Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Briar Schumacher; Jon Leydens; Donald Elger

, and making a recommendation for a manager.It is not surprising that participation emerged as the seminal component of a learning system.Most people state that they learn best by doing. Engineering professors attribute significantvalue to their participation in research, professional practice, and in teaching of others. In theliteratures of teaching and learning, the concept of participation is emphasized. Inquiry methodsand problem-based learning are based on the idea of authentic participation. The Teaching ForUnderstanding pedagogy developed by Project Zero at Harvard is founded on the notion thatunderstanding is the ability to carry out a performance that demonstrates one’s grasp of a topicand at the same time extend it (Blythe, 1998

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Physics Social Sci All Other Discipline Selected by Students Leaving Engineering Figure 3. The percentage of students graduating in selected disciplines of those selecting each major upon leaving engineering (N=2,883 female, 8,022 male).Estimated Probability of Success as a Function of Gender and GPAThe multi-category logistic regression models bear out a significant interaction effect betweenGPA and gender variables. Parameter estimates yielded by the models enable us to formulate thefollowing projected probabilities of having each of the three graduation outcome for female andmale students respectively, as a function of student’s gender

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Ramsey-Idem; Sally Pardue; Kristine Craven

Engineering A Future at Tennessee Technological University Kristine K. Craven, Ph.D., Sally Pardue, Ph.D., Karen Ramsey-Idem, Ph.D. Tennessee Technological University/ Fleetguard, Inc.Abstract Engineering A Future (EAF) is an outreach program for girls in the 5th through 8th gradeheld at Tennessee Technological University (TTU) on the Saturday of Engineer’s Week. Thisprogram started in 2003 with an enrollment of 73 girls and was repeated in 2004 with 137 girls inattendance, the projected number of participants for 2005 is between 300 and 320. The girlscome to the TTU campus for the day and experience a number of group and individual activities.The basic format for the program includes

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

; -- PDIUSBD12 control signals wr_n, rd_n, ale, cs_n : OUT STD_LOGIC -- PDIUSBD12 control signals );END COMPONENT usb_interface;COMPONENT filter IS PORT( reset : IN STD_LOGIC; clock : IN STD_LOGIC; x : IN STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(31 DOWNTO 0); y : OUT STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(31 DOWNTO 0) );END COMPONENT filter;Figure 9: The component declarations of the three modules here are needed to implement the FPGAinterface. The system logic needed to implement the system in Fig. 3 is located in the “filter” module.4.2.1 Top–level Project FileThe top–level project file typically contains the components and routing logic for at leastthree modules: the top–level USB interface

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

ABILITY greatly improved=4. MEAN RESPONSE CONTROL UPOP N=143 N=80INTERPERSONAL/ TEAMWORK ABILITIES1.If I did not feel challenged by my job, I would justaccept this as part of the job I’ve been given and notrequest more challenging assignments. 2.3 3.12.My supervisor has just given me a project goal, tasks,and deadline that are totally vague and unrealistic. Iwould just not sleep and get something done! 2.2

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Petro Gogolyuk; Ilya Grinberg

; Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering Education4. Example of implementation in student projectStudents are assigned a senior design project, which involves preliminary design considerationsfor an industrial facility. Such tasks as demand calculation, selection of electrical apparatus,feeder sizing, fault analysis, voltage quality calculations, relay protection, economical analysisare performed. Detailed demand calculations are assigned for one building while calculations forother buildings are performed using the simplified method (demand factor). Students carry outcalculations using such software tools as Mathcad® and Excel®. Sequence of operations ispresented below. The data used are from an assignment for

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

principles by allowing students todemonstrate what they have learned. In the development process, they engage in synthesis,documentation, self-assessment, and reflection on their learning experiences. The Collegerequires students to track and provide evidence of their significant learning experiences. Tofacilitate this process, students take special courses to learn how to collect pieces of evidenceselected from classroom projects and out-of-class activities. Students provide evidence of theirachievement by creating an electronic portfolio reflecting their learning experiences. Eachstudent’s electronic portfolio is a collection of her work, which allows her to demonstrateacademic achievement and personal growth, and also record her progress over

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

‚" It is easy to visualize what each load does to the beam. ‚" This is a straightforward visualization.Several factors were revealed in the student comments that seem to have worked against animpartial trial of the software. First, a number of students in the experimental group indicated afeeling of cognitive overload at being confronted both with an unfamiliar topic and an unfamiliarinstructional medium near the end of the semester, when projects and assignments were due inall of their other courses. Second, students in the experimental section were generallyuncomfortable with the absence of lectures on the superposition topic. Finally, some studentsapparently reached a mistaken conclusion that the computer-based instructional materials

