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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

Session 1793 The VOS Data Manager: Providing Immediate Feedback on Teaching Effectiveness Patrick R. Norris1, Alene H. Harris2, Chad W. Washington1 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering/ 2 Department of Teaching and Learning Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractNew classroom assessment technologies produce large amounts of data. However, providinguseful information to instructors, who may not be familiar with coding or analytic methods,remains challenging. For the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

response to this local and national high technology workforce need.A one-of-a-kind Microelectronics Teaching Factory (MTF) has been developed in Page 9.195.2partnership with Intel, Motorola and other local partners in the semiconductor industry. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThis facility provides a unique learning environment for the students from ASU andcommunity colleges statewide who represent the future semiconductor workforce [1].By collaborating via the Teaching Factory, the partners in this

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

centralized infrastructure to serve a growing number of colleges anduniversities, corporations, professional societies, and government labs and agencies, and theirrespective students, employees, and members, all interested in advancing women in engineeringand related sciences through mentoring. These organizations provide financial support forMentorNet operations, and help to recruit prospective participants. MentorNet uses research andevaluation in its design, for continual quality improvement, and to assess preliminary outcomes.a MentorNet intentionally encourages men as well as women to serve as mentors, for several reasons: 1) there aretoo few women to meet the need, 2) women are already more frequently called upon to serve mentoring functions

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Alsaialy; Dalia Tawy; Thomas Schubert; Susan Lord

determinesemiconductor device parameters in the two laboratory courses that accompany a year-longjunior-level electronics course sequence. The electronics laboratory itself contains two transistorcurve tracers: one simple to use but limited in capability (Tektronix 571), and one more complexboth in capability and user interface (Sony/Tektronix 370). Because of the perceived difficultyin using the more complex instrument and its long learning curve, students have tended togravitate to the simpler instrument thereby creating a bottleneck in laboratory productivity. Figure 1: Tektronix 370 Curve TracerStudent hesitance to use the Tektronix 370 curve tracer is understandable. As seen in Figure 1,the user is expected to choose proper

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Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

adapt the nature and style of delivery of the course content itself to the new medium ofdelivery. This paper describes the process that was followed in transforming a traditional coursein Engineering Economic Analysis, formerly delivered with the traditional chalk-and-boardmethod, for delivery as an interactive fully online course. The issues discussed include theinstructor’s familiarization with the new technology, preparation of new course materials andvisual aids, and incorporation of computer-based tools to enhance student understanding. Thepaper also discusses the administrative procedures that were put in place to ensure smoothrunning of the course and create a positive learning experience for students.1. IntroductionEnormous challenges

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Session 1526systems are mounted on a vertical frame section above and behind the engine/motorcombination. See figure 1.Figure 1. The Physical ArrangementResults thus far have been encouraging. The engine has been operated for extended periods oftime with all instrumentation operating as anticipated.The Starting Point The engine system that was chosen began its life as a 5 horsepower, horizontal shaft, air-cooled 4-stroke Kohler Command. It had a splash-style lubrication system, venture-stylegasoline carburetor, magneto ignition, internal inertial governor, flywheel-type cooling fan andshroud, and an “easy-start” compression release system to prevent compression at speeds

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IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

Session 3557 The Impact of a Summer Institute on High School Students’ Perceptions of Engineering and Technology Tycho K. Fredericks1, Jorge Rodriguez1, Steven Butt1, Cheryl Harris2, Heather Smith3, and Norma Velasquez-Bryant4 1 Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Western Michigan University Parkview Campus Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5336 2

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

the sophomore level andtwo in the junior, to introduce students to laboratory procedures and design projects13. Thefinal laboratory, an autonomous robot, is intended to be an open-ended project that preparesstudents for a senior-level capstone design course. In the lab, students use the PIC12F675microcontroller from Microchip Technology, Inc. to create an embedded systems solution14.We found that although the robot laboratory was being completed successfully, our averagestudents were not prepared for the independent thinking required in their capstone designs.To address this issue, we identified six new goals and methods for the robot laboratory. 1. Fully custom design – As much as possible, we wanted students to have complete control

