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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph H. Nevin; John L. Bellando

suited to multimedia development due to the level ofinteraction necessary for their operation, allowing users to interact with the tutorial as they wouldthe real instrument. Because oscilloscopes—used for displaying and measuring waveforms--arewidely used in many fields, the goal of this project is to provide a stimulating, interactivelearning environment where users could simultaneously gain and review their knowledge of thefunctions of an oscilloscope. This paper discusses the motivation for as well as theimplementation of an oscilloscope training and learning software package, written withMacromedia’s Authorware and built around the HP 54600 series of digital storage oscilloscopes.I. IntroductionIn the information age where computers are

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa L. Hein

exposed to all aspects involved in the preparation of aformal paper for publication. These aspects included:1) Responding to a call for papers through the submission of an abstract;2) Receiving notification of the acceptance of their abstracts;3) Conducting the necessary research;4) Preparing and submitting a formal paper for review, following strict formatting guidelines;5) Receiving feedback from reviewers regarding their written paper; and6) Revising their papers for inclusion in the conference proceedings.With the call for papers came the beginning of a semester-long writing project for the students.Students were informed that the only difference between submitting an abstract for The NewMillennium Conference and an

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Wieslaw M. Szydlowski

drawings conceived by the students of devices which ended-up notmoving. One can find in this collection ideas for three dimensional mechanisms of folded wheelchairs, car jacks, hoists, powered car seats for handicapped drivers, etc. In each case, studentswere certain that the device was correct. One can only imagine the amount of frustration andmaterial loses if these projects were to be built. Simply, a three-dimensional imagination of thestudents at this level does not work. The loop method provides an easy solution. The results ofthe analysis also gives an insight into how sensitive the device is to geometric errors. The largerthe number of redundant constraints, the more problems the device with cause.The author of this paper taught the loop

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Munir Mandviwalla; Chang Liu; Azim Danesh

completely omitted because distance education applied equally to both groupsand individuals. The definition of Vnduin and Clark will be used for purposes of this paper.The California Distance Learning Project in 1997 reviewed some of the research on successfulstudents in distance education programs and found that the students were typically voluntarilyseeking further education, are motivated and are more disciplined, tend to be older than theaverage student, and tend to possess a more serious attitude toward their courses (Palloff & Pratt,1999). Nipper (1989) describes these successful learners as “noisy learners”, that is one who isactive and creative in the learning process. According to Star Roxanne Hiltz (1993) participationin on-line

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

Whether the arithmetic mean values of the scores for the quadrants of the HBDI differ between first year engineering students on a Professional Orientation support course and first year science students on a support course.This part of the study involved 101 students. Of these students, 33 were on the engineeringProfessional Orientation support course, 30 were first year civil engineering students on the FourYear Program and 38 were first year science students on a support course. The data pertaining toHBDI of the latter group was determined during a research project in the Faculty of Scienceduring 1999. [10]The HBDI is an assessment tool comprising a survey of 120 questions that quantifies relativepreference for thinking modes

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Promod Vohra

) .For all but the largest engineering programs, the prohibitively high numbers of surveyrespondents needed to characterize small differences of means as statistically significant is ameaningful analytical constraint. If the population standard deviations are lower than those usedin the tables, of course, smaller differences of means will be detectable at the same level ofconfidence using the same minimum cell sizes. However, highly favorable conditions are notones that should be counted on whenever student assessment survey projects are in the planningphase because the population standard deviations associated with any survey instrument areimpossible to predict a priori and will vary, sometimes greatly, by question. Moreover, lowerthan expected

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

student enrollment and retention are even more important when there is a projected decline in male high school students. Also the ‘chilly campus climate’ has identified the behavior that causes women to lose confidence, lower their academic goals and limit their career choices. The studies conducted in the US and Canada found similarities. The minority students are also considered as a vital source of graduates needed for engineering workforce. All the Universities and colleges should provide a sincere push to retain the minority students who have decided to pursue an engineering and technology education. It will enhance diversity in the work place as well as competitiveness in an increasingly

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

forproviding the students with access to computers. In addition to the above, the Department alsopossesses another 9 UNIX workstations and 8 Pentium computers, for use by the engineeringstudents.In addition to the above, the Department also possesses a machine-shop, equipped with a millingmachine, two drill presses and a precision drilling machine, a lathe, a grinding machine, andseveral other machine tools, power tools, and hand-tools. This workshop primarily serves as thearea where the students can get parts made for their student projects. The department alsoprovides another area with hand-tools to serve as an assembly/fabrication area for the designprojects.Finally, the distance-learning class rooms at FSU comprise interactive television equipment

