Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

time and opportunitiesavailable and provides the highest value possible to the student.The intention of this paper a review of a collection of existing approaches to providing practicalexperiences and to provide information of how the Admiral Lewis B. Combs Memorial DesignRetreat was developed, its goals, as well as demonstrate the value of such a practical experience.In doing so the discussion will examine the structure of past retreats and the impacts they havehad on their participants.ReviewAt the undergraduate level practical experiences appear in a variety of activities. Students areexposed to practical experiences through courses, planned events, co-ops, internships, etc.Without question, these practical experiences add significant value

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

recommend that the interested readerlook at Kerth’s excellent book9, containing advice on performing retrospectives and manyexample formats. Page 8.1080.12†† However, due to pressures of working on the project, we did not hold every planned retrospective. See Appendix2 for our complete course schedule. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMost students appreciated the variety of the retrospectives we used, though one studentrecommended (in their feedback four months after the course

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFrom the author’s perspective, the “prep- program” would have a mission statement (goals) andstrategic plans to help accomplish the following: (i) rekindle the tacit knowledge acquired bystudents during the pre-college years (K-12); (ii) improve their English skills to a desired level;(iii) help develop a proper learning environment and foster creative thinking; (iv) provide, incooperation with industry, a short-duration “practical/hands-on” training period, to help create anappreciation for the role of the engineer in the work place; and (v) re-visit high school math andscience through innovative pedagogical approaches in an attempt to fill gaps and develop a firmfoundation for future math

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Bird; Mark D'Avila; Penny Hirsch

granules (video clips, simulations, class notes, knowledge-based questions, etc.), should be developed. REUs have worked on developing relationaldatabases that are used to store and display the taxonomic structure of the domains and othershave worked on developing educational materials (“modules” and “granules”). REU projectsinclude developing video or audio tracks of faculty lectures or programming or drafting plans forimplementing interactive simulations. REUs might also participate in VaNTH assessment andevaluation activities, developing web-based forms for surveys, spreadsheets, or assisting with thecompilation and statistical analysis of assessment data. Some REUs, especially those with abackground in education, have joined the Learning

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

what we consider to-be a goodway to perform a project.A good work processThe following characterize a good work process and a good specialist contribution in thegroup report that is the product result:1. The work follows an agreed-upon plan developed by the project group. Its point of departure is an approved problem statement and rules for working together. The group must also have defined the aims and objectives of the project. The plan must involve everyone in the group.2. The work process must inspire and stimulate the development of both independent specialist skills as well as a collective responsibility towards the project group and the project. The synergy effect prevailing in teamwork1 of this

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

interns be designing gang toilet plans, hip roof plans or basic wall sections nor willengineering interns be drawing steel framing plans or detailed shop drawings; it can all bedesigned by computer, the process is now automated! What will be left for the designer will bethe design philosophy, the ideal value judgements and critical review of the automated designproduct itself. This is going to have a profound effect on the way we design, how we define it,produce it and teach it.These technological changes are going to lead to a philosophical separation between academiaand industry because certain cognitive processes will be completely automated by technology,thus rendering specific types of knowledge obsolete. In the same token, certain types

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Nelson; Osama Abudayyeh; Edmund Tsang; Molly Williams

accredited construction engineering that existsin the department; the department now offers undergraduate degrees in both civil engineeringand construction engineering, and plans to continue doing so. One must look below the surfaceto observe the impact of the guiding principles on the resulting curriculum. Throughout allcourses, team projects and the design process are an expected part of the course content.The Freshman Sequence. The freshman introduction to civil and construction engineering iscontained in a two course sequence. This intent of this sequence is to satisfy the needs for afreshman experience identified above. The first of this sequence presents a broad picture of civilengineering, begins the process of thinking through engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

Meteorology and Air Pollution Water Resources Planning and Design Hydrogeology Geology Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment and Remediation EV489 EV490 Hydrology and Hydraulic Design GRADUATION Page 8.691.3 Figure 1

