Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

Page 8.495.6hands-on activities excited the majority of the students, resulting in significant interest in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe Lost in the Amazon curricular unit. Students commented that they had “never donefancy experiments” and were wondering how “engineering can be fun?” This excitementtowards the hands-on projects was maintained throughout implementation, and createdinitial student interest in the required worksheets. By having fun with Lost in the Amazon,students seemingly changed from their conception that engineering “can’t be exciting,” asexemplified when students

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

pertain to all disciplines and/or tie thedisciplines together. Three have been identified. They either already exist in the program or will beadded.Capstone Design: The first is the senior level capstone design course. It offers students anopportunity to focus on a full-scale design project. The course ties each of the civil engineeringconcentrations together and provides student an opportunity to apply their coursework in to a“real world” problem. Students must form an imaginary company, prepare a project proposal inresponse to a request for proposals, prepare design submittals in accordance with a writtenstatement of work, and make presentations to practicing engineers, faculty, and other studentsabout the work that they have done on their

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Kline

process design engineer. Once these attributes or criteriahave been established, performance measurements or rubrics can be designed to guide or promptan assessor or evaluator to look for outcomes from a performance activity related to the desiredcriteria. A “performance activity” for the purposes of process design is defined as any activity byan individual, a group or team, or an individual within a group or team that is working towardsachieving the goals and learning outcomes of the design assignment or project. Examples ofperformance activities would include but are not limited to group meetings or work sessions, oralpresentations, meetings and interactions with the “customer” or “client” of the design project (suchas faculty, industrial

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Adrezin; Marty Wood; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

called Project Lead the Way (PLTW). In the PLTW consortium, students willcomplete their capstone project and one senior level course at a neighboring communitycollege. The implementation of a seamless pathway program in Engineering andEngineering Technology was first piloted with the Engineering Department at theUniversity of Connecticut and with the School of Technology at Central Connecticut StateUniversity. This paper will highlight the strategies that were used to overcomearticulation and transfer barriers between two-year community colleges and four-yearengineering programs including the following: 1 Organizational Structure 2 Administrative procedures 3 Articulation using program outcomes 4 Mentoring 5

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

design experience that is at the very cutting edge of engineering education. Itis multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed,and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologiesimpacting industrial development and taps subjects of high interest to students. Thedesign and construction of an intelligent vehicle fits well in a two-semester, senior yeardesign capstone course, or as an extracurricular activity earning design credit. Mostparticipating undergraduate and graduate students use the technical challenges posed by thecompetition as guidelines for their engineering projects. Under the supervision of facultyadvisors, participating students can register and receive grades for up to

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

presents the result of this process, and providespreliminary assessment of how the new curriculum is functioning. Page 8.45.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionIn February 1997, then Dean Richard K. Miller of the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Iowa created and charged the Curriculum Advancement Task Force (CATF)with development of a vision for a new curriculum to complement the new educationalopportunities to be offered by the addition and renovation project. The

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

progressivelygiving more weight to design product quality. Students nearing completion of theirengineering degrees should be self-motivated to improve their design team skills and theirfocus should be on creating products that meet client requirements.Separate activities can be found in the TIDEE curriculum archive for beginning, mid-program, and capstone design students. Learning objectives and instructional strategiesfor design-based activities at different levels of the curriculum are responsive to changinglearner needs for design team knowledge, design team processes, and involvement withdesign products. Figure I. Shifting Focus of Design Education

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

working. Kettering University is currently engaged in reforming itscurriculum to meet some of these demands. The objective of this paper is to discuss two new corecourses that were developed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the area of multi-disciplinary dynamic systems in order to reach this goal. The idea is to teach these courses using aunified approach to systems, with hands-on laboratory experience and system simulation usingsoftware tools like MATLAB®, and focusing on an inquiry-based problem-driven approach. Thisis a team effort and a number of faculty members from the ME Department will be involved inexecuting this project. Upon completion of these courses, the students should be able todemonstrate a good understanding of

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

Society for Engineering Education” Session 2433Project conclusion and student evaluationDuring the fall semester of his senior year, the student decided to terminate work on hisundergraduate thesis project. A number of factors contributed to this decision. They include: • Time constraint – The student felt that there wasn’t sufficient time to simultaneously work on the thesis while also maintaining excellence in his schoolwork and being involved in extracurricular activities, such as student government and his fraternity. He was also concerned about making satisfactory progress on his capstone senior design project. This team

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

funding to providing information to a medical department for budget decisions. The audience for each presentation is specified to develop the student skills. The written and oral presentations affect both the team scores and the individual scores. This process results in team participation in both processes. The roles of the team • Team Captain – Planner • Spokesperson – Presenter • Recorder - Documentation • Reflector – Assessment of team function Are rotated so that each member will perform each role. The teams then have a capstone research project at the end of the course, which is evaluated by biomedical faculty to determine

