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Trends in Civil Engineering Accreditation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Elliott

assessments from the students, the senior exitinterview assessments, and a performance/productivity assessment. Theperformance/productivity assessment is largely based on data supplied by each faculty member.These data are used in a formalized scoring system that produces productivity scores in the areasof teaching, research and service. Each faculty member receives a listing of everyone’s scoresbut with only his/her own identified.Documentation, Feedback, and Closing the LoopAlthough the assessment process is important, it is not as important as what is done with theresults of the assessment. These results must be communicated to the faculty and actions must betaken based on the results. Also, the entire process must be documented – the assessment

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Page 9.931.1number of learning objectives including developing team and computer skills, creative problem Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsolving, and effective project planning that are addressed through a team-based conceptualdesign experience. The content and delivery method of ENGR 1201 are quite similar to otherschools where the initial course in engineering is common to all majors2,3,4. The class is amixture of lectures that give “engineering survival skills” (computer, library, professional)combined with a semester-long team project that requires planning, conceptual design, and

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

make initial contact with the company? (Select any that apply) PSU Career Placement PSU Faculty On-Campus Interviews PSU Intern Program Family Business PSU Alumni Contact Other (describe): ____________________________________________________________PROGRAM/DEGREE ASSESSMENTPlease assess the following items relative to your experience at Pittsburg State. Use the followingscale: (5 = Excellent, 4=Above Average, 3=Average, 2=Below Average,1=Poor, NR=NoResponse). Highlight or circle your response.A. Overall Experience 5 4 3 2 1 NRB. Faculty in your major 5 4 3

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

are typical of the sort of students who take up a course by distance education.10 3. Industry-based students studying through Deakin-industry partnership programs. These students work for companies such as Ford Australia, Holden, and Ansett Airlines. They study off-campus, initially for an associate degree. Some articulate into the BTech or BE. 4. Overseas students. A small number of overseas students study on-campus in Australia. The majority study off-campus through education partners in Singapore and Malaysia. In addition, a handful of overseas students are native Australians living abroad, studying off-campus. The latter students are posted to countries including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

earlier, the students were divided into design teams of three to four studentsgiving a total of twelve design teams. The students were given complete freedom inchoosing their team members. The teams elected a group leader or contact person for eachdesign team. Each student was given a three-ring notebook with paper to be used as aDesign Journal. The students also received a Design Folio giving them a basic outline thatguided them through the initial design process, alternative designs, selecting an optimaldesign, constructing a working model or prototype, evaluating the design and presentationof their design to the class. The grading policy for the module was that all team membersreceived the same grade as the team earned on its final design

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

common experience butmost likely the student has not viewed it as related to the study of fluids. A series of suchsimple experiences provides a set of questions that can be answered as the courseprogresses. It also raises the student’s expectation that this area of study will havepractical application. Because the lab is enjoyable, the students begin to expect to enjoylab and some of the questions are posed in order to initiate or enhance that “aha” reactionwhen it is explained in lecture. The students present their results for this lab in the formof a journal that might be appropriate for a general audience. Page 6.332.5 Proceedings of the 2001

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

opportunities.6. To expose students to advances in engineering practice and research as preparation for opportunities in professional practice and graduate education.7. To obtain resources necessary to recruit, develop, and retain faculty who are committed to the educational mission of the department and to acquire, maintain, and operate facilities and laboratory equipment appropriate to our engineering program, and to incorporate traditional and state-of-the-art educational technology and methods.3 Page 6.400.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner

issues, and communication. Case studies of topics such as the Exxon-Valdez and Chernobyl raise students’ awareness of global and environmental concerns. The finalproject on whistle-blowing deals directly with ethics, as do many of the assigned articles. Eachyear, I customized the course to include a discussion of contemporary issues in addition to thosethat were included in the texts. One year, the ValuJet crash occurred during the course. Wewere able to follow the story as it developed. The fact that initial theories of wrongdoing areoften not supported during subsequent investigations was an important lesson. During anothercourse, Dolly the sheep and the cloning issue was very much in the news. The religious andmedical issues raised by this

