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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Page 8.1195.57 - Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross (1993), Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education8 - Bloom, Benjamin S., editor (1984), Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook 1: Cognitive Domain. Longman, New York.WILLIAM B. BARATUCIWilliam B. Baratuci is a Senior Lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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Devdas Shetty

point where they can select the data acquisition hardware needed for specific transducers,determine the required digital signal processin g to enhance the signal, and, in some case, createtheir own virtual instruments. As various transducers are introduced in the laboratory, each ofthem with their-own operating requirements and output specifications, the instructor-writtenvirtual instrument act as a common interface to collect data from each transducer. In the samefashion that a specific physical parameter can be best measured with a s special transducer, thestudents understand that there are optimum hardware components and software rou tine to collectand process data from each sensor.The sequential exposure to more sophisticated data

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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

in ELEC 464. In order to address the two issues raised during the initial study, thenew quantitative study will utilize control and treatment groups that will remain intactthroughout the entire semester. Moreover, two more labs associated with course concepts will beimplemented in ELEC 304 in order to provide a more consistent laboratory experience. Thisstudy structure should produce better data regarding the source of any future studentimprovements and will mitigate statistical anomalies due to carry over knowledge.References 1. Buck, J. A., H. W. L. Owen, III, J. P. Uyemura, C. M. Verber, and D. J. Blumenthal, ``An Optical Communication Design Laboratory’’, IEEE Trans. Educ., 42(2), pp. 138--143, 1999. 2. Yurkovitch, S. and

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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John Krupczak

calculations (expressed in 2’s complement binarynumbers). Memory comprises 16 individually addressable 8-bit storage cells, numbered 0000through 1111 in binary. Memory is connected to the data bus (which supplies the data to bewritten to memory or receives data being retrieved from memory) and to the address bus (whichsupplies the address of the memory location involved in a write or read operation). In addition,memory is connected to the CPU by means of two control lines, E and W. The E (“enable”)signal is used to activate memory prior to a read or write operation. When the E signal isasserted, the W (“write”) line indicates whether a write or a read operation is to be performed.3.3 Input/Output DevicesThe input and output devices make it possible

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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G. Glenn Lipscomb

Pump Head Master Flex 77200-62 4 Flow Meter McMillan Company S-111 S6 4 Conductivity Controller Cole-Parmer U-19300-10 4 Conductivity Cell (flow through) Cole-Parmer U-19500-30 1 Dialysis Module Fresenius Medical Care NA F80A 1 Multifunction I/O NI-DAQ National Instruments PCI-6023E Channels used: 4 analog inputs and 4 grounds for flow meters 4 analog inputs and 4 grounds for conductivity meters 1 Analog

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Tracy Volz; David McStravick

researchers. Also, they were required toThe students could choose any topic, but they relate the consequences of this event toneeded to give some history and discuss how engineering work in general and to thisthe experiment(s) achieved the reported laboratory course in particular.accuracy with emphasis on the difficulty of The results of the revised approach representedachieving the high accuracy. The students wrote a significant improvement over the previousthe reports and were required to exchange spring’s project: the reports were of a higherpapers and critique another student’s report caliber and the students showed a strongusing a peer review evaluation form. The

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

positive and we hope to be able to show progress within the next twoyears.Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the General Electric Faculty for theFuture program.BibliographyEngineering workforce commission, Engineering and Technology Enrollments. American Association ofEngineering Societies, Washington D. C, 1998. As cited on: http://www.engr.psu.edu/wep/nationalstats1199.htmlBiographical InformationMargot A-S. Vigeant is a graduate of Cornell University (BS) and The University of Virginia (MS, PhD) and aprofessor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. Her interest in women’s issues in engineering stemsfrom personal experience.Karen T. Marosi is a graduate of Lafayette College (BS) The Pennsylvania

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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Jeffrey Giesey

done to maintain accreditation.In the Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, beside myself, there were 3 nativeNamibians and 4 foreign faculty working on two-year contracts. The academic qualifications ofthe staff were 2 Ph.D.’s, 2 Masters, 1 Bachelors, and 2 National Higher Diploma. The standardteaching load was 3 courses or 15 contact hours. Reductions were granted for active researchprojects and administrative duties. However, very few of the staff were involved in research.The technology infrastructure for staff was very good. The students’ technology was not quite asgood with lines waiting for computers in the labs and slow Internet access. The library was smalland crowded and had a relatively small number of books and no