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

include attending a career fair, ice skating, bowling, a speaker series, abook club, a movie project, and industrial plant visits. Women working in engineering industriesvisit the community to discuss their experiences. These conversations give students theopportunity to learn what women in the field enjoy about their jobs as well as some of theirfrustrations.A primary component of the program is the Hypatia Seminar, a required first semester course forall students living in the community.Hypatia SeminarAll Hypatia residents are required to take a three credit seminar during their fall first semester ofenrollment. The seminar does not count for credit towards the students’ degree requirements.Currently in its third year of implementation, the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Wo; Pei-Fen Chang

Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education (1). Helping team members and cooperating in a group; (2). Helping to plan; (3). Pacing and scheduling projects; (4). Getting peer and teacher feedback on work; and (5). Teaching classmates. The shift from the traditional system of education to cooperative learning may redefinewhat a good student does, thus threatening and raising the anxiety of traditionally goodstudents. The highly competitive nature of most problem solvers also hinders teamworkability. College students receive little training on how to work as a team, and since they haveonly been in a simulated environment, they will not realize that most of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Ken Jr. Jannotta; William Lin; Richard Pfile

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. Start the KEPServerEx software package and create a new project (File | New). Add a new channel. Use all default selections except the device driver (select Modbus Ethernet). 4. Add a device to the network. Use all the default except the device address that should be set to 192.168.1.200. 5. The chart below shows how the registers in the OCS are mapped into standard Modbus address. Create four tags two for the first two inputs assigned to your groups remote I/O and two for the outputs. Make sure to make the inputs read only, and the outputs read/write.ControllerReference Max Traditional ModbusRef%I1 2048

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

atArizona State University that address selected issues are also discussed, as well as how theseissues are being integrated into the curriculum.A primary reason for the large scale interest and investments in PEM fuel cells is the largepotential market for this technology. For example, in his January 28, 2003 State of the Unionaddress, President Bush recommended the commitment of 1.2 billion dollars in research fundingfor the development of hydrogen technologies1. Most major automotive manufacturers have fuelcell development programs underway, and have produced prototype vehicles for the consumermarket2. The stationary fuel cell market, including residential applications, is projected to growto $40 billion by the year 20103.A complete fuel cell

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Henry; James Bandstra

given the limitations of resources.As students work on the various lab assignments with the technicians from CTC, they also aregiven mini-tours of other equipment and processes being developed at CTC, such as, friction stirwelding, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and rapid prototyping. In addition, many samples from Page 9.180.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprevious CTC projects are on display in the facility, which encourages discussion of othermaterials and manufacturing related topics

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

can help students learn to take control of their own learning by defining learning goals and monitoring their progress in achieving them.We feel that helping students to take control of their learning and develop ownership of contentis key not only to effective learning, but also to developing an interest in physics. We try toempower students in a number of ways including: Making student group discussions a focus of learning, Requiring projects that allow increasing freedom for student-directed learning as the course progresses, Requiring students to develop laboratory extensions, Encouraging extra-credit self-directed laboratory investigations, Requiring students to write and share reflections on

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

exploring the world of professionalengineering. Students write about the cultural literacies engineers face in the professional world.Our third then focuses on one particular literacy for engineers (both students and professionals),that of ethics. Our last paper, a team paper, asks students to explain how their design for anengineering project demonstrates that they have employed ethics. This sequenced approachallows the students to grasp the notion of multiple literacies and the changes they need to maketo succeed as a student and as a professional.Background to the Assignment The first assignment is particularly helpful to students because it allows students toexplore in writing the various demands made of them by their different

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hart; Mike Williams; George Grandle; Alvin Womac

the window size topresent the technical material would be greater for a typical web site compared to theinstruction software. Investigation of high-end, web-based instructional software packagesrevealed the importance of faculty involvement in the selection process of university-supported packages, and this was in hindsight since the expensive package was pre-selected before this project started. The ability to easily share entered information amongvarious software brands and/or versions should comply with Shareable Content ObjectReference Model (SCORM) criterion. Further, an asynchronous course offering wasprioritized to maximize flexibility in student involvement. The primary course objectivewas to educate pesticide applicators, regulators

