Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West; Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

’ professional and academic activities are focused on an overall mis- sion to provide opportunities for student involvement by developing and maintaining a strong reputation of excellence. In the area of professional achievement, he has been able to obtain over $6 million in fund- ing for his academic activities from various sources including NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Advanced Research Program, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, and the U.S. Department of Labor. He has been engaged in the assessment and training of human factors associated with healthcare systems from the time of his doctoral dissertation. He has developed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schuyler; Howard A. Canistraro

temperature. A heater is thenactivated, and temperature vs. time at all locations is measured and recorded. These results arethen combined with the basic theory of one-dimensional, transient heat transfer to find the heattransfer rate through the block. Typically, EXCEL will be used for curve fitting and MathCADwill be used to solve for the various parameters. WORD is then used for final report preparation.IV. Assessment MeasuresCurrently, assessment has consisted of student laboratories, examinations and projects. Studentevaluations have also been conducted and success in follow-on courses has been tracked. Innearly all of these categories, a positive reaction to the use of the computer has been noted.When students enter classes in which

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gurbax Singh; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

and Technology (ABET) 1 for theengineering curricula for the new millennium has provided inspiration and framework forthe SEBP. Similar efforts are also underway at other universities2,3 in the United States,however, unlike at UMES most of these programs last only for two weeks and hencehave limited scope and influence on the participants. In all of these efforts the statedobjectives are quite similar.Besides enrichment activities a significant component of the program is also devotedtowards recruitment and retention of the participants as well as assessment of desiredoutcomes. Recruitment efforts include spreading awareness about the field of engineeringamong high school students using fliers, postings on the world-wide-web, electronic

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Kremer

finally visualizing the forces and motions to evaluate the physicalrealism of the solution can be a daunting task. This paper studies the use of a problem-solvingframework in a Dynamics class to help students to develop the skills needed for solvingengineering mechanics problems. The framework initially serves as a “crutch” that helpsstudents work their way from problem statement through solution, but ultimately it allowsstudents to focus more on understanding key concepts because they are relieved of some pressurerelated to figuring out what to do next. Although assessment results from using a rigorousframework in the course have been generally positive, students are still reluctant to do what isperceived as “extra work” when they think they

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

. Due to the ongoing completion of several aspects of the project, nopresentations of results have yet been made to industry partners. The transfer of results back toindustry (as oral or written reports), however, is planned as soon as current activities are completed.Also, because of the nature of the project’s first objective “Graduate better professionals,” noimmediate results are applicable.Longer-term assessment of the project objectives will involve continuing to track the metrics listedabove and also collecting additional data within the scope of the continuous improvement effortscurrently being implemented for the industrial and manufacturing engineering programs (withregards to ABET accreditation). A separate set of assessment data is

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Eugene Niemi

semester.The students were then allowed to practice on the simulator during their own time and at theirown pace. The experience level of the students coming into the course and doing this projectranged all the way from one student who had a commercial pilot’s license, to students who hadnever been in an airplane, and who had, at most, played a few aircraft video games. Moststudents had experience somewhere in between, presumably because they were interested inaeronautics to begin with. The students kept a log of their practice time for course assessment ofthe project, as well as their time performing the maneuvers required for the flight test.Examination of the logbooks showed that the student who spent the most time gave himself sixhours of training

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Lee; Connie Dillon; Arthur Breipohl

credit hours)This course prepares engineering students to (a) optimally schedule energy system resources(e.g. fuel, generation, transmission, pipeline) to meet committed obligations and participate inenergy market trading; (b) optimally manage a trading portfolio which contains positions ingeneration assets, forward/option contracts of various energy products (e.g. electric energy,electric reserve, fuel); and (c) systematically assess and manage operational and market risks.The contents of this course are designed to focus on operational profit-maximization strategiesfor energy companies in a risky market environment over a time horizon up to a month. Topicsinclude: market-based scheduling of generation (energy and reserve), fuel

