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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Years since initial enrollment Figure 2: Percentage of 1995 engineering cohort still enrolled in the fall of each yearFigure 2 shows that an "enrollment gap" between male and female engineering students appears toopen up after one year, but to widen after two years. Seeking the cause of this gap led to theresearch outlined in this paper. Two types of data were collected. Two focus groups were held Page 8.1187.2for female first year engineering students about halfway through the semester. In addition, maleand female first year engineering students were surveyed during the last week of the semester. Proceedings of the 2003 American

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

instructors. From the beginning, HSTI’s modules are created with the educators needs inmind. They are designed to supplement the current classroom curriculum, not supplant it. Eachmodule is comprised of units that support the overall module theme. These units containpresentations, activities, handouts, exercises, and quizzes that the instructor can incorporate intotheir curriculum.Content generation for the units within a module is a carefully managed process utilizing theresources from all of the development team members. This paper will present some of thelessons learned from development of module content to module testing, focusing on theintermediary steps of content development, technology infusion, and module organization.Hopefully, this window

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

able to more accurately estimate costs. 4. Redesign: As mentioned earlier, three groups redesigned, rebuilt, and retested their prototypes. In addition, several other groups made design changes during the manufacturing process. In the 2001 class, no groups mentioned making significant design changes. In some sense, this should be expected – but it makes clear that students tend to think of a design as ‘done’ once it is complete on paper unless they have the opportunity to test it. In other words, they have no incentive to look at their ‘final product’ on paper Page 8.663.5 and review it to see if

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

therequired pedagogical elements, is always a challenge. This year, students enrolled in MER-144were asked to design a walking robot to compete in the SAE Walking Machine Challenge (partof the SAE Collegiate Design Series). This proved to be a very appropriate project vis-à-vis thecourse objectives and outcomes, particularly with respect to developing an ability to practice thetechniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.By referring to specific examples from the student design projects, this paper describes how thevarious course objectives were successfully met. In addition, certain criteria for choosing anappropriate design problem are discussed.IntroductionThe mechanical engineering curriculum at Union favors

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

technicalsales to list just a few. The best fit, however, appeared to be engineering education.After the new career was selected, it led to numerous other questions. How difficult would thetransition be? How long would it take? Could engineering and management skills be applieddirectly into the classroom environment or would they have to be adapted? Would theengineering experience be beneficial? What new skills had to be acquired? What teachingmethods should be used? How and where to start? These and many additional questions wereanswered during the first year as a full time engineering educator.This paper describes the trials, tribulations, successes and lessons learned during the writers firstyear as a full-time engineering educator. The results may

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Ali; Marcia Rossi; M. Javed Khan

2004-1501 Using a Low Cost Flight Simulation Environment for Interdisciplinary Education M. Javed Khan, Marcia Rossi, Syed F. Ali Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088AbstractA multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary education is increasingly being emphasizedfor engineering undergraduates. However, often the focus is on interactionbetween engineering disciplines. This paper discusses the experience atTuskegee University in providing inter-disciplinary research experiences forundergraduate students in both Aerospace Engineering and Psychology throughthe utilization of a low cost flight simulation environment. The environment, whichis pc-based, runs an off-the shelf software and is

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang

AbstractThis paper focuses on the project of design and simulation of a disassembly-to-order system that providesa unique “hands-on and minds-on” research experience for undergraduate students. This project iscompleted by a multidisciplinary group of faculty and students from Electrical & Computer Engineeringat Rowan University and Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Pacific Lutheran University(PLU). In such a system, the disassembly of discarded products is processed to satisfy certain demandsfor parts and/or materials, while economic and environmental goals are achieved. Two scenarios in thesystem are analyzed and their performance is compared.1. Introduction Due to the increased awareness of the state of environment by consumers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

address this need throughsignificant enhancements in the undergraduate communications curriculum offered by theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE). The emphasis of these enhancementslies in the integration of hands-on experience in three typically, theory-based telecommunicationcourses and a separate laboratory course having a wireless communications focus. Theenhancements, enabled by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement (CCLI) Adaptation and Implementation (A&I) Track award anduniversity support, features infrastructure development in terms of radio frequency (RF) anddigital communications test equipment. This paper describes the new communicationscurriculum at UVM, resources upon

