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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Farhad Sharifi

engineering away from its dominant theme of unit operation to thebroad sophisticated exploratory engineering it is today1. With this new definition, moreinterdisciplinary activities became possible; a professor with mechanical processing backgroundmight be doing research on design of a batch or continuous reactor for producing hydrogen as afuel as an alternative source of energy12. Such kind of projects will require knowledge aboutchemistry, energy, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, environment, and many other fields.However, it is indeed a teamwork effort on a chemical engineering project. After 1980 many industries started to externalize their R&D activities to reduce the spending.Mowery & Rosenberg6 mentioned that this has been

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carter

. Page 7.117.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education.Acknowledgements A project of this magnitude is not accomplished in a vacuum, and I would like toacknowledge the invaluable assistance that was provided by some of the support staff at UNCCharlotte. Ms. Connie Martin served as the director of Continuing Education, and in thatcapacity dedicated much of her time and that of her staff to the organization and administrationof this distance-education program. Ms. Lorraine Stanton served as the course managementsoftware technical specialist, and provided consistent and unfettered training and

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kilduff

-indicationfunction, 2S/Dt + Q.4.0 Assessment Limited quantitative assessment data is provided in the form of course and instructorevaluations. Overall instructor evaluations, ability of the instructor to “stimulate interest andmotivate learning,” and overall course quality all improved after the classroom demonstration wasinstituted. The improvement seemed significant (initial ratings were 2.8 to 3.1 (out of 4) and laterimproved to 3.6 to 3.9) but was likely caused by general course improvement over time, to whichthe in-class demonstration made only a partial contribution. Anecdotal assessment data isprovided by student response to, and success in, a design project that involved modeling theNeversink Reservoir watershed, part of the New York City

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Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

. Include bibliographies, papers and articles, minutes of subcommittee meetings, frequently asked questions about education and accreditation aspects of BS-MOE, BS-MOE proposals/plans/projects, and network members (names, with contact information, of faculty members and practitioners with interest in CE curricula). Page 7.637.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 8. Seek endorsement of and active support from ASCE Educational Activities Committee

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kimmel

the students must registerseparately. Several of the other courses are taught as lab/lecture combinations. All students mustalso complete a 15- to 24-week co-op assignment in industry as a requirement for graduation. In March 2001, a group of three Packaging Science faculty received an NSF CCLI grant toadapt materials characterization techniques to collaborative, discovery-based learning in theundergraduate Packaging Science curriculum. The major objectives of this project are:· To incorporate more science-based learning in our Packaging Science laboratory courses· To significantly increase the understanding and hands-on experience of our undergraduate students with state-of-the-art materials science characterization and investigative

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacobsen; Gautam Pillay; Fred Gunnerson

Society for Engineering Educationcollaborative program will be expanded to include research projects in broader areas ofenvironmental management, energy sciences, and national security.Laboratory scientists and engineers, together with university faculty and students, provide thefoundation for integrating R&D and education at the INEEL.A Virtual FacultyThe concept of a virtual faculty depends on several elements of cooperation. The organization ofsuch a faculty is incidental to its function and does not interfere with any current managementstructures at either the laboratory or at the universities. Three needs must be met for successfulcooperation.First, there must be a need for both education programs and research in an area of mutual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eoin O Herlihy; William Gaughran

be used for a range of materials, simply bychanging the drill bit and the speed of the machine 10. The drill is necessary for all students tocomplete any basic project. Therefore it is essential that it be the first machine modified andaltered to allow safe operation for the paraplegic user and others. Current machine interfacedesign neglects the principle of designing for all. Redesign of the drill will make it safer,easier to use, increase productivity and allow for the inclusion of the paraplegic user.Current working heights, legislation, design factors and safety need to be addressed todevelop a user-friendly machine for all.From analysing current working heights, the problems faced by the paraplegic user havebecome evident. Figure 2

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ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Summers

