Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

the course is for students to be able to use a MachinedParts Modeling Methodology and a Sheet Metal Part Modeling Methodology.Third, design tools are constantly evolving and many a practicing engineer is bound to decidewhich ones deserve being implemented to bring benefits in term of cycle time, productivity,quality and cost of product and design processes. It is therefore necessary to be able to evaluate ina structured and rigorous manner the benefits that can be brought to a design organization by thepotential introduction of a new design tool. Students are thus expected, as a third specificobjective, to be able to design and execute such a systematic evaluation plan. They must also beable to design a complete implementation plan taking

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott; Jean Kampe

College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; the green modifications, currently inprogress, will facilitate meeting the College's goal that every engineering graduate is exposed toenvironmental issues and is made aware that engineering systems have environmentalconsequences. The paper includes the plan, a sample problem, and a discussion of theimplementation of the plan. This work was first presented at the Virginia Tech GreenEngineering Conference in July 2001.IntroductionFirst-year students often enter university education without a clear idea of where they areheaded. Many enter engineering colleges because they excel in math and science classes andhave always been told that “engineering” is the right place for them to be. The Division

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Denny Mahoney

remains strong within CIPD and PD21 partner institutions, but the time has come for PD21 to develop a funding model and operational plan for the future. Dedicated leadership is an essential ingredient. · As each university examines its priorities, given limited resources, the benefits associated with any substantial investment must be clear, especially as it may impact scarce faculty resources. With completion of the pilot phase, other priorities at partner institutions have superseded those associated with PD21, and PD21 has not effectively articulated a plan for the future. As each university gains experience with its own product development program, additional benefits associated with collaboration

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

program exercises. 3. Framing the exercises. 4. Debriefing participants with emphasis on application.The goal of the workshop was team building, i.e., helping teams to quickly progress through theforming and storming stages of team growth and into the performing stage. The authors’experience with freshmen design project teams indicated that the workshop should address issuesof socialization, development of team norms, communications, decision making, planning, andproblem solving.To address these issues, three exercises were selected: a socialization activity, a team charteractivity, and a team initiative. Table 1 provides a summary of the workshop content andschedule.Table 1. Workshop Content and Schedule. Exercise

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Hopcroft

conceptual plan of study was defined. The plan of study fundamentally involved observing menand women responding to presentations at technical conferences and recording thoseobservations in a standardized format. This paper addresses the communication and proceduraldifficulties that arose as the two professionals, each competent in their own area of expertise,tried to meld two very different approaches to research into a successful research effort.I. IntroductionTeaching engineering students on a campus that encourages collaboration across departmentsopened a door to understanding the different ways engineers and psychologists think and behave.Working with professors across disciplines and with industry consultants expanded thatunderstanding further

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Halvard Nystrom

, they have providedan alternative means to gain this educational combination.Another reason for the slow growth might be the difficulty for universities to start up orgrow EM programs. Since the scope of the discipline is so broad, it takes considerableresources to start a new program. A viable program would want to have a variety ofcourses that could include technology management, project management, e-commerce,marketing, finance, information systems, leadership and management, quality, operationsresearch, strategic planning, manufacturing, organizational behavior, entrepreneurshipand business law. This diversity requires that the organization have appropriateresources available from other organizations, such as a local business school, or

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jose Fierro; Daniel Grajeda; Steve Stafford; Rosa Gomez

Page 7.1121.4ACES, such as dealing with diverse groups of people with different backgrounds. Such skills Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightã2002, American Society for Engineering Educationalso included, but were not limited to, interacting with and handling large groups of students,solving problems when things did not go according to plan, and treating students with care andrespect while trying to guide them to the answers to the questions that they had.Daniel and Jose have always been motivated individuals who sought challenges and saw ACESas an opportunity to improve their interpersonal skills. Working at ACES has helped themdevelop their