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

. Inthe original physics-based curricula, labs involving mechanical application were practically non-existent. To provide for new mechanical lab activities, basic laboratory stations were procured,an engineering measurements lab and course were created, and innovative, low-cost practicalexperiences were developed. These activities quickly became too numerous for a single course,and will need to be distributed into the engineering science courses. The electrical engineeringcomponent has been influenced by technology advances and changes in focus. Improvements tolaboratory equipment and software have simultaneously simplified many lab measurementswhile allowing for more complex projects. The focus has shifted from fundamental physicsmeasurements

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

effective oral presentations, not become graphic designers.The real power of all of theses applications is fully developed when they are effectively usedtogether. In a capstone design project, the student may use Chemcad® as the primary designtool, Mathcad® for sizing calculations not provided in the simulator models, Excel® for theeconomic analysis, Word® to produce the report, and Powerpoint® to construct a presentation.This degree of integration is the expected result of employing several software tools, and usingthem where appropriate in all of the chemical engineering courses.Information TechnologyAlong with the software tools, information technology is being used in other ways. As Table 2.shows, most of the classes now make use of electronic

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

Communication Certificate Program (TCC) at UW-Madison resembles a“minor” degree program, requiring 24-credit hours of work to complete the program.Besides work in general technical communication, editing, and oral presentations, electivecourses include web design, teams, electronic publishing and user manuals. Other coursesoutside technical communication are selected from approved course in communication,computer science, math/statistics, and management/business/economics.Students may also work in all phases of the production of Wisconsin Engineer, the award-winning college engineering magazine; and, as a capstone project, TCC students completea practical internship which requires substantial “real” technical communication work “on-the-job.”About half

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

often been avoided. With a heavy emphasis on teamwork via industry and accreditationstandards, group projects are a high priority.There are two primary problems to resolve when students work on teams. The first problem isthat students are rarely taught how to work on teams. The second problem is the need to assesseach individual’s contributions (or lack thereof) to the team.Assessing teamwork, by its very nature, is usually deemed as a subjective process. Thus, theapproach employed to perform the assessment must be structured in a manner that can beobjectively and quantitatively measured via a methodology emphasizing the teaching of teamworkand the evaluation of individual contributions to a team. The individual assessments areaccomplished

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

generate an appropriate solution or, perhapsmore importantly, to evaluate the solution. We have used exercises in specification developmentin both our freshman “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” course and our sophomore designcourse. This paper will describe these exercises and provide an example.Preface“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution…” -- AlbertEinstein1“The most critical step in the solution of a problem is the problem definition or formulation.” 2, 3, 4“The starting point of most design projects is the identification by a client of a need to be met.” 5 The client’s statement of need must be refined in the problem definition in which 1) objectives areclarified, 2) user requirements are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

, civil engineering students who have opted for a concentration in environmentalengineering also take, “Chemistry and Biology of Environmental Systems.” Both of thesecourses are intended to introduce engineering students to basic tenants of biology and to helpprovide a link between biology courses taken during the second and third years of high schooland college-level biology courses. The third course in our series is offered as a split-level to bothseniors as well as graduate students. This course is entitled, “Biological and MicrobiologicalPrinciples of Environmental Systems,” and the main emphasis is to introduce microbialbiochemistry and physiology. The capstone course, entitled, “Molecular Biology inEnvironmental Engineering,” is a split

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

• Conceptual insights • Mu ltidisciplinary • Studio courses • Problem solving of from course preparation teaching • Supervision of theses, • Critical thinking, i.e., or discussion • I ntegrative courses dissertations, and student teaching where theScholarship • Faculty insights from • Capstone courses, e.g., projects primary impact is on the supervision of theses Astro-biology; Science, • Professional courses, knowledge and learning, and dissertations Technology, and Society i.e., teaching where the skills of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

capstone course and ensuring better coordination of prerequisites.The second regarded design (synthesis), coordination, and communication as major featuresintegrated into the traditional course structure. The third, and most radical alternative would haveeliminated traditional courses in favor of a design studio sequence, with engineering principleslearned in the context of design project. The faculty opted for the second alternative. Thestructure of the curriculum after the revision is outlined in Table 2.Table 2. The structure of the revised MIT civil and environmental engineering curriculumGeneral and Civil Engineering FundamentalsIntroduction to Computers and Engineering Problem SolvingUncertainty in EngineeringDifferential EquationsProject

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

first module is an introduction and a welcome to the department. An eight-minute longdepartment video is shown which depicts different laboratories overseen by the department suchas the concrete and turbine labs. The video also recounts recent capstone student projectscomplete by our graduates.The second module is an introduction to the West Point Bridge Designer program (which will bediscussed later). The basic properties of the program are discussed and a demonstrationconducted. The students are then given a simple exercise to completely design a bridge using theWest Point Bridge Designer.The third and most interactive, team building module consists of dividing the students into groupsof four to compete in two design competitions, one using

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

Session 1363 Creating Sharable Learning Activities Examples from a Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Donald R. Falkenburg, Allie Knowlton, Mary Jo Cartwright, Wayne State University Wayne State University CNC Connection Corp.AbstractMany engineering faculty have been involved in projects to improve teaching and learning usingweb-based resources. Information-based learning materials have proven to be adaptable anddynamic; they have enhanced the educational process

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Jewell

Page 8.590.3“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”in 1000 AD. Visits to Roman ruins, antiquities museums, and archeological sites not yetopen to the public provided a rich background for the students in their projects.In the International Virtual Design Studio (IVDS), students interact over the Internet withstudents at a foreign university on a cooperative design project. The project culminates intravel to the foreign institution for a design competition. In some instances groups fromthe foreign institution also travel to the U.S. To date the only significant IVDS program iswith the Middle East Technical Institute in

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

that the womenwho were leaving SMET majors in university had equal if not higher GPAs than those who didnot leave. They left because they found it dull and intellectually numbing, rewards were lowcompared to the effort, and the teaching was poor 15.Research suggests that a crucial intervention point for encouraging girls to pursue math- andscience-related fields is during middle school. In a middle school with seventh and eighth graderswith computers in their classrooms, Koch found that the girls were not at the computer in math ortechnology class free time 8. The girls worked on their math in the math class free time or helpedother female students with their projects in the technology class free time. The boys, however,were always at the

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Varvel; Stephanie Adams

included in the MBTI are used byevery person at one time or another10. The value of the test is derived by learning more aboutyourself and others and being better able to understand the behavior of someone who has adifferent type preference. The use of the Myers-Briggs test in a team setting can help to overcome teamperformance obstacles by encouraging team members to better understand each other. Accordingto Culp & Smith, understanding individual preferences can “identify potential blind spots or Page 8.124.2areas of vulnerability on a project team”, “demonstrate the value of having diverse styles on the Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Carter; John Feland

been usedin two Stanford classes to provide students with a pedagogical scaffold to assist students indeveloping their innovation process. In ME297x, Innovation with Emerging Technologies12, thismodel was used to study historical innovations across disparate domains. Students also used thismodel to analyze the diffusion of emerging technologies as a Solution biased innovation process.That is to say, viewing the transition of Emerging Technologies into the greater market is apractice of potentially compelling Solutions in search of compelling Needs to be paired with. InME116A, the first in the capstone design sequence for the undergraduate Product Designcurriculum, the framework was used to develop and evaluate product concepts as

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

graphical programming during the course, but this process isgradually built-in. A progressive exposure to create virtual instruments offer the best students theability to create their own virtual instruments, and develop capstone design projects. Theexperiences gained in teaching and research at the Korea university of Technology and Education(KUT), University of Hartford and Moscow State Technological University ‘STANKIN’ are usedin the development of case studies. Page 8.668.5CASE STUDIESCase Studies at KUTWeight Measurement System with Virtual InstrumentStrain gauges are used to measure the displacement -strain relationship of the aluminum beam. Inthis system, double strain

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

curriculum.Coordinated Spiral CurriculumAlthough the curriculum had just passed a rigorous review by its accrediting agency, the facultybelieved that there was always room for improvement. The faculty decided to step back andexamine the entire curriculum with fresh eyes. The faculty threw off the shackles of mundanementality and looked afresh at curriculum. If we the faculty could start with a clean slate, whatwould we create? The faculty determined that the curriculum must have the following keyfeatures: • Satisfy accreditation criteria • Provide breadth and depth of curriculum content • Include a projects thread through the program to develop professional skills • Incorporate a just-in-time curriculum content flow • Produce

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

engineering curriculum was initiated at the freshmen level,faculty felt that integration should also be undertaken for our engineering students further along in theireducation. After faculty discussion, it was agreed that a single lecture would be prepared and delivered tomechanical, electrical and industrial engineering students enrolled in a fall semester course preparing for themfor their capstone senior design projects in the spring, called Professional Awareness, ME 439, EE 439 and IE439. This class included 39 engineers from the mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering disciplines.This paper summarizes the results of a first formal attempt by faculty in the School of Engineering at WNECto educate students on this difficult yet

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelia Barnett; Joan Burtner

conditioning, hospital, paper mill, power companies,telephone companies, various government contractors, and a biomedical pharmaceuticalcompany. Comments from employer evaluations on the students’ strengths and weaknesses werealso obtained in addition to data for the EC2000 a-k criteria. A synopsis of the employercomments for strengths were: 1)good communication skills, strong work ethic, well roundedness,teamwork, analytical skills, quality of work and initiative. Some comments related toweaknesses were: 1) needs to continue improving general engineering skills, and 2) could bemore assertive in verbal communication, project planning, organizational planning, and self-confidence. The combination of qualitative and quantitative feedback offers a richer

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

. Page 8.779.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 4–Making a viscoelastic materialBoth the students and their teachers enjoyed the presentations. The following teacher commentswere typical:! Students loved the activities and trying out the experiments.! Presenters were very enthusiastic. Students enjoyed the activities and the lesson.! Great experiment! Very appropriate for this age group.Outreach as a Result of the ClassLouisiana Tech has now received a second phase grant from the NOVA project. We have twomain goals in this second phase. We will