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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

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith math, physics, communication or graphic arts [Pearson, 1999] 3 [Wood et. al., 2001] 5 [Goffet. al. 2001]2. Other approaches entail consecutive classes where one class of students utilize thereports of a previous class’ work or team taught labs with instructors from different disciplines[Drake et. al., 2002]1.At Kettering University, collaborative efforts have been tested involving a selected number ofstudents in two non-concurrent courses or utilizing reports from previous course work to developa project in another class [Scheller, 2000]4. There has not been any attempt in conducting a trulyinterdisciplinary

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

various projects and learn how the disciplines of civil engineering overlap and integrate withother disciplines to solve real-world problems. The firm presents a series of engineering tasks tothe students. Each of the tasks represents a problem focused on one of the civil engineeringconcentrations. Working in teams, the students consult with the firms’ field experts to recognizethe complexities of the problems. They then use their theoretical knowledge to developconceptual solutions. In addition to gains in experiential knowledge, the retreat provides anopportunity for the students to network with the firm’s top engineers and more importantly withtheir fellow classmates. The retreat is a fully funded experience, which offers students

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

grant, the project thenbecomes their capstone design experience later in the curriculum. Page 8.823.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEach week’s homework assignment, then, is designed to contribute content or backgroundcontext for those proposals. Successful proposals generally include an overview of the industryand target market, current competition, customer needs, technical benchmarks, a description ofhow the new product idea satisfies those needs better than existing competitors

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly

. According to the most recent report by the U.S. TradeRepresentative, the European Union continues to be the U.S.'s largest trading partnerand, as such, is a large market for US goods and services.NIST has a number of publications that students can use to learn about EU Directivesthat could affect their design project. NIST Special Publication 951 gives an overview ofthe European process. 5 A table is included which shows the product fields affected by thenew approach. Some areas covered by directives include: medical devices, constructionproducts, machinery, and low voltage equipment.A series of reports are available dealing with directives in different sectors which studentscould consult for details specific to their project area. These documents

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

bythe United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development11 as “...developmentthat meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations tomeet their own needs...” It is well documented that a worldwide crisis is approaching ifsustainability does not become a fundame ntal consideration in development.10ASCE recognizes this need, as documented in its first fundamental Canon of its Code of Ethics:“Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public and shall strive tocomply with the principles of sustainable development in the performance of their professionalduties.3 ” Sustainable engineering is already a major consideration for construction of manyfederal projects, and many

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

industry and in allsubsequent chemical engineering courses. A pathfinder course, Computer Aided Modelingand Simulation (CAMS), links problem-based learning goals to existing computermodeling and simulation packages with interactive examples that introduce the students tofundamental principles in Kinetics, Thermodynamics, Momentum Transfer, Heat Transfer,Mass Transfer, Process Control and Plant Design. This Pathfinder Course converges to asenior year capstone course – Advanced Analysis. The prototype educational materials,designed to maximize the utilization of computer modeling and simulation packages forconstructivist student learning, are being tested for student performance in subsequentcourses and co-op experiences. The pedagogical theory of

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelly Adams; J. Filatovs; B. Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

behavior and of manufacturing processes are, in most engineeringcurricula, typically imparted in engineering science type courses early in the curriculum. Theactual usage of this information in the design process is left to the capstone machine designprojects and engineering design courses. There is a disconnect between the learning of the earlyyears and the real-world product design work that follows. This is natural, because fundamentalclasses talk in generalities – materials, for example, are classified broadly as metals, ceramics,polymers and composites and their general structure, mechanical and physical properties arediscussed. Likewise, manufacturing processes are broadly classified into forming, solidification,removal and joining. It is

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

spreadsheet to document each student’sachievement in ZULOs and MaLOs. The MaLOs are course embedded. The spreadsheet inTable 1 shows only sample courses. The spreadsheet is used to assess the student’s readiness forthe internship and capstone project (Table 1).Learnin g Outcome s Status for : CIS CIS CIS CIS CIS … - ----- Pre -internship - - - - - - Course : 101 215 240 241 303 … Status Reqmnt Shortfall Exceeded Course completed (X): Out comeZULOs : (1-beginning, 2-developing,3-accomplished )Information Literacy /Communication 1 1 … 2

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 4: Assessment Methods for Objective 2 2. To produce Biomedical Engineers able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and prepared to work in multidisciplinary teams. After completing the B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, students will be able to: a. Deliver effective oral presentations to multiple audiences, including health care and engineering professionals. (3g) i. Oral presentations of capstone projects made by students in BAE 451 and BAE 452 to an audience that includes health care and engineering professionals. A faculty team has defined a rubric, which

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

to be considered, before placing limitations orrestrictions on the creative process itself. For example, the Eight DimensionalMethodology could be incorporated into Capstone projects in the proposal stages ofdevelopment. Obviously, not all solutions that are thought of as a result will be feasible,affordable, efficient, or even materially possible. That is not the point. The goal is tomentally stretch and stimulate the engineering student towards thinking creatively aboutproblems, towards realizing the vast possibilities of many diverse and otherwiseunconsidered solutions.We encourage faculty members to consider adoption of this process in technical courses,where students are challenged to think about solving problems. And, that in addition

