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Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

learners / linguistic learners • Watch It – streaming media presentation to appeal to visual learners / auditory learners • Visualize It – animations to appeal to spatial learners / visual learners • Try It – active exercises to appeal to kinesthetic learners / active learnersGuidelines based on models of best practice2,3 were established for content creation to ensureinstructional design appropriate for technology-mediated education was used. These guidelineswere developed by the collaborators from the College of Education and the participating faculty.Each of the instructional modalities listed above had an associated content developmentguideline. These guidelines are shown in Figures 1 - 4.With these guidelines in place

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

tocontain the course to three hours each week.In previous semesters, students created parts, assemblies and drawings that were selectedto reinforce the lecture material. The course text book contains assignments specificallydesigned for each lecture. Each problem, whether it is a part, assembly or engineeringdrawing has 5 grading criteria that are used to evaluate the student’s work.[1] Thesecriteria were added to help students focus on the key points of the assignment and toensure uniform grading across the multiple sections. An example of a text book part usedto demonstrate a sweep (cross section following a guide curve) is shown in Figure 1.These examples were used for the majority of the laboratory sessions. Of the 22 problemsassigned during

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hackworth; Isaac Flory

average) than the their on-campuscounterparts in the senior project course. In the fall 2004 semester, the on-campus student meanscore was 82.8 with a standard deviation of 15.0. For the off-campus students, the mean scorewas 93.6 with a standard deviation of 2.4.Although the reasons for this difference in performance are difficult to determine, the availabledemographics of the off-campus students point to several possible reasons: 1. The off-campus students are older, which would imply that they are also more mature. Page 10.1257.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

had theopportunity to enroll in such a course. It is the first course to be offered completely online by theSchool of Engineering at the University of New Haven.This paper presents and addresses many of the technical challenges that are encountered duringthe process of developing and implementing an engineering course for online delivery at theUniversity of New Haven. This paper presents the procedure that was followed in transforminga traditional course in Introduction to Engineering for delivery as a completely interactive onlinecourse. The results show that there was no statistical difference in student learning between on-campus and online students.1. IntroductionThe key to successful online and traditional classrooms is to analyze course

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Marcus

projects" and I have been a reviewer of papers on this topic.I have visited many of the local high schools and given presentations during career days and alsopresented at our campus during open house activities, but I was looking for a different approach.Many of the projects such as "Project Lead the Way"1 are great but they are quite involved andtake a significant commitment. What I describe in this paper is a simple project that I usedinvolving teachers and their students that I thought was quite successful. This project was easilymanageable for a faculty member acting alone or with a few other faculty members.Some of the teachers and students involved in the project were from schools with large minoritypopulations and as a result of this a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

implemented, the possible pitfalls in the implementation of PBL, and the design ofproblems using Lego System in an Engineering Measurements course. This paper gives a brief introduction to PBL and describes assessment comparisons among threedifferent types of instructional methods. The three methods are: 1) fully traditional content-based learning, 2) a combination of lecture-type instruction and PBL instruction, and 3) full PBLinstructional methodology with a partial use of Lego RCX System. The assessment resultsindicated that, without compromising students’ exam performance, the PBL method (when usedpartially or fully) significantly improved important skills in analyzing and solving open-ended,real-world problems, working cooperatively in teams

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

Culture in thePostmodern Age. New York: Teachers College Press.Herkert, J. (2002). Continuing and Emerging Issues in Engineering Ethics Education, 2004). NationalAcademy of Engineering. Retrieved January 10, 2004.http://www.nae.edu/NAE/naehome.nsf/weblinks/MKEZ-5F7SA4Lewis, L. (2004). The Cultivation of Professional Ethics. Retrieved September 20, 2004.http://www.nspe.org/ethics/eh 1-lew.aspMarshall, J. (2001). Character Education in Preservice Education: One Institution’s Response. Journal ofCollege and Student Values, 9.Palmer, P. (1998). The Courage to Teach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Pub.Pfatteicher, S. (2001). Teaching vs. Preaching: EC200 and the Engineering ethics Dilemma. Journal ofEngineering Education, 1, 137-142.Ryan, K., Bohlin, K