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth D. West; Craig W. Smith

President and the year before a new Academic Dean had been hired.The upheaval in administration created a screen of confusion. Our division chairperson wasinterested in the project and assigned both of us to some of the same courses. Our teachingloads dropped from 15 -18 hrs to12-15 hrs and no one seemed to notice.Getting Our BalanceOur plan called for the two of us to start with the reform of a single course in the Fall of 1997.The course was Physics 241, the first of a two-course calculus-based sequence. Our hope wasthat we could learn enough about the reform process by collaborating on a single course that wecould each take the lead on another course the next semester.We reviewed the work of several researchers in physics education including

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela L. Eddy; David A. Pape

Page 5.545.1objective may be due to difficulties with a previous course. Thus, in an integratedassessment plan course level assessments should feed into the overall programassessment.The faculty and administration of the engineering programs at Saginaw Valley StateUniversity (SVSU) have developed a Manual of Assessment4 as the initial step inimplementing a suitable departmental assessment program. This manual lists sixMechanical Engineering Program Objectives that are linked to and measured by twelveProgram Outcomes. Six different methods to assess these twelve outcomes are describedin the manual and are listed in Table 1 below. These six methods are representative ofapproaches to program assessment that are being used at a number of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

. Page 5.568.2These presentations require intensive preparation, library research, and written interim reports.The interaction among faculty has been a pleasant outcome of this program as it has grown andmatured. To be successful, the program necessitates that the faculty collaborate and planintegrated topics from their disciplines. This requires not only group meetings prior to theprogram, but also weekly progress and planning meetings during the course of the four weeks.There were many lively discussions about how best to accomplish program goals, to assesssuccess and problems, and to coordinate program activities. These meetings, which also includethe student facilitators and the residence coordinator, give us all a much better perspective of

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

, American Society for Engineering Education”agencies, of course, are involved in the agency research and agenda-setting process, as areengineers employed by the regulated and academic communities, either directly or asconsultants. As noted above, problems which make it onto the policy-agenda often are those forwhich solutions have already been identified by engineers.4 Engineers also can be extremelyeffective in the comment process, whether they are representing clients or simply themselves. Inthis type of forum, participation and advice from the engineering community has a much biggerimpact than many engineers perceive. From the perspective of agency leaders and employees,the attorneys and association members who regularly appear at meetings to

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dardy; William Krantz; Kettil Cedercreutz

Graduate Student UC Chemical Engineering Class of 2001 “The University of Cincinnati co-op program is an essential tool in learning the chemicalengineering profession. Through my co-op experience I have learned to apply theories andprinciples taught in the classroom in a real world setting, such as heat exchanger design andworking within a team. My experience has also taught me valuable experiences in expanding onclassroom material, while also teaching real world applications that are never seen in aclassroom such as different areas and jobs with in the profession. The co-op experience hasreinforced my interest in being a chemical engineer and provided with me with an initial careerpath, something

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

; Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education2. Aldridge, M. D. (1994). Professional practice: A topic for engineering research and instruction. Journal of Engineering Education, 83(3), 231-236.3. Dyrud, M.A. (1998). Ethics education for the third millennium. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM.4. Raju, P.K., Sankar, C.S., Halpin, Gerald & Halpin, Glennelle. (2000). An innovative teaching method to improve engineering design education. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM.5. Herkert, J.R. (2000). Engineering ethics education in the USA: Content, pedagogy and curriculum. European

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bernard Carlson; Rosanne Welker

that technology to advance, we can evaluate the method they used to makethose decisions, but we cannot always determine the personal forces that influenced thosedecision makers. Because hindsight is 20/20, it is therefore too easy for the students to judge thedecisions based on their consequences.Many traditional case studies, for example, teach students decision-making strategies, such as thestakeholder analysis. This method enables students to assign weights to each stakeholder in aseemingly fair, objective, and satisfying manner. Introducing a more personal testimonial fromone of the stakeholders, however, often changes the weighting of the stakes. For example, “ThePoletown Dilemma” cases describe a controversy initiated by General Motors

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnoldo Muyshondt; Ing-Chang Jong

