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2000 Annual Conference

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Tracy L. Chandler; John A. Petersen; Janet M. Sharp

knowledge. The teacher designs tasks so he or she can help the students teaseout the intended mathematics or science inherent in the task.This clarification of the mathematics and science content enables the students to connectimportant information to their existing knowledge. Although this clarification often plays out ina whole class discussion, the fact of the matter is that each individual student must participate inthe discourse. The act of doing an activity is insufficient to ensure the process of learning. It iswhen each student individually reflects on his or her experience with resolving the task that thereal learning occurs4. Therefore, teachers must grapple with the notion that each individualstudent will have individual needs which

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2000 Annual Conference

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Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

optical components - Law of refraction - Total reflection Image formation by a lens Measurement of focal length- Measurement of transmission Basic optical systems Laser beam expansion and focusing - Beam steering Fiber optics Fiber cleaving and polishing - Laser to fiber coupling Fiber-optic illumination system - Fiber optic delivery system Measurement of fiber transmissionBME 546 Laboratories Interference/Diffraction Measurement of speed and displacement with a Michelson interferometer Spatial filtering Lasers Measurement of laser beam divergence and intensity distribution Laser delivery systems Tissue optics - Laser interactions

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2001 Annual Conference

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Julia Williams

portfolioadministration, such as portfolio design/format and portfolio set up, and then discussways in which portfolio objectives, including evaluation rubrics, may be developed.Special emphasis is placed on communicating portfolio objectives to students and theefficacy of reflective statements as a way to make the portfolio rating process moreefficient. The end result of portfolio assessment is a clearer picture of students’communication skills and valuable feedback for students and professors.I. IntroductionAt first glance, assessing student learning outcomes in communication effectivenesswould seem an easy task. For some engineering departments, good communication isdistilled in the instruction to students that they must write and speak “clearly” in

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2001 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

average student ranking of 3.85 when asked if they could, Page 6.214.7“Present a technical oral report that is clear, concise, factual, and a reflection of team effort.” Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education 7Student’s narrative comments are indicative of the importance of the skill and knowledge takenfrom the introductory courses. As one student stated, “I feel that I have a much greater grasp ofengineering design and what goes into the engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe; Bijan Sepahpour

Session: 1566 The Challenges of an Integrated Laboratory Course Sequence Patrick A. Tebbe and Bijan Sepahpour The College of New JerseyINTRODUCTION The engineering program at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) offers undergraduatedegrees in engineering science with specialties in one of the areas of Mechanical, Electrical, orComputer Engineering and Engineering Management. The main goal of the department is towell prepare the graduates for entry-level positions in industry and/or to continue graduatestudies. The mission statement of the department reflects on all necessary

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1998 Annual Conference

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Hussein Anis

. Such involvement in itself enriched their capacities ineducation development and clearly reflected on their performance in their own colleges.Those activities included ,but not confined to, preparation of proposals, refereeing ofsubmitted proposals, preparing specifications for educational materials, equipment, andlaboratories, and curricular development.Other means of human development included: study tours inside and outside the country,training courses , and workshops and seminars.2- Academic improvements Page 3.232.2Those took the form of curricular development especially in the areas of Basic & EngineeringSciences where physical sciences

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

scores will not accurately reflect their capabilities. (When Georgia Tech previously required all engineering students to take the exam, some students simply signed their names and left.) Under such circumstances, the reliability of the data is seriously compromised. Strangely, the FE exam may serve as a better assessment measure if taken voluntarily by a subset of students than if it were required.Given the short preparation time for our initial EC2000 evaluation, the available assessment dataresulted from a series of ad-hoc efforts. Currently, we are focusing on identifying and refining akey set of assessment measures. Additionally, Georgia Tech is currently in the process ofdefining institutional assessment activities. The goal is to

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

compared to national norms. However, since students cannot be required to pass the exam, many of them may not take it seriously and their scores will not accurately reflect their capabilities. (When Georgia Tech previously required all engineering students to take the exam, some students simply signed their names and left.) Under such circumstances, the reliability of the data is seriously compromised. Strangely, the FE exam may serve as a better assessment measure if taken voluntarily by a subset of students than if it were required.Given the short preparation time for our initial EC2000 evaluation, the available assessment dataresulted from a series of ad-hoc efforts. Currently, we are focusing on identifying and refining akey set of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Josef Rojter

attractive to prospective students. The lack of institutional innovation with respect to engineering curricula reflected poor integration between engineering academia, industry and the community in general. Page 3.245.3 3SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WILLIAMS COMMITTEE Professional engineering education has been a part of higher education landscape inAustralia since 1860’s. The Williams Committee had to engage the higher education profile.The universities could be grouped into three types according to their time of establishment :x The

