Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

group problem solving strategy. They should be able to recognize and contribute to therelationship of the engineering enterprise in the socio-economic context. The development of themotivation, knowledge base, and intellectual capability for career-long learning is important.Some of the approaches to enable students to learn how to “work smarter” are: 1. Interdisciplinary, vertically integrated real design projects 2. Collaboration with colleges of arts and sciences, business and medicine in curriculum development 3. Coupling between engineering technology & engineering programs that emphasize complementary and evolving roles in the workplace 4. Experiments in professional master’s degree 5

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Petro Gogolyuk; Ilya Grinberg

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering Education4. Example of implementation in student projectStudents are assigned a senior design project, which involves preliminary design considerationsfor an industrial facility. Such tasks as demand calculation, selection of electrical apparatus,feeder sizing, fault analysis, voltage quality calculations, relay protection, economical analysisare performed. Detailed demand calculations are assigned for one building while calculations forother buildings are performed using the simplified method (demand factor). Students carry outcalculations using such software tools as Mathcad® and Excel®. Sequence of operations ispresented below. The data used are from an assignment for

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

principles by allowing students todemonstrate what they have learned. In the development process, they engage in synthesis,documentation, self-assessment, and reflection on their learning experiences. The Collegerequires students to track and provide evidence of their significant learning experiences. Tofacilitate this process, students take special courses to learn how to collect pieces of evidenceselected from classroom projects and out-of-class activities. Students provide evidence of theirachievement by creating an electronic portfolio reflecting their learning experiences. Eachstudent’s electronic portfolio is a collection of her work, which allows her to demonstrateacademic achievement and personal growth, and also record her progress over

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

can help students learn to take control of their own learning by defining learning goals and monitoring their progress in achieving them.We feel that helping students to take control of their learning and develop ownership of contentis key not only to effective learning, but also to developing an interest in physics. We try toempower students in a number of ways including: Making student group discussions a focus of learning, Requiring projects that allow increasing freedom for student-directed learning as the course progresses, Requiring students to develop laboratory extensions, Encouraging extra-credit self-directed laboratory investigations, Requiring students to write and share reflections on

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hart; Mike Williams; George Grandle; Alvin Womac

the window size topresent the technical material would be greater for a typical web site compared to theinstruction software. Investigation of high-end, web-based instructional software packagesrevealed the importance of faculty involvement in the selection process of university-supported packages, and this was in hindsight since the expensive package was pre-selected before this project started. The ability to easily share entered information amongvarious software brands and/or versions should comply with Shareable Content ObjectReference Model (SCORM) criterion. Further, an asynchronous course offering wasprioritized to maximize flexibility in student involvement. The primary course objectivewas to educate pesticide applicators, regulators

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

to think like mechanicalengineers6. In the past decade, Mechanical Engineering and English faculty together havedeveloped several active-learning, communication-rich projects. Mechanical engineeringstudents have written informal five-minute essays at the beginning or end of each class5; haveenrolled jointly in ENGL 314 - Technical Writing and ME 313 - Instrumentation andMeasurements, in which both teachers designed and graded joint assignments and attended eachothers classes to learn the language and conventions of each discipline6 ; and have submitted theirwritings in the ME 400 - Senior Seminar to an English graduate student for critique beforerevising them for the ME professor who grades it. Our long association in jointly developingCAC

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

Electricity Markets, CRC Press, ISBN 0849308135). It was pointed outthat while the press identifies Louisiana as a state that has not yet provided customer choice,Louisiana has been profoundly affected by competition involving non-utility generators and utilitygeneration providers. A senior manager from the local electric utility company spoke to the classabout these issues and provided data on future projections for power generation installations andtransmission system requirements.The students were asked to identify other current public policy issues and prepare issue briefsconcerning these issues. Some of the subjects covered included the debate about governmentfunding for high speed rail transportation and government efforts to prevent future