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A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

discuss matters of mutual interest, includingpotential future collaboration.(1)Some of the adjunct faculty-particularly those who are seniors in specific industries-could offerimportant linkages for the development of industrial affiliate programs, co-op activities, summertraining opportunities, and employment opportunities for new graduates. They may also providenew ideas for senior design projects, topics for graduate theses, or render help in theestablishment of collaborative research programs.When a choice has been made and the candidate has accepted, it is important that he/she feelswelcome and be assisted in becoming familiar with his/her new surroundings. To expedite theprocess, new adjuncts should sit together with their new colleagues

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhumi Mitra; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

, the initial phaseinvolves (a) extensive data collection to record yield variability using GPS (GlobalPositioning System) integrated yield monitor, (b) correlating the yield data with the soilcharacteristics and other pertinent factors to come up with recommendations for variablerate nutrient application, (c) use of GIS (Geographical Information System) databases andmaps to record and visualize the data to facilitate interpretation.1. IntroductionThe Phase-I of “Environmentally Conscious Precision Agriculture(ECPA)” was initiatedin the Summer of 2004 with the identification of a 50 acre plot of land which is utilizedby UMES farm management personnel to grow wheat, corn and soy beans on a rotationalbasis. Traditional farming practices are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Khandan

to a series of elementary problems, it is essential that students master the basic skillsrequired for solving elementary problems.In recent times, employers, professional organizations, and accreditation agencies have beenexpressing concern about the poor problem-solving skills of engineering graduates [1-4]. Thenational performance of engineering graduates in the Fundamental of Engineering (FE) examconducted by the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES) affirmsthis concern. Figure 1, for example, shows a statistically significant declining trend in thepercentage of questions answered correctly by civil engineering graduates in the FE exam.Considering that the problems in the FE Exam are elementary problems and

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

shelters and technical posters describing the designs andtesting results.Course HistoryThe current version of “Engineering Problem Solving I” (EPSI) was first delivered three yearsago and is a required core course for incoming College of Engineering students.1 This 3-creditcourse consists both of a lecture and a faculty-directed project component, each having equalstudent contact (1.5 hours). The lecture meets twice weekly with each of the four 100-studentsections for 11 weeks (22 meetings). One faculty member is responsible for the lecturecomponent of the course. Twelve project sections each meet over the course of the entiresemester. Six faculty members are assigned two coordinated sections. Each single 32-studentsection can meet individually

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thanassis Rikakis; Jiping He; Hari Sundaram; Andreas Spanias

-sciences trainingoffered through AME. This paper states a basic education and training problem in artsand media and presents a program that was formed at Arizona State University to addressthis problem. The structures, participation, associated sub-areas of this program are alsodescribed.1. IntroductionThe ASU arts and media (AME) program aims to produce a new kind of hybrid graduatestudents who draw their creativity from the arts and their methodology from the sciences.The program trains students to integrate principles of computing and communication withartistic ideas and objectives, with the goal of enabling new paradigms of human-machineexperience that directly address societal needs and facilitate knowledge. The students’research activities

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

Session 1526 Curriculum Development for Rapid Prototyping Ken Patton and Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu, Saddleback College/ California State University, Los AngelesAbstractThis project (NSF ATE DUE 0302314) is in its last year of a three-year project. It was fundedJuly 1, 2001. The focus of the grant is to develop curriculum to train technicians in the use ofsolid modeling as a “Time Compression” tool to help manufacturers and designers reduce cycletime to market. Curriculum is broken down to modules covering such topics as history,processes

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

’ conceptualization andexposure to System Dynamics and Controls fundamentals by providing less restricted exposureto a variety of systems that encompass the more important Dynamic Systems concepts. The plan involves the development of a System Dynamics Concepts Inventory and theimplementation and assessment of three Web-enabled laboratory formats: (1) inter-campuscollaborative experimentation, (2) remotely-accessible experiments, and (3) virtual systemexperiments. Each format has its inherent advantages and disadvantages. Remotely-accessibleexperiments, for example, can be made more readily available to students outside of regularlaboratory hours, but the lack of hands-on exposure limits the potential scope of the experiments.Each format has been

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Landaeta; Bryan Magary; William Peterson

Economy, Sixth Edition, Leland Blank and Anthony Tarquin, 2005 3 • Contemporary Engineering Economics, Third Edition, Chan S. Park, 2002 4 • Engineering Economy, Applying Theory to Practice, Second Edition, Ted G. Eschenbach, 20035 • Engineering Economy, Twelfth Edition, William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, and James T. Luxhoj, 2003 6 • Capital Investment Analysis For Engineering And Management, Third Edition, John R. Canada, William G. Sullivan, John H. White, and Dennis Kulonda, 2005 7There was one exception found to the use of tables - Modern Engineering Economy by the lateDonovan Young. This text 1 from 1993 uses nomograms in lieu of the tables.The Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Supplied-Reference Handbook, 6th

