Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

completing the six-week on-campus session, students receive academic creditand are able to advance to the second portion of the program, which occurs during the summerfollowing the junior year.The second portion of the program is an off-campus, minimum ten week, paid internship. Theinternship program was created in response to companies’ desires to hire graduates with actualexposure to industry practices. The experience gives students exposure to everyday planning andproblem-solving activities in the organization and puts them in contact with managerial staff inthe organization. Internships come in three forms, project-oriented, shadow-to-an-executive, orexecutive assistance, with the last two being the preferred types. An effective

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

a decision matrix to select the best of the remaining designs.Design Evaluation: Using the performance measure formula as a starting point, eachteam was to come up with a set of objectives and constraints that their potential designsshould try to meet. A weighting factor was to be associated with each objective. Usingthese objectives and constraints, a decision matrix was developed which would later beused to evaluate and compare the team's different developed designs.Task Planning: Teams were given the due dates for the project, including dates whenprogress reports were due, the competition date, and the presentation dates. They wereassigned to develop a list of tasks that needed to be completed prior to each due date andthen develop an

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

important aspectof this second phase has been the handoff of the project from one team of students to thenext. Information transfer has been smooth, and continuity has been maintained. Theexperiences of the students in working through this phase of the project are described.IntroductionThe Microturbine Demonstration Project is a collaboration among the Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering, the City of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy.The City of Milwaukee was planning the renovation of a city-owned building into a smalloffice complex. City engineers hoped to incorporate cutting-edge energy technology intothe building redesign. Their choice was installation of a 60-kW microturbinemanufactured by Capstone Turbine Corporation, along

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

launched, there must be a ground station for the operationof the satellite while in flight. While planning the launch of FS-1, the Department ofDefense Space Test Program needed a ground station in the United States for a micro-satellite named PICOSAT. PICOSAT was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd(SSTL) in Guildford, UK and was partially funded through the DoD ForeignComparative Testing Program. This ground station was located in the USAFA SpaceSystems Research Center (SSRC). The ground station for FS-1 was collocated with thePICOSAT Ground Station and has developed into the present system. A floor plan of thepresent FalconSAT Ground Station is illustrated in Figure 6. The PICOSAT section ofthe Ground Station is an automated system and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

course include orbital fundamentals, rocket fundamentals, andan introduction to space mission planning/operations. In addition to outside lecturers from thespace operations community, teaching aids used in the course include the following: 1. Large and hand-held orbital elements models, (“whiz wheels”) to illustrate orbital fundamentals; 2. Computer-based demonstrations such as STK to illustrate orbital characteristics; 3. Full-size examples and models of past and present satellites and rockets and their subsystems; 4. A demonstrational micro-satellite that has fully functional compartmentalized subsystems.The micro-satellite is particularly helpful in illustrating the physical concepts, components

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Page 9.931.1number of learning objectives including developing team and computer skills, creative problem Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsolving, and effective project planning that are addressed through a team-based conceptualdesign experience. The content and delivery method of ENGR 1201 are quite similar to otherschools where the initial course in engineering is common to all majors2,3,4. The class is amixture of lectures that give “engineering survival skills” (computer, library, professional)combined with a semester-long team project that requires planning, conceptual design, and

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

severalyears. In early 2001, the College of Engineering & Computer Science (CECS) formed acommittee to come up with a plan to address the math-related retention issues at WSU. Thecommittee proposed the idea of developing an engineering course which would teach thestudents only the math they really needed to know in order to progress into their sophomore andjunior years. The committee surveyed the various departments to determine exactly whatmathematics material was critical for their core engineering courses, and developed a pilotprogram to test the feasibility of the concept. The proposed content of EGR 101 consists of the mathematical prerequisites for thefollowing core engineering courses: PHY 240-244 (General Physics I, II and III), ME

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

Education Session 3260has Spring vacations from February 20 to April 5. Our plan was to let the UGA classes tocontinue as normal and to record these lectures during these "time gaps" for later use by the KUstudents when they get back in class, then in May we would teach directly to the KU studentsonly, as the UGA students had finished their term.All assignments and tests from the Athens students will be handled in the traditional manner.The same assignments will be distributed to KU students using e-mail and collected from themthe same way. However these e-assignments will be corrected using a Tablet PC system whereasthe instructor can manually mark up