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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Herbert Hess

Development for the 2015-2025 Time Frame,” US Army Communications-Electronics Command Technical Report, 31 July 2002, p. 27.[2] Farooque, M. and H.C. Maru, “Fuel Cells—the Clean and Efficient Power Generators,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol 89, No 12, December 2001, pp. 1819-1829.[3] Lave, L., et.al., “Life Cycle Analysis of Alternative Automobile Fuel/Propulsion Technologies,” Environmental Science Technology, Vol 34, No 17, 4 August 2000, pp. 3598-3604.[4] Browning, L., “Projected Fuel Cell Use in California,” Arthur D. Little Report for the California Energy Commission, P600-01-022F, October 2001, pp. 20-23.[5] Bull, S., “Renewable Energy Today and Tomorrow,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol 89, No 8, August 2001, p

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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Roberto Montoya

asking for. However, the statisticsmentioned are surprising, not only because they seriously question higher education institutionsfor an equivocal interpretation of university autonomy, but also the government’s will toguarantee quality assurance and high academic standards such programs are supposed to operateunder and offer11. Although since the mid 90’s, there is a growth tendency in the higher educationcoverage index in Colombia, the increase has been less than a point yearly, and it has not reachedthe dynamism of other countries in the area. Year 2000 comparative data show that whileColombia reached 15% coverage, as did Brazil and Mexico, Peru reached 26%, Venezuela 29%,Uruguay and Costa Rica 30%, Chile 32% and Argentina reached 36

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

benefits experienced by students and it alsoprovided a very viable means for students to solve engineering problems using computers.It was noted that students exposed to MATLAB and its capabilities in modeling,computation, and visualization in their earlier years of their engineering education usedthem effectively in the advanced level engineering courses. It also helped students developbetter reading and studying skills and a better understanding of the materials presented inengineering courses. Overall, this resulted in a positive, effective and efficient learningenvironment.Bibliography1. MATLAB 5.2 User’s Guide, The Math Works Inc., Natick, MA, 1998.2. Nakamura, S., Numerical Analysis and Graphical Visualization with MATLAB,Prentice Hall

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

operational amplifier (Op-Amp) module (shown in figure 4) was developed to offer students the opportunity to create andtest a variety of circuit configurations. Basic inverting, non-inverting, differential amplifier,integrator, differentiator and comparator circuits are available in either preset or “build your own”configurations. The user can choose the level and frequency of the input signal(s) along with thepower supply voltages (+Vcc and -Vcc) to explore both the ideal and real characteristics of thedevice. Page 8.479.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

. Standards can even take the effect of law if they appear, for example, in building codes.Cities and municipalities in the south adopt the building codes developed and published bySBCCI almost universally. Many engineering students receive the B. S. degree with little or no exposure toengineering standards. This deficiency can easily be corrected by introducing standards (orportions) during appropriate sections of conventional technical courses or laboratories. Forexample, the author has required laboratory students to perform portions of the performance testsfor audible back up alarms used on some construction equipment (SAE standard). Note thatOSHA requires these alarms on certain equipment. As a minimum, students should be madeaware of the

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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Alok Verma

filter in a home- use HVAC system is to block thedusty air particles from the incoming air and to remove contaminants introduced into there-circulated air from conditioned space1 . When a new filter is just installed, it provideslittle resistance to the airflow. The low resistance provides little friction loss in the system,thus requires less energy for the air mover (fan) than a system with a dirty filter. A clean airfilter can also produce a better air quality during the same operation time period of aHVAC system. To measure the change of the airflow between a clean filter and a dirtyfilter, s simple apparatus was developed by students in the MET program 2,3. A rectangularbox contains a fan and motor with openings at the fan discharge and

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Steven Levitt

, (February, 1994).4. Sheron, S., Lecturer Envisions Art of Engineering, San Antonio Express-News, 6F, (Feb. 7, 2000).5. McCauley, L. “Learning 101”, Fast Company, 101-106, (October, 2000).6. De George, R.T., Ethical responsibilities of Engineers in Large Organizations: The Pinto Case. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 1,1, 1-14 (1981). Reprinted in Johnson, D. G., Ethical Issues in Engineering. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 175-186 (1991). Page 6.278.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for

