Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ward; Robert Martinazzi

engineer. Interests include engineering economics,management and leadership development. Worked as project engineer for Armstrong World Industries,does engineering management and leadership consulting work and presents seminars on effectiveness andleadership at both the individual and corporate levels. Colonel (Ret) in United States Marine CorpsReserves.DAVID WARDDave Ward is currently an Associate Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Hereceived his PhD in Anglo-Irish Studies from the University of Tulsa in 1970. Page 9.1187.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Johnson; John Weese

master’s level programs include thosefor the baccalaureate level programs with the addition of one year of study beyond thebaccalaureate level plus a project or research activity culminating in a report demonstratingmastery of the subject at a higher level and with commensurate communication skills. TheCriteria 2001 for associate degree programs restate the eight criteria, reflecting lesserexpectations than for the baccalaureate level programs.Some of the criteria are quite similar to those for EC 2000 and ET2K. For example, Criterion 3for the ASAC baccalaureate programs has items (a) through (k) that are similar to those in EC2000 with the word engineering being replaced with engineering-related.Criterion 4, Professional Component, is less

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wise

employees) may be perilously close to a final judgment about your manuscript after reading the executive summary. Through the CPR process, you will learn how to write a good executive summary of the project you complete in the ChE407 Unit Operations Lab.The assignment was implemented three times during the semester. This is unusual, as most CPRassignments are taken only once. It is possible that repeating the same assignment affected theresults of this study and this should be kept in mind.ResultsStudents were resistant at the beginning of the semester, but appeared to learn using the system.Initial resistance to CPR has been reported by other researchers and should be expected.5,6Furman and Robinson7, in fact, report

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Wunderlich

NO 55 53 5555 555 common electiveEGR 410 • Control Systems 3/3 YESCS/EGR 421 • Compiler Design 4/4 NO common electiveCS/EGR 422 • Operating Systems 4/4 YESCS/EGR 433 • Advanced Computer Engineering 4/6 YES 55 54 5442 455EGR 491 • Senior Project 4/x YES 55 51 5453 555* Scores only shown for courses taught by author 3) Will it be clear to ABET exactly how the program is administered so they can send the appropriate accreditors? For example, a Computer Engineering program jointly administered by both Computer Science and Physics &

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Chin; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringat Rowan University to configure a novel method of teaching the junior level Communications(COMM), Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) coursesunder a common laboratory framework. These three courses are taken concurrently during thespring semester of the junior year. The described interdisciplinary experiments cut acrossindividual course boundaries and integrate hands-on experience and software simulation.Software is integrated with the experiments through MATLAB and SIMULINK, C/C++ andMentor Graphics.Introduction This project is an effort by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University to configure a novel method of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Kasra; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

coordinationto a lead faculty member. Often, this assignment is not viewed as career-enhancing and thusappointment is often made by the department head sometimes on a semi-voluntary basis. In anycase, in order to be effective as an overall ABET review coordinator, the selected individualmust be willing to devote a substantial portion of his or her time for several months and must bea "detail person" who can give attention to the many facets of the preparation process. Thecoordinator must also be thoroughly knowledgeable of ABET 2000 requirements in order toguide the activities of other program faculty. Additionally, the coordinator should anticipatemotivating and encouraging the other faculty members to keep the project on schedule. In ourcase, the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

learning” pedagogy in the upper-level chemicalengineering curriculum. Page 8.704.3The NSF-CCLI implementation project has found that the co-op students can learn thefundamental principles more effectively than the non-co-op students. This could be adifference between the learning pedagogies of science and engineering education. In otherwords, the engineering students see the advantages of learning fundamental principles tosolve problems.The other advantage of CAMS is to prepare the students for the chemical engineeringsophomore (Process Analysis), junior (Thermodynamics, Momentum Transfer, HeatTransfer, and Kinetics) and senior (Mass Transfer, Plant Design