-bird type, whose most effective hours of learning is in the early part of the day. Some students are of the night-owl type, who have difficulty in getting up early but have productive hours in the night. There are students who find it fun and challenging to inter- act with a computer and to learn from it at their own pace and in a time of their choice. Since computers are not persons, students are less likely to feel embarrassed to be initially given a low test score. The questions in each retake of a web-based test involve the same concepts to be mastered; thus, there is little uncertainty and much more learning for the students.■ To allow instructors to create teaching material of lasting value and to save overall efforts

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Kuder, Seattle University; Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2011-1950: IMPLEMENTING PEER-REVIEWS IN CIVIL ENGINEER-ING LABORATORIESKatherine Kuder, Seattle University Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seattle University, specializing in mechan- ics, structural engineering and cement-based materials.Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University Nirmala Gnanapragasam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at Seattle University and is the design coordinator of the senior capstone program for the depart- ment. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Washington. Her interests include the professional practice of geotechnical engineering and engineering education research

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip M. Gerhart P.E., University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

research literature establishes that most students are visual learners; material is bettercomprehended and retained when a student can see or visualize the concepts being taught.1, 2While energy, fluid flow, and heat flow can be experienced and felt, they generally cannot beseen. For this reason, thermal-fluids instructors should consider using everyday analogies –familiar or folksy comparisons – to describe difficult-to-comprehend concepts. In fact theinfluential publication called “The Seven Principles for Good Practice in UndergraduateEducation” stressed that students must relate what they are learning to past experiences.3 Keepin mind that analogies are different than classroom examples. For instance, if a student does notgrasp the concept of

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur F. Garcia Jr. P.E., Palm Beach State College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

London, England. During that year, Garcia had been approached by other companies interested in acquiring GCI Information Services, which led to his selling the company by the end of the year. The acquisition of his company was completed in Jan. 2000, and Garcia retired shortly afterwards. Prior to starting his own business, Garcia had 20 years of engineering experience. He initially worked for the U.S. Department of the Navy upon graduating from college in 1966 and into the 1970s. He wrote extensively on many technical topics and developed a number of computer programs (in Fortran and Basic languages) for designing various mechanical systems for ship propulsion systems and other special mechanical systems, as well

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

for improving the recruitment and retention of adiverse range of students [14, 15]. As such, robotics is an excellent fit for the undergraduateengineering education of 2020 described in the NAE report titled Educating The Engineer Of2020 [3]. In fact, over the past several decades, robotics has evolved to become a rather diversefield covering a wide spectrum of applications ranging from assistive technologies to consumerrobotics products, from complex industrial robots to humanoids. This variety providesopportunities for incorporating robotics into the undergraduate engineering not only in the formof coursework but also as research or capstone design experiences. As a result, students remainengaged in engineering design throughout their

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl J. Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Dwight Harold Thomas Jr.

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. and Ph.D. from SIUC in 1991 and 2002, respectively. He teaches courses in electric power and machinery, industrial automation, and is the Program Coordinator. He has won departmental teaching honors three times in the last five years. His research interests include power systems economics, power markets, and electric energy management.Mr. Dwight Harold Thomas Jr. Dwight Thomas received his B.S. in electrical engineering technology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 2010. He decided to continue his education with a growing interest in quality and engi- neering management. He received his M.S. in manufacturing systems at SIUC in Dec. 2011. Growing up in Chicago, he had a strong interest in art and design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-4831: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLASS-ROOM LEARNING AND ONLINE LEARNING ON MEDICAL IMAGINGWITH COMPUTER LAB EXERCISESProf. Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology Hong Man joined the faculty of electrical and computer engineering at Stevens in Jan. 2000. He re- ceived his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Dec. 1999. Man is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of ECE. He is serving as the Director of the undergraduate Computer Engineering program, and the Director of the Visual Information Environment Laboratory at Stevens. His research interests have been in image and video processing, medical imaging, data analysis and pattern

