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Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

Session 3275 The DO’s and DO NOT’s for Major Projects in an Introductory Design Course Richard Bannerot University of HoustonIntroductionA sophomore level course, “Introduction to Mechanical Design”, has been a requiredcourse for mechanical engineering majors (but for the purposes of this paper it could justas well have been for all engineering students) at the University of Houston since 1980.Since 1991 it has been taught each fall and spring, to between 35 and 55 students, by theauthor of this paper. The course is usually the first engineering course taken

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gretchen Hein; Sheryl Sorby

What’s an Engineer? Teaching Teachers about Engineering Gretchen L. Hein and Sheryl A. Sorby Department of Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 USA PH: 906-487-1968 FAX: 906-487-1620 e-mail: glhein@mtu.edu, sheryl@mtu.eduAbstractMany K-12 teachers do not know what an engineer does or what the different engineeringdisciplines are. Consequently, they are unsure of how to encourage their students to exploreengineering as a career. To address this issue, a three day workshop was held during the Summerof 2001 at

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Avanzato

Session 1520 Mobile Robot Navigation Contest for Undergraduate Design and K-12 Outreach Robert Avanzato Penn State AbingtonAbstractPenn State Abington has developed an autonomous mobile robotics competition tosupport freshman design, K-12 outreach, undergraduate research opportunities, andcurriculum integration. The contest, Robo-TrailBlazers, encourages participants toexplore a variety of robot navigation solutions including line-following, wall-following,and cooperating robots. Participants in recent contests have ranged from second grade tocollege

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael McGeen

started as research underthe Research Experience for Undergraduates in Solid Freeform Fabrication program at MSOE.This is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Projects have ranged fromreplication of historical decorative plaster details and writing code to translate drawing files intoa form that can be read by the RP machines to modeling a building designed for MilwaukeeSchool of Engineering by Santiago Calatrava. A side benefit of this program has been realizedin our Senior Design course, AE450, where student teams design a building for a real client.Models of these designs, which used to take at least three weeks to fabricate, are now completedsometimes in as little time as five days. This has proven to be a definite benefit

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New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yu Morton; John Gassert; Douglas Troy; Osama Ettouney

Session 2163 Incorporating Component-Based Control Software In Manufacturing Engineering Instruction Yu T. Morton, Douglas A. Troy, George A. Pizza, Osama Ettouney Miami University, Oxford, OH.Abstract Efficient and timely development of control software is a challenge in deploying agilemanufacturing systems. This is also a challenge in the academic environment because controlsoftware used in student projects must be developed quickly and efficiently. Instructors andstudents are required to have sufficient programming and software development background tochange

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reid

listof techniques, but rather, a discussion of techniques which can be practically implemented.Introduction:Through attendance at different teaching workshops, seminars, and trial and error, manyinstructors accumulate good ideas on more effective teaching. Some of these ideas are lost duringthe semester as research, service, publishing, and teaching preparation consume all available time.However, some ideas can be implemented fairly easily, and have had excellent results for aminimum investment of effort and time. This paper is designed to discuss some ideas which havebeen successfully implemented in order to inspire others to try to spice up an otherwise drylecture. The main reason for such a paper can be seen in the goal statement of a recent

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill

Session 3453 Introduction to Engineering at Walnut Hills High School Audeen Fentiman, Artemus Herzog, John Merrill / Liv Ramstad, Ferd Schneider The Ohio State University / Walnut Hills High SchoolAbstractMany high school students, particularly women and minorities, are not familiar with theengineering profession and do not recognize it as a viable career option. To familiarizestudents with engineering, help them to develop skills necessary for success in engineeringcourses, and build their confidence in those skills, a new course, Introduction to Engineering,is being offered at Walnut Hills High School. Walnut Hills is a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marjorie Skubic

Session 1526 Event-Driven Computing Projects for Software Engineering Education Marjorie Skubic and James LaffeyComputer Engineering and Computer Science Department / School of Information Science and Learning Technologies University of Missouri-Columbia skubicm@missouri.edu / laffeyj@missouri.eduAbstract There is a growing need in the software industry for the development of systems with adynamic, event-driven behavior, such as interactive human-computer interfaces, client-serverarchitectures

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Takoi Hamrita

Session 1526Micro-Controllers in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Curriculum at The University of Georgia Takoi K. Hamrita University of GeorgiaAbstractThis paper is to report on a NSF sponsored project aimed at implementing a new pedagogicalapproach for teaching embedded systems to engineering students who do not necessarily have anelectrical/electronics background. In particular, we will present two microcontroller coursesdeveloped at the University of Georgia for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students.Educational

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

Session 1609 Overcoming Impediments to the Development of Undergraduate and Graduate BME Programs at the University of Tennessee Richard J. Jendrucko, Jack F. Wasserman University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleThe University of Tennessee, Knoxville had offered undergraduate and graduate optionprograms in biomedical engineering in an Engineering Science (ES) Department since the early1970's. Based on growing student interest and changing priorities in the College of Engineering,the undergraduate ES degree program was dropped and in fall 2000 a new undergraduate BMEdegree program

