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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

playspace in which Page 8.479.10experimentation, the ability to make naïve errors and the ability to ask “what if”. Using the CCLIProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmodules has provided the faculty with new insight into what students need and don’t understandwhen introduced to a new topic, such as Circuits. We believe that the modules, enhanced withScribe, could be very effectively used by tutors working with students and plan to distribute themvia the IEEE, TSPE and SWE student tutoring groups. The conclusion

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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Gul Okudan Kremer

doesnot warrant a conclusion on the effect of the gender orientation of the design task on design teamperformance. Therefore, further experimentation is recommended.1. Introduction Due to their numeric minority in the engineering classroom, female students in engineeringprograms often report feeling isolated and undervalued by their male peers. For instance, a recentstudy reported that women are less likely to plan on attending graduate school because of theirdiscomfort in the engineering academic environment [1]. This discomfort may be furthermagnified in a product design team environment resulting in inhibited performance within a mixed-gender team. Accordingly, homogeneous design teams were found to be better performing whencompared to

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Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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FE TABAMO; CRISTINO CARBONELL; Conchita Javier; Clarita Guevara

Session Number 2365 Engineering Mathematics Self-Learning Modules: Independent Learning for Engineering Freshmen Cristino A. Carbonell, Fe P. Tabamo, Clarita R. Guevara, Conchita H. Javier Faculty of Engineering, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines1. IntroductionIndependent learning is not a method of instruction. It is a human act. Despite the verycomprehensive learning materials provided the learner; the well-thought lesson plans prepared bythe teacher and the well-designed class schedules, not a single person nor institution has completecontrol of the learning process. Not even the bell can

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Walter E. Thain Jr.; Thomas Fallon

/Newsletter.htm10. Lohmann, J., “EC 2000: The Georgia Tech Experience,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 3, July 1999, pp. 305-310.11. Besterfield-Sacre, M., L. Shuman, H. Wolfe, C. Atman, J. McGourty, R. Miller, B. Olds, and G. Rogers, “Defining Outcomes: A Framework for EC-2000,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 100-110.12. Royer, E., C. Wright, and D. Peterson, “Assessment for Electrical Engineering Programs – Processes Implemented at the United States Air Force Academy,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 159-163.13. Safoutin, M., C. Atman, R. Adams, T. Rutar, J. Kramlich, and J. Fridley, “A Design Attribute Framework for Course Planning and

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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

. st4. Barr, R. E. (1999). Planning the EDG curriculum for the 21 century: A proposed team effort. Engineering DesignGraphics Journal, 63 (2), 4-12. st5. Ault, H. K. (1999). 3-D geometric modeling for the 21 century. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63 (2), 33-42.6. Ref. 1.7. Connolly, P. E., Ross, W. A. & Bannatyne, M. W. (1999). Applied 3D modeling technology instruction for thfreshman computer graphics majors: Developing a foundational knowledge. Paper presented at the 54 MidyearConference of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for

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John Martin; Mohammed Haque

Science at Texas A&M University atCollege Station, Texas. He has over 25 years experience as general contractor in the residential and lightcommercial industry. In addition he has worked extensively in economic development, business consulting,strategic planning, and in corporate training and development. Dr. Martin received a BBA in Management, a MBAin Finance from the University of Central Oklahoma and an Ed.D. in HRD from Oklahoma State University.MOHAMMED E. HAQUEMohammed E. Haque is an Associate Professor of the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&MUniversity at College Station, Texas. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in analysis, design, andinvestigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural

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Robin Burt; Krishna Athreya; K-Y. Daisy Fan

) Page 6.987.4 • Present policy recommendationsProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThis water management project was designed to emphasize the process of engineering ratherthan a product from engineering. In particular, the students needed to define the problem and setthe objective of the solution themselves during the first two project sessions. The girls thendesigned their solutions (water quality management policies) and used simulation andoptimization to evaluate these solutions. Finally, they prepared and gave professionalpresentations on their policy recommendations. The planning and delivery of this

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Merredith Portsmore; Chris Rogers

usto change the projects every year without purchasing new equipment. They also allow us to giveexperiments as homework assignments rather than have the traditional lab sections. We havefound that students tend to put more time and effort into projects that do not have to becompleted by a certain time (the end of the lab class). In the future, we plan on incorporatingsome elementary image processing to the course and increasing the use of these skills in theother engineering courses.We have already started to use this tool set in anumber of other highly popular courses. The mostpopular being a freshman course in robotics wherestudents participate in a different roboticcompetition every week (Figure 8) using theLEGO bricks and LabVIEW. We also

