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Timothy McLaren

Session 2663 A Microelectronics Fabrication and Packaging Learning Laboratory for Manufacturing Engineers Timothy S. McLaren Washington State University - VancouverAbstractWashington State University (WSU) has recently established a Manufacturing Engineeringprogram at its Vancouver campus. Included in a new laboratory building is a microelectronicslearning laboratory specifically for teaching this application of manufacturing engineering.Vancouver is located within the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region, sometimes referred to asthe “Silicon Forest” due to

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Edward Hensel

Session 2525 A Multi-faceted Design Process for Multi-disciplinary Capstone Design Projects Edward Hensel New Mexico State UniversityEngineers are called upon to design a wide variety of devices and systems, typically in a multi-disciplinary team environment. We try to incorporate this design environment into the seniorcapstone design experience in mechanical engineering at NMSU. In this two-semester sequence,each design team is led by a student manager, often a graduate student from another engineeringdepartment. Since these student

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Eugene Ressler; Steven Schweitzer; Stephen Ressler

Session 2215 A Nationwide Internet-Based Engineering Design Contest for K-12 Outreach Stephen J. Ressler, Eugene K. Ressler, Steven Schweitzer United States Military AcademyPurposeThis paper describes the development and ongoing implementation of the West PointBicentennial Engineering Design Contest—a nationwide competition for K-12 students, to beconducted during Academic Year 2001-2002. The concept for the contest is unique, in thatstudents will register, enter, have their entries judged, and receive performance feedback entirelyvia the Internet. In this paper we

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John Steele

Session Number 2793 A NEAT (New Engineering and Applied Technology) Workshop for Secondary Teachers John P. H. Steele Engineering Division Colorado School of Mines Golden, ColoradoAbstractIn the summer of 2000, CSM hosted a weeklong workshop for secondary mathematicsand science teachers. The NEAT (New Engineering and Applied Technology) workshophad a mission of providing information about and experience with engineering forteachers in primary and secondary schools. The teachers, who attended

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Sheryl Sorby

Session 3238 A “New and Improved” Course for Developing Spatial Visualization Skills Sheryl A. Sorby Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University Houghton, MichiganAbstractInstructors of design graphics courses frequently note a wide range of spatial visualization abili-ties among freshman engineering majors. Test score distributions in design graphics courses areoften bi-modal, with a cluster of grades occurring at the high end of the grading scale and a sec-ond cluster occurring at the

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Steven McCabe; Francis Thomas

Session 2315 A New Format for Continuing Education- Professional Development Lectures Francis M. Thomas, Steven L. McCabe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of KansasAbstractThe Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Kansas hasdeveloped a series of lectures for practicing engineers. These have been named the“Professional Development Series.”The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Kansas hasconventional undergraduate and graduate

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Devin Shunk; William Duff

Session 2520 A Paced Web-Taught Course in Numerical Methods in Engineering William S. Duff, Devin Shunk Department of Mechanical Engineering Colorado State UniversityI. IntroductionIn fall semester 2000 we instituted a paced Internet taught sophomore level numerical methodscourse for engineers. This WebCT1 based course is taught completely on the Internet.The course is taught to an average of 60 students each semester. A number of prospectivetransfer students are located at several two-year feeder institutions that are over three hours

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Guy Johnson

Session 2586 Project Lead The Way® A Pre-engineering Secondary School Curriculum Prof. Guy Johnson Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractProject Lead The Way® (PLTW) is a nonprofit corporation that developed a national programforming partnerships among public schools, higher education institutions and the private sectorto increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating fromour educational system. The Rochester Institute of Technology has joined in a partnership withPLTW by establishing the

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Charles Nippert

Session 2526 A Real Time, Dynamic, Binary Distillation Simulation for WEB Based Instruction Charles. R. Nippert Associate Professor Widener UniversityAbstractSimulation of complex processes in real time is essential for web-based instruction.Dynamic distillation has unique problems because of the large number of differentialequations that must be solved simultaneously. This paper describes a simplified modelthat simulates the dynamic operation of the distillation of isopropanol/water. The modelsimulates all aspects of batch operation; beginning from cold startup, through

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Jeffrey Nadel; Dan Walsh

Session 1520 Advanced Technology Laboratories: A Crucible for Technology Enhanced Learning Jeff Nadel, Dan Walsh College of Engineering California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractA partnership among industry, academia and government has led to the construction anddevelopment of a facility which provides a capstone experience for engineering students. Thepurpose of the ATL is to provide a vehicle that enables partnerships between industry, faculty, andstudents. This partnership is designed to produce

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Susan Creighton; Edward Young; Jed Lyons

