Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

for multiple classes. The life of an engineering undergraduate can be extremely demanding and stressful. Although never an excuse for sub-par performance, this should always be kept in mind by faculty. Aim for both effective and efficient use of time in education and a maximum rate-of-return in learning with respect to time, money, and energy invested by students. Avoid busy work assignments that are redundant, trivially plug-and-crank, or cumbersome in ways not directly related to learning course material. Students and faculty should plan, organize, streamline, and work smart as well as work hard. Design questions, assignments, tests, and class activities to maximize the learning experience relative to a reasonable degree

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

science. And engineers and scientists would do well to passon this mindset to their students by creating an environment that genuinely encourages thisskeptical attitude in students. This encouragement does not mean paying lipservice to the idea.The attitude can only be adopted in practice. Students need a safe environment and enough timeand resources to question and reject received explanations and to attempt to find better ones.Second, Dewey argues that all inquiry involves transforming the environment; it is an activity.Knowledge making is by definition transformative. The type and extent of transformation, ofcourse, has to do with the goals of inquiry. For Dewey, an inquiring mind is going to change theenvironment in some way, disrupt the old

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

advisors reviewed the resulting student reports and comments wereaccepted. The utilization of industry advisors is vital to the success of this course as the originalpremise was to develop a course that would emulate industry as closely as possible. Theevolution of this course has already been described elsewhere 1,2,3,4.Setting The Stage - PreparationTo preserve and replicate a true engineering environment, students were divided into“engineering design teams” of no more than two students each. The entire class is then treatedthroughout the term as independent “engineering design groups” who have been hired to workfor “this author” who will act as their engineering department manager. The important thing tokeep in mind is that these groups must be

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Horatio Perez-Blanco

activitiesare often called for in the literature, (2, 3, 4) as a component to render engineering educationmore adaptable and responsive to present needs.The Energy Systems lab (5) hosts an IC engine, a steam engine, a refrigerator test stand, an ICengine vibration test stand, a mini wind tunnel to visualize separation, a gas turbine displaystand, and its latest acquisition, the SR-30. The lab purpose is to illustrate the many aspects (i.e.efficiency, environment, instrumentation, functionality, and integration of many engineering andother disciplines) that lead to an effective conversion technology. The SR-30, however, wasacquired with a single purpose in mind, namely the illustration of the high power densitiespossible with turbomachinery.The SR-30 is

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zia Razzaq

, say, ninestudents, the cost of materials amounts to about five or so dollars per person. The directacquisition of the materials by the students is more effective than the college providing them, forthree reasons. First, there is a very wide variety of available engineering materials and it is notfeasible for a school to have a storehouse. Second, it is highly desirable for the students to visitcommercial materials supply stores and begin to develop knowledge of what is out there for use inreal engineering projects. Third, it persuades them to involve themselves in practical decision-making while keeping in mind the functional, aesthetic, and cost factors. The basic tools forfabricating the models, however, are provided by the college since

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Miller

forms indicate the students enjoy the approachand alumni comments indicate they feel the approach is worthwhile.Introduction The USNA was established in 1845 and is the premier institution staffing the officercorps of the Navy and Marine Corps. Its mission is “to develop midshipmen morally, mentallyand physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order toprovide graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for futuredevelopment in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command,citizenship and government”. The Academy provides the 4100 midshipmen the opportunity topursue studies in engineering, science or humanities. Due to a large focus in math and

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

used within various domains ofbioengineering. However, we believe VOS application could be expanded to assess teaching inother engineering fields and also in a variety of other disciplines as well.Bibliography1. Banville, D., & Rikard, L. (2001). Observational tools for teacher reflection. Journal of Physical Education,Recreation & Dance, 72, 4, 46-49.2. Bowman, B.T. (1989). Self-reflection as an element of professionalism. Teachers College Record, 90,3, 444.3. Boyer, E.L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professioriate. Princeton, NJ: CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching.4. Bransford, J., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.) (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, andschool. Washington

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Gwendolyn C. Archibald

by the end and actually wouldn't have minded another week! Everything fromrockets to web pages to crashing cars, all of it was an enjoyable experience!” All thefeedback provided by the students and staff is taken into consideration each year inorder to continuously improve the program. Some of the long-term effects of the campare only beginning to come into focus. The University of Iowa College of Engineeringreported a number of new engineering students were former ACE Academy students.BenefitsAs mentioned earlier, some of the benefits to the students are that they are able to seepractical and exciting real-life applications of the study of math and science. They arealso able to experience life as a The University of Iowa student through

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

State University,” a Midwestern Research I University, withthose women faculty discussed in 1997, when policies apparently intended to correctdiscriminatory conditions and practices had been in place for almost a decade. The research,foregrounding the voices of women faculty, confronts the question of why, despite theimplementation of these policies, many of their concerns remain. It also suggests strategies formeeting some of the challenges women faculty, especially those in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics, still confront.IntroductionWomen have made great strides in academe. There are more women assistant professors thanever. Yet, despite these gains, few of them become full professors. At issue is whether or notwomen faculty

