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Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Bailey; Andrew Ricke; David Spurlock; Susan Murray

A Matter of Priorities: Effects of Increased Opportunities for Extracurricular and Non-traditional Learning Experiences on Student Time Management and Attitudes David G. Spurlock, Ph.D., Daniel J. Bailey, Susan Murray, Ph.D., and Andrew S. Ricke Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department University of Missouri-Rolla AbstractMany schools are emphasizing non-traditional and extracurricular learning experiences forundergraduate engineering students. These include activities such as incorporating service-learning projects into the classroom

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Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Aiman Kuzmar

Undergraduate Research Collaboration Between Penn State Main Campus and One of Its Remote Campuses Aiman S. Kuzmar, Ph. D., P. E. Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus One University Drive, Uniontown, PA 15401AbstractUndergraduate research has been heavily promoted recently by universities and through local,state and federal agencies. The importance and benefits of this type of research have been welldocumented in the literature. The general focus of universities without graduate programs is onteaching, and less emphasis is given to research. Consequently, such universities face variouschallenges to carry out undergraduate research. Some

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Garcia Julio; Patricia Backer

• Build, test, troubleshoot, and verify a circuit that will implement systems a closed-loop system using op-amps. • Verify the behavior of a closed-loop system under the presence of disturbancesBibliography1. Fisher, S. & Nygren, T. I. (2000). Experiments in the Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching: Lessonsfrom the Mellon Program So Far. New York: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Cost-Effective Uses ofTechnology in Teaching (CEUTT) Initiative. Available: http://www.ceutt.org/ICLT%20CEUTT.pdf2. Shiratuddin, N., Hassan, S., & Landoni, M. (2003). A Usability Study for Promoting eContent in HigherEducation. Educational Technology &

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lennard Lema; Peter Baumann

,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 1998, pp. 23-27.7. Hoit, M. and M. Ohland, “The Impact of a Discipline-based Introduction to Engineering Course on Improving Retention,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 1998, pp. 79-85.8. Lau, A. S. and R. N. Pangborn, “Engaging Engineering Students in Learning – A College-wide First Year Seminar Program,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2001).9. Lau, A. S., et al., “Student Assessments of Engineering First-year Seminars,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2001).10. Litzinger, T., M. Trethewey and J. Gardner, “Integrated

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

in the area of undergraduate softwareengineering education over the past five years. In the late 1990’s, the ABET, the accreditationbody for applied science, engineering, computing and technology degree programs in the UnitedStates, approved criteria for accrediting software engineering under the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC). Four programs were accredited in 2003, and another two in20048. Page 10.653.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Category

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Pete Jankovsky; Matt Valerio; Jack Skinner; Khalid Al-Olimat

Calculation of Electrical Quantities in Three Phase Circuits using MATLAB Khalid S. Al-Olimat, Pete Jankovsky, Matt Valerio and Jack Skinner Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a MATLAB program that utilizes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tocalculate the electrical quantities of three phase circuits. The GUI is designed in a way to allowthe user to enter the resistances and reactances of the source, the transmission line and that of theload respectively. It also requires a voltage value of one of the phases at the generator end. Thisprogram performs the calculations with respect to the specified connection type. There are fourtypes: wye-wye, wye-delta, delta-wye and delta

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

School (New York) andthe Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) studies. Jean Piaget30 developed a child-centered,developmental theory of learning. According to his theory, children construct knowledge abouttheir world through their active involvement in experiences that are meaningful for them in orderto provide an ideal learning environment.Seymour Papert, who invented the LOGO language, tied constructivist classroom principles tochildren’s robotics exercises with LEGO®s. Papert, who worked with Piaget and continues to bea leader in this field, coined the term “constructionism” to refer to constructivist practicesapplied to a learning environment in which the students are constructing objects.31 Papert24defines constructionism as “an

