Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

specific costs for fatality and injury. These costs were developed byestablishing a value that consumers are “willing to pay” (WTP) to reduce the probability of fatalityor injury. Since this WTP cost reflects only the value that a group of individuals places onavoiding injury, the FAA method adds other direct costs to the WTP value such as legal andemergency medical expenditures to develop a total cost. For a fatality, the FAA identifies $2.7Mas the cost benchmark.The WTP values for injuries are based on evaluating the loss of quality or quantity of life incurredby the injury as a fraction of the fatality cost. For example, the WTP cost of a minor injury isevaluated as 0.2% of the loss of life cost and medical and legal costs are then added to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

class in the Fall of 2001, theSoE now enrolls over 1000 students. The first two of the new school's planned facilities openedin the Fall of 1998 — the main classroom building and the Virginia Microelectronics ResearchCenter. Together, they total 147,000 sq. ft. at a cost of $42 million. Average SAT scores ofincoming freshman are about 1250, which is in the national top 5 to 7 percentile.From the beginning, the development of the School was a collaboration between the universityand the industrial community, which is reflected in its curriculum, in the industrial experiencestudents have available, in the inclusion of business courses in the engineering curriculum, andthe recruitment of faculty with industrial experience. Over 50 companies have

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emily Mowry

the course are centered around the Legacy learning cycle2 usedby the VaNTH Engineering Research Center, in accord with learning principles addressed in HowPeople Learn3. Students’ awareness of professional and ethical issues are increased through theinvestigation of ten to twelve case studies with in-class discussion, in-class movies with pre andpost discussion, and guest speakers. Investigation of cases include documentation of students’initial thoughts on issues, then systematic reflection on these thoughts through introduction ofmultiple perspectives provided by guest lectures, thought papers and in-class discussions. Casestudies cover a wide variety of application areas, including genetic engineering,xenotransplantation, using animals in

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

OpportunityThis program will provide a paid internship experience for 60 students following the completionof thirty credit hours in a mathematics, science, or technology-related field. Internships will beprovided in companies not currently hiring interns from UMBC to increase internship supportand encourage the involvement of more businesses with UMBC and CCBD. UMBC’s ShriverCenter will provide leadership for this portion of the project. The Shriver Center, places over1000 students annually in co-ops and internships at over 300 businesses and organizationsthroughout the Baltimore/Washington area, allowing students to connect theory with practice.This level of involvement reflects the importance of gaining work-based, experiential learning

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

Page 8.146.12 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 5 (a). ALS Wireless Communication module deals with physical aspects ofwireless communications. It touches upon such problems as fundamentals of radio wavepropagation, reflection, interference and antenna systems.Figure 5 (b). ALS Telephony module assist learners in understanding science andtechnical issues related to the operation and maintenance of conventional and cellularphone systems. Page 8.146.13 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

. If the results of a survey or a questionnaire are found to beambiguous or not useful for their intended purpose, they can be changed. Curriculum changes,updates, and modifications are important to maintain the relevance of ECE education. Acontinual process of modernization and accommodation of new technology and techniques must Page 8.165.10 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationbe done. This process must be reflected in the textbooks, course content, and laboratoryexposure

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfrid Nixon; M. Asghar Bhatti

expressed here goes far beyond the (recently re-accredited) civilengineering undergraduate program at Iowa and (we suspect) at most colleges in the US.Clearly, this needs to be evaluated further and may represent a phenomenon of “surveyinflation” whereby survey respondents are reluctant to give negative responses for fear ofdisappointing the survey takers.Beyond this somewhat worrying aspect, in general the responses are positive. Clearly, thedifferent groups assigned differing degrees of import to different areas (professionals valuedesign and ancillary knowledge more than students, for example) and that is appropriate.The professionals feel that the import of analysis diminishes as an engineer moves intopractice and that too probably reflects

