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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Medina; Louis Thurston

defend their ideas. In sodoing, the students create their own unique conceptual frameworks and don’t rely solely on aninstructor’s or a text's framework. In a collaborative learning environment, students have theopportunity to actively interact with peers and instructors by presenting ideas, exchanging variedviewpoints, and question others. A second important factor was to keep the use of technology assimple as possible. The idea was to use the mentioned tools to learn, rather than to devote much Page 8.894.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

triggering learninghow engineers and managers interest, learning from others, and working in teams.solve real-world problems. - Asynchronous learning opportunities, such as solving challenging problems, accessing vast information sources, learning discovery- based educational experiences safely, and enhancing peer-to-peer education. Table 1: Educational Objectives to Achieve Project Goals Page 8.459.33. Development of Case StudiesProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

mostfaculty in engineering schools are not even familiar with these types of writing much lessunderpin their teaching practice by them. The exception to this generalisation is the growingnumber of faculty who have been exposed to these through professional development programsand now Graduate Certificates in Eduction.Engineering education has much to learn from and contribute to the wider, philosophical andempirical literature in higher education. The higher education community has recognised thedistinct characteristics of different disciplines when it comes to university teaching and studentlearning.15-17 It can be argued the whole concept of educational theory is problematic as it opensup more basic questions about what we understand by knowledge

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe last decade. This trend is evident at NAU as well; the 2000 edition of Open Doors citedNAU as among the top twenty institutions in its peer group in terms of students studying abroad,with the largest segment participating in language acquisition programs in Mexico, Spain,France, Germany, China, Germany, China and Japan. Clearly, more and more students,including engineering students, are highly motivated to participate in focused languageacquisition, programs that bring them to linguistic and cultural competence quickly, efficiently,and early in their

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

work.The students will complete many of the requirements for designing and developing models andexperiment, using the scientific method, and presenting their research to their peers andteachers. Additionally, they will be forced to determine the efficacy of different approaches aswell as use cost and time analysis as decision making tools. In learning about the processes usedin making MEMS, the students will also have a chance to see the environmental impact of thefabrication techniques. Overall, in a short course, the student not only achieves many of thestandards expected in their grade level, they get a chance to see the relevance of their work inclass to the “real world”.Although they have frequently had advanced coursework in the sciences

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

a competitive market.Development of Computer-Aided Design and Prototyping Course (ME444)With the availability of CAD tools, our curriculum at Purdue in 1991 began formulating meansby which undergraduates could learn to use advanced software in the design process. InteractiveCAD software was introduced in the laboratory while, at the same time, the course coveredvarious theories including geometric modeling, numerical analysis, optimization, and someaspects of finite elements. Students also learned to write interactive graphics programs. In timewe realized that the industry required engineers to do design with CAD. For this reason,engineers with only undergraduate degrees were seldom called upon or trusted to run analysissoftware

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationinternet, and skills training for applications that range from word processing to spreadsheets tomathematical tools such as Matlab. While such a course was appropriate in the past, the currentcrop of entering freshman is increasingly savvy about the use of computers, the network and theInternet. Almost every student uses e-mail on a regular basis and has used word-processingsoftware for writing reports. In addition, there is an increasing cohort of students who have usedbasic spreadsheet functions and have basic programming skills.This change in the baseline of the entering freshman points to a need for a paradigm shift in

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Goldberg

Lockheed Martin [5] – “Generally speaking they're (engineering students) very well prepared in their own discipline. And also in the fundamentals, math or literature. If I broaden from the students I'm teaching, just to the general group of graduates in college today, I would say the principal shortcoming of the engineering students is a lack of breadth in terms of their ability to communicate in writing, verbally, [and] their lack of background in public policy issues, political science issues, those things that affect engineering. Just as the laws of physics affect engineering, so, too, do the laws of the land. And engineers and scientists. . .have generally been relatively inept at dealing with

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

science teachers treat girls andboys differently in the classroom, including making more eye contact with the boys, paying moreattention to the boys, and challenging boys to find the right answer, while girls get sympathy 1.Astin and Astin found, as have other studies, that boys tend to operate the equipment while thegirls record data and write reports. They saw that a loss in self-confidence from differentialtreatment appears to begin around the seventh grade and continue through high school 1. Themost striking differences between boys and girls are not in achievement or opportunities to learn,but in their attitudes toward science and mathematics 2. Research has continually shown thatwomen are significantly less confident than men in their math

