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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

solved.• Since the computer does the grading, after problems are coded, demand on the instructor’s out-of-class time would decrease.Previous offerings of EGTE 321 used WebCT for posting of course materials and assignmentsand for group discussion features. Though it was possible to use LON-CAPA for these purposes,to ease transition effort, the instructor continued to use WebCT for its posting and discussionfeatures and used LON-CAPA for its homework system features only. The first two-thirds of thecourse were devoted to development of analysis and design skills in hydraulics and hydrologythat would be needed for a team project requiring the detailed design of storm-water

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

theimplementations, especially as experienced by the students, including preliminary data onimmediate student outcomes as documented for Fall 2003. The project is part of a three-yearNational Science Foundation sponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement -Educational Materials Development project with faculty partners from colleges of engineering at " Page 9.460.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIowa, Iowa State, Cornell and Howard universities along

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Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

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Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

answered unless Knovel is accessed for solutions.The proof in the vendor/university relationship’s success is how users access Knovel to answerquestions and solve problems in their everyday coursework and research. Drexel University’sfreshman design project that 800+ burgeoning engineers must complete in their first year is anexample of this. The project pushes students to combine theory, statistics, and materials in onecohesive package. Many times, students have no idea where to begin, and Knovel offers them a“launching pad” to outline ideas and narrow them down as the project develops. For example, in2003 a student chose wood as a material and needed to know about the moisture properties inwood and how this impacts wood construction. Knovel

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

process that projects the need for IT workers to grow to 146,000 by 2008, a 90% in-crease over 1998 figures 1. National figures also predict an increased need for workers in the ITfield. Most studies show that the greatest need is for people who constitute the researchers, crea-tors and designers of the new and advancing technologies. Page 9.1121.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Cycles of layoffs and shortages have been the labor market reality for technical profession-als in recent

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

real-process applications, charts, diagrams,hands-on practices, and demonstrations beside theory, equations, and words.(15,22-26) An effectiveteaching technique should engage students actively, stimulate sense of enquiry, and facilitatecollaborative learning, through, for example, group work.(22-32) In group-work activity, two orthree students can apply a newly learned concept in a short application, such as problem solving,which promotes problem-based learning.(22,25,29,30) Group-design projects, in-class presentations,computer simulations, experiments, would be part of the active learning and deep learning.(28-33)This would enhance the skill of transferring knowledge in higher order within a course or acrosscourses.(15,16) Some current

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

seeking or pursuing academic science andengineering careers. To that end, MentorNet is developing specialized components of its One-on-One Mentoring Program, enabling one-on-one mentoring relationships based on 1) matchinggraduate students and postdoctoral scholars with tenured faculty members as mentors (beginningin fall of 2003), and 2) matching untenured faculty with tenured faculty mentors (beginning infall of 2004). MentorNet will develop a comprehensive approach for this project, withprogrammatic features tailored to the needs of the specific protégé-mentor populations.Since the first matches in this new program were made in September 2003, participatingindividuals have not completed this eight month program, and thus evaluation results are

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

project them into likely futuredirections.IntroductionWas spring 2000 one last season of irrational optimism in the United States? On January14 of that year the Dow Jones Industrials hit a high of 11,722.98. It wouldn’t be untilJune 1 that manufacturing data and a monthly unemployment report showed the firstconcrete signs that the US economy was cooling. Do you remember when the Fedactually raised interest rates? They did on May 16, 2000, when they bumped it up by .5 to6.5%. Back then, 911 was still a US phone number, the Euro had yet to be born, and onMarch 22, Pope John-Paul II, on a visit to Israel, pleads yet again for a homeland forPalestinian refuges.On May 1, 2000, the International Engineering Education Digest (the Digest) was born

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

].In order to address these instructional challenges, a group at the University of Missouri – Rollahas developed a series of multimedia modules, as part of a large scale multi-year project tointroduce media-enhanced active learning into foundational classes in engineering [2-6]. Researchthus far has indicated that these modules can be used to enhance instruction in a number of ways.They can be effective as an adjunct to class in the form of homework [7], or even as a substitute Page 9.237.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