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Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

of the cylinder wall (K)U Piston speed (cm/s)V Cylinder volume (cm3)Vd Displacement volume (cm3)xb mass fraction of burned gas in the cylindery Exposed cylinder wall height (cm)Greekγ Specific heat ratioθ Crank angle (degree)θs Crank angle at the start of heat release (degree)θd Burn duration of heat release (degree)Introduction Increasing popularity of the Internet and widespread availability of computers haveresulted in the use of World Wide Web (WWW) as a teaching medium in engineering education[1, 2]. Thus, more and more educators have developed web-based teaching and evaluation toolsto facilitate and improve

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bijan Sepahpour

several members of the team. S/he must clearly establish the goals of the project and theexpected performance criteria. The level of such expectations/goals may be significantlydifferent than those set for winning the competition. The teams that achieve these initially setgoals of their own environment are considered successful. The most important outcome of suchprojects is the experience that the students gain by their involvement in a cooperative learningenvironment through which they enhance their overall knowledge of engineering and improvetheir group dynamics skills.I- INTRODUCTIONFor the past twenty two years, The College of New Jersey-TCNJ (formerly known as TrentonState College) has developed and prepared many vehicles for competitive

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

. Page 10.481.6 Proceedings of the 2005 Annual American Society for Engineering Education Conference. Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementThis project is being funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF DUE#0231033) and Rowan University. We would like to offer our sincere appreciation to theengineering clinic students at the College of Engineering for their support in developing theexperiments.References 1. J. Neyhart, M. Kirlakovsky, L. Coleman, R. Polikar, M. Tseng and S. Mandayam, "Automated Segmentation and Quantitative Characterization of Radiodense Tissue in Digitized Mammograms," Proceedings of the 28th Annual Review in Progress of Quantitative NDE

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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F. Edwards; T. Daniel; W. Hale; A. Hanson; E. Richardson

faculty to TEACH them. There has been a rejection on the part ofthe students of ownership or responsibility for the learning process. The common complaintamong faculty is that the students seem to retain less and their ability to perform critical thinkingwith the material they retain is greatly diminished compared to students 20 years ago.This increased focus in the engineering educational system on learning styles has been paralleledby a growing phenomenon in the lower educational levels; home schooling. It is suggested thatit might be profitable to look to the home school community when considering this conundrum.In the early 1980’s, the general public had not heard of home schooling. Today home schoolingis a widely used and growing educational

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

to degree progress and career commitment.Integration experiences and concerns about work/life balance are explored in more depth in aforthcoming article by the authors. Given the emphasis on departmental climate, the researchquestions addressed in this paper include: Are there gender differences in graduate studentperceptions about climate in STEM departments? How are perceptions about climate related todegree progress? and Does departmental climate influence graduate student commitment toSTEM professional careers?II. Climate, Degree Progress and Career CommitmentFirst coined by Hall & Sandler in the early 1980’s to describe the classroom experiences ofundergraduate women, the construct of a chilly climate has been extended to include

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anand Srinivasan; Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

orrecommendations presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflectthe views of the National Science Foundation.References 1. Meyer, M. H. and Lehnerd, A. P., The Power of Product Platforms: Building Value and Cost Leadership, Free Press, New York, 1997. 2. Robertson, D. and Ulrich, K., “Planning Product Platforms”, Sloan Management Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 19-31, 1998. 3. Otto, K. N. and Wood, K. L., Product Design, 2001, Prentice Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. 4. Wheelwright, S. C. and Clark, K. B., 1992, “Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 70, pp. 70-82. 5. Feitzinger, E. and Lee, H.L., “Mass Customization at Hewlett-Packard: The Power of

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

Students’ Perceptions of the Importance of the Faculty Technical Currency in Their Learning/Success in a Technology-Based Baccalaureate Program Ahmed S. Khan Department of EET DeVry University, Addison, IL 60101 Gene Gloeckner George Morgan School of Education, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523AbstractDuring the last two decades, the pace of technological change has transformed the globaleconomy into a knowledge-based or innovation-based economy, in which organizations are