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Schreiner

design process · Reduce & present data in an engineering manner · Work on a design team · Communicate technical information effectively · Articulate concepts of professional ethics and the social responsibility of engineersAlong the way to achieving these objectives, students learned key computer skills and improvedtheir two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualization skills by studying solid modeling andtraditional engineering graphics techniques (by hand).This course required two major design projects and emphasized hands-on, problem-basedlearning. In a shift from traditional classroom lectures, instructors delivered short lectures andsupervised hands-on activities in two

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Cangar; S. Engin Kilic; Ömer Anlagan; Burak Sari

, Manchester.Recent Research Experience Dates Institution Subject 1999-2000 METU Research Fund Project Installation of a Pneumatic Linear Positioning Device at METUCIM 1998-2000 Turkish State Planning Organization Development of a shop floor control system using (DPT) CORBA for Agile Manufacturing 1998-1999 TEI, Turkish Engines Industry Distributed Numerical Control of CNC Machine Tools 1996- 1998 University of Miskolc (Hungary), Design, Development and Implementation of an METU (Turkey

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

brieflydescribe the larger project, which will study a variety of approaches to improving the success offreshman engineering students, and specifically report on the catalog and meta-analysis ofsummer bridge programs. The catalog will classify programs by their design options and themeta-analysis will review highlights of assessment results drawing generalizations wherepossible.IntroductionAcross the country, there is an extensive base of experience in the design and implementation ofprograms intended to improve the success of first-year engineering students. Significantresources have been spent to identify best practices in the education of first-year students (ingeneral), including entire organizations and conferences. 1 It is safe to say that every

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

. Higher education institutions are also workingwith intergenerational learning. One such example is the Intergenerational ServiceLearning Project at the Southeastern Oklahoma State University, which received a mini-grant to convert an existing Psychology of Aging course into an intergenerational service-learning course. Ten senior citizens receive scholarships and enroll in the course with theprimary stated objective being “that by interacting and working together for an entiresemester, both younger and older students will develop a more realistic view of eachother and create a more positive intergenerational environment in our community.” 1Another example of intergenerational learning in higher education is the Institute of1 http

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Adolphson; Rujin Cheng; Kurt Gramoll

teach engineering students about computer aided engineering design andanalysis tools, which was developed at the University of Oklahoma. This asynchronous learningenvironment is a branch-site of a three-year project began in January 2000, which is named“Electronic Media Education for Teachers” or EMET. EMET is supported by a grant from theHitachi Foundation, and is a joint collaboration between the College of Engineering and theCollege of Education at the University of Oklahoma.EMET, as its name denotes, was built to facilitate teaching educators how to use multimediaelements and multimedia development tools to create interactive content for use in their courses.The EMET multimedia site is based, in part, on the successful multimedia course for

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

within the context of two carefullycrafted IT concentration areas. The BS IT program will fill a niche that hasresulted from the rapidly expanding body of knowledge that lies between existingdisciplines such as CS and DMIS.IV.1. BS IT CurriculumThe BS IT curriculum reflects the latest advances in the IT field, includinginterdisciplinary and global approaches where appropriate. An acceptable level ofcompetency in IT can be achieved within the constraints of the 120 semestercredit hours of class work and projects. This number of credits meets GeorgeMason University requirements as well as the existing Commonwealth of Virginiaguidelines for undergraduate degrees. Table 1 below provides the semester-by-semester curriculum for the BS IT major

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Hromin; Sven Esche

demonstrations of laboratory experiments into their lectures,• the strain on laboratory class schedules is alleviated significantly, and• budgetary constraints are overcome.As it was rightfully pointed out by the reviewers of the original NSF proposal leading to partialfunding of this activity by the NSF-ILI program as well as by other individuals involved in theplanning and implementation of this project, this laboratory approach does not only offer importantbenefits but also exhibits some drawbacks. The significant investment in the up-front developmenteffort and time required is one of the main disadvantages compared with traditional laboratorysetups. In contrast to the original plans for developing a laboratory to be accessed exclusively in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Morton; Donald Smith

inserted betweenthe flow resistance element and the oval-gear flowmeter to isolate the pulsation generated by theflowmeter from the flow resistance element. Two views of the student-assembled configurationutilizing the round edge orifice are shown in Figure 3.Figure 3 The CALI Experimental ApparatusOne station of laboratory apparatus was constructed at a cost of about $3,000. The rack mountcomputer and the DAQ card added approximately $3,500, although the computer is generalpurpose and is already being used for a variety of other experiments and projects. The facilitiesneeded to conduct the experiment are one standard laboratory sink with 12-15 square feet ofcounter space and the same floor space, approximately 125 square feet, as is needed for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Patrick E. Devens

