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Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul J. Chanley, Northern Essex Community College

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Two Year College Division

conductedinternally by NECC and comparisons as to choice of major and subsequent success inmathematics courses were made to similar students at NECC who did not participate in thesummer bridge programs. These findings are also reported in the paper.The paper concludes with modifications to the summer bridge program planned for 2012 inresponse to the results of the first four years.Summer Bridge Program- IntroductionThis paper describes the Summer Bridge Programs (SBP) designed to ease the transition to theprograms in various Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields atNECC. The four-day SBPs were held in August of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. All four SBPswere funded by the National Science Foundation through a grant to Northeastern

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schuyler; Howard A. Canistraro

being accomplished using the data acquisition and controlpackage LabView, by National Instruments. This powerful tool has been implementedthroughout the curriculum, ranging from introduction as freshmen with simple mechanicalmeasurements and data storage, to culmination with a senior design project that typicallyinvolves control and automation, achieved using the LabView system. A primary focus of thepaper will be the philosophy of the introduction of computer software packages in a four yearengineering technology curriculum, and how they can be used to reinforce key concepts found inMET. The paper will also detail some of the introductory and advanced laboratories that havebeen developed, the specific hardware that was purchased, the results

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2001 Annual Conference

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Paul Hoke; Craig Somerton

Session 1566 Student Evaluation of the Thermal/Fluids Design Experience Paul B. Hoke, Craig W. Somerton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityAbstractThe paper details on-going course development and improvement in a senior level heat transferlaboratory incorporating a design experience. The heat transfer laboratory includes eight (8)laboratory exercises and concludes with a seven week thermal design project. The project ischosen to include multiple aspects of thermal design and to incorporate the tools utilized in theearlier laboratory exercises. The goal of the project

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

emphasize the principles of uncertainly. The terminology and principles adopted in the mechanical engineering undergraduatelaboratory sequence are based on the concepts adopted by the ISO (1995). A consistentpresentation of these ideas is also available in a technical note by Taylor and Kuyatt (1994). Thenote also includes helpful explanations and examples. The latter report is available online in fulland summary versions. Both online versions are excellent and handy resources for students. Thispaper and the presentation to students described herein do not pretend to present any newconcepts. Instead the goal of this paper is to describe one approach to teaching the concepts ofuncertainty. Some empirical examples to reinforce the ideas are

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Luebbers; R.A. Rodríguez-Solís; José Colom-Ustáriz

this paper, a two-semester undergraduate researchcourse sequence using FDTD as the main tool for electromagnetic simulation is presented. Page 6.1080.1Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering EducationII. FDTD BASIC PRINCIPLEMicrostrip structure problems are complicated to analyze in part due to the presence of thedielectric substrate. The structure is not symmetric since the metallization is placed between thedielectric and free space, therefore there is no pure TEM propagation mode and there is

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jr., Eugene Niemi

Session 1302 The Use of Flight Simulators for Experiments in Aerodynamics Courses Eugene E. Niemi, Jr. University of Massachusetts LowellAbstractThis paper summarizes the results of a novel approach to introduce flight simulators into anaerodynamics and flight mechanics course as a kind of virtual laboratory. Student response tothis approach has been excellent, with many students willing to put in extra time above andbeyond usual course requirements to participate in this part of the program. Four hardware andsoftware packages

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Morales

commercial turn-key solution for delivering streaming video content over a wirelessIP network. This paper details a method for implementing a system capable of deliveringfull-screen, full-motion streaming video as well as hyperlinked context sensitiveillustrations and schematics to learners over an 11-megabit wireless network. The netresult is a system that can serve as an instructional reference to learners while they areengaged in active on-site problem-solving activities. The benefits to the instructor and tothe learner are many. It lessens the need for the learner to recall all of the informationpresented to him, because the materials will be available on-demand for reference at alater time. This minimizes mistakes. It also centralizes

