Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; David Hansen; Brian Self

, or could be used in arecitation section. Some examples include a model rocket launch, a catapult project, and aCharpy test demonstration. Details of these projects (Self and Redfield, 2001) as well asdifferent assessment techniques (Self et al, 2003) have been previously reported. During the pastyear, we added a LEGO® car competition laboratory to help students understand the fundamentalconcepts of rigid body kinetics.LEGOs® aren’t just your children’s simple playthings anymore. Educators are using advancedmechanical products to teach students about compound belt drives, gearing, and pulleys(www.lego.com). LEGO® Mindstorm includes a programmable “brick” that is being used toteach robotics (Klassner, 2003), chemical engineering concepts

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

and gain commitment to anexciting or challenging vision. In addition, leaders manage not only individual performance, butgroup performance as well. All of the transferable skills are united into leadership to successfullymanage a team or facilitate a class. Leadership in the classroom encourages, motivates andpromotes individual efforts that collectively enhance the learning experience. Effective teachersalways involve the students and make them active participants in the learning process.This assessment reinforced the belief that engineering and engineering management skills weredirectly transferable to engineering education. However, it was also clear that not all of therequired skills for education were present. Many were missing and would

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Joordens; John Long; John Florance

Average Average campus campus on- off- on- off- assessed assessed campus campus campus campus Digital Digital Analog Analog score score score score 1998 54 22 5.7 5.5 5.3 5.5 1999 73 27 6.6 7.1 6.1 5.5 2000 88 24 8.1 8.8 6.2 5.3 2001 87 20 7.1

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

ethical foundations of these concepts, and the ability to exercise considered judgments based on these principles in real-life situations. 2. Ability to assess and evaluate the importance of social, environmental and economic (as opposed to simply internal financial) impacts of a project, technological development, new process or product, using a holistic systems approach, with a scope encompassing all communities and natural resources affected. Page 9.306.3Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering" 2004_1612manufacturing cost and benchmark performance with similar products imported fromforeign countries. 3 Course Assessment and Student Evaluation The course assessment and student evaluation was specifically designed for themodular courses and virtual company to determine how satisfied the students werewith regard to the course contents, instructor teaching skill and the virtual companyoperating infrastructure. The survey results are as follows

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

will ultimatelyproduce designs to reduce the costs noted above in Table 1. Phase III will featureoutcome assessments of student submittals, completed bridge designs created through theapplication of the CAD software. Viable designs will be judged with a monetaryyardstick with victory awarded based on the most economic designs. Throughout thebridge design process, the software automatically tracks the total cost of the bridge as thedesign team works through iterations to modify and optimize the design.Research Results Figure 4 compares the final

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

Session 1793 A Demographic Characterization of First-Year Engineering Students Catherine Pieronek, John J. Uhran, Leo H. McWilliams, Stephen E. Silliman University of Notre DameAbstractThe observation of substantially different retention rates of men versus women from initialenrollment as first-year engineering intents to enrollment as engineering majors at the beginningof the sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame has motivated an examination ofdemographic data to assess retention patterns. Based on the numbers of students enrolling in arequired first-year engineering course, which has an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

Page 9.470.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2004, American Society for Engineering Education”required courses, and all elective courses have some level of design in them. The level ofdesign in a course is determined and assessed by a committee in the department.With design being an integral part of virtually every course, the complexity of design projectsincrease with the complexity of the subject matter. In addition to the increase in technicalcomplexity, increased consideration is given to other constraints such as economic, safety,reliability, manufacturability, and environmental. During their senior year, students are

