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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Tucker; Bob Lahidji

Session No.1460_ Faculty Load: online vs. live programs Bob Lahidji, Ph.D., Walter Tucker, Ph.D. Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Bob.lahidji@emich.edu Walter.tucker@emich.eduAbstractA cursory literature review reveals a paucity of empirical data on these two questions: (1) doesmeasurement of faculty load differ between online and live classes? (2) is there a cost differencebetween online and live courses? This research attempts to answer these

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

individual predictions based upon reason Discussing and reconciling differences among group members Making measurements for required experimental procedures as well as student-designed laboratory extensions Discussing and reconciling the differences between measured and predicted results2. To develop competence in an area, students must (a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge, (b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework, and (c) organize knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and applications.We address this principle by making the dynamics framework, together with activities thatsupport deep conceptual understanding, central to the learning process.3. A metacognitive approach to instruction

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

your own adhesive). Limits: a) No commercial product intended to bond things together such as adhesives, tape, caulk, etc may be used b) No sticky foods, such as gum or melted candy, may be used Critical (most highly desired): The bridge uses 30 or fewer sticks Bridge spans an open distance of 1 foot Bridge is not clamped to the supporting surface Bridge must be ready to be loaded within 30 seconds of placement over the span Each team must be able to predict failure load to within 15% Important (highly desired) Bridge supports at least weight equal to two full soda cans

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Adams; Nick Safai

Angleprescribed in FAA test I conditions. Figures 29 and 30(a) and 30(b) illustrate the outputs fromthe Multi-body analysis. The outputs from this analysis are the history of the occupantkinematics, the acceleration of the head is shown in Figures 31. Figure 29. Seat maximum displacement (units in meters) Page 8.430.22 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 30. (a) Passenger kinematics

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Foster; Hoai Le; Li Chen

we go through the entire history of the high levellanguages? (2) Should we introduce comprehensive OOP first? (3) Should we say: “Justfollow this, we will teach you later.”If we select (1) or (2), we might lose the fundamentals of CSI. If we choose (3), we mayget two extreme responses: (a) OK, I will go with that, or (b) No, if you do not tell mewhy, I will not go any further. That is why we have to explain something about OOP. Wehave to do some thing to resolve this understanding issue. We will present in this paperwhat we did in such a case.In order to provide the student the basic material in Java, an instructor needs to spendsome time to explain Classes, Objects, Properties, and Methods. Inheritance,Polymorphism, and Information Hiding

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gray; Andrew Miller; Francesco Costanzo; Charles Randow

can be seen, the range along the y-axis changes in each image.The functions for x(t) and y(t) are identical to those from the first case, as is apparentfrom the input commands included in the image presented in Figure 8. For the three-dimensional example, the intrinsic triad’s unit vectors are determined within the note-book and the results are presented in an animation showing the changing triad as it windsalong the cork-screw path. Figure 9 shows a single frame from the animation. The threeunit vectors, labeled by Mathematica, are u T (tangent to the path), u N (normal to the path),and u B (bi-normal). During the animation, students will see u N flip as the instantaneousradius of curvature abruptly changes.Example II: Time rate of change of

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jones; John Hackworth

any “seat-of-the-pants”method, nor can it be initiated after a course is completed. To effectively assess a course, onemust instead begin planning for assessment prior to the beginning of the course, and keepassessment in the forefront of the planning throughout the course. Assessment planning and execution can be divided into several unique but integratedtasks. These are a) determine the course objectives, b) map graded assignment, test, and examquestions and problems to the course objectives, c) compile the data, d) make adjustments.a) Course Objectives Selecting the course objectives is the most critical step in the assessment process. These are not only the list of learning goals for the class, but they are also the goals to