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1998 Annual Conference

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David Wells

Methods 40 2-3 2.86 120 6-9 8.57 Total 132 7-13 9.43 405 22-40 29.14 Figure 4: Learning Achievements During Burst 97Whichever of these totals is one’s preference, the results of two burst learning periods showacademic accomplishments approximately double the usual expectation of engineering orengineering technology students in a standard semester and learning environment.Lessons Learned: Reflection upon the experience of the burst periods, as well as their statisticalresults, offers some conclusions and some guidance.First, some observations about why the learning acceleration was attainable. The most criticalfactor was and is the high level of motivation

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1998 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey S. Beasley; Charles T. Townley

Technology Interface is a peer-reviewed 3 Internet publication designed to serve membersof the Engineering Technology profession and its related fields. The Journal is peer-reviewed sothat the quality of publications will reflect the high standards expected of an academicpublication. Additionally, the peer review process will help to make sure the content of theJournal remains within the context of supporting Engineering Technology and its relatedprofessions.I. The Mechanics of the Journal A Look at the JournalThe Technology Interface can be found by entering the following URL in your Internet browserhttp://et.nmsu.edu/~etti 4. The Technology Interface does not have a subscription fee. Fig. 1shows a portion of

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1998 Annual Conference

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Scott A. Stefanov; Daniel J. Pack

typically developed ona PC and then downloaded to the microcontroller. One could hardwire the robot toperform a task[3], but it is not very desirable since the robot could only perform onefunction; furthermore that would not meet the requirement of being a robot1 as defined bythe Robot Institute of America[4].The next item to be considered is the type of sensors to be used by the robot. At least twosensor applications are necessary: one to help navigate the robot through the mazewithout colliding with the walls, and the second to detect the candle light. The easiestway to detect walls is using an infrared light emitter/detector pair. The amount ofinfrared light reflected off a detected wall will determine the distance between the robotand an

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1998 Annual Conference

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Francis D. McVey; James D. Lang

experience items within the eleven ABET outcomescategories. In doing this we can see which items are more important than others to achieve in anundergraduate curriculum. For example, an overall ranking for items under the “ability to designa system, component, or process to meet desired needs” outcome yields the list shown inFigure 3.Note that circled numbers on the left are used to reflect the importance scale. Also note that thislist does not include 8 of the 18 items because it was decided not to include items where thelargest number of respondents ranked the items either 1 or 2 (i.e. low in importance). Apreliminary analysis based on these types of results may conclude: • Design skills for components, subsystems, processes, then

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1998 Annual Conference

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

, when facultynationwide bemoan the diminished emphasis on GEB, they typically allude to science and mathematics requirementsnot liberal arts requirements. This is not the case in the CSU or at Cal Poly.As structured, GEB at Cal Poly is anachronistic. It currently reflects a medieval/classical focus on English, historyand philosophy that addresses only a portion of what the truly educated college graduate should know. It does notmeaningfully address additions to the central body of human knowledge produced during the scientific revolution,and is absolutely mute with respect to technology. The GEB structure defines technical literacy in terms of an abilityto use computer programs for word processing and allows requirements for scientific

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1997 Annual Conference

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Heather Nachtmann Umphred; Kim LaScola Needy; Jerome P. Lavelle

to keep the cost low for students. In addition, there are a plethoraof engineering economic textbooks on the market. Many of these texts are quite comprehensive.Several of the best texts are revised every few years to reflect new developments and futuretrends in the body of knowledge. Faculty do, however, supplement the single textbook withother material 44% of the time. Figure 5 reflects that class notes are most regularly used as asupplement. From a pedagogical perspective, it would seem beneficial to build a “bank” of classnotes used by faculty to be shared and improved upon by all. Supplement 6% 6

