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Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robin Adams; Jennifer Turns

Session 2325 Who Listens to Whom? A Citations Analysis of Recent Papers on Engineering Design Education Josh Martin, Robin Adams, and Jennifer Turns Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching Department of Technical Communication University of WashingtonAbstract:Design is a central component of engineering education and practice. Students may experiencedesign as early as their freshman year, and most students conclude their baccalaureate educationwith a capstone design experience. In addition, there are

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Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeff Nadel; Daniel Walsh

Session 3120 Enhancement to Student Learning by Employing Advanced Computing in a Project Oriented Environment Jeff Nadel, Dan Walsh College of Engineering California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractA partnership between an individual donor, industry and academia has been formed to develop acrucible where the hypothesis that advanced computing can enhance student learning in a projectoriented environment will be tested. We have developed a facility that provides a location,previously lacking, for teams of students to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Budwig; Beyerlein Steve; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Donald Elger

Session 1526 Design of a Wind Tunnel Facility for Hands-on Use by Beginning Engineering Students J. Matthew Cunnington, Levi J. Westra, Steven W. Beyerlein, Ralph S. Budwig, Donald F. Elger University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering Moscow, ID 83844-0902AbstractThe best way to learn engineering is by doing engineering. To foster appropriate types ofexperiential learning, we have created a unique project called a Design for Lifetime Learning(DL2) project. This paper addresses

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tina Yuille

Session 3425 Ensuring the Success of Competitive Engineering Design Projects Through a Centralized Operation Tina C. Yuille Clarkson UniversityABSTRACT In 1997 Clarkson University created the SPEED (Student Projects for EngineeringExperience and Design) program to centralize the operations of its competition-basedengineering design project teams. This paper describes the benefits of centralizing the operationsof competition-based engineering design projects. Benefits of centralization includeinstitutionalizing the activities of the project teams

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Segalewitz

Session 2547 A Paperless Engineering Technology First-Year Seminar Course Emphasizing Critical Thinking, Communication, and Teamwork Scott Segalewitz University of DaytonAbstractThe engineering technology first-year seminar provides students with an effectiveintroduction to engineering technology principles and practices. Facilitated by thedepartment chair, University of Dayton Engineering Technology students experience toolsnecessary for success in a technical curriculum. The course is essentially paperless, takingadvantage of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alicia Townsend; Renate Fruchter

paper presents an ongoing study that is at the intersection of three thrust areas – culture,information and collaboration technology, and distributed, cross-disciplinary project-basedteamwork and learning. The focus is on the relationship between multi-cultural dimensionsand communication channels in a rich multi-modal collaboration and information technologyenvironment deployed in a cross-disciplinary, geographically distributed teamwork courseorganized by the PBL Lab, at Stanford. The study focuses on the cultural dimensions thatcharacterize distributed Architecture, Engineering, Construction (A/E/C) cross-cultural teamswork together to design a building using collaborative technologies. We aim to answerseveral questions.· What are key

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

Session 2147 Microelectronics Teaching Factory, a Venue for Learning and Building Real World Products By Engineering Technology Students Lakshmi Munukutla, Albert McHenry, John Robertson, and Richard Newman College of Technology and Applied Sciences Arizona State University East Mesa, Arizona, 85212AbstractArizona State University East (ASUE) is leading a project in preparing Engineering Technologystudents majoring in Microelectronics with real world

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Elizabeth McCullough; Kimberly Rogers; Joseph Hickey; Andrew Hoff; Eric Roe; Marilyn Barger

Session 2002-2027 Teaching Problem Solving to High School and Community College Students: A New Approach Andrew M. Hoff1, Marilyn Barger2, Richard Gilbert1, Kimberly S. Rogers1, Joseph D. Hickey1, Eric Roe1, and Beth McCullough2 (1) University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620 / (2) Hillsborough Community College, Brandon, Florida 33619AbstractWe present the results of a new approach to adapt and incorporate high technology materials intoour state mandated secondary education curricula. This is accomplished by providing secondaryand community college

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Tragesser; Gregory Agnes

Session 2793 SIMSAT: A Ground-based Platform for Demonstrating Satellite Attitude Dynamics and Control S. G. Tragesser and G. S. Agnes Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765 J. Fulton U.S. Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO 80841AbstractA laboratory platform capable of demonstrating the attitude dynamics of an orbiting satellite wasdeveloped at the Air Force Institute of Technology

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zohar Herbsman; Cristina Cosma

Session 2342 DEVELOPING AN “IN-HOUSE” GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT – A CASE STUDY Dr.Z.J.Herbsman1, Dr.E.E.Middleton 2, and C.Cosma 3 1&3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Florida/ 2 Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville DistrictIntroductionThe engineering management profession these days is facing a major problem. In most cases,engineers leave universities after completing their Bachelor’s degree, and a few years later, afteraccumulating practical experience, they express the desire to continue their education

