Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

surveys are coupled with instructor self-evaluationsin order to identify problems in the curriculum. Table 2 gives the Chemical Engineering coursesurvey questions. The metrics that are used for the survey are as follows: • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criteria a, b, c, e, and k in one course per semester for sophomores and higher; • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criterion d in senior level laboratory and design courses; • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criterion g in the sophomore-level technical communications course and in the senior level unit operations laboratory

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Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth French

about 80[kRPM] . The JET-A fuel averaged an angularacceleration of 4.50+/- 0.20 [kRPM/s] and the biodiesel from unused oil averaged 3.50+/- 0.44 [kRPM/s]. The engine acceleration using biodiesel from used oil was about 15%less than that of biodiesel made from unused oil, but unfortunately the fuel was depletedbefore the formal tests were run.ConclusionsTTL includes in their operations manual [4] a variety of acceptable fuels; JET-A, A-1, B,4,5,8, heating fuel oil, diesel kerosene and ‘gaseous fuel system’. The JBU tests haveextended the fuel menu to biodiesel made from unused or lightly used vegetable basedcooking oils. The extension to themenu of fuels for the SR-30 engine is to develop abroader educational experience. Beyond the testing

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

. The feasibility of implementing themore modern lock-in analyzer in the LabVIEW environment was also investigated. The mainfunctional difference between the lock-in analyzer and the lock-in amplifier is that the analyzerdoes not require the phase of the reference signal to be set manually. This makes usage of theAnalyzer much simpler than that of the Amplifier. The concept of the lock-in amplifier for phase-signal detection is based on the cross-correlation of two sinusoidal signals. Given the local reference signal, f R (t ) = a ⋅ sin(ϖ R t ) , andthe input signal, f S (t ) = b ⋅ sin(ϖ S t + φ ) , the cross-correlation is given by nT 1

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

followingpage.Where A-H stands for: A. Parents wanted me to attend B. Wanted to lean about careers in engineering C. Wanted to lean about careers in science D. Wanted to be away from home for summer E. Could not find a summer job F. Wanted to meet new and interesting people G. Wanted to prepare myself for college H. Wanted to enhance my awareness of professional career opportunity available in engineering and science Page 8.1211.5 Factors → A B C D E F G H Max 75.0% 73.0% 69.0% 18.0

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

must beexperienced before B) or an advisory sense (it is helpful / useful if A is experienced before B). For Page 8.620.6example, the more basic experiences should precede the intermediate experiences, which should “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2793precede the advanced experiences. The integrative experiences should take place after all otherexperiences have taken place. There will also be

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Meyer

Environment, (b) Bioprocessing, and (c) Bioengineering. Bioengineering is a logical extension of engineering principles to the analysis of abiological mechanics and information processing, including the area of biomedical engineering 5.Bioengineering lies at the interface of biological sciences, engineering sciences, mathematics andcomputational sciences. It focuses on biological systems for enhancing the quality and diversity of life.Bioengineering originally emerged at the University of Nebraska with an emphasis on plant and animalsystems applied to agricultural problems. This included using mathematical models of plant and animalprocesses to define design requirements for physical systems to enhance biological quality andproductivity. Health and

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Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

and faculty can perform experiments through a web-assisted physical laboratory from aremote location. The equipment is housed within a laboratory, while the only requirement forthe remote site is a PC with Internet access and a browser. In order to develop this system, asuitable experiment needs to be identified. Once the experiment has been selected, the requiredtasks can be divided into three major steps. The first step involves identifying the accuracy ofthe experiments, number of inputs and outputs and the system’s speed along with the selection ofa suitable interfacing card and software. The second step deals with the development of softwarefor experiment control and data acquisition along with a user-friendly graphical user