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mark A. Shields

controlling AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, aswell as teams that focused on regulating ultrasound technology to reduce selective femaleabortions in India, discovered quickly in their research that deeply ingrained cultural values thatfavored males over females were crucial in understanding the nature of those problems.However, their solution proposals were not always consistent with this cross-culturalunderstanding–emphasizing more education for men and women without recognizing why men,in particular, would probably not want or accept such a critical intervention. As one of the judgeswrote in reflecting on the posters, “. . . [M]any presentations started out with some premise that everyone was assumed to agree with. For example, that it is our job as

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1997 Annual Conference

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Michael Aldaco

Not servedMiddle-income/class Served Not servedLow-income/disadvantaged Served Not servedThose whose current student selection policies seem to be reflected in Figure 1 might do well totry their hand at answering the following question: What is the justification for serving automatically a privately-schooled African American student whose father is a lawyer and whose mother is a doctor and, at the same time, excluding automatically a low-income, southeast Asian immigrant from a single parent household that is supported by welfare?It is important to note that this question was asked, not just by proponents of 209, but

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1997 Annual Conference

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James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

also given access to the Science DivisionShop which has a vertical mill, lathe, bandsaw, and drill press. To complete their prototypes, anumber of students used other off-campus facilities and equipment which was available to themthrough their engineering internships or acquaintances in the area.Individual Project ResultsThe individual projects proposed and carried out by the students during the Fall 1996 semesterare summarized in Table 2. The projects span a wide variety of topics, and each reflects theindividual interests of the student. Three students chose the default project: an entry for the1996/97 ASME student design contest. Each of these three developed his own entry.Table 2: Summary of Individual Student Projects.Student Project

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1997 Annual Conference

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P.J. Fisher; N.J. Quick; S.J. Steiner

Page 2.331.4self-assessment questionnaire, which they may wish to share with their team members. ASEE 1997 Annual Conference June 15-18, Milwaukee, WI, USATime is provided throughout the course for the students to meet, either betweenthemselves or with their mentor, to review and reflect on their performance andachievement to date, both as an individual, and as a team member. In particular, emphasisis given to the definition and follow-through of the process to achieve the task, rather thanthe task alone.On the second day, the teams rotate through three outdoor activities that fully utilise thefacilities of the

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1999 Annual Conference

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Max Rabiee

steps[1, 2, 3].Design specifications:The induction motor parameters for the design are listed below. Page 4.168.1 Source Line Voltage, V L = 480V Session 2533 Source Frequency, f = 60 HZ Motor Horse Power Rating, P M = 50HP @ 480 V, and rated speed of 1705 RPM Per-Phase Stator Coil Resistance, R 1 = 0.09078 Per-Phase Rotor Coil Resistance Reflected to the Stator, R’ 2 = 0.23791 Per-Phase Stator Coil Self Inductance, L 1 = 0.037043 H Per-Phase Rotor Coil Self Inductance Reflected to the Stator, L’ 2 = 0.037043 H

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1999 Annual Conference

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Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

Session 3225 The Design Spine: Revision of the Engineering Curriculum to Include a Design Experience each Semester Keith Sheppard and Bernard Gallois Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030The Stevens engineering curriculum was recently revised to extend the design experience toevery semester and in effect create a Design Spine. This metaphor additionally reflects the othermajor change to provide a much greater level of integration between engineering science

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1999 Annual Conference

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Lloyd Feldmann

three levels of learning,analysis, synthesis and then evaluation are difficult to accomplish during most class sessions. Anexception would be a class that actively includes an application section such as labexperimentation or a problem-solving segmentKolb [5] has characterized learning into four basic preferred styles. Each category defines amethod of learning in which a student will remain if given the opportunity. The first category isconcrete experience in which learning is based on personal experience and observation of otherpeople. The second category is reflective observation in which ideas are examined from severalpoints of view. The third is abstract conceptualization in which logical analysis and systematicplanning is utilized to

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ronald E. Barr

to guide its production. The current EDG curricula in amajority of engineering programs still reflect this serial approach to product development by relying onengineering drawings for design representation. The students may be using Computer-Aided Draftingsystems and even 3-D geometric models, but they still learn skills of a designer/detailer and end upproducing engineering drawings that are useful only in the traditional design process. There is a majorneed to conduct a nationally-based curriculum development project to establish the content andmethodology for teaching Engineering Design Graphics in the 21st Century. This proposed project isbased on the premise that 2-D drafting is no longer the central focus of the Engineering Design

