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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Nystrom Hal

information most effectively perceived: visual – pictures, diagrams, graphs, demonstrations, or auditory – words, sound? (where the other senses play a minimal role in educational environment). 3) Organization - With which organization of information is the student most comfortable: inductive – facts and observations are given, underlying principles are inferred, or deductive – principles are given consequences and applications are deduced? 4) Processing - How does the student prefer to process information: actively – though engagement in physical activity or discussion, or reflectively through introspection? 5) Understanding - How does the student progress toward understanding: sequentially – in continual

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples

deadline and multi-process to keepdeadlines in their future. These people are setting goals and priorities and use the deadlines toget things done. When do they relax? The best answer might be… in between events. Thecaution for these people is to be careful in scheduling additional items between major events, asthis is likely to clog the system and cause the stress level to rise precipitously.Others need a fixed schedule with planning time, room for thought, time for execution, and timeto review and reflect. These people set a different series of goals and priorities and deal with Page 4.374.3stress in a far different manner. Their stress may not

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1999 Annual Conference

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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

Fall 1998 GPAs, which include students on the secondfloor, do not reflect higher GPAs for floor residents, has led to the restructuring of theengineering floors and RA duties.ConclusionsImproved retention has demonstrated that the Engineering Floor is an effective method ofimproving student success in engineering programs. The program can be implemented at aninstitution with little effort through the cooperation of Housing & Residence Life, and is awinning situation for both the academic department and university housing. The engineeringcollege increases its student population and the university retains additional students in theresidence halls.In addition to retention, the Engineering Floor provides a mechanism for enhanced

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

the eight professional abilities necessary for an engineer andtechnologist, all have a possibility of development during these projects. Conceptualization,designing, thinking critically and verifying solutions are the abilities that benefit the most. Thedrawback of long learning process necessary for a sophisticated software was largely avoided.More time could be spent on ways of solving a technical problem and on its computationalnature, treating computers as tools not the end result. Students experienced a need for formalplanning of project activities, especially when working in groups.References1. Schon, D.: “Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action”, Basic Books, 1983.2. Baird, W.E., Borich, G.D.: “Validity

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

, dischargerecords and runoff computations. The instructors provide guidance on technical writing, reportorganization, documentation, data presentation, and the importance of report cohesion. Thereports are designed to be very practical and reflective of products from engineering firmsspecializing in thee technical fields. In order to emphasize the importance of clear and concisetechnical writing, each student reviews and critiques a report prepared by his or her peers. Theinstructors conduct a complete and intensive review of each report and set aside a substantialportion of a laboratory period to discuss the reports with the students. The total projectintroduces the potential civil engineer to a wide range of technical fields in a cohesive andstructured

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

commands associated with timers and counters.The command groupings reflect the section titles in the AB program reference manual.The screen captures in Figure 2 illustrate the technique to select commands using thesymbol and group listings. (a) (b) (c) Figure 2 (a) Command Index, (b) Symbol Index, (c) Command Group IndexThe Command Index view is obtained by selecting SLC 500 Commands from the mainmenu, and the two remaining indexes illustrated in Figure 2 are selected from the listing Page 4.599.4on the Command Index. Session

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith V. Johnson

labor yielded success. Since becoming a faculty member, the author’snew philosophy is smart labor yields success. This philosophy reflects the authors new found beliefthat just because you work hard, you are not guaranteed to achieve your career goals. Too often, theburden of being committed to so many committees and trying to keep up with regular duties can beextremely frustrating. Committee assignments can become a burden if they are taken out of perspective, and onedoes not anticipate the amount of work and time involved. As a new faculty member, there is a Page 4.504.3strong possibility that one may be encouraged to serve on

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Jan Helge Bøhn

and improved textbooks have notproduced much change in the actual content or pedagogy of engineering courses.2 Theengineering classroom has not changed and that is a reflection of the lack of substantive changein how engineering is taught or what is required of engineering students. For example,instructors are not lecturing less because the textbooks are vastly improved and come withmultimedia software. Therefore, students do not use the software3 nor do they take advantage ofthe improved textbook. While much of this might be due to the rise of aliteracy in our culture,4much of it is do to a lack of requirement. Course examinations and homework typically do nottake advantage of the powerful student calculators. Therefore, most of the students