Session 1526 Assessing the Effectiveness of a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course Jed Lyons, Edward F. Young and Susan D. Creighton University of South CarolinaAbstractA new capstone mechanical engineering laboratory course was recently institutionalized at theUniversity of South Carolina. The course is based upon an integrated sequence of laboratoryexperiments on a Legends-class racecar, chosen because it involves many fundamentalmechanical engineering principles. It's also exciting to the students. As the students progressthrough the series of experiments, they are increasingly involved

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Richard Ciocci

Session 3249 Assessment of an Engineering and Technology Summer Program for Underrepresented Students Richard Ciocci Harrisburg Area Community CollegeAbstract Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) offered and administered three-weeksummer programs for high school students from 1993 to 1997 inclusive. The primary goal of theEngineering and Technology Summer Institute (ETSI) was to provide high school students withinterests in mathematics and sciences a preview of engineering studies at the college level. Thestudents were chosen from populations that

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Alexander Crispo; Beverly Davis

Session #3663 Authentic Quality Certifications: A Discussion on the Validity of Quality Initiatives Beverly Davis, Alexander Crispo Purdue UniversityAbstractWhether in the workplace or the classroom, when the discussion turns to quality issuessuch as ISO 9000, many knowledgeable and experienced employees will grimace andsarcastically laugh at the topic. Many of these employees question the validity,authenticity, and sincerity of their company’s quality initiatives. As former leaders in theworkplace and current leaders in the classroom, we have noticed that this is

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 3575 Balancing an Engineering/Science Career and Family: A Novel Approach Elizabeth A. Parry and Laura J. Bottomley Science Surround/North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe stresses of balancing professional and personal lives are commonly accepted as part ofbeginning and building a career. In engineering particularly, the need to maintain awareness oftechnical progress is critical to staying marketable in the field. Life issues, such as parenting,assuming care of elderly parents or maintaining a healthy balance between work and home

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Vincent R. Canino; Lisa Milkowski

Session 2209 A Biomedical Engineering Design Experience from Freshman Year to Senior Year Lisa M. Milkowski, Ph.D., P.E., Vincent R. Canino, Ph.D., P.E. Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)AbstractThis paper presents a methodology of integrating design throughout the engineeringstudent’s years of study.Students have sufficient time to learn and achieve more in a design experience startingwith a two credit freshmen course, continuing with one credit courses throughout thesophomore and junior years, and ending with two credit design courses in each term ofthe senior year. With sufficient

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Todd Giorgio; Sean P. Brophy

Session 1609 Challenge-Based Learning in Biomedical Engineering: A Legacy Cycle for Biotechnology Giorgio TD, Brophy SP Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractThe benefits of a challenge-based environment are recognized by experts in learning science butare infrequently translated to practice in engineering courses. Although individual instructorstyles occasionally offer challenge-based instruction, rare is the engineering course in whichchallenge-based learning is a consistent focus. Few systematic methods for the creation ofchallenge-based learning

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Joby Anthony; A. Henry Hagedoorn; Bahman Motlagh

à Session 3202 Innovative Approaches for Teaching Calculus to Engineering Students Joby M. Anthony, A. Henry Hagedoorn, Bahman S. Motlagh University of Central FloridaAbstractA successful engineering program requires proficient and dynamic mathematics classes to enhance theteaching and learning of complex subject matter. Without a sufficient amount of problem solving andengineering applications, students are left with rather vague concepts regardless of the instructor’seffectiveness. Improving student performance in mathematics classes requires inventive

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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

Multimedia Session #2793 Introducing First-year Engineering Students to Reading and Writing about Engineering Practice A. Dean Fontenot, Ph. D., John R. Chandler, Ph.D., College of Engineering, Texas Tech University, Marion O. Hagler, Ph. D., P.E., Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThe Texas Tech University College of Engineering is introducing first-year electricalengineering students to the relationship that literature and writing can have to becomingwell-rounded engineers. Beside being introduced to principles of electronics hardwareand conventions of software programming, first-semester

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Timothy J. Anderson; Sarah A. Rajala; Matthew Ohland

Session 1430 SUCCEED-Sponsored Freshman Year Engineering Curriculum Improvements at NC State: A Longitudinal Study of Retention Matthew W. Ohland, Sarah A. Rajala, Timothy J. Anderson Clemson University / North Carolina State University / University of FloridaAbstractNC State’s involvement in the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition has led to a number ofchanges to the freshman year of the engineering curriculum as reported previously (e.g., ASEE1999, Porter, et al.). An explicit objective of these changes was to retain in engineering thosestudents who were qualified and interested in engineering, but were leaving

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Vincent Scotto; Peter Schuyler; Howard A. Canistraro

Session 3247 Linking Industry & Academia: Effective Usage of Industrial Advisory Boards Peter R. Schuyler, Howard Canistraro, Vincent A. Scotto University of Hartford/New England Institute of TechnologyAbstractWith the advent of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 and beyond, the emphasis of the evaluationof engineering and engineering technology programs has shifted from the strict examination ofcurriculum content, to measuring outcomes based assessment. As these programs are required tocreate and demonstrate a process for the evaluation of curriculum objectives, industry

