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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

internal teams and to collaborating with stakeholders1. Based on these results andon the vision of WDNR team members, the WDNR-EPD project team developed a description ofthe desired project outcomes. They include 1) a learning community of networked stakeholdersand staff, 2) management of activities through process teams, and 3) systematic use ofinformation to improve process effectiveness2.To translate outcomes into goals and objectives, investigators solicited opinions from "experts,"an international list of professionals experienced in environmental management, performanceexcellence, innovation, collaborative learning, and community building. Investigators developeda project concept description and distributed it to these experts. Experts

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Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Grigg

participating libraries. According to USPTO, “Since 1977 the PTDLnetwork has grown to four times its original size. Currently, about half of the membershipis academic libraries with nearly as many public libraries.” 1 The Patent and TrademarkDepository Library Program benefits the general public by allowing libraries to housecollections of patents and for librarians to assist the public in accessing these patents.Although this paper focuses primarily on many of the issues, challenges, and opportunitiesexperienced by academic patent and trademark depository libraries, many of therecommendations can be applied to public libraries participating in the program

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson

obtainingengineering degrees and to enter the workforce as engineers.1 For the past three years, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) student chapter at IndianaUniv./Purdue Univ. Ft. Wayne (IPFW) has been active in a number of functions to increase the sense ofcommunity, self-confidence, and mentoring among female engineering, technology, and computer sciencestudents. They have been active in recruiting a wide range of students, including both traditional andnontraditional female engineering, technology, and computer science students. Entering freshmen havebeen targeted through introductory letters, visibility during the orientation/registration process, andclassroom visits. SWE activities, including picnics, guest speakers, plant tours, career days for

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Simpson

in terms of profits made from the tuition fees paid by internationalstudents and, to a lesser degree, from the future influence which such programs will have overthe international students once they have graduated and returned to their home countries.For all of the above reasons, the French Government decided to set up a special agency calledEduFrance which, since 1998, has been promoting French education throughout the world.Run jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EduFrance hasopened centers in several countries and is now present at most major Education Fairs where itoffers international students the opportunity to join in the French Education System. (SeeFigure 1).Another series of programs being

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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari

89 - 80 84 - 77 C 79 - 70 76 - 70 D 69 - 60 65 E <59The Kettering scale is easily converted to the Common Scale by using linear interpolation.With 199 students sampled, their final course grade, using the common scale, was analyzed withthe grade the student received on the math pretest (Figure 1). The final course grade wasadjusted so that the 5% weight of the math pretest itself was not included in the grade. All 199students were from the Dynamic Systems I course, taught by the same instructor, covering thesame material during the semester.As seen in Figure 1, there is considerable scatter in the data but there are some

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

. If a team prefers to work on a projectwhich is not listed in this list of projects, it may do so after the instructor is convinced that theirproject is worthwhile to work on. The following represents a list of projects that the teams mayselect from and sign up for: Page 8.1088.2 Projects Team Members 1. Student Records. 1. 2. Proceeding of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 2. Employee Records 1

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laila Guessous

softwarepackages, such as Fluent, Star-CD, and Flow-3D, attests to the growing use of CFDin industry. This is in large part due to its usefulness in the design process. CFD analysiscan provide insight and foresight into the operation and design of fluid systems, whilereducing the “test-and-build” cycle by evaluating multiple designs cost-effectively. Inacademia, CFD methods have traditionally been taught at the graduate level. However,CFD computer programs and packages are also increasingly being integrated into theundergraduate curriculum, serving as “virtual fluids laboratories” to teach and reinforceconcepts from fluid mechanics and heat transfer 1, or incorporated into senior-levelengineering course electives 2, 3.With the prevailing perception of