1.0 1.3 1.7 2.0 2.3 2.7 3.0 3.3 3.7 4.0 EF1015 Grade Figure 14. Spring '98 Female Freshman-Engineering Student Performance.Figure 14 displays the female group data in conjunction with comparison best fit lines.The display shows no noticeable change in projections. The data is very similar to Figure10, Fall ‘97s data, but there is a decrease in student percentages between the 0.7 to 1.3range. The percentage of “F”s increased from 14% to 18%. '98 Afro Amer (Spr EF1015

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fadali; Michael Robinson

. The end of chapter review also has a section on “AlternativeAssessment” that includes Performance Assessment and Portfolio Projects. There are manyproblems at the end each chapter and they include everyday phenomena such as sports, cars,planes, snowmobiles, spacecraft, sleds, etc. The questions at the end of each chapter also have asection on Conceptual Questions. These require some analysis and the application of a physicsprinciple to solving a problem in an everyday event. For example, “Suppose the waste heat at apower plant is exhausted to a pond of water. Could the efficiency of the plant be increased byrefrigerating the water in the pond?” In general, the lab investigations are rather traditional inthat the students are not able to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

W Meador; Carlos Morales

it to 3D animation software via custom scripts and thenapplying it to 3D geometry. The purpose of the project is to use the realism andefficiencies that motion capture provides, but without the high cost of traditional motioncapture equipment. Though this system may not always provide the resolution orpossibility for real time applications that traditional motion capture can, it does allowusers to apply real-world motion to virtual objects in an efficient manner.I. IntroductionWhile motion-capture techniques have been accepted by larger production companies asa cost-effective means of achieving extremely realistic movements, the technology hasnot gained industry wide acceptance among smaller cost-conscience firms due to the highentry-level

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

day to calculus instruction. The need for calculus is reinforced asthey spend the rest of the day working with engineers who are using these math skills to solveproblems that create better products.Another company that has developed a successful program for recruiting more minorities isUnited Technologies Corporation. UTC encourages engineers to mentor local high schoolstudents. The mentors work with students on various research projects. They provide theleadership, direction, and guidance necessary to foster a successful research project. Many ofthese volunteer mentors are alumni of the local high school. They state that their motivationfor involvement is to create a future workforce that reflects the diversity that they would like tosee

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay Wilding; Claudia Grossman; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

president to call for such a comprehensive nationalstrategy, and the effects are already taking shape.In a meeting for Title VI project directors on May 5, 2001, Congressman Lee Hamilton fromIndiana summarized the importance of international education under five majors categories:globalization, prosperity, diversity, security, and international cooperation. "Americans will needto be well-informed about the world, fluent in other languages, and proficient in a wide range offields." Ranging from competitiveness in the global marketplace to being the "most powerfulforeign policy tool,” international education is taking on an unparalleled level of significance andresponsibility.Yet in reality, we still have a long way to go to achieve such a noble goal

Conference Session

A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald C. Rosenberg, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

)  Spaceship Earth (4 minutes, 4 team members)  Think Globally (4 minutes, 4 team members)  International Trade (8 minutes, 4 team members)  Letter-to-the-Editor (free topic, solo, letter submitted externally)  International Business (8 minutes, 4 team members)  Energy (3 minute elevator talk, solo, to Michigan Senator (actor))  Water (3 minute elevator talk, solo, to US Senator (actor))  The Internet (8 minutes, 4 team members, plus formal Q&A section)  Water Scarcity (8 minutes, 4 team members, plus formal Q&A section)  Final Project Proposal (6 minutes, 4 team members, Q&A section) Page 22.763.4  Final

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Kelly A. Rusch P.E., Louisiana State University; Del H. Dugas, ExxonMobil

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

ExxonMobil Diversity in Engineering Scholarship Program was developed as an effort byExxonMobil Corporation to assist LSU in attracting talented minority students (both Louisianaresidents and non-residents) to complete Bachelor of Science degrees in Engineering. In 2003,ExxonMobil Corporation contributed $250,000 over five years to establish a scholarship fund atLSU (Phase 1), and this partnership was renewed in 2009 with a second, five-year phase of$250,000 (Phase 2).Project Goals and ObjectivesThe initial goals of the program for each phase were to: recruit (Phase 1 only) and retainminorities, fund ten scholars for four years each, develop a mentoring program with ExxonMobilCorporation employees, and increase the participant graduation rate. It