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman

of Art.He previously served as the Multimedia Specialist for research and development at Federal Express corporateheadquarters. His specialty is teaching interactive multimedia, 3D and supporting corporate and industrialdevelopment projects. Page 9.259.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Educational Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Sener

and deliver a credible testing procedure and anassessment of their work satisfactorily.Students, working in teams, demonstrated that the author's doubts were not warranted. Studentsemphasized the importance of a collaborative teamwork for the success of their speciallaboratory testing design project. They have proved that the ABET 2000 Criteria (specificallyCriterion 3-(b)) for program outcomes and assessments are appropriate and deliverable. Studentswere able to design and conduct their own integrated laboratory experiments, develop newtesting apparatus and methods, make necessary modifications and revisions as required, andcritically analyze and correlate data with interpretation of test results.Students were given an opportunity to bring

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Brelin-Fornari; Betsy Homsher; Laura Sullivan

to the learning process. In some areas,students present project posters at the end of the two-week period. Overall, the studentsparticipate in an interactive curriculum that shows them firsthand how they can applybioengineering to societal concerns.Benefits to the high school students are both perceived and measured. The students have achance to interact with female professors who are balancing family and work, therefore showingfirst hand that women can achieve professional and personal aspirations. The undergraduateswho serve as LITE mentors demonstrate collegiate success. Both faculty and coeds are positiverole models for the high school women. A post-program assessment of the LITE participantsindicates that after attending the two-week

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mulchand Rathod

feeling that since a number of their alumni peers resided in metropolitan NY/NJ area, it should be easier to bring them together in that region. The group did not want to wait a long time, since people’s enthusiasm could go down with time to do such a program. As a result, the 2003 Labor day weekend was selected. To allow for travel time, Sunday, 8/31/03 was selected as the convention day. Based on models of many professional societies and events, the group was organized into several committees (Venue, Host, Registration, Program, Publication, Funding/Fund Raising, Meals, Presentations/Sessions, Entertainment, Volunteers). The teams reviewed a number of university alumni programs, projects, and activities 3-12 and depending on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Gu

learners. Students get to know their classmates and instructors, and the instructors get to knowthe students and this will build a sense of class climate that centers on the academic side of the school.It is predicted that outcome of the active teaching and learning are but not limited to the following: a) Tend to get high score and complete better project b) Tend to have good friendship with the instructor and among the classmates c) Greater psychological health, social competence3. Active Teaching and Learning TechnologyA) Active teaching strategies: motivating the studentsWhat can instructors do to increase the motivation of the students to learn? Survey shows that there are eightcharacteristics of the class in

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

Engineering Education Table 1: Numerical SummaryCore Courses in the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Program Course InstructorSemester Number Credits Title Evaluation(s) Evaluation(s)Summer (1) IIME 400 3 Professional Development 3.8 3.8Summer (1) IIME 405 3 Project Management 3.8, 4.1 4.0, 4.4Summer (1) IIME 410 3 Accounting, Finance and Engineering Economics* 2.4, 4.5 2.2, 4.8Summer (1) IIME 415

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

through the stations until Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationeach group has worked at each station. At each station the team is directed to read andanswer a series of questions. The first station consists of a series of papers, packagingindustry publications, and technology information data sheets. The team is directed toscan through the printed material and gain some sense of the kinds of materials issuesthat are important to electronic packaging. They are also expected to develop a sense ofthe technical background necessary to work on packaging projects or research. A list ofinternet-based references

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

and search for relevant information. A knowledgeable coach provides assistance atvarious times to guide learners through the process. These ideas have been extended from theseprofessional schools to middle school classrooms using anchored instruction1, case-basedreasoning, and project-based learning7. The complexity of these challenges, combined with thenovice learners, makes it difficult to mediate students' learning to ensure everyone in the class islearning. These situated approaches to learning attempt to engage students in meaningfulresearch for important information in pursuit of helping them construct their own knowledge.Computer technology provides an additional mechanism to help teachers with the instructionalprocess necessary to