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

students help with the development of projects in capstone courses either inparallel with their own personnel or in conjunction with them. If the students develop abetter product, the company is ahead of the game. If the students do not developanything usable, there is little loss to the company but, it is still a good learningexperience for the students.Some schools have developed extensive communication requirements, but with theadvent computer age the aura of the computer doing all grammatical and spellingchecking gives the students a false sense of security. At one time, the University ofFlorida require that all students, including Masters and Ph. D candidates, take a spellingtest. If they failed they were required to take remedial classes

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Lin; Matthew Sanders

capability analysis may be needed• Concern about the quality control (process improvement) issues for the pop can manufacturer’s process, such as the pop can weight specifications, etc.• Concern about the cost reduction of the raw material• Visit a pop can manufacturerIt is important to have various hands-on experiments to be part of classroom activities. Thesekinds of experiments provide students with practical problem solving knowledge and skills, whichnot only help them on their co-op activities during their work terms but also help carrying out therequired capstone course. Furthermore, a hands-on team project can often improve students’attitude and performance in engineering and prepare them for their future professionalenvironments

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

° • Operate in multi-disciplinary teams • Troubleshoot and design • Be effective project managers • Understand limitations Classroom for Clarification WEB To prepare for class Laboratory Project Exploration Figure 1 Execution Figure 1 Microelectronics Curriculum Delivery Format at Arizona State University EastThe content delivery plan that is being tested in the microelectronics curriculum is ahybrid model that consists of a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

theemphasis is on computer hardware and software instead of electronics, the controller can be adigital one provided by a personnel computer. The student has to design and build an interfacecircuit to enable the computer to read the voltage from the LM335 and send a signal to energizethe relay. The interface circuit includes an ADC0804 analog to digital converter, a 4N28 Opto-Isolator and the PC parallel port. A computer program using C and Assembly languages iswritten to control the temperature. The designs presented in this paper can be a part of anysenior electronics, automatic control, digital systems design, or capstone courses.Introduction A good experiment in engineering technology is one with a lot of practical implications.Through it

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

. Page 8.532.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education2. Electronics and System Engineering through Robotics Lab . Class 0, Lab 3, Cr. 1.The objectives of this course are to provide students with hands-on experience of digital logical,electronics, and control systems. A main component of the course is the design, building,programing and testing of mobile robots.In addition, the direction of the capstone design projects has been shifted to a multidisiplinaryprojects that combine Electrical and Mechanical Engineering concepts.Ethics: The previous curriculum has no specific Ethics component. Also, the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Tuana; John Wisw; John Christman; Andy Lau; Thomas Litzinger

as theyformulated plans for integrating ethics into their curricula, e.g., IIT 1, Towson State2 and OregonInstitute of Technology.3) It became clear that if departments were to be successful in integratingethics into engineering courses, some form of development would be required for most facultymembers.Shortly after the need for a faculty development activity became clear, the College of Engineeringand the College of the Liberal Arts received a gift from an Alumnus to start joint activitiesinvolving engineering and ethics. This gift explicitly linked the Douglas and Julie Rock EthicsInstitute in Liberal Arts and the Leonhard Center. When the Directors of the Institute and Centermet to discuss possible joint projects, they quickly decided

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

Operations Laboratory that has begun during the 2000-2001academic year. A newly created Endowed Chair, the Linus Pauling Engineer, was hired fromindustry to identify and incorporate the highest priority professional practices to senior lab. Sheserves as “project director” for this class to help new graduates become immediately prepared forindustrial practice. Thus the unit operations lab provides students with the array of skills theywill need to perform effectively in industry. The ChE Unit Operations Laboratory inMicroelectronics Processing is targeted at undergraduate students who are interested in careers asprocess engineers in microelectronics and related industries. The students will both develop anin-depth understanding of the underlying

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Holling

education is the move towards team and project based learning as a result ofseveral different factors: 26 - the demand from industry for experience - the increasing use of media assisted education - the transition from a “teaching” to a “learning” environmentIt is beyond the scope of this paper to explore the above reasons in greater depth. The result is the increasinguse of lab based education, team projects and capstone projects in the traditional Engineering Education: thus theEngineering student is directly exposed to Engineering Technology – the application of known technology, andas a result new conflicts emerge between the two disciplines.In the past, Engineering disciplines have often perceived Engineering Technology as inferior

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Kline; Jerry Ku; Chin-An Tan; Trilochan Singh; Ronald Gibson

Objectives Have Been Achieved Fall Semester 2002” is for an entry levelcourse and provides an example of such a required report. For each of the course learningobjectives that had been listed in her syllabus, the course instructor must describe what measuresshe had used for a particular learning objective to assess the extent to which that learningobjective had been achieved (quiz or exam scores, performance on design projects, laboratoryreports, oral reports, etc.), what actual scores the students had achieved based on this measure,and, from the student surveys, report to what extent the students thought course learningobjectives had been achieved. The “Instructor’s Assessment of Extent…” report concluded witha listing of changes in the course or