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

andindustrial challenges, including best practices, with the intention of reducing risks,getting things done using sound methods, technologies and collaborative peer groupexperience as support mechanisms.The audience of this library is engineering science and technology students, engineeringmanagement students, design, industrial engineering, design and process engineers, ITstudents / professionals, as well as biomedical engineering and medical science students.At its most fundamental level, our library is a• Knowledge documentation method, architecture, tool and resource, an• Instructional method characterized by the integrated approach to engineering, science, management, IT, and medical sciences, in which we use challenging 'real world

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Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

learning.Social negotiation and the ongoing testing of the viability of existing concepts in the faceof personal (and group, peer, and team) experience are the principle forces involved in thefiltering, absorption, reasoning and then the evolution of knowledge ([5], [6], [7], and[8]).In engineering, management, biomedical engineering and information technology, theapplication of these learning methodologies bring students into situations that combinelaboratory experience with real-world business environments, creating integrated andcomplex systems in which specific problems must be solved. Although thisinterdisciplinary, open-ended nature makes PBL interesting and engaging, it also poseschallenges to instructors and students that differ significantly

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

. § Organize the appropriate team of 3 to 5 or perhaps up-to 7 people. (If you have too few, or too many the intensity of the discussion will suffer!) § Summarize the problem / challenge definition again (see list above). § Generate as many ideas as possible, even if many of them are totally off-beat. Page 8.962.5 § Give everyone equal opportunity to contribute to the new idea generationProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education. process. (Let them warm up, relax and then roll...) § Write down every idea... even

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

attitudes and accomplishments of the companies. Gelderland and the other Netherlands provinces have developed a list of "skills" to help them promote more customer-oriented work: flexibility, openness, cooperation, reliability, ability to obtain results, ability to manage projects, ability to manage change, and ability to motivate colleagues and employees. Gelderland representatives also emphasized the importance of a continuous effort by management to promote Quality Circle values through all media, from meetings to email to one-on-one interactions. Peer training and "coaching" are also germane to their approach. New Zealand The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment recently commissioned a (May 2002) report that

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Maxwell; John Janecek; Jerry Kucirka; Jamal Ghorieshi

acids (A, G, U, & C) were the subject of assignedproblems.The use of peer instruction facilitated by the assigning of teams of 3 to 5 students for classroomproblem solving has always been encouraged. This was usually followed up by group out-of-classassignments. Individual problem solving skills are assessed on homework and exams.Some type of team-based design project has been a continuous requirement for all IE courses.Both the topic and the team composition (typically 4 to 5 members) are assigned. Topics areusually open ended, so the team must define its specific problem and consider possible solutions.Sometimes a project prototype is actually built, but usually the assignment only requires aproposal with a detailed plan to solve a

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

materials,communicate, make design modifications during the construction phase, test the design, developoperational guidelines, and write design reports. The linkage between the customer and thestudent is essential for a real world type experience.17, 14The Design Problem“Design a prototype reactor that is capable of providing multi-barrier water treatment to soldiersserving under austere conditions and protects them across a range of nuclear, biological, andchemical (NBC) and physical contaminants”.15 Soldiers operating under austere conditions wouldutilize these portable devices in situations where they cannot be re-supplied via existing bulkwater treatment and Army distribution doctrine. This is a very open-ended problem statementthat requires

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

lowest levels werecombined into a single row titled personal needs. In addition belonging was more clearlyidentified with course or project expectations since real belonging implies that students will beable to fulfill the course requirements. Personal aspirations can also be viewed in terms ofpursuing excellence beyond the explicit course requirements. Personal needs deal with basicpersonal resources (e.g. owning a textbook, prerequisite knowledge), skills needed to startprojects (e.g. the student is secure in writing program methods), and with issues that are holdinga student back from achieving (e.g. enough time to sleep and study). The problem-solving aspectof the tool was also emphasized by adding Polya’s problem-solving strategy23 to the

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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.114.4 Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • Poor competitive learning strategiesCurriculumRisk factors for engineering retention that pertain to the curriculum include: • Lack of continuity between the first two freshman engineering courses (these courses were initially developed to be motivational and help with student retention, but have diverged somewhat in time) • Curriculum changes have confused students • Not enough writing opportunities in the

