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Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

andeffectively utilized by the instructor during the lecture period to deliver the course topics using acomputer projection system. Using these files the instructor can cover more material during thelectures and explain the topics in a manner that students can easily absorb. The author hasconsistently and effectively been using WebCT in delivery of a computing course at GeorgiaSouthern University in the last few years. Quality of the submitted lab assignments andperformance of students in the exams have indicated that the use of WebCT have significantlyimproved the student comprehension of the course topics. Also, comments from students on thestudent evaluation have consistently indicated that a great number of students find this method ofdelivery of

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Viva Austin; Keith Koenig; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Society for Engineering Education”primarily purchased from Keithley-Metrabyte, but after National Instrument Hardwareand LabVIEW became more commonly used in the US, a transition was made toLabVIEW. LabVIEW programming is now required for individual student projects andis used in the development of new laboratory experiments. Transitions to newer versionsof software are coordinated for the semester following the semester in which newversions are released.The elimination of the programming language requirement in the aerospace engineeringcurriculum at Mississippi State University has left students with a general lack ofprogramming familiarization. This is gradually being rectified, however, by the use ofMathCAD, Matlab, Maple and Mathematica (the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hanson; Julia Williams

Session 1274 Developing Writing-to-Learn Assignments for the Engineering Statics Classroom James H. Hanson, Department of Civil Engineering Julia Williams, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractResearch in engineering pedagogy has argued for the efficacy of writing as a means to improvingstudent learning in the engineering classroom. Unfortunately there are few models of suchassignments. This project, the result of cooperation between faculty in civil engineering andtechnical communication, was

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

Session 1601 Design Competitions as Tools for Change in Secondary (9-12) Technology Education: A Regional Case Study Joseph A. Betz State University of New York at FarmingdaleAbstractTechnology Education faculty at the secondary level share a kinship with college levelEngineering, Engineering Technology and Architecture faculty in the kinds of open-endeddesign and team problem-solving projects given to their students. This kinship also provides amutually beneficial relationship in terms of recruitment and access. However, there is afundamental difference

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mathew Hyre; James Squire

primary goal of theseconferences is the promotion of undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activityperformed in partnership with faculty or other mentors. A secondary goal is to help facultydiscover new and more sophisticated ways to incorporate undergraduates in research and toencourage students to undertake research projects of their own.In this paper we describe how to create and direct a first-time undergraduate research conference.Specifically we examine the steps of planning, budgeting, forming and managing the necessarysubcommittees, raising interest among potential presenters and attendees, managing abstractsubmissions, and orchestration of the conference event itself. We also describe some of thepitfalls that can occur to

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

. Drawing Geometric Const'n. Geometry Geometry Graphing Charts & Graphs Intersections Kinematics Kinematic Simulation** Lettering Mathematics Orthographic Projection Orthographic Proj'n. Orthographic Proj'n. Multiviews & Aux. Orthographic Proj'n. Orthographic Proj'n. Reading Drawings Dwg. Stds. & Codes Reading Drawings Scales

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

April Kedrowicz

. Instead, we have experimentedwith speaking, writing, and teamwork in several courses as figures 2 and 3 indicate.iii I am omitting a deep discussion of ethics for the purpose of this paper. The integration of ethics instruction is in itsformative stages and we have developed a junior level course that was collaboratively created by both engineeringand philosophy faculty. This course is team taught, and relies heavily on guest speakers from industry to share their Page 9.940.5experiences and provide case studies. As a result, my focus is on the communication skills and teamwork aspects ofthis project. Proceedings of

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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Coburn Stoler; Peter Crouch; Douglas Gorham

“CityTech: Stuff That Works” project and is a member of the AdvisoryCommittee for the International Technology Education Association.PETER CROUCHDr. Crouch obtained his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science and his Master's degree in ControlTheory from Warwick University, England. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from HarvardUniversity. His principal research interests lie in nonlinear, systems and control theory. Dr. Crouch is bestknown for his work in the synthesis of nonlinear systems. He has published over 150 papers and onemonograph, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.BARBARA COBURN STOLERBarbara Coburn Stoler is the Managing Director of IEEE Educational Activities. Previously she wasManaging