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Hong Zhang; Ravi Ramachandran; Stephanie Farrell

potentiometer, which gives a voltage yxproportional to the actual valve position,y x = kv ⋅ xAn opto-electric sensor and the perforations on the flywheel sense the engine speed. The pulsesfrom the sensor are converted into a voltage yω, which is proportional to the engine speed.yω = k s ⋅ ωUnderstanding the complete models of the systems we can represent the equations in the LaplaceDomain. For the valve: G1y x (s) = u (s) sAll valves are subjected to some static friction in the drive gear. This friction, which is referredto as stiction, requires that a certain initial voltage be applied to before the valve will begin tomove. This gives rise to a non-linear gain characteristic for G1, with a dead band about zero.This concept

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

substitutes for laborious manual calculations. The userneed enter only the cash flows and, if necessary, the time period of analysis.Nonetheless, engineering economics students are taught the trial-and-error and graphicalmethods as a means of developing an understanding of the concept of the IRR. Further,calculators and computers with the desired functions are not always readily available tothe analyst, so it is useful to know how to manually compute the IRR. This paper examines direct solution methods for finding the IRR. The need forsuch methods is evident in recognition of the monotony of trial-and-error and graphicalapproaches. Further, the students in the author’s engineering economics course havebeen, at least initially, confused and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson; Esther Hughes

Session 1432 Utilization of Active Collaborative Learning in Three Electrical Engineering Courses Rosalyn S. Hobson, Esther A. Hughes Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractEducational research has shown that students learn and retain information better when theeducational process includes active cooperative learning. As a result the face of the engineeringclassroom is changing to include more in-class and team activities allowing the students to take amore active role in their educational process. The use of teams not only enhances the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationexcellence in teaching and research. In its role as a Catholic, Jesuit university Saint LouisUniversity has instituted a core curriculum that cuts across all academic departments and ensures abroad introduction to disciplines that historically have been beyond the scope of manyengineering/technology programs. The core curriculum complements the attempts of engineeringorganizations to offer a well-rounded education to its graduates.The current mechanism in place to evaluate programs under the auspices of the AerospaceTechnology Department must be modified to assess the quality of any and all program

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Copes; Willard D. Bostwick; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

with test times and dates. Upcoming lecture outlinesand assignments are posted on this web. Compiling and reviewing these will assure success on tests and quizzes.Ã Page 6.205.4 Figure 1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFollowing the “Weekly Schedule” link from the initial opening page of the TG106 Web site,students are next presented with a weekly outline of topics to be covered in the course as seen infigure 2. The content for this Web page as

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen W. Fentiman

teams and metwith them four times: after the initial presentation of the design process and reportformat, when the two drafts were returned, and when the final report was submitted at theend of the course. During the interviews, they asked students to comment on theeffectiveness of the in-class instruction on writing, the handbook, the instructor’ssuggestions on the drafts, and how the students had used those suggestions whenpreparing their final report. The Engineering Graphics instructor was not present duringthe interviews, and students seemed to speak freely.Writing Center staff categorized the Engineering Graphics instructor’s comments on thedrafts as: 1. Editing (changing the words for students) 2. Directive (telling the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

different components of cost take on are linear, constant, andinversely proportional to a positive power of the decision variable of interest, namely,retention period of a vehicle for the car replacement problem, and order quantity for theinventory control of a retailer.The total cost for the car replacement problem consists of components such as purchaseprice, maintenance cost, insurance, property taxes, and fuel consumption. It is asuperposition of the following three costs: initial cost (IC), operating cost (OC), andmaintenance cost (MC) (cf. Figure 1). The functional forms of the three costcomponents and the total cost are: IC (t ) = k , where k is a constant, OC (t ) = a + bt ,where a and b are two constants, and t > 0 is the retention

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho

are being met and if students haveacquired identified skills.In 1994, a partnership of universities - called the Manufacturing Engineering EducationPartnership (MEEP) - initiated the design and implementation of a novel undergraduatemanufacturing program, better known as the Learning Factory1,2. This paper describes howMEEP designed the assessment strategy to evaluate the curricular innovation project outcomes,and presents some of the assessment instruments/tools designed. The tools developed, some incollaboration with industrial partners, were utilized for assessing overall and specificqualitative aspects of the program as well as student performance (e.g., teamwork skills andoral presentation/written skills). A total of 9 assessment