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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

included in theperformance grade equation to enforce limits on such items as Unassembled volume Setup time Initial cube over-height Initial bottle over-heightThe exact performance formula to determine the performance of the design was notprovided to the students until later in the design process because we wished to encouragean unlimited and unrestrained exploration process of idea generation. This designperformance criteria given to the teams during the fourth week of the quarter was Score = 30 a + 35 d + 25 W + C + S − P D wwhere:a = 1 if the cube movement is at least 12 inches in the horizontal direction 0 if the cube movement is less than 12 inchesd

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Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Wolverton; Janet Wolverton

engineering.7,8,9,12 The two-stage modelovercomes the shortfalls of the two methods most commonly used while incorporating thepositive aspects of each.The two-stage model consists of a general ethics foundation course followed by practicalapplication through ethics across the curriculum. The foundation course is taught by thePhilosophy (or equivalent) Department and focuses on application as well as theory. Theoutcome of the course is to provide a foundation in ethical theory along with the decision makingtools to apply the theory to specific situations. This is accomplished by identifying moralproblems and the stakeholders involved, analyzing the problems, and resolving problems in thecontext of the theories learned. This course “equip[s] students

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

motivation to bring afuture project to a successful completion. The goals of the team must be set as early as possible.This will enable the team to identify the potential need for the addition of a member(s) early inthe process. The role of the advisor of the team is examined. His/her role in the initial inceptionof the team is both critical and instrumental. The team must function in such a way that eachmember will benefit from all other members. Project management activities of the advisor mustgradually be taken over by at least one of the members who have been selected/recruited basedupon their management skills. The advisor must make certain that all members bring good groupmanagement skills to the project, and any deficiencies in these skills

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Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

accomplished in a “web-ring”. Each institution provides specificexperiment(s), for which laboratory equipment is shared together with experimental data andprotocols. The bandwidth and number of users from each institution is “paid” in proportion totheir contribution in terms of equipment and accessibility time. This is very good for overseascooperation since the time differential favors extended use during periods when the homeinstitution students are otherwise asleep. The diversity of electrical engineering topics taughtand practically performed can be extended in this way.4. ApplicationIn this section an experiment designed for students enrolled in electrical engineering is presented.The particular hardware employed here is organized around a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

and is expected to be 21.2 million by 2010with a strong growth among minority groups. 6 While the white college age population willexperience growth until 2010, it is projected to decline afterwards. The minority population, Page 8.1123.2however, will continue to rise. This trend presents quite a challenge to the U.S. educational Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsystem if it is to educate these students who are traditionally underrepresented in Science andEngineering (S&E

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; G. Lineberry

pursuing initial accreditation for a new program underABET EC 2000 criteria.I. Program Origin The engineering manpower needs of Kentucky had largely been provided for many yearsby the University of Kentucky College of Engineering (Lexington). As the state’s land-grantinstitution, it produced its first engineering graduates in the 1880’s. The University of Louisvilleestablished its engineering school in 1924, and became part of the state university system in 1970.These two schools offered the only accredited engineering programs in Kentucky in the early1990’s. Both of these institutions are over 200 miles east of the heavily industrialized JacksonPurchase region of Western Kentucky. Many of the industrial plant managers in this area

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Bartus; Snehamay Khasnabis

possible time frame.A brief theoretical foundation of the four techniques is presented below. The followingsymbols are used in the discussion.I = Initial Cost ($) Page 8.1106.2K = Annual Operation and Maintenance Cost ($) Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationn = Project Life (years)S = Salvage Value ($)i = interest rate used (%, annual)EUAC = Equivalent Uniform Annual Cost ($/year)EUAB = Equivalent Uniform Annual Benefit ($/year)(C/E) = Cost Effectiveness Index(B/C) = Benefit Cost RatioIRR

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

team is an E-Team, which is sponsored by the NCIIA. E-teams work on later-stage development of an idea and a plan for its commercialization. They mayinclude engineering students as well as students from business and other majors, and each teammust have a faculty advisor. E-Teams may form as part of a course or on the independentinitiative of students, faculty, or other representatives of member institutions.17Volunteers Student design projects generally contain a large cast of volunteers, which are perhapsbest harnessed via active involvement by the faculty advisor(s) or industry/government mentors.This group includes students who work on a project without receiving academic credit or

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. We have worked very hard to be proactive and expeditious in this undertaking, which has required constant commitment and hard Page 8.235.7 work from the members of TCAP^3. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education v The Conflict Resolution Process – Acknowledge Conflict, Identify the Issue(s), Analyze, Craft a Compromise, Implement, Repeat. When confronted with criticism to Policy Statement 465 or for a particular facet of our approach to communicating the

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The Climate for Women In Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

Changing the Continuing Chilly Campus Climate for Faculty Women: Recommendations Based on a Case Study Mara H. Wasburn Purdue UniversityAbstractA vast body of research conducted in the 1970’s and 1980’s documented a host of problemsconfronted by women faculty at colleges and universities nationwide: their small number, a“chilly campus climate,” low salaries, slow progress toward promotion and tenure, little power orinfluence, and a number of worklife issues. Subsequently, many institutions established policiesto address these inequities. This qualitative case study compares the concerns expressed in 1988by women faculty at “Sycamore