. Automated email notifications inform all involvedpersonnel of changes in participant enrollment or event cancellation.The website was designed on a development-production server setup using MacromediaDreamweaver and ColdFusion technology, accessing a SQLserver database. The database wascreated with scalability in mind for use in upcoming semesters/years. With slight modifications,the website could certainly accommodate disciplines/departments outside of the School ofEngineering.The entire web-based, database accessible project was created from the ground up within threemonths with two full-time designer/programmers. A third programmer was brought in to assistwith the final-stage alterations and enhancements. The main lesson learned from this

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

documented resourcefor those students from other disciplines searching the web for information, as was thecobra module. Because the topics are modularized, the instructors can pick and choosethe ones they want to include in any particular termAcknowledgements The funding of this project is provided by NSF under the grant DUE-0126497.We would like to thank our collaborators Prof. Will Medlin, Siris Laursen, Dr. DucNguyen, Anna Gordon and Michael Breson.References1. Dutton, J., Dutton, M. and Perry, J. Do on-line students perform as well as lecture students. Journal of Engineering Education 90, 131-136 (2001).2. Edwards, C. and Fritz, J. H. Evaluation of three on-line delivery approaches. Paper presented at the 1997 Mid-South

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Godbout; Hisham Alnajjar

combinations; Kirchhoff’s laws;voltage and current dividers; nodal, mesh, and loop analysis; Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems;superposition; and first-order RL and RC circuits. This paper will explain this project and itsusefulness in teaching Introductory Circuits for non-majors. Of course, the animation files arealso extremely useful for the education of Electrical Engineering majors as well.Introduction and DiscussionAs stated earlier, teaching circuit theory to non-electrical students can be very challenging. Agood percentage of these students think that a passing grade is all they need because the subject isoutside their discipline. Many are also “turned-off” to Electrical Circuits because they feel thematerial is too abstract, thus making the

Conference Session

Graduate Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

the university as well as the role in society . As President of Johns Hopkins University,Steven Muller stated that “We are . . . already in an environment for higher education that representsthe most drastic change since the founding of the . . . great universities some eight or nine centuriesago.” He went on to assert that the university will be serving new clientele, delivering instruction innew ways, and reexamining what and how it is taught. Nyquist et al, conducting the Re-envisioningthe Ph. D. Project noted that there were over 30 reports and calls for reform in graduate educationwhich not only echoed earlier reports but emphasized the exact same issues [11]. The issues, whichhave been repeated, were: effective mentoring, economic

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

Page 8.1142.5initially registers for fall courses at NAU, which begin in late August. In mid-October, when the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGerman falls semester starts, she participates via groupware technology, communicating with herdesign team members in Dresden, and submitting her contributions electronically. OverChristmas, she then flies to Dresden to participate in her team project in-person during thecritical second half of the term, when the design effort becomes more focused and intensive. Toavoid missing a critical core class for her NAU degree offered in the spring semester

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

andconscientious engineer and citizen.In specialized courses, students are taught an information base (Maxwell equations, Laplacetransform, etc.) considered useful in solving engineering problems. In addition, students arerequired to solve certain types of problems, become familiar with certain types of examples, taketests, and complete projects in order to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of the field:the methodology usually used by electrical engineers as well as the tools and processesconsidered helpful to students for learning good engineering designs and practices. As is thecase with all engineering programs, the goal of our electrical engineering program is to trainwell-rounded electrical engineers who are competent in their field

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

presents the result of this process, and providespreliminary assessment of how the new curriculum is functioning. Page 8.45.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionIn February 1997, then Dean Richard K. Miller of the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Iowa created and charged the Curriculum Advancement Task Force (CATF)with development of a vision for a new curriculum to complement the new educationalopportunities to be offered by the addition and renovation project. The

