Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Pfarr

manufacturing enterprises dependsheavily on the availability of highly skilled professionals, technicians, and production associatesbecause of rapidly changing technology, ever increasing customer expectations, and fierce globalcompetition.Many resources exist to assist manufacturing educators in creating effective curricula, courses,and learning activities. However, it is difficult for educators to become knowledgeable aboutwhat is available, how to access it, and how to put it into action in their own programs. Manyfine projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Society of ManufacturingEngineers, and others have produced exemplary materials, but they have difficulty disseminatingthem to potential users around the country. Identifying

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

revised their engineering curricula. As the investigators described it,“this project will help continue our transformation from an institution focused onteaching to one focused on learning (emphasis original). Our emphasis on pedagogicaland process innovations will complement the newly created curricular programs so thatour entire academic culture will be transformed to one of continuous improvement of thelearning/teaching endeavor.” To this end, the grant would help fund development of newtexts, laboratory experiments, and both hardcopy and multimedia course materials.This paper discusses one aspect of the funding: enhancing faculty effectiveness byfunding mini-grants to develop, pilot, and implement new materials, procedures, andcourses within

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

forthose meetings. Class meetings should not be dominated by lectures. There is a certain tendencyto feel that the students must be busy every minute in class or that time is being wasted,but if the students are productive only 30 -50 % of the class time they will still be doingand accomplishing more than a typical lecture class. If the technology is available, thestudents should be encouraged to cruise the internet during class, for that is one of themain ways they will gain basic and background information for the project. Laying the groundwork for a particular problem should take no more than one 50minute lecture period. After that the students should be encouraged to seek informationfrom the instructor by asking for specific

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

have worked with the magnet specialist at Estacado HighSchool to develop four high school courses in engineering:4 • Technology in Engineering and Architecture, • Project Management and Basic Engineering and Architecture • Product Engineering and Architecture • Engineering & Architecture Applications and ProfessionalismWhat emerged from the TEKS workshop is the eight-volume TEKS Teachers ResourceGuide. Each grade level has six parts: • Systems • Critical Thinking • Scientific tools • Communication • Patterns and Structures • TechnologyWithin all six categories, and in almost all of the disciplines, the teachers were able tofind ways to integrate engineering concepts, from identifying patterns using DUPLOblocks

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harder

course consists of three hours oflecture and one three-hour laboratory per week. Teams which consisted of two students eachdesigned and developed laboratory experiments for this new course at a fraction the cost that itwould have taken to purchase similar experiments from an outside vendor. In the process, thestudents gained useful insights into thermal design methodology and developed a greaterappreciation for the fundamentals of heat transfer, than would have been realized by simplyperforming “canned” experiments. Student design teams prepared a full laboratory handout aswell as an operations manual as a part of their laboratory experiment design projects. Teamswere given a fixed budget and were required to submit a cost analysis with their

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Session 2005-2282 MIND Links: Resources for Minority Students and Minority Faculty María M. Larrondo Petrie College of Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida USAAbstract. MIND is the acronym for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)MINorities in Engineering Division. One of its latest initiatives is the MIND Links project togather useful web links and information on resources that would allow minority students andminority faculty to find and take full advantage of the myriad of programs and informationdesigned to promote their participation in the engineering and

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

though the modelsare only approximate, feedback control can compensate for these modeling errors, and (3) realmotors have limits on gains, which must be included in their design.BackgroundOver the past few years our introductory controls class (ECE-320) has been taught primarily withlaboratories that consisted of weekly Simulink and Matlab projects. These projects includedtransfer function and state space models of systems. Many nonlinear effects, such as limits onmotor speed or torque, were easily incorporated into simulations with Simulink. However, thestudents often were left with the belief that the system models were exact, and did not appreciatethe nonlinear effects we tried to add to the system models. In short, the students felt the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Niyazov; Mahmoud Ardebili

D P B Motor Drum Brake Belt A E Belt B C D Figure 5. Belt and Torque exercise Photographs of some of the exercises used in the laboratory are presented in appendix. Conclusion Laboratory assignments have become a significant part of the syllabus for the mechanics courses. First two projects- Equilibrium of