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

small company, or start theirown business.Biographical InformationGreg Feierfeil, P.E. is a college professor at Lawrence Technological University and is thecoordinator for the Lear Entrepreneur Center for the Mechanical Engineering Department. Hereceived a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Detroit and an M.S. inMechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, in Detroit. He retired from Ford MotorCompany after nearly 36 years in Engineering and Information Technology.Dr. Rizk holds three degrees in Engineering, including the Doctor of Science in EngineeringManagement and Systems Engineering from the George Washington University. He representsthe Civil Engineering perspective for Lawrence Tech’s Entrepreneurial Program

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Session 1475 Balancing Professional and Personal Life to Achieve Significance in an Academic Career William Jordan and Bill Elmore College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA 71272AbstractWe encourage new engineering faculty members to seek significance, not just success. Successis often defined by numbers (numbers of publications, dollars of research funding, performanceon student evaluations). Significance is harder to define. We suggest that a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

, hydraulic, pneumatic, electronic and computer technology. Thesecourses are primarily aimed at junior and senior level mechanical engineering students (it isexpected that the students have taken the necessary pre-requisite courses). While the details ofcoverage of these courses are being worked out, the course material is expected to cover design,applications of differential equations, electrical machines, analog and digital electronics,transducers, modeling, analysis techniques, actuators, hydraulics and pneumatics, microprocessorsand programming.The courses: Dynamic Systems I and IIA list of subjects that are going to be covered by the courses follows (see Appendix A and B).Fundamental concepts in modeling; Lumped element modeling; Unified

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott T. Miller; Andrew C. Arvin; Francesco Costanzo

negative determinant, the color sequence in the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2. Screen shot of a section of a Mathematica notebook discussing the action of atensor B onto the various sets of vectors defined in terms of closed lines.output is reversed with respect to that of the input, as it can be seen in Fig. 8. The conceptthat the above observations are meant to get across is that strain is a tensor because the ac-tion of a tensor deforms the input domain into the output domain. Furthermore, the graphicsdepiction of the deformation caused by a tensor seems to be instinctively

Conference Session

Models for Integrating Writing II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Pinkus

Journal 15, no.2 (1995): 103 2. Winsor, D.A., Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education, 1986. Charles Bazerman (ed.) Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society. 3. Winsor, D.A., “Ordering Work: Blue Collar Literacy and the Political Nature of the Genre,” Written Communication, 17, 2000, 155-184. 4. Bizzell P. and Herzberg B. “Stephen Toulmin” in: The Rhetorical Tradition: Page 8.1319.11 Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 1990. Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, Boston.R. Pinkus 2003-1978 Page 8.1319.12

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

. We excluded a negligible number of Ds and Fs, whichamounted to fifteen students overall. Table 2 provides the specific numbers of students for eachgrade, and Table 3 summarizes the data for three overall grade categories of "A," "B," and "C." Table 2. CS211 grades of students from CS100J, CS100M, and no CS100 A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- 100J 10 61 46 36 62 33 20 36 8 100M 5 22 17 24 33 14 9 16 8 No 100 16 61 27 24 44 29 21 24 12

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

a calcium chloride solution. The bead size is 0 .8 0 .7controlled by choice of needle gauge. 0 .6 0 .5 A b s o rb a n c eStarch conversion is measured using spectrophotometric 0 .4 0 .3determination at 620 nm with an iodine indicator. Figure 1 shows the 0 .2color

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker; David Silverstein

civil engineers, are often concerned with the way beams bend when aforce is applied. The illustration below depicts a beam, of length, L, being used to support a weight, F, at its freeend. The beam is supported at two points as indicated. Support 1 is at the end opposite the weight, F, andSupport 2 is at a distance, D, from Support 1. Point A is the location of the maximum vertical deflection (+ydirection) of the beam, which we are interested in describing. Point A is a distance, C, from Support 1. Youmight think of this as a diving board, with a diver standing at Point B. Using beam theory, which is studied by mechanical and civil engineers in solid mechanics courses, itcan be shown for this case that the vertical deflection, y, at any

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Sarma; Massood Atashbar; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