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, NorthCarolina State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Charlotte andVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The data from all nine universities havebeen placed in a common format, making it possible to carry out appropriate cross-institutionalstudies. More extensive descriptions of the SUCCEED LDB can be found elsewhere 5,6,7. TheSUCCEED LDB is a unique resource that has been and continues to be studied 3-13.SUCCEED is an ongoing project, and the LDB continues to be updated as data becomesavailable. As of the current study, the LDB contained demographic, entry, term and graduationrecords of all undergraduate students in

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

possibility of experimentation of new alternatives in the information’ssearch and in the problem’s solving. That makes the teacher an unreplaceable element,mainly in the orientation, correction, project/tasks suitability into the ideal level of thestudents background and also into the subject demands, creating the “familiarizationconditions in the ones involved with computers”46.Niquini and Botelho37 say that the teacher is an important part of the environments created Page 7.320.2by the multiple educational technologies, taking a fundamental role into the teaching- Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Washington Braga

interested in promoting changes in Engineering Education. This paper presents some reflections on teaching strategies to promote active teachingthat may result in effective learning. Most of them have been used for some time now in anundergraduate Heat Transfer course at the Mechanical Engineering Department of PUC,Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is essentially an analysis course, that issupposed to give fundamental information on Heat Transfer. A following course calledThermal Systems Projects is oriented towards technical and industrial problems. Thelearning environment to be considered herein is an extended classroom, combiningsynchronous (face-to-face meetings) and asynchronous (using Internet email conferencingsystems

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

project. However, the students had a tendency to blame the instructor for the fact thatthe student was up all night working on an assignment, when in fact the student had skipped lab.The net result was that very few labs were turned in late. Required lab attendance forced thestudents to start work on projects when they were assigned which enabled students to ask forhelp during lab. This helped reduce but not eliminate students working all night to completeassignments just before they were due. The instructor also saw an increase in the number ofstudents coming to instructor’s office for help as the students realized they had problems beforethe due date.6. Weekly writing of assessments and two office visits became required. The assessments were

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

of the charter included development of job-based curriculum andtraining module units, and the dissemination of these materials to instructors ateducational institutions.The development of standards for control systems personnel was a priority goal ofthe charter. The charter also included the goal to develop widespread supportfrom local, national, and international industry. The building of strong bondsbetween education, industry, community, and government was another goal in thecharter, as was the sharing of resources that included materials, projects, staff andfaculty, equipment and facilities, grants, and others. Page 8.571.2

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chong Chen

Drafting/Design (2 courses) Machine Tool Technology Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Statics Strength of Materials Fluid Power Robotics Electrical Circuit Analysis Digital Circuit Fundamentals Electronics Introduction to Microprocessor Programmable Logic Controllers Instrumentation and Controls Industrial Electricity Engineering Economy Senior Project C++ Most of these required technical courses involve both lecture and lab. After taking thesecourses, students obtain both solid knowledge and hand-on experience on the covered topics. Thegraduates of the EMET program are expected to be able to operate, design, and troubleshoot

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

intenseconcentration that was required for the project. Models were developed of Carnot, Otto,Diesel, Brayton and Rankine cycles. The piston cylinder cycles showed a piston moving upand down with simultaneous display of properties, work and heat and the development ofa 1 st law process and cycle table and resulting efficiency. The nuclear power plant simulation displayed the components and response tothrottle, control rod motion, change in flow and a scram. Separately the reactor kineticswere programmed in Basic on an Atari 400 game computer with time responses of inputand output responses traced on a TV screen. The next step was to take the students to the computer room to execute thesimulations. It was discouraging, but then understandable

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

applets in this project. This research was funded by the Whitaker Foundation (PI, Dr. S.S. Demir). Page 8.117.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCES1. Demir, S.S., Butera, R.J, DeFranceschi, A.A, Clark, J.W, and Byrne, J.H. Phase Sensitivity and Entrainment in a Modeled Bursting Neuron. Biophysical Journal 72: 579-594, 1997.2. Demir, S.S., Clark, J.W., Murphey, C.R. and Giles, W.R. A mathematical model of a rabbit sinoatrial node cell. American Journal of Physiology 266: C832