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

wereport our experiences in developing and delivering an experimental mathematics courseto secondary in-service mathematics teachers where software and devices reinforceimportant concepts. The course structure balanced rigor with utility in secondaryinstructional environments.1. IntroductionRecent state and federal accountability requirements have renewed interest in studentachievement in mathematics[1]. In addition, many states monitor local school productivityagainst predetermined benchmarks of effectiveness and have attached well-publicizedrewards and sanctions including school accreditation classifications and rankingsystems[2, 3]. State sanctions based on assessment scores can affect graduation, studentdiplomas, school accreditation, school

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Odom; Saeed Foroudastan

essential to all life. The very biochemistry that sustains life requires the input of it, andmany areas of the earth suffer from deficiency of this resource. The oceans account forapproximately 97.4% of the world's water. Another 2% is locked up in ice caps and glaciers.Subtracting saline ground water and inland saline seas from the remainder, less than 0.5 % of theEarth's water is directly suitable for human consumption, agricultural or industrial uses 1. Theearth is a closed biosphere and all the water that we have is all that we are going to get. Overuse,pollution, and geologic scarcity are the major contributors to the need for it. In the United States,Ron Linsky of the National Water Research Institute in California realizes this and is quoted

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

relate this methodology with thegeneral discourse of education. There is a question in group project learning. Why and how do group projects helpstudents learning? This paper provides information on implementing group project.1. Why project-based learning? The main purpose of using project-based learning hopefully is to educate studentsthrough a project to achieve all-around development, communication skills and particularvocational skills. It seems that project-based is used to motivate students and provide practicalskills training. It is believed that group project has the following advantages identified byNightingale [1].(1) Students are free to make their own choice of a topic of study and thus it encourages a

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Oliver Sitton; Neil Book

major strengthsare twofold: 1) rapid grading and 2) individualized assessments. The major drawbacks for thestudents are the loss of partial credit and the insecurity associated with working in a virtualenvironment. Faculty find that the time required to construct effective computer-basedassessments is much greater than that for paper-based assessments. Unfortunately, the increasein construction time can be greater than the reduction in grading time. With the currenttechnology, it is extremely difficult to develop large, multi-step problems requiring problemanalysis and solution synthesis skills without leading the student to the answer. This, of course,defeats the purpose of the assessment for this type of problem.IntroductionThe technology for

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam Cavender; Saeed Foroudastan

sleep. Since then, noise pollution levelshave increased in direct correlation with the advancement of technology, and thedevelopment of industry in the last 200 years has sent environmental noise levels throughthe roof. In modern society, we are constantly bombarded by noise of all sorts, andalthough we may not easily recognize the adverse effects of these high exposure levels,studies show that there is a multitude of health risks involved with environmental noise.These include both temporary and permanent hearing loss, communication impediment,sleep disturbance, increased stress hormone production, and disruption of concentration,as well as adverse effects on blood pressure 1.The World Health Organization and the EPA both recognize

Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

examples of incorporation of experiential learning in process controlcourses.3,4,5,6,7,8 Most involve development of experiments, typically required as apart of adistinct 1-hour laboratory section extending the course length from 3 to 4 semester hours.Clough9 incorporated experiments directly into the lecture course prior to the addition ofthe 1 hour laboratory section10. Others have attempted to add this active learningcomponent through use of web accessible experiments.11 More recent efforts to includeexperimentation in process control courses include development of kits using LEGO®RCX® brick and quick disconnect piping to build desktop process control equipment forin-class use.12Inductive learning refers to the organizational approach by which

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Morgan; Beverly Davis

styles andpreferences when preparing curriculum. Optimal learning outcomes and promotion ofengineering and science education to the millennial generation could be the catalyst thatincreases the future enrollments in engineering and science education and encouragesmillennials to make engineering and science career choices. Based on research and whatis known about this generation, the following suggestions are offered: 1. This generation looks at self-improvement as increasingly important as opposed to job security. “The world will always need engineers” will not be valued by this generation. As suggested by the above statistics, promotion of career choices in engineering and the sciences to the millennial generation is