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

thehandheld. Infrared file transfer from one device to another can be very useful for students inteam projects and between faculty and students. The wireless environment made possible with this device provides efficient and accurateinteraction with course material and data free from transcribing errors. The pocket PC also hasthe capability of loading scientific calculator software that saves students the expense ofpurchasing a separate scientific calculator. Students are able to use the handheld PC as a personalproductivity tool. They also are able to take advantage of the UMD’s expanding wirelessnetwork, to access the Internet and their email throughout the day, without having to go into acomputer lab. Many class-related documents (lecture notes

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn order to increase diversity in graduate education, we must better understand how the factorslisted above, and others, affect today's graduate student population. Thus there is a need forcontinuing research projects, with a broad enough scope and over a long enough period of time,along the lines of the studies reported in 8 and 13. Many questions about the efficacy of today'sgraduate education, in terms of attracting and retaining our best students, need to be answered.b. Increased Information:In addition to more comprehensive research in general, it would be very useful to have a national"clearinghouse" for reporting on the efficacy of support programs for graduate students

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Wise; Nicholas Scambilis

, American Society of Engineering Education”there are no excuses for spelling errors. The instructor can verify when homework was turned inand control whether late homework is accepted. Grading is conducted on-line and grades areaccessible to the students at the discretion of the instructor. In WebCT, grades are automaticallyrecorded and managed within a database. “Private Mail” enables students to access instructors regarding course materials. It is an email function located within the shell of the course and is accessible only by the respective student and instructor. “Class Discussion Forum” enables the students to communicate with each other, to form groups, or to jointly work on projects

Conference Session

Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Efrat Strassberg; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

University of Toronto in the Department of Chemical Engineering and AppliedChemistry in 1982. He has spent the last five years instituting a complete web-based distancelearning program at the MS and PhD level.Efrat Strassberg is a project manager and web designer. Over the past years Ms. Strassberg hadworked on web development in the business and academic sectors. Current work involvesusability planning, animations and online education development at the University of Texas atAustin. Ms. Strassberg was a teaching assistant and instructor for Internet, Computers,Multimedia and Business courses at Tel-Aviv University and The College of management. Shecombines her academic experience and software development knowledge to create interactivesolutions for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

theuniversity research and industrial sponsor’s work. These lesson plans are placed on a web site fordissemination. The interns have visited the industrial sponsor to learn about their business anddone final project presentations for them.This program has a history of success in attracting women students into engineering and sciencemajors. It also hopes to have a larger impact in the long term as the 5th – 8th grade audiencetargeted for the lesson plans becomes of college age and chooses science, technology,engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers in (hopefully) larger numbers than before.Introduction and History:Female, high school summer research interns at Iowa State University work with engineeringindustries and Iowa State research groups to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Kelly; Martha Absher; Gary Ybarra

the 2001-02 school year MUSCLE placed 12 undergraduate Engineering Teaching Fellowsfrom the Pratt School of Engineering in Lakewood Elementary School and Rogers Herr MiddleSchool. These schools were selected as partnership schools since one of the goals of this projectwas to have a specific focus on fostering an interest in math for underrepresented minoritystudents and each school has a predominantly African-American population. The majority ofteaching fellows were also African-American. Fellows assisted teachers in developing andcarrying out hands-on learning projects that integrated math into all areas of the curriculum butwith a particular emphasis on life sciences. The fellows taught in ways that were fun andexciting to the students and

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

program, students may take graduate level courses astechnical electives and count up to 15 credit hours toward both the bachelors degree and themasters degree. The student’s undergraduate program must, of course, approve the graduatelevel courses as technical electives. A student in the BS/MS program can complete as many as 15of the 45 quarter credit hours required for an MS by the time she or he receives a B.S. degree.As a result, the student requires just one year beyond the B.S. to finish a masters degree,including writing a thesis.Students in the BS/MS program may also receive 25% appointments as Graduate ResearchAssociates. Thus, they can begin work on research projects in their senior years.The Nuclear Engineering Program at Ohio State has

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

test, and make other instructors aware of the problemset. We are unclear as to the reason for the overall decline in scores from 2001.Tool # 2 Analysis of Plant Design reportsThis analysis involves “plant design reports and the AIChE senior design project. Faculty notinvolved in teaching plant design will review these for fundamental knowledge, innovation,research, and problem-solving skills1.”One of the department’s assessment efforts is to determine whether we are achieving ABEToutcome (g), the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. To address thisoutcome, a three-credit communication-specific course (CM 3410, Technical Communication forChemical Engineers) was maintained in the curriculum. As an assessment measure