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

.20Many engineering courses require students to compose documents (such as laboratory reports,activity reports, and project reports) and to verbally present project findings or laboratoryresults. However, Walvoord expresses that engineering faculty, although they know that writingis important are often reluctant to “teach” writing to their students. The faculty worry that theirknowledge of technical writing and verbal communication and their ability to constructivelyrespond to student work is limited and their ability to constructively provide feedback to thestudents is inadequate. 19 In addition, many schools and programs do not recognize thedifference between what is being taught in introductory composition courses and industry’sneeds. Ramey

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Reid; Charles Tiltrum

avenues to learn about and exercise socialresponsibility, 4) exposure to the importance of life-long learning and licensure, 5)development of teamwork, communication, and leadership skills, and 6) service toprofession. This paper will provide examples of how the eight factors for a successfulchapter are implemented and how the student chapter supports departmental outcomes.IntroductionRegardless of the engineering discipline, active student professional societies have oftenbeen used to compliment academic programs. Typically, these activities have often beenviewed as opportunities to allow practitioners to interact with students and present real-world projects and experience to the students. However, successful student chaptersprovide much more

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Turso; David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney

program. (For six of the 68 schools, it was unclearfrom their web sites if a vibrations course was offered in MET.) Of the eleven schools offering avibrations course in MET, only three were found to have a laboratory component. (For three ofthe eleven schools having a vibrations course in MET, it was unclear from their web sites if thecourse had a lab component.)JustificationThe need for a vibrations course was identified largely through the required, senior-levelcapstone course whereby students work in teams on industry-sponsored projects. A localcompany that is a world leader in vibration, shock, and motion control products sponsors someof the projects. Another local company that is a world leader in the manufacture of locomotiveengines

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

management and data integrityProject management. The management of the database itself will be enhanced by separating thedistinct functions of database maintenance and database analysis. The former will be managed bya team at Clemson University and the latter by a team at the University of Florida. This approachwill help ensure that the dataset is validated before analysis. The project teams’ familiarity withthe partner institutions and their data management practices in the past 15 years will be asignificant asset in understanding how to correctly interpret institutional differences. Changes infile formats, changes to ensure Y2K compatibility, changes in academic policies, and evenchanges from quarter-hour system to a semester-hour system have

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Willcox; Gergana Bounova

the linkages between engineering, physics and calculus. In a study to assessmathematics proficiency of students at Grand Valley State University, it was determined thatstudent problems in this area are widespread and originate from many sources.1 Some resourcesexist that attempt to address these problems. Examples include the dAimp project, 2 which iscurrently developing online resources for engineering mathematics. The goal is to put together aseries of manipulatives that lend greater understanding of mathematical concepts to engineeringundergraduates. Project Links aims to link the concepts of higher mathematics to real-worldapplications through interactive web-based modules. 8 One of the major challenges associatedwith developing such

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

identified.However, three articles or the topics upon which articles are based that were found may be ofinterest to some readers. They are: • The State of Maine’s project, begun in the year 2000, to provide middle school students and teachers with Apple iBook laptop computers. • The Copernicus Project, a project of six Washington state school districts to incorporate laptop computers into the learning process of academics and of computer skills. Fouts, Jeffrey T. and Carol Stuen, “Copernicus Project: Learning with Laptops: Year 1 Evaluation Report,” Research in Education, July 1998. • Siegle, Del and Theresa Foster, “Laptop computers and Multimedia and Presentation Software: Their Effects on Student Achievement in

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Michael Kilbey; Richard Rice; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Debi Switzer

” – Group project (also exercised Romantic, Philosophic, and Ironic skills) • Romantic skills – PvT graphical projections – Learning exercise on how to read technical material – Developing graph/equation and graph/process equivalents – Equation interrogation • Philosophic skills – Identifying patterns (e.g., forms of the fundamental equation) – Uniform problem solving strategy • Ironic skills – Selection of property modelsThe specially designed activities related to the hierarchical model are implemented in“experimental” versions of the courses, while “control” groups are