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

focused on why they were learning atopic, the project based teaching format also produced a just in time teaching format.This paper will present the project used to teach the hydraulics class, a qualitative analysis ofhow the use of project-based teaching affected this class, and modifications planned for the nextoffering of the course. Suggestions for the design of projects will also be presented.1.0 IntroductionHydraulics is currently taught as one-half of a 3-credit course in the Environmental EngineeringProgram at the Mercer University School of Engineering. The topics covered include fluidproperties, fluid pressure, forces on submerged surfaces, fluid flow in pipes, pipelines, pipenetworks, and pump design and selection. The first semester

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheng Lin

processes. Contacts with these companies may beinitiated by faculty members, the company itself, the college’s Technical ApplicationCenter (an in-house organization that specializes in promoting economic development forthe region through matching industry needs with faculty expertise and universityfacilities), or by students themselves who may be working for one of the companies.While student projects may vary substantially, they must all contain certain elements:design analysis, computer generated drawings, vendor contact, literature search forproducts and manufacturing techniques, material selection and if possible prototypemanufacture and testing. The project described in this paper was brought to the faculty

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Arturo Fuentes; Cristina Villalobos

approximate 15,000 students are underrepresentedminorities and an estimated two-thirds are the first in their families to attend college. Because ofthe necessity to work to finance their college education, more than 70% of the students believe thatit will take them six years to complete the bachelor degree. In this paper, the authors initiallypresent and discuss data on educational trends in Hispanic society. Then, the authors present theUniversity’s Model Institution for Excellence (MIE) system, which has increased student retentionrates in the science and engineering disciplines. The authors then propose to extend theAccreditation Board for Engineers and Technology outcome assessment process adopted by theUniversity and the present MIE activities

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

used at the professional, managerial, technical, skilled, and semi-skilled levels. It hasbeen used by educational agencies, business/industry, and government agencies, both in theUnited States and abroad1. It has proven to be effective in the: development of new programs;revision of existing programs; evaluation of worker performance; creation of job descriptions;development of process descriptions (ISO9000); and conceptualization of future jobs. There areseveral advantages of using the DACUM process. It is a team-based project where membersfreely share ideas and hitchhike on each other’s contributions. People enjoy talking about theirwork with others in similar careers. As a result, a synergy develops and members empower eachother to arrive

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2000 Annual Conference

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Winfred K Anakwa; Scott Jones; Scott Garrett; Ron Rio; Li Chen; John Bush; Jixiang Sheng; George Anglin; Dion Thomas; Dale Green

Session 1432 Development and Control of a Prototype Pneumatic Active Suspension System Winfred K.N. Anakwa, Dion Thomas, Scott Jones, Jon Bush, Dale Green, George Anglin, Ron Rio, Jixiang Sheng, Scott Garrett and Li Chen. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Bradley University Peoria, IL 61625AbstractReal physical plants for control experimentation are valuable tools in a controllaboratory. This paper describes a prototype pneumatic active suspension system,which was designed and built over a number of years as a sequence of studentprojects. The physical plant

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi A. Diefes

three-step model. First, theassessment process, program outcomes and performance criteria are developed and adopted bythe faculty. Second, each teaching faculty member evaluates his/her own course(s) by reducingcourse syllabi down to course learning objectives and a list of major topic areas and practices.The level to which the course addresses each performance criteria is estimated using a Bloom’sTaxonomy scale. Third, all course profiles are compiled and analyzed to pinpoint strengths andweaknesses in particular performance criteria or outcomes. This paper will highlight the ABET-compliant course profile development and implementation and a model for program deficiencyanalysis.IntroductionOne can look at the conference proceeding for any

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2000 Annual Conference

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Belle R. Upadhyaya

Session 2559 Development of a Senior-Level Course on Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Belle R. Upadhyaya Nuclear Engineering Department, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleAbstractThe development and delivery of a new course on Maintenance and ReliabilityEngineering (MRE), for seniors and first-year graduate students in engineering, is thefocus of this paper. The objective of this course is to present the fundamentals of MREand maintenance management. Students learn the principles of various maintenancetechnologies as they are currently practiced by U.S. industry. The course

