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Julia Morse

grading strategies that promote student preparation andinstructor-led critical thinking in class can effectively increase student participation and ability topractice critical thinking in classroom discussion and on exams.Bibliographic Information1 Schrivener, S., Fachin, K., and Storey, G., “Treating the All-Nighter Syndrome: IncreasedStudent Comprehension Through an Interactive In-Class Approach,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, April 1994, p. 152.2 Lang, D., “Critical Thinking in Web Courses: An Oxymoron?”, Syllabus, Vol. 14, No. 2,September 2000, pp. 21.3 Agrawal, P. K., “Integration of Critical Thinking and Technical Communication intoUndergraduate Laboratory Courses,” Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference,Session 1213.4 Sharp, J

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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

specifications for the solar lantern that will be used by the local school children fordoing homework in the evening. These specifications prioritized reliability, ease of operation,rugged construction, portability and low cost. The resulting design was realized in a singleprototype. The design and construction of the prototype was completed as a student/facultyproject in the Junior Engineering Clinic course at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. It wasfunded and directed by ETM Solar Works, a NY based corporation.Introduction Rowan University’s College of Engineering is committed to providing their students withsignificant laboratory and design experiences throughout their full four years as engineeringstudents. In the Freshman year they are given

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Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill

❏F. The physical quality of the following facilities: 1. Computer Labs ❏ 2. Classrooms ❏ 3. Science laboratories ❏ 4. Engineering laboratories ❏ 5. Science and Engineering Library ❏G. How would you

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M. David Burghardt

evolution of organisms over time, the continuity of life sustainedthrough reproduction and development, the dynamic equilibrium of organisms that sustains life,the dependency of plants and animals on their physical environment and the impact of humandecisions on the environment. In New York State the fourth-grade science test has two parts,an objective test (multiple choice) and a laboratory assessment where students makeobservations and record data to reach conclusions.The Benchmarks for Science Literacy (1993) is part of Project 2061, an effort to describe whatscience for all Americans should be, and it sets benchmarks for grades 2, 5, 8 and 12 in thefollowing areas: the nature of science, the nature of mathematics, the nature of technology

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Winfred K Anakwa; Scott Jones; Scott Garrett; Ron Rio; Li Chen; John Bush; Jixiang Sheng; George Anglin; Dion Thomas; Dale Green

alaboratory environment. Pneumatic actuation was chosen instead of hydraulicactuation to avoid the possibility of oil spill in the laboratory. The design,construction and the physical structure are presented in section II, and theassociated sensors and actuator electronics are covered in section III. The Page 5.211.1mathematical modeling, computer simulation and experimental validation of themodel are presented in section IV. The design of the digital control algorithm, itsimplementation on a Motorola 68HC16 microcontroller-based evaluation boardand experimental results are given in section V. Final conclusions aresummarized in section VI.II. Design and Physical

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Patricia Backer

session was organized into a one-week class with eight hours of class each day.Day 1 of the class was devoted to Unit 1 and Day 2 of the class was devoted to Unit 2. On therandomly assigned multimedia day, the students were sent to a computer laboratory where eachstudent was assigned a computer and given a CD-ROM with their module. Instead of attendingclass, they stayed in the computer laboratory and completed the multimedia. In lieu of their"regular" classwork, they completed the online class activities at the end of each section of themultimedia. Page 5.248.4The class consisted of nine women and five men. All but two of the students were in their

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James N. Peterson

design projects ♦ Meet with instructor to select project ♦ Provide for project expenses: Parts, direct costs, lab fees ♦ Give technical assessment feedbackThe university instructor is responsible for accomplishing the teaching objectives for the designcourse, and these objectives include producing students who can: ♦ Create & implement feasible solutions to engineering problems ♦ Understand the iterative design process ♦ Use resources effectively: time, money, parts, lab equipment, information ♦ Learn “team” skillsV. Additional ResponsibilitiesExisting laboratory equipment can support some projects that require the use of softwaredevelopment systems. However

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Igor M. Verner; Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

out a survey form that includedsix sections. The first section related to general data (name, state/country, company/institution,team and position), and the second section requested information about past experience inrobotics. Each respondent was asked to estimate his/her progress in a number of disciplinesgained by working on the contest project. The list of disciplines included electronics, computers,programming, mechanics, control, systems design, robotics laboratory, and teamwork practice.The senior division participants were asked to specify their prior knowledge in these areas.The third section of the questionnaire asked the respondents to specify their own activities in thefollowing project-related subjects: drive mechanisms, control