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Smith; Scott Dunning

, a necessity for advancement.While a BSEE program was available locally through the University of Southern Maine (USM)it was not deemed appropriate for the particular group of technicians targeted for the program.Rather, a BSEET was felt to be more tractable for these individuals for several reasons. Much ofthe coursework which the technicians had taken was from technical colleges. Credits from theseinstitutions would not transfer into a BSEE program as readily as they would into a BSEET.Also, the particular skill sets projected to be required for these individuals favored the more“hands-on” focus of the BSEET.There were several challenges that needed to be overcome to serve the needs of the technicians.First, the nearest BSEET program

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

is being overlooked. Exam and quiz problems,laboratory and project reports, oral presentations, and homework assignments, which arestandard in virtually all engineering courses, generate assessment data that can be usednot only for computing a student’s course grade, but also in a quantitative way forprogram level assessment and feedback. In fact, a few schools have reported that gradeson assignments and examinations in individual courses has been the single most usefulassessment instrument, providing feedback both to the student and to the instructor.Important differences between the method suggested herein and the practice of using rawcourse grades (transcript data), average class grades, or other “smeared” data aredescribed. The system

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

quickly get out of hand when nothing is done to prevent them andto help students deal with them when they occur. The way to maximize the benefits of teamwork is to use cooperative learning, a subset ofcollaborative learning in which the instructor builds in measures to assure that five conditions aremet:1. Positive interdependence. The students have to rely on one another for the effort to be successful.2. Individual accountability. Each team member is held accountable for everything in the Page 9.1226.4 assignment or project, and not just the part for which he or she may have had primary Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

Session 2177 Supporting Graduate Students: A Catalog of Opportunities Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionFinding support for graduate students in Nuclear Engineering can be a challenge. Many studentsare supported as Graduate Research Associates (GRA) on faculty projects, and some serve asGraduate Teaching Associates (GTA) helping to teach undergraduate nuclear engineeringcourses. As enrollments in Nuclear Engineering programs grow, the number of promisingstudents can exceed the number of traditional GRA and GTA positions available. There are,however, a

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

; Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education improvement initiatives however, the concept augments assessment data to make the program improvement process more continuous.Further discussion about the continuous improvement/assessment process will follow in theappropriate sections below.IV. Strategic PlanningTC2K Accreditation can be thought of as a large project, and, as with all large projects,considerable up-front work should precede action. This is the Plan portion of Figure 1. Mostindustry and academic experts agree that a strategic plan should encompass approximately afive-year period, so it fits well with the program objectives mentioned earlier. At PUC, strategicPlanning for the

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Kauffmann

engineering management can or should mean in particular towork place success of graduates. Anecdotal examples abound that relate how traditionalengineering programs have eliminated credit hours related to engineering management orientedtopical areas such as engineering economy or project management in lieu of subject matter thathas been outdated by the simple digital computer and commonly available software.This issue can be clearly seen by a cursory review of the well known “a-k” outcomes contained inABET accreditation criteria in Exhibit 1. A comparison of the course titles in many engineeringprograms with these outcomes will quickly reveal a disjoint in being able to tie several of them toany of the titles. Although these schools are currently

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

Instructional Resources for a Technician-Level Plasma Technology Course David M. Hata Portland Community CollegeAbstractText materials, training systems, and supporting laboratory exercises have been developedby Portland Community College to support a technician-level course in plasmatechnology. Faculty workshops are planned for 2003 and 2004 to equip communitycollege faculty to teach technician-level courses in plasma technology. The project isfunded through an Advanced Technological Education Program grant from the NationalScience Foundation.IntroductionPlasma technology, although not as pervasive in the wafer fab as vacuum technology

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

to us by other human beings. A third element that especially applies totechnical students is the availability of parts and equipment to perform laboratory experiments and appliedlearning activities. Most schools have well equipped laboratories, staffed with laboratory assistants toguide the students through assigned projects. Remote students traditionally have had to get parts andequipment on their own, rely on available local facilities, use only computer synthesis of the laboratoryexperiments, or not do the hardware part of the learning exercises at all.Working on a grant from the Utah Educational Council and funding from Orchid Educational Enterprises,Inc. (OrchEd ®); Dr. Summers researched methods of remote presentation of technical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott T. Miller; Andrew C. Arvin; Francesco Costanzo