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Arora; Fariborz Asadian; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

Session 2359 Developing a Minor Program in Computer-based Measurement and Instrumentation For Undergraduate Science and Engineering Majors Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Sanjeev Arora, and Fariborz Asadian Fort Valley State UniversityAbstractThe Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fort Valley State University hasrecently implemented a minor program in computer-based instrumentation and measurement.The primary objective of this project is to enhance the mathematics, physics, computer science,and electronic engineering technology

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Barker

Session 1520 WebCHARLIE - A New Open-Source Web-Based Tool Used To Improve Mathematics Skills Steven Barker Buffalo State CollegeAbstractA new web-based open-source computer-managed homework tool called webCHARLIE isdescribed and compared to four competitors. WebCHARLIE is part of an asynchronous learningnetwork (ALN) that has been used to help engineering technology students improve theirmathematics skills. Lessons learned using webCHARLIE over the past six years are alsodiscussed.IntroductionWebCHARLIE is one component of an

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session 3460 A New Approach to Engineering and Technology Education and the New Pedagogy Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi, Ricardo Castillo Molina SENAC School of Engineering and TechnologyAbstractA new Pedagogy has emerged as a consequence of a new educational paradigm. This newpedagogy preaches the commitment of family, society and educational institutions. SENACSchool of Engineering and Technology has implemented a Telecommunication EngineeringProgram that contains in its curriculum what is called “Free Period”, which is in according to thenew paradigm of education

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Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Falk

Session ___ Teaching the molecular simulation of materials to a diverse cross-section of engineering graduate students Michael L. Falk Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136Over the past two years the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) department at theUniversity of Michigan has offered a graduate level class in molecular simulation of materials.This class has attracted enrollment both from within MSE and from other engineering disciplinesas well as Physics and Applied

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Haering

Session 2793 Successes and Failures In Teaching a Freshman-Level Engineering Design and Graphics Course William Haering The Pennsylvania State University – DuBois CampusAbstractThe author discusses experiences teaching a freshman-level engineering design and graphicscourse over a two-year span at the DuBois Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Thiscourse is a survey course that covers many diverse topics in limited detail. Due to localcircumstances, the instructor prepared the course plan without direct contact with the previousinstructor of

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Batill

Session 2425 An Experiment in Product Innovation and Design in a Mechanical Engineering Capstone Experience Stephen M. Batill University of Notre DameAbstractProduct design is inherently a collaborative, multidisciplinary activity that is influenced bynumerous issues and it can be accomplished using many, very different approaches. This paperdescribes a number of pedagogical changes associated with a capstone design class inMechanical Engineering that is intended to simulate the product development process as itoccurs in industry. The changes from

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Irwin

Session 3238 A Methodology for Developing Unigraphics Parametric Assemblies for Product Design, Tool Design and Analysis John L. Irwin Department of Design Engineering Technology Mott Community College Flint, MI 48503, USAIntroductionParametric Assemblies are an important element in the design process of a product or tool,because of the ability to continually update, and/or replace components in the assembly as thedesign changes through the design and analysis phases. One of the goals of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dru Germanoski; David Brandes

Session 1526 A Comprehensive Watershed Instrumentation Program for Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Education at Lafayette College David Brandes and Dru Germanoski Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 18042AbstractMultidisciplinary environmental problems associated with suburban sprawl are increasinglybeing addressed at the watershed scale. Consistent with this theme, Lafayette College (LC)faculty and undergraduate students are installing a comprehensive network of automatedinstrumentation to investigate hydrologic impacts of land use change in a 200-km2

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheila O'Connor; Don Malzahn

Session 1658 Beta Testing a Web-Based Interactive Coaching System for Team Skill Development Sheila O’Connor, Don Malzahn Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wichita State UniversityAbstractThe practice of engineering occurs in teams. Therefore, engineering educators mustcontinue to construct and evaluate methods for helping engineering students learn how towork in teams. The development of TeamCoach occurred over a one-year period andwas partially funded by NSF CCLI DUE -0088580. Beta testing was conducted duringthe Fall 2001 semester

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

Session 1320 Development of a Universal Controller for Pedagogical Applications Involving Data Acquisition, Data Logging and Control Nicholas Krouglicof Union College, Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractThis paper describes the development of a novel, low cost, microcontroller-based system thatenables students to interface a variety of sensors and actuators to their laptop computers in alaboratory or studio classroom environment. The system could potentially find applicationthroughout the engineering curriculum at Union College beginning with the freshmanIntroduction to

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Goodman; Edith A. Lawson; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