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Migri M. Prucz

"freshman experience" in the first semester [7]. The three essential attributes identified by theEngineering Deans Council and the Corporate Roundtable of the ASEE [8] for a modernundergraduate program of engineering education, are well reflected in the information presentedthrough CEMR’s recruiting material:• "Relevant" – educational experiences that are relevant to the lifelong career and personal Page 5.127.2 interests of specific students.• "Attractive" – intellectual abilities are stimulated and developed through exciting knowledge, state-of-the-art facilities, and hands-on projects.• "Connected" – regular contacts

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

structure can be found in Layton and Ohland.III. Peer rating proceduresPeer evaluations are performed at the conclusion of each of two design projects assigned duringthe semester. The evaluations at the end of the first project, usually due by the fifth week of thesemester, accomplish several goals:• Students learn about the peer evaluation procedure.• Students reflect on the evaluation criteria.• Students get feedback on how the group assesses each member’s work to date.• The instructor is alerted if groups are not functioning.This first evaluation allows the groups to identify both “hitchhikers” and “overachievers,” that is,group members that are contributing either too little or too much to the group effort. The

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

in the spring semester, two class sections (of approximately 20 studentseach) have been necessary to meet student demand in each of the past two years.Although both foundation courses deal primarily with environmental issues in the marinebiosphere, the many models used in class lectures and laboratory exercises have evolved fromand have a direct counterpart in more traditional environmental engineering curricula. Also,nearly 50% of course enrollments are students from majors other than ocean engineering,reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of course materials.Capstone Design ProjectsAll engineering majors at the U.S. Naval Academy are required to complete a capstone designcourse that requires preparation of a conceptual or detailed design

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick L. Walter

, frequency response, and zero bias. When assessing testresults for both the acceleration and pressure measuring systems, 53 of 56 productspecifications provided to the students in the RFP were satisfied. ConclusionAfter completion of this first Capstone project, it is worthwhile to reflect as to how well itachieved its educational goals. To the extent that this project is representative of one thestudents might encounter in industry, they were able to successfully accomplish it. Thestudents gained valuable knowledge in project management and teaming. In addition totechnical challenges, the principal challenges they encountered encompassed equal divisionof labor and resolving personality conflicts. The students

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Phil Fabiano

important work activity,strategic and operational planning takes time. It is itself a major work activity for whichadditional time must be allocated.Despite its shortcomings, the ET planning activity has raised the awareness of the importanceand need for strategic and operational planning within the ET department. It has resulted in asolid foundation for continued planning. In addition, the "strawman" and team concepts provedto be good approaches to establishing an integrated plan reflecting the ideas and insights of allmembers of the department. Page 2.372.5References1. New Jersey Institute of Technology, "Educating Professionals For Leadership in A

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Wipplinger; Charles R. Bissey

pages about loading requirements. Now this type of code typically contains anentire chapter about loading requirements, and ANSI/ASCE has an entire document devoted toloading criteria.Conclusions from the reviews made while preparing this paper indicate loading information isnow more involved and comprehensive. Loading requirements have grown to such an extent thatloading fundamentals now need to be incorporated into the undergraduate course work. Thisincludes definitions, applications, and methods for calculations. The importance of this body ofknowledge is also reflected in the design specifications, such as the LRFD Manual of SteelConstruction.Professional PracticeIt is difficult to find structural engineers in practice who are not utilizing

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip J. Regalbuto; Page Ransom; Mary Morton-Gibson; Lise V. P. Esch

Technology core curriculum to meet future needs. One of the ways to improvethe Engineering Technology curriculum is to integrate key skills. In the Summer of 1996, fivemembers of the SCATE team from Trident Technical College were granted release time to reviseEGR 103 course content to reflect the new emphasis on team building, co-operative learning andcommunication skills that are in demand from industry and education.1 The remaining two teammembers were granted release time to study and develop assessment methods.Course revisionIn the revised version of this course some of the topics were retained: Units and measurements;graphing; calculator skills and treatment of significant digits are topics that elude theunderprepared student. Four additional