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2000 Annual Conference

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Donna C.S. Summers

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (IET)Dept. No. Course 1st Term 2nd Term First YearSET 100 Engineering Technology First-Year Seminar 1-0-1MTH 106 Mathematics for Engineering Technology 3-0-3MFG 108L Manufacturing Processes Laboratory 0-3-1MCT 110L Technical Drawing and CAD 0-6-2CHM 123 General Chemistry 3-3-4REL 103 Introduction to Religion 3-0-3SET 101 Enrichment Workshop 1-0-0 1-0-0ENG 101-2

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2000 Annual Conference

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Qiuli Sun; Kevin Stubblefield; Kurt Gramoll

experimental apparatussuch as laser devices and robots, the virtual laboratory can be set up over the Web. Jackand Karlesky at Grand Valley State University developed a virtual manufacturinglaboratory, which allows students to access robots, CNC (Computer Numerical Control)machines, DAQ (Data Acquisition) cards and other equipment utilizing the Web [4].Students are able to transfer data to the apparatus, control the apparatus, and observe theprogress of the experiments using a live video link.Web-based SimulationAlthough it is generally agreed that the use of simulations in engineering education isbeneficial to students, simulations are not widely used due to relatively small target usergroups, the cost of development, and distribution problems. With

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Tze-Leong Yew; Kurt Gramoll

required Page 5.593.6software tools are installed on 20 workstations in the multimedia laboratory. The softwareprograms are licensed to the university at a cost of about $1,500 per workstation.Another problem is that different students have different computer expertise. However, the initialdifficulty involved in learning a new software tool diminishes with familiarity of the tool.Table 2 lists the software used in the "Multimedia in Engineering" course. The followingdescribes 10 software tools with several having overlapping capabilities. All of these tools arecross-platform and are available in both Macintosh and Windows versions except the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Tracy L. Chandler; John A. Petersen; Janet M. Sharp

engineering and education in a one-week,workshop-type, summer course. They encountered a variety of engineering ideas includingcompression, tension, strength, load, and buckling11. Through a laboratory, hands-on approach,the teachers learned about these and other engineering ideas. As indicated earlier, how teacherslearn new ideas must be consistent with how they will one day teach these ideas.For one of the experiments in that course, the professor used a small, plastic (hobby-store) I-beam. The teachers tested the I-beam for its critical buckling load. For a different experiment,the professor used some latex rubber tubes. The teachers used those tubes to learn aboutYoung’s Modulus. In so doing, the teachers used mathematics (vectors) and science

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2000 Annual Conference

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Nicole L. Hoekstra

industry is employing prototype tooling to manufacture parts for evaluationand testing2,3. One method of constructing prototype tooling is simply casting aluminum-filledepoxy over an RP model. To ensure that the parts produced from prototype tooling closelyresemble the final production part, much research is being performed to compare RP tooling tomachined steel tooling. In recent research, the properties of parts produced in an RP epoxy toolwere within 10-30% of parts produced in a steel tool4.Prior to the arrival of rapid prototyping equipment in the department, the laboratory portion ofthe course focused on the construction of tooling, using manual and CNC machining.Sometimes students only partially completed the assignment due to complications

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2000 Annual Conference

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Massoud S. Tavakoli

terms ofsize and number of graduates. The Mechanical Engineering curriculum is highly laboratory-based with a unique feature where at the beginning of the Junior year, the curriculum branchesinto five possible tracks called “specialties.” Approximately 12% of the total 180 credits arededicated to a more in-depth coverage of a sub-field of engineering. The current specialties areAutomotive Engineering Design, Medical Equipment Design, Manufacturing Product Design,Machine Design and Plastics Product Design. Each of these specialties culminates into acapstone design course where students are ideally expected to: 1) learn the design process as an "holistic" interdisciplinary activity, and 2) practice the "complete" design cycle from problem

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2000 Annual Conference

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

, number of courses with technical laboratories, sharing of faculty and spacewith other programs, and effectiveness of industrial advisory committees are provided in thefollowing paragraphs. Tables of the results from questions in the survey are also providedthroughout the paper.Of all the four-year schools that responded to the survey, 79% are classified as four-yearUniversities with very a small number responding as Community & Technical Colleges,Technical Institutes, Institutes of Technology, or Colleges as shown in Table 1. Table 2illustrates the responses of two-year schools to a similar classification question, which resulted in67% classified as two-year Community Colleges, 18% as Technical Institutes, and 13% asCommunity & Technical

