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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala; Mary Clare Robbins

: Dimension on teamwork: Outcome met if the average of 2.5 or higher on this dimension. 2. By the end of the Design process -Grading Rubric for written paper to (b) Graduates have semester, students will taught. Each team assess how well they applied the design an ability to design be able to apply a will solve one process to the project. Outcome met if and conduct structured design problem by end of the average of 2.5 or higher on each experiments, as well process in solving course. dimension of rubric. as to analyze and engineering problems

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

corresponding file size) of the image or (b) do not crop the images (resulting in both dimensional and file size reductions) to focus only on the area of interest, before embedding them into the documents. 3. In addition to knowing how to use these tools, it is important for students to understand the terminology associated with their use. For example preliminary surveys of students in this study found that most did understand what a pixel was, how digital images are stored, different types of image and video digital formats, or the difference between screen and print resolution.Providing formal instruction on the use of these tools presents its own challenges: 4. In an already packed mechanical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

. Page 8.309.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annul Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2379Bibliography1. R.M. Felder, Chemical Engineering Education, 27 (1993) 28.2. B. W. McNeill and V. A. Burrows, “Including Affective Behavior in Course Grades” Proceedings of the Pacific Southwest Regional Meeting ASEE, 2000.3. Barry McNeill, Lynn Bellamy, and Veronica Burrows, Journal of Engineering Education, 88 (1999) 485.4. L. Cohen, Quality Function Deployment, Addison Wesley, N.Y., 1995.5. G. Voland, Engineering by Design, Addison

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian

and engineering degrees continueto decline nationwide. The Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach Program (PrE-IOP)seeks to enlarge the future pool of qualified high-tech workers, including those who havebeen historically underrepresented (minorities and women). This is being accomplishedthrough two components:1) The implementation of pre-engineering curriculum in middle and high schools.2) A comprehensive information campaign about the rewards of engineering and technology professions.A chemical engineering curriculum module has been designed to create connections betweenthe science used in engineering applications in the modern workplace and the high schoolscience classroom. Chemical engineering concepts are selected that support the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

Session 1417 A Multidisciplinary Dynamic Systems Curriculum Timothy M. Cameron, Rosalyn S. Hobson, Gary S. Huvard Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractFaculty in Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering collaborated in developing a newcourse, “Process and System Dynamics,” and new dynamic systems laboratory exercises that canbe used in a variety of courses and disciplines. The objective was to educate students in thefundamentals of dynamic systems and expose them to a broad diversity of applications indifferent disciplines. The labs are largely complete and are being used by

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

isnearly always motivated to analyze it, (b) experience with variability is immediate andconcrete,” and (c) “the activities can involve students with design (of experiments) issues.”We are hopeful that, after making the changes described above, we will be able to assess andreport improved learning in the areas of experimental design and statistics for chemicalengineering students at Ohio University.Bibliographic Information1. ABET, 1998, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations During the 1999- 2000 Accreditation Cycle.”2. Barnes, J.W., 1994, Statistical Analysis for Engineers and Scientists: A Computer-Based Approach, McGraw-Hill, New York.3. Course materials for our two unit

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

panel of judges evaluate student projects and presentation at the end of each semester) (Appendix-B) • Liberal Education Survey (Appendix-C)The assessment tools used by the course instructors to assess the success of the course: • Student Evaluation (divisional student evaluation done at the end of the course) • Two Minute Survey (usually done after each guest speaker)VI. SUMMARYThe use of Robotics competition as a senior design project is helping in the ‘early immersion’ ofhigh school students into various aspects of the education at college level. They learn not only thebasic principles of robotics design and construction- but also the financial and other importantconcerns that govern most ‘real-life projects’. The University

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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F. Lee Grismore; Dr. Juliet Hurtig; Dr. Barry Farbrother

 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”begins a process, albeit delayed by about six years, where the output increases towards its newstable level. From Figure 4 it is obvious that the new output value will be somewhat less than64,000 B.S. degrees. This value is dramatically lower than the value of Nreq. Prior to the inputstep, the system shortfall was about 12,000 B. S. degrees, (72,000 – 60,000). After the step, theshortfall is about 18,000 B.S. degrees (82,000 – 64,000). No increases but not nearly enough.It is data of the type shown in Figure 4 that begins to illuminate the fundamental limitation of thepresent engineering B.S. level educational system. The present system will simply not producethe required number of degrees. The

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfred Roudebush

phases through which builtenvironmental alternatives are to be assessed: A. natural resource formation, B. natural resourceexploration and extraction, C. material production, D. design, E. component production,F. fabrication/construction, G. use, H. demolition, I. natural resource recycling, and J. disposal.The phases near the two extremes of the life cycle, in particular, indicate the all-encompassingnature of the methodology. For example, the natural resource formation phase is intended toaccount for the value of environmental inputs during the formation of resources on Earth.Input Transformities A unique feature of Environmental Value Engineering is the use of EMERGY as themeasure of input quantification (EMERGY calculation methods