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip R. Dail

necessarily, although using as much technology as possible is desired. Reaching different learning styles means using techniques to reach visual as well as verbal, reflective as well as active, and the whole range of learning styles. Although at first this is a time-consuming development, the outcome is an enriched course for students and teachers.(4) Using email, bulletin boards, and list serves is an excellent means of increasing communication between students with each other as well as with the teacher. In some cases, teaching assistants could be available to answer questions electronically. The warning is to not forget that all students may not have easy access to computers. Teachers tend to assume all students are in close

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry A. Wiebe

undergone changes since theirinception and the criteria have been refined to reflect the experience of those participating in theprocess. However, the main thrust of the criteria has remained unchanged.In addition, many states have developed their own criteria for state awards and opened the awardprocess to educational institutions. Some of the state awards for education were copied directlyfrom the Baldrige industrial criteria while others followed a different format. All awards,however, promote a model of TQM implementation within education. The call for educationalreform coupled with the interest generated by state awards for education, prompted NIST todevelop a set of criteria (15) for education. These criteria, shown in outline form in Table 1

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

D.M. Hummels; D.J. Rawnsley; Bruce E. Segee

instrument on a different bus than the one the test is running on, the cablingwould have to be physically changed to the new bus. The address of the instrument wouldhave to be set so that it did not conflict with any other instrument on the new bus location,and the software would have to be recompiled to reflect these changes. Setting up for suchchanges is time consuming and problematic.With the expansion of our facility to include new high speed instruments for A/D testing,the current setup is not an efficient use of equipment.3 The ApproachTwo software packages are described which together address these issues. The first is a“virtual instrument bus” which makes a large number of physical buses on a computernetwork look like a single bus. The

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Winn; Peter Martin; Scott C. Dunning

. The averagemanufacturer spends $14,000 annually on water usage. This places them fourth in terms of averagewater cost for the total manufacturers surveyed.The second largest waste stream cost is non-hazardous solid waste. This is due to the usage ofpackaging material in food manufacturing. The average food manufacturer spends $8,695 annually fordisposal of non-hazardous solid waste. Considering that the average total waste cost for foodmanufacturers is $24,771 annually, it is evident that these two area represent the largest waste streamcosts.The recommendations made by IACs reflect this relationship. Fifty percent of the recommendationswere aimed at water reductions while 32 percent involved the reduction of non-hazardous solid waste.The

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Shea

were not required. Instead, each student wrote a one-page reportthat identified and discussed two meaningful lessons that were learned in the laboratory. Gettingstudents to reflect on the entire experience instead of reporting facts proved to be quite achallenge. Reports were graded for content and grammar. ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISES Each of the nine exercises is outlined in this section. The applicable Why, What, How, andWhat-if axis of Kolb’s learning cycle is shown in bold. A copy of the exercises in Word 97format can be obtained at http://www.engr.orst.edu/~shea/ALE. At OSU, students must complete a course in engineering statistics prior to taking the SPCcourse. The first two exercises were designed to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

discharge is calibrated to reflect the value of theinput voltage. Figure 7 illustrates the operation of the Dual Slope type ADC. These type of ADCsare very slow, and are usually found in electronic voltmeters. Figure 7. Operation of the Dual-Slope Type Analog to Digital ConverterFigure 8 displays a block diagram of a successive approximation ADC. In the successiveapproximation ADC, the output of a comparator is connected to the input of a special counterregister called a Successive Approximation Register (SAR). Page 3.98.6 Session 1559 The OP

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl A. Erikson

which "have stretched rush hours to 12 hours in Seouland 14 hours in Rio de Janeiro. The Confederation of British Industry estimates that higherfreight costs, lost work time, and other results of congestion cost England $24 billion eachyear"[7]. In Bangkok, "officials estimate that the typical motorist spends a total of 44 days a yearjust idling in standstill traffic"[8]. Air pollution, congestion, and overdependency on imported oil only begin to reflect themagnitude of the transportation problems in present day urban areas that engineers need toresolve. With appropriate technology approaches in mind one can suggest ways that the 21st Page