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

individual takes meticulous recordings on everyaspect of the assessment test environment while another individual only records specific pointsexcluding potentially revealing data? These are real concerns but should not deter the use oftracking documents. It must be reminded the task of improving educational outcomes is not asmall task and there must be ways to reflect on past efforts in order to move forward in the properdirection and this cannot be done without rigorous documentation. Therefore these documentswill be revamped regularly, which will undoubtedly lead to a certain level of change. This allowsthese documents to serve a second purpose of documenting the changes in the classroom from theinstructor’s point of view. It is important that

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

StudyThe retrospective study includes responses from 48 of the 114 total participants in the fourworkshops. Table 1 shows the number of participants at each of the four workshops and the Page 8.541.3number and percentage who responded to the retrospective survey. These percentages rangedProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfrom 15% to 57%, reflecting a substantial workshop-to-workshop variation in the response rate.This large amount of variability occurred with nearly all the measures

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University

evaluated first.Ø The system daemons build upon the state daemons. Mass, energy, entropy and exergy balance equations can be solved for closed processes or steady devices. The cycle daemons build upon the system daemons in a similar manner. The particular form of the balance equation used by a daemon is displayed right inside the equation panel of the applet (see Fig. 9).Ø The system schematic that is displayed inside the Analysis Panel is dynamic in that, when states are loaded as inlet, exit, begin or finish states, the diagram is automatically updated to reflect the choices made.Ø Once a solution is obtained, Super-Calculate produces a detailed output and a few lines of codes called the TEST-Code describing the solution algorithm. The

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

their experience and finalize plans for technical publications and presentations. During the first, fifth and last weeks, an outside evaluator (College of Education, Faculty) meets with the REU participants to evaluate their experience. The evaluator determines the impact of the REU experience on the participants through written surveys and exit interviews. The evaluator also conducts surveys beyond the duration of the REU to trac k the students’ progress at their respective colleges. The surveys and exit interviews will provide valuable information vital for the improvement of the REU program in subsequent years. RESULTS OF REU 2001 Nearly 50 applications were received in the summer of 2001. The nine finalists, 2 males and 7 females reflected

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

technology information, · Finalizing the processes, equipment to be used, and project costs, · Writing complete, professional level, RFPs and Proposals. · The RFPs and proposals are thoroughly discussed and negotiated by the various participating teams via the Internet, and the contracts awarded to the best overall proposals,· Students and faculty have the opportunity to participate via the Internet in the project feedback process, to discuss the positive and negative aspects of each team’s participation. GLOBETECH Experiences In 1995 and 1996, GLOBETECH- I and II discussed automobile and vans manufacturing joint ventures in China and Thailand. In 1997, reflecting the world’s

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Noack; Harry Tyrer; Eric Epperson

score of 200 reflecting its rate compared to the other twohourly exams with a maximum score of 100. However, the number of student grades in the lowend of the range was extremely small. TABLE 1 Asynchronous Traditional Exam 1 55-100 40-100 Exam2 40-100 47-100 Final Exam 125-200 100-200 TABLE 1 Compares exams taken by the asynchronously taught class to the historical record of the exams for the same course taught in the traditional manner.We compare the asynchronous course to

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

exam scores and between exam scores and lecture days. It would appearthat part of the difficulty lies with the closeness of the data, as it all falls within a small range,64% to 88%.Another approach in analyzing this data involves ranking the CLO's for each data set. That is,for the survey data, the CLO with the lowest score (closest to one, but reflecting the higheststudent confidence level) is ranked number one, the CLO with the next lowest score is rankednumber two, and so forth until the CLO with the highest score is ranked eighteenth. Similarly,rankings are achieved for the other three sets of data, the homework grading, exam grading, anddays of lecture, except that the ranking is done in descending order for these data sets

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

name that may reflect the type of servicesthey perform, represent an individual or group, or just have a name that will be catchy and dynamic. Thecompany’s name will be used throughout the entire course when sending correspondence and representing theteam. Along with the name, the teams must determine the type of organization they will operate under that maybe a partnership, corporation, or company. All of the firms are located in the same city, but the teams aredirected to establish their home office and branch office addresses and telephone numbers. The teams also arerequired to create a company motto and logo that will be incorporated throughout course. Creativity isencouraged in developing these items.Branch Office’s Organizational