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Michael Barker; Mark Virkler; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

) a need todocument evidence of excellence in education for promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions, and 2)a desire to improve the education of students. Programs accredited by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) have an additional incentive to document curriculumcontent and effective teaching. The ABET Policy and Procedure Manual1 states that its policiesand procedures are intended to assist educational institutions in planning their educationalprograms. A program must document that it applies current knowledge to the practice ofengineering, and it must provide to outside reviewers the teaching materials, such as courseoutlines and textbooks, for all required courses. These teaching materials should show examplesof

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

70 to 80% effectiveness. Additional work on outcomes assessment iscurrently in progress and will be reported in future work.Bibliography1. DeLancey, G. A unified and quantitative approach to assessment, Proceedings of the Fall Regional Conference of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, November 3 – 4, 2000.2. Preparing for ABET EC 2000: from curriculum mission to assessment planning. Report by Engineering Assessment Committee, Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998).3. Esche, S. K. & Hromin, D. J. An open approach to undergraduate laboratories. Enabling Engineering and Technology Education through Information Technology, Proceedings of the Fall

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Robert Ryan

effectively demonstrates the air cooling and mixingprocesses that occur in building air conditioning systems. A fairly wide range of space conditionscan be achieved by adjusting damper positions and heat load. The dynamics of the apparatus aresuch that the effect of damper and heat load changes on space temperature and humidity aresensed fairly quickly, although the attainment of truly steady conditions is complicated by thethermal inertia of the sheet metal in the space box and ducting.IV. Future Plans and ConclusionsThe apparatus described in this paper is a valuable addition to CSUN’s thermo-fluids laboratory.Financial support from ASHRAE’s Undergraduate Senior Project Grant program was the key tobeginning this endeavor. Integration of the

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Judith Waalen; Malgorzata Zywno

research, in 2001, the hypermedia instruction was extended to allstudents in the course. We shifted our research focus to expanding the framework for theempirical study by including the effect of hypermedia instruction on different levels of cognitivedomain, as classified by Bloom’s Taxonomy, and on further analysis of interactions withhypermedia among different style learners. We also plan a longitudinal study of ICM scores in thecourse both before and after the introduction of hypermedia instruction. Instructional design plansfor the course include creation of additional hypermedia materials, development of on-line self-assessment quizzes to provide students with feedback at the end of each hypermedia module

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Ramachandran Radharamanan; Angela Ansuj

product, is optimized. The second stage is the optimization of the physical design or theactual product. Once a product is chosen that will be easy to manufacture, the product should bedesigned so as to ease its assembly. A comprehensive planning, research and developmentreduces the amount of iteration and makes any engineering change possible at a reduced cost inthe event that a product is being revised and redesigned 2, 4. As a result the quality, cost anddelivery of the product are greatly improved thanks to early design decisions and increasedcommunication among all members involved in the design, production, and marketing of theproduct.The DFM design team should consider all the alternatives possible to come up with the optimaldesign, which

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M. Silva; Sheri Sheppard

Page 6.417.3http://www.engr.washington.edu/~celtweb for more information. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDr. Daniel Frey, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the soon-to-open OlinCollege, shared the mission, vision, and plan for the college at this workshop. Through hisexperience in helping to develop Olin’s programs of engineering education, he presented ahypothesis regarding the sustainability of curricular innovation: a key (perhaps the key) tosustaining curricular innovation is to create a system and culture which makes curricularinnovation rewarding and satisfying to

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Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

conduct industrial projectsunder the guidance of faculty (from the visiting and host institutions) and industrialliaisons or monitors. Fig. 1. below, serves to illustrate the areas where results are soughtin bringing the international dimension to education, mainly, opportunities for allinvolved. Industry representatives present to each student team, a project outliningtechnical issues of a problem to solve. The host institution and industry provide themeans for the student/faculty teams to formulate and develop a work plan leading toconclusive results and recommendations. Students and faculty from both countries arerequired to work together (thereby getting exposed to each other’s cultural workidiosyncrasies) in order to submit reports

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K. Arthur Overholser

intellectual contactwith senior professors and for earlier exposure to engineering thought. During the first year ofexperimentation, 11 sections were taught to 85 of our 320 freshman. In 2000-01 12 sections aretaught to 173 of 360 freshman. Perhaps not surprisingly in view of the volunteer nature of thecourses, objective student ratings of these course are the highest in the School of Engineering,and faculty satisfaction is high. Everyone takes credit for our one-year increase in freshman-sophomore retention from 89% to 94%, but these seminars have surely played a role. Our recentinitiative in the use of wireless laptop computers in the classroom will further enrich thefreshman seminar experience. Other planned improvements include team-taught