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hall; Kelly Crittenden

design project is well-liked by the students and has proven to be sustainableover a four year period with eight different faculty members.X. AcknowledgementsThis research is partially based upon work supported by the National Science FoundationAction Agenda Grant 9972729.Bibliography1. Nelson, J.D. and B. Schroder. 2001. Establishing an Integrated Mathematics, Engineering, andScience Curriculum: Lessons Learned. Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering EducationMeeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.2. Schroder, B. and J.D. Nelson. 2000. Institutionalization of An Integrated Engineering Curriculum atLouisiana Tech University. Presentation at the NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development /Action Agenda Meeting. Washington, D.C.3

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Service to the University,HR-23. The result of their Society, and theefforts was a transformed Profession“Annual Faculty ScholarshipReport” that effectively captures the scholastic achievements of the faculty both on andoutside the campus, serving students and external constituents alike. Attached asAppendix B is an example of the Annual Faculty Scholarship Report drafted to meet thisinitiative.Conclusion Teaching, research, and service – once upon a time, these three words encompassedthe functional mission of the college professor. But sometimes traditions must change to

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

to half of the number of credit hours requiredfor each degree may be “double counted.” For example if Degree A and Degree B each require50 credit hours. The student may take 25 credit hours of courses that apply to Degree A only, 25hours that apply to Degree B only, and 25 hours that can be applied to both Degree A and DegreeB. Thus the student takes a total of 75 credit hours rather than 100. In addition, the student maywrite a single thesis that is appropriate for both degrees. The student’s advisory committee,composed of two faculty members from each degree program, must approve the courses and thethesis.In the past, the dual degree program was of value to the student who really wanted to studyNuclear Engineering but needed to be prepared

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt

: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, Eds. C.S. Pearson, D.L. Shavlik, and J.G. Touchton, MacMillan Publishing, New York, pp121-133 (1989) .4. Felder, Richard M., Silverman, Linda K.,”Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering Education, (1998).5 Gibbs, Graham, Learning in Teams: A Student Manual, rev. ed., Oxford Press, (1997).6 Guys-Sheftall, B. and P. Bell-Scott, Black Women’s Studies: “A View From the Margin,” Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, Eds. C.S. Pearson, D.L. Shavlik, and J.G. Touchton, MacMillan Publishing, New York, pp 205-218 (1989) .7 Harb, J.N. & R.E. Terry, “Writing Through the Cycle: Application of Learning Style Theory to

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

references and other resources was minimal; and theyfailed to provide the necessary graphical requirements, magnitudes and sense of the resultantshaft loads. Missing, also, was the requirement to write the report in a manner that indicatedtheir chronological development of design effort – they typically gave a general overview oftheir work. But their lack of uniform effort was noted when the final oral presentations weregiven. It was apparent that only one-or-two of the four group members fully participated in theproject effort. A concerted effort was made to discuss the noted problems and to promote abetter effort in subsequent reports. Appendixes A & B illustrate some of the reportdocumentation by freshmen (Appendix A) and MET seniors

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni

Society for Engineering Education Session 2313their retention times should have a difference greater than or equal to ½ the sum of their peakwidths, or t*B – t*A > ½(∆tA + ∆tB). 4 The students did the calculations, and verified the separations with calculations. Afterthe students collected the data, we discussed how to measure how well the separation worked,and to note how column length and “velocity” affected the separation. Simple models for scale up were developed, showing that the peak width is proportionalto the square root of the column length, and the retention time is directly proportional to thelength of the column

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

designed to achieve three mainobjectives: 1. To create a sense of camaraderie and partnership between teachers and the Ambassadors assigned to them: a. Teachers will develop an appreciation for the knowledge and skill of the Ambassadors as engineers, b. Ambassadors will develop respect for teachers and will accept them as mentors, c. Ambassadors will develop an appreciation for challenges that face teachers, d. Teachers will develop an appreciation for the "real world" impact of engineering. 2. To familiarize the teachers and the Ambassadors with the engineering modules and solicit their active