. Page 7.388.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The Planning Committee can determine community needs and provide advice regarding strategicplanning matters such as: · Relevance of curricula and programs offered · Determination of community needs by identifying skill sets needed by graduatesThe Marketing/Communication Committee can provide support and suggestions for publicrelations activities: · Promotion of academic programs through networking, newsletter, and publicity · Suggestions for methods to recognize students through the media (graduation, projects, etc

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farr

Systems Leader of a Management Management Integrator Multidisciplinary Team Entry Level Project Engineer 0 Staff Engineer Figure 2. Traditional versus new engineering paradigm6In July of 2000, Stevens created the Department of Systems Engineering and EngineeringManagement to respond to the changing customer needs for both undergraduate and graduateengineering education. This paper will provide the details and lessons learned of how wedesigned, marketed, and executed three non traditional certificate and masters programs

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

andspreadsheets (In industry, the “secretary” is close to becoming an ”endangered species.”). Theyneed to realize the importance of finishing a project on time.Since the Engineering Materials course was obviously in need of a new approach, I decided touse the opportunity to have the students practice some of these skills that I had observed wereneeded in industry. This paper explains the variation, developed by this author, on the typicalteam-based learning method. The “lecture method” is partially maintained but is used only toexplain certain concepts that students have difficulty grasping or to answer specific questionsraised by a student. The remaining class time is used for “team-based learning,” where it isintended that students work together to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

. Configure VLANs c. Configure routing subnets and VLAN bindings d. Test and troubleshoot connectivity 7. Network Management a. Programmatically access MIBs on Workstations b. Programmatically access MIBs on network Devices. c. Do simple monitoring of variables d. Do threshold based alarm notification. 8. Final Team Project counts as 3 Labs.We have created a table that helps to focus our thinking on the relationships between thetheoretical and the applied. The extract below includes two of the fundamental conceptswith their associated instances and the experiential learning in the lab. A more completetable is included as Appendix C.Fundamental Concept

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

multi-institutional program MentorNet allows for significant economiesof scale in administration as well as opportunities for program growth because it can reachbroader and deeper pools of mentors and students and can provide mentoring at campuses wheresuch opportunities might be limited. (See Table: MentorNet’s Actual and Projected GrowthChart). The size and structure of the program permits MentorNet to develop and employspecialized systems and resources, such as a web-based interface to a customized, relationaldatabase related to a set of computer programs to optimize the matches between mentors andstudents and personalized, customized communications with participants. A structured e-mentoring program, MentorNet provides training and ongoing

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

motivates the VIS. In Section 3, wedescribe the VIS concept. Section 4 presents a specific VIS learning system in productionplanning. Section 5 discusses our deployment and assessment results to date. We conclude withplans for future work and dissemination of the VIS.2. Motivation and BackgroundImproving student learning has motivated new approaches to teaching in the engineeringcurriculum. This has led to innovative hands-on and project-based courses, and to the use ofeducational technology. While an exhaustive listing of new teaching approaches and techniques Page 7.1199.1is beyond the scope of this paper, several example efforts can be

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

variety of issues that could be of interest to beginning collegestudents. The topics also offer a balance between life skills, like time management and creatinga resume, to learning skills like how to take exams and studying strategies. Selling Yourself on Paper: How to Create a Resume. What is your Learning Style? Resumes Revisited. Using your Learning Style to your Best Advantage. Student Leaders Panel Discussion. Maximizing Success: How to Take Engineering Exams to Maximize Your Grade. What Good is an Internship Anyway? Teamwork Projects: Group Leader or Group Packmule. Teamwork Project: How to Work as a Group to Delegate Tasks. Time Management Skills. Roommate Conflicts (and

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

understanding and retention of new material. Page 7.1180.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFRESHMAN CLINICRowan’s two-semester Freshman Clinic sequence introduces all freshmen engineering studentsto engineering in a hands-on, active learning environment. Engineering measurements andreverse engineering methods are common threads that tie together the different engineeringdisciplines. Previous reverse engineering projects have involved common household productssuch as automatic coffee makers