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Julia Williams

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcontinue to assess the project, we can assert that Peer Review, conducted with anappropriate rubric, is an effective tool that can help students improve their writtencommunication skills.References1. Sageev, P. and C.J., Romanowski, “A Message from Recent Engineering Graduates in the Workplace:Results of a Survey on Technical Communication Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education October2001: 685-93.2. Miller, R.L. and B.M. Olds, "Performance Assessment of EC-2000 Student Outcomes in the UnitOperations Laboratory," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Morales

the Discovery Channel. This level of production is rarely seen indistance learning because of its high cost and lengthy production times.In television production, the audience is typically much larger than in a distance-learningscenario. The net effect is that with television production, we can achieve a relativelylow cost per unit, even if the total production cost is high. The cost of distance learningtypically cannot be amortized to this extent. Television producers employ the help ofeditors, animators, scriptwriters, and compositors to produce content. Instructionaldesigners, on the other hand, are primarily taught to systematically structure instruction.They are typically skilled at conducting needs assessments, defining objectives

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Davis Charles; Tony Lin

manufacturing system with quality assurance in order to investigate and improve the process.6. Implement product and process evaluation using DOE for process improvement.7. Conduct courses and project assessment with feedback to the faculty and students for continuous improvement. Page 9.782.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1. Integration Through Common Project Process Student/faculty Manufacturing

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

related mathematicsincreases more gradually throughout the SC ATE ET Core curriculum.The final major change with the ATE approach is that content is taught from application totheory as opposed to the more traditional approach of theory to application. Students begin witha problem scenario and then determine what they know and need to know to solve the problem.Problem scenarios have multiple solutions, and students work in teams throughout the entire ETcore curriculum to formulate and propose solutions to the problem. Individuals are personallyaccountable for discipline content knowledge and for contributions to the team solution andassociated presentations. Instructors also work together as a team to coordinate instruction andto assess student

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Holger Dahms; Stefan Bartels; John Gassert; Jens Thiedke; Owe Petersen

would constitute the “Grundstudium” (FoundationStudies) for the FHL. After completion of the first two years, students participating in theexchange program enter a virtually common curriculum during their junior year that is taught atthe FHL. For all participants in the international study program the junior year constitutes a jointMSOE/FHL academic year with the academic content determined, reviewed, and assessed jointlyby both institutions.Both groups of students complete their senior year at MSOE, although not in a common set ofcourses. Since the junior year at the FHL does not equate to the identical set of courses asnormally taken at MSOE, the MSOE students complete their remaining MSOE academicrequirements, consisting of a mix of junior

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

the problem. The details such as the goals, requirements, protocols, procedures, documentation, example programs, expected output, outcome assessment methods and due date are provided. This is a critical step where students are encouraged to apply their knowledge, originality and creativity to create various alternate solutions. 4. Typical projects in the distributed systems area deal with elaborate environment and file structures. Provide a skeleton structure for the directory of files and environment. Explain the usage with an example. See the illustration in Section 3.2 Page 8.94.4Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jitendra Tate; Ronnie Bolick; Ajit Kelkar

. This new experiment generated lot of interest in undergraduate students to perform theresearch in the general area of manufacturing of composites. This laboratory experiment has yetto be assessed. It is planned to assess this laboratory experiment upon class completion this year.Bibliography 1. Daniel I. M.; Ishai Ori; 1994, “Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials”, Oxford University Press 2. Strong A. B.; 1989, “Fundamentals of Composite Manufacturing: Materials, Methods, and Applications”, Society of Manufacturing Engineers 3. BGF Industries, Inc.; “http://www.bgf.com/cchart.htm 4. Hexcel Corporation, Inc.; “http://www.hexcelfibers.com/Markets/Products/Continuous /_Productlist.htm” 5. The Dow Chemical

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raj Mutharasan

primary focus is to broaden the development of an engineering student of Junior orSenior standing. One might even term our motive as developing a ‘liberal engineering studies’ emphasis.The pedagogical focus is on breadth rather than depth, and on cross-curricular education.The talk will summarize our experience in teaching this course over the past eight years as a full 3-creditcourse and as a module in a multi-unit course over a three week period. Assessment includes studentsurveys and comparison of their assessment of this course with other traditional disciplinary courses.IntroductionWith the advent of significant fundamental advances in biosciences, increasing number ofproducts, particularly therapeutic biologics are manufactured using