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Sometimes the task of defining the scope of a senior design project is completely left upto the faculty member(s) that will be supervising a given project. Also, when a company issponsoring a project, sometimes it is allowed to basically define on its own the scope of theproject that will be assigned to the students. Although there needs to be some room for flexibilitywhen defining the scope of a particular project, in general both approaches stated above are farfrom adequate. It is important to keep in mind that a capstone senior design project must be morethan a project that requires some technical expertise in a particular engineering discipline; it mustbe a meaningful and carefully defined learning experience for the students. As with any

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

tried to create rudimentaryvideo games in their free time. As educators, we should jump for joy when we find students"playing" with a tool we have introduced to them, for it is that playtime that often leads to self-directed, experiential learning that goes beyond the course objectives and turns the students intoactive learners just for the sake of knowledge. And the more palatable the knowledge, thegreater success we can expect in the education of students in the future.AcknowledgementThe support provided by two NSF grants (i.e., award #s 0342000 & 0431779) is sincerelyacknowledged. The guidance and support of Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Randy Pausch, and theentire Alice development team at Carnegie Mellon University is also greatly

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Everly

the signals at TP1 and TP2are nearly in phase on the oscilloscope. Slowly adjust the oscillator ten-turn potentiometer untilboth signals are in phase (overlap). The frequency displayed on the counter is the crystal seriesresonant frequency, fS. Record this data together with the peak reading on the RF detector. Thebatch of nominal 3.579 MHz TV color burst crystals yielded an average series resonantfrequency, fS =3.579578 MHz.The motional capacitance, Cm, is calculated from the formula given by Brink [9]. Where: 2C1 (f Cap − f S ) Cm = (1) fSCapacitor

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Hall, 2004. 3) Marc E. Herniter, Schematic Capture with Cadence PSpice, Prentice Hall, 2001.Reference Texts: 1) Mohan, Underland, Robbins, Power Electronics Converters, Applications, and Design, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1995.Course Policies: ….Grading Policy: Identified passing criteria Passing Objective Criteria: To receive a passing grade in this course, all students must meet the following minimum criteria demonstrating how well they have mastered the course learning objectives. Each objective is assigned one or more Key Assignments, which will be graded specifically on the course objective(s) and related program

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Olsson; Lars Håkansson; Johan Zackrisson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

instrument front panels are used to control and read theinstruments by means of remote control. To avoid potentially serious student mistakes e.g.overloading a component the teacher can preset limits to the source voltages which areaccessible to students. The teacher can also restrict student circuits by, for example, dictatingminimum impedance in loops created with aid of the components provided. The number ofnodes provided on the virtual breadboard is adequate for experiments in undergraduateeducation. The laboratory is always open and can be used by registered students and guest usersalike. The time-sharing scheme used allows simultaneous access for up to 8 client PCs. A 56kbit/s modem and MS Internet Explorer are all that are required. The

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

engineering module developed this year into one such project.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the departmental technical support staff, in particular JerryBallman, Daphi Jobe, Erich Keyes, Bill Stanton, Ken Walsh and Mike Wilson, for their Page 10.10.11assistance with supporting the course. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering EducationBibliography[1] S. Sheppard and R. Jenison, "Freshmen Engineering Design Experiences and Organizational Framework," International Journal of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Scoff

. Thewires were categorized according to length and function. Where before, the studentswere always searching for the right type and length of wires, the wires were now easy tofind. As an added benefit, the wires were always returned to where they belonged, andthe students developed a sense of responsibility for taking care of the lab. As a matter offact, the morale and attitude of the students improved. The students did not have anymore equipment available than before the re-organization, but now it could be easilyfound.Then there was the matter of getting rid of some of the old equipment that was in the lab.There was reason to believe that certain items were just stored in there. There was a1950’s vintage overhead projector. Someone had donated