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

) Dramatically inflating/padding project costs (Extremely Often, 5) Misuse of project funds (Very Often, 4).Observations regarding variation by demographic factors (gender, P.E. status, year group, andprogram - data available from 1st author) include:• Those with PE or EIT status tended to rate frequency of occurrence of events higher than non-PE/EIT respondents (Overall Mean of 1.90 compared to 1.78). Table 4 shows the eleven items with the largest difference (greater than ± 0.25). In nine cases the PE/EIT group indicated higher frequency and in two cases lower frequency. Page 8.176.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

students to questions offered forstudying were issued. A commission on the project of courses development was created. Wellknown teachers took part in it. The program of courses was a new word in national didactics.It was notable for the depth of the contents and for careful reasonableness in selection of ateaching material, and it was precisely oriented to the audience. In 1903-04 yearsI.M.Sechenov delivered lectures on anatomy and physiology 6. He spoke with delight aboutthe pedagogical skill of teachers. Recollecting a teaching manner of the chemistM.I.Konovalov, Sechenov wrote: "In my life I have never heard such a skilful adaptation ofserious reading to the intellectual level of the audience. Obviously, lectures were conceivedand executed so

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

institution has continued to cohort a number of their students for two or morecourses each semester after the FC pilot was institutionalized, in an effort to create Page 8.680.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright ©2003 American Society for Engineering Educationenvironments that would better facilitate learning and provide greater personal supportfor students.The purpose of this study was to understand how both students and faculty experiencethese inclusive learning communities within the Foundation Coalition. The project wasconducted by a team of qualitative researchers made up

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Donald Elger

7. 7.) Documentation: Scenario 8 8.) Verbal Explanation of a Scientific Concept: Scenario 9In the above list, “Scientific Concepts,” was assessed using three scenarios in order to provideadditional data for estimating reliability. Scenario selection was based on our prior experiences. In particular, we selected specificperformances that have been problematic for students. For example, we have used severaldesign projects that involve a battery (see scenario 6 in Table 1) and noted that most junior levelmechanical engineering students fail dismally (unless we tell them how) in their attempts toperform calculations that will allow them to size a battery to meet power requirements and life-time needs. Similarly, the “yo-yo” problem

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

the further development and improvement of the program. • The outcomes important to the mission of the institution and the objectives of the program are being measured.Examples of evidence that can be used in assessment documentation are student portfolios,including design projects; nationally normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys thatdocument professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and Page 8.134.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

. 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 6,7,8 hair dryers and electric toothbrushes 9. Using commonproducts with which the students are already familiar is thought to present a framework withinwhich new concepts can be introduced.Recently, a new engineering system was added to the list of familiar products for reverse-engineering investigation: the human body. This incredible machine can be explored usingengineering measurements and analyzed using engineering principles. Basic physiologicresponses are already familiar to students through “common

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engineering courses are given as electives in the senior year the student is veryunfamiliar with this material.The electrochemical engineering course developed a Rowan University has been designed tointroduce various topics of electrochemical engineering through an integration of experiments,projects, homework and lectures.Current Electrochemical Engineering Education within Chemical EngineeringIn many cases aspects of electrochemical engineering have been regulated to subsections ofstandard texts such as in Perry’s 7th Edition of the Chemical Engineering Handbook. Arelatively small section on fuels cells under the title, Electrochemical Energy Conversion (6

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

feel that they were misleading in this respect.Question: Did they ask you to have that background coming in?Student 2: If I had been a design coop in our department that would have been a requirement.But I was under product support, so I did a lot more product testing and improvement ofproducts instead of designing. The coop in my department already had mechanics and otherthings so it wasn’t a requirement for my job specification.Student 1: My first project was an electric actuator – It would have been a lot more helpful if Iwould have had an actual course in electronics or electrical engineering or something like that.I learned a lot as I went.Student 6: Sitting there listening to my supervisor tell me all the material properties