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

.• Ninety percent of engineering majors who switched to a non-engineering major, and seventy five percent who persevered, described the quality of teaching as poor overall.• Seniors about to graduate in engineering made it clear their experience in these introductory courses had given them a shaky foundation for higher level work.In a recent call for proposals (Action Agenda in Engineering) the National Science Foundationhas identified several proposed changes to improve SMET education and particularly theintroductory experience. These include, 1) active project-based learning inside and outside of the classroom, 2) increased student-teacher dialog, 3) horizontal and vertical integration of subject matter

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

engineeringsystems laboratory course. This course is the second in a series of three required mechanicalengineering lab courses. The first course is an instrumentation and measurements course thatconcentrates on lab procedures and data processing. The third course is an experimentalengineering project course in which students plan and execute an experimental project that spansan entire semester. The engineering systems course is broken into two sequences. One is asequence of mechanical systems experiments. In this sequence oral and visual presentation isemphasized. The other is a sequence of thermal energy and fluid mechanics experiments. Thissequence emphasizes written reporting, and students are required to prepare several groupreports and two individual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yun Cui; Edward Gehringer

that allfuture mapping assignments will be able to be assigned successfully (i.e., without assigning astudent to review him/herself) The strategy has been extended to second-level reviews—that is,where one student reviews another student’s review, to give students an incentive to do a carefuljob of reviewing It has also been extended to the situation where team projects are reviewed byindividual students This strategy offers great advantages for peer review of student work, andopportunity for extension to other problems like asynchronous review periods, where studentsthemselves negotiate review deadlines.1. IntroductionPeer review in the classroom is a technique that is becoming increasingly popular, with over 100papers published on the topic

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Borrelli

emotional functioning” Larsonand Wilson 4 ( p 6). Student retention theories Theories on retention of college students have been postulated and refined over the pasttwenty years. Vincent Tinto’s 7, 8 ground-breaking work forms the basis for most subsequentresearch. His theory offers guidance to universities on how they can change the campusenvironment to help students make a solid transition into college life. Retention activities arestrategies to integrate the students into the institution. Students are offered more social activities,mentoring, community and service-learning projects, and academic support. Recently, theintroduction of learning communities has been identified as helping students connect to peers insmall groups in which

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

techniques a priority in its present and future programs 3. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a software solution formonitoring and controlling a harsh environment test bed over the Internet 3. A server computer,data acquisition hardware and LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Engineering Workbench) softwaremake up the data acquisition and control system (DACS). LabVIEW is a virtual instrumentsoftware from National Instruments, which is also used in the experiment that this paperdocuments.Description of Problem The intent of this project is to research, design and develop the systems required to makethe Technovate Scott Turbofan System, Model 9005 (TS9005) experiment accessible toengineering students from a remote location

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

methods. 5. To prepare students for professional practice and further study in the area of industrial engineering emphasizing students’ creativity, innovation, teamwork, leadership roles in industry by propagating these ideas into project topics.The evaluation of how well the objectives are being met depends on the program outcomeassessment. Since most of the engineering colleges are seeking ABET6 accreditation and aretherefore obligated to satisfy eleven ABET educational outcomes’ requirements, it is onlyappropriate to incorporate ABET outcomes into this model as the program outcomes. The list ofprogram outcomes could be, however, expanded with respect to the program educational goals.The College of Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

capital budget issues; however, others, likeincluding other program language standards, would only require a change in the course orlaboratory syllabus.References1. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.2. Modicon FactoryLink ECS, Square D Company, Chicago, IL, 1996.3. Step-by-step Guide to Project Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4. Bateson, R.N., Introduction to Control System Technology, Prentice Hall,1999 BIOGRAPHYJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received a B. S. and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from St. LouisUniversity and has completed additional graduate work at the University of South Carolina and ClemsonUniversity. Since