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

other problems: manystudents possessed poor learning and study habits, high student frustration, and a great deal ofstudents with a myriad of personal difficulties impinging on their abilities to achieve. Toaddress these shortcomings, two affective initiatives were piloted in Fall 2001 and continued inSpring 2002: (1) the discussion approach and (2) the self-reflection approach.Discussion ApproachThe discussion approach11 involved numerous class discussions about the students’ cognitive-affective potential. During these discussions students were encouraged to confidently order theirlearning experiences around the works of Bloom,6, 7 Maslow,16 Polya,23 Whitehead,31Armstrong,2 and others. The ability of students to plan their cognitive growth and

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

today as playing an important role in our planning in industrialsector. The industries that are going to adopt these practices will be expected to make changes inpolicies and programs that can reach these goals. They also require collaboration amonggovernment, industry, labor and educational institutions. To achieve this partnership,manufacturing companies must make organizational changes that will support the new companyculture.Trends in Engineering EducationSeveral studies have shown that employment in research and development high-tech industriesare shifting dramatically toward service industries. The demand for high-tech workers is shiftingto jobs more involved with service creation than production of goods. Trend is towards moreengineers

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

engineering majors may anticipate aftergraduation. Types of jobs represented ranged from expected chemical engineering tasks to sales,management, and consulting. The speakers represented employers such as NASA, Magotteau,Gobbell Hays Partners, and DuPont. Only two speakers worked in Nashville, where Vanderbilt islocated. Of the remaining three, one was from Delaware, one from Alabama, and one fromTexas. Three different decades were represented, with one speaker having graduated in the '70's,two in the '80's, and two in the '90's. In addition to all speakers being alumni, four of the fivewere my former students. (A sixth speaker, a 2002 graduate from Marathon Oil in Illinois,accepted but had to cancel travel plans because of extreme weather conditions

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

performance factors are consistent withthe creative problem-solving model described by Lumsdaine et al.7 and the project-basedintroduction to design by Dym and Little8. The teamwork attributes are consistent withthe cooperative learning model by Johnson et al.9 The communication attributes areconsistent with recommendations by the writing across the curriculum movement andsummarized by Bean10.Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process • information gathering/understand problem/customer needs • problem definition/goals or requirements defined • idea generation/brainstorming/creativity • evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling • decision making/selection/planning • implementation/produce/deliver design to customer • process review

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

presentationwill also focus on the challenges of conducting such collaborative projects and recommend dosand don’ts for faculty teams that plan to conduct interdisciplinary student projects in engineeringtechnology.Relevance of Interdisciplinary Projects and Fostering Student CollaborationIn recent decades there has been an increasing demand on manufacturers to reduce the cycle timefor new product development. At the same time, we continued to see that the life cycle of newproducts became increasingly shorter. In this era of a free global market economy that fostersand nurtures creativity as well as innovation, engineering technologists can rest assured thatthese observations define a trend that will continue into the coming decades at an even morefurious

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

emphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they willencounter as engineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning andimprovement in the design of this course.3 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuoussteps: Plan, Do, Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students didnot learn what was intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycleagain under slightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because itleaves room for change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’umLaboratory” or Complex Systems (see the class web page athttp://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). This allowed room in the course for

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

engineering within the FC experienced the curricular changeprocess. For each case we drafted an initial case report and shared it with those who wereinterviewed, asking for their feedback. We then used that feedback to revise each case report.Our cross-case analysis worked in a similar way, looking for themes across the entire data set.While each institution was unique, there were commonalities across the group that enabled us todraw a number of conclusions about the curricular change process. The findings in this paperdraw from that cross-case analysis.The Evolving Model of ChangeThe original FC action plan for the first five years (1993–1998) called for renewing the entire four-year undergraduate engineering curriculum and incorporating the four

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonya Smith; Marian Muste; Ganesh Rajagopalan; Donald Yarbrough; David Caughey; Alric Rothmayer; Barbara Hutchings; Rajesh Bhaskaran; Tao Xing; Frederick Stern