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Musiak

allow all five sections of the course access to twocomputer labs. The integration of the laptop computers allowed us to overcome the computer lab bottleneck andprovide the instructors and students with a flexible environment. The laptops were brought out when the lessoncalled for them; otherwise the computers were secured in a cabinet in the rear of the classroom where the batteriesalso charged. Wireless web hubs were added to each room giving the students the ability to easily move thecomputers as needed. At times each student had a laptop and at other times a team had one or two laptops in use forrunning experiments. The classrooms were also equipped with a multimedia projection system so that the instructorcould project their laptop screen

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

teaching responsibilities and occasionally the sessions were co-taught by two facultymembers. In addition to the faculty, undergraduate and graduate civil engineering studentsassisted with the planning and teaching activities. The faculty members were unable to secure asingle assistant for the entire duration of the program; so multiple assistants were used (although,only one assistant was present for a given session).Project Descriptions Over the duration of the Engineering the World Program numerous projects weredeveloped. Sessions were developed to emphasize each of the conventional specializations ofcivil engineering: construction, environmental, geotechnical, hydraulics, structural, surveying,and transportation. Individual sessions

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

curriculum.Coordinated Spiral CurriculumAlthough the curriculum had just passed a rigorous review by its accrediting agency, the facultybelieved that there was always room for improvement. The faculty decided to step back andexamine the entire curriculum with fresh eyes. The faculty threw off the shackles of mundanementality and looked afresh at curriculum. If we the faculty could start with a clean slate, whatwould we create? The faculty determined that the curriculum must have the following keyfeatures: • Satisfy accreditation criteria • Provide breadth and depth of curriculum content • Include a projects thread through the program to develop professional skills • Incorporate a just-in-time curriculum content flow • Produce

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

, that writingskills would be practiced and improved. Based on anecdotal evidence gathered throughout thesemester, this paper will promote journaling as a key success factor for students in engineeringclasses.IntroductionMany engineers keep daily or weekly journals as informal project records that ultimately result inmore formal status reports. Sometimes the engineer’s journal is just a personal record to helpexplain problems or to record agreements and lessons learned from the project. While journalingis widely used in the daily work environment, most journal writing in college is reserved forEnglish and humanities classes. When engineering students write, it is generally in the form of alab report. The authors’ research yielded few results

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

Integration of Engineering Ethics Into The Curriculum: Student Performance and Feedback Richard B. Mindek, Jr., Thomas K. Keyser, Ronald E. Musiak, Steven Schreiner, Mary B. Vollaro Western New England College, Springfield MassachusettsAbstractSeveral ethics lectures were developed and integrated into two diverse courses taught in the School ofEngineering at Western New England College during the Fall 2001 semester. This included a single one-hourlecture given to 39 seniors from mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering disciplines preparing for theircapstone senior design projects and two one-hour lectures given

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Society for Engineering EducationTwo courses have been identified for use in reinforcing experimental design and statisticslearning: ChE 346 - Heat Transfer and ChE 347 - Mass Transfer and Separations. The heattransfer course is offered the same quarter (Winter Quarter) as the required undergraduatestatistics course and already has a laboratory project incorporated into the course. An effort hasbeen made to integrate this existing laboratory project with the subject matter being presented inthe statistics course. The first offering of the integrated heat-transfer experiment was made inWinter Quarter AY2002/2003. The second course, the Mass Transfer and Separations course, isoffered the quarter directly following the statistics course (Spring

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

for globalaccreditation of engineering and technology programs, to launch special drive to attractunderrepresented groups and to address employment opportunities and social status.Recruitment is the first step towards ensuring the future of the engineering and technologyeducation in this country. More emphasis should be given to influence the students at K-12 levelwhich is the primary carrier goal decision time using collaborative engineering projects andcurriculum development initiatives. The author has documented the overall trend of selectiveadmission policy over open admission policy and it's effect on electronic engineering technologyprogram of a Canadian institute. In recent years almost sixty percent of the continuouslyincreasing work