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education--I

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Jackson; Larry Miller; J Hines; Harold Dodds; Dr. Ronald E. Pevey; Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend; Belle Upadhyaya

NE distance education provider. Over 12 other NEprograms submitted proposals to KAPL and the UT program was selected for a variety ofreasons including the flexibility of the program (e.g., requiring math, allowing non-NEengineering courses), the retention of a research requirement in the DE program, and theinteractive CyberClass delivery technology.The demand is best shown through recent enrollment figures: the 2001 Fall semester figuresshow that the new distance education programs increased UT nuclear engineering graduatestudent enrollment by 25%. These figures reflect demand for the MS program because theCertificate programs do not officially begin until Fall 2002.5.0 CONCLUSIONS:The University of Tennessee's Nuclear Engineering Department

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

” laboratory exercises in which the students must fabricate and assemble variousphysical items.III. Reflections on the Design TrilogyStudent numbersSince our first offering of the Design Trilogy in 1998, two groups of students ( » 15 students pergroup) have completed all three courses. Another 60 students have completed a portion of the Page 7.261.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationDesign Trilogy (»15 completed the second and third courses, » 15 completed the first and secondcourses, » 15

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Laurence Gould; Hisham Alnajjar; Diego Bernardete; David Pines

tool used to assess the ILB was a student survey given at the end of the semester.The questionnaire was designed to determine if the students felt that they had achieved theshared outcomes and specific outcomes of Principles of Design. The students’ responses reflecttheir opinion of whether the outcomes were achieved, but do not necessarily reflect whether they Page 7.701.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationactually achieved the outcomes. Thirty-eight students completed the questionnaire

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Edwards

with the tutorial sheets guiding the student through a structured use of theapplets. These tutorial sheets are highly contrived since they lead the student through a set ofpredetermined tasks using the applet (“I know what I want my students to see!”). However,students are allowed to proceed at their own pace and, every so often, space is left on thetutorial sheet for reflection, e.g. ‘Draw the graph shown on the screen in the space provided’,‘Write here how the graph changed when …’, ‘Why do you think that the graph…?’, ‘Whatwas the equation in this case?’An extract from the ‘Mass / Spring / Damper’ applet’s worksheet is shown in the followingframe. Here, students are guided into discovering for themselves the phenomenon of ‘Beats’.· Use the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

), and compensation (lag, lead).Although it may be argued that the course contents possess educational values, it isgenerally agreed that significant revision is necessary to reflect the change intechnologies and modern engineering career challenges. In particular, computer-aidedanalysis, state space methods, and nonlinear systems are introduced into the curriculum,replacing lag, lead compensation, Nichols chart, and parts of the performance criteria.That is, the emphasis of the course is on analysis rather than control design which isrelegated to a second course “EE486 Control Systems Electives”. An outline of thelecture is shown below: · Introduction to Systems, Review of LaPlace Transform · Transfer Functions, Signal Flow Graphs

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.3Thus, critical thinking paves the pathway of the creative process. The higher-level thinkingskills are not innate or instantaneous, but must be practiced and honed on a continual basis.Students must realize that this is a life-long learning process that requires discipline of thoughtand cannot be achieved in a moment of inspiration or mastered at any given time. Page 7.541.2

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sprinsky

EngineeringTechnology and Surveying Technology degree programs follow the standards of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and are accredited by theTechnology Accreditation Commission (TAC). A National Science Foundation (NSF (ILI)) grant Page 7.694.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositi on Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationallowed us to change the thrust of the programs to reflect the revolution in civil engineering andsurvey technology caused by advances in electronics, satellite positioning, and computer

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

functional parts. Reflecting the importance ofteaching the fundamental computer knowledge, engineering accreditation organization ABETcurrently requires all accredited electrical and computer engineering programs to include amicrocontroller/microprocessor course.The two most popular microcontroller modules used in universities are the 68HC11EVB and the68HC11EVBU. The first one is designed to work along with external memory components andadditional ports (expanded mode) while the latter one was developed for embedded applicationswhere a microcontroller contains all necessary resources within the controller (single chip Page 7.863.1mode). At the