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Vladimir Nikulin; Victor Skormin

], [4]. Indeed, onlyin a laboratory course can students design, implement and later assess a plan of an experimentleading to the solution of the formulated problem, that includes development of an experimentalsetup, choosing a rational sequence of stimuli, recording, analyzing and interpreting data.Student laboratory provides a demonstration of the power of $poor connections#, #second ordereffects”, $hidden dynamics”, measurement noise, effects of overheating, cross-talk betweenwires, etc. Indeed, some of our colleagues are convinced that the imperfection of hardwareresults in the most profound educational effect on future engineers. A well-designed laboratoryexperiment presents students with uncertainty, non-trivial outcome, and an opportunity

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James Holt; Hal Rumsey; E. Ray Ladd

, process simplification, process understanding all reduce waste, speed up delivery and increase output. -Did your project defer any costs (cost avoidance)? Often cost savings are not actual dollars in your pocket but money you didn’t have to pay as a result of your work. Prevented penalty. Eliminated need for consultant work.5. Estimating Value of Intangibles -Often a project is of extreme value for the following reasons: The solution resolves problems, provides answers, eliminates conflict, provides a plan, reduces stress, satisfies concerns, etc. The value of such a project depends upon the scope of the problem, the level in the organization and the breadth of its nature. The best model to choose to estimate the

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Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

language on and priming on the relative accessibility of the privateself and the collective self. Journal of Cross Cultrual Psychology. Vol. 28, no. 1.6. LaFromboise, T. Coleman, H.L. & Gerton, J. 1993. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 114, no. 3 pp. 395-412.7. Stephan, W. Stephan, C.& De Vargas, M. 1996. Emotional expression in Costa Rica and the UnitedStates. Cross Cultural Psychology. Vol. 27. no. 2.pp. 147-159.8. Mears, 1997. T. 1997. Miami Hispanics losing their Spanish. Boston Globe, October 5, p. 2SUSAN VERNON-GERSTENFELDHaving received BA, MSW, and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University and Boston College, SusanVernon-Gerstenfeld is Director of Academic Programs and Planning for Interdisciplinary and GlobalStudies and Director of the

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Christine Noble; Karen Schmahl

presentation format. Schmahl and Noblesuggested that the poster format facilitates creation of “better products, fosters student interactionso students learn from each other and enables students to develop some planning and teamskills.”2 To assess the effectiveness of this approach in the engineering economy course, surveyswere administered to students.The CaseThe final case focused on evaluation of after-tax cash flows of multiple alternatives of equipmentpurchases with uncertainty of projected production volumes. A modified version of “TheCutting Edge” case from Cases in Engineering Economy was used with permission of Ted. G.Eschenbach.3 In the case, means of adding production capacity must be evaluated in order to bid

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James Nelson; Bernd Schroder

increase in the curriculum’s size seems most feasible once the design is in place, thecollege faculty is aware and approving of the integrated curriculum, and some new faculty areready to enter the program. The original plan was a three-year phase-in period starting in theAcademic Year 1999-2000. During this phase-in the number of participating faculty wouldincrease as the number of sections offered is increased. Faculty would be trained in week-longsummer workshops. “Trailing sections” would first be offered on a trial basis in the academicyear 2000-2001. At the end of the phase-in period (summer 2002) the integrated curriculumwould be the standard curriculum for all engineering majors and all programs would build theirjunior and senior level

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Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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Terri Nordin; Dana DeGeeter; Jenny Golder

encourage middle school agedstudents to focus on team building, problem solving, creativity, and analytical thinking. 5 Teamsof approximately ten students have about eight weeks to research, plan, create, test, and programan autonomous robot that is able to conquer a series of missions. These missions are based onreal world events or problems and are known to the student participants as The Challenge.Through creating these challenges for the student participants, the FLL program is able to fulfillits mission: The mission of the FLL program is to provide an inspirational learning experience for children celebrating science and technology, by combining educational context with hands-on challenges that empower children to discover

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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David Beams

planned in this sequence will be developed as a class project in EENG 4309(Electronics II) and EENG 4109 (Electronics II Lab) in spring, 2002. It has been tentativelynamed “Impedance Apparatus Project,” or “ZAP” using “Z” to stand for “Impedance.” (Thename is subject to change should the students devise a better one).ZAP will be an impedance-measuring instrument similar to an LRC bridge. LRC bridges areneither excessively expensive nor difficult to obtain; the rationale for designing and buildingsuch an instrument in this course is three- fold: 1. to give students experience in open-ended design problems; 2. to give students experience in modern engineering tools (e.g., LabVIEW); 3. to give students understanding of how such an