PersonalSoftware Process and the Strengths/Improvements/Insights (SII) assessment method articulatedby Apple [3]. The assignment log required the students to record the following information forany given assignment: Page 8.968.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Software development activities. Each individual activity required the following: a. A sequential identifier b. Date c. Start time d. End time e. Time lost to unexpected interruptions f

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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Kenimer; Jim Morgan

is knowledge: it's memorized facts... I putup a slide, and it says, "How many of you will be successful if you attain this level of learning?"They don't know where I'm going with this, and ninety-nine percent of them will say, 'That willget me an "A" or "B," if I can do that in class.'" (P. K. Imbrie, Purdue University as quoted on Page 8.159.1http://clte.asu.edu/active/consistent.htm). Clearly, engineering faculty would not be satisfied withProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

, Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education,Washington, D.C., 1986.2. American Society for Engineering Education Task Force, A National Action Agenda forEngineering Education, Washington, D.C., 1987.3. Felder, R.M., R. Brice, and J. Stice, National Effective Teaching Institute, 1997.4. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms, Baltimore, MD, 2002.5. Olds, B. M., M. J. Pavelich, and F. R. Yearts, “Teaching the Design Process to Freshmen andSophomores,” Engineering Education, July/August 1990, pp. 554-559.6. King, R. H., T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A MultidisciplinaryEngineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

from Engineering Education2. Wood, Kristin L., Daniel Jensen, Joseph Bezdek, and Kevin N. Otto, “Reverse Engineering and Redesign: Courses to Incrementally and Systematically Teach Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 3, 2001, pp. 363–374.3. Lamancusa, J. S., J. E. Jorgensen, an d J. L. Zayas–Castro, “The Learning Factory—A new approach to integrating design and manufacturing into engineering curricula,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 103–112.4. Ansell, H. G., “Professor-driven, student-driven, and client-driven design projects,” 1998 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 5–8, 1998, pp. 149–154.5. Tao, B. Y., “Senior/sophomore co-class

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

electricalengineering. It is becoming increasing important with the new smart products whichrequire close integration of both mechanical and electrical engineering concepts. Wenoticed two opportunities which can be addressed by introducing mechatronicscurriculum. The opportunities are: 1. ME students are unsure of handling electrical engineering portion of any project. The deficiencies range from their inability to: a. translate wiring diagrams into physical hardware, b. pick the right actuator or a control system, and c. design and implement a mechatronics system in the capstone design course. These observations are consistent with other members of mechatronics teaching community [2] 2. A current competency gap

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

challenging but I haven’t talked to anyone who regrets choosing it.” b. Faculty. We cannot underestimate the importance of dynamic professors and instructors in attracting cadets to our department. One cadet attributed the ability of the student to cope with the heavy workload was attainable due to the fact “…the instructors in the department are very helpful and excited to teach.” Another cadet wrote that our open house for recruitment influenced his decision because “…the department was really “fired up” and extremely motivated for their major. I was impressed because I expected a bunch of

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Massie

more than one steam turbineoperating at a time, the maximum potential power generation is not known. One way to determine the potential savings from operating multiple turbines is to correlatethe total plant steam flow rate to turbine power generation, see Fig. 5(a). To overcome this poorcorrelation, a neural network was used to correlate steam flow and power production. A time-of-day stamp was used as part of the NN. Neural network predicted versus actual power generationis shown in Fig. 5(b). With an obvious improved correlation, it is possible to estimate the energygeneration capacity if multiple steam turbines were operated simultaneously. 1400

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann

or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent,” or “(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country more than one year prior to the application for patent in the United States . . .6”If one wants to file a patent outside the United States, many sources recommend that nopublication or presentation should be done before filing. Faculty members are encouraged toconsult the university intellectual property office or patent attorney before publication orpresentation. In 1995, the U.S. introduced the new provisional patent application. This mayhelp with the publication quandary but it is not a cure