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia L. Morse

classroom?” All respondents affirmed that “a sufficient Page 3.125.3amount of material was included.” Six teachers took the time to include positive writtencomments praising how applicable or enjoyable the combined manufacturing activities were.General comments from the entire workshop of activities from various engineering andtechnology areas reflected teacher appreciation for hands-on activities they could bring into theirown classrooms.Perhaps more telling feedback was the invitation from one of the teacher workshop participantsto present the “Variation in Manufacturing” activity, as-is, to a combined group of chemistry andmath students

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael W. Jennings; Jamal A. Ghorieshi

. Studentslearning is enhanced greatly by doing their own project and observing as other projectsprogress. Two of the major outcomes were brainstorming and interaction among thegroups leading to innovative ideas and solutions. One of the major hurdles in this processwas the demands of time both for students and faculty alike.INTRODUCTIONThe undergraduate engineering curriculum has periodically undergone structural changesto reflect the societal needs of time and to head-start the future technological innovationsand learning/teaching cultures. Even though the traditional engineering education hasserved the nation well, nevertheless it has exhausted its effectiveness over the last twodecades because of rapid changes in technology and international trade. In

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sudhir Mehta

. After discussing a concept for about 15 to 20 minutes in a class, a multiple choice Page 3.163.2question is displayed using an overhead projector. Students discuss an answer to the questionin an informal setting with neighboring students. The voice level during this one or two minuteperiod goes up, reflecting the level of interaction and collaboration going on in the classroom.At the end of this period, all students are requested to raise a flashcard displaying a lettercorresponding to an answer to the multiple choice question. The flashcard method allowsactive learning, collaborative learning, and 100% participation in large classes. It also

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff

females on the PSVTprimarily because the test is designed to measure spatial visualization ability which requiresholistic rotation. Males tend to take a holistic approach to mentally rotating objects while femalestend to take an analytical approach. The addition of the coordinate axes appears to haveeliminated biases based on method of rotation. It should be noted that only 17 femalesparticipated in the study. Therefore, generalizations based on gender should be carefullyexamined. Another explanation for not finding gender differences for response times may reflect thetype of students participating in the study. A majority of the students were enrolled inengineering programs. It may be that students in engineering, whether male or female

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna Garner, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

, because most presenters fielded questions for a portion oftheir talks, the audiences at the conference were actually expected to read more words perminute than what our analysis reflects. For these 48 presentations, the mean number ofprojected words per minute was about 35, as shown in Table 1. Is this number high? Is this number low? Although these questions are difficult toanswer without more data, these questions raise a research question that deservesattention: On a set of slides for a technical presentation, how many written words perminute can an audience comfortably comprehend and retain? Page 15.1000.5 Assessment System

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Tablet and Portable PCs for Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; M. Hossein Hariri, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

classrooms offers apromise of improved student learning and faculty teaching. To this point, however, assessmentof the impact of digital ink technologies (both hardware and software) has only begun. Ourproject focused on student note-taking strategies during course lectures. The use of tablet PCsand DyKnow Vision software provided faculty the opportunity to share prepared notes whilestudents could annotate those notes during class. Our results regarding the impact on studentnote-taking strategies indicate that students must re-imagine their traditional classroom role,from scribe to reflective learner.Measuring the Impact of Digital Ink on Students’ Note-taking StrategiesRecent developments in educational technology have provided instructors with an

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Management

in real life. Page 15.1185.6Figure 4. SPC Lab 1 RubricResultsThe first SPC laboratory was implemented at the University of Texas – Pan American (UTPA) inMANE 4311 – Quality Control during the Fall 2009 semester. Twenty-four students wereenrolled in the course. Assessment results are provided in Tables 1-3.Table 1 contains the student demographic information. Participation in the demographic surveywas voluntary and students were offered extra credit on their laboratory grade as an incentive toparticipate. Fourteen students completed and submitted a demographic survey. Thedemographics are reflective of the UTPA student demographics. Male students