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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

grade level, applicationof the engineering design process through redesign and design projects, student teaching ofengineering topics, and team development of interdisciplinary engineering curricula. Pre- andpost-workshop student surveys indicate that the intended learning outcomes of the workshopwere met. The experience positively impacted how students viewed engineering and theirintentions for including it in their teaching.INTRODUCTION “Most people think that technology is little more than the application of science to solve practical problems…They are not aware that modern technology is the fruit of a complex interplay between science, engineering, politics, ethics, law, and other factors. People who operate under

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

Institutional Transformation. In this project, 26 colleges anduniversities sought to accomplish institution-wide changes on their campuses. Theirstudy of six of these institutions found that change processes “at each institution wereclearly influenced by deeply embedded patterns of behavior, expectations, values, andbeliefs about how that institution function[ed]”19. Leaders at each institution had to“craft” change strategies that “fit” their institutional cultures. The culture was themodifying element of the change process, and was manifested in the people within theorganization.20From a case study of a state college, Tierney21 developed a framework to diagnoseorganizational culture in order to understand management and organizationalperformance. His

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

The Research Communications Studio as a Tool for Developing Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering C. Long, E. Alford, J. Brader, L. Donath, R. Johnson, C. Liao, T. McGarry, M. Matthews, R. Spray, N. Thompson, and E. Vilar University of South CarolinaAbstractThe NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) project at the University of SouthCarolina, responding to groundbreaking theories in How People Learn, is among the firstattempts to measure students’ responses to research-based learning in a distributed cognitionenvironment. As an alternative to the unguided research scenario often encountered by part-timeundergraduate researchers, the project

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

led to thedevelopment of assessment tools and strategies package. These were adopted for common useby all programs with each one at liberty to modify or be selective about the recommendedmethods or tools. The package contained an outcomes assessment matrix, an assessmentstrategies matrix, and various custom-designed assessment forms for integrating ethics, oral andwritten reports, teamwork, peer evaluation, course/project evaluations, exit survey, alumnisurvey, employer survey, and internships. Felder and Brent11 have also reported on a strategy forintegrating program-level and course-level activities to fulfill the ABET criteria.Principal Drivers for ChangePeggy L. Maki12, Director of Assessment, AAHE, stated, “All too frequently higher

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

laboratoryexperiments.The paper presents a "proof-of-concept" remote-controlled experiment developed by IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (former the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research) for the FluidsLab of the College of Engineering (CoE) at The University of Iowa (UI) through an InstructionalComputing Awards project sponsored by the UI’s Academic Technology Advisory Council. Theinteractive real-time fluid viscosity experiment allows individuals or groups of students toinitiate, conduct, and conclude measurements using physical hardware located in a remotelaboratory from practically any place, at any time, replicating step-by-step the experimentalprocedures used in the classroom. The experiment is housed at a dedicated website,http://vfl.iihr.uiowa.edu/atac

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

undergraduate engineering education5, 6, 8, 9. In fact, Dr. Kauler states, “Engineers areprimarily goal-oriented, and a language is a tool to achieve the goal. The tool should do so aseasily and quickly as possible. A project should not become bogged down in the distractions of alanguage’s intricacies, yet this is often what happens. The learning curve for a language is an Page 9.1403.2important factor as is the poor retention of learning due to infrequency use of a language. Thelatter phenomenon is a common problem for engineers, who tend not to spend all of their time Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

drafts at intervals. Deadlines are important to keep studentshonest and on track. Completion of smaller pieces of work makes a large project more feasible without cheating.Many instructors have warned that it is important to revise tests frequently and have several versions available. Webcourseware allows for test questions to be selected randomly, so that several test versions can be created easily.Instructors can monitor test beginning and submission times for collaborators using the authoring software. There isanother approach used 40 years ago at a mid-western university. The tests were so incredibly hard, that even sellinglast year’s final through the local bookstore didn’t benefit students much. It did recover the department’s

