Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Harrah; Martha Cyr; Brad George

Session Number 2530 Timelines and Student Project Planning in Middle School Technology /Engineering Education Exercises Timothy Harrah1, Bradford George2 and Martha Cyr1 1 Tufts University Center for Engineering Education Outreach Tufts University, Medford, MA 02460 / 2 Hale Middle School Nashoba Regional School District, Stow, MA 01775AbstractIn the practice of professional engineering design, nearly all work is ultimatelycompleted in a team format and under a deadline. It is therefore relevant to reflect, onsome level, the demands of these real world

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 2480 K-12 Redux: Sending College Students Back (In) to Schools Elizabeth Parry, Dr. Laura J. Bottomley Science Surround, NC State University/NC State UniversityAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to communicate effective ways graduate and undergraduate collegestudents, particularly those in science and engineering, can be utilized as resources in K-12schools. Recruitment at middle and high schools is a tried and true way for university students toenhance an engineering college’s appeal. But there are a number of other ways the engineeringstudent can be a significant resource to both K-12

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer

the widespread use of integrated project teams, they are not always effective [1]. This istrue in both industrial and educational settings. One factor associated with team effectiveness isteam composition [2]. Because of the increasing number of women joining the work force overthe years; the gender effect on team performance has received attention. The results of previousstudies have been conflicting because some researchers have found homogeneous teams to bemore productive, whereas others have found the opposite to be true. Moreover, a recent studyfound the gender to be an insignificant variable for its effect on the performance of productdesign teams [3]. The duration of the design task included in this study was only 45 minutes.The effect

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

educators, in overcoming andaddressing these problems, necessitates the introduction of cheaper ways of delivering educationand attracting disfranchised groups to academic programs.This paper describes attempts by the authors to address the problem through distance education,home-practical kits with green methods, the Internet and special efforts directed at women.Elitist EducationEducation in the West is far more democratic and inclusive than in the rest of the World. This isrecognized in Table 1 which gives the enrolment in higher education, as given by UNESCO inits World Education Report 1, for the critical 18-22 age group for a sampling of countries. Thetable shows the disparities and improvements from 1985 to 1995. The World Bank’s

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

Session 2253 Introducing Design Throughout the Curriculum Gunter W. Georgi, Lorcan M. Folan, and David R. Doucette Department of Introductory Design and Science Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201AbstractPolytechnic University has embarked on a major effort to introduce Engineering design across itsentire curricula. This effort is across all majors and affects essentially every course. There areseveral features at its core:1. A 4-credit course in Freshman Engineering that introduces students to software and hardware tools, teamwork, written and verbal

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Raper

Session 3642 Engineering Management at UMR – Alumni Voices Stephen A. Raper, Ph.D., CPP Associate Professor Department of Engineering Management The University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe Department of Engineering Management at the University of Missouri-Rolla is amongthe oldest of its kind in the United States, and has over 2000 Bachelors level alumnigraduates. The Department will undergo ABET accreditation under the new assessmentbased criteria in the fall of 2002

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gary Frey

3238 Rapid Prototyping and Design: Partnerships between Business and Education Gary Frey, David Baird, Ted Loso, Raj Desai, Craig Downing Southeast Missouri State UniversityAbstractThis presentation examines the value of industry/Education cooperation in regard to improvingproduct development and sales as well as examining it’s effect on student scores, skills, and selfesteem. Additionally, the success of the resulting products in the marketplace is examined. Thecost of product development has caused a need for accessible and economical design

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Shamamy

Session 1620 Classroom Laptop Use by Students Patricia M. Shamamy, P.E. Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractOur university now requires that all incoming freshmen have laptops. Faculty have beenencouraged to develop uses for laptops in class. This paper describes three examples of studentlaptop use developed by a faculty member. The first example covers the use of Powerpoint tocreate simple drawings (not a Powerpoint presentation), the second covers the use of Excel tocreate stress-strain curves, and the third covers the use of a data base program to

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences for Env. Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jesse Condon; Chasity Williams; Benjamin Fratto; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

Session 3451 Membrane Experiments for Pollution Prevention Kauser Jahan 1 , Jesse Condon 1, Chasity Williams1 and Benjamin Fratto 2 1 Civil and Environmental Engineering 2 Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701AbstractA major objective of the Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics at Rowan University is tointroduce students to open-ended design projects. The purpose of the clinic classes is to provideengineering students with a hands-on, multidisciplinary experience throughout their collegeeducation

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

early in their college experience. Many ET programsface the common challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified students. At the same time,substantial portions of the incoming students lack basic skills in math and science that are neededfor them to succeed in ET. Consequently, some introductory ET courses teach basic math andscience while exposing student to career opportunities in ET.This paper discusses the experience of faculty teaching Introduction to Engineering Technology,IET 120, over the past seven years. The course has gradually shifted from a pure lecture formatto incorporate hands-on activities, plant tours, and design-and-build projects. A questionnairewas developed to assess the effectiveness of the changes in the course. The