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; Brian Mouzon

10Ω5WSource + Drain n p n + D VG Substrate G S RS IS R2 10Ω5W [0,100]kWFigure 10. Diagram of Field

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

Session 2351 A Contribution to Validation of Score Meaning for Felder- Soloman’s Index of Learning Styles Malgorzata S. Zywno Ryerson UniversityAbstractIn 1988, Richard Felder and Linda Silverman developed a learning model that focuses specificallyon aspects of learning styles of engineering students. Three years later, a correspondingpsychometric assessment instrument, the Felder-Soloman’s Index of Learning Styles, wasdeveloped. This paper offers a contribution to an ongoing validation work on the ILS instrument,based on the author’s

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

). “2000 Open Doors: Report on International Educational Exchanges,” Institute of International Education. New York.Altbach, P. (2002). "Perspectives on International Higher Education," (Resource Review column), Change, 34:3, p. 29.Baecker, R. (Ed.) (1992). Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Assisting Human-Human Collaboration, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.Bikson, T. and S.A. Law (1994). “Global Preparedness and Human Resources: College and Corporate Perspective,” Rand Corp.Collier, K., J. Hatfield, S. Howell and D. Larson (1996). A Multi-disciplinary Model for Teaching the Engineering Product Realization Process. 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.Doerry, E., B. Bero, D

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2270 COOL (Computer Outreach Opportunities for Learning) Project James S. Collofello, Joseph E. Urban, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Faye Navabi, Doris Roman Arizona State UniversityAbstract Although most secondary schools provide some education in computer programming andapplications such as spreadsheets and word processors, they are usually deficient in preparingstudents for careers in software development. The lack of focus on software development topicsand project level experiences fails to dispel the "hacker" mentality and "geek-image" myths mostsecondary school

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Alungbe

Session 1139 Teaching Engineering Economy in Engineering Technology Program Gabriel D. Alungbe, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Engineering Technology Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT 06050-4010AbstractEngineering Economy is one of the most, if not the most, valuable required course(s) offered inmost undergraduate engineering and engineering technology programs. The course is veryimportant because most topics covered in it are used everyday in our personal and

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

Projects, Prentice Hall, 2003 3. Meredith, J. and Mantel, S. J., Project Management, Wiley, 2003 4. Kaufman, D., Felder, R., Fuller, H. “Accounting for Individual Effort in Cooperative Learning Teams,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 2, 2000, pp. 133-140. 5. Kerzner, H., Project Management, International Thomson Publishing, 1995. 6. Kolar, R., Sabatini, D. “Environmental Modeling: A Project Driven, Team Approach to Theory and Application,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 2, 2000, pp. 201-207. 7. Michaelsen, L. “Team Learning: A Comprehensive Approach for Harnessing the Power of Small Groups in Higher Education,” To Improve the Academy, vol. 11, 1992, pp. 107-122. 8. Woods, D

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Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robin Qiu; Ying Tang

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education4. ConclusionsThis article presented a simple concept for the improvement of teaching effectiveness under a certaincircumstance such as one for professional studies. With the help of visualization tool and a knowledge-based system, examples used in the class can be selected more applicable for the majority of professionalswho has a variety of work experience, course expectations, and educational backgrounds. Our experimentalso demonstrated the effectiveness of the collaboration between university and industry.Bibliographies1. Deshpande, S. and Hwang, J., “A Real-Time Interactive Virtual Classroom Multimedia Distance

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mysore Narayanan

. Page 8.717.6 Strain vs. Deflection 0.0018 0.0016 0.0014 0.0012 0.001 0.0008 Exp. st rain Strain (in/in) Calc. Strain 0.0006 0.0004 0.0002 0 0.01 Calc. Strain 0.02 0.03 Exp. s train 0.04

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

Relative Y-Position 12 Velocity (m/s) 10 10 8 6 5 4 0 2

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

. Students determine the As, Af, Ms, Mf temperatures (Figure 6), and the heatof transformation (∆H) for each sample. The students are then asked to discus s and explain thetrends they find.Tensile TestEach group also pulls an as-received wire and their heat-treated wires with a tensile tester togenerate a stress-strain plot. The plateau stress indicates the stress required for the martensitic Page 8.877.4“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

technologists to answer thepersistent workforce needs of the region’s semiconductor industry. The strategy is toconsolidate in a single world-class facility known as the Microelectronics TeachingFactory the hands-on laboratory instruction for all semiconductor students from multiplecampuses throughout the region.Through this project, the partners will develop curriculum and electronic educationalmaterials for use in the Teaching Factory (six units of LabEx1 for A.A.S. degree leveland eight units of LabEx2 for B. S. degree level); develop the content knowledge andtechnical skills of faculty; and provide state-of-the-art technical experiences andworkforce preparation for students.Bibliography1. Lakshmi V. Munukutla and Albert L. McHenry, “Innovative