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Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ward; Robert Martinazzi

Session 3615 TEACHING LEADERSHIP WITH 10,000 WORDS Robert Martinazzi, David Ward University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractAn old adage states “Pictures are worth a thousand words.” An appropriate deductionfrom this phase can be “Movies are then worth ten thousand words.” With this basicpremise, a unique component to an Engineering Leadership class involves the studentsviewing three films, namely, “Braveheart,”1 “The Patriot,” 2 and “Gladiator.” 3 Eachfilm contains a wealth of verbal and visual leadership examples which inspire men towillingly sacrifice their lives for a “vision” greater than

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Johnson; John Weese

optional for the 2001-2002 accreditation cycle.Like the EAC and the TAC, there are ASAC General Criteria plus Program Criteria. Althoughthe descriptions differ, the title nomenclature for the ASAC General Criteria is identical to theeight EAC EC 2000 criteria, namely: Criterion 1. Students Criterion 2. Program Educational Objectives Criterion 3. Program Outcomes Assessment Criterion 4. Professional Component Criterion 5. Faculty Criterion 6. Facilities Criterion 7. Institutional Support and Financial Resources Criterion 8. Program CriteriaThere are differences for the three levels of programs. The main thrust of the criteria is orientedtowards the baccalaureate programs. The criteria for the

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

N. M. Ravindra; Jr., Anthony Culpepper; Henry McCloud; Howard Kimmel

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”academic school year studying in an environment equipped with the best science,mathematics, computer laboratories and smart classrooms in the state. The Programseeks to enhance the students' academic ability and interest in technology by providingopportunities to work on research projects with NJIT faculty and mentors by applyingscientific concepts [1]. The learning experiences consist of a five-week residential instructional andmentoring component that is designed to simulate a post-secondary undergraduateexperience. The academic component is comprised of 26 Saturday lecture andenrichment sessions. Additional contact with the students is maintained throughout theschool week by

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Daubert; Steven Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard

collaborative oral and written technical Page 9.238.1communication skills. Module content addresses how members of teams prepare oral and “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"written laboratory reports and identify and resolve issues related to writing, speaking, andinterpersonal interaction. The four modules cover the following areas: Module Session #1: Introduction to Teaming Module Session #2: Collaborative Writing and Editing Module

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Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Sanders; John Favata; David Kukulka; David Barker

College, more than 16% came from under-represented populations and the 65% of enrolled freshmen were first generation collegestudents who are qualified to receive need-based financial assistance. (See Tables 1 & 2). Page 9.689.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1. BSC Student Enrollment Data at Buffalo State CollegeEnrollmentBSC Fall 2003 Fall 2002 Fall 2001 Fall 2000Undergraduate 11,157 11,803 11,743

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Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob White; Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt

statistics should betaught to engineering undergraduate students and to undergraduate students in general. Drasticreform of introductory statistics courses has been advocated due to observations that "studentsfrequently view statistics as the worst course taken in college"1. It seems reasonable that toacquire a conceptual understanding of basic statistical concepts, the orientation of an Page 9.520.1undergraduate statistics course must change from a traditional lecture format to one that engagesstudents in active learning through "hands-on" activities. Bradstreet2 writes that, "Learning issituated in activity. Students who use the tools of their

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

synchronized entrepreneurialcurricular thread and underwriting some entrepreneurial (E-Team) team expenses associated withmaterials, establishing intellectual property, market research, travel and other up-frontinvestments. Page 9.1152.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationGoals of the ProgramThe six major goals of the Senior Design Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Program areto: 1. Provide an experiential learning environment to undergraduate engineering students for transforming