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

learning” or “cooperative learning”. The terminology seems to vary somewhat, butthe common principle involved is that students learn best when they study together appropriately.In particular, the students seem to learn best when they have the opportunity to explain thedifficult concepts and techniques to peers. Although it seems to be a paradox that you learnsomething by teaching it to someone else, it has been demonstrated that the process of explainingsomething to another student is an excellent tool for learning that thing well. This is the principlethat has been advocated and practiced for years in programs such as the PROMES program at ourcollege. Adopting this, we made the workshops the centerpiece of our project to help students inthese two

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

qualifications and expertise; and articulations with area and regionalcommunity colleges and technology companies. The second activity involves project faculty visitsto two SET programs at peer institutions, such as the University of Southern Mississippi, ArizonaState University, and the Oregon Institute of Technology. The visits are geared toward obtainingmore in-depth information on curriculum goals, laboratory configuration, facilities, administrativefunctions, and student outcomes in their Bachelors of Science programs.Information derived from the surveys and obtained during the site visits will be evaluated andsynthesized by the planning team and used to both validate EWU’s proposed SET courseworkand guide the future development of curriculum and

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

answers (including the measurement units in which the answers must beexpressed) are the most important steps toward problem solving success. The design studio begins with a presentation of a “design process” consisting of thefollowing elements: 1) carefully define the problem to be solved, 2) determine the designrequirements and limitations, 3) generate numerous alternative solutions (i.e., brainstorming), 4)select a solution that best meets the needs of the problem, 5) prepare a detailed design, 6) defendthe design to supervision (i.e., course instructors), 7) construct a device based on the final design;8) evaluate the performance of the final product (i.e., test) and, 9) write a final design report. The first two weeks of the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

a career in engineering and technology can genuinely be exciting and neat. Theperception is that it is too difficult a career path and the students are quite afraid of math andscience. The National reports support this impression as US students in k-12 level currently lagbehind their peers in other countries in math and science achievment5. The on-going decline infreshman engineering and technology enrollments since mid-1985’s provides an additionalsupport 2. On the top of it there is a declining pool of high school graduates in some states. The Page 8.564.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Collins; Rajesh Bhaskaran

. Page 8.755.1An informal survey of eight peer universities indicated that their situation was similar. In-dividual students might use CFD software for projects but it is not part of the curriculum.The use of CFD tends to be restricted to courses that focus on teaching numerical meth-ods. Usually, the basics of the finite-difference method are taught in detail and studentsdevelop computer codes to solve a few simple problems. The emphasis is on understandingand programming numerical methods. This is the approach used in the introductory CFDtextbooks by Anderson [1] and Tannehill et al [2], for example. There are several reasons why general-purpose CFD software has not penetrated under-graduate fluid dynamics courses to any significant extent

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Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Donald Elger

.” Our operational definition of quality in problem solving is founded on knowledge of howexperts solve problems. Wankat and Oreovicz22 present an excellent review—they providemany details and summarize the finding with a side-by-side comparison of novice and expertperformances. Resnik9 (paraphrasing Larkin et al.6) presents a lucid summary of expertperformance “Recent research in science problem solving, for example, shows that experts donot respond to problems as they are presented—writing equations for every relationshipdescribed and then using routine procedures for manipulating equations. Instead, theyreinterpret the problems, recasting them in terms of general scientific principles until thesolutions become almost self-evident.” Experts

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mike Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Ed Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

demonstrate how ahybrid approach to active learning can be accomplished. We will describe the coursestructure briefly, followed by insights derived from student writings and feedback, somediscussion of our lessons learned, and our overall recommendations for courses of thistype.II. Course structure – Elementary Classical Physics I and II (Honors)II.A. OverviewThe course we will be describing is a special section of our standard two-semestersequence of elementary classical physics. The Honors distinction implies it is forstudents in the university’s Honors Program, however we also permit other students toenroll. This distinction allows us to teach the course differently and apply differentperformance standards for the students than for those in the

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

engineering practice • Effective writing • Effective speaking • Broad education /understanding of the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context • Preparation for and willingness to pursue continued intellectual and professional growth Page 8.281.1 Figure 1. CE Program Objectives Supported by the Capstone Design Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003 American Society for Engineering Education The process of developing, administering, and evaluating a civil

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

consideration? o Is fuel source renewable? If not, can natural gas or coal be an alternative fuel source for oil? • Select the optimal solution Page 8.1060.9 • Write specifications • CommunicateProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationLet’s hope that the new generation of engineers being educated in, and equipped with knowledgeof, energy sustainability will make the engineering reflected in the above 15 energy cases, andmany others, better by being more engineering elegant. In a world where we