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

. An innovative new program in North Carolina’s Wake County is attemptingto influence the academic choices of the elementary student, particularly young girls andunderrepresented minorities. This is the pilot year of an NSF funded program that places collegeof engineering students as resources at public elementary schools.By using graduate and undergraduate engineering students as science resources, the children areexposed early to the idea of science, math and/or engineering as a college, and therefore career,choice. The engineering students benefit as well, learning valuable communication skills thatwill enhance their marketability upon graduation. The ability to explain complex science tochildren requires confidence and technical knowledge

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas H. Baxter

capabilities of today's solid modeling packages, solid modelingexamples can be used to enhance the students' abilities to grasp fundamental engineering conceptsin their studies. The effective use of solid modeling for design and documentation of parts andassemblies is well established. In this paper, uses for solid modeling outside of traditional graph-ics courses are examined. It is shown how solid modeling can be used to visualize concepts taughtin undergraduate studies; including vector properties, differentiation as applied to shape optimiza-tion problems, and simple structural optimization. While the focus of this paper will be on devel-oping visualization skills at the freshman and sophomore levels, it will can seen how solidmodeling can be

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Wipplinger

Session 2606 Group Projects Lisa Wipplinger Kansas State UniversityAbstractAccreditation boards and industry are telling educators that the ability to work together in groups orteams is an important skill for engineering and construction graduates to have. As a result we aretrying to integrate this more fully into our classes. This paper presents several group projects thathave been tried in structural engineering classes over the last two years in the ArchitecturalEngineering and Construction Science programs here at Kansas State

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey A. Jalkio

Session 1359 Incorporating Design, Communications, Teamwork, and Modeling in a Controls Laboratory Experience Jeffrey A. Jalkio Department of Engineering University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN 55105AbstractIt is now widely recognized that engineering education must include training incommunication and teamwork skills in addition to traditional engineering science anddesign topics. This paper presents a control laboratory experience designed to providesuch training in a realistic manner. This experience centers on the

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2000 Annual Conference

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William G. Fahrenholtz; Mohamed N Rahaman

Chemical Engineering form the University of New Mexico. Hiscourses at the University of Missouri include the sophomore level laboratories in Ceramic Engineering. Dr.Fahrenholtz is active in ceramics research and has published over 25 technical papers. Page 5.678.8

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley J. Pisarski

peripheral and a serialcommunications interface in addition to input capture and output compare functions. This year anew member was born and has been added to the ever-expanding list of experiments utilizing themicrocontroller as the main control unit. The UPJ EET MicroMouse is the combination of aminiature land rover vehicle with sonar-type sensors that scurries around on the floor mapping outits surroundings while avoiding obstacles in its path.This paper focuses on the evolution of this course, the newest member of the group (UPJ EETMicroMouse), and links student learning to the use of exciting projects compared with moretraditional mundane cookbook experiments. It will examine the fundamental reasons for learningwhile comparing and contrasting

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Edward Evans; Richard B. Englund

also require teamwork forassignments in design, manufacture, or analysis.The specifications and chosen design for the bridge are detailed in this paper. An outline of therecruiting session presentation is provided with comments based on our experience with thispresentation. Suggestions are provided for others who desire a similar recruiting object otherthan a bridge. The versatility of this bridge for classroom demonstrations, assignments, andprojects is tremendous, and a selection of possible uses are described in this paper.I. Introduction:In an effort to stimulate the interest of middle school girls in technical fields, the Center forCorporate and Adult Learning (CCAL) at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College began an

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Crossman

awhite board, a writing tablet, a computer (power point) presentation, and audio and video tapes.The University also equips and controls the operation of the down link sites, with a full-timeuniversity employee (site director) at each site. The course is taught in exactly the same manneras on-campus-only courses, with the same expectations. The experience of the administrationand faculty and feedback from students, including regularly scheduled evaluation of individualcourses, indicate that the method of delivery is successful. Old Dominion University isrecognized as a national leader in distance education. Details of the TELETECHNET systemhave been presented in other papers and presentations.1The goal of engineering technology education is to