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Institutional Research ProfessionalsHighest Student artifacts -- those Standardized examinations, assessment strategies developed or Professionally reporting guidelines, and administered and interpreted by the self reported or information from departmental faculty (portfolios or employer evaluations -- (licensure exhibits, papers, projects) exam results, transcripts according to regional, national, or professional criteria, evaluations of co-op students or alumni)Middle Standardized examinations -- such

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

futurecoursework.ConclusionsStudents have mixed opinions when asked to evaluate the new integrated lab during the chair’sexit interview. They feel that the course is a lot of work for only two credits but they commentthat it is a worthwhile experience. Educational outcomes progress has been noticed in the secondsemester senior design requirement. Students now have knowledge and hands-on experience ofexperimental techniques and they incorporate and utilize them in the development and testingstages of their capstone design project. Students are requesting laboratory equipment from thiscourse to perform experiments and performance measurements on their senior design projects.This course specifically addresses ABET Program Outcomes and Assessment (Criterion 3)2 a, b,f, g, i and

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Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth

. The development of a sufficient knowledgebase and the gathering of materials to be used as sources of information by faculty and studentsis a long-term project. It is anticipated that as the position develops some history, the knowledgeand materials will accumulate. Funding has been obtained to assist in the development of alibrary of resources.The outcomes with respect to increasing the flexibility in scheduling for the Director of Page 7.973.3Engineering and to developing the faculty’s awareness of the position have been achieved. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

courseassessment related to meeting the ABET Criteria. Pre- and post- assessment related tocompetencies addressed in the course or a major project can help instructors validate that courseobjectives are being meet.Bibliography1 Development of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes.S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, R.Guardiola, and T. J. Brumm. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition.2 http://www.ddiworld.com/, January 14, 2002.STEVEN MICKELSONSteven K. Mickelson is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa StateUniversity. Dr. Mickelson is the teaching/advising coordinator for the ABE department. His teaching specialtiesinclude computer

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Glenn T. Wrate, Northern Michigan University; John Wheeldon; Owe Petersen

careers. The faculty teaching the course all feelit was a rewarding and worthwhile experience. Page 7.577.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAs to the course, changes for next time include a fresh look at the experiments to keep themcurrent, and a reexamination of policies to make sure they are fair and complete.Bibliography1. Freuler, Richard, Audeen Fentiman, John Demel, Robert Gustafson, John Merrill, “Developing and ImplementingHands-On Laboratory Exercises and Design Projects

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Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz; Cathy Maltbie

the originating and receiving sites,resulting in four separate categories. A standard lecture section was used as the controlgroup. Faculty worked together as a team to select common texts, develop commonsyllabi and block final exams resulting in standardized materials and grading.To identify learning style, the project team selected two well-known instruments: theMyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Bothinventories were administered to students in all sections of Mechanics I and later in allsections of Basic Strength of Materials at the University of Cincinnati College ofEngineering starting in the fall of 1999. In addition, two sections of Mechanics I atWright State University also participated in

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

from faculty;direct hands-on “real world” laboratory and teamwork experience in every semester of the four-yearprogram, entrepreneurial expertise. Instead of an emphasis on competition between individuals, muchof the work is organized in project teams replicating real-world interdisciplinary collaboration; usuallythese teams are set up to avoid having only one female with multiple males, although interest in theproject may supercede the gender composition, especially in the more advanced years. Nearly 2/3 ofRowan’s juniors and seniors have the opportunity to do summer internships, gaining further real-worldexperience. Rowan prides itself on its low student-faculty ratio and its high level of student-facultyinteraction. Relatively small class

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ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gray

, but are notlimited to: ¨ A timeline for implementation, continuous improvement and evaluation ¨ Evaluation and selection of courses ¨ Support for both faculty and students ¨ Orientation to e-learning for both faculty and students ¨ Quality standards of the systems, software and equipment utilized in the e-learning environment ¨ Integrity, validity and security of information Potential implementers are advised to utilize simple technologies and designs in the earlystages of the process. This reduces the risk of technical problems inherent in systemimplementation and adjusts the users to the systems being utilized. Recommendations for small,independent projects to demonstrate success and gain