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

/lib/bib/91-9dig.htm).2. Bridge, J., “Incorporating Active Learning in an Engineering Materials Science Course,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2001.3. Nickels, K., “Do’s and Don’ts of Introducing Active Learning Techniques,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference.4. Kolb, D. A., Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984.5. Krathwohl, D. R., Bloom, B. S., and Maisa, B. B., “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals,” Handbook II, Affective Domain, New York: David McKay Co. Inc, 1964.6. Agogino, A., and Shi, S., “Scaffolding Knowledge Integration through Designing Multimedia Case Studies of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; Vincent Capece; John Baker

Session 1566 Using Enrichment Programs to Introduce High School Students to Mechanical Engineering John R. Baker, Vincent R. Capece, William E. Murphy Department of Mechanical Engineering University of KentuckyAbstractMost high school students have little idea what practicing engineers do, or of the natureof a university engineering curriculum. Many top students likely choose a non-engineering major simply due to lack of exposure to engineering. While it is not practicalto include introductory engineering courses in a typical high school curriculum

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Reuber; Mark Archibald; Blair Allison

calledEngineering Criteria 2000 or EC 2000) requires students to be familiar with experimentalstatistics. This requirement is implied in four places: program outcomes a, b, and k, listed undergeneral criteria, and a specific curriculum requirement listed under the program criteria formechanical engineering programs: General Criteria: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering. Program Criteria specific to mechanical engineering: “The program

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

: Program Outcomes and Course Matrix Program Outcome: ChE will produce I T T P P P P P graduates who n C M h r M U R M r r C r r o t h E e a a n e a o o h o o l r E B r n s it a t c c E c c y o C m s s O c e e e L e

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chow Michael; Barry Farbrother

their particular schedules. Mr. Chow’s normal workweek runs from Tuesday through Saturday,thereby enabling him to be present outside of regularly scheduled academic (M-F) time. These arrangements guaranteestudents’ access to the EiR on a weekly basis. The computer workstations are equipped with MAP standard software and Page 8.913.11 Dr. Barry J. Farbrother, Ph. D., C.Eng., Dean, T. J. Smull College of Engineering, Ada, Ohio 45810, USA. b-farbrother@onu.edu2 Mr. Michael Chow, PE, Engineer in Residence, Biggs Engineering building, 525 South Main St, Ada, OH 45810, USA MHChow@MAPLLC.com

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

-FFF was a summer research program designed to pair studentswith professor-mentors with whom they would conduct research and learn about academiccareers. While there was success in filling the program with interested students, it did not appearsuccessful at encouraging women and minority students to go on to academic professions. In thiswork, we present the results of two surveys on why people do (or do not) go on to academiccareers and the work currently ongoing at Bucknell to address the findings.The first survey queried graduates who may or may not have participated in GE-FFF, to discoverif the training they had received was important to their decision about which career to pursue.The conclusion of this survey was that there seemed to be

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anil Khatri

effortdeveloped [7]. b) decrease time-to-market the product c) reuse domain model (for new product) The reference model provides important d) customize product (product line)relationship between the technical andorganizational activities of software reuse within RESEARCH APPROACH: USE CASEsoftware engineering process. Utilization of an MODELINGappropriate software reuse reference model in a We used the Unified Modeling Language (UML)software development organization allows tool to build our reference model as use casesoftware engineering management to identify diagrams [see

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

itsultrasound, infrared, and proximity sensors. The full size of the robot is 8 cm in diameter and 10cm in height. Figure 3 (a) shows all the levels and auxiliary parts for the robots. (a) (b) Figure 3. Control, Communication, Sensors, and Locomotion ModulesIn addition to communication module in the robots, we have developed a communication modulefor the host computer, right bottom corner image in Figure 3 (a). The host computer receivesdata from the scouts and sends common tasks.As stated earlier, the most important part of the modularity is the ability to swap the bases whilekeeping the rest of the robot the same. In addition to the wheel-based locomotion, a leg