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Turner

architecture inAmerica. Steven Litt, architecture critic for the Plain Dealer, says that the Center"could be one of the most revolutionary structures of this century, or the next. It'snot so much a building as it is a manifesto in bricks and mortar." President NancyDye calls the Center "the newest and quite possibly the most ambitious buildingproject in Oberlin's 165-year history is a testament to the College's mission ofeducating students to make the world a better place.""Many Oberlin students have already been involved in the planning and design ofthis building, and many more will be involved in future generations, modifyingthe technologies and design strategies they find here," says Dye. "All of themhave and will take pride in the work of creating

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder; David Ollis

discipline and faculty members cannothope to become experts in everything.When planning a week-long orientation workshop for new engineering and science faculty atNorth Carolina State University, we felt a responsibility to acquaint the participants with thisreality of academic research and to help prepare them to engage in collaborative efforts that gowell beyond their familiar academic turf. To this end we organized the workshop participantsinto bi-disciplinary pairs and gave them about 90 minutes to formulate a research projectinvolving each of their areas of expertise. Most of their project outlines (including some fromthe most unlikely pairings) were coherent, feasible, exciting, and in the opinion of the workshopleaders, likely to be fundable

Conference Session

ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; David Forsman

simple, economic changes. Thispaper reports on these issues, and how they were resolved.I. Introduction:At Penn State Erie, Mechanical Engineering Technology Students are required to complete aproject during their senior year. This project is typically sponsored by a local industry, and isdesigned to teach the students how the design and development process works. Typically, thestudents are required to manage the entire project from the planning and scheduling stagethrough design, analysis, and final report.Occasionally, a project comes along which is not sponsored by a local industry, but by anindividual who has an interest in helping the school and the students. One such project wasproposed by a former student who races late model dirt track

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

incentives that may be reached if a successfulcooperation is forged between industry and academia.VII. RESULTSAs the new engineering programs in electrical and mechanical engineering at AAMU build-uppartnerships for collaboration with industry, some results have evolved from such efforts. Someof which are listed below:Collaborative Activities in the Department of Electrical EngineeringThere are several examples of collaborative relationships in the Department of ElectricalEngineering. First, representatives of local companies and organizations were invited to join theadvisory board for the Department. For a new program, the Board provides not only anopportunity to comment on actions taken and plans for the future, but they also have anopportunity to

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

teaching skills for a total of48 junior faculty participants last summer with future plans to expand to three sites nextsummer. Specifically, the ExCEEd workshops attempt to present the works of JosephLowman’s Mastering the Techniques of Teaching and Teaching Engineering by PhillipC. Wankat and Frant S. Oreovicz; these primary references provided the scholarly,literary backbone for the workshop and established the credibility of the many techniquesfor stimulating intellectual excitement and interpersonal rapport in the classroomembraced by the ExCEEd model of teaching. The workshop is designed to allowparticipants to accomplish the following objectives: · Learn and apply theories of teaching and learning · Improve

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Benson; John Baker; David Silverstein

results. The experiment exposed the UK students to remoteoperation of the control system, which is the common mode of operation in industry. Italso provided them with exposure to industrial quality equipment. Further, it providedgood examples to reinforce system analysis methods learned from the textbook.5. Future Work Based on the success of the pilot program, it is concluded that all significanttechnical difficulties have been resolved. The feasibility and practicality of implementingcourse projects at both MuSU and UK involving collaboration between engineeringstudents and engineering technology students has been demonstrated. A more in-depthcourse project is now planned for the students during the fall semester of 2002. It willinvolve

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

• Design Criteria N G Contract • Incentive/Penalty Points I G • Design Project (EAP) N Preliminary T • Failure Modes (FEMA) G Design Phase I Lsn 12-17 Preliminary • Write Test Plan M • Detailed Drawings P Design Review E

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Santhosh Thampuran

videos of all course lectures, copies of student work and a CD to allowwidespread dissemination of the course material. The course contents and assessment consistedof three major components: · Lectures/Discussions with five quizzes. · 3 computer-based media projects. · A final open-ended project, in which self-organized groups of 4 students planned, developed and tested a multimedia design project using both Web and CD -ROM technologies.The remaining part of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 talks about the courseinnovations. Section 3 talks about different assessment methodologies. Section 4 summarizes theinstructor’s impression about the course as a whole in terms its success. We conclude the paperby