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

and a tribal collegehave been formed to address issues that challenge their respective communities. The objectiveof this exchange is two fold: 1) educate engineering students on concepts of sustainability andthe practices and tradition of native cultures and 2) to partner with individuals in the communityon the deployment of energy efficient and sustainable technologies. These objectives bothpromote lifecycle thinking with respect to the investment in better efficient facilities. This paperpresents early lessons learned in the partnership through team work, leadership, problem solving,project planning and delivery combined with global awareness, cultural sensitivity, andversatility through this cross-disciplined, cross- cultural exchange of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

specific skills to teach. Any instructor teaching a junior-level course in a crowded curriculum is bound to ask, “Is it worthwhile for me to sacrifice classtime from teaching biomedical engineering in order to help students improve their writing? Isthis trade-off a good one?” Careful planning is necessary therefore to ensure that the writingassignment will indeed support key course goals and not just be a superfluous assignment thatstudents will perceive as busy work. In BMD ENG 301, both team-based writing assignmentsfocus on topics that students need to explore: • How information is coded in the nervous system • The recovery of neural function through biological or artificial meansThe first assignment especially, because of its

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

much as by plan. We will also have to becareful not to emphasize the use of the Internet to the exclusion of other sources. Table 2. Use of Information Technology in Instruction Course Electronic E-Mail Internet Submission Collaboration Searches CHEE 201 Material & Energy Balances I X CHEE 202 Material & Energy Balances II X CHEE 230 Modeling & Analysis X X CHEE 310 Process Fluid Mechanics X CHEE 311 Heat Transfer Operations X CHEE 312 Mass Transfer Equipment Design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmediated learning environment. Our presentation includes examples of how to constructassignments that fully exploit these CPR™ capabilities. Figure 2: Conceptual View of the “Writing/Revision Process” Instantiated by CPR™How Does CPR™ Measure Learning Outcomes?Good instructional design depends on having both objectives (desired outcomes) and a plan (ameans of accomplishment). As illustrated in the seven levels of Figure 2, the instructor sets thegoals in the writing prompt and thus initiates a guided inductive-path for attaining them bysetting expectations (performance standards) that are reverberated

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

, during which the ant presented its victory dance featuring the moonwalk.Solution DiscussionWe are proud to say that our ant ran the race the way it was planned to do so. It went around theracetrack twice and presented its victory dance without fail. However, it was not the fastestamongst its competitors, which is the one point that must be worked on.Planned Design ChangesThe ant was designed with a pulley system that moved its legs. The pulley system was ultimatelyattached to the driving wheels, which can have a fatal result if the wheels were damaged from theforces acting on it by the pulleys. For this reason, the design should be changed by attaching thepulley system to another rotating device that will not hinder the driving wheels

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

encouraged to “use common terminology,” a process that was notalways easy for instructors from English, math, chemistry, and engineering to do. Facultymembers from the four disciplines met to brainstorm strategies of cross-disciplinary assignmentsfor their cohorts. What these meetings did not consist of were plans to teach heavy-ladengrammar exercises or formatting of letters and reports.Although many faculty members from the English department initially feared that thiscollaboration would consist of only one-sided change (i.e., only the English classes wouldincorporate cross-disciplinary strategies), it became clear in the early meetings that this indeedwas a collaborative effort to give this group of engineering students an effectively

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shallcross

bund is known as the spillcollection compound, the containment area or the bunded area.Figure 1 shows plan and elevation views of a typical spill collection compound that contains twoequally-sized tanks. The two tanks are completed surrounded by the bund which is essentially awall between 1.0 m and 1.5 m in height. Also shown in the diagram are the paved road and pipetrack networks. A network of paved roads is needed in a bulk liquid chemical storage facility topermit free and unobstructed movement around the site. The pipe tracks contain the network ofpipes used to move the liquids stored in the facility between the tanks and the loading andunloading points. In Figure 1 the pipe network is shown as being in a trench, passing beneath