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Nanette Keiser; Gloria Tressler; Arlen Gullickson

surveys, item concerns come to the forefront at the data analysis stage. Here, E-mailcorrespondence helped to identify and resolve issues well before they could become problems ofdata interpretation. Additionally, this means of communication appears to reduce tensions andincrease the willingness to respond among persons who aren’t fond of surveys in general or whowere frustrated by the nature of this survey in particular. Clayton and Werking (1998) asserted that “ . . . World Wide Web collection virtuallyeliminate[s] the traditional labor-intensive activities [of mail surveys]” (p. 556). We found that,although the nature of the work changed from that associated with traditional mailed surveys, oursurvey required significantly more

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

Teach Engineering – T4E”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 1, 2000, pp. 31-384. Seymour, Elaine and Nancy M. Hewitt, Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 19975. http://www.asce.org/exceed6. Samples, Jerry W., Mark F. Costello, Christopher H. Conley, Thomas A. Lenox, and Stephen J. Ressler, “Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering: A Year Later”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19977. Samples, Jerry W., Anu Maria, Joseph W. Newkirk, Peter L. Silsbee, Valerie L. Young, and Bradford L. Snowden, “The Team Approach to Developing Baseline Teaching Skills”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19978. Wankat, Philip C and Frank S. Oreovicz

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Daniel Waldorf

Pomeranz, Shirley, “Some Observations for Teaching Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Conference and Exposition, Seattle.10 Hillsman, Vernon S., “Combining Finite Element Analysis Software with Mechanics of Materials,” Page 6.282.8 1994 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 2289-2292. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education11 Middleton, D.E.S., “Better Than Guessing the Stressing: Applications of the Finite Element Method in an Undergraduate Course,” in

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

communities are important. Students who feel that they belong from the beginning are more likely to persist, even if the intervention terminates.3. Content of integrated programs, while important, does not have the impact that personal contact has. Faculty should think carefully about designing first-year programs. We learned that our expectations and our students’ expectations didn’t necessarily match.4. Resources spent up front to allow top faculty to teach and mentor first year students pay dividends in increased retention and overall satisfaction with the educational experience.AcknowledgementWe would like to thank the U. S. Department of Education FIPSE Program (Fund for theImprovement of Post-Secondary Education) and our program officer

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Andrew Rose

education of future engineering technologists, while attaining their own career goals, as well.Bibliography1. Technology Accreditation Commission, ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs(2000-2001)” URL http:/www.abet.org/tac/TAC_2000-01_Criteria.htm, November 1, 1999, 35 pp.2. Lipscomb, J.W. “The Benefits and Problems of Consulting as a Means of Faculty Development.” Journal ofEngineering Technology, Spring 1992. pp. 22-23.3. Pfile, R.E. and Conrad, W.R., “Bring Realism Into the Classroom Through Your Consulting,” Proceedings,ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1348 (1998).4. Qazi, S. and Ishaq, N., “Impact of Applied Research in Engineering Technology,” Proceedings, ASEE AnnualConference, Session 1348 (1998).5. Rose, A. “Role

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John Martin; Mohammed Haque

. 28-29 (1999).12. Knowles, M. S. The adult learner: a neglected species. Houston: Gulf Publishing Company Division. (1978)13. Dyrud, M. A. The third wave: a position paper. Business Communication Quarterly. 63 (3), pp. 81-93 (2000).14. Haque M.E. Web-based Visualization Techniques for Structural Design Education. Submitted for ASEE 2001 Annual Conference Presentation at New Mexico.15. Schank, R. "Basic Training" Chief Executive, 140 (16), pp. 54-57, (1998)16. Hall, M. Managing and motivating students performance in the university classroom. Journal of Construction Education. 2 (1), pp. 24-30 (1998).17. Conti, G. J. Identifying your teaching style. In M. W. Galbreath (Ed.), Adult learning methods (pp. 79-96). Malabar, Fl: Krieger

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Martin Morris; Fred Fry

financing. First year marketing expenses wereto be $114,500 with most of the expense going to magazines typically read by amateur racers.The price for the car was determined to be $12,000 with COGS of $8,500, giving a gross marginof $3,500 per unit. Break-even was projected for the seventh month.The form of business was determined to be a Subchapter S Corporation which provided the bestoptions for raising equity while limiting the liability of the owners and allowing pass through toinvestor's IRS 1040s. The management structure for the proposed company is shown inFigure 2. A total of 60 employees would be needed to produce the number of cars indicated. Figure 2: Company Management Structure