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Society for Engineering Educationlearning activities” scored 4.93 in AY 01-1, and 4.90 in AY 02-1 (Figure 2). All of these scoresare between the ‘agree’ and the ‘strongly agree’ response, demonstrating that the studentsconsidered the course to be very well developed and structured. The difference between theseresponses for the two semesters was statistically insignificant. Overall, the students rated thecourse structure and the classroom instruction equally highly both semesters (Table 2 and Figure2). Student Responses A6. My motivation to learn and to continue learning has increased because of this course. B3. The homework assignments, papers, and projects in this course could be

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdel Mazher

classrooms and labs. Other obstacles include writingcourses, class materials and lab materials that apply the unified concept. In addition to thatdeveloping suitable methods to measure the performance of students' progress is a major issue.Methods of writing the tests, the exams and the homework, consistent with the objectives of thecourses, for evaluation procedures should be addressed.10. ConclusionsThis paper is the first phase of an ambitious project that intends to change the way of conductingteaching, research and research training for undergraduate students of engineering and science.The ultimate goal of the paper is the curriculum development of engineering education to trainstudents to use the basic tools of research as an integrated

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

ok but I just remembered to do it as I was going to bed. Everything seems to be going ok for me in class. I seem to be understanding the material just fine, maybe a minor thing or two that I don't get but you usually clear things up in class. The project seems to be going ok, assuming I can get some numbers from work, which shouldn't be a problem. Well, that’s about all I have. See you in class on Tues.3. Some students, especially in the computer class, had skills in an area that was being taught.The instructor could then increase the pace of instruction rather than dwell on topics that werefamiliar. Students will often not admit in class that something was covered in high schoolclasses, but were willing to

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

precisely to the needs of engineering faculty. Section 3 then provides an in-depthdescription of the overall system and its key components. Page 8.260.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 11732.0 Designing for engineers: a user-centered approachThe INCA project was motivated by the observation that, despite the availability of a wide varietyof web authoring tools, engineering faculty are

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay K. Martin; Jay Martin; Dayle K. Haglund; Jennifer Kushner

have suggested that efforts to foster change in higher educationmust be holistic in approach. In this context, holistic means that the process must consider allaspects of the educational experience, not just the objectives and outcomes, but the pedagogyitself as well as the history of the discipline. Most importantly, they reinforce our ideas that forpositive, reflective, and continual curricular change to occur a department must engage in buildinga philosophy of practice to support their work.Consistent with the EC2000 objectives, one of the objectives for this project was and is todevelop a methodology for use by an engineering department that would result in the followingprocesses. First, the department would engage in regular and

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

Mandatory 5 3 0 8 2.66 Volunteer 3 6 1 10 2.13 None 5 22 1 28 3.37 Total 13 31 2 46 2.97Program ChoiceLike a number of engineering schools, we have a common freshman year. All students take thesame curriculum and do not choose a department until the end of their second term. A number ofactivities and assignments have been incorporated into the first year to enable students to make aninformed department choice. These include library projects, departmental visits

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Graphics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dioselin Gonzalez; Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

collaboration to business while making it easier to users [3.1].Project goalWith this system the author wanted to go beyond traditional ICE applications towardsContextual Collaboration to enhance the collaborative experience. The focus of theproject became the development a system that could be used for sharing geometric datathat originated in a CAD system among non-engineering participants in a media richenvironment.A plausible use for this tool could be the following: A marketing person from a company that manufactures pistons would like to show his products to a prospective client. He does not only want to show off the product, but also to receive feedback on it. He would like to show a 3D model rendered in real-time, some

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Haque

) 7. Kocijancic, S. and O’Sullivan, C. “Integrating virtual and true laboratory in science and technology education” the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session T2E, Boston, MA, (2002) 8. EERI On Line Exclusive: http://www.eeri.org/earthquakes/Reconn/AdanaExclusive/AdanaExclIndex.htmlMOHAMMED E. HAQUE, Ph.D., P.E.Dr. Mohammed E. Haque is an Associate Professor of the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&MUniversity at College Station, Texas. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in analysis, design, andinvestigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural projects of various city and state governments and privatesectors. Dr. Haque is a registered Professional