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes and Systems

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sybillyn Jennings; Sunderesh Heragu; Robert Graves; Charles Malmborg

clips, play spaces, and interactive question/answer format. In the Discover layer, the userdiscovers a principle by watching a situation that illustrates application of that principle. The Explorelayer allows the learner to explore the principle in more depth, by discussing key aspects of theprinciple. The Contrast layer includes two examples, one illustrating proper application of the principle,and another illustrating improper application. The fourth layer, Extend, extends the principle to otherdomains. TEN PRINCIPLES 1 Planning 2 Standardization

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Ø Educating Engineering Students in Entrepreneurship Ø Technology and Learning SystemsEach of these themes was to be addressed by invited speakers in both plenary andbreakout sessions. In addition, poster sessions were organized for attendees who wantedto add to the intellectual discussions at the conference.Unfortunately, the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001 disrupted air travelsufficiently that it was not possible for individuals planning to attend the post-conferenceto travel to Berlin, so the entire meeting had to be cancelled. It is being rescheduled for2002.ConclusionsMajor international conferences on topics such as engineering education can be enhancedby several means: Ø Organize an electronic conference run in

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Haitham Logman; Ronald Barr; Cynthia Finley; Michael Hagenberger

faculty advisor is able to contribute to the student chapt er in several ways. Theirrelationships with other faculty members are often useful in obtaining speakers for ASEE studentchapter events. They are often more knowledgeable about the logistical concerns at a universityregarding the hosting of events and funding. Their experiences in engineering education and lifeas a professor are also extremely useful in guiding the student officers in planning events anddetermining topics that should be addressed at those events. The time commitment of the facultyadvisor is usually quite small, only an hour or two per week on average. A good choice for the faculty member is the ASEE campus representative. This professorwill be knowledgeable about

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

included in this course. Creatinglesson plans for its use is also a part of this graduate course8. A web site and database ofSEM lessons for use in K-12 and college classrooms has been created and the practicingteachers contribute to this database during and after enrollment in the Toying WithTechnologySM course.The first LEGO®-based exercises in the course are highly structured and lead to lessstructured, more open-ended design problems throughout the semester. In the firstexercise the students (whether they are preservice teachers, inservice teachers, or 4thgraders) are given pictorial directions to build a car out of LEGO®s. They are given thefollowing program employing Dave Baum’s “Not Quite C” language (see the web site athttp

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

communication skills, project management, as well as overview lectures on major technical and non-technical disciplines.2. Creation of a large, interdisciplinary undergraduate laboratory, used by students from many disciplines to plan a variety of engineering experiments in a common space.3. Use of laptop computers as design tools that are integrated into the Engineering courses.I. IntroductionOur world is becoming ever more complex. It is no longer possible to cope by relying onexpertise from a single discipline. Concurrent Engineering is now a practice used throughoutindustry, and its participants are expected to be able to work in an inter-disciplinary environment.A second trend is the renewed emphasis on design, as opposed to analysis, in

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirankumar Gundrai

variety of measures to increase performance, such as improving thedesign of systems, installing more reliable equipment, using better information systems,enhancing integration of systems and coordination of their operations, observing betterwork planning and work management, sharing lessons learned about plant operationsthroughout the industry, and providing higher levels of training.Continual plant modernization. Although the first commercial nuclear power plant began commercial operations in1969, there is really no "old" nuclear power plant. Systems are continually beingredesigned and replaced such that the original plant is substantially new and improved

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Yuille

NSBE Boeing Flight Design Build and Fly Snowmobile Destination Imagination (formerly Odyssey of the Mind) Solar Car Racing Environmental Design Steel Bridge FIRST Robotics Timber Bridge Formula SAE Racing Car The fall semester is dedicated to recruiting members and team building, conceptualizing anddesigning the projects, as well as developing business plans and budgets. During the springsemester, the teams construct their projects for the competitions using the university’s machineshop facilities under the supervision of the machine shop staff and the guidance of the facultyadvisers. In an effort