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Page 8.871.1program specifically targets the education of technicians being educated for the high performance “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”workplace of advanced technologies. The ATE program, a response to the conceptof a “global market place” and the resulting internationally competitive nature of manufacturingand the rapidly advancing pace of technologic change, solicited proposals for projects, specialprojects, and Centers of Excellence from consortia of two-year colleges, four-year colleges anduniversities, secondary schools, industry

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

Engineering.” 1998 FloridaConference on Recent Advances in Robotics, March 26-27, 1998, Florida Institute of TechnologyGreenwald, Lloyd. “Tools for effective low-cost robotics.” AAAI Spring Symposium on Robotics and Education,pp. 58-61, Stanford, California, March 26-28, 2001.Reshko, Gregoriy B., Mason, Matthew T., Nourbakhsh, Illah R. “Rapid Prototyping of Small Robots.” Tech.Report CMU-RI-TR-02-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March 2002.Foster, Lonnon R. “Palm OS Programming Bible”. New York: Hungry Minds, Inc. 1972.Johnson, David E., Johnson, Johnn y R., Hilburn, John L., Scott, Peter D. “Electric Circuit Analysis.” Upper SaddleRiver: Prentice Hall, 1997.Capman, Davis. “Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6.” Indianapolis: Macmillian

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

ofthese Case Studies taken from the author’s Instructional Lecture Notes, keep in mind thegeneral common features that are intended to attract the attention of the reader (thestudent engineer):1. The attempt to seamless integrate (some would say “sneak up on the student”) theengineering problem or life situation into a cultural setting,2. The clear references to names and dates in a readable style that is done in a writingstyle that is less of the sterile engineering that is often found in technical papers and textsand more of a common language.3. The action item(s) at the end of the Case Study presentation that attempts to have thestudent study or at least appreciate the human or social content of the situation as well asengineering content.4

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

knowledge outside of the classroom. Priorto instituting the bioengineering outreach module, most of the middle school students wereunaware of engineering as a career and the impacts that engineers have on the world. However,after the completion of the project, it was apparent through homework assignments and pre- andpost-survey survey responses that their eyes and minds had been opened to math, science andengineering. In addition, the students showed an understanding of the design process, an aspectunfamiliar to them prior to the module.VI. Future DirectionsAt Northwestern, we bring this module to one Chicago Public School classroom each academicquarter (3 classrooms total per academic year). However, we realize that for this project to havea

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

is as if what students have learned in math& science classesnever happened, or what has remained in their minds is so “fuzzy” that they are unable to use.(3) Lack of: intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and self-confidence. The traditional approachto teaching in combination with creativity-suppressing examination system has profoundlyaffected students’ learning abilities. Colleges of engineering in the Region have set up pre-engineering programs to help prospective engineering students get over their deficiencies.Unfortunately these programs were instituted to teach English only, and paid very little attentionto reviving math/science or building up desirable traits through a proper learning environment.A Proposal: The author’s

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

Session 1660 Diversity in cultures and teamwork Arvid Andersen Engineering College of Copenhagen, DenmarkAbstractEuropean countries have long and strong historical, cultural and educational traditions, whichthey all want to protect, preserve and defend. Simultaneously, there is a strong wish to jointhe European Union to cooperate and collaborate, and to develop together in a common causefor a strong competitive EU. International awareness, considerations, courage and concernare extremely important elements to take seriously, if we want to be up front in

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Mary Clare Robbins

Session 1653 The First Year Engineering Course at NC State University: Design and Implementation Jerome P. Lavelle and Mary Clare Robbins North Carolina State UniversityIntroductionOver the past three years the freshmen engineering course in the College of Engineering at NorthCarolina State University has been substantially redesigned. This paper describes the design,implementation and assessment of the new course. This course has undergone substantialchange since 1996, Porter et al. previously reported on what had been implemented prior to19991 . In the

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

baccalaureate degree.5The summer experience between the junior and senior year is a particularly important component Page 8.1119.4of this curriculum. While one approach would be to include the laboratory courses during the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsummer term, we must also keep in mind that most students seek to earn income even as theyacquire engineering experience through summer employment. Hence we believe it best to viewthe summer experience as an employed and structured internship or

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

objectives. Examining the data with the foregoing caveat in mind, it can be seen thatthere are noticeable differences for four of the eight objectives between the ordinal scores ofstudents in the experimental lecture and those in the traditional lecture. Page 8.805.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe first three objectives deal with programming skills, and in two of the three cases, theexperimental lecture students rated their capabilities higher than did the traditional lecturestudents. In the

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Gannod

Session 1660 Technology Education for Kids: Cultivating Technology Professionals of Tomorrow and Today Barbara D. Gannod Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Arizona State University East 7001 E. Williams Field Road, Building 50 Mesa, AZ 85212 Email: bgannod@asu.eduAbstractTechnology is becoming more and more important in our modern “information age.” Whileengineering, computing, and other technology intensive