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

to think like mechanicalengineers6. In the past decade, Mechanical Engineering and English faculty together havedeveloped several active-learning, communication-rich projects. Mechanical engineeringstudents have written informal five-minute essays at the beginning or end of each class5; haveenrolled jointly in ENGL 314 - Technical Writing and ME 313 - Instrumentation andMeasurements, in which both teachers designed and graded joint assignments and attended eachothers classes to learn the language and conventions of each discipline6 ; and have submitted theirwritings in the ME 400 - Senior Seminar to an English graduate student for critique beforerevising them for the ME professor who grades it. Our long association in jointly developingCAC

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

Electricity Markets, CRC Press, ISBN 0849308135). It was pointed outthat while the press identifies Louisiana as a state that has not yet provided customer choice,Louisiana has been profoundly affected by competition involving non-utility generators and utilitygeneration providers. A senior manager from the local electric utility company spoke to the classabout these issues and provided data on future projections for power generation installations andtransmission system requirements.The students were asked to identify other current public policy issues and prepare issue briefsconcerning these issues. Some of the subjects covered included the debate about governmentfunding for high speed rail transportation and government efforts to prevent future

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCaul; Earl Whitlatch; Robert J. Gustafson

) Dramatically inflating/padding project costs (Extremely Often, 5) Misuse of project funds (Very Often, 4).Observations regarding variation by demographic factors (gender, P.E. status, year group, andprogram - data available from 1st author) include:• Those with PE or EIT status tended to rate frequency of occurrence of events higher than non-PE/EIT respondents (Overall Mean of 1.90 compared to 1.78). Table 4 shows the eleven items with the largest difference (greater than ± 0.25). In nine cases the PE/EIT group indicated higher frequency and in two cases lower frequency. Page 8.176.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

students to questions offered forstudying were issued. A commission on the project of courses development was created. Wellknown teachers took part in it. The program of courses was a new word in national didactics.It was notable for the depth of the contents and for careful reasonableness in selection of ateaching material, and it was precisely oriented to the audience. In 1903-04 yearsI.M.Sechenov delivered lectures on anatomy and physiology 6. He spoke with delight aboutthe pedagogical skill of teachers. Recollecting a teaching manner of the chemistM.I.Konovalov, Sechenov wrote: "In my life I have never heard such a skilful adaptation ofserious reading to the intellectual level of the audience. Obviously, lectures were conceivedand executed so

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wil Clouse; Terry Goodin

freedto innovate and to think creatively about future ventures. The course is targeted atstudents who would like to create their own business and they are given the opportunityto develop a business plan from one of their own ideas. Students from entirely differentprograms, like Human and Organizational Development and Engineering, areencouraged to work collaboratively on joint projects. Opportunities to share their ideaswith other entrepreneurs are made possible. The course is meant to teach students howto dream about new ideas and how to take new business ventures to the marketplace. Inpart, entrepreneurship is defined as a "state of mind -- artful, insightful and innovativementality rather than a business management or administration concept

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bransford; Sean P. Brophy

community within a class. In addition to developing life long skills of workingwith others, fostering community has great potential for facilitating instruction. Forexample, students can draw on each other’s experiences to expand their ownunderstanding. Also, large class projects can emulate industry by having studentsdevelop specific expertise that they must bring to the group. It is the groupsresponsibility to bring the ideas together. Page 6.334.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIdentifying Domain

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

syllabi including specific statements of student learning objectives • Collaborative learning, • Project-based learning1. Faculty will learn strategies for balancing the demands of their careers as well as their careers and personal lives.Agenda, Workshop Format & LogisticsFink [7] describes several models for conducting faculty “orientations”. One criterion by whichthese models vary is when they are held during the academic year. Our workshop is offered justprior to the beginning of the fall semester for a day and a half. We chose this timing as most ofour new faculty positions begin in August. Other institutions validly choose to offer new facultyorientations in an ongoing fashion throughout a first term or academic year. Such

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine C.S. Whitaker; Richard W Freeman

’ needs for hands-on experiences.Computer Engineering Learning TeamsDuring the 1998-99 academic year, our Learning Community developed a distinctivepersonality. We started with 25 students, a budget, and a vision. Given the opportunityto name this Learning Community, the students decided on CELTS- ComputerEngineering Learning Teams. Our staff included an Associate Professor, AdjunctInstructor, two graduate students, and three members of Iowa State’s Project LEA/RN.Project LEA/RN is Iowa State’s effort to promote the use of cooperative learningtechniques among faculty and students. The Project LEA/RN members of CELTSintroduced and coached the students on using cooperative learning skills, as well ashelping develop the course curriculum. During

Collection

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

Collection

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