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

of some concern. These, ofcourse, tend to be particularly acute in large student-number programs. Evidence showing asimple but effective approach to help counter this is also shown.1. IntroductionThe following describes in some detail the salient features of modern ABET-accreditedundergraduate programs in electrical engineering (EE) and computer engineering (CpE)currently in operation. The CpE program is modern in every sense in that it was introducedrelatively recently and was submitted for accreditation for the very first time in the Fall of 1999and, after attention to identified weaknesses, awarded full ABET accreditation under the newEC2000 criteria in 2002. Both programs are also modern in the sense that their overall structurewas

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

; internships, co-ops andundergraduate research opportunities; scholarship information; and study and test taking skills.During a day and half long training session, mentors are provided with a resource handbook thatthey can use for each of the sessions. The mentor team meets for one hour each week with thedirector of MAPS to obtain additional training, discuss students’ progress, resolve issues beforethey become problems, and identify opportunities for improvement.More than one hundred students participate in peer mentoring through MAPS each year.Strategic marketing and generous word-of-mouth advertising by students have exceededexpectations relative to demand. Figure 1 provides the number of participants since theprogram’s inception in 1996

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Bliven; Elizabeth Eschenbach

How Things Work: A Physical Science Workshop for K-8th Grade Teachers. Wesley W. Bliven, Elizabeth A. Eschenbach Physics, Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a physical science workshop for K-8th grade teachers that has been offeredthe past 3 years as part of the Redwood Science Project at Humboldt State University. TheRedwood Science Project is one of 18 sites of the California Science Project. The goals of theHow Things Work workshop are: 1) to increase the level of physical science content knowledgeof K-8th grade teachers, 2) to increase the level of

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

the students who enter our discipline are lessfamiliar—and less comfortable—than their humanities and social science peers with reflectiveprocesses that require introspection and that often increase rather than resolve ambiguity anduncertainty. The highly technical nature of much engineering content also makes the process ofestablishing community partnerships and projects that are closely linked to academic materialmore difficult than in some disciplines. The task, therefore, is three-fold: 1) to identifycommunity issues—such as environmental issues—that pose technical challenges and requiretechnical and technological expertise, 2) to support students, instructors, and community partnersalike in the process of applying the knowledge and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Slack

atthe assessments of the students done by the teachers during a course, an evaluator could come tosome conclusions about the quality of teaching being done.The old method is adequate for capturing the outcomes that are directly related to what is nowcalled Criterion 1 Subsection A. The new criteria are more specific about what should bemeasured and this new specificity is captured in Criterion 1 Subsections B-K Criteria. The newcriteria also require assessment data to be presented in a new form, summarized and collatedaccording to the program outcomes; i.e., the new criteria require alignment between the statedoutcomes of a program and the curriculum being taught. It is these outcomes that requireassessment, and not the sometimes nebulous

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wyrick

Manufacturing Engineering program at Luleå University ofTechnology in Sweden [1].LUT has approximately 11,000 students and is situated in Luleå, a city of about 80,000. It islocated in northern Sweden, about the same latitude as Fairbanks, Alaska, but the weather ismore similar to Minnesota due to the Gulf Stream. The Norbotten region of Sweden producessteel, paper, and a variety of manufactured goods. Luleå is a major port on the Baltic Sea’s Gulfof Bothnia. UMD has approximately 10,000 students and Duluth, a major seaport on the GreatLakes, has a population of approximately 90,000. The similarities in physical geography,population, recreation, and industries are striking. A map of Sweden showing Luleå is given inFigure 1. Figure 1. Luleå is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilkat S. Soysal; Oguz Soysal

have either physically transferred toUMCP or switched to related majors such as Physics and Computer Science as a result ofthis frustration. On the other hand, the survivors take advantage of the informationtechnology more than traditional students and can develop distance communication andteleconferencing skills, which they will eventually need in their career to work withremote partners.CurriculumThe catalog description of contents and prerequisites of electrical engineering courses atFSU are identical to the courses with the same catalog numbers offered at the Electricaland Computer Engineering department of the University of Maryland. Figure 1 shows thecomposition of the EE curriculum in terms of credit hours offered by FSU and UMCP fora