Educationa project called the Virtual Laboratory” (VL) was initiated four years ago to bring newtools to the theoretical mechanics classroom that better illustrate how the mathematicalformalisms used in continuum mechanics, elasticity, and strength of materials model thedeformation of materials. In other words, the VL project primary goal is not that of de-scribing real materials, but that of illustrating how a material is forced to behave whendescribed by a given mathematical model. Therefore, in a way, the VL project intends toplace the material characterization problem “on its head,” that is, to make students bet-ter modelers by making them pay attention to what the mathematical language they endup using is actually allowing them to say. The main

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

Session 2530 A Survey of Authentic Teaching in Secondary Math and Science Classrooms Tamy L. Fry1 , Teri Reed Rhoads 1 , Mark Nanny 2 and Mary John O’Hair3 The University of Oklahoma School of Industrial Engineering 1 School of Civil Engineering and Enviro nmental Science 2 Center for Educational and Community Renewal3Abstract The Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) is a project funded through the National ScienceFoundation GK-12 program in which University of Oklahoma Fellows from engineering andeducation

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

respective laboratories. These teams areexpected to work together, both performing lab tasks related to course learning objectives anddeveloping project solutions outside of class. Nurturing the relationships between members ofthese lab teams is important in assuring a positive experience for all students in the course. Tothat end, laboratory sections are assigned seating blocks in the lecture hall, with studentsinstructed to sit with their teammates. By seating by blocks, instructors are not burdened byassigning seats and the students have the flexibility of sitting in a configuration that best suitsthem. Furthermore, students are prevented from becoming isolated by always being seated withacquaintances, however forced. The direct benefit of this

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

engineering programs in the country are re-examining the design content in theircurriculum. Engineering curricula is being modified to incorporate vertical integration of designthrough large projects between the first year and the last year of their programs. By interactingwith industry, the product design students become familiar with the steps in creative productdesign starting from the concepts to production and marketing. New approaches are provided toenable students to learn how to work smarter. In view of the recent development in leanmanufacturing and information technology, emphasis on value stream mapping and its influenceon product development is important. A good product design course should familiarize theproduct designers and students

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

teaching. The reason for theslow rate of growth in using this new technology for teaching entirely online courses inengineering is not apparent. In Wyoming, there is even a greater need for online delivery ofbasic engineering courses so that transfer students, most of who live in distant and remote areas,and other prospective students can prepare themselves prior to arriving on campus. In Spring2000, with the sponsorship of the Engineering College and the School of Extended Studies, thelead author proposed and initiated a project to design, develop, and deliver a complete onlinecourse in Engineering Thermodynamics that would satisfy the University of Wyoming’srequirement for the accredited degree in engineering. The authors, then, did research

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCombs; David Pratt; John Nazemetz

the ability of the student to control thetype and duration of the stimuli. Presentation modes have been a subject of prior study andsummary documents are available in the literature [4,7].II.1. Traditional ClassroomIn the traditional classroom, there are several simultaneous modes of information transfer andstimuli. For example, information can be transferred via • The Instructor, • Other Students, and/or • Media, such as - Computer Screen Projections, - Projected Images and Text (Overheads), - VCRs, or - Blackboard/Whiteboard.With the traditional classroom approach, the students can choose to focus on any

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos G. Spaht

that have been included in the strategy of LaPREP and which shouldbe included in plans of similar programs.A. Advisory committee. The formation of such a committee should be the first order of business. Prominent school board, city council, education, business and religious leaders should be members. The committee serves as a two-way communication mechanism, receiving as well as contributing information. Additional one-on-one meetings may be held between certain committee members and the program director.B. Grant applications to local as well as regional and national foundations. Local foundations often have more of an interest in local projects than regional and national organizations. The project director should visit the grant