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. William Shelnutt; S. Gary Teng

to industry. Its curriculum provides students with flexibility in their pursuit ofthe Masters degree so they can tailor their study plan according to their needs and interest.Meanwhile, the program wants to ensure the quality of its graduates with excellent technical,managerial, communication, and people skills in managing technical operations. Programfaculty constantly evaluates and improves the curriculum with input from industry to meet theneeds of Charlotte area companies.The Original CurriculumThe original curriculum includes two options: (1) 24 semester-hours of coursework along with 6hours of thesis research, and (2) 30 semester-hours of coursework. Both options include thefollowing 6 core courses plus four elective courses for non

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Zarrugh

surveyed 47 different companies about their then current manufacturingpractices and how these were expected to change over the next five years. The survey also Page 7.179.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationsolicited recommendations for improving manufacturing engineering curriculum. Respondentsranked 21 manufacturing technologies as to degrees of importance to their current and futureprofessional needs. Fifty percent of the respondents ranked six technologies: ManufacturingResource Planning

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry

Competency Exam to be administeredduring the senior year. One of the observed benefits of the exam is its role in focusing theattention of both students and faculty members on the core elements of our program. Theexam also provides a quality check for graduating students, and feedback for programimprovement. Our experience to date indicates that the Core Competency Exam, alongwith other elements of our assessment plan, will have a significant positive impact on theeducation of our students.IntroductionAs part of our assessment plan, the Chemical Engineering Department faculty at BrighamYoung University have defined a set of core competencies that we have designated formastery by all of our graduating students1. The intent of these core competencies

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

solutions and demonstrating openness to new ideas. The assessmentrubric includes demonstrating awareness of how various engineering disciplines complementeach other, understanding the design process from concept to prototyping, problem definition,analyzing problems from different viewpoints, and anticipating problems and developingcontingency plans. Throughout their college career, students are encouraged to develop a strongwork ethic, and to be self-motivated to achieve excellence in the field in which they work. Theassessment attributes include a measure of their professionalism, their response to suggestions orcriticism, and their use of ethical component in their decision-making strategy and considerationof the implication of the project for

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

the support of technical operations including manufacturing, maintenance, planning, and other related areas. This option is designed to support career interests in this general area. · Geomatics and GIS: Geomatics is an emerging field involving integration of data from a wide range of sensors (satellites, photographs, etc.) to develop geographical information systems (GIS). This option develops skills to enter this emerging field and is of interest in land development, site planning, and environmental issues. · Computer and Network Operations: Design, operation, and maintenance of computer networks require a person with knowledge of electronic hardware, software, and topology (network planning) skills. In addition

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

prepared for accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (EAC of ABET) in 2000 and for itsBaldrige Quality Award application in 2002. For two consecutive years, parents of currentBSME students were invited to a day-long campus visit in April into which activities to gatherimpressions via a two-step focus group were imbedded. Data collected over two years wasanalyzed for results in accordance with the department Continuous Improvement Plan. Resultsconfirmed positive aspects of the program and provided important feedback for improvement.Actions taken on results include EAC of ABET accreditation for the BSME program and thelaunching of a BSEE program. This qualitative approach

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

that significant resources or reputations are at stake.This paper will focus on what the Department of Construction Technology intends to do inspecific for its ABET assessment. Our plan is that our assessment will essentially entailassessment at several levels as a combination of assessing all courses plus a capstone course, exitexams and surveys, and involving the Industry Advisory Board in the process. The paper willalso detail the total spectrum for different kinds of assessment activities being undertaken bydifferent departments from the perspective of showing the wide range and scope. It is hoped thatthe presentation will lead to a lively discussion as to what is enough and what is too much andmaybe bring out what the feelings are on this

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Moreau-Jones; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

of correspondence, primarily through email, a detailed itinerary wasplanned for the first CMU visit to NCUT. Page 7.735.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAcademic AspectsAdvanced planning was crucial to the success of the trip. Advertisement for the course beganseveral months before the trip. Posters and in-class announcements proved to be very effectiveat generating student interest. All of the fourteen interested students were able to make the trip.Eleven of these students