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson

instrument,and to disseminate the instrument nationally. This paper reports the progress toward the first ofthese goals.Initial Compilation of Statics Knowledge AreasAn initial list of statics’ knowledge areas had been previously developed by the project co-principal investigators (Danielson and Mehta) and is shown in Table 1.4 This original list wasbroken into three categories: fundamental laws, their corollaries and related knowledge. Here,the word “concept” was used in an applied sense. While the most basic concepts of mechanicsmay be argued to be space, time, mass, and force, initial thoughts were focused on defining theconcepts of statics as areas of knowledge critical to mastery of statics. It was, and remains, theintent to develop knowledge

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Stirewalt

development.1 IntroductionA typical computer science curriculum contains a junior-level course on softwareengineering, which develops principles and heuristic methods for designing largesoftware systems. At many universities, this course is organized around an idealizedmodel of the software lifecycle1, which comprises a linear sequence of discrete phases Page 9.1196.1(Figure 1). This paper argues that such an organization is pedagogically flawed if theProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationgoal is to develop skill in software design

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

learning technologies withthe goal of engaging our students into an active learning mode inside and outside the classroom.This report describes the integration of two collaborative learning software packages"NetSupport Manager" and "Silicon Chalk" in the delivery of an Applied Machine Vision coursedue to go on-line in January 2004. This Machine Vision course (ENGR-4550/6450) was alreadytaught once in Spring 02 using standard classroom oral lecture techniques with PowerPoint slidesand paper copies of the slides distributed to students for notes taking. The specific objectiveswere: 1) Design and implement a computer network architecture suitable for active learningapproaches. 2) Implement a software approach that supports interaction

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

successfully complete the learning objectives. And somehow, theteacher is supposed to establish some rapport along the way. How does the teacher knowwhen he or she is doing well? And how does someone who oversees a program knowthat the teachers who work for him are doing well? This paper attempts to answer thesequestions using many of the tools available at the United States Military Academy asillustration.What Constitutes Good TeachingBefore teaching can be assessed, one must first answer the question what constitutes goodteaching. Seymour and Hewitt1 interviewed hundreds of math, science, and engineeringstudents and were able to quantify what students considered bad teaching. The list waslong and included such things as inadequate preparation

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

airline safety and several technologies have the potentialto mitigate the injuries that turbulence causes. To evaluate and prioritize research activities todevelop one or several of these alternatives into products that can be successful in the commercialtransport sector, based on either a regulatory or a market driven adoption scenario, a decisionanalysis is needed. This case presented data on the populations that are being injured, the cost ofthose injuries, and the total annual cost impact of turbulence injuries in the commercial transportsector.The data presented in this paper is currently being used to analyze the business case for forwardsensing technologies and these results will be the subject of a future paper. Current research inthe

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

. Page 8.1000.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering is no exception. 9 Recognizing that technology is rapidly changing is perhaps not asimportant as realizing that technology shapes each generation. Today’s students come touniversity from a wide variety of backgrounds and a diversity of cultures and educationalexperiences that are different from students who entered even as little as ten years ago. Butwhile a new paradigm to address these changes may be needed, it may also be the most difficultto implement as faculty resistance remains a factor.10This paper suggests a fourth

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

ourinstructional methods and to demonstrate the reuse of the learning materials we are designing.Therefore, we are conducting both control and replication studies to verify our achieving ourgoals. Achieving this research agenda requires a rigorous tracking protocol. This paper presentsthe process being developed to systematically document and track the various assessments andevaluations methods used to capture data related to the projects’ research goals. We start bypresenting a rational for the need of a rigorous methodology and a description of the system weare designing to support the process. Page 8.248.1 “Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

integrated with the engineering core course (ENGR 2153) offered during theSpring semester each year by the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Anoverview of these modules is presented in this paper. An informal evaluation of the impact ofthese modules was conducted. The results of this evaluation are briefly discussed.INTRODUCTIONStrength of Materials (ENGR 2153), a sophomore-level engineering core course at theUniversity of Oklahoma (OU), is taught Spring semester each year as one section with typicalenrollment of 60 to 80 students. Although taught exclusively by the School of Civil Engineeringand Environmental Science (CEES), students from Civil, Environmental, Pre-Architecture,Petroleum and Industrial Engineering take this