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

information into the program. All data and design parameters that arerequired are taken from charts and graphs that are prompted while running the program. Thestudent does not need to reference the textbook to select information from a chart or table. Thesoftware organizes all the design parameters and information for the student. The program alsoincludes design problems and applications for the student to solve. These problems are found inthe Projects/Problems form.II. Bearing Design ProgramThe bearing design program assist the students in learning how to size and select a single row ballbearing. The program has the user start off by selecting a bearing based on the diameter of theshaft needed and the series size of the bearing2. The inexperienced

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Bullard

the products they use every day and the chemical engineering behind them.These demonstrations were developed and implemented at North Carolina State University bythe author between 2000-2002 as part of SITE (Student Introduction To Engineering), a week-long program for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors sponsored by the College ofEngineering. The demonstrations have also been implemented in the week-long Alcoa SummerEngineering Academy at Centennial Middle School in Raleigh, NC for middle school students,as well as the day-long Expanding Your Horizons conference at North Carolina State Universityfor seventh grade girls.COOKIE DEMONSTRATIONPrior To The Demo: • Identify the location of the baking project. Ideally the location

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

, American Society for Engineering Education”Lectured material must be reinforced using descriptive handout material, thoughtprovoking homework exercises, creative laboratory assignments, exhaustiveresearch-reports, interesting project demonstrations, animated audio-visual aids,productive web-search data and the like. Students must be required andencouraged to participate in a variety of different activities that promote learning.The author utilized most of the above-mentioned techniques to deviate from atraditional lecture format.First, the students were required to read the assigned topic (for example, ‘FilterDesign’) before participating in a lecture class. This results in a population oflearners that are indeed well prepared to discuss the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

such as Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, ImageProcessing, Signal Processing and Statistics for data analysis and advanced controlapplications.The computation engine of MATLAB has been integrated with mechanism designcapability of Working Model to simulate a variety of motion control tasks. The ImageProcessing toolbox is being utilized for offline verification of computer vision tasksassociated with the integrated Robot-Vision system from ADEPT. It has also beenintegrated with the project requirement of the “Introduction to MATLAB” course offeredby the principal author to sophomore engineering students. Images acquired by a remoteimaging system mounted on a tethered blimp are utilized. This blimp based remoteimaging system has been developed by

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Haishan Zheng; Jason Keith

-based instructional tools may improve the motivation of students, which could bea significant factor in achieving student success. Page 8.1294.1This paper will describe four JAVA applets developed for simulation of basic heat and Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmass transfer processes. These applets are a part of “Web Instructional Tools forEngineering,” a one year project funded by the Michigan Space Grant Consortium.These four JAVA applets were to be developed with two goals in mind: to be visualenough to

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks; Laura Ford

competition was intended to be educational, several changes were made withrespect to team formation and ethical conduct. In the AIChE competition, faculty and graduatestudents may act only as sounding boards. In this event, teachers or advisors could assist thestudents with ideas (including specifying which reaction to use). This allowed the teachers tobetter integrate the project into their curriculum. The design and construction of the cars was tobe done primarily by the students. As with the AIChE competition, it was required that there beat least five members on a team. An entire class might be a team, and the entire team did notneed to attend the competition. To allow for flexibility in forming the teams, there was norequirement of different

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

approach has worked well formore than two decades, but a new approach based on future evolutionary trends, will bepursued.III. The Projected Mathematics ParadigmThe freshman sequence in Precalculus, consisting of standard algebra and trigonometry,will be retained since it provides a solid basis for the curriculum. However, instead of thetwo three-credit courses in Introductory Calculus, students take one four-credit course inCalculus and Analytical Geometry, which is the same as taken by engineering majors.This will ease the change of majors from engineering to engineering technology, or vice-versa, within the College of Engineering and Technology (COET). Our evaluation ofstudent performance suggests that engineering technology students at this