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

courses in the previous semester: EAS Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering Education107, Introduction to Engineering and EAS 109, Project Planning and Development, as well asone semester of General Chemistry, Calculus I (or precalculus) and English Composition.For most students, EAS112 replaces a combination of spreadsheet applications (1 credit) and Cprogramming (2 or 3 credits). Engineering students in several majors at UNH have haddifficulty with the C programming courses, and very few have chosen to use C when solvingproblems in subsequent engineering courses . Our experience in this regard is consistent

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

paper will discuss the approach used to conducta successful program, using only mentored undergraduate students to design, develop andoperate small satellites of nano-satellite and micro-satellite size. All of these satelliteshave Air Force and DoD space experiments as their mission.II. BackgroundThe USAF Academy started experimenting with small satellites via cadet-builtprototypes that were “launched” on high altitude balloons. These projects gave thestudents immediate, hands-on experience and allowed the Astronautics Department togradually evolve the curriculum to accommodate increasingly more ambitious spaceprojects. This initial development culminated in the launch of FalconGold in October1997. FalconGold was a 15 Kg fixed, secondary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

from that point (also a common practice)will duplicate the fundamental shortcoming of the simple algorithm (searching the problem spacefor numbers whose paired factor is not an integer). The next most likely factors are 3 and its pair,and many integers between S/2 and S/3 will needlessly be tested if the process begins at S/2.Starting low is still the best approach, and those students who realize this have learned thematerial well.Summary and ConclusionsBoth the similarities and differences between the primality project and this “greatest factor”programming exam question make them a synergistic package. The academic value of thismodule may be measured quantitatively through exam scores; high scores will indicate solidmastery of the subject

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

met once at the end of the semester to present the final design projects. An optional brief meeting at the beginning of the semester was also held to go over the Blackboard tutorial and course syllabus similar to the ones in the traditional format, as well as for testing purposes. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing were offered through the Internet. The course used Blackboard as the course delivery platform. Test questions were drawn from the same test bank used for the traditional section. • Traditional section (Mixed Mode): A separate section of this course was offered using a mix of traditional and Online based delivery means

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

tasks; scaffolding; cognitive apprenticeship;learner control; and non-linear instruction3. It therefore encourages collaborative learning andteam-building. The intention of the subject library is for the students to perform guidedexperiments and discover the answers to their questions. More details about the library conceptare provided in another paper4.ContentThe Experiential Engineering Library collections will allow students to study problems ofinterest in emerging fields that come from a number of sources including: faculty research,senior capstone design course projects, commercially developed educational tools, and donationsfrom industrial partners. Our Mechanical Engineering faculty includes experts in smart materialsand nanomaterials

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher C. Ibeh; Marjorie Donovan; Oliver Hensley; James Otter

serves as the Project Director-Designate and Principal Investigatorfor CUES-AMD

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia Morse; Jung Oh

session to aid individual follow up missed during class Module: projects Show samples of student Students view the sample and get samples by peer creative project as show case some ideas to expand Figure 3. Table summarizing goals and outcomes of online-hybrid course material. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceWhile a teaching portfolio is best understood when viewed as a whole, the examination of certainsections can stimulate ideas for content and formatting of summary information.Figure 3 provides an example of the use of a table to structure and summarize various coursematerial developments, their intended effects, and

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

, entropy, specific heat atconstant volume, and the specific heat at constant pressure for twelve chemical species ofthe carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen (CHON) system. The MathCAD functions weremade available for students in ME 448/548 Internal Combustion Engines to use in theirhomework and projects. The CHON functions were generated to ease the complicationof using tabulated data for ideal gas properties and were used by the students to easilydetermine aspects of combustion such as the heat of combustion of a fuel, adiabatic flametemperature, equilibrium constant, and equilibrium compositions of reacting ideal-gasmixtures. The details and usage of the CHON-MathCAD functions are discussed, andspecific examples of their application to problems in an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

insights. For example, usinga process simulator, one can create a detailed model of an isothermal reactor and use it tosolve many textbook problems, but never realize how difficult it is to design and build areactor that is truly isothermal. For these reasons, we are developing wet-lab experimentsthat complement the computer experiments.Since time, space and money limit the number of wet-lab experiments that can beincluded, the intent of this project is to design two experiments that, between them, meetas many pedagogical goals as possible.Previous WorkAn experiment investigating the following competitive-parallel reaction scheme hasalready been developed:(1) H2BO3- + H+ ↔ H3BO3(2) 5I- + IO3