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Heidi Loshbaugh

Session 3260 Teaching Sophomore-Level Engineering Design in ‘Paradise’ Heidi G. Loshbaugh, Ph.D. Design EPICS Division Colorado School of MinesabstractDelivering sophomore-level engineering design on a Caribbean island provides the foundationfor a vastly broadened student perspective on the field of engineering and how it changes lives.In addition, it offers the basis for life-long learning about one’s role in the world at large.The Colorado School of Mines EPICS program, a two-semester, interdisciplinary engineering-design

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bob Twiggs

Session 1709 Space Engineering - Project Based Learning by Working Real Space Programs Prof. Robert Twiggs Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4035 Bob.Twiggs@Stanford.Edu 650/723-8651AbstractProject Based Learning is a new term now used by many universities to describe ‘hands-on’projects, which bring students closer to the ‘real world working conditions’. At

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Nippert

1 Session 2420 Evaluating Student Performance in Online Laboratories Charles Nippert Widener University AbstractThis paper discusses a new online process control laboratory that provides an interactiveprocess experience in a process control course that is structured as a conventional lecturecourse. Use of online simulations provides a low cost alternative to a laboratory and doesnot require a major change to the curriculum (i.e. adding a separate course or increasingthe credit hours for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Goldberg

understanding the role of a high-level language such as C inmicrocontroller applications.Concepts of portability, variable storage space, and hardware registers are presented to helpstudents understand the strengths and weaknesses of programming a microcontroller with high-level language such as C. A high-level language brings features like loops, arrays, and decision-making capability to the very rudimentary assembly language. Standard C languages such asANSI C are portable, meaning they are independent of the microcontroller that will ultimately beused to execute the code. However, to best utilize the microcontroller for digital I/O and timingdelays as well as many other tasks, read and write access to the specific hardware registers ofthat

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Marvin Harris; Kevin Dahm

Session 3613 Introducing Students to Lab Safety in Chemical Engineering: The Safety Scavenger Hunt Kathryn A. Hollar, Kevin D. Dahm and Marvin L. Harris College of Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstractFaculty who teach laboratories or supervise undergraduate students in research projectsunderstand the importance of adherence to safety guidelines in the laboratory. Safety training,however, often consists only of watching a few videos or relating safety rules with cautionaryanecdotes. While these exercises provide valuable background and general guidelines for safepractices

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

. Engineering Economics has been designed as an eight-module, three-credit course. The first seven modules present the basic fundamentals necessary to makeinvestment decisions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the eighth module, which requiresstudents to demonstrate their understanding of the principles on a real life engineeringinvestment analysis case study. The case study deals with the manufacturing of pulleys involvedin the balancing operation of machine components. Because of some malfunctioning in thebalancing operation, the manufacturer is faced with a high percentage of scrap. The analysisinvolves the identification and evaluation of alternate strategies for meeting a projected marketdemand, as specified in probabilistic terms, leading

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Resit Unal; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Session 2642 Engineering Management - The Minor of Choice William Peterson, Paul Kauffmann, Charles Keating, and Resit Unal Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThe minor in engineering management provides several real benefits to undergraduateengineering and engineering technology students, not the least of which can be a substantiallylarger starting salary. The other benefits it offers students are in the skill sets developed (projectmanagement, engineering economics, organization behavior / principles of management, andeither statistical concepts or decision techniques), the preparation to

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Renee Rogge

Session 1309 Integrating Finite Element Analysis into an Undergraduate Biomechanics Course Renee D. Rogge, Ph.D. Mercer UniversityIntroductionA course in finite element (FE) analysis is offered occasionally to biomedical engineering(BME) students at Mercer University as a technical elective through the mechanical engineeringdepartment. However, few BME students take this course. Since FE techniques in industry andacademia has become widespread, particularly in the field of biomechanics, it was determinedthat some discussion of FE

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences for Env. Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alexa Rihana-Abdallah

Session 3451 Development of an Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Exercise Alexa N. Rihana-Abdallah Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan 48219-0900AbstractEnvironmental microbiology integrates the system boundaries of the various environmentalcompartments (e.g. soil, water, air, particulate) with the occurrence and proliferation ofmicroorganisms. A laboratory exercise has been developed for this introductory course andencompasses two steps: an introduction to microbial techniques, and an ‘independent’ team -based project. The purpose of

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3563 INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION OF THE GREENFIELD COALITION’S CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE Ece Yaprak, Attila Yaprak, Mulchand S Rathod Division of Engineering Technology/Business School/Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University, Detroit, MichiganSUMMARY In most capstone design courses, students go through the complete design processstarting with a description of the problem and ending with a prototype. Many schools haveone or two-semester-long classes where students work in groups or individually. Thecapstone design course in the Division