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

vahid salehi pour mehr, Florida International University; Ali Mazloomzadeh, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University; Juan Francisco Fernandez, Florida International University; Javier Parra

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

affordable solutions for the Smart Grid  Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and means of lowering carbon footprint of the Smart grid solutionsMany countries have been trying to develop the Smart Grid technologies by performing someprojects as test-beds with different points of view. The United States has some projects such asGridWise, GridWorks [8] and is trying to expand their results focusing on improving theefficiency of its old transmission and distribution networks. The European Union has SmartGridsprojects [9], while focusing mainly on stably adopting renewable energy resources. Canada isrunning Integration of Decentralized Energy Resources Program [10], and in Korea, a projectcalled K-Grid has been launched to design a highly

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-565: UNDERGRADUATE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS THATACHIEVE DESIRED LEARNING OUTCOMESFiras Akasheh, Tuskegee University Dr. Akasheh is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tuskegee University. He joined in 2008.Denny C. Davis, Washington State University Dr. Davis is Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at Washington State University. He has led numerous multidisciplinary research projects to enhance engi- neering education. He currently leads projects creating and testing assessments and curriculum materials for engineering design and professional skills, especially for use in capstone engineering design courses. He has been a Fellow

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

focused problem, question, or topic appropriate for the purpose of the task 2. Identify relevant knowledge and credible sources 3. Synthesize information and multiple viewpoints related to the problem, question, or topic 4. Apply appropriate research methods or theoretical framework to the problem, question, or topic 5. Formulate conclusions that are logically tied to inquiry findings and consider applications, limitations, and implications, and 6. Reflect on or evaluate what was learned.Toward improving these outcomes through LtW, ODU implemented two faculty initiatives: (1)Faculty Workshops designed to teach faculty the techniques identified as the best practices toteach and assess writing, and (2) Action Projects designed

Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Penny M. Knoll, Montana State University; Ann Saterbak, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

has served or is serving on several national committees, currently the Board of Governors for the American Institute of Constructors (AIC), the Associated Schools of Construction Region 6 Director from 2006 to 2009, and the Educational Chair for the State Chapter of the National Association of Home Builders from 2003 to 2006. Knoll’s collaboration with the local and state chapters of AGC and NAHB are key to her program’s success. She coordinators the career internship program for the Department of Civil Engineering each summer. Knoll’s teaching interest lie in the area of construction project management; safety and overall leadership skills required for students to be successful in their careers.Dr. Ann Saterbak, Rice

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; David F. Vreeland, University of Oklahoma; Christopher Robert Griffin, University of Oklahoma; Mark B. Yeary P.E., University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

techniques. The primary focus of his studies at OU has been in power systems, and he will be joining the ExxonMobil Corporation in Baton Rouge, La., upon graduation.Dr. Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma Mark B. Yeary received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively. Following his graduation in 1999, he was a member of the DSP group and a lecturer with the Depart- ment of Electrical Engineering, TAMU, where he continued to lead a variety of industrially sponsored projects. Since Fall 2002, he has been with the University of Oklahoma (OU)’s School of Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Whitston, University of South Alabama; Adam Thomas Moore, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

processing.A parser is used to process string input into a form that will be evaluated by a program which forthis project could be an array containing the tokens of interest4. The initial application for the useof a parser to this problem would be to define a grammar, which is a description of a language,that would match the Boolean theorems and replace them with the simplified input. The parsingapproach was attractive because grammars can be recursively defined, which would solve theproblem posed by a regular expression-based solution. This is an unusual use of a parser, since itis generally not the purpose of the parser to manipulate the data, but rather to put it into a formfor manipulation by some other part of the program4

Conference Session

The Transition from Secondary to College Mathematics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen M. Doerr, Syracuse University; Andria Costello Staniec, Syracuse University; AnnMarie H. O'Neil, C.S. Driver Middle School

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Page 25.410.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Designing for Improved Success in First Year MathematicsIn responding to the need to improve retention in the first year of engineering, many institutionshave developed a range of academic support programs, including learning communities, peermentoring, summer bridge programs, tutoring and supplemental instructional workshops.1,2,3,4,5Other institutional efforts are aimed at curricular changes involving new approaches to teachingand learning, such as student-centered pedagogies and design projects in first-year engineeringcourses.6,7 However, students’ difficulties with first year mathematics courses remain awidespread and consistent barrier