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

the lesson content and context of a lesson on a keyboard in addition to details about extenuating in-class circumstances and additional observations. Finally, the Global Ratings (GR) note the presence or absence of classroom occurrences. Although the CIO, SEO, and NN data are recorded sequentially and cyclically throughout a class period, GR data is recorded once near the end of a class period. Using real-time data collected from the Global Ratings portion of the VOS for bioengineering faculty over several semesters, this study will explore the presence or absence of the following within observed classrooms: 1) faculty’s signaling

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

, molecular-scale, and atomic-scale technologies that are at the forefront of chemicalengineering research.1 This curriculum would replace a significant portion of the macro-scaletechnology that has been taught in chemical engineering for most of its history as a professionwith multi-scale technology, while retaining a sufficient amount of the traditional technology topermit teaching and learning of manufacturing. Traditional course titles may change, reflecting arearrangement of topics based on length scales.1In any new curriculum paradigm, there will still be a need for a capstone experience. In the newcurriculum paradigm, the capstone experience may include design of a product at multiplescales, from the product at the atomic through the colloid

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach

Page 9.644.2weighs approximately 250 pounds and fits in the bed of a large pickup truck. When filled, 100 Session 1392gallons of water is circulated with a 1.0 HP pump.A single sheet of Plexiglas is used to separate twosix-inch wide channels as shown in Figure 1.Children can adjust the slope of the channels usinga hand air jack. They can control the flow rate ofeach channel by opening or closing the sluice gatesat the headworks. Students adjust the outflow rateusing chains on hinged doors at the tailgate.Service Learning and Peer MentoringAs mentioned above, a detailed presentation of theService Learning and peer mentoring activitiesincorporated in the

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

ofinstrumentation and measurement of thermal systems, and their comprehension of therelationship between the theoretical concepts and physical systems. Rather than requiringstudents to perform a lab practical exam at the end of the semester based on the wide variety oflaboratory experiments and analyses throughout the semester, projects were developed as anintegrated approach to evaluate student learning in the lab portion of the course.Project DevelopmentThe basic structure of the projects involves students working in small teams to complete a simpleopen-ended project over approximately twelve weeks. Table 1 outlines the typical projectschedule and shows the deliverables at each stage. Week one of the project corresponds to the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

delivery of writing instruction within the context of regularengineering coursework. By introducing the importance and relevance of technicalcommunication at the beginning of each student’s academic career, in a required engineeringcourse, we are able to overcome the skepticism many young engineers have about how muchwriting they will need to do. They don’t need to come to us, something they incorrectly assumeis unnecessary; we go to them.IntroductionThe most effective strategy for teaching technical writing is open to debate. The options can beboiled down to four lines of attack. 1. Technical Writing Course: Students can be required to take an introductory technicalwriting course, where they learn the fundamentals of the discipline by

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

square element ofmaterial belonging to a solid structural member is subjected to the normal stresses sx and sy anda shearing stress txy as shown in Figure 1. In this problem, the normal stress s and shear stress t acting on an inclined surface AB is to be computed together with the maximum andminimum normal and shearing stresses acting on the element. uy A v xy ux ux s

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

chosen from mathematics, chemistry and physics.Implicit in this curriculum requirement is that these courses are fundamentally important tostudents’ success in engineering, as they develop the basic tools of mathematics and scientific Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.670.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1: List of core science courses taken by engineering students at UF Group Abbreviation Course Description Calc1

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams; Erick Jones

, poor customer relationships, or even sabotage.Finally, indirect “opportunity” costs encompass lowered employee commitment, such as a lack ofdiscretionary effort, commitments outside the job, time spent talking about the problem ratherthan working, and loss of creativity.1 Mental health experts estimated that up to 15 percent of executives and managers weresuffering from depression or critical levels of stress that would eventually affect job performance.The most recent estimate is that stress-related problems and mental illness is costing business$150 billion annually in health insurance and disability claims, lost productivity, and otherexpenses.1 To adequately address the problem the phenomenon of CT must be measured