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1999 Annual Conference

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Philip Doepker

could describe the entire process. For our purposes the entire process will bedefined as the assessment process with continuous improvement being the action taken after theevaluation has been made.Continuous improvement could take two forms. First, it could be the mechanism that is used toimprove the educational process. In this case changes would be made to affect student learning.The second form would be to improve the process by establishing new measures or criteria.Experience with the measurement techniques or the criteria may indicate that initial impressionsor guesses were not realistic. Through research and reflection revisions to the plan would needto be made.Continuous Improvement - ExamplesEach department reviews the results of

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

design and implement large scale Page 4.516.5software projects. In addition, the discussion with the Computer Science Departmentexpanded to include the design of a Computer Science minor which the ECE studentscould complete within the four year program. These changes are reflected in theComputer Software stem as shown in Figure 2, Lafayette College BSECE Curriculum.The BSECE Curriculum with a Computer Science minor is shown in Figure 3. It shouldalso be noted that students also receive instruction in assembly language programming inECE 212, Digital Circuits II, where micro-controllers are covered.The decision to incorporate these additional computer

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1999 Annual Conference

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Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

English communication skills are poor. The grading percentages were:Test 25%, Mini-lecture 10%, class participation 10%, Web page project 20 %, and 35% for allother assignments (5% each). The nominal A-B break point is 90%.The student assignments are designed to promote active involvement of the students. During thefirst half of the semester the students keep journals to encourage them to reflect on teaching.The journals are turned in and comments are made on their entries. As long as the journals aredone, the student automatically receives full credit (5%). As part of the session on obtaining anacademic position the students individually interview either their department head or anassistant professor in their department. They report on these

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1999 Annual Conference

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J. W. Pierre; Robert F. Kubichek; Jerry Hamann

experiencing), 2) ReflectiveObservation (watching), 3) Abstract Conceptualization (thinking), and 4) ActiveExperimentation (doing). Kolb goes on to state that students typically report themselves as beingone of four types of learners - convergers, assimilators, divergers, or accomodators. Convergersenjoy the practical application of principles and learn best from active experimentation andabstract conceptualization.Assimilators are usually more interested in the logical basis of an idea than its practicalapplication. They learn mostly by abstract conceptualization and reflective observation.Divergers tend to be creative and to generate many alternatives and they learn most easily fromconcrete experience and reflective observation. Accommodators are

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1999 Annual Conference

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Peter Rosati

types assumes that much apparently random human behaviour isreally quite orderly and consistent and reflects the different ways persons take in information andmake decisions. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a self-report instrument based on Jung’stheory of psychological types. The instrument returns the respondent’s preferences on each ofthe four dimensions extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling andjudging/perceptive. Thus the MBTI describes sixteen possible types such as INTJ, ENFP, etc.which result from the dynamic interplay of these four preferences. All types are good, all typesare normal, and none is superior to the others. However, the preferences of one type may matchthe demands of particular situations better

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1999 Annual Conference

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Christopher Field; Brian Jenkins; Deborah M. Mechtel

include attenuated traveling waves,standing waves created by reflections from different impedances, reflection and transmission ofwaves at a load impedance and propagating vector plane waves. Many of these topics may also beimplemented as student exercises to improve understanding of time dependent concepts while alsoenhancing computer skills.This software is freely available for downloading via the www sitehttp://wseweb.ew.usna.edu/ee/LINKS/EE_Links.htm (should the URL be changed, from theNaval Academy home page, select Academics, Academic Divisions and Departments, ElectricalEngineering, Links). Page 4.280.4

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1999 Annual Conference

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

wishing to specialize in mechatronics. A detailed rationale and description of MECH452 is given in the next section.It is worthwhile, at this point, to summarize the four different approaches to the subject ofMechatronics in the Canadian context: 1) present a degree program in electro-mechanical design(UBC), or 2) present an elective stream of multidisciplinary courses (Queen's), or 3) present acore stream of multidisciplinary courses (Calgary) or finally, 4) present a single elective course(McMaster). All four approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. The variety ofapproaches is a reflection of the numerous interpretations of what constitutes mechatronics.Predictably, the common element is at least one course with the title