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

, active and collaborativelearning are not widely used in technical programs. For these and other reasons, manyengineering and technology students often find themselves frustrated and sometimes lose interestin pursuing such degrees. The present paper outlines a creative approach to curriculumdevelopment and delivery that is designed to improve engineering and technology education andto bring real-world problems to the classroom. In fact, this is one objective of the three-yearNSF-funded grant ($1.8 million) entitled “The South-East Advanced Technological EducationConsortium, SEATEC.” The consortium is a collaborative effort of five institutions acrossTennessee. Each team at the host institution includes multi-disciplinary faculties

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

teams across Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. Eachteam includes multi-disciplinary faculty members and industry partners. A brief account of thegrant’s activities will be described and a model case targeted for an introductory course in circuitanalysis will be presented.I. IntroductionIn today’s fast changing world, companies spend large amounts of money on staff training anddevelopment. To reduce costs and training time, employers are increasingly interested inworking closely with higher education institutions to transfer the classroom into a real-worldlearning experience. In addition, employers are interested in improving the way employees applytheir acquired knowledge and skills to new settings or situations.At the same time, one of the

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raymond Kliewer

evidence that the results are applied for ongoing programimprovement. Plans for continuous improvement are a part of the current criteria, but theemphasis of continuous improvement is increasing. Current programs may be weak inoutcomes assessment and the feedback element under the new criteria.The new TAC of ABET criteria are less specific and thus more flexible. This will allowmore diversity among engineering technology programs. Controls must be in place toensure that program changes are truly improvements and that academic programs are notcontinuously disrupted by many poorly planned changes. Changes developed with goodintentions may yield unforeseen deleterious effects. Programs having identical or similartitles may serve different student

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 1460 Are Current Engineering Graduates in the US Being Treated as Commodities by Employers? Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst James Madison UniversityAbstractThe employment scene for professionals of all sorts becomes more volatile with eachdecade. In engineering, graduates of past generations could reasonably look forward to alinear career trajectory characterized by upward mobility and advancement. A

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

Session 2406 OVERVIEW OF SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN CONSTRUCTION Geraldine Peten, Anil Sawhney and William Badger Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) at Arizona State University (ASU) receivedfunding to develop a site to provide research experiences for undergraduate students in the field ofconstruction management. The site attracted thirteen high caliber undergraduate students from civilengineering, construction engineering/management, and architectural engineering programs fromacross the

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn Berne

thehuman body are far-fetched dreams. To others, such aims represent the inevitability oftechnology’s evolution. Even if only in the realm of the imagination, recent technologicaldevelopments represent very exciting possibilities for yet uncharted human experience.What would it mean if, and when, humans no longer are threatened by loss of bodily lifeand function due to disease and deterioration of living tissue? Clearly, it could representthe ultimate of freedom and possibility. Of course, such uses of technology would alsoinevitably mean formidable ethical problems to be resolved.The Unusual Value of Intergenerational LearningThis paper describes a teaching journey of discovery that began last winter with a lectureI delivered to the retired

Conference Session

Collection Issues Forum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bernier

Session 2541 Linking Electronic Resources to Save Research Time Richard R. Bernier Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractSifting through the mix of print and electronic resources of today’s hybrid academic libraries canbe a daunting task. Although meant to make the process of finding information easier for users,today’s electronic resources often make research more difficult and baffling for many. One wayto address this problem is by merging commercial online databases with other electronicresources, and with the library’s OPAC through a series of links and special features nowavailable in most commercial

Conference Session

Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

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KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

Session 2615 What does it mean to be an engineer? The 2001 Challenge to Engineering Educators S. Yost, A. Phillips, P. Palazolo, K.C. Mahboub Univ. of Kentucky/Univ. of Memphis/ Univ. of Memphis/ Univ. of KentuckyAbstractDean Kamen’s keynote speech at the 2001 ASEE National Convention in Albuquerque, NewMexico asked some tough questions of engineering educators. Primarily, Kamen questionedwhat we are doing to represent engineering as a viable career choice in comparison to thewidespread appeal of lucrative sports careers, which promise to pay young people extraordinaryamounts of money. His conclusion

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Hollein; Nada Assaf-Anid

Session ____ Incorporating Biotechnology in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum Nada M. Assaf-Anid and Helen C. Hollein Chemical Engineering Department Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471Abstract: The projected growth of the biotechnology industry in the coming decades warrantschanges in traditional chemical engineering curricula. To meet this new challenge, ManhattanCollege has implemented curriculum changes that aim at preparing graduates to meet thedemands of the food and pharmaceutical industry with a basic knowledge of biology andbiochemistry for

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hall

software for the conduct of electronics lab courses on line is givenas background information and used as a backdrop for the on-line laboratory pedagogy.Subsequently, the development of laboratory courses in DC circuits and AC circuits is discussed.Course content, course pedagogy, and course management are included. Successes andweaknesses from our initial attempts and information gleaned from continuing research arepresented. Finally, there are suggestions for others who are developing, or contemplating, on-line EET laboratory courses.I. IntroductionNorthwestern State University of Louisiana is taking steps to increase access to education byusing several technologically oriented methods in distance education. At the same time, theuniversity has