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationspent per student on the project was intended to be 3-6 hours, not including training.Treating the project as a laboratory exercise, this corresponds to a lecture class time lossof 1-2 hours, which is typical during the AIChE Annual Meeting week.As part of the assignment, students were provided a grading rubric to make expectationsclear and to guide them on their writing. Newell, Newell and Dahm13 provide guidelinesfor rubric development appropriate to this sort of project. The rubric used in this projectis provided in Figure 2.Students are given creative freedom to define their objectives to take advantage

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jefferey Froyd

many different contexts, including the workplace,government, and international forums. Ideally, research on transfer of learning would provideprinciples and examples that engineering educators might apply in creating assessment andlearning activities that would help graduates enhance their capabilities to transfer their learning.However, results from research and experience have given rise to a wide range of judgmentsabout the ease and likelihood with which transfer occurs. For example, Detterman states ”thereis very little empirical evidence showing meaningful transfer to occur and much less evidenceshowing it under experimental control”1. On the other hand, everyday experience suggests thattransfer occurs routinely and Haskell offers “deep

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Isaacson; Peter Goodmann

problems in each section. Aftercompleting all three sections the student is asked to estimate his or her overall score, andreceives 2, 1 or 0 additional points depending on the accuracy of her or his estimate. This is anadditional reward to the student for accurately assessing his or her own knowledge level. Theexams described here are too lengthy for most students to complete in one class period, so theyare given as take-home exams.IntroductionThe technique described here was suggested by a presentation given by Prof. Randy Isaacson atIPFW in March, 2004 entitled “What Happens When Students Don’t Know that They Don’tKnow”1. Experience has shown that students often think they are well prepared for an examwhen they really are not well prepared. The

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sze-wai Chan; Ming-yin Chan

involved in investigation of authentic problems.Group project learning was frequently incorporated in engineering curriculum since 80’s [1].The popularity of students working in small groups can be traced to the fact that group workprovides a number of benefits. It allows students to gain practical experience with genuinesetting of a building team. Team spirit can be developed during the course of projectexecution. Many problems will not be discovered in a classroom lecture, but it does happenfrom time to time in group-work. Communication skills, mediation and liaison technique canalso be developed in the design process. Despite all of the benefits of group work in building design process, the use of groupsis fraught with problems. The

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Goodmann

, which may also be a media file or sound card. Between the source and destinationthere are one or more “transform filters” in which the stream (which contains the signal) isprocessed; these transform filters are where the DSP functions are implemented. Source andrenderer filters are included with the DirectX® SDK, as are a number of examples of transformfilters. ®The DirectX SDK includes GraphEdit, a utility which enables the student to build a filter graphwhile simultaneously visualizing the flow of the signal through the signal processing system. Anexample is shown in Figure 1: Figure 1

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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

Table I.Table 1 :- 2003-04 Chemical Engineering Course Catalog Data3 Course number and Title CHEG 4103.002, Special Topic in Chemical Engineering. Course Credit Credit 3 semester hours (3 lecture -0 laboratory). Course Description This course will explore the fundamental principles of the interaction of nuclear and atomic radiation with matter. Being taught for the first time the course material will be adjusted based on the level of students in the class as determined by department faculty. Student will be introduced to basics of nuclear

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

management server interfaces to a number of lab stations that each host specificdistance experiments. Each lab station consists of a dedicated PC running National Instrument’sLabVIEW virtual instrument panels (VIPs). VIPs send commands and retrieve data frommeasurement equipment that is connected to devices under test (DUT) and provide a browser-based user interface for students.VIPs play two primary roles: (1) they provide connectivity between the measurementinstruments and the PC lab station and (2) they are embedded in web pages that are used bystudents to perform distance labs. During the development of ALTE, we discovered that theperformance of a lab station PC could be improved if there was one VIP, hereafter referred to asthe Master VIP, that

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Pierre; Frank Tuffner; Robert Kubichek

communication over a simple channel.LaboratoryThe lab exercises described in this paper are all conducted in a lab classroom with six identicallab benches, such as the one shown in Figure 1. Each lab bench consists of an Agilent digitaloscilloscope with FFT capability, an Agilent arbitrary waveform generator, a power supply, adigital multi-meter, and a Windows PC equipped with a data-acquisition card. All of thesedevices are linked together through the IEEE-488 GPIB interface bus. This bus allows thecomputer to control and share information with the instruments and for the instruments tocommunicate with one another. Page 10.768.2