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

twin pulse generator, PCM encoder, line-code encoder, CDMA decoder, errorcounting utilities, noise generator) and fixed modules (master oscillator, bufferamplifiers, LPF and frequency counter [4]. Figure 4 shows an example of TIMS modularapproach to implement an experiment.Active Learning Suites Description:Active Learning Suites (ALS) is an interactive online learning system developed byATeL, Advance Tool for e-Learning. It includes Simulations, Virtual Experiments,Interactive Lessons, Problem Solving Tutor, scriptable and animated Instructor'sAssistant, assessment, authoring and ancillary tools. ALS's simulations and virtualexperiments allow learners to simulate an authentic task that is similar to or identical withthose tasks they are

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

Society for Engineering Education20. Dr. Software “Dr. Frame”, software, available WWW: http://www.drframe.com, 2001.21. Holzer, S. & Andruet, R. “Statics Learning Environment”, software, available WWW:http://www.succeednow.org/content/Statics/index.html, 2000.BiographiesSEAN W. ST.CLAIRSean St.Clair is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Hereceived a B.S. in civil engineering from Utah State University and a M.S. in civil engineerin g from Georgia Tech.Under the advisement of Dr. Nelson Baker, he has conducted numerous projects in the areas of engineeringeducation and educational technology and assessment. Sean can be reached at sean.stclair@ce.gatech.edu.NELSON C. BAKERDr. Nelson Baker is

Conference Session

Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Nelson; David Flegel; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

recording the results. The presence of light bulbs as loads and indicatorsdramatically illustrates what their calculations mean. The TNA has the flexibility to permit adifferent set of circumstances for each group or several circumstances for a given group. Seeingthe digital controls (from the computer screen) and knowing that the fault generation and controlis all digital, designed by undergraduates, clearly gains attention. Interest in electric powerengineering has grown among the undergraduates, as assessed by enrollment in subsequent“power” course. The TNA gets revisited in the mandatory junior-level energy conversion course. The vehicleis a laboratory demonstration. This reinforces what students have seen in their circuits course.The TNA

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

theproprietary language within the software 16. When using knowledge-based systems, newemployees must be prepared to work in a culture of knowledge management where theyunderstand the rationale for design decisions and are capable of working with systems thatproactively support expertise and documentation of best practices 17. Students need to be ready touse these knowledge-based systems to successfully move engineering information through thedesign process. Many articles have been written in past ASEE publications regardingincorporation of design principles into classroom activities. These types of modeling systemsallow engineering graphics educators to give students meaningful, design-based assignments, andit gives them the ability to assess their

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Edwards

amongst others who teach and learnengineering mathematics. Production of further applets is planned but, even with themodularity and rapid application development capabilities of Java, this is a time-consumingexercise (but “watch this space”!).ConclusionIt has not been possible yet to assess fully the efficacy of MathinSite in reducing failure rateson engineering courses due to mathematical subjects. This may be difficult to assess anywaysince the diagnostic testing / follow-up support combination has already paid dividends inthis area at Bournemouth University. A comprehensive review of MathinSite’s use obtainedfrom user feedback is planned for 2002 – 2003, the third year of the project. However, fromclassroom observation and questionnaire

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daphne Chang

versions), is used to generate simple dynamic animation for thepurpose of enhancing student learning and appreciation of “real-world” dynamic systems.Furthermore, the simulation/animation component is directly integrated into the course so thatprogressive learning and coordination with the lecture materials can be carried out.(II) Course DescriptionDynamic animation was introduced into the senior level course “EE482 Instrumentation andControl” in the 2000 academic year and has since been an integral part of this required course. Theold curriculum focused extensively on classical frequency response methods such as complexvariables, frequency response methods (Bode, Nyquist, Nichols), stability assessment techniques(Routh-Hurwitz, root locus

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

signal processing programs and processes data o Indirect data acquisition and control: PC serves as a local host to a digital signal processing system which crunches the data at very high speed.(III) Course DescriptionWeb experiments were introduced into the senior level course “EE482 Instrumentationand Control” in the 2001 academic year and has since been an integral part of thisrequired course. The old curriculum focuses extensively on classical frequency responsemethods such as complex variables, frequency response methods (Bode, Nyquist,Nichols), stability assessment techniques (Routh-Hurwitz, root locus), performancecriteria (sensitivity, steady accuracy, transient response