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph O. Buchal

enables learningto occur anywhere, at any time. This paper describes the new model of collaborative learning, and evaluatesemerging technologies to support it.Introduction We live in a time of unprecedented change. All aspects of our society and economy are beingtransformed as we move to a knowledge-based economy. Education is becoming increasingly important, yetfunding for traditional educational institutions is being cut. Universities must transform themselves to addresschanging educational needs. For knowledge workers, work and learning are becoming the same thing1. Learning is becomingproblem-driven, as people continuously seek new knowledge to tackle new problems. In the new team-basedorganization, work and learning are

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald W. Schafer; Mark A. Yoder; James H. McClellan

Session 1220 Experiences in Teaching DSP First in the ECE Curriculum James H. McClellan1, Ronald W. Schafer1, Mark A. Yoder21 2School of Electrical and Computer School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringEngineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyGeorgia Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803 USAAtlanta, GA 30332-0250 USAAbstractIn this paper we describe experiences gained from teaching an introductory electrical engineeringcourse based on digital signal processing rather than the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

Session 2606 Design as a Process The Project Development Process Daniel Davis Ward College, University of HartfordAbstractThere has always been a lot of discussion about the design process, and yet it remains verydifficult to define in precise terms. Architectural design is both an art and a science, both actionand reaction, and both intuition and analysis. But essentially, design is a problem solving anddecision making process.This paper proposes the belief that the entire project development process requires a constantstream of

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1997 Annual Conference

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Neda Fabris

Session 2392 Laboratory Workshop for Mothers and Daughters Neda Fabris California State University, Los Angeles ABSTRACT During the last two years I have organized and conducted two six week workshops for female highschool students and their mothers at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), to awakentheir interest in engineering careers. In this paper I am describing the project and discussing theresults obtained. INTRODUCTIONIn an increasingly technology-and engineering-oriented

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1997 Annual Conference

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Richard A. Young

Session 3220 LabVIEW : A MODERN DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM IN AN INTRODUCTORY MECHANICS LABORATORY Richard A. Young Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Portland, Portland, OR 97203. young@up.eduI. IntroductionAs the title suggests, this paper describes our implementation of LabVIEW in our freshman levelmechanics laboratory. The laboratory is closely coupled to a traditional lecture based physicscourse composed of engineering, physical science, mathematics, and computer science students.Over the past

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1997 Annual Conference

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2326 Multidisciplinary Experimental Experiences in the Freshman Engineering Clinic at Rowan University R. P. Hesketh, K. Jahan, A. J. Marchese C. S. Slater, J. L. Schmalzel, T. R. Chandrupatla, R. A. Dusseau Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 Session 2326 Introducing Freshmen Students to Engineering Paper No. 3 1997 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Cole

the students the value of computermodeling, and demonstrated that fundamental principles taught in the classroom apply to actualoperating processes. This paper focuses on using neural networks to model processes, whatstudents can learn from developing a neural network model, and one student’s model of a gasturbine power generator. INTRODUCTIONThe complexity of operating processes and the inherent difficulty of modeling real equipmentmakes modeling of industrial processes extremely difficult. The real equipment does notnecessarily perform exactly as characterized by the idealized equations used in the models.Consequently computer models created from first principles are complex and frequently do notfit the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D. Christie; Peter M. Trinidad

at a glance. Doering[7] effectively uses graphics directly on the circuit itself to show voltage and currentrelationships. Node voltages are represented as the node height above the reference plane and thecurrent magnitudes are shown as the width of the vertical stripe below the conducting path. Atrend to increasing visualization of circuit values is apparent. A key aspect of qualitative behavior is the response of a circuit to a change in a parameter.Most reported programs use dialog boxes to change circuit parameters. The work in this paper takes visualization a step further, emphasizes interactivity, and usesanimation to illustrate transients in addition to traditional time series graphs. In addition, anattempt is made to evaluate