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

learning environment is not fully developed in this course, although some of itselements are present. The five criteria of cooperative learning—positive interdependence, indi-vidual accountability, face-to-face interaction, appropriate use of interpersonal skills, and regularself-assessment of group functioning—are developed in this course to the degree described be-low.1. Positive interdependence is promoted by awarding extra points on exams based on team per- formance. For the first exam, if a team average test score is greater than 75, each team mem- ber’s exam score is increased by 5 points. On the second exam, if any member of the team scores at least 10 points higher than his or her raw score on the first exam, each team mem

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

/define their job better than anyone else. • Any job can be effectively and sufficiently described in terms of the tasks that successful workers in that occupation perform. • All tasks have direct implications for the knowledge and attitudes that workers must Page 5.187.1 possess to perform the tasks correctly.The chart that results from the DACUM analysis is a detailed and graphic portrayal of theskills/competencies involved in the occupation being studied. It can be used for curriculumidentification and design. It is an outcomes assessment tool that can be used to perform a gapanalysis between an engineering program’s

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin M. Nickels

exercises,but may not correlate with learning. The instructor’s knowledge of how the students are doingwith the material, as measured by one-minute quizzes, homework problem sets, and office hours,is often the most useful measure of the efficacy of these techniques. However, student enjoymentof classroom activities should not be discounted entirely. As teachers, we owe it to the studentsto try to involve them in the course material as much as possible. If increased enjoyment of classbrings a student to class more often, that is not an insignificant benefit in itself. Angelo and Cross1give several assessment techniques centered around eliciting student opinions on the efficacy ofvarious student activities.7. DiscussionThis paper has related, in an

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie A. Mello

information relating to farming practices and farm life. A nutrientbalance assessment and socioeconomic profile were configured for each farm, andrecommendations were developed for the farmers. Work in this area will continue with futureteams from WPI.IV. Faculty recruitment and trainingTo date approximately 20% of the more than 200 tenured and tenure-track faculty haveparticipated in the Global Perspective Program. The development of faculty expertise andinterest in these off-campus interdisciplinary projects is central to the program’s success. Toinsure participation of faculty with the appropriate expertise, a Faculty Development programwas initiated in 1997 to facilitate this effort. Faculty may apply for small grants to developexpertise and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna J. Michalek

material, they will continue to do poorly in the course, and may fail. However, if thesame struggling student is placed with another struggling student, they may realize the situationand work at learning the material instead of simply relying on their partner to pull them through. Ihave not done any formal assessment of this so I can not draw any formal conclusions on itseffectiveness. I have found this affects only a limited number of students, no more than a handfulin a class of approximately 70. As will be seen later however, it may have an impact on thedistribution of grades on the team exams. Page 5.341.3While I have been asked every time

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Weese

examination and also use it to adjust yourrefresher course so that it is as helpful as possible.The executive director of the state’s PE Board will provide you information about yourgraduates’ successes. You can also obtain more detailed information about their performanceson various parts of the FE examination because it can be used as a useful assessment tool. TheFE examination is one of the few available nationally normed tools for assessment. The datafrom the executive director can also include statistical information about graduates of otherprograms so that you can assess how your BSET seniors fared compared to other takers of the Page

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent R. Canino; Lisa Milkowski

requirement for “a major design experience…incorporating engineeringstandards and realistic constraints” (1). This requirement along with the fact that manyoutcomes and assessment requirements of ABET relate to engineering design, indicatethe importance of design within the engineering and biomedical engineering curriculum.Most biomedical engineering programs have implemented some form of senior design orsenior thesis experience. Additionally many programs have recently added courses with Page 6.3.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett

Management Process Flow Diagram Identification of Technology Needs and Applications Assessment of Potential Technologies Selection of Appropriate Technology Technology Development Technology Transfer & Communication Phase Out or Evolution

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Davis; John Palmer; Helen Grady; Clayton Paul; Allen F. Grum

decided to change from the quarter system to the semestersystem by the fall of 1997. While a number of our sister schools at Mercer planned to simplyroll their current curriculum into the semester format, the School of Engineering faculty decidedto take this opportunity to reshape our engineering program and achieve a new vision. Thisimpetus came from both external and internal forces.Externally, we were aware that ABET was working on a new set of criteria that would changethe way our programs would be reviewed for accreditation. In addition, our colleagues at otherschools and our advisors from industry confirmed our sense that engineering education needed toincorporate ways to assess its outcomes and provide mechanisms for responding to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Murali Krishnamurthi