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

for the course states: Basic skills of public speaking; speech organization and delivery; emphasis on in- class delivery of speeches.The course learning objectives for COMM 2004 are: Students should be able to: • learn the basic theory/concepts of oral communication in a public setting. • become more effective communicators…to do this, they should develop or refine their skills in: a) analyzing and adapting to the audience, b) selecting, researching, and supporting topics, c) organizing, outlining, wording, and delivering extemporaneous presentations, and d) speaking individually, and in group contexts, in informative, persuasive, constructive feedback and question and

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

Session 3449 Critical-Thinking Approach to Teaching Mechanical Engineering Jan T. Lugowski Purdue University1. IntroductionCritical thinking, in the context of teaching, means a careful consideration of the material learnedby students in class and outside of it. It is very natural to accept without questioning materialpresented by the teacher, textbook, journals, internet, etc. Several examples are presented thatshow how detrimental this approach is to student’s learning. Questioning, or carefullyconsidering, requires courage, also to admit incompetence

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

business management. For the latter, interested students arereferred to excellent management courses at Penn’s Wharton School of Business.The two courses are each cross-listed at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The first courseis offered every semester and provides an introduction to the early phases of a high-tech venture.It investigates the knowledge and skills needed to recognize and seize an entrepreneurialopportunity, and then successfully launch a startup or spin-off company. This course focuses onthe key areas of: (a) intellectual property, its protection and related strategies; (b) evaluating themarket viability of new high-tech ideas; (c) shaping technology-driven inventions into market-driven products; (d) developing defensible

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Scott Fogler; Michael Cutlip; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2793 The ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School for New Faculty - A Model for Other Disciplines to Consider Michael B. Cutlip, H. Scott Fogler, and C. Stewart Slater Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut/ Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan / Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstractThe Chemical Engineering Division (CHED) of the American Society for Engineering Educationheld the 13th in a series of Chemical Engineering Summer Schools during the summer of 2002 atthe University of Colorado

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans

for their help regardless of any benefit.Appeal gently to their philanthropic side. Also, if Contractor A agrees to donate a backhoe for afew days, tell Contractor B; he will be more highly motivated to help if he knows his competitorsare involved. Finally, spread the load. Do not expect any one group to donate everything. Lookfor lots of limited participation from lots of different sources. Figure 5. New England Home resident tries out the new playground in his backyard. Page 8.306.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

when a certain height was reached.Car Parking Distance System and Forklift Obstruction SystemThe students used a radio controlled car to demonstrate a system that sensed how closethe car was to an object and displayed the results in the form of a series of coloredLED’s. Previously a similar project detected when an obstruction to a forklift’s path wasdetected and sounded an alarm.Relevance to ABET EAC 2003-20004While the course objectives and curriculum were developed for pedagogical reasons withinput from industry, there are several areas of student development that are stronglyemphasized in the Mechatronics class in the ABET program outcomes a-k3.b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

Session 1320 Using PDAs on Autonomous Robots to Promote Engineering to Middle School Students Abraham L. Howell, Roy T.R. McGrann Mechanical Engineering Department Binghamton University (SUNY)Abstract The utilization of robots and handheld PDAs (Portable Digital Assistant) to promote theteaching of science and engineering along with a specific experiment and a future experiment willbe discussed in this paper. Students are introduced to how valuable science and engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Davis; Wayne Sarasua

, VA.[8] Burkart, R., B. Schulz and B. Soehngen, (1998) “Computer Imaging for Transportation Projects,” ITE Journal, Vol. 68, Issue 2, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC.[9] Nelson, E. James, Norman L. Jones and Russell J. Berrett (1999) “Adaptive Tessellation Method for Creating TINs from GIS Data,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.[10] Jones, Norman L. and Stephen G. Wright (1991) “Algorithm for Smoothing Trian gulated Surfaces,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.WAYNE SARASUAWayne Sarasua has a B.S.C.E. from the University of California at Berkeley