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

some flexibilitydepending on what teaching methods worked well for the students. Page 8.973.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”The “story” of how this course exposed students to simple and complex system concepts andhow they applied these concepts in an experiential learning project will be presented. A final“stew cooking” metaphorical experience that demonstrated the complexities involved in almostevery facet of their lives will also be discussed. Because of the unique way that the

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

cart was purchased. This equipment wasstored in a locked location in the building where ENGR 106 was scheduled and moved to theclassroom each day at the start of the experimental lecture class. At the beginning of the lecture,one laptop for every two students was distributed by undergraduate assistants; students wereencouraged to work with members of the teams they were assigned to in laboratory. The 110-minute lecture period then consisted of two or more cycles of lecture materials followed by activelearning exercises. The period concluded with wrap-up comments by the instructor and collectionof the laptops.Attempts were made to minimize confounding effects. All assignments (i.e. labs, projects,homework assignments, and exams) were identical

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

. Page 8.840.2 2With the GUI, users who are not interested in the source codes can treat these modules as a blackbox, and use them as a tool for homework and design projects. Other users can modify the sourcecodes to meet their needs.The courseware will be enhanced with additional modules, like stress concentration factors andbearing reliability. Once sufficient MATLAB modules are developed, the courseware can be usedas an essential interactive reference resource for practicing engineers. Part of the courseware willbe published this year.Reference:1. Roark, R.J., Budynas, R.G., and Young W. C., Roark’s Formula For Stress and Strain, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill June 2001.2. Universal Technical

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaw Owusu

everybody to agree on where the project is going, and what it will Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationtake to succeed. Therefore, a strategy is needed for the team to succeed. The followingis proposed strategy that can be used as an integrated process planning approach toresolving team conflicts in a concurrent engineering setting:1. Fighting the elements: The traditional view of individual effort rather than cooperation must be eliminated. Specialists must learn how to work in a group and help each other.2. Bringing the team together: The team leader must have the support of top management. He or

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman

information can be distributed instantly to widely different places at precisely the same time. That makes it unnecessary for people who must work together and share information to be physically located in the same place, and it makes it possible for many more people to be involved in working on a project or solving a problem . . . Demands for creativity and innovation are driving American companies to create this new kind of organization. Technology is making this new organization possible. It is also changing the workplace in revolutionary ways. Working will never again be the same. It isn’t just a new workplace. It is a new world, where traditional notions of work and leisure and the employee

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeanne Rierson; James Graham

, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (SMET) disciplinesi. There arecurrently 25 LSAMP projects in existence across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The Texas A&MSystem AMP was among the first six to be funded, beginning in Fall 1991. In addition to TexasA&M University (TAMU), the TX AMP has actively included 4 other Texas A&M SystemUniversities and 9 community colleges .Each campus has pursued the objectives of the AMP Program by implementing strategiesintended to increase retention, enrich learning, and encourage progression through SMET BSprograms into SMET graduate programs for under-represented minority students. While manyactivities for nurturing the academic success of under-represented minority SMET students wereemployed in several or

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Jones; Indira Nair

suggest that thiscurriculum be used by the teacher in conjunction with a disciplinary text, or a reader ofenvironmental writings depending on the teacher’s course objectives. What our text does is toprovide teachers with materials that can be used in class to achieve a participatory, project-basedfocus that we feel enhance the instruction of environmental literacy.Target Audience: The potential audience for this text is large and varied. As stated in theintroduction, the curriculum in this text is designed to help the citizen gain a workingunderstanding of environmentally responsible decision making on several levels. The citizenmay be a student of engineering who needs to understand the impact that engineering decisionscan have on the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey A. Wood

improve one's chances of success.This paper will present ways in which faculty can set realistic project goals with an emphasis onkeeping expectations reasonable and quality high. A review of various software and hardwareproducts will be included along with practical advice on their use and compatibility with othersystems. The role of multimedia at State Technical Institute in Memphis, TN and its use in thesupport of Engineering Technology curriculum will be examined in detail.II. Multimedia basicsThe term “multimedia” has not only entered the English language but is thoroughly entrenchedin everyday conversation. Vast resources and manpower have been devoted to the discussion ofmultimedia—and this paper is no exception. Try an Internet search for