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

indicating that something was wrong with their teaching skills if more than 20percent of their students received a D, F, or W(withdraw) in a course. This alone implied that atleast 80 percent of the students should get an A, B or C grade. It has been reported in someuniversities, that over 90 percent of the grades awarded were A and B grades. The average GPAhas increased from less than 2.5 in the early sixties to over 3.0 today. The grading system atWVU and many other universities states that the grade of A is for “students of superior ability”and attainment and that the grade of B is for “students well above average.” Thus, how can themean student be well above average and yet no university administrator has indicated that facultyshould toughen up

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

create it. Handwrittendocuments, such as homework solutions, may be scanned directly into PDF format using popularsoftware, and computer-generated documents may be converted to PDF using Adobe Acrobat onWindows and Macintosh platforms, and Ghostscript on Unix platforms. PDF files avoid certainproblems: With a proprietary format, not all recipients can open files because they do not have theapplication used to create the document; documents don’t print correctly because of software orprinter driver limitations. PDF files always print correctly on any printing device. † Where PDFfiles are not appropriate, we use standard ASCII text files where possible, as these may be easilyread on any computing platform.I-B. Supplement DisseminationThe internet

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TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

, collect, use and prepare data that canbe used to evaluate achievement of program outcomes, educational objectives or programeffectiveness.Evaluation consists of one or more processes for interpretation of the data and evidenceaccumulated through assessment practices that a) determine the extent to which programoutcomes or educational objectives are being achieved; or b) result in decisions and actions takento improve the program (e.g. curriculum or methodology).In TC2K it is important to evaluate all relevant assessment data and provide the results of theevaluation to the visiting team. The philosophy behind the new criteria is that: • Institutions and Programs define mission and objectives to meet the needs of their constituents and

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Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Eskicioglu

Session 3420 THE IDEAL MULTIMEDIA-ENABLED CLASSROOM: PERSPECTIVES FROM PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCE A. M. Eskicioglu, D. Kopec Department of Computer and Information Science CUNY Brooklyn College 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210 {eskicioglu, kopec}@sci.brooklyn.cuny.eduABSTRACTWith the recent technological developments, an opportunity has emerged to introduce moreefficient instruction into the classroom. The traditional blackboard approach is gradually givingway

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

Session 2258 Efficiency and Dynamics of the Client-Server Interaction in the Information Systems: Conceptual Approach Leonid B. Preiser Department of Computer Science and Communications Technology School of Engineering and Technology National University 11255 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037-1011 (858) 642-8483, fax (858) 642-8489 lpreiser@nu.eduIntroductionProviding service to the user community in the IS environment is a two

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

, G, Chen, G., Johnson, S., Shillingford, M., Spence, K., Lu, W. 2002Environmental Impact and Economic Assessments of Brownfield Sites in Park Heights Baltimore. Proceedings ofthe 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Canada,June16-19, 2002.2. http://www.morgan.edu/admin/planning/data.asp March 7, 2003. Institutional Research Data3. http://www.asee.org/colleges/Engprofile01.pdf2003 Engineering Education By The Numbers 24pp4. George, A. 2000. 2000 Final Report of the MSU/EPA Summer Internship Program 10pp.5. George, A. 2002. 2002 Annual Report of the MSU/EPA Summer Internship Program 10pp .GBEKELOLUWA B. OGUNTIMEINGbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein is currently an Associate professor in the

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

students become interested in seeing if they guessed thecorrect behavior. This turns the laboratory from a laborious task of collecting a large number ofpressure drops at different flowrates. As the laboratory data is collected the students are asked tomake the above plots on the laboratory computer (excluding the roughness plot). They arerequired to turn in the following plots as part of a laboratory write-up: a) Graph 1: Pressure drop as a function of flowrate for brass pipes. Use a separate data series for each pipe diameter. b) Graph 2: Pressure drop as a function of the square of the flowrate for brass pipes. Use a separate data series for each pipe diameter. c) Graph 3: Pressure 120