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Laurence Gould; Hisham Alnajjar; Diego Bernardete; David Pines

Society for Engineering EducationDesign projects were usually selected as the most appropriate activity to meet the sharedoutcomes. This paper describes the effort to integrate Physics I and Calculus II into thefreshman engineering design course. Approximately sixty freshman-engineering students wereinvolved in the integrated learning block in spring 2001. Students could select from threesections of Principles of Design (ES 142), two sections of Physics I (PHY 112), and two sectionsof Calculus II (M 144). Non-engineering students were also allowed to take the physics andcalculus sections that were part of the ILB. To accommodate part-time students and full-timestudents who were not taking both Calculus II and Physics I, a section of Principles of

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

many different constituencies we didfeel a need to start with something on paper to help guide the process. Thus, in May, Page 7.1142.11997 we started with the cornerstone of our process – an all-day, all-faculty meeting Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcalled solely for the purpose of reviewing data from the prior academic year andrecommending actions for the coming year. The date at the end of the semester wasintentionally selected because: 1) it occurred after grades had to be submitted but

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Koffman; Bryan Waltrip; George Piper; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

often experiments in physics use the sameconcept to determine the properties of materials. The capacitance seems to be the most oftenmeasured quantity. In this paper we will concentrate on presentation of voltage-ratio devices.From Figure 1 it can be seen that the voltage ratio is obtained using an inductive voltage divider.There are a number of references that give technical details on inductive voltage divider design[1] [2]. But they are written by engineers deeply involved in research, for engineers doing thesame. Our goal is to present a straightforward and comprehensible lecture on voltage dividerdesign. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sergey Yarmolenko; Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

prepare students for thesechallenges. We have developed a graduate course on microstructural characterization, analysis,and modeling that is based on concepts of stochastic microstructures and uses model systemsbased on spatial geometry concepts of point processes, packings, and tessellations. Using discreteconstituents such as discs, we develop the fundamental ideas of spatial geometry and imagealgebra more transparently to aid student comprehension. Once these principles are covered, weextend them to more complex structures such as multiphase materials.IntroductionThis paper discusses our experiences with a 3-semester-hour (2 lecture and 2 laboratory hours)course taught to graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NC A

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Asif Shakur; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi; Ibibia Dabipi

Session 1332 A Novel Microwave Engineering Course in a Collaborative Electrical Engineering Program Asif Shakur1, Protap Pramanick2, Ali Eydgahi3, Ibibia K. Dabipi3, Mohammad Fotouhi 3 1 Salisbury University/ 2K&L Microwave/ 3University of Maryland Eastern Shore Salisbury, Maryland / Salisbury, Maryland / Princess Anne, MarylandIn this paper, we describe a fairly innovative microwave engineering course with a concurrentlaboratory. This course is offered in the context of a collaborative electrical engineeringprogram among Salisbury University (SU), University of

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

concepts such as data representation, instruction interpretation, compiler design, systemprogramming, cost of language abstractions and hardware/software tradeoffs. In this paper, weelaborate the detail content of our introductory computer architecture & assembly languagecourse and the teaching strategies and analyze its outcome.IntroductionComputer engineering and computer science fields are expanding in all directions. All the subjectareas have grown and new subject areas have been added. Since, there are a limited number ofcourses that can be included in a curriculum model; some of the existing courses will have to bedropped to introduce new ones. As software applications become more complex, more industriesuse high level languages. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

simple machines. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.[9] Jacobson, M. J., & Spiro, R. J. (1994). Hypertext learning environments, cognitive flexibility, and the transfer of complex knowledge: An empirical investigation. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 12(4).[10] Millard, D. L., Burnham, G., “Innovative Interactive Media for Electrical Engineering Education”, IEEE Frontiers in Education ‘01 Conference, October 2001.[11] Newman, D., Reinhard, D. Elaine, and Kirk, J., “Development and Implementation of Web-Based Interactive Learning Modules and Educational T echnologies – Technical Assistance and Evaluation”, Formative Evaluation