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

aesthetics in engineering design, particularly inthe choice of computer aided tools for signal processing, which is the area I prefer to teachregularly. In that paper, we reflect on the normative principles on the responsible employment oftechnology and espouse the following principles, after Monsma, et al7: cultural appropriateness,openness and communication, stewardship, delightful harmony, justice, caring anddependability. Of these principles, delightful harmony is the norm that deals with aesthetics.Delightful harmony implies that a) the artifact must be effective, or competent; b) it should be“pleasing and satisfying to use;” c) it must promote harmonious relationships7. We then establisha link between aesthetics and “playfulness” which

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

of a student in terms of specific knowledge, value, andskills at the time of completion of a course. The course learning outcomes should bemapped with program learning outcomes.A typical course assessment processes normally include homework, quizzes, tests, web-based tests, project reports, final examinations, oral presentations, etc. In addition aCourse Assessment Survey by both students and the course instructor(s) should beperformed. The survey questions should focus on accomplishment of objectives andoutcomes in addition to feedback for continuous improvement of quality of a course.The emphasis on assessment by an instructor should include his/her reflection onpedagogical methods used and satisfaction of accomplishing the course

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack McGourty

‘ were not used toin determining students’ grades. Rather, its purpose was to enable students to better understandtheir individual strengths and weaknesses as viewed by themselves and their peers (teammates).Results indicated that, in general, all the teams were perceived to function well. (See Table 3.)However, in comparing the results of the Team Developer‘ to the final grade in the course therewas a significant, but weak negative correlation between the peer’s score for a teammate and thefinal grade; suggesting that the more critical ratings teams gave to their fellow members, thebetter the project outcome as reflected by the team grade. However, there may have been animpact on the self and group ratings and the size of the team. Members of

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Schwieger

problem solving. In working with technology in engineeringeducation, Mioduser suggested the need for defining an appropriate conceptual frameworksupportive of requisite knowledge, skills and cognitive models for problem solving.9 Thus it willbe important to endeavor to make language supportive of concepts that are critical to problemsolving success and to make sure that the language used reflects the underlying concepts involvedin problem solving in engineering. Suggestions for dealing with the difficulties posed by language usage include thefollowing: § Use correct terminology and urge students to do the same by pointing out to students the difficulties created by poor language concerning problem solving

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

compartmental fashion has never been fully successful; our architecture curriculumis by its nature integrated and connected. We have found that the most important element in good teaching isinvolving students to enable them to think and learn on their own. However, more importantly, our graduates arefinding a flattering reflection of their active-learning educational experience in the integration-rich workplace.Architecture is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on many areas of study. Architecture education mustsuccessfully involve the integration of art, engineering, business, and other disciplines.References[1] 2000-2001 University of Hartford Bulletin, ARCHITECTURE Program Course Descriptions.[2] Boyer, E., and Mitgang, L., “Building

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

buggy go the specified distance and turn 90°; make it drive ina complete square; employ a bump sensor to avoid walls; and employ a light (reflective) sensor tofollow a black line on a white surface. Each challenge has been aligned with national standards(see Table 1) and tested in preservice teacher education courses and with 4th – 6th grade students.All involved parties assess the learning so that modifications for increased efficacy can be made. Asignificant portion of each TWT undergraduate course is a month-long experiential learningproject in a partner school classroom such as the one described. Page 8.494.4 Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zeena Pinto; Richard Burt

. In 1997, the American Society of TestingMaterials (ASTM) approved this new standard named “Standard Test Method for Measuring theP-Wave Speed and the Thickness of Concrete Plates Using the Impact-Echo Method.” Thismethod is based on the laws of elastic stress wave propagation through material. A stress wave isintroduced into the test object by a mechanical impact. The stress wave consists of compression,shear, and surface waves. The reflections of the compression wave are analyzed to detect theinternal flaws in a concrete member. The most important advantage of the impact echo method is that access is required to onlyone side of the member. It can be used to detect voids and honeycombs in walls and slabs,delaminations and internal cracks