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Denise Hayman

. Page 7.4.10 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” This issue in the Roadmap brings into question how a student might respond to thetechnical course load. It is true that students typically have the freedom to select the number andtypes of courses they wish, but when not carefully planned the behavioral responses to a heavytechnical course load can result in an unwelcome challenge. There are several behavioral resultsthat may surface. A student may 1) become stressed out; (2) experience time managementproblems; (3) feel overwhelmed; (4) experience burn out; (5) lack a social life; (6

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Koen

Personalized System of Instruction More than one asynchronous self-paced learning strategy exists. We focus on one of them,the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) or the Keller Plan, because of the extensive researchin its effectiveness in a non-web-based situation. Theoretically, it puts students on a variable ratioschedule. To implement the PSI method,5,6 course material is divided into units, each containing areading assignment, study questions, co-lateral references, study problems, and any necessaryintroductory or explanatory material. The student studies the units sequentially at the rate, time,and place he or she prefers. When he feels that he has completely mastered the material, a proctorgives him or her a readiness test

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

hands-on experience. Page 8.697.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the computer assisted manufacturing course, fixed and flexible automation, computer aidedprocess planning, computer control of manufacturing systems, group technology and cellularmanufacturing, CAD/CAM integration, and programming on CNC machining center andnumerically controlled devices are emphasized. They also work on term projects illustratingcomputer aided design and manufacturing concepts.ISE 402 and 403

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

marketplace wouldthey need to begin this workshop? After much discussion, we decided that the audience for thepilot course would be upper-level engineering undergraduate students and graduate students whoare interested in entrepreneurial opportunities. Once the prototype curriculum was created for ourinitial audience, we intend to adapt and modify the curriculum for a broader range of audiences.Next, the team struggled with course objectives. Any good course planning begins with writingcourse objectives: why is this material being taught, and what should students be expected toknow and demonstrate at the end? Course objectives perform three important functions byguiding the instructional process; providing a framework for evaluation and assessment

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Layton

, one student has submitted the final report of his team’s project to a conference onsymbolic computation and a second student is planning to present her team’s project at a studentconference.4. Dymola tutorialsComputer simulation, in this case, the numerical solution of initial-value problems in ODEs andDAEs using DYMOLA, is one of the main course topics. The author wrote elementary tutorials forthe first two lab/project periods to help students gain basic proficiency in using DYMOLA. Theobjective of Lab 1 is to use DYMOLA to create a model, solve the ODE, and plot the results. Theobjective of Lab 2 is to use MATLAB to import and plot results from DYMOLA simulations. Both

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

theimplementation of an eSI program. Furthermore, there is historical evidence indicating thesuccessfulness of properly implemented SI programs.3, 5 This evidence is based upon severalfactors including comparison of the grades of students who attended SI sessions versus those thatdid not attend, decreasing dropout rates in “high risk” courses, and removing the “high risk” labelfrom those classes that exhibited significant improvement in pass/fail rates. The intervals will belabeled by their associated test (i.e., Test 1 interval, Test 2 interval, and Test 3 interval).Test 1 IntervalDuring the Test 1 interval, the eSI leader and distance education students were engaged heavily inlearning the new software used for this course. The initial plans for the eSI

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

participation rates leave a lot to be desired and provide incentive to design a betterassessment plan for the second pilot. However, they also tell a story in and of themselves.Students in the experimental class continued attending near the end of the semester, even knowingthey were not required to do so, at a far greater rate than the students in either of the other twogroups.The survey conducted listed eight course objectives (Table 2) and asked the students to rate, on a5-point ordinal scale, their abilities related to the specific objectives.Ignoring the control class, due to the small sample size, requires that these data be taken morelightly than might otherwise have been possible. This is because of the effect of class size on thelearning

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry; James Farison

primary-type programs responding to the survey allindicated that a holistic, broad-based education, facilitated by the flexibility of a single program,was a key institutional value. (However, two of those schools also indicated plans to movetoward separately accredited discipline-specific programs.)These exceptions aside, the trend supports the hypothesis. The remaining two primary- Page 8.1113.5philosophical schools have an average initial accreditation date of 2000. The remaining 17 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