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Murali Paranandi

their project presentations consisting ofimages of architectural drawings, photo-realistic images of interior exterior spacesgenerated directly from the 3-D CAD models, and scanned images of sketches andphotographs of the physical models. Additionally, these web pages also incorporated thefollowing:• QTVR based movies showing walk-though experiences generated directly from 3-D CAD models• Java scripted rollover images that juxtaposition various images, for example, sections over plans etc.• Brief text description of the proposed project. Figure 2. An example of “online design review” during fall 1998.Reviewers interacted with the students through face-to-face critiques as well as virtualcritiques over the Internet. As seen on

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven L. McCabe; Francis M. Thomas

degree. The conferences address a different need than the degree programs, but theypresent a scheduling problem in that it is necessary to miss an entire day of work in order toattend the conference. This can be difficult, in some cases, due to project deadlines, etc. In anattempt to address the need for additional continuing education for the engineering community,the Civil and Environmental Engineering department has introduced a series of ProfessionalDevelopment Lectures.II. Civil and Environmental Engineering FacultyThe Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty consists of twenty-five members with a widerange of expertise. The main groups in the department are structural, mechanics, environmental,geotechnical, transportation, construction

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Karani; Mitty Plummer

laboratory, ten exercises were taken from thepopular text and laboratory manual by Robert L. Boylestad and Gabriel Kousouru1. Theexercises taken from the manual were related to circuit characterization of alternating currentcircuits that involved resistive, capacitive, and or inductive components. The instrumentation inthese experiments was limited to sine wave signal generators and oscilloscopes.II. The Equipment For The Remote LaboratoryThe remote laboratory requires only three major components. The first is a personal computercapable of web connection and able to run Windows 98 or a later version. The next component isa switch matrix; the one used in this project is a Cytec model PX512-1. The critical componentthat makes the laboratory work is a

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Charlton; Marsha Creatchman; Carl Beard; Sheldon Landsberger

prepared using Microsoft Power Point and delivered at the FacultyInnovation Center in the College of Engineering at UT. All lectures can be seen live on theInternet but more commonly are seen after work hours by distance learning students. Thelecture room has seating for on-campus students who take the course. An electronicwhiteboard is also available to write additional information or add to the existing slide. Thesoftware program Prometheus manages the complete course including posting of lectures,assignments, grades, special projects, homework solutions, previous exams, group e-mailaddresses, and links to other sites related to the course. All lectures can be downloaded andprinted with up to six slides per page to reduce the voluminous amount

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

regional conferences are disseminating the preliminary results of thisgrant. A web site has been also created to electronically disseminate materials related to thegrant. For additional information or to sign up for the SEATEC newsletter and mailing list pleasecheck the following: http://www.nsti.tec.tn.us/SEATEC/VIII. AcknowledgmentsThe author wishes to express his sincere gratitude to the National Science Foundation forproviding the means to execute this project and to every member of the SEATEC family.This project was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Opinions expressed arethose of the authors and not necessarily of the Foundation.Saleh M. SbenatyDr. Saleh M. Sbenaty is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Don McMurchie

and just before the final examination, and an open class discussion duringthe last day of class. Feedback from all three sources indicated that students enjoyed the class agreat deal. Students cited three factors that they felt improved the course. First, having twoinstructors in the classroom, so that material was presented from two perspectives and was thuseasier to grasp. Second, the hands-on projects, particularly the bridge-building project. Third,the humor, such as the “Harry Stotle” impersonation, that made instructional material morememorableA significant majority of students specifically requested that more courses with this structure betaught in the future.From our point of view as well, the course was also a success. The format

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Dickrell, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

comments) were also very positive with the mostcommon comment pertaining to the enjoyment of the hands-on experiences which from aninstructive standpoint is correlated back to simple, profound, individually-based activities. Whileit is recognized that group projects are not favored by students, the sharp contrast in studentfeedback data suggests a positive result above simply removing the group project requirement.ConclusionThe introduction of the individual experiment model in the MoM lab was positively perceivedfrom both a student and instructor perspective. Students were more intellectually stimulated andas a group were provided more hands-on experiences than in previous incarnations of the course.The individual experiment model requires a