” at The University of Iowa from 1999 to present, as updated and currently being used(http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/~fluids/). Recently, project expanded under sponsorship NationalScience Foundation Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement - Educational MaterialsDevelopment Program to include faculty partners from colleges of engineering at large public(Iowa and Iowa State) and private (Cornell) and historically minority private (Howard)universities for collaboration on further development TM, effective implementation, evaluation,dissemination, and pedagogy of simulation technology utilizing web-based techniques. Theevaluation plan includes collaboration with faculty from The University of Iowa, College ofEducation, Department of

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonya Smith; Marian Muste; Ganesh Rajagopalan; Donald Yarbrough; David Caughey; Alric Rothmayer; Barbara Hutchings; Rajesh Bhaskaran; Tao Xing; Frederick Stern

” at The University of Iowa from 1999 to present, as updated and currently being used(http://www.icaen.uiowa.edu/~fluids/). Recently, project expanded under sponsorship NationalScience Foundation Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement - Educational MaterialsDevelopment Program to include faculty partners from colleges of engineering at large public(Iowa and Iowa State) and private (Cornell) and historically minority private (Howard)universities for collaboration on further development TM, effective implementation, evaluation,dissemination, and pedagogy of simulation technology utilizing web-based techniques. Theevaluation plan includes collaboration with faculty from The University of Iowa, College ofEducation, Department of

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

establishing project needs • Establishing, developing and writing design specifications • Developing design concepts • Testing the validity design concepts with physical and mathematical models • Feasibility: physical, economic and design team compatibility Page 8.189.4"Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education" • Human factors • Intellectual Property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, etc.) • Engineering Design Methodologies • Project Planning

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

computer during the free time. In this study, unless the girls were assigned aspecific time on the computers, the boys monopolized the computers 8. As early as the seventhgrade, boys plan to study more math than girls do 16. From sixth to twelfth grades there is anoverall decline in both male and female students' liking and enjoyment of math 17. Studentsreported that math became more difficult, that they received less support from parents, teachers Page 8.1091.2and peers for studying math, and that math became more anxiety provoking over time. FemaleProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

capstone courses and byindustry concerns about workplace preparedness of engineering graduates5,6, many degreeprograms across engineering disciplines have adopted industry-sponsored projects, most of whichextend over an academic year7. At a time when student learning and assessment in capstonecourses are increasingly important to program accreditation, capstone course instructors are beingchallenged by the need to plan, facilitate, and assess student learning where expected capstonecourse outcomes are uncertain and differ significantly from those of traditional engineeringscience courses8.Establishing suitable capstone course learning outcomes is essential for facilitating and assessingstudent achievement related to many ABET criterion 3 outcomes

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

globalization of corporate economies has changed the face of engineeringpractice. In addition to core engineering skills, modern engineers must possess cross-culturalcommunication skills, team management skills, and the ability to perform on geographicallydistributed teams. We describe a novel curricular paradigm called the Global EngineeringCollege (GEC) that we are currently exploring under an NSF planning grant. The GEC conceptis based on the idea of seamlessly combining the curricula and educational opportunities ofseveral internationally-distributed engineering institutions to create a virtual engineering collegespanning multiple countries and cultures. We report on the technical, pedagogic, andadministrative challenges we have exposed in our

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

comparableoutcomes into a single statement. Examples of the changes that were made due to overlappingoutcomes are shown in Figure 3.While developing an assessment plan, consideration was given to developing assessmentmethods that would work for multiple outcomes, to using both direct and indirect measures, andto finding and using measures that were already in place. NC State University already has anumber of indirect assessment measures, e.g. senior and alumni surveys, in place that includequestions that have been mapped to ABET 3a-3k. These were included in the assessment planwherever they were considered to be appropriate.For direct measures, the BME Curriculum Committee turned to course-based assessment. Theplan based on the current curriculum uses six