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Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

important in determining professional and ethical behavior? Q3) What are the most significant barriers that limit professional and ethical behavior? Q4) What should be done differently in our undergraduate programs to improve professional and ethical behavior?Based on a survey completed by 249 alumni, relative to the four questions, the followingobservations can be made:Q1) A. “Confidentiality of Information”, “Reviewing the Work of Another Engineer”, and“Engineering Competency” were ranked as the three items with the highest frequency of creatingethical issues in engineering practice. B. Overall, those with PE or EIT status and females tended to rate frequency ofoccurrence of ethical issues higher. However, the variation

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Bardine, B. “Students’ perceptions of written teacher comments: What do they say about how we respond to them?” High School Journal 82:4.239-244. (April 1999)2. Cross, P. & Angelo, T. Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (1988).2. Elbow, P. “High stakes and low stakes in assigning and responding to writing” in Writing to learn: Strategies for assigning and responding to writing across the disciplines, ed. by M. D. Sorcinelli and P. Elbow, 5-13. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (1997)3

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Shoemaker

Session 1732 An Accredited B.S. Program in Optical Sciences and Engineering J.A. Reagan, *R.L. Shoemaker University of Arizona, ECE Dept., Bldg. 104, Tucson, AZ 85721/*University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, Bldg. 94, Tucson, AZ 857211. Introduction and BackgroundResponding to pleas from industry in Arizona, an Optical Engineering B.S. program wasinitiated at the University of Arizona (UA) in the middle to late 1980's. This effort was led bythe Optical Sciences Center (OSC) which is a freestanding academic and research unit, but not atraditional department within a college. While

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

, 1996.3. Smith, D. A., Jacquot, R. G., and Whitman, D. L., A Software Package to Enhance the Page 8.739.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTeaching of Engineering Dynamics, Computer Applications in Engineering Education,Vol. 3, No. 7, (1995), pp. 21-28.4. Jacquot, R. G., and Dewey, B. R., Solution of Static and Dynamic Beam Bending andBuckling Problems Using Finite Differences and MATLAB, 2001 ASEE AnnualConference, Session 2220, June 2001.5. Watkins, J., Piper, G., Wedward, K., and Mitchell, E. E

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

. Page 8.829.24 National Science Foundation, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science andEngineering: 2000, (NSF, 2000) NSF 00-237, Appendix B, Table 4-12."Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education"In the fall, the students went on to graduate school but maintained a relationship withtheir mentors who helped them navigate through their Ph.D. programs, acting assounding boards and champions for the students as well as ensuring that they weremaking satisfactory progress towards their degrees. Bell Labs also provided financialsupport for graduate study. Since students had their own funds to pay for school and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Braddom; Charles Campbell; Shad Reed; Robert Floersheim

Session 1520 Course Websites: Are You Giving Your Students What They Want? Steven Braddom, Charles Campbell, Bruce Floersheim, Shad Reed Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy A year-long study of students and faculty members in the engineering program at theUnited States Military Academy in the 2002 spring and fall academic terms revealed a surprisinggap between what the creators of course web content perceived as most useful for students andwhat the students actually desired or used from various

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

Technology and Information Systems, La Jolla, CA-based NationalUniversity through coordination and analysis of more than fifty capstone Master’s Researchprojects in E-Business.All the projects have been divided into the four major categories lining up with four respectiveInteracting Project Layers: Business IPL, Applications IPL, Networking IPL, and EngineeringIPL. It should be noted that, in general, any E-Business project would include elements from allIPL domains; however, within each of those major categories their respective features woulddominate the project scope in comparison with the ones from three other IPLs.For each category of E-Business projects, validation assessment included: a) proposed project-specific outcomes, b) proposed

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

across disciplines and institutions; this will lead to cross-pollination of ideas that would benefit and strengthen the ET community.9. Scholarly activities can lead to grants and contracts, patents and new products that ultimately will lead to a) improved quality of life for the general public, b) increased revenue for ET programs, and c) to continuously improving ET curriculum, instruction and facilities.10. It helps the professional development of ET faculty. Currently, some 20 states require continuing education as a requirement for licensure.20 The West Virginia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, one of the first states to require continuing professional development of its registered engineers, has

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonhard Bernold; Joni Spurlin; Cathy Crossland; Chris Anson

their behavior changesduring the first year. This new research effort, lead by the authors at North Carolina StateUniversity, is presently surveying 930 freshmen engineering students who started their collegecareer in August 2002. The main data collection tools include: a) Pittsburgh FreshmanEngineering Attitude Survey, b) Learning and Study Skills Inventory (LASSI), c) Learning TypeMeasure (LTM), and d) bi-weekly questions developed by the authors which students answeredthroughout their first semester. The Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitude Survey isdesigned to assess their opinions, feelings, and confidence about engineering and learningengineering. The survey was given again at the end of the first semester to assess any changes.The

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Session 2150 Relationships between Student Learning Styles and Methods of Presentation for Engineering Technology Students Harold L. Broberg, Paul I-Hai Lin ECET Department, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, INI. IntroductionMany studies of student learning styles and personality types have been conducted thatapply to engineering students. These studies were validated using large numbers ofstudents and are used to empirically formulate a hypothesis concerning the principallearning styles1 and personality types of engineering technology students. As an educator,you probably have an opinion of the learning