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Job Description for ENES 100 Senior Teaching Fellows 1. Assist in training of new Teaching Fellows via participation in the college teaching seminar 2. Coordinate with BESTEAMS for activities related to team training and assessment in ENES 100 3. Assist with regularly scheduled TF meetings to monitor on going class and instructor dynamics 4. Mentor new TFs in group dynamics, conflict management, and instructor-TF interactions 5. Participate in one additional activity to support the development of ENES 100. Examples

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

Session 1406 “Show-And-Tell-And-Let-Apply (SATALA): An Innovative Multi-Media Approach for Teaching Manual Architectural Engineering Drafting” Dr. Wafeek Samuel Wahby Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisBackgroundVisualization ability is essential for architectural drafting and blueprint reading. Frompreliminary sketching, to design, to implementation, architecture students and practitionersneed to find innovative ways through which they enhance their visualization and problemsolving skills. (1)This paper presents selected visual examples from an

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mausumi Syamal; Gary Ybarra

knowledge acquired in orderto make decisions or judgments that demonstrate a fundamental understanding of “coreconcepts”. Thus, the three steps are as follows: 1) Introduction and Lesson on Core Concepts—a “lecture” type instruction on topic with numerous visual demonstrations via drawings and quick hands-on examples. 2) Experimental Activity—an observational activity following the pseudo-lecture in order to allow students to observe the fundamental principles at work. Often coupled with a timed handout with several “small” concept recollections. 3) Concept Quiz—a series of questions often given as a section of a unit test that are designed to test the student’s ability to not only recall

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

productivity,accuracy and safety. As a result, the Industrial Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing programgraduates can satisfy the growing need for robotics and real-time programming expertise inindustries and government agencies and will significantly improve the future of undergraduateeducation 1, 2, 3. In this paper, we describe a new state-of-the-art Computer IntegratedManufacturing (CIM) lab which plays the key role and has been established in our school tosupport our future Industrial Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing program. This lab can be used Page 8.167.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual

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Diversity in Materials

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Miller; Oscar Barton

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education124-channel data acquisition panel completes the system, Figure 1. Environmental effects oncomposites materials are explored using the environmental test chamber, Figure 2, whichincludes temperature and moisture conditioning. The system meets ASTM specifications asprescribed in B117, D2247, D1757 and G85. The chamber can vary its temperature fromambient to 130ο F and vary relative humidity from ambient to 95% during salt/fog cycles. Figure 1. Panel test fixture Figure 2. Environmental chamber Shown below is the Department’s autoclave

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Smith-Jackson; Chang Soo Nam; Chanel Thomas

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.The Behavior Type of the students was determined by means of a 25 item checklist based uponattributes identified by Friedman and Rosenman (1974) 1. Quality cumulative average data werecollected on a participant demographic sheet. The information seeking behavior strategies examinedincluded direct address, subject directories and search engines. The results of the study revealed thatthere is a significant relationship between Behavior Type and quality cumulative average. Type Astudents had higher academic achievement then Type B students. In contrast, Type B studentsappeared to exceed their Type A counterparts in search tasks on the Web. A combination ofdeveloping pedagogies that are conducive

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

Session# 2003-2158 Internet Based Experiments for Physical Laboratory Set-up Abul K M Azad1, Andrew Otieno1, Omar Ghrayeb2 and Navin Anand3 1 Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, Illinois, IL-60115. 2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Northern Illinois University, IL-60115. 3 Graduate student, Department of Technology, NIU, Illinois, IL-60115. Email: azad@ceet.niu.eduAbstractThis paper presents the development of an Internet based experimental laboratory facility wherestudents

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Acheson

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

often no longer supported inter-nally, so companies are integrating new intellectual property supply chains into their businessmodels. Colleges of engineering across the country are well positioned to play an active role inthis chain. Figure 1 illustrates the percent of companies relying on external sources for technologyin North America, Europe, and Japan. The trend for the past nine years clearly indicates that the 90 80 Percent of Companies Relying on External 70 Sources for Technology 60