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

higher to score above 4.0 for ABET criterion a, b, c, e, and k. 1B Incorporate design modules and/or 1. Students can a, b, c, 1. Successful completion of capstone open-ended problems in the one implement e, k design project. course in each of the sophomore, strategies required 2. Compilation of design projects in core junior and senior years of the to solve open-ended undergraduate courses other than in undergraduate curriculum problems. the capstone design course by 2. Students can use

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Yarmolenko; J. Sankar; D. Pai; Juri Filatovs

8.233.3Characterization by Digital Microscopy,” taught to graduate students 11. This is a software-based Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse, centered on Image-Pro, and is the evolved equivalent of “Quantitative” Metallography,the examination of microstructures in the optical and scanning microscope ranges. The softwarehas a large number of functionalities tailored for materials research and is rich in subject matterpossibilities. The formal lectures focused on the core topics of statistics, spatial geometry, and theproperty-structure link. Individual projects, based on the students’ thesis or

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

in the wholearea of general education, the GER Program required each academic program to develop upperlevel intensive courses in several key areas that include critical thinking, writing, oralcommunication, and GER capstone courses. The Mechanical Engineering Program developed twocritical thinking intensive, two writing intensive, two oral communication intensive, and one GERcapstone courses. The Thermal Fluid Applications Laboratory was designated as an oralcommunication intensive course. The rationale was that the laboratory course provides betteropportunity and flexibility to incorporate a variety of activities related to the oral communicationbecause of three uninterrupted contact hours per each week. In addition, the task of

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

jump start for the capstone design project. One student Page 8.266.7commented that she was in the course because she “didn’t want to work in a cubicle.” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3554On the first day, a brief presentation was made about the design process using Quality FunctionDeployment (QFD), and function matrix formalism used in design. The students were

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, equipment, ortechnical assistance as well as soliciting the company for projects suitable for capstone designclasses.Advantages to the host companyThe host company effectively hires a faculty member with strong credentials and analytical skillson a temporary basis for a nominal cost. The faculty intern provides a new outlook to existingproduction problems. The company may utilize the faculty’s analytical skills to scrutinize issuesthat may require many man-hours of investigation.An advantage of the faculty intern process is that the company implicitly conveys the informationto the university on what attributes they are looking for in our program graduates. McMastersand Matsch have previously studied attributes of engineering graduates from

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jarosz; Ilene Busch-Vishniac

fragmented into statics, mechanics of materials, dynamics, mechanics of deformablesolids, dynamics of machinery, properties of materials, and a capstone design project. Manystudents have difficulty with the very first course and fail to retain it as they progress. Dallysuggests the following sequence instead: (1) mechanics and materials: non-vector approach, withdesign; (2) dynamics and vibrations including vector statics, with design; (3) design and analysisof machines, with design project.25 We note that the revised mechanics curriculum would havefewer prerequisites and thus a shorter critical path length.The comments of Dally are precisely the sort of curriculum revision we seek to promote on abroad scale. They suggest a review of technical

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Ragsdell; Halvard Nystrom

the virtual ruler in Total QualityManagement: A Multi-media Learning Environment. Remote students typically use the virtualruler, and must improvise (recruit family members or friends) in order to complete theassignment with the required team approach.EMgt-376/475: Quality Engineering: Quality Engineering is offered in two versions, onedesigned as a capstone design experience for undergraduate quality majors in the department(EMgt-376), and a more advance version designed primarily for MS and Ph.D. students in Page 8.1016.4Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Management. The advanced version Proceedings

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

advanced manner, environmental engineeringstudents need to understand the microbiology of public health as well as the capabilities ofmicroorganisms to degrade environmental pollutants. At the University of Cincinnati, we havedeveloped a new course entitled, “Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering.” Thiscourse serves as a capstone in a series of four courses that introduce engineers to biology.During the third year of a five-year undergraduate B.S. program, all civil engineering students atthe University of Cincinnati are required to enroll in “Introduction to EnvironmentalEngineering.” In this course, all of our students are first introduced to biological waste treatmentand public health microbiology. The first exposure of students to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit

expected to build a working model of their design in the workshop. Each team willsubmit a proposal and a project schedule identifying all work items needed to complete the designexperience by the end of the quarter. Weekly written and oral progress reports are also requiredfrom each team. Students are also required to maintain a design folder in which all relevantcorrespondence, team meetings and design calculations are kept. The design is normally constrained by size and cost and other considerations that may beapplicable depending on the problem. This design experience allows students the opportunity towork in teams during their first year of enrollment. It also emphasizes the importance of graphical,written and oral communications in the

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Thomas Salem

military. Next, an assessment is offered onthe current state of electric power programs within the academic community for meeting theseneeds. In recognition of projected technology-driven military platforms, an enhanced powerengineering concentration within the electrical engineering curricula at the Naval Academy hasbeen proposed. The paper will conclude with an overview of the selection process forcurriculum topics, course sequencing, and laboratory content.Power Engineering and the U.S. EconomyWith the innovative advancements in power electronic semiconductor materials over the past fewdecades, the field of power engineering has expanded from the traditional focus on utility-levelgeneration and transmission of energy to include the widespread