Session 2650 Designing an IT Curriculum: The Results of the First CITC Conference Barry M. Lunt, Edith A. Lawson, Gordon Goodman, C. Richard G. Helps Brigham Young University/Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe CITC (Conference on Information Technology Curriculum) in December 2001 includedrepresentatives from 15 Information Technology (IT) programs at four-year schools in theUnited States. Also in attendance were representatives from the Association for ComputingMachinery (ACM), the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and theAccreditation

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

Session 2455 The Georgia Tech Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) Program: A Set of Models of Graduate Students Working in High Schools Donna Llewellyn1, Marion Usselman2, and Gordon Kingsley 3 1 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)/ 2 Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)/ 3 School of Public Policy

Conference Session

Nuclear Power and the Environment

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

Development of a Method to Fully Assess the Environmental Costs of Electrical Energy by Nuclear Power Plants Abstract A major problem affecting the assessment of the environmental and social costs ofenergy in addition to the monetary cost is a lack of standardization of assessmenttechniques which makes comparisons difficult or invalid. The University of Florida hasadopted the EMERGY analysis process developed by Howard T. Odum1,2,3 to perform aself-consistent study of energy production to assess the full range of environmental,social and economic costs. The EMERGY analysis makes the ordering of energy valuesand the assignment of energy units (emjoules) to environmental and economic

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

Session 2330 Using your Brain to Build Teams that Work: A Study of the Freshman and Sophomore Engineering Clinics at Rowan University Kathleen M. Pearle, Linda M. Head Rowan UniversityAbstract This paper discusses the results of the first semester of a longitudinal study of intentionalteambuilding undertaken in the Freshman and Sophomore Engineering Clinics at RowanUniversity. Students took Johnston & Dainton’s Learning Combination Inventory 1 (LCI), a 28-item self-report instrument that quantitatively and qualitatively

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cary Fisher; John Feland

Session 2125 Cramming Twenty Pounds into a Five-Pound Bag: Increasing Curricular Loads On Design Students And Enjoying It! J. M. Feland and C. A. Fisher Stanford University / United States Air Force AcademyINTRODUCTION Design has grown both as a discipline and as a domain. As a result, the number of topicsto be covered in an undergraduate design course has also grown dramatically. Mechanicalengineering students need a working familiarity with the various new design methodologies,proficiency with powerful Computer Aided Design (CAD) and solid modeling tools, andexposure to

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jalaluddin Ahmad; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

Session 2650 A Curriculum Update from Electromechanical to Electrical and Information Engineering Technology at the University of Northern Iowa Recayi Pecen Teresa Hall Jalaluddin Ahmad University of Northern Iowa College of Natural SciencesAbstractThis paper describes the outcome of efforts to reengineer the Electromechanical Systems program(EMS) at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) to become Electrical and InformationEngineering Technology (EIET). This will be the first four-year Engineering TechnologyBachelor of Science degree program of its kind in the state of Iowa. The

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

Session 1430 Creating a Catalog and Meta-Analysis of Freshman Programs for Engineering Students: Part 1: Summer Bridge Programs Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth R. Crockett General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractSpecial programs and the curriculum itself are two primary ways to improve the freshman yearexperience for engineers. Following a SUCCEED-sponsored Freshman Engineering ProgramsBest Practices Conference held in Charlotte, NC, in May 2000, a catalog and meta-analysis offreshman programs for students in US engineering colleges is underway. This paper will

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 Utilizing the Internet to Improve Student Learning in a First Course in Engineering Economy with Real-World Unsolved Problems in Collaboration with Industry Janis P. Terpenny1, William G. Sullivan2, Harpreet Singh3, Kimberly Sward1 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2/ Alstom Power, Windsor, CT3AbstractThis paper reports on results of an experiment to investigate whether technology and the Internetfacilitate student learning of Engineering Economy through

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Geselowitz; Kim Breitfelder

The IEEE Virtual Museum: Using Web-based Education and a Humanistic Approach to Promote Engineering at the K-12 Level Michael Geselowitz, Kim Breitfelder IEEE History CenterAbstractThis paper examines ways that the humanities can be integrated into the science andtechnology curricula of an international audience of pre-college students. Historically,engineering curricula at the college level have ignored the humanities and liberal arts.This division has its roots in the elementary and secondary school levels where littleeffort is made to bring an understanding of one branch of learning into the context of theother. This results in an under appreciation of the engineering

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

Paper ID: 2002-1215 Session number: 3160 A Study of Civil Engineering Education at Singapore Nanyang Technology University and at the University of Florida Liu Feng¹, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi² ¹ Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida ² Professor, Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaAbstractCivil Engineering education plays a vital role in the development of infrastructure in Florida andSingapore. The University of Florida and Nanyang Technology University offer civilengineering courses to undergraduate and graduate students. This paper discusses and comparesCivil Engineering curriculum in both