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Pamela Mack; Yacob Astatke

Session 2793 A Web-based Foundations of Mathematics Course : A new approach to prepare freshmen students for the Math Placement Exams Yacob Astatke, Pamela Leigh Mack Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Morgan State UniversityAbstractDuring the summer of 2000, a five-week web-based math course was implementedusing the BlackBoard CourseInfoTM software. The course was created to improve themath skills of freshmen engineering students, and to prepare them for the mathplacement exams. The goal of the online

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William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

Session 1353A Freshman Engineering Course Which Introduces Engineering Design and Engineering Fundamentals in the Context of a Unifying Theme R.D. Wilk, C. Traver, C. LaPlante, J. Hedrick, W.D. Keat, F.E. Wicks Division of Engineering and Computer Science Union College Schenectady, New YorkAbstractFive years ago, a new first-term freshman engineering course, Introduction toEngineering and Computer Science, was introduced to the curriculum at Union College.Since then, the course has undergone significant revision based on assessment. Thecurrent course is ambitious and seeks

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Peggy Rijken; Jagannathan Mahadevan; Dr. Ronald E. Barr; Zeno Philip; Michael Tsurikov; Fernando Ulloa; Cynthia Finley

Session 2655 The Role of the ASEE Student Chapter in the “Making” of a Professor: A Case Study of UT-Austin Zeno Philip, Cynthia A. Finley, Michael Tsurikov, Peggy Rijken, Jagannathan Mahadevan, Fernando Ulloa, Ronald Barr The University of Texas at AustinIntroduction Future professors are drawn from the rank of current graduate students. An ASEE studentchapter can be of great help in catering to the needs of these students. Although ‘engineeringteaching’ is a specialized profession with regard to each engineering discipline, there are manysimilarities in all

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Sean P. Brophy; Robert Roselli

Session 1309 Movement from a Taxonomy-Driven Strategy of Instruction to a Challenge-Driven Strategy in Teaching Introductory Biomechanics Robert J. Roselli, Sean P. Brophy Department of Biomedical Engineering / The Learning Technology Center Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235AbstractMany courses adopt a traditional approach to instruction, characterized by lectures that follow alinear progression through a textbook that is organized about the general taxonomy of the subjectmatter. New theories of learning suggest that this

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Pierre Cilliers

Session 2793 A Course in Technological Innovation for First Year Engineering students: Methodology and Outcomes. Pierre J Cilliers, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa e-mail:pierre.cilliers@eng.up.ac.zaAbstractThe current paper presents the motivation, methodology and results of an experiment inEngineering Education aimed at stimulating creativity and innovation in first year engineeringstudents in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer

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Lynn Mayo; Eric Hansberry

Session 2478 Curriculum Development for the Integration of Marine Design in a First-Year Engineering Graphics Course Eric W. Hansberry Associate Professor, Northeastern University, Lynn Hansberry Mayo, M.S. CCC/SLPAbstractFirst-year students at the School of Engineering Technology and the Lowell Institute atNortheastern University have been exposed to the marine field. This paper will discuss how tointegrate marine topics into an introductory design course. These

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Ernest Tollner

Session 2451 Defining a new engineering course and emphasis for the 21st Century – Natural Resources Engineering Ernest W. Tollner University of Georgia(paper No 39)Abstract The goal of this paper is to evaluate the transition of the soil and water conservationagricultural engineer to the natural resource engineer considering questions of changing society,current student demographics, institutional priorities, current instructors and field of knowledge.Natural resources engineering is defined as the design of planned activities

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

Session 93 Design of a Course in Semiconductor Device that Emphasizes Integration of Knowledge Maher E. Rizkalla and Charles F. Yokomoto Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAbstract- A new approach to teaching a traditionally engineering science oriented, required seniorlevel course in semiconductor devices was used in our Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering. The new approach is called Integration of Knowledge, which is also one of ourcampus principles of undergraduate learning. Utilizing SUPREM IV software the course alsointegrates

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

Session: 2326 Development and Implementation of a Common Investigative Methods Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students Marty Matlock, Scott Osborn, Wayne LePori, and Cady Engler, Department of Agricultural Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843IntroductionA common concern among engineering faculty is that our students, while competent withengineering design concepts and processes, are increasingly incompetent in pragmaticapplication of those concepts. Historically students with an interest in engineering “tinkered”with things, had experience

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book; Douglas Ludlow

Session 3213 Development and Implementation of a Computer-Based Learning System in Chemical Engineering Neil L. Book, Douglas K. Ludlow and Oliver C. Sitton Department of Chemical Engineering University of Missouri - RollaAbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a computer-based learning systemfor the University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR) chemical engineering curriculum. The project hasthree major goals: provide a learner-centered study environment for our students, integrate thelearning system into