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2000 Annual Conference

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Kenneth A. Knowles; Carl E. Wick

used successfully to teach the architecture of the processors,assembly language programming, and debugging techniques. The laboratory and final examprojects for this course vary from year to year, but have historically been examples of stand-alone microprocessor based systems.In order to appeal to the professional aspirations of our student population we began a study ofpotential microprocessor based projects that could be seen to directly relate to their chosencareers. A particularly fertile area was seen to be in the use of networked embedded computers Page 5.710.1in modern weapons systems. Among current military projects in the area is on

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2000 Annual Conference

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

curriculum redesign and considerindustry as a direct customer much the same as parents/students and state/federal governments;• Support faculty summer fellowship (similar to the Welliver program);• Encourage more faculty sabbatical/consulting in industry; Page 5.714.7• Support distance education classes from universities to industry and from industry touniversities;• Participate in university-industry-government joint research programs;• Create opportunities for industry and government in-kind support (i.e., equipment, data, etc.) toprovide hands- on laboratory and practical experiences;• Reward outstanding educators such as Boeing Outstanding

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2001 Annual Conference

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Stephen Stafford; Rosa Gomez; Daniela Castaneda; Connie Della-Piana

academicprograms depending on their pre-college preparation, e.g. high school curricula, and theirgeneral orientation towards university studies. The problem of college preparedness maybe more acute on a commuter campus, where students may only remain on campus aslong as class hours and laboratories demand. UTEP’s student population is typical ofmajor urban universities, serving the academic needs of a regional, place-boundpopulation. Our students are also non-traditional from the standpoint that the majority areethnic minorities, first in their families to go to college, and balance their academic liveswith required part-time, and sometimes, full-time employment. Juggling so manyactivities often leads our students to minimize their time on campus, and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

, and a stronger emphasis oncommunication skills. To guide the program’s implementation and evaluation, a comprehensiveassessment plan was developed to ensure that sufficient tools and methods were in place toproperly evaluate the impact of the program. The program is now in its third year, and this plancontinues to be instrumental in evaluating the program’s effectiveness. This paper presents anoverview of the plan, including its tools, methods, and outcomes.1.0 IntroductionIn the Autumn Quarter, 1998, The Ohio State University College of Engineering implemented apilot program for freshman Engineering students with the express purpose of engaging students inan interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasized hands-on laboratory projects

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Richard Ciocci

had 90–minute classes for most of the academic courses. The students didn’t like the length of thoseclasses, so we did change most lecture classes to 45 minutes. Laboratories in CAD and scienceswere acceptable in longer time periods. Another area the students identified for improvementwas the workload expected. As can be expected these high school students have a limitedpatience for schoolwork in the summer. They did not often take kindly to homeworkassignments from the Institute. Most students were successful in completing assignments duringthe classes, but homework was another issue. We did have one negative comment from a student’s guardian, her grandmother, whofelt the students were given too much free time to wander about the

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James Newell; Kevin Dahm

. Ramachandran, B. Sukumaran and R. Harvey, Multidisciplinary Design and Communication: A Pedagogical Vision. International Journal of Engineering Education, 15, 5 (1999).5. Bakos, J. D., "A Departmental Policy for Developing Communication Skills of Undergraduate Engineers," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 75, p. 101 (November 1986).6. Elbow, P., "Teaching Thinking by Teaching Writing," Phi Delta Kappan, p. 37, (1983).7. Newell, J. A., D. K. Ludlow, and S. P. K. Sternberg, "Progressive Development of Oral and Written Communication Skills across an Integrated Laboratory Sequence," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 31(2), p. 116 (1997).8. "Engineering Criteria 2000: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the

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Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

of selected topics from their respective disciplines. Case studiesforce these undergraduate technologists to think critically about choices they might make intheir professional lives; for example, the implications of using a particular piping material for anindustrial spillway or the decision to use a less environmentally hazardous chemical solvent overanother in a laboratory analysis. We are also convinced that a team of faculty from multipledisciplines best teaches a course of this scope thus preventing the focus from becoming undulybiased towards one perspective.I. Introduction A four-membered interdepartmental faculty team has developed an upper-divisionGeneral Education course that has been offered several times by The University

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Vikram Cariapa; Joseph Domblesky; James Rice

; Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"addition to communication skills, other manufacturing related competency gaps that have beenidentified by employers include application of manufacturing processes, statistics, andmanufacturing systems. While specific reasons for manufacturing related skills deficiencies havenot been identified, it is likely that the reduction in hands-on laboratory experiences that waseffected at the same time that design content in the curricula was being reduced is one of theprimary causes.A second criticism of engineering education has been that there is little effort to integrate parts ofthe curriculum2. Students often echo this view when they complain that

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1998 Annual Conference

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Ronald R. Hosey; R. Gregg Bruce; Lester K. Eigenbrod; Hansjoerg Stern

. Page 3.186.3 3 Each of the three-member design teams was assigned one of the following five principal phases:1. Power conversion and distribution system2. Vehicle Propulsion3. Mower Drive and position4. Vehicle steering and blade actuation5. Hydraulically powered accessories The coordination of various subsystem interfaces on the vehicle was essential in order for allsystems to operate efficiently and safely. In the photo Fig. 1, a typical systems coordination tookplace in a laboratory session. The responsibilities of each of the teams included, but were notrestricted to, the functional tasks implied by the title of the team. All teams have at their disposal the computer-based electronic catalogs

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1998 Annual Conference

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Hussein Anis

, equipment installation, commissioning, andutilization, and curriculum development and the preparation of renovated coursewarematerial. PROJECT OUTLINE AND POLICIESActivities Supported by EEDPLoan support for engineering education development under the EEDP project includedprovisions for development of engineering curricula and engineering education technology,procurement and commissioning of laboratory equipment, supply of instructional materials,including textbooks and library resources, academic fellowships and industrial attachmentsfor staff upgrading (both teaching and technical support staff), consultants and visiting

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1998 Annual Conference

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Mitchel Keil; Mary Beth Krysiak; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez

ittakes for smoke formation with a binder system will be developed. The concept and prototypehas received favorable opinions from the foundry industry, production and laboratory personnel.Further collaborations in this field, regarding this tester and other possible process control tools,are being contemplated.References nd1. AFS - American Foundrymen’s Society (1989). AFS Mold and Core Test Handbook, 2 edition, The AFS Inc.,Des Plaines, IL, pp. 313-314.2. Ahmed, S., Ramrattan, (1995). “Comparison of Handling Properties Using CO2 Activated Binder Systems,” AFSTransactions, vol. 38, pp. 81-85

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Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

and Motorolarespectively, with the help of our other industry partners. The design phase of this project wasjust completed and the construction has begun. First level completion is scheduled for October of1998. The teaching factory will be utilized to teach semiconductor-processing classes to ASUEast and CGCC students and those from other institutions on demand. It will also be used as atraining facility for industry employees.CGCC has developed excellent physical and biological sciences laboratories located on theWilliams Campus, for joint use of students from both institutions. CGCC is presently using theexisting microelectronics laboratory on ASU Main to teach their semiconductor-processingcourse that was jointly developed by ASU East and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Zoran S. Filipi; GuoQing Zhang; Dennis N. Assanis

Session 1658 Development of Interactive Graphical Software Tools in the Context of Teaching Modeling of Internal Combustion Engines in a Multimedia Classroom Dennis N. Assanis, Zoran S. Filipi and GuoQing Zhang W.E. Lay Automotive Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 ABSTRACT The strong tendency in the automotive industry to reduce development time throughvirtual prototyping and

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1997 Annual Conference

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Arnold F. Johnson

offers undergraduate engineering degree programs using videotape courses andon-campus laboratories to employees of a consortium which currently includes 3M, GE Plastics,Lucent Technologies, Intel Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Hutchinson Technology Inc., Conoco,Raychem, Little Hoop Community College, Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, IES IndustriesInc., ALCOA, Nortel, and Control Tech Inc.Under National Science Foundation (NSF) grant number DUE-9455466, entitled “EnhancedCurriculum for Undergraduate Engineering Adult Learners in Industry,” a one credit course wasdeveloped in the fall of 1995 to assess the CEDP adult learners’ backgrounds to determinewhether several of the standard introductory engineering courses would be of potential value

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1997 Annual Conference

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Kirk E. Hiles; David L. Walters; Vincent Wilczynski

digitizedvideo. While the instructors had hoped for better temporal resolution of the digitized video, the studentshad other priorities. There were two points in the egg drop experiment at which a force gauge was used. First, alaboratory set-up was used by the students to acquire force and distance data so that they might be able Page 2.71.3to deduce the proper stiffness and damping coefficients, on a per unit length basis, for use in theirpredictive models. The laboratory set-up consisted of a Vernier Software Incorporated force gauge. Thisforce gauge, uses a small copper beam to which the load is attached and a magnetic proximity