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Robert E. Spall; Christine E. Hailey

to find drag.Preliminary student feedback from the junior-level course suggests they enjoy the CFDexperience, in part, because they view it as a future resume item. Great care must be taken toensure the students understand their experiences were very introductory and that the senior-levelelective course is a necessity before they can advertise capability in CFD. For several years,senior students have had an opportunity to apply CFD techniques to problems of practicalinterest in the elective Heating and Air Conditioning course. Without a doubt, they have foundthis portion of the course most enjoyable.An assessment plan is in progress to see if we indeed met our three goals for the junior-levelcourse: 1) to improve the students understanding

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Terry L. Ballinger; Craig W. Somerton

assembly line and test with production of one (1) Beanie Eel• At the stop signal the team is to halt their design and organization• With all the manufacturing stations staffed and the assembly line ready production will begin• Each team will assemble six (6) Beanie Eels• Students may not change manufacturing stations unless it is in their plan• The team that completes production in the shortest time with all Beanie Eels passing inspection will win the competition.The best assembly line produced six Beanie Eels in 13 min 10 sec, with most assembly linestaking between 14 to 20 minutes.For unit 10 a tour of the General Motors final assembly plant in Lansing was taken, so thestudents could see an actual assembly line in

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David F. Ollis

mechanics, optics, and circuit boards, CALCULATE and analyze expected device performance, and TEACH (present) to other teams the principles and lessons learned.Depending of the lab purpose and the level of detail requested in assignments, each activitymay take 30 minutes to 2 hours. Each device can thus be covered in a period ranging from 4hours to two days, thereby providing a scheduling flexibility which allows facile adaptation todifferent program purposes.We first discuss the various pedagogical motivations for such a lab (A Lab for All Reasons),then summarize our experiences and plans to utilize the lab year round (Lab for all Seasons).A Lab for All ReasonsWe have offered the course in several formats, described in the later

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

consistent with thecontext-dependent nature of learning, they may still not achieve the desired outcomes. Thus athird approach exists which recognizes the critical role of context, but seeks to make the processof learning itself the object of reflection so that it can be “the object of conscious planning andanalysis.” This final approach has three key elements: “the need for the facilitator to take intoaccount the learner’s existing knowledge structures and previous knowledge, the need for thelearner to gain an understanding of the syntactic structure of the field that he or she is learning,and the learner’s development of metacognitive awareness or conscious control over his or herlearning.” [8]Which of these three approaches might we as

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Esther V. Reed; Matt W. Mutka

acommercial OS, which may be appropriate for laboratory development. The embedded systemplatform and environment that was investigated is a Handheld Personal Computer (H/PC) deviceusing the Windows CE operating system. The primary device and OS, for which software wasdeveloped, was the Hewlett Packard (HP) Jornada 820 Handheld PC Professional (H/PC Pro)running Windows CE 3.0. The secondary device and OS was the HP 620LX Palmtop PCrunning Windows CE 2.0. Commercial developer’s tools for these platforms and environmentsfrom Microsoft were investigated. The C++ and Java programming languages were to beincluded in this project. Consequently, the following packages were planned for investigation:Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 5.0, Windows CE

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Ron Eaglin; Z. Qu; Q. Zhang; P. Wahid; Issa Batarseh

ohms.Figure 5 shows the net-list generated from the GUI circuit. Page 5.460.7Figure 3 GUI Layout for two DC-Circuit Examples Page 5.460.8 Figure 4 GUI Layout for a Specific AC-Circuit ExampleFig. 5 Net-List to be used to obtain the Output Simulation results Page 5.460.9Conclusion:This paper presented the development plan for a new multi-media teaching tools that will allowcircuit simulation on line for the basic electrical engineering course at the University of CentralFlorida. The circuit simulator supports both dc and ac

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Douglas L. Jones; Bunny J. Tjaden

the lecture hall), and five classrooms for the labs. Our faculty and staff include fourprofessors and five teaching assistants from the engineering school. The faculty and TAsrepresent of the main SEAS disciplines. We consider the instruction of this course to be a teameffort that includes weekly meeting of professors and teaching assistants to discuss concerns andstrategies, plan labs, and coordinate teaching assignments.The hub lectures consist of topics that are of interest to all students and are usually presented bya guest lecturer who is an acknowledged expert in the field. The hub lectures this semesterincluded an introduction to engineering, design, engineering ethics, basic statistics anddeceptions, and a virtual reality lecture on