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

solved.• Since the computer does the grading, after problems are coded, demand on the instructor’s out-of-class time would decrease.Previous offerings of EGTE 321 used WebCT for posting of course materials and assignmentsand for group discussion features. Though it was possible to use LON-CAPA for these purposes,to ease transition effort, the instructor continued to use WebCT for its posting and discussionfeatures and used LON-CAPA for its homework system features only. The first two-thirds of thecourse were devoted to development of analysis and design skills in hydraulics and hydrologythat would be needed for a team project requiring the detailed design of storm-water

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

theimplementations, especially as experienced by the students, including preliminary data onimmediate student outcomes as documented for Fall 2003. The project is part of a three-yearNational Science Foundation sponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement -Educational Materials Development project with faculty partners from colleges of engineering at " Page 9.460.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIowa, Iowa State, Cornell and Howard universities along

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

process that projects the need for IT workers to grow to 146,000 by 2008, a 90% in-crease over 1998 figures 1. National figures also predict an increased need for workers in the ITfield. Most studies show that the greatest need is for people who constitute the researchers, crea-tors and designers of the new and advancing technologies. Page 9.1121.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Cycles of layoffs and shortages have been the labor market reality for technical profession-als in recent

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

real-process applications, charts, diagrams,hands-on practices, and demonstrations beside theory, equations, and words.(15,22-26) An effectiveteaching technique should engage students actively, stimulate sense of enquiry, and facilitatecollaborative learning, through, for example, group work.(22-32) In group-work activity, two orthree students can apply a newly learned concept in a short application, such as problem solving,which promotes problem-based learning.(22,25,29,30) Group-design projects, in-class presentations,computer simulations, experiments, would be part of the active learning and deep learning.(28-33)This would enhance the skill of transferring knowledge in higher order within a course or acrosscourses.(15,16) Some current

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

seeking or pursuing academic science andengineering careers. To that end, MentorNet is developing specialized components of its One-on-One Mentoring Program, enabling one-on-one mentoring relationships based on 1) matchinggraduate students and postdoctoral scholars with tenured faculty members as mentors (beginningin fall of 2003), and 2) matching untenured faculty with tenured faculty mentors (beginning infall of 2004). MentorNet will develop a comprehensive approach for this project, withprogrammatic features tailored to the needs of the specific protégé-mentor populations.Since the first matches in this new program were made in September 2003, participatingindividuals have not completed this eight month program, and thus evaluation results are

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

].In order to address these instructional challenges, a group at the University of Missouri – Rollahas developed a series of multimedia modules, as part of a large scale multi-year project tointroduce media-enhanced active learning into foundational classes in engineering [2-6]. Researchthus far has indicated that these modules can be used to enhance instruction in a number of ways.They can be effective as an adjunct to class in the form of homework [7], or even as a substitute Page 9.237.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

. Automated email notifications inform all involvedpersonnel of changes in participant enrollment or event cancellation.The website was designed on a development-production server setup using MacromediaDreamweaver and ColdFusion technology, accessing a SQLserver database. The database wascreated with scalability in mind for use in upcoming semesters/years. With slight modifications,the website could certainly accommodate disciplines/departments outside of the School ofEngineering.The entire web-based, database accessible project was created from the ground up within threemonths with two full-time designer/programmers. A third programmer was brought in to assistwith the final-stage alterations and enhancements. The main lesson learned from this