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edwin Rezaei; Sri Kolla

AnnualConference, session # 3659, 1998.[14] Edwin Rézaei, Application of LabVIEW for Internet Based Instrumentation and Process Control, Master ofIndustrial Technology degree project, Bowling Green State University, August 2002.Biographical InformationEdwin Rézaei completed his Master of Industrial Technology degree at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, inAugust 2002. He also received his B.S. in Electronics and Computer Technology at Bowling Green StateUniversity, Ohio, in May 1999. His academic interests are in the area of control systems, computer networking, andcommunication systems. He is a member of ISA.Sri Kolla is a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Technology Program at the Bowling Green StateUniversity, Ohio, since 1993. He worked as

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

capital budget issues; however, others, likeincluding other program language standards, would only require a change in the course orlaboratory syllabus.References1. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.2. Modicon FactoryLink ECS, Square D Company, Chicago, IL, 1996.3. Step-by-step Guide to Project Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4. Bateson, R.N., Introduction to Control System Technology, Prentice Hall,1999 BIOGRAPHYJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received a B. S. and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from St. LouisUniversity and has completed additional graduate work at the University of South Carolina and ClemsonUniversity. Since

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Institutional Research ProfessionalsHighest Student artifacts -- those Standardized examinations, assessment strategies developed or Professionally reporting guidelines, and administered and interpreted by the self reported or information from departmental faculty (portfolios or employer evaluations -- (licensure exhibits, papers, projects) exam results, transcripts according to regional, national, or professional criteria, evaluations of co-op students or alumni)Middle Standardized examinations -- such

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

academic advisingresponsibilities, outreach programs and consulting can be classified. In teaching, the number ofcourses, labs, independent studies, supervised students’ projects, teaching evaluations by students,fellow faculty, alumni, and department head, developing new courses, etc. can be used. So, it isimportant to communicate effectively what the department goals, objectives and vision of thedepartment are and what is expected from the faculty going for tenure or promotion. This shouldbe consistent at all levels. Therefore, the tenure process will foster a positive growth and result. Ifthe department head isn’t committed to the goals, no one else will be. It is also very vital for adepartment to be fair in this process. Some faculty can get

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen

local area networking can be taught using Linux with Samba asMicrosoft at a fraction of the cost.SambaSamba is an Open Source Software (OSS) project first developed by Andrew Tridgell in 1991 atthe Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. It is designed as a suite of programswhich work together to allow workstations to access a server's filespace and printers via the SMB(Server Message Block) protocol. Initially written for UNIX, Samba runs on a variety of othernetwork operating systems (NOS).Samba, which comes packaged with most brands of the Linux Operating System (OS), is opensource code just like Linux. The source code for both, written in C, is always available todownload, test and change. There is no cost for these products

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christie

saving time, consistency ofaccess, inspired students, and family involvement. If you have tried to call a high school andreach the principal or faculty members, you are aware of how hard it is to develop a line ofcommunication. High schools often times just do not have the infrastructure to support extraphone calls, or community outreach partnerships. Many times you will have to call a teacher athome in the evenings to discuss a project or program.All of the academic enrichment programs I have worked with have staff members that answerthe phone. The organizations are easily accessible to anyone in an engineering departmentbecause they can be located in the phone book or on the web. One is able to work directly withthe organization’s president or

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

measure quantities such as the speed of sound in a wire.Acknowledgment The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge financial, equipment and computing supportfor this project from the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, the NASA Centerfor Aerospace Research and the NASA PAIR program at NC A&T State University. This workwas initially presented orally at the NEW: Update 2002 National Educators Workshop.BiographiesDEVDAS M. PAI is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He received hisM.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He teaches manufacturing processes and machine design. Aregistered Professional Engineer in North Carolina, he serves on the Professional Licensure Committees