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Guffner

Session 1566 HOMEMADE LAB EQUIPMENT FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES By Gordon E. Guffner, Professor Emeritus Industrial Technology and Engineering Technology, Buffalo State CollegeTraditionally, engineering programs have been considered expensive because of theabundance of courses containing a laboratory component which usually requires costlyequipment. While this will probably always be true, this author has come up with at leasta partial remedy for the high cost of laboratory equipment. By developing some lab pieceswhich can be made by an instructor (or lab technician), expensive items which wouldnormally

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

Session 1654 Mississippi State University Engineering Entrepreneurship Program Gerald Nelson and Robert P. Taylor Mississippi State University The James Worth Bagley College of EngineeringAbstract A successful engineering entrepreneurship program has been established in the JamesWorth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. The

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Session 2325 35 Design Activities to Try in an Engineering Design Class. Clark Merkel, Patsy Brackin Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Abstract:Fresh New Ideas! Are you looking for new design activities to try out in yourengineering design course? This paper provides a description of 35 different ideas for in-class activities that you might find appropriate for use. While our target was for use in amechanical engineering freshman design course, many of these ideas may be applied just aseasily for other disciplines. Each of these

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

ASEE 2003-1703 for Energy Conversion and Conservation Division “Twenty Years of Experiences in Computer Modeling of Thermodynamic Cycles” Professor Frank Wicks Mechanical Engineering Department, Union College Abstract What we are told we easily forget, but the things we do we understand! Engineeringeducation works best when the students are not overly subjected to listening, but haveample opportunity to do. Computer use in education provides a more subtle example ofthis principle. Students, like current engineers in industry, now run a variety of commercialapplication software to perform various calculations and simulations. The danger

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Jerry Samples

Session 2375 Challenges and Opportunities in Visiting and Tenure Track Positions Maher M. Murad, Jerry Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThere are challenges and opportunities in both visiting and tenure track positions. Many facultymembers start their teaching career in visiting positions and end up in the tenure stream. In thatcase the faculty member would be faced with somewhat different set of challenges andopportunities, the subject of this paper. The transition from a visiting position to tenure-trackposition is a process. For this process to succeed, it

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven O'Hara; John Phillips

Session 1606 “Incorporating Structural Concepts into Beginning Architectural Design” John J. Phillips, PE Steven E. O’Hara, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract :Architecture involves multiple disciplines that must coherently exist within a design. Thestructural aspects of buildings have significant impacts on the design process, and students mustbe able to incorporate structures in their design to be successful. It is crucial to a studentseducation that structures be introduced early in the curriculum to expose the students to theireffects on the design

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

Session 2198 Web-Enabling Software for Real-Time Online Automated Services Ronald J. Glotzbach, Carlos Morales Purdue UniversityAbstractThe Web has seen its share of trends come and go, but now it is evolving into a centrally locatedcollaboration tool for all professions. The focus is shifting to harnessing the Web’s usefulness togain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This paper assesses the purposes, usefulness,advantages, and disadvantages of web-enabling desktop application-based software packages.Web-enabling software packages allows users from around the world

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kroll

Session 2357 EVERYTHING YOUR MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT RUNNING AN ON-LINE COURSE-OR AT LEAST MOST OF IT1 Dennis E. Kroll, Ph.D. Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering & Technology Bradley University Peoria, IllinoisAbstract - You have spent years learning to teach in a classroom. Feedback is usually quick andyou can adjust as you go. Your students have spent years learning how to survive a classroomenvironment and, being engineering students, should be doing fairly well

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

Session 2793 Electronic Media to Enhance Electrical Engineering Education Don Millard, Gerald Burnham Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/University of Texas-DallasMotivation Electrical Engineering (EE) students play computer games watch television, surf the web,instant message and use search engines - all allowing them to switch content at will - rather thanfocusing on a singular offering. This results in a shortened attention span, lower tolerance forrepetition and static media. This clearly challenges educators to provide information in moredynamic

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf, US Army MICOM-AMCPM-UG (Redstone Arsenal); James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

is being discussed in introductorycourses in mechanics. For some students, especially those who are struggling, physical realitybecomes mired in seemingly endless equations and the apparent mish-mash of theory andpractical application. This should be prevented if at all possible, as mechanics is the first coursein which students can participate in designs that include material type and geometry in a realisticway. One essential method for convincing students of the importance and truth of what you areteaching is to actually show them that truth up close. Students crave reality when confrontingengineering topics for the first time. In a sense, students say “Show me the money!”, or “Don’tTELL me, SHOW me…”.This paper presents a number of simple

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

D.J. Marshall

Session 3260 Transformation by Design: An Indiana Sophomore’s exposure to Rome D.J. Marshall II, AIA Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering Technology Indiana Purdue Fort WayneAbstract – Each summer a group of approximately thirty students from the Indiana Purdue FortWayne (IPFW) campus enroll for credit in a continuing education course offered in Rome, Italy.The course is advertised throughout the campus and by word ofmouth as meeting the IPFW General Education requirement aswell as an