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

documented resourcefor those students from other disciplines searching the web for information, as was thecobra module. Because the topics are modularized, the instructors can pick and choosethe ones they want to include in any particular termAcknowledgements The funding of this project is provided by NSF under the grant DUE-0126497.We would like to thank our collaborators Prof. Will Medlin, Siris Laursen, Dr. DucNguyen, Anna Gordon and Michael Breson.References1. Dutton, J., Dutton, M. and Perry, J. Do on-line students perform as well as lecture students. Journal of Engineering Education 90, 131-136 (2001).2. Edwards, C. and Fritz, J. H. Evaluation of three on-line delivery approaches. Paper presented at the 1997 Mid-South

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebeca G. Book; William Pfannenstiel

Committee provides a link to Ethics Resources and Organizations. __ IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology http://radburn.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/ssit/default.htm “The scope of the society includes such issues as environmental, health and safety implications of technology; engineering ethics and professional responsibility; history of electrotechnology; technical expertise and public policy; peace technology; and social issues related to energy, information technology and telecommunications.”Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference __ The ASME Professional Practice Curriculum

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth; David Kunz

Asking Better Questions – Making Connections Through Developing Inquisitiveness John Mirth, Ph.D. David Kunz, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 “Could it be the questions tell us more than the answers ever do?” – Michael CardAbstract: The nature of engineering education tends to put students in a problem-solvingenvironment. Given a particular challenge, the student becomes focused on obtaining asolution to some homework problem, exam question, lab experiment, design project or othertask. Such exercises provide

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Anoop K. Dhingra; Al Ghorbanpoor; Joe Rauter

et al. (1997)describe the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership project that was sponsored byDepartment of Defense’s Technology Reinvestment Program. They show that all constituentsinvolved in the program: students, faculty and industrial partners, benefited from theacademic/industrial interaction. The impact of the interaction described was essentially on thecurriculum, but it suggests benefits to the industrial partners beyond the involvement ofundergraduate students.The Graduate Internship Program (GIP) discussed in the paper is different from the partnershipsdiscussed above in the sense that we do not transfer research results from academia to theindustry. Instead, we are uniquely developing the research technology at the

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

need to reduce global-warming gas emissionsthrough more efficient and cleaner engine designs.Engine DesignThe engine is a 5 HP, overhead valve, four-cycle, recoil start, reciprocating engine with ahorizontal shaft. The stock engine includes a float carburetor. The prototype setup demonstratesthe feasibility of this approach for incorporating small engines into an undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. The project execution will occur in several phases in order to provide experiencewith the equipment at progressive stages of additional instrumentation and power absorbingattachments and to minimize initial cash outlay. The current intention is to replicate thedeveloped prototype in order to provide enough units for three or four students per

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

construction of a prototype, a group of business students enrolled in MGMT 301,“Project Management,” conducted a market study during Summer 2003 to assess the marketpotential of OPTX. A letter survey was sent to 100 private and public middle-school teachers inthree geographic (rural, suburban, and urban) areas of Michigan. Forty-nine responses werereceived (49% return rate). Sixteen percent of the respondents have taught between 1-to-5 years,31% 6-to-10 years, 22% 11-to-15 years, and 24% 16 years or more.The major findings of the survey were: 1. All respondents agreed a new approach is needed to teach light reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission; 2. 90% of all respondents stated OPTX would be useful for multiple lessons; 3. 12

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Fisher

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe traditional way. The demonstrations, lab exercises and projects, and field trips that thestudents planned and carried out were outstanding. One student had been an automobilemechanic. He showed the class various sensors and actuators typically found on cars anddemonstrated how they worked. One of the labs was about building electric motors out ofcommon materials found around the house. One project culminated with a tournament of battlerobots. (No, the instructor did not win.) Team-built electric cars were raced up and down thehallway. They built a miniature fire truck that actually pumped water from an external tank andsquirted it out a “water cannon