Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Bassman; Patrick Little

hope that these projects introduce the possibility of engineeringas a career to the students who take part in them. To this end, during the second half of theworkshop other interactive engineering tools that might excite high school students arepresented. For example, in 2001 participants were introduced to the West Point Bridge Designercontest [4].Women in Engineering and ScienceSince almost all of the attendees have a majority of students who come from groupsunderrepresented in science and engineering, a discussion of ways to encourage these students topursue these fields beyond high school is an important component of PEPS. In 2001, with theintroduction of a significant number of attendees from girls’ schools, a focused discussion onwomen

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

computing software, an experience that will serve the students well in their futureacademic and professional careers. Page 7.1288.14 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education% Analysis of a Statically Indeterminate Frame Utilizing the Slope-Deflection Method.% ______________________________________________________________________________________________% Program objective:% To compute the moments at joints B, C, and D of the given frame using the method of slope-deflection

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

Session 2166 SYSTEMATIC THERMAL SCIENCE COURSE DEVELOPMENT AT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY MAJ Shawn E. Klawunder, CPT Blace C. Albert, and Dr. A. Özer Arnas Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy West Point, NY 10996Abstract The mission of the United States Military Academy (USMA) is “To educate, train, andinspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of charactercommitted to the values of Duty, Honor, Country; professional growth throughout a career as anofficer in the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

their books here at CHA’s facilities. A fourth alternativewould be to collect books from individual professors and send them to Herat. This last step Ihave been pursuing for a number of years and have collected some books that will be sent ifother alternatives do not work.VI. Support StaffThe administrative structure of the Faculty consists of the Dean, the Assistant Dean, theAcademic Manager, a full time technician, and a librarian. Staffing seems to be adequate for aFaculty of this size.VII. Professional DevelopmentCurrently there are no formal professional development opportunities available for the teachingstaff. This has become a major source of frustration for the teaching staff especially the juniorprofessors. They look at their careers

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

strategies for teaching digital logic touniversity students are:· Lack of prior knowledge: Most university students encounter digital logic topics for the first time at the threshold of their university career. They possess no foundation of prior information (i.e., mental schemas) that can be used to encode new information and create new schemas of understanding. This places an onus on the instructor to successfully relate the new digital logic concepts (e.g., the binary nature of data) to existing out-of-discipline concepts (such as black & white printing and images.) Such a situation requires that the instructor or course designer (a) seek information about his/her students’ academic and professional background, as well as

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

will value the material being presented by linking what would otherwise be disjointed pieces of information;(iii) helps establish increased relevance between the material being studied and student’s perception of his career needs; and(iv) aids in increasing students grasp and retention of new material.Clearly, a paradigm shift is taking place in the academic arena in which the focus is movingaway from faculty and their teaching towards students and their learning.Other Factors: The advantages of curricular reform based on an integrated model are quiteevident as has been discussed. However, to carry out the change and execute intended reform isanother matter all together. Let us not forget that if execution is not carried out

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

Strategy. Washington, D.C., 199719. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology , Engineering Criteria 2000, Baltimore, 1996.Wendell Chris King, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, Colonel King is a career Army officer currently serving as Professor andHead of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. Hecompleted his B.S. in chemical engineering and M.S. in Civil Engineering at Tennessee Technological University,and Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee. Page 7.454.12Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Osborne; Bill Carroll

often not a practical option.Program DescriptionThe CS/EE Online Program is comprised of three degree options. Based on past experience andcurrent career goals, a student can select which of the three will best serve his/her educationalneeds. Choices include master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, orComputer Science and Engineering. To emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of this program,students in one department will be required to take at least two major courses from the otherdepartment. All three degrees are conferred with the Graduate Telecommunications EngineeringCertificate. Entrance requirements for the online programs are the same as for traditionalcampus-based programs. Degree requirements are summarized in