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

to discover that everyone involved in the decision processwholeheartedly supported the request. Some officers had actually seen the BattleBots show andsaw the opportunity as an excellent venue to highlight USAFA on a national scale. Everyonesaw the opportunity as a means to underscore the prowess of USAFA’s engineering program.Since the students were working on the BattleBots right up to the competition date, the facultydecided to package everything (BattleBots, spares, equipment, etc.) in shipping containers andcheck them on the commercial flight to Oakland California. Seven containers ranging in weightfrom 75 to 100 pounds were required to comply with the weight and size limitations of theairline. Naturally, the airline assessed fees for

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Schwieger

materials, Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE Education Society, v1. 2002., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 4. De La Barra, Mario Leon and Ana Maria De La Barra, Problem solving: Learning and assessment model, Frontiers in Education Conference v1, 2000, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Kansas City, MO 5. Howard, Bob, Enough of this science and mathematics; let’s do some engineering, 29th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: ‘Designing the Future of Science and Engineering Education, Nov. 13, 1999, San Juan Puerto Rico. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 6. Ito, Takeshi, Noburu

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

Page 8.1099.1 Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationexpertise in the practice of engineering. The Engineering Criteria 2000 established by ABETprovide a clear and pragmatic indication of the benefits of integrating education and practice.Many of the program outcomes and assessments articulated by ABET in Criterion 3 can best bemet through this integration. The College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati has a long and distinguishedhistory as a leader in engineering education. The College introduced cooperative engineeringeducation in 1906, and has maintained a mandatory cooperative education system ever since.Our

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Weinstein

margin, expenses, and other financial details had to be included inthe final price of the product and the engineering students had a difficult time learningabout and coping with these new and nebulous concepts. The entire team learned that ifthe product was not “worth” the money to the real market, then another pricing schemehad to be assessed. Students learned how a piece of software might need to sell, forexample, one hundred copies to be profitable. Page 8.347.4This course introduced real world aspects and gave students the skills necessary to meetsome of the challenges that they will face after graduation. Students realized that there areno

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

-laboratory projects, sample mini-lab procedures, andtools being used to assess the impact of the use of mini-lab projects among students.2. System ApparatusThe contents of this section describe the physical electromechanical system for which students todevelop analog control systems. Velocity and position control were studied in successivesemesters. In both cases all students were required to participate in the laboratory experience.The two configurations have some common components that we discuss first. Space limitationsprohibit complete explanation of the implementation details, but these will be presentedthoroughly in a subsequent full-length journal paper.2.1 Common ComponentsSchematic and functional block diagrams of the system are shown in

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Sean Brophy; Stacy Klein-Gardner

to the problem. This allows students to compare their naive first impressions withthe experts to help them notice their lack of differentiated knowledge. Now students areprepared to engage in a process of "Research and Revise." This stage of the learningcycle organizes resources into meaningful learning activities designed to help them focuson issues related to the initial challenge. Once students feel they have learned enough, theycan go to "Test your mettle." Here students engage in a set of activities that helps themexplore the depth of their knowledge. The goal is to create assessment situations that helpthem evaluate what they do not know so they can return to the "Research and Revise"section to learn more. Students progress to the "Go

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Srilekha Srinivasan; Robert Palmer; Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; A. John Boye

protocol uses a mixed methodology that includes both quantitative and qualitativetechniques. This mixed method study is designed to measure the extent to which we achieved theoverarching goal of the proposed laboratory adaptation and curriculum. A combination ofquantitative and qualitative methods will best measure student learning outcomes, and as such,more accurately measure differences in student comprehension resulting from the laboratoryexperience. The mixed method assessment instrument will facilitate data triangulation, whichwill help to ensure that any variance measured reflects the desired traits rather than the method3.Moreover, a mixed methodology study design can help improve the validity of data by usingmore than one method to study