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

, transient heat transfer, internal combustion engines,combustion and emission controls for boilers, linear vibrations, dynamics balancing of rotatingshafts, kinematics of motion for piston-cams, and spring dynamics. The design project is anincubator for developing similar modern lab systems for other programs in the College ofEngineering. Some of the new labs are operated ON-LINE using the Internet to demonstrate thefull capabilities of modern computer based experimentation. LabVIEW is used for dataacquisition, analysis, presentation, and control. The paper will describe (1) new curriculumconsiderations, (2) modern laboratory features used including running ON-LINE over theInternet, (3) scope and objectives for the new laboratory, (4) laboratory

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

introducingsustainable engineering concepts in the teaching of specific existing courses anddeveloping a sustainable engineering certification program. This paper reviews the needfor sustainable engineering being taught across the curriculum and how that is beingaccomplished at UTEP.I. BackgroundÃProbably one of the best-known efforts to incorporate sustainability/green design intoengineering is the Carnegie Mellon program. Carnegie Mellon began a campus-wideGreen Design Initiative in 1992 to promote environmentally conscious engineering. Theinitiative has formed partnerships with industry, foundations, and government agencies todevelop research and education programs that encourage sustainable economicdevelopment. The initiative developed educational modules

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

Session ERMEvolution through Evaluation: The Development & Delivery of a Multicultural Awareness Workshop for Teaching Assistants in Engineering Yogesh K. Potdar, Patricia B. Spencer/Kathryn Hollar Cornell University/Rowan UniversityAbstractThis paper will summarize the process for developing and delivering a workshop on MulticulturalAwareness for the TA Development Program in the College of Engineering at Cornell University.This workshop, delivered first in 1992, has been a key component of the TA Training programbecause of the pertinent issues around diversity in the classroom

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna L. Fletcher; Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

include the CEMSWE Awards Banquet, CEMSWE Leadership Retreat and the DiversityEvening With Industry (DEWI) hosted by CEMSWE.This paper will discuss the workings of the Coalition and the collaborative events. It will alsodiscuss industry perception of such collaboration.I. IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) established the Office of MinorityEngineering Programs (OMEP) at Arizona State University (ASU) in 1993 to aid in therecruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students. Since the underrepresentedminority student population within CEAS (16%) is well below the state minority population(31%), the need for assistance continues. Specifically, the goals of the OMEP are to build acommunity of minority

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Michel I. Maarek

Session 2209 Objective structured exam for biomedical electronics Jean-Michel I. Maarek University of Southern California, Los Angeles CAIntroductionThe assessment of engineering students enrolled in laboratory courses is usually based on reportsthat the students prepare after completing experiments in the laboratory. This practiceencourages the development of technical writing and presentation skills that are necessary forpreparing successful future engineers. However, the students abilities for analysis of a laboratoryexperiment, their manipulative skills in conducting measurements

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Driscoll; Carolyne E. Garcia

take and make notes to accommodate theirmodality preferences. The VARK can also be given to a class to indicate to the students and theinstructor how they prefer to be given information as individuals and as a class. The resultsobtained from profiling of junior level and freshman level chemical engineering students at theUniversity of Arkansas have provided some interesting insight into the preferred input mode forchemical engineering students. This paper discusses these results.II. HistoryBeginning instructors are often disconcerted by how by how little information students actuallyprocess from a given class. In some cases, a student may ask a question related to material thathas just been covered in class – with the answer still written on

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew V. Galati; Joseph C. Hartman

University. Motivated by student evaluations and desires Page 5.53.1to make the game both easier to execute and more accessible to other interested educators, thegame, as described in this paper, was revised and implemented this past semester. Theseimprovements include those in both the execution of the game and in the actual decisions made byteams playing the game. While the changes are substantial, the basic premise of the game remainsas it was when originally written: to simulate a competitive business environment in which studentscan apply and appreciate knowledge acquired in the classroom.2. Overview of Methodological Changes in the Revised