, Page 8.1026.1 American Society for Engineering Education”This paper describes an effort to develop a series of tutorial sand support materials that can beused in undergraduate materials science courses. It describes the design criteria, the contents ofeach part of the whole package, three current implementations and plans for trying them out incommunity college and high school classrooms.BackgroundFor the past five years the author’s courses have included carefully chosen assignments thatwould be easy to complete using spreadsheets but tedious if using only a calculator. Moststudents stuck with the techniques they already knew and spent a lot of time punching the keyson their calculator, with little time or

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

at theeducational department of the Society the commission on the organization of the domesticreading developed detailed regular plans and programs on various branches of knowledge,bibliographic indexes, lists of questions for control 9 . Training was conducted bycorrespondence. To the persons who have expressed a desire to be engaged in self-educationunder the direction of the commission, necessary books and brochures were sent, the subjectsof abstracts were offered. About 150 professors and teachers of Moscow University andother educational institutions took part in the work of the commission. The professor ofhistory from Moscow University P.G.Vinogradov headed the commission. In January 1897,the commission had 449 subscribers (73,5% - men

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

workshop team.Teachers were given intensive hands-on instruction on educational web design, and createdmaterials and resources to use in the process of integrating this instructional medium into theirteaching of mathematics, science, and language arts. Thus, the afternoon sessions were devotedto allowing teachers considerable amount of time to work together within their teams to plan anddevelop their projects.The focus of the projects that the teachers created were centered around an integrated lesson thatallowed the teachers to build on national standards in his or her own curricular area. The pointof this focus was to have the teachers build a series of activities that would not only give theirstudents the opportunity to construct their own

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Boyd; Alan Insleay; Geza Joos

tolearning of just memorizing a collection of formulas, diagrams and algorithms. Whereaswhat is needed is a well-organized meta-cognitive self-management (planning, andexecution-monitoring)strategy if they are ever to be able to generate deep coherentunderstandings of how specific techniques are derived from basic principles andcontextual constraints(boundary conditions).In addition, teaching in Engineering has come under pressure from the new technologicalenvironment and the new industry demands and constraints:(a) “Just in time, just on topic” instruction is increasingly demanded by students and potential employers.(b) Modularity and adaptability in the selection and organization of course topics are highly desirable.(c) Breadth of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

note taking, groupwork, project planning, evaluation, presentation, and practical lab skills to the moretypical objectives of an introductory physics course. We have continued to develop“tangibles” and “ponderables” and students seem to be learning substantially more thanin traditional settings, both in terms of conceptual understanding and problem solvingability. During the coming year we plan to develop materials that are especially aimed athelping students with varying learning styles. Other universities continue to be interestedin our materials and we are organizing them for paper and web distribution. Additionalinformation is available at www.ncsu.edu/PER.IV. Acknowledgements We would like to thank the FIPSE program of the U.S

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

that new faculty need tools to help make their teaching activities more fulfilling and successful; this tenet has been critical in our planning and implementation of the new faculty workshop.7. A new faculty workshop cannot possibly address all the concerns that new faculty have regarding their positions. After several iterations, we have adopted a one and a half-day format for our workshop. Even if we scheduled a three or four-day workshop, it seems unlikely that we could adequately address all the concerns raised in the literature regarding Page 5.430.3 new faculty [3, 4, 7]. And of course, even if we tried the faculty would be so

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth D. West; Craig W. Smith

President and the year before a new Academic Dean had been hired.The upheaval in administration created a screen of confusion. Our division chairperson wasinterested in the project and assigned both of us to some of the same courses. Our teachingloads dropped from 15 -18 hrs to12-15 hrs and no one seemed to notice.Getting Our BalanceOur plan called for the two of us to start with the reform of a single course in the Fall of 1997.The course was Physics 241, the first of a two-course calculus-based sequence. Our hope wasthat we could learn enough about the reform process by collaborating on a single course that wecould each take the lead on another course the next semester.We reviewed the work of several researchers in physics education including