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

scores on theLASSI scales. Additional research could help to determine if the students are really notprogressing in their capacity for lifelong learning. Then if the students are truly not getting betterat the skills projected to increase the capacity for lifelong learning, one could further determinewhat interventions might be effective in changing this trend.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grantnumber 9802942. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.The author(s) would like to thank Eric Sandt for offering his freshman engineering

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

was successful (Figure 2). The nitrification efficiency attained during the testing periodexceeded 97%. Although the pilot unit contained an anoxic tank, compressed air was provided tosatisfy mixing requirements, thus affecting the overall nitrogen removal process. We believe thatthe presence of dissolved oxygen at regular intervals, in the anoxic tank, affected the overallnitrogen removal by hindering denitrification. Figure 2. Pumpkinvine Pilot Plant Nitrogen Level s 70 Influent NH3-N Nitrogen Concentration, (mg/L) 60 Effluent NH3 -N

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Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

in communicationsskills and meeting deadlines.Studies done at the University of Houston [1] show that the declining enrollment in theirprogram was directly linked to the student’s awareness that the program offerings did notmeet the local needs. The program was built on a “me too” philosophy, that is, itparalleled other successful programs of the “80”s. The market for their graduatesaturated after a few years because the area is mainly concerned with the petrochemicalindustries and process control. There is limited need for graduates whose knowledgebase is RF and other electronic fields.In addition to technical knowledge and skills, engineering technology graduates areexpected to have significant communication and persuasion skills (both

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

thefirst ever Mining Engineering course in Pakistan. Its massive expansion and developmentcommenced in 1961 on its transformation into a University. In sixties according to the needs andrequirements of the country, Bachelors degree courses were started in Chemical, Petroleum &Gas, Metallurgical Engineering, Architecture & City and Regional Planning. By 1970's it hadestablished over a score of Master's Degree courses and Ph.D. Degree programs. Due to theincreasing number of students in 1970's Engineering College Taxila and Peshawar were formed toaccommodate them. Later they were given status of Universities, thus establishing a total of threeEngineering Universities, with UET Lahore as the parent University1.In 1961 the University had 36

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

learning. Through close interaction with teammates,with other students working on different projects, and with the instructor, they worktowards understanding and applying the theory, techniques and skills necessary tocomplete the project; hopefully successfully.References[1] American Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Accreditation Commission,Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2003. (accessed at www.abet.org)[2] Wankat, P. C., and P. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering. McGraw-Hill, NY, 1993.[3] Lyons, J., and E. F. Young, "Developing a Systems Approach to Engineering Problem Solving andDesign of Experiments in a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course", Journal of Engineering Education, pp.109-112, January

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Ann Marie Flynn

exacerbates the already serious problem of the shortage of engineers in the Nationalworkforce. While the number of undergraduate engineering degrees has decreased from roughly85,000 in the mid-1980’s to roughly 60,000 at the turn of the century, the anticipated increase inthe number of engineering positions by 2008 over that existing at the turn of the century isroughly 290,000. Attracting more students (particularly women and minorities) into engineeringand retaining them are critically important concerns. While losing some students fromengineering programs is expected, even desirable, it is important to measure and to evaluate thereasons for migration away from engineering in order to help determine optimum levels ofretention for a given

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

neutron balance equation and a delayed neutron precursor equation. The neutronmultiplication factor, keff, is converted to a diffference from critical and then normalizedto the fraction of delayed neutrons, B. The resulting is rho in $ is shown in equation 1.Thus, rho equals 1 $ is the prompt critical condition, which should never be approached. Rho($)= (Keff-1)/B (1) The resulting Wicks reactor differential equation that relates neutron population, n(t), Page 8.304.3reactivity, rho(t), external neutron source strength in neutrons per second, s(t), the decayrate of delay neutron precursor atoms, r(1/sec) and neutron life time

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

Shared Positions,” JCST, November 1996, pp. 123-124.[9] Vincent Ercolano, “Dual Career Couples,” ASEE Prism, April 1997, pp. 28-32.[10] S.L. Burkett, J.C. Lusth, L.A. Ruhala, R.J. Ruhula, S. Brbsky and B. Hyslop, “Solving the Dual-Career Dilemma: Three Case Studies,” Proceedings of the 1999 Annual ASEE Meeting, 1999.[11] Academic Couples: Problems and Promises, edited by M.A. Ferber and J.W. Loeb, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1997.[12] “Faculty moms: How they do it?”, About Women on Campus, Fall, 1998, pp. 4-5.[13] Robin Wilson, “Timing is Everything: Academe’s Annual Baby Boom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 1999. pp. A14-A15.[14] Mairin B. Brennan, “Women Chemists Reconsidering Careers at Research

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Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Ochoa

measuring the actual motor speed through aseries of signal conditioning circuits. Three hardware-interrupts and their respective servicesroutines are also created. Working in small teams, students develop individualized approaches tosolving the problem. Page 8.190.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. Software Systems TechnologyThe Software Systems Technology (SST) course (ENTC 369) was first offered in the mid1980’s. At this time the faculty recognized that the impact of software on the