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Manhire

Provost Sharon Stephens Brehm.In addition to holding discussions and considering testimony, the TELC gathered voluminousundergraduate grade data across many cohorts of the University. Undergraduate grades were col-lected for the fall quarters (terms) of 1993 and 1999 for the University en masse as well as for thefollowing sectors: the chief academic divisions (colleges) of the University, course levels (i.e.,the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior levels), faculty tenure status (i.e., tenured faculty,non-tenured tenure-track faculty and faculty not eligible for tenure) and faculty sex.The TELC’s findings were reported to the provost in June of 2000.46 Here however, only find-ings for the University' s Russ College of

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li

-phase inverter for AC machines. The bi-positional switch of a power-pole is used to represent the same functionality of a practical electronic switch under the idealswitching condition, making it much easier and faster for students to understand and analyzefundamental characteristics of switch-mode power electronic converters. P o w e r P o le s Figure 2. Switch-mode converter and its power-pole representation in electric drive systems A corresponding hardware implementation of the switch-mode converter is shown inFigure 3 [5, 6]. The drives board has been designed to enable a variety of experiments on AC/DCmachines and have introduced digital control and DSP technologies by using Simulink

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ritsuko Izuhara; Hideo Miyata; Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

C lassification Price S ound Features S ecurity S till picture Topics Transm ission speed Virtual Zoo C hildren G am e A

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Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

S tr a in Figure 5: Stress Strain Behavior of 1050 Steel Untreated, Annealed at 1200F, and Annealed 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 at 1650F Strain Figure 4: Stress-Strain Behavior of Copper Annealed at 1200F and work hardened.Figure 4 shows the effect of work hardening. In this case the tensile test was interrupted at astrain of about 25% and then a new tensile test was performed as if the bar were as received.Note, that yield strength of the work hardened specimen is much higher than the fully annealedspecimen. Figure 5 shows the affect that annealing temperature has on the strength

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Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew J. Wiesner; Jonathan P. Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

consequences. Onestudent utilized 13 attempts, during 55 minutes of effort for one particular quiz. Effortthat would have been better spent comprehending the material rather than the “try untilyou succeed” approach lacking the comprehension. It is permitted for the student toaccess the notes or any other electronic source in search of the answer(s). Nearly all theclass obtained 100% for these quizzes (enhanced (directed) learning opportunities). Thisparticular quiz contained the 20 questions from a question bank of about 40 questions.Often this activity was immediately prior to the deadline. Another companion paper, inthese proceedings, discusses the procrastination issue and consequences.Table 1. Time on Task for quiz submission(s) and submission

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

Prototyping11 Cost Estimation / Product Development EconomicsAcknowledgementThis project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0234016. Thissupport is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. Ulrich, K. T. & Eppinger, S. D., Product Design and Development, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2004.2. Hazelrigg, G. A., Systems Engineering: An Approach to Information Based Design, 1996.3. Esche, S. K. & Chassapis, C., Integrating Concepts of Decision Making and Uncertainty into Engineering Design Education, 33rd ASEE/IEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2003.4. Esche, S. K. & Chassapis, C., SGER: A Framework for Adapting Decision Based Scientific Principles in Engineering Design, NSF Proposal, 2002.5

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BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alan Sahakian

average student rating was for thisconcept was 2.5, which is below 3, indicating that students thought this concept was notmade visible to them through out the demonstration. Page 10.177.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education The extent to which the NMR/MRI demonstration made the concepts become visible to students La rm o r F re quency- v is ible 4.3 R F puls e s a nd f lip

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheldon Jeter

models. This uncertainty of a model is the range of uncertaintyabout the systematic dependence of the dependent variable on the independentvariable(s). Unfortunately, none of the popular texts reviewed for this paper adequatelyaddress polynomial models and their uncertainties, probably because polynomial modelsseem to be common mostly in engineering applications. In contrast, polynomial modelsare not so common in fields such as medicine and social sciences that seem to attractmore interest from professional statisticians. Nevertheless, it has been shown elsewhere(Jeter, 2003) that Error Propagation Analysis (EPA), which is already familiar to mostexperimental engineers, can be used to find the uncertainty of both linear and