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

lead to a devotion of concerted efforts to address various factors that lie within therealm of control or practical intervention. A summary of observations and recommendations bya panel of international expert educators have been reported by Karady et al. 1. The currentsituation and needs in the field and in academia were clearly highlighted. There appears to be arecognized need for engineers with broader educational backgrounds in the new deregulatedutility industry. In addition to general engineering knowledge, some breadth extending towardseconomics, management, and communication skills has become necessary. The environmentimposes a need for flexibility by engineers, and preparedness for changing jobs and roles thatmay require learning new

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

aself-directed learning environment 1 defined five common themes: 1. Defining self-directed learning (SDL) 2. The development of skills in SDL can be a painful process 3. Consistency: Should all students and faculty and courses do it the same way? 4. Confirming: “Am I learning what I need to learn? 5. The need for support and resources to succeed.Comparing these themes to the results of my study, themes 1, 2, and 5 were very apparentwhile themes 3 and 4 did not seem to surface. Regarding the first theme, only two of the fourstudents I interviewed had prior experience with self-directed learning. Still many, if notmost, of the students in the class appeared to incorporate new terminology such as

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

, because they promote policies (such as access restrictions) theinstructors are not comfortable with, or because the learning curve is too steep? Or is it becausethey are not promoted effectively by the schools that adopt them? This paper reports on a surveyof 160 educators regarding their use or non-use of these systems, and their satisfaction withthem. It looks for differences in the way they use the Web, compared to instructors who “rolltheir own” Web sites, and assesses how difficult it would be to take an existing course site andplace it within a course-management system.1. IntroductionCourse-management systems* have been around for several years, and by now, almost alluniversities have adopted them. That was the easy part—the hard part

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik De Graaff; Gillian Saunders-Smits

-the-job learning and training. Final objectives 1-8 must guarantee that the recently graduated aerospace engineer will achieve the following: - A broad engineering education - Accessibility to broad range of employment positions - Sufficient flexibility as regards professional career - Ability to think critically and creatively; - Understanding of the context in which engineering is practiced - Good communication skills - Ability to function as a member of a team - Curiosity and a desire to engage in life-long learning”By stating these new objectives Aerospace engineering already took into account the changingdemands of future employers on their students.In an effort to achieve those

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Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

Session 2251 Use of Membrane Bioreactor Process for Wastewater Treatment: Case Study Carlos A. Ortiz, Ph.D., Alma Manga Civil Engineering Technology Southern Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractPaulding County in the State of Georgia has experienced approximately a 96% populationincrease in the last decade [1]. As a result of this population growth the need for increasingwastewater treatment capacity and improving effluent quality have become one of the mainpriorities for the Public Works Department (PWD). In an

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

base amount. The uniformseries present worth formula is used to calculate the present worth of the uniform series portionwhile the basic arithmetic gradient series formula is used to calculate the arithmetic gradientseries part of the cash flow profile. The overall present worth is then calculated as: P = Puniform series ± Parithmetic gradient seriesFigure 1 presents a conventional arithmetic gradient series (GS) cash flow. Each cash flowamount at time t is defined as At = (t-1)G. The standard formula for this basic arithmeticgradient series profile is derived as: nP= ∑ A ( 1 + i) t =1 t −t n = ∑ (t − 1) G (1 + i) t =1

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Young; Richard Brow

high schoolstudents. A variety of outreach materials for recruiting activities are available to universitiesthrough technical societies such as the American Ceramic Society.1 These materials tend tofocus on demonstrations such as levitation of a magnet by a ceramic (high temperature)superconductor or the thermal insulating properties of space shuttle tiles. While thedemonstrations are captivating and do promote interest in the field, they do not provide teachersat the elementary or secondary education levels with content for their classes. The goal of thisprogram is to provide a combination of interesting demonstrations and in-class experiments thatcan be carried out by high school teachers in the facilities available in most public schools