-Hulman Institute of Technology, participating in a week-long workshop on Ethics Across theCurricula offered by NSF and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and reviewing the relevantliterature. He also acquired and/or reviewed numerous videos on ethics published by variousengineering societies and the numerous web sites that contain useful information on engineeringethics. Before the semester began he prepared the lectures and course activities to include ethicsat the appropriate places during the semester and also designed surveys to assess the impact ofhis efforts to introduce ethics in his courses.During fall 1997, the author began to experiment with integrating ethics into his undergraduate“IENG370 Operations Research” and “IENG480

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Murali Krishnamurthi

-Hulman Institute of Technology, participating in a week-long workshop on Ethics Across theCurricula offered by NSF and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and reviewing the relevantliterature. He also acquired and/or reviewed numerous videos on ethics published by variousengineering societies and the numerous web sites that contain useful information on engineeringethics. Before the semester began he prepared the lectures and course activities to include ethicsat the appropriate places during the semester and also designed surveys to assess the impact ofhis efforts to introduce ethics in his courses.During fall 1997, the author began to experiment with integrating ethics into his undergraduate“IENG370 Operations Research” and “IENG480

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

T. Hannigan; James E. Simon; K. Koenig; G. Cruse; K. Poh

andredesigned a prototype flow measurement device, and developed a large flowfield mappingsystem. Laboratory topics typically included data acquisition and control in air flows, includingsensor selection, calibrations, and assessment of results, work on this research project couldeasily be substituted for normal laboratory experiences. Considerable design initiative, problemsolving, program development for data acquisition, data reduction, error assessment, anduncertainty analysis were all required of students working on this project. BackgroundStudents take a two-course sequence of classes designed to bridge the gap between classroomand experimentation. The difficulties in validating analytical or numerical

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani

Phillip B. Swan and Richard Chi-chung for their inputs. Also,his sincere gratitude is given to Systems Engineers in Bell Laboratories and IBM Watson Research Center for their Page 2.234.9reviews and recommendations.REFERENCES[1] Widmann, E.R. “Capability Assessment Model for Systems Engineering”, Proceedings of the Third Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, 1993.[2] Mackey, Dr. William “Conducting a Systems Engineering Process Assessment”, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, Volume I

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Cal Caswell; Mel I. Mendelson

identify the customer needs, to develop engineering designs, to construct prototypes,and to perform a business analysis on the products. It focused on open-ended, creative problemsolving. The textbook for our course was written by MIT professors, who use it in their course[8].The course included the following topics: planning and integrating multi-disciplinary activities;technology/market assessment; total quality management (product leadership, strategic planning,team building and group dynamics, competitive benchmarking, customer-focus and continuousprocess improvement), market research; customer needs identification; product specifications;introduction to quality function deployment (QFD); design generation/selection; systems levelarchitecture

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Ciocci

reliability.Ensuring this level of reliability begins at the earliest stages of product definition, with assessment of allmaterials, designs, and manufacturing technologies that will affect the product’s performance. Acceleratedtest methods and statistically designed experiments are used to verify that performance objectives are met. Ifthey are not, the root cause of the deficiency is investigated so corrections can be made. For manufacturingyields that meet reliability objectives and are priced competitively, the following must be achieved: ● creation of a data base of materials properties, performance, and interactions with the global environment, ● consideration of processing technology during the design phase leading to robust designs

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah Hochstein

Page 2.292.6actual experiment. The design of a trial concrete mix was selected as the topic of the experimentbecause it was well suited to controllable variables such as quantity of water, cement, sand andgravel in the mix, and uncontrollable variables such as curing temperature and humidity. Theexperience was documented and accepted for presentation at the Total Product DevelopmentSymposium in 1996. The target audience for this conference consisted of industrial practitionersof the Taguchi Method who were interested in how the method was being taught at theuniversity. In addition to the scholarship of teaching, I also have an interest in the scholarship ofintegration as it pertains to outcomes assessment in higher education. The