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

figure below): I) Training andPreparation, II) In-school Engagement, and III) Extended Outreach. The details of each phaseare described below. This plan was designed with the participation of GK-12 Teachers, OutreachCoordinators, and Departmental Liaisons and reflects three years of experience with the currentproject. Each Fellow was paired with a GK12 Teacher from their school. This teacher acceptsthe responsibility to assist the Fellow in preparing for the in-school activities, offer guidancethroughout the year, and provide some assessment of the Fellows. The GK-12 Teacher is alsoexpected to be the primary beneficiary of the assistance afforded by the Fellow. TheDepartmental Liaisons assist in all three phases by providing disciplinary support

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The creditstructure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects ofsignificant scope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

their project. Once this isdetermined, the content of the small group meetings can be planned. For example,questions about fasteners are very common, so we ask someone from campus who is anexpert in fasteners to come in and teach the students about fasteners. The subjects that arediscussed are extremely wide-ranging and varied, depending on the project and the interestof the students.Philosophy in the types of projects that are selected and the clients that work best with thecourse and students: As has been described, the projects carried out by the students in thiscourse have always been authentic projects with real clients. Each of the individualsections meets with the client, develops a problem statement, brainstorms, designs, andfabricates

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

one of the projects forsenior design capstone course. Miami University started to participate in the RoboticsCompetition through the senior design course with Northwest High School (2001 and 2002), andLakota East High School (2003).FIRST, a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen6,inspires students to consider careers in engineering, technology, and science. The aim is to showstudents not only that the technological fields hold many varied opportunities for success and areaccessible and rewarding, but also that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, andinvention are exciting and interesting.Learning to plan and implement the entire design process can take a long time, but it is the

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Alungbe

Educationengineering and engineering technology programs worthy of consideration.The contents of a portfolio may contain, but are not limited to, articles relevant to engineeringeconomy field, solved problems beyond those assigned as homework, economic analyses ofprojects, term paper, and computer programs to solve economic problems. The articles maycome from recent issues of newspapers or magazines that the students are required to read andprepare a typed, double-spaced one page summary of the main points every week. Regardingterm paper, a perennial title is “How to Become a Millionaire in 30 Years or Less.” The objectiveof this term paper is to enable the students apply the concepts they have learned in engineeringeconomy to plan their retirement in no more

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

production planning apprenticeship programs areavailable for selected apprentices after completion of required academics and about twoyears in craft training. The five-year design program prepares individuals in one of sixdesign disciplines, including hull, machinery design, electrical, piping, ventilation andnuclear design. The four and a half year program prepares individuals for planningpositions at various levels within the organization.IV. Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University The primary goal of the Department of Engineering Technology is preparation ofstudents for both short and long term career success in engineering and technical fields.Our Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology (BSET) programs are

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

knowledge gathered and gained during the study period of severalsemesters, in a variety of courses. Whenever appropriate, comparisons are madeand analogies are provided, so that the students will be able to identify thesimilarities that exist between mechanical, electrical and thermal models. Whileconducting and completing this experiment, the students are strongly encouraged toapply their knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, electric circuit analysis,materials science, statics, strength of materials, dynamics, fluid mechanics,thermodynamics and heat transfer. Further, it was also essential that the new labsatisfied several key elements pertaining to Miami University’s Plan for LiberalEducation.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivakum Venkatanarayanan; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

a typical ion implantation tool. It is a large machine, typically more than4 x 3 m with a price tag of $2M or more. The contents and basic functionality are morereadily demonstrated by the plan view in figure 3. Since the source may be at >200 kV,substantial safety precautions are in order – interlocks, fiber optic data links, adequateclearance and avoidance of all sharp features that might induce flash-over. With vacuumsystems, high voltage supplies, potentially hazardous source materials, automatedprecision wafer handling, 24 x 7 operation and tight dose uniformity (~ 1%), the highcost of ownership is not surprising. Page 8.634.4Proceedings of