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

expressed enthusiasm for the technique not only asa means to seeing their own intellectual growth but also as an instructional tool that“hooks things up,” in the next study we examine concept mapping as an innovative formof instruction.Study 3MethodsStudy 3 has not yet been completed. All students (n = 61) currently enrolled in thetraditionally taught yearlong design course are serving as a control group. Next year, theinstructor will use concept mapping as an instructional tool (i.e., advance organizer).These two groups, Traditional and Innovative, will be compared in terms of theirperformance on parallel exams, course evaluations, and measures of intrinsic motivation,study strategies, and career goals and preferences. To control for pre-existing

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

Page 7.1199.2their careers after graduation. The models in the VIS must be designed so that they are Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationconfigurable, to enable exploration of data and experimentation with alternative solutions.Finally, our goal is to facilitate active learning and motivate the learning of methodology throughcase study problems.A specific learning system within the VIS is organized into what we call a course module, whichis a set of curriculum materials and computational models that can be used by an instructor, forexample, as an on-line lab assignment. A course module focuses on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng Min; Robert Weber; Feng Chen; Ben Graubard; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

student who plans to continue a career in the development ofvirtual reality applications. Since the user is the central component of a VR system, the softwareneeds to respond to that user within very demanding time frames. The development of such anenvironment requires very different program design and implementation techniques than, forexample, a database management environment.In this course students will use the VR Juggler software system as the case study for a time-critical framework for virtual reality (www.vrjuggler.org). Class exercises will involvedeveloping small projects with VR Juggler, expanding VR Juggler to add new devices ordisplays, and modify this framework to accommodate some user requirement not supported bythe current

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

universities, and nearly nonexistent programs to provide constructivecriticism from peers relegates most faculty to the very slow process of developing effective (ifthey are lucky and persistent) teaching styles through a long career of trial and error. Add thedemands of research and the appearance at many universities (probably true) of the greaterimportance of research over teaching, and it is easy to understand the reason for the large numberof ineffective teachers at the college level. However, it only takes a relatively small amount offocused effort in an exceptional program like ETW to lay the necessary foundation to become aneffective teacher. Even though the workshop does not have to necessarily look exactly like ETW,the workshop must present

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Youki Terada; Pam Sirivedhin; Flora McMartin; Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

division courses. Several changes were made tospecific courses to improve students’ integrative understanding of calculus and the physicalsciences, and to emphasize applications to engineering. Various data have been collected toinvestigate the impact the reforms had on student learning, as well as to gain insight intostudents’ experiences during their undergraduate engineering career. Interviews were conductedwith engineering students and faculty to garner feedback about integration efforts and studentsperceptions of the curriculum. This paper describes the interview project and outlines theinterpretive framework we established for the analysis of the interview data. Initial analysissuggests that students have difficulty understanding lower

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Grossfield

, Massachusetts 1961 Page 6.508.13 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ! 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationANDREW GROSSFIELDThroughout his career Dr. Grossfield, has combined an interest in engineering and mathematics. He earned a BSEEat the City College of New York. During the early sixties, he obtained an M.S. degree in mathematics at NYU atnight while working full time as an engineer for aerospace/avionics companies. He studied continuum mechanics ina doctoral program at the University of Arizona. He is licensed in New York as a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

curriculaexperiences; nationally-normed subject content examinations; recent graduate surveys that demonstrategraduate satisfaction with employment including career development activities, mobility opportunities, andappropriate job title; and employer surveys that demonstrate satisfaction with recent graduates. Programsalso must demonstrate that their graduates are readily accepted into the workforce and are prepared forcontinuing education.ixABET developed and is in the process of introducing the following objectives, as a part of EngineeringTechnology Criteria 2000 (ET2K). These standards include the following statements about outcomesassessment that we believe are compatible with the NAIT accreditation requirements. Since his group ofoutcomes was developed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Wilson

Society for Engineering Education”VI. Follow-up Studies and ActivitiesThe survey results indicate that the Industrial Engineering Department is doing a fairly good jobof retaining female students; however, improvements can be made in terms of recruiting newstudents, particularly from the regional community colleges.Specifically, several activities should be pursued at both the college and departmental level: • Recruit students from the regional community colleges. • Visit high schools to encourage students to pursue an engineering degree and to educate guidance counselors, and science and math teachers about career opportunities in engineering. • Increase the exposure of the IE department through advertising, community outreach