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bertram Pariser

TCI, The College forTechnology. He has published 19 papers and serves as the Faculty Advisor to Tau Alpha PiNational Honor Society. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Electrical Engineering& Plasma Physics, and BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Dr Pariser Co-Founded 5venture companies, and as a management consultant successfully catalyzed over $100million of new shareholder value in client businesses. As Managing Partner of The MITCUCorporation, Dr. Pariser led cross-functional client teams in projects to find and capturevalue-creating profit and growth opportunities.Bpariser@alum.mit.edu Page 8.53.8 “Proceedings of

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Ladesic

Curriculum TechnologyEnhancement Program (CTEP) at Embry Riddle is a University program createdby faculty for faculty who teach engineering and science. CTEP is designed toprovide engineering faculty at both ERAU campuses with incentives andopportunities to advance their skills in the use of professional-grade engineeringsoftware as well as in the use of other contemporary educational technologies. Itis hoped that this project will foster and encourage enthusiasm among theengineering faculty for the implementation of technology within the courses theyteach. It should also help them identify opportunities within the curriculum for theapplication of modern engineering technologies that could enrich course delivery,enhance student-developed design

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Gilbert; Cynthia Finley

experience in the fourth year. An effort was made each week to help thestudents relate what they were doing in the laboratory to what they were doing in the lectures andhomework assignments. The second possibility is the change in the laboratory exercises utilizingthe SimSite program. In the third year, the SimSite exercises were completed as part of anongoing project, with a project report due at the end of the semester. Many students complainedthat the project was too spread out, though, and the teaching assistant observed that nearly all ofTable 2. Sample of student responses to the question, “Did the lab exercises help you understandthe course material better?”*Third Year of Laboratory • “Yes – I learned a lot from both listening to my

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Arlene Mueller; Elaine M. Cooney

students arecomfortable with visual logic problems and verbal logic problems, they are ready to play withand thereby learn about electronic logic.The challenge is to make this technology accessible both conceptually and physically toelementary students. The children are introduced to the concepts of combinational logic usingvisual and verbal logic. The hardware is made available by using a circuit board designed forthis project.Purpose and ObjectivesThe purpose of this project is to teach second and third grade children simple electrical circuitryand how it is related to digital logic circuits. With this knowledge, the children can developprojects such as interactive bulletin boards and simple robots. There are three main objectives:1. Provoke

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick C. Gee

the experience of working ingroups and working on an engineering and technology project that had design, testing andpresentation.VI. ConclusionMEAP enhances the recruitment and retention of minority students at the Purdue School ofEngineering and Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue-University at Indianapolis(IUPUI) by exposing them to engineering and technology related activities in the various formsdetailed in this paper. The School of Engineering and Technology has a primary goal offulfilling its mission to expose students on a pre-college level to higher education, technicalfields and areas of engineering and technology through the MEAP program.PATRICK GEEPatrick Gee is a Visiting Professor for the Mechanical Engineering

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

Session 1430 Next Generation Principles for Enhancing Student Learning Sudhir Mehta, Scott Danielson North Dakota State University / Arizona State University EastAbstractThe National Science Foundation recently funded the proposal "Statics: The next generation."This project incorporates proven pedagogical findings to improve teaching of statics,specifically, and engineering courses in general. Using past and current research, twelve "NextGeneration (NG) Principles" are proposed for enhancing student learning. These principlesinclude incorporating active cooperative learning, service learning

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

included the following three components: Ä Lecture and discussion - The purpose was to reinforce concepts in mathematics and science, and to lay the groundwork for laboratory and design activities planned for that day. Typically, the lecture and discussion would last less than one hour. Ä Laboratory work - A number of simple and inexpensive home-built devices and toys were provided to teachers to illustrate science and mathematics principles and to provide teachers with a set of useful teaching tools for use in their classrooms. Page 5.557.2 Ä Design - It was a project-based learning experience in which