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

CivilEngineering program objectives listed in Figure 1. Civil Engineering Program Objectives Supported by the Capstone Design • Application of engineering thought process to design CE components and systems • Creativity • Proficiency in structural engineering • Proficiency in environmental engineering • Proficiency in hydrology & hydraulic engineering • Proficiency in geotechnical engineering • Proficiency in mathematics • Proficiency in calculus-based physics • Functioning on multidisciplinary teams • Understanding and performance of roles and responsibilities of civil engineers and the issues / professional practice • Use of modern engineering tools necessary for

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

collectively: (1) offer course work at Purdue University for Chineseand Purdue students (2) offer course work at the Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) forChinese and Purdue students (3) develop joint research and design projects between CAUC andPurdue University (4) develop a study abroad trip of two weeks or three weeks in which Purduestudents accompanied by faculty will research an aviation related research project in China (5)pursue joint Purdue University and CAUC faculty research opportunities (6) develop a bysemester or by year study abroad program. Meetings with the university presidents of bothinstitutions and faculty members of both universities were very successful and they seemedeagerly interested to establish a relationship with

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kuhl; Matthew Marshall; Andres Carrano

independent courses in the industrial engineering curriculum,manufacturing, ergonomics, and simulation, utilizing an experiential assembly system. Thiscollaborative project incorporates a team-based learn-by-doing approach to the theoreticalknowledge in these subject areas1,3. These components are implemented in a dynamic andreconfigurable environment in which the students are given the opportunity of contrasting his/herdesign against the working reality. The results of this project are discussed along with the impacton the curriculum.1. IntroductionIn industry, there is a constantly growing need for engineers possessing both academic andtechnical proficiencies. Meeting this need requires different and more innovative ways to impartknowledge

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

have developed instructional materials in theform of multi-media case studies with the following educational objectives: (1) to introduceengineering students to the complexity of real-world problems; (2) to show how engineeringcompanies operate in the information age; and (3) to improve the higher-level cognitive-basedproblem solving abilities of our students. In this paper, we will describe our approach and discuss how the educational objectives wereaccomplished. Our results show that multimedia case studies (1) stimulate students’ interest inengineering topics, (2) engage female students, and (3) motivate engineering faculty members tointegrate these materials in their classrooms.I. Introduction Contemporary engineering design

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

commands are so closely aligned with mathematical formatsthat one must "think mathematically" to utilize the program. Of course, under new ABETguidelines, the measurable outcomes rather than credit hours are the major criteria.IV. Course ObjectivesBased on the assumed backgrounds of students entering the course, the followingobjectives have been established for the course:(1) Introduce the MATLAB Command Window at the outset as the primary mode for computational analysis and functional manipulation in much the same manner as a scientific calculator, but with much greater computational and graphing capabilities.(2) Develop the capability for creating MATLAB m-files as a valid approach for software programming to support engineering and

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Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Balik; Nachiappan Nagappan; Laurie Williams; Julie Petlick; Carol Miller; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

developed to better understand pair dynamics and student/instructor interactions.Collectively, these evaluative methods have guided the iterative implementation of paired programminginstructional methods. Current challenges being addressed include lab instructor training,student/instructor concerns over equity in effort on assignments, pair dynamics in lab, and collaborativelogistics of pair programming outside of lab.I. IntroductionExtreme Programming (XP) 1 has popularized a structured form of programmer collaborationcalled pair programming. Pair programming is a style of programming in which twoprogrammers work side-by-side at one computer, continuously collaborating on the same design,algorithm, code, or test. One of the pair, called the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

. Patentinfringement is the unauthorized making, using, or selling for practical use, or for profit, of aninvention covered by a valid claim of a patent during the life of the patent. The length of term fora utility patent is 20 years from application date. To obtain patent protection, an application mustbe sent to the USPTO. Table 1. Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents in a NutshellCopyright: Denoted: © Infringement: Unauthorized Use Obtaining: Put ©, date, and author's name on work Officially: register with Copyright Office Term: Life of the author + 50 years (personal copyright