory. He is amember of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, IEEE (Senior Member), and ASEE. He is a registered ProfessionalEngineer in Colorado. His research interests include intelligent control, automatic target recognition, and robotics.Email: daniel.pack@usafa.eduBARRY E. MULLINS is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chief of the Computer SystemsDivision at the U.S. Air Force Academy, CO. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University ofEvansville, a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Air

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Burbach

and relatively unquantifiable with no immediate short-term benefits. TheNorth State Gold Mine Project represented a unique partnership between industry and academiathat had immediate and substantive benefits not only for the students and the university, but forthe industrial partner, the client, and the community as well.Pyramid Environmental and Engineering, P.C. (“Pyramid”) is a full-service consulting firmspecializing in environmental geology, geophysics, and engineering. North Carolina A & TState University (“NC A&T”) is a historically black, four-year university with a strongcommitment to the science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) disciplines. Both arelocated in Greensboro, North Carolina.The partnership between

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

full assessment is not complete. Nevertheless,preliminary returns indicate that the University’s recognition of the true nature of outreachplayed a vital role in developing and implementing changes to ensure that the Universitycontinues to meet the needs of its constituents, the faculty, and the University itself and inpromoting an environment of continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.Bibliography:1. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs, Effective for Evaluations During the 2002-2003 Accreditation Cycle.” (2002). Technology Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.2. Kellogg Commission (1999). Returning to our Roots: The Engaged University. Third Report of the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang; Eric Gillispie

Page 8.10.1productivity of students by bringing multiple sources of information to the student through the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationInternet. Lastly, students can directly control the pace at which they learn.These features of technology-based learning make the design of course content veryimportant. In the design of online web-based course content, a powerful way of conveyingknowledge to students is through visualization. In the design of courseware with visualizationthe process of developing effective, well-focused visualization paradigms is very important.First of all, courseware

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

original thermal behavior. On a more abstractlevel are difficulties regarding an effective approach to the concepts that would be meaningful tomechanical engineering technology students in an associate’s degree program.A system called the Thermal Computing System (TCS) was designed and installed in a desktopcomputer to provide a simple, very low cost solution to the first difficulty. It allows students toobserve, test, and record in real-time the thermal behavior and effects of individual componentsand parameters of the same desktop computer in which it is installed. However, the question ofhow to effectively use this TCS/computer to teach potentially complex heat transfer concepts tosophomore engineering technology students remains.This paper

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Miller; Steve Walsh; Leigh Haefner; Hollylynne Stohl

, the development workrequired to turn Belshazzar into a usable tool was not suitable for a subsequent semester designproject. The effort continued by hiring computer science students supported by NC StateUniversity’s Office of Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA). The Page 8.263.3system is currently used in limited production by faculty at NC State.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSystem DescriptionThe complete Belshazzar system setup, which consists of a

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

Session 1647 Don’t Just Tell Me, Show Me! Presenting a Microelectronics Course Completely on the Internet Deborah L. Sharer, Marty D. Frisbee Department of Engineering Technology University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstractChallenges to effectively delivering distance education (DE) courses, particularly web-basedindividual access (IA) DE, such as lack of instructor access, isolation, and removal of peerinteraction are well recognized as common throughout all disciplines. Considerations such asincreased self-discipline and the

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

Entrepreneurs in Action: A Team Development Process Innovation and Entrepreneurship R. Wilburn Clouse, PHD Vanderbilt University wil.clouse@vanderbilt.edu 615 322 8059Abstract This research paper reports on learning models studied to infuse the spirit ofentrepreneurship into a multi-disciplinary learning environment involving Engineering andHuman and Organizational Development students. The paper describes the process used in threedifferent models to encourage creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking among diversestudents. Course syllabi

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Mangum; Gary Daniels; Mary Crawford

improve the production rate. The result is aneffective technology-enhanced supplement to classroom instruction that can be efficientlyproduced.1 Introduction1.1 DisclaimerWe caution readers that this paper is intended to be an interactive on-screendemonstration; words on paper will not do it justice. Try it online atwww.engr.utexas.edu/rgd1.1.2 RationaleThe genesis of this project was influenced by a number of factors, including issuesspecific to our institution, changes in the higher education environment, andtechnological advancements. The University of Texas at Austin has a large and growingelectrical engineering enrollment, with typically poor retention rates in the first two years

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

digital signalprocessing are noticeably absent in engineering technology programs. A recent look at ABETaccredited electrical/electronics engineering technology programs [1] showed that only 6 of the 66programs accessed offered DSP as a required course in the curriculum. Another nine programsoffered DSP as a technical elective and the remaining 51 did not offer DSP to their students at all.As DSP becomes more pervasive in industrial applications, it is imperative that engineeringtechnology graduates have some exposure to digital signal processing theory and practice. Themain difficulty in teaching DSP to technology students is the level of mathematics. Studentsopening a textbook on digital signal processing [2] – [4] are faced with pages and

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng

. Examples includeDS 575 at the DePaul University [5], CS 378 at the University of Texas – Austin [6], CS 466at John Hopkins University [9] among others. The programming projects in these coursesdeal with various parts of the Web search including search engines, crawling, retrieval anduser interface. Most of these projects use the technology of CGI, making it rely on existingWeb servers. What made our project different was that we emphasized the whole picture ofWeb search. Our project included every components in a Web search retrieval system, theWeb server, the crawler, indexing, ranking and retrieving components. The only softwarerequirement for our project is a high-level programming language that supports networkprogramming. All student groups

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Marybeth Camerer

Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGive the Dean bragging rights. Deans like to be able to report successes of their faculty,departments, centers, and programs. Be aware of possible awards and honors, and be sure tonotify the Dean and the Communications Office of successes to publicize. Our program had twomain “bragging rights” items in 2002: Our business process management lecturer, Josh Reiter,won a campus-wide award for excellence in teaching. Hopkins undergraduate teams won firstand third prizes in the Greater Baltimore Technology Council’s first “Mosh Pit” business plancompetition, in competition with teams of MBA students from other universities in the region.Invite the

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Kostic

Technology Education," World Congress of Engineering Educators and Industry Leaders, UNESCO Conference Proceedings, Paris, France, July 2-5, Vol.3, pp.463-468, 1996.Author BiographyM. KOSTIC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and then worked in industry for some time. Professor Kostic'steaching and research interests are Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and related energy sciences; Page 8.998.9with emphases on new technologies, experimental methods, creativity, design, and computer

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

, Process Modeling, and Engineering Statistics, to show the relationship problems. between basic science and engineering/ technology. 1D Encourage use of outside resources, 1. Students will know i, k 1. Compilation of an outside resource such as WWW, library, etc., in solving how to effectively portfolio by the faculty member open-ended problems in use the WWW and teaching technical writing containing undergraduate ChE classes. the library to find examples of the use of WWW and information. library, as well as documentation of