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa J. Dark; Robert J. Herrick; Dennis R. Depew

Manufacturing • Understanding and Using Automatic Data Capture Technology • Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers • Tools and Techniques for Maximizing Your Instructional Presentation • The Art and Technology of Teaching Technology Page 3.171.2 Session #3247These workshop topics were identified relying on the knowledge and expertise of the MCATEpartners. In identifying the titles for the 1998 workshop series, MCATE conducted a needsassessment to validate the need for the workshops. This needs assessment involved surveyingtechnology

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

. Course ResultsThere are a number of ways to assess courses. The most important question is: "Did thestudents learn?" Based on the quality of their mini-lectures, written assignments, curriculumdesigns, tests, and web sites, the unequivocal answer is yes. Readers may visit the web sites tojudge that part of the course for themselves. In addition to learning about pedagogy, thestudents also showed distinct improvement in oral and written communication during thecourse. Significant improvements in student resumes/CV’s were noted. Several students havelater informally reported that this course helped them write their theses.A related question, particularly for a course like this, is: "Did the students grow?" Based on ourinformal observations it is

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosemarie M. Evans; Madison Daily; Susan L. Murray

sets of surveys andtests; 1) the Initial Student Demographic and Computer Background, and Expectations surveys,2) the Mid-Term Student Evaluation and Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory, and 3) the StudentFinal Experience Survey and Felder-Silverman Index of learning Styles. Learning StylesLearning styles were defined by Kolb (Kolb 1981) as a systematic method to assess howindividuals learn information. The experimental learning theory as defined by Kolb provides amodel of one’s learning process, consistent with the existing theories of human cognition and thestages of human intellectual development (Kolb 1976). According to the experimental learningmodel, the learning process consists of four

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

T. Scott; John P. O'Connell

several NSF Engineering Coalitions, there are only a few computer-orientedmaterials and no experiments in this subject.This paper describes our workshop content, philosophy, and execution. Some activities arediscussed in detail and we review part of the assessment information obtained from studentevaluations. Finally we discuss our plans for modifications and improvements of experimentsfor the first engineering thermodynamics course.II. Some Challenges to Learners and Teachers in the First Thermodynamics CourseAs in most schools, our first thermodynamics course follows basic physics and chemistry takenby all undergraduate engineers. It precedes, or sometimes accompanies, courses introducingstudents to their major discipline, especially in

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Waters; Jim Greer; James P. Solti

Session 1675 “Getting from Here to There” A Self-Diagnostic for Stimulating Faculty Development Captain James Solti, Major James Greer, Major Paul Waters United States Air Force AcademyAbstractWith ABET 2000 making its way through our engineering education community, universities allaround the country are diligently and painstakingly developing and assessing specific coursegoals for their curriculum. Unfortunately, far less attention is being given to developing andimplementing processes that ensure course goals are successfully achieved in the classroom.This paper

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes; William LeBold; William Oakes

makeacademic, career, and personal decisions. Assessment data is presented on the relativestrengths and weaknesses of the various programs.I. IntroductionAcademic advisement has consistently been criticized as one of the weakest services providedin higher education and engineering education:“...advisement is one of the weakest links in higher education.”1“...academic advising is scandalously poor in higher education...advising of engineeringstudents is worse than most.”2“...quality of counseling, academic counseling and career guidance were rated the lowest of 30undergraduate factors evaluated.”3To improve its advising efforts, the Department of Freshman Engineering at Purdue Universityhas developed a suite of courses and services to meet the diverse

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kent Curtis, Northern Kentucky University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

and developing the program. Page 3.399.2• Form the MST team, composed of DOT faculty and administration and regional business and industry leaders.• Develop instruments to survey alumni for needs assessment and analysis.• Review similar programs at other Kentucky and U.S. universities.1• Review the program approval process at the institutional and state levels.• Analyze existing NKU Masters program proposals.• Develop a Gantt Chart and Critical path, which includes items, related to the design, development, and implementation processes.Team Approach The Department of Technology at NKU offers