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jesse Pappas; Eric Pappas

the "Brain Programs" in Hall's book, which are techniques forovercoming preconceived ideas and stimulating creative thought. 14 Examples of theseBrain Programs include the Mind Dumpster, a “brain purge program,” the Stimuli Two-Step, which stimulates ideas through analogy, and Hitchhiking, a method of travelingbetween and connecting ideas. Dekker's class has received overwhelmingly positivereviews; participants appreciate its informal and collaborative nature, as well as theapplicability of the educational concepts to future problem solving tasks. The Systems and Software Engineering curriculum at Penn State’s School forGraduate Professional Studies includes a creative problem-solving course titled“Creativity, Innovation and Change

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

EH 101 sections of solely or primarily engineering students might encourage the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEnglish instructors to teach more “practical skills,” or what Barbara E. Walvoord and others havereferred to as the common themes or principles of WAC: • enhancing students’ high-order thinking or habits of mind; • making students more active learners; • evaluating student work more effectively.1Faculty from all four disciplines who were teaching the same cohort of students met weekly.These meetings consisted of brainstorming strategies for cross

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

important, in terms of ethics, to ultimately include consideration of all stakeholders, not just of stockholders. Page 8.896.9Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & 9Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWhat would it mean if through the means of bio and nanotechnology, humans no longerhave to succumb to bodily aging and malfunctions that result from disease anddeterioration of living tissue? Or, if our minds were less limited by the materiality of thebody? Aren’t these among the goals of current research? Such breakthroughs of sciencecould, perhaps

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

Session 1653 2nd and 3rd Order Refinements/Improvements to an Experiential Design and Introduction to Engineering Course for First-Year Students Sandra Shaw Courter and Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT A three-credit course for first-year students with the objective of providing anauthentic engineering design experience and an introduction to engineering has been inplace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1994. From the inception, the coursehas been centered on real projects the students carry out in collaboration with bona fideclients. During

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Thompson; Eric Vilar; Beth Davidson; John Brader; Michael Matthews; Elisabeth Alford; Sirena Hargrove-Leak

major contributions to the quality ofengineering education today and tomorrow.References[] http://www.che.sc.edu/centers/RCS/rcsmain.htm [March 15, 2003][] Little, P. and M. Cardenas, M. Use of “Studio” Methods in the Introductory Engineering Design Curriculum. Journal of Engineering Education. vol. 90., no.3 , pp. 309-318.[] Coleman, R. J., Studio for Engineering Practice, “STEP,” Lessons Learned about Engineering Practice. Proceedings of the 1995 25th Annual Conference on Frontiers in Engineering Education. Part 1 (of 2), 1995, pp. 284-287.[] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Studio Teaching. http://www.ciue.rpi.edu/ studioteaching.html. (accessed 12/6/2001)[] Vygotsky, L. S. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Davalos

things they are doing." 3When active learning activities include the use of technology (e.g., multimedia applications), it isadvisable to keep in mind that technology "tools" must be used in the framework of knowledge Page 8.469.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationof learning and teaching for a particular application.4 Our approach consists of integratingportable laboratory experiments and computer modeling into classical lecture topics ofmechanics of composites. In contrast to a traditional teaching environment where

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Session 1609 Biomedical Engineering Topics in High School Science Instruction: Initial Development and Field Studies Robert D. Sherwood, Stacy S. Klein Vanderbilt UniversityTheoretical Basis The growth of the influence of cognitive science on the design of instructional materialsin science and mathematics has been substantial over the past twenty years. Early works such asBransford, Sherwood, Vye and Reiser1 summarized research on teaching thinking and problemsolving pointing out important differences between the organization of knowledge by

Conference Session

Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

Session 3622 A Computerized Engineering Assessment Method Based on 3D Interactive Multimedia, that Students Enjoy Paul G. Ranky Professor, The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, MERC (Multi-lifecycle Engineering Research Center), Newark, NJ, 07102, USA. Email: ranky@njit.eduAbstractIn this paper we introduce the principles of our novel 3D interactive web multimedia -based educational and assessment methods and solutions, and by focusing on thecontinuous professional development learners, explain and demonstrate (during our

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”With these preliminary thoughts in mind, our goal is to assess and quantify the purposes for whichgeneral Engineering programs are used, and to look for trends in the evolution of these generalEngineering programs.Survey of General Engineering ProgramsThe 48 ABET/EAC accredited general Engineering programs were identified from the listing ofaccredited programs maintained by ABET1. Data were collected from this source, the ASEEDirectory of Engineering Colleges2, the U.S. News & World Report database3, and the websitesof the various institutions. Additionally, an e-mail survey was sent to 33

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

share understandings of the role ofmathematics: Engineers have to be able to, have a mathematical mind, and enjoy maths I guess or at least tolerate it. I think it is the most important thing Alex,1 st year student Maths is part of the route of the whole analysis whether it be structural or a circuit…. Sstaff1 Mathematics is a nice vehicle for delivering these ideas ….. I don’t think you could really function without mathematics in these sorts of systems

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

Page 8.974.13 necessarily produce good technical writers or speakers, any more than they produce“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” accomplished journalists, novelists, poets, or orators. Their purpose is to expose students to the wealth of knowledge and experience available to an educated mind willing to continue to learn throughout a lifetime, and to serve as a beginning foundation for later specialized instruction given by professionals within a specific discipline.• The primary language of many engineering students is not English.• Many engineering students have attempted only a few writing