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Smith

portable ground equipment carried to Alaska by the PCSatlaunch support team.With PCSat, USNA joins Weber State University and the United States Air ForceAcademy (USAFA) in the small group of purely undergraduate institutions that haveenjoyed success with student-designed and built small satellites.The PCSat development effort was an ambitious attempt to inject reality into the FirstClass (senior) design experience for Astronautics students. The Department of AerospaceEngineering requires Astronautics students to complete a spacecraft design course(EA470) during the spring semester of their First Class year. This course challenges thestudents to consolidate and focus all of the mathematical, scientific, and engineeringskills acquired in the major

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

Session 1520 To See or not to See: Access Restrictions on Course Web Sites Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractLast November’s issue of ASEE Prism had a cover story [1] on the MIT Open CoursewareInitiative. MIT attracted widespread attention earlier in 2001 for its decision to make all itscourse Web sites publicly available over the Web. However, not everyone is following suit. Thenumber of courses with access restrictions has surged in the past year, with perhaps the majorityof course sites now

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andre Mund; Mohammed Haque

Session 1421 Loads on Shores and Slabs during Multistory Structure Construction: An Artificial Neural Network Approach Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E., André Mund, M.S. Texas A&M University, TX/Arizona State University, AZAbstractNeural computing is a relatively new field of artificial intelligence (AI), which tries to mimic thestructure and operation of biological neural systems, such as the human brain, by creating anArtificial Neural Network (ANN) on a computer. Artificial Neural Networks have the ability tobe trained by example. Patterns in a series of input and output values of example

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

1. Session2002-179 An Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at WVUTech M. Sathyamoorthy Office of the Dean, Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Montgomery, WV 25136.AbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a graduate program in ControlSystems Engineering at the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering in West VirginiaUniversity Institute of Technology (WVUTech). This unique interdisciplinary program is directedtowards professional engineering practice and includes internships for those who can be

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Davis

engineering classes in the same traditional manner: theprofessor masters all the knowledge, assigns readings and homework, and spends the class timereciting the knowledge, working problems, and/or fostering discussion. The teacher serves as thefocal point for student learning, and his or her role in the classroom is that of dispenser ofknowledge and arbiter of conceptual disputes. The teaching-learning model could be describedas a wagon-wheel or star model, with all students (S) oriented to and dependent upon theprofessor (P) as the source of information and interactions. Figure 1, Teacher-Centered Learning ModelIn the traditional model, students see themselves as the recipients of knowledge. Their role is tolisten

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ismail Orabi

Session 2168 Application of LabVIEW for Undergraduate Lab Experiments On Materials Testing Ismail I. Orabi University of New HavenAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of LabVIEW, in a torsion experiment in the MechanicsLaboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Haven, to allowthe acquisition of real time data for display, analysis, control and storage. The input moment andthe angle of twist are measured directly from torsion transducers. The real-time measurementsand display acquired waveforms

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jamie Workman

Session 3149 MET, AFS, and FEF: University, Industry, and Foundation Collaboration That Works Jamie K. Workman Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisIntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) department at Indiana University - PurdueUniversity, Indianapolis (IUPUI), the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Foundry Society(AFS), and the Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) have had a long, successful partnershipof preparing, promoting, and producing exceptional students ready for employment in themetalcasting industry. This relationship

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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Enno Koehn

Session 2406 ETHICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING STUDENTS AND PRACTITITIONERS Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractEngineering Ethics may be defined as the study of moral topics in engineering. In fact,according to some ethical philosophers, engineering may be conceived as a social experimentinvolving human subjects.In general, engineering students with minimum work experience were found to rate, with threeexceptions, the frequency and seriousness of ethical issues lower than students with engineer ingwork experience, members of the

Conference Session

TYCD 2002 Lower Division Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Cecere

Two-Year Construction Curriculums: Industry Revisits Its Recommendations Joseph J. Cecere,Ph.D.,CPC Pennsylvania State University HarrisburgAbstractThe objective of an educational program is to provide the necessary information and skills forits graduates to perform successfully in a chosen profession. However, this goal may provedifficult if the curriculum is not revised and updated to keep abreast of the changes andadvancements being made, especially in the industrial world. Over a period of time, thecontent and applications of a successful program become old and needs to be revised.A

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stefan Bartels; Holger Dahms; John Gassert; Jens Thiedke; Owe Petersen

Session 3560 EAC Accreditation of an Integrated Bi-directional International Engineering Exchange Program Owe Petersen, John Gassert / Stefan Bartels, Holger Dahms, Jens Thiedke Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA / Fachhochschule Lübeck, GermanyAbstractThe Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has partnered with the Fachhochschule Lübeck(FHL), University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany to establish a unique bi-directionalinternational student exchange program that is totally integrated into the curricula of eachinstitution. Students from both MSOE and the FHL have a common junior year