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

70 to 80% effectiveness. Additional work on outcomes assessment iscurrently in progress and will be reported in future work.Bibliography1. DeLancey, G. A unified and quantitative approach to assessment, Proceedings of the Fall Regional Conference of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, November 3 – 4, 2000.2. Preparing for ABET EC 2000: from curriculum mission to assessment planning. Report by Engineering Assessment Committee, Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998).3. Esche, S. K. & Hromin, D. J. An open approach to undergraduate laboratories. Enabling Engineering and Technology Education through Information Technology, Proceedings of the Fall

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Thomas Rich; James Baish

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographyForm and FunctionM. French, Invention and Evolution, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1994).D. Gartman, Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design. London: Routledge (1994).J. Kappraff, Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.(1991).M. Levy and M. Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., (1992).D’Arcy. Thompson, On Growth and Form, Canto Edition ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press(1961).S. Vogel, Life’s Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress (1988).Designing PeopleJ

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Charles Knight

total learning during this period. The latterperiod of the lab period is used to complete the experimental objectives. Two instructors dividetheir time between the five workstations as the different experiments are being conducted.Formal reports are submitted for about half of the experiments while informal reports aresubmitted for the others. The reports are due two weeks after the experiment is completed. Thestudent grade is evaluated with the lecture portion counting 30% (10% for homework and 10%each for the midterm and the final exam), the laboratory portion counting 55% (42% for reports, Page 6.350.35% for oral presentation(s), and

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Engineering Educationfacilities for basics and laboratory portions of the courses, and lessons learned during andsince the renovation.3.1 Constraints of Available SpaceSpace designated for renovation consisted primarily of 6 rooms, each 22 ft by 63 ft, onone floor of one building. The current facilities, designed in the early 1960’s, would notmeet the needs of the new program. Having done pilot programs in computer classroomsconverted from Engineering Graphics instruction and having shared laboratory spacewith environmental engineering, the College recognized that a major renovation wasneeded.Early in project planning, the decision was made to use a section size for laboratory of 36students. Based on experience gained in a prototype lab facility

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book; Douglas Ludlow

access or conditional sequential access to a defined set of the LRM library. The professor controls when and how the LRM sets are made available to the student.The second project goal is to integrate the learning system into the department assessment plan.The currently accepted, two-loop pictorial best represents how Criteria 2000 functions within adepartment. The second loop assesses student learning in relation to defined outcomes.Departments then use these assessment results to determine how well they are meeting statedprogram goals and objectives in the primary loop. By linking the objectives of each LRM and itsassociated assessment(s) to an outcome, a major portion of the assessment process becomesautomated. The system should

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

challenge of mechanizing the process of removing the tailmeat fromboiled crawfish has seemingly been undertaken by comparatively few people. This couldbe due in part to the local nature of the crawfish industry. A possible hindrance to thedevelopment of a machine may have been the development of the automated shrimppeeling machine in the 1940’s (which, incidentally fuelled the rapid expansion of theshrimp peeling industry). Many, as evidenced by archival newspaper stories and U.S.patents, have mistakenly believed that the techniques so successfully used to peel shrimpcould be used to peel crawfish. However, this is not the case since the exoskeletons of thetwo species are held to the tailmeat by very different mechanisms. While the

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Carlos Ortiz

= (3) µV where, G: velocity gradient, (sec-1) P: power input to the fluid, (N-m/sec) V: volume of tank, (m3) µ : viscosity of the fluid, (Kg/m-s) Flocculation tests have shown that intense mixing (e.g., high velocity gradients), also knownas rapid mixing (used in coagulation), can greatly reduce the efficiency of the flocculationprocess. These tests have also shown that in addition to velocity gradient, the efficiency of theprocess depends on the overall residence time and the configuration of the tank. These Page 6.375.6conclusions could lead one to believe

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Rob Guardiola; Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Session 1608 Development of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, R. Guardiola, and T. J. Brumm Iowa State University/Iowa State University/ Development Dimensions, International/Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe opening paragraphs of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 state: “To be considered foraccreditation, engineering programs must prepare graduates for the practice of engineering at theprofessional level.” Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment, states, “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that