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Falkenburg; Tina Harkin

Session 3563 Embedding Experience in Learning within Manufacturing Education Donald R. Falkenburg Tina M. Harkin, Wayne State University Focus:HOPEAbstractThe Greenfield Coalition at Focus:HOPE is a coalition of five universities, three universityaffiliates, six manufacturing companies, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, andFocus:HOPE. (a civil and human rights organization dedicated to intelligent and practical actionto overcome racism, poverty and injustice in Detroit and its suburbs). The impetus for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

teaching methodologies so as to better prepare tomorrow's engineers.The co-authors participated in the program in 1997 (Kumar) and 1998 (Eberhardt). Uponleaving the program each participant had to present what was learned and what new goalswill be set after leaving the program. There is no long-term follow-up of these goals. Inthis paper the co-authors will provide their long-term achievements resulting from theWelliver program.IntroductionThe Boeing Company initiated a program in 1995 called the Boeing - A.D. WelliverFaculty Summer Fellowship program (WFSF), in honor of the former chief engineer,Bert Welliver. This program is a product of a series of joint workshops organized byindustry and academia to identify effective measures that promote

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Valerie Young

habit of a practicing engineer.However, we have learned by experience that even when students are provided with the rubric,they seldom evaluate their own work effectively. In an effort to counter this, students in asophomore-level “Energy Balances” course are asked to help develop a rubric that will be usedto grade and assess a team project in the course. The mechanism for including student input inrubric development and assessing the ability of the students to use the resulting rubrics for selfevaluation will be discussed.IntroductionThe chemical engineering curriculum at Ohio University requires students to complete open-ended assignments in a team environment at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels. Thedeliverable in these assignments is

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

Session 3264 Smart Materials John A. Marshall, PHD University of Southern MaineSmart Materials represent a relative new branch of material science that is comprised ofmaterials that respond with a change in shape or state upon application of externallysupplied driving forces. These materials often carry titles as Intelligent Materials, ActiveMaterials, or Adaptive Materials.Many of these materials, such as shape memory alloys, develop enough usable force duringtheir shape change to power small linear actuators and motors. Conversely, some of thesematerials can

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Barrière

Session 2793 Using the Web to promote active learning outside of class time Caroline Barrière School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada, K1N 7Z3AbstractIn this paper, the Web is viewed favorably as helping learning in large class settings. The Web'soverall advantage is to generate a virtual presence for the students to feel guided outside of classtime. Two important aspects of this guidance are presented that promote learning. First,tracking and feedback through

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kara Bliley; Emily Mowry; Amy Gray; Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson; Sean Brophy

Session 2273 BME GOES TO THE MOVIES: DEVELOPING ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE IN BIOENGINEERS S. Brophy, K. Bliley, A. Gray, C. Mathieson, E. Mowry, J. CollinsDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235Abstract As bioengineering students enter their new profession they must become sensitiveto the ethical ramifications of their work. Bioengineering educational programs seekopportunities to engage students in the exploration of ethical dilemmas in bioengineering.Our involvement with the VaNTH ERC and the learning sciences’ principles that guidetheir design of instruction has provided us with

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Glenn T. Wrate, Northern Michigan University; John Wheeldon; Owe Petersen

Session 2253 Freshman Electrical Engineering Course Addressing Retention and Career Choice Steven Reyer, Glenn Wrate, John Wheeldon, Owe Petersen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) hasimplemented a new introductory electrical engineering (EE) course in the first quarter of thefreshman year. Student retention is the primary motivation, and the special manner in which thecourse is team-taught

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raj Desai; Eugenio Lord

Session 2558 Comparison of Web Courses with Traditional Teaching Raj Desai, Eugenio Lord Southeast Missouri State University/ George Mason UniversityAbstractThis article will focus on comparing the effectiveness of on-line courses versus regularclassroom based learning for the past three years. We will compare the time it takes todevelop a web course to a traditional course and the benefits of developing a web course.We will also compare enrollment in a web course with a traditional course and try toexplain why they are different. We will also look at student evaluations and try to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Session Number 2793 Changes in Student Confidence Resulting from Instruction with Modules on EC 2000 Skills Russell Pimmel, Robert Leland, and Harold Stern Electrical and Computer Engineering University of AlabamaAbstractEC 2000 requires that engineering programs demonstrate that their graduates have acquired theset of skills identified in Criteria 3 (a)-(k). Because of a scarcity of instructional material onmany of these topics, a team of engineering faculty members developed a set of short modulesfor teaching several of them. The modules, which

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Gorham

Session 1532 Promoting Engineering, Science and Technological Literacy: Pre-College Educator Resources Douglas Gorham Manager, Pre-college Education IEEE Educational ActivitiesAbstractIn an ever increasing technical society the need for a technologically literate citizenrywho possesses the ability to use, manage, assess, and understand technology, science andengineering is becoming a basic necessity. Pre-college students must be educated to makeinformed decisions in our technological world. IEEE and ASME have developedresources that promote