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

final reports. It is imperative that all groups function properly forthis interdisciplinary project to move forward. The students have, in general, responded very wellto this fact. They quickly realize that the only way to achieve the goals is to work together and tokeep deadlines within the group.Interdisciplinary IssuesThe interdisciplinary nature of the project is simultaneously its most challenging and interestingaspect. Since primarily chemical and mechanical engineering students have been involved, thisproject has brought to fore the differences in their respective training. Chemical engineers rarelybuild something during there academic career, while mechanical engineers are asked repeatedlyto build and design systems and components

Conference Session

Middle School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

perspectives of science and help us think about things in different ways. • He showed us and explained to us different ways to look at science. • He helped explained things differently. • You get new views and ideas from someone else, a different perspective. Also our Page 22.747.7 engineer is very creative and I learned a lot of new things. • It gives another insight on science in the classroom.Other students emphasized the new information they learned about careers. Here are some ofthose student comments. • It helped us learn about the world

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

-item online survey adapted from the Longitudinal Assessmentof Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE) instrument developed as part of the NSF-fundedAssessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project (Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE)Project, 2007).The LAESE was designed to measure undergraduate students’ self-efficacy related to succeedingin the engineering curriculum, as well as feelings of inclusion in the academic environment,ability to cope with setbacks or challenges related to the college environment, and expectationsabout engineering career success and math outcomes. The original use of the instrument wasfocused on self-efficacy among undergraduate women engineering students, and specifically onthe relationship of self-efficacy and the other

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University; James R. Morgan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

your professional career. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so that future work submitted by the team is improved. Your team will be evaluated on the quality of the feedback provided – being too easy or too hard will not help anyone improve as well as instructions on marking projects and grading rubrics.”It is critical to emphasize what students are learning in terms of course content, as well as whatthey are gaining in other ways from performing the peer-review cycle. Both parts of the peerreview cycle add to the learning outcomes (learning from the good and bad approaches attemptedby the other team & getting peer feedback about the clarity and correctness of their ownapproach). This not only improves student motivation

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Q. Lewis, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

throughout their college experience, including earlyin their undergraduate educational career. It is important to teach future engineers to be creativeand flexible, along with being curious and imaginative.1Traditionally, many engineering majors will include an Introduction to Design course forfreshmen to give them an understanding of the engineering design process which includes one ormore projects that the students work on in teams. Additionally, many students take a Strength ofMaterials course (a.k.a. Mechanics of Materials) at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College in thesophomore or possibly junior year. This course provides basic theory and application of therelationship between loading conditions on a body and the resulting stresses and strains

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso; Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; Ahsan Choudhuri, University of Texas, El Paso

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College Industry Partnerships

Dynamics Fort Worth Division (1987-1989), and has spent his entire academic career at The University of Texas at El Paso (Assistant Professor, 1994-2000; Associate Professor, 2000-2005; Professor, 2005-present).Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Ricardo L. Pineda holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from Lehigh University and a B.Sc. degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has over 25 years of experience in Systems Engineering in dif- ferent industries ranging from Research and Development at Bell Labs to Chief Technology Officer at AT&T in Mexico. He was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS) at Bell labs where as a Systems Engineer he worked on requirements and the architecture of new

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

expertise in dealing withany intellectual property situations they may face as they work with their industrial sponsors ontheir respective projects.All Capstone project teams are provided an opportunity to present their project work at theconclusion of each of the two semesters with the inclusion of a project fair at the end of thesecond semester. The project fair provides Capstone project teams an opportunity to demonstratethe physical results of their project in a setting similar to a career fair. Capstone project teamsalso prepare presentations that highlight the results of their project work. Since the goal of BYUand other academic institutions is to faciliate and provide learning opportunities for students,these presentations are open to the

Conference Session

High School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

highschool graduates – preparing them for any career path, particularly in STEM disciplines.Two high school based curricula currently being used to address these concerns are Project Leadthe Way and the Infinity Project. Project Lead the Way (www.pltw.org) has modules forintroducing engineering topics to students in both middle and high school. However, high schoolteachers in our partner schools have indicated to us that they would prefer a more in-depthcurriculum that ties together application and content. The Infinity Project (www.infinity-project.org) focuses on digital electronics, allowing for a rigorous approach, but is limited to avery narrow range of topics. Teachers have indicated to us that they like the rigorous nature ofthe Infinity

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Chanley, North Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

. Many students come to the College directly afterhigh school, while others bring a variety of living and work experiences to their studies. The Page 22.1377.2average age ranges from 25 years old in the day classes to approximately 31 years old in theevening courses. Some students take conventional college programs, planning to transfer to afour-year institution after graduation, while other students sign up for associate degree orcertificate programs leading directly to employment in specialized career fields. Also,significant numbers of students at NECC enroll in developmental and second language coursesto upgrade their skill sets before pursuing

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Frederick Clayton Berry, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

areexposed to many different levels of expectations. At one extreme are students who are overachievers and have been very strongly driven throughout their academic career. These studentshave either taken an AP course or possibly taken community college courses as part of their highschool program. These students need guidance only in how to channel their energy to besuccessful. At the other extreme, however, are first generation college students. These studentsmay need stronger levels of mentorship to be successful. Yet both of these sets of students arepresent in the same freshman course, and both of these students will be assessing theperformance of course instructors. They each will have a level of expectation set for the facultymember. At the

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Conry, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

each of these disciplines may acquire many of these skills andmuch of this knowledge in courses that are not necessarily taken by students in the other twodisciplines. It tells us that there is a commonality between the computer engineering andsoftware engineering programs that is reflected in the general shape of the curriculum, in thedegree to which student elective choices are constrained, and in the emphasis on engineeringdesign. These are programs that are intended to prepare students for professional careers. It tellsus that there is in general more commonality between the computer science and softwareengineering programs than there is between either of these two programs and the computerengineering program on the same campus. This study

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Nemes, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Kirsten S. Hochstedt, Penn State University; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Robert M. Capuro, Pennslyvania State University; Sven G. Bilen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

students with little or no previous exposure tosystems engineering. Specifically, at the end of the course it was intended that students should  Understand what systems engineering is  Understand what systems engineers do  Understand the qualities and skills that systems engineers bring to projects  Develop and practice the skills of systems engineers  Understand how systems engineers think (analytic skills)  Consider a career in systems engineeringTo reach these objectives, the approach taken was to introduce students to systems engineeringprinciples through the delivery of course modules covering systems engineering topics, whileconcurrently having students apply these principles to their design projects. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Boerio, University of Cincinnati; Dionysios D. Dionysiou, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Miguel Pelaez, University of Cincinnati; Mark Schulz; Christopher Huth; Vesselin N. Shanov, University of Cincinnati; Donglu Shi, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology (American Chemical Society) (2008), the AEESP Dissertation Advisor Award (2008), the NSF CAREER Award (2005); the DuPont Young Professor Award (2005); the 2007 Sigma Xi Award for Young Faculty, University of Cincinnati Chapter; the 2006 College of Engineering Research Award for Young Faculty, and the 2009 and 2010 College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Researcher Award.Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati Ian Papautsky is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics and Computing Systems at the Uni- versity of Cincinnati. He received a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. His research interests focus on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Omar M. Ashour, Pennsylvania State University ; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Wei Chen, Northwestern University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

of its competitors’ vehicles each year [10]) anddesign improvement (e.g., Whirlpool annually invites suppliers to disassemble and help improveWhirlpool products [11]). In the classroom, product dissection has become a popular pedagogyfor engaging engineering students given its “hands-on” nature. Product dissection introducesstudents to functional products and processes, and providing such experiences early in thestudents’ academic careers increases motivation and retention [12]. Product dissection can alsobe used to increase awareness of the design process [5], and such “learning by doing” activitiesencourage